Chapter 12: Back To Work
Riggs raised up his hand up to his chest. With his two fingers he touched his chest. He looked down and saw the blood. He looked up and saw his half brother. He watched him run off. Riggs fell to the ground. He looked over and saw Miranda's headstone. Then he looked over and saw Cahill laying beside him. He know that she was dead. Her eyes were looking into his. He watched as a tear fall for her eye that was near the ground. He looked up and saw Roger looking over him. He silently mouthed out him say his name. Martin smiled but then it fell as arrow went through Roger's neck.
Martin jumped himself awake. He looked beside him and saw Cahill laying there. He looked at her stomach to see if she was breathing. To his relief she was breathing. Cahill opened eyes and looked up at Martin.
"Honey you alright?" Riggs looked over and saw her looking at him. She saw the look in his eyes. She moved and sat up. Cahill placed her hands around his shoulders. Riggs looked away and then back at her. He was still shaken up over the dream. He raised his hand to his face and rubbed it.
"You want to talk about it?" She asked him. Martin breathed in and shook his head no.
"No it was just a dream that I will make sure that will never come true." He told her. Cahill watched as he turned toward her and smiled at her. She couldn't help herself, she smiled at him.
"I love you." He told her.
"I love you too." She told him and moved over to where she was in front of him. Riggs smiled and reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She smiled and leaned in and kissed him. Martin smiled and kissed her back. He moved to lay her down onto her back. The kiss was broken when they hear someone at the door.
"If you two are going to do that, can you do it later." They looked over and saw Landon standing there at the door. Riggs gave his son a look.
"Why would we want to do that?" He asked him.
"Well someone is here to see you dad." He told him. Martin looked at him with a wondering look.
"Who is here?" He asked him.
"Roger." Landon told him and walked away from the door. Martin looked over at Cahill and sighed.
"Well I guess that we have to do this later." He smiled at her. Cahill smiled at him.
Riggs walked out of the bedroom after he had put the rest of his clothes on. He walked into the living room. He saw Roger sitting on the couch. Roger stood up and looked at Martin.
"What is it?" He asked him. Roger said nothing but handed a file over to him. Riggs took it and read it. Martin read the file. It was about a teenager that overdosed at Anne's school. They girl was found in the bathroom at the school. She had overdosed on cocaine. There was a clue at the scene. There was a little card that said.
"From Stardust with love." Martin looked at Roger as he asked him the question.
"I thought that you would know who she was?"
"I do she is a dealer name Stardust, her real name is Mercy Taylor. She is eighteen years old and has been in the dealing scene for about five years. She was and is the youngest dealer that there is." He told him.
"Can you find her and bring her in before this happens again." Roger told him. Martin looked at him and nodded his head.
-That night-
Riggs moved as well as Landon and Anne. They were in the rafters of the warehouse. They looked down at the group of men and women working with the cocaine. Al sah-him drawn back his bow with an arrow in place. He let go of the bow string. The arrow hit one of the of the tables. The men and women moved back and looked up at the three in the rafters. Al sah-him, Athena, and Widowmarker jumped down onto the table. Al sah-him looked up and saw the drug dealer. She stood up from her large chair and smiled at them.
"Well look who showed up." She smiled wider. "Welcome to my hangout. I am Stardust." She told them her nick name.
Al sah-him grabbed an arrow and shot it at her. She moved and pulled out a gun. The three moved as she shoot at them. Athena moved to the side and shot an arrow and knock the gun out of Stardust's hand. Al sah-him heard the police enter the room and he. Athena and Widowmarker left. Stardust moved and was able to get out of the warehouse.
-Three Days Later-
Anne was walking to class. She noted that her throat was dry. So she stopped and got a large drink of water. She walked into her class and sat down. She was sitting there in class and started to feel odd. She looked around the class as the teacher spoke. She looked at some of the others that had stopped and got a drink of water as well. They were all pale and were shaking. She then knew that something was wrong.
-With Riggs-
Riggs training in his base. He was on his tenth set of the Salmon Ladder. He was upset that Stardust had gotten away and that he didn't know where she was now. He was at the top of the ladder when he heard his phone go out. He jumped down and ran over to his phone. Flint looked at the look on Martin's face. Riggs moved and ran out. He drove to the hospital that Anne was in. He ran over to the desk and told them that he was here to see his daughter. The doctor showed him to where Anne was at. Riggs ran in the room and looked at his daughter. She was shaking in the bed. He looked at the doctor that walked in.
"What is wrong with her?" He asked her.
"You daughter is not the only one that is here. Other's from her school are here as well." She told him. He had an odd look on his face and she knew that he didn't know what was going on. She breathed in and told him.
"Some of the kids including your daughter, have large amount of cocaine in their systems. Someone had put cocaine in the schools water." Riggs know that this was not an coincidence. He looked over at his daughter and then at the door. Cahill ran in and looked at Anne in the bed. She ran over to Martin and looked at him for answers. The doctor saw the look between the two and walked out.
"What happened?" Cahill asked him.
"Stardust put cocaine in the schools water and Anne is just one out of a few others that had drank it." He told her. Cahill's eyes got wide.
"Stay here with her while I call Rog and tell him what is going on." Riggs told her. Cahill walked over to Anne's bedside and took her hand.
Riggs hung out from the phone call with Roger. He walked into the room. He looked at Anne and narrowed his eyes. Cahill saw this and walked over to him.
"What are you going to do?" She asked him.
"I have to find Stardust and stop her from doing this again. I over heard one of the nurses saying that a kid had died from the overdose." He told her. She looked at him with worried eyes and then looked at Anne. Anne was still shaking in the bad.
"Stay with her while I go and try to find that bitch." He told her. Cahill nodded her head and watched him leave the room. Riggs ran out of the hospital. He got to his base and told the others what was going on.
-Later that night-
Cahill looked at Anne who had stopped shaking about four hours ago and was now asleep in bed. She smiled at her and walked out. She walked to the vending machine and got her something to drink. Cahill walked back into the room and looked from her drink to the bed and saw that Anne was not there. That a note was there on the bed. She ran over and read the note. She pulled out her phone and called Martin.
-With Riggs-
Al sah-him walked into a large room in a very tall building. The building he was in was Queen Consolidated. He looked ahead of him and saw Stardust with Anne. He looked and saw that Anne was awake but was trying to not pass out.
"Well Mr. Riggs, it's nice to see you again."
"How did you know who I am and that she is my daughter?" He asked her.
"Oh I got my info on you and your little family from a friend of yours." She told him. As she spoke to him and moved her hand out and showed him that she had a group of three needles taped together. He watched as she held it to Anne's throat.
"Don't do it." He warned her.
"Why not? You busted up my workshop." She told him. "So why shouldn't I kill your daughter?" Stardust moved the group to Anne's throat and was about to shoot the drugs into her body, when Anne got some strength and elbowed her in the stomach and fell to the floor. Stardust at Anne then she looked up and saw Al sah-him with two arrows in place. He let go of the string and the arrows went flying toward her. Two arrows hit her in the chest and another hit the window behind her. She stepped backwards and hit the glass of the large window behind her. The glass broke and she fell. Both Riggs and Anne heard glass breaking and a car alarm go off. Al sah-him walked over and looked out of the window and saw that Stardust was laying on the top of a car. He smiled to himself and walked over to Anne. She looked up at him and smiled but then passed out. Al sah-him took his daughter into his arms and carried her out of the building.
-Later-
Cahill was watching the news and saw the girl laying on the car with arrows in her chest. She looked over at Martin who was holding Anne's hand. She walked over to him and he looked up at her.
"You know that is how her brother Count Vertigo died." He told her. She looked at him.
"My friend in Starling City killed him the same way she died." Cahill looked over at Anne and knew that Riggs had no choice he had to kill the girl or she would have killed Anne.