Title: Deception 5/?
Author: Murdock's Crazylady
Rated: PG-15, for violence to a child
Summary: Alex is recaptured by the bounty hunters
Warning: there will be more violence, but nothing too bad
Disclaimer: I don't own the team. Not that I wouldn't mind having Dwight for a big brother though
Copyright: 2000 Murdock's CrazyLady (MCL)
Author's notes : In this chapter there will be violence. Consider yourself warned. I don't want to get flamed for not warning you. It's not like it's graphic, but it's violent. Expect a lot more from this, especially a twist, this is my first FanFic, so please don't be too hard on me!
Deception
Part 5
"Yahhh! Leggo a me, get off me! I am far too delicate to have your ugly mudsuckin hands all over me!" Alex yelled, even though the pain surged through her like a freight train speeding towards her mind, telling her to shut her mouth before the jerk holding her "Hurt" her again. She had learned that from Hannibal, to be able to get cocky even when you were in a lot of pain. The guys laughed. They laughed at her. She'd thought she'd escaped! What a joke. The guy holding Alex was the very man whom had beaten her, and she knew it. He squeezed her extra tight, just to put her in more pain. Alex was afraid of him, but she was also angry for what he had done to her, and she still wasn't going to let them take her anywhere without a good struggle first. "Kid, that sassin tongue you got's gonna get you hurt." The hunter said into Alex's ear and she growled, and kicked him. He squeezed tighter until she couldn't hardly breathe and she went limp. "There now. That's more like it. C'mon boys, we gotta make us a house call to the vets with the pup here." The old man said seeing his oldest squeezing the air from Alex's lungs as fast as she heaved it in.
They took Alex out to the truck once again, and the idiot holding her stayed with her in the back again. Alex was winded and weak, and they knew it. That was the reason they hadn't taken the time to tie her up before they drove out to the very vet's office/house that helped Murdock escape only minutes before. They pulled up her drive, stalled the truck engine and got out. Then the guy in the back grabbed Alex and followed them. The door was kicked in, and he walked in carrying an almost lifeless Alex. He plopped her down on the couch roughly, beside Kelly. Alex had lost more blood than she realized, and the squeezing had re-opened any scabs. She was bleeding through her clothes once again, and she was on the verge of fainting. Alex lay back with her head againsyt the back of the leather couch and tried to meditate for a few minutes. It was the only way she would be able to regain her strength and fight back. Alex let her mind fizzle out, and she sat quietly, doing her best to ignore the excrusiating pain she was in. One of the boys saw Alex's peaceful look and tapped her on the shoulder. She opened her eye and looked at him.
"Hey kid, don't get no ideas about using them fancy moves cos I'll break both ya arms an ya legs iffin ya do! Just sit there and be a good little victim an you won't get hurt....too bad!" He said as he burst out laughing. Then he walked away and let Alex and Kelly alone. They were both quiet, and Kelly worried for the little girl. She wondered what they had done to her, and then stopped trying to figure it out, she didn't want to think about it anymore. Alex was angry, and she wanted to fight as she went back into her meditation. She knew if she kept still and quiet they'd leave her and the lady beside her alone. She just needed a little time to regain her strength, Then all 4 of the jerks around her would pay.
The guys had picked Murdock up ten-minutes before the wall was even set up to explode. Face looked over and noticed his best friend looked almost catatonic. "Uh, Murdock, you okay?" Face asked. Murdock snapped out of it for a second and didn't even bother to look at Face. "Yeah, Faceyman, I just gotta lot on my mind." Murdock answered, to Face what felt like 6 months later was actually a few minutes. "Colonel, can we stop by the next phone booth, I gotta make a call." Murdock asked Hannibal, not looking at him either. Hannibal looked back at the captain and smiled despite the fact that he was worried about Murdoch too. "Sure Captain. Pull over here B.A." Hannibal replied seeing a phone booth at the side of the road. B.A. pulled the van off to the side of the road and Murdock and Hannibal got out. Hannibal gave Murdock a dime and he fed it into the pay phone's slot. Then he waited for a dial tone to come back and he dialed Kelly's number....
Kelly heard the phone ring and she picked up, with a gun pointed to her head and another pointed to Alex's gut, she said exactly what she'd been told to. Murdock heard her pick up. "Hey Kelly, it's me HM. I just wanted to let you know I made contact with the Colonel and I'm fine. You're van parked at the side of the road about a mile away from your house, just like I promised." Murdock said, he smiled at how good it felt to get to hear her sweet voice again. "Murdock, I'm fine, but..." Kelly said frantically and the phone was taken from her. The old man got on the phone. "I've got your lady friends here, an one of em's a kid. If you, Smith, Peck and Baracus don't come, I'm gonna turn these ladies over to my boys. They're nice boys, it's just that they forget how ta treat a lady sometimes." The old man said laughing and Murdock fumed. Hannibal turned and saw him and listened to see what was going on. "Wait a minute. You listen to me. You touch one hair one those girl's heads, and I won't eat. I won't sleep. And I will find you. And when I do, I will feed your head to flies." Murdock said as Hannibal guessed he knew they had Alex now. Murdock handed the phone to Hannibal and the old guy gave him directions to Kelly's anf the phone went dead. Murdock was catatonic again. Hannibal had to take his arm and walk him to the van. He and Hannibal got in and Hannibal told B.A. where to drive to.
"If anything happens to Alex or Kelly, Colonel..." Murdock said sitting forward on his seat, grasping the back of B.A.'s seat with both hands. "We won't let anything happen to them Murdock." The Colonel replied. Face looked over and saw Murdock had that catatonic look again. "Murdock, we're gonna pull this one out." Face said, patting Murdock's leather clad shoulder. Murdock slowly turned his head and looked at Face with tears in his eyes. B.A. nodded as he watched the road. "Yeah, have faith brutha." He said in a comforting tone. Murdock was quiet, and that worried all of them even more.
Five minutes after talking to Murdock, the old man searched Alex to see how she'd managed her escape from her cage earlier. He found her door pick kit, and the B.A.'s knife. Alex tried to fight him back as he took it from her, but she didn't have the energy. He laughed as he took the knife and put it in a glass of beer, he even watched as it sunk and hit the bottom of the glass with a thud and a clank. B.A. knew it when they did, because the bug fizzled out and the signal died. "They found the bug, Colonel." B.A. said and Hannibal nodded. He'd figured they'd search Alex sooner or later and find it. It had done it's job. They knew where she was all along, and now they were going to rescue her.
Alex sat after being searched and stewed. Her uncle B.A. was gonna ground her for life for what they'd done to his knife! Alex finally got enough energy and said, "You are gonna pay!" and the old guy backhanded her across the face. Alex sat, stunned, as the feeling of fighting grabbed onto her and she had a hard time making it let her go. "You are gonna wish you dinnit do that!" Alex said again, and the old guy laughed at her. He walked away and Alex felt her lip. It hurt, and she pulled her hand away, revealing blood. He'd split her bottom lip and bloodied her nose with that slap. Her nose's pain hit her seconds later. She guessed she had blanked the pain of the hit out. She held in all emotion from it and took a deep breath. Seeing the blood scared her, but it also made her angry. She wanted to get home. To go home and see Murdock. The old guy told his boys to go outside and watch for the van, and he stayed with the prisoners, with his gun pointed at each one of them.
"Here they come!" one of the guys yelled from outside ten minutes later. Alex heard and almost started crying. Murdock was finally coming to rescue her. As the van pulled up the long stone driveway, one of the boys ran back inside and helped his father grab the prisoners off of the couch. "Git up an come on!" he yelled at them. Alex climbed to her feet slowly, and Kelly got up too, the old guy grabbed her arm and walked her out. Alex was pushed and shoved out behind them. She was smiling. A plan had formulated and she was on the jazz. The van pulled over and 4 seemingly unarmed men got out, holding up their hands. B.A. could see Alex's bloody face from where he stood and he got angry. He couldn't wait to get his hands on them. Face gasped as the sight of Alex, and Hannibal silently cursed under his breath. Murdock was absolutely psycho when he saw her. He was angrier than he had ever been in his whole life, and he vowed to make the men holding his baby suffer.
Then, Alex saw her opening and she kicked the man holding her in the shin as hard as she could. He yelled and let her go, and the man holding Kelly let her go to go after Alex, and Kelly ran to Hannibal. Hannibal quick got her into the van for safety, and cam back to get ready and take these slime balls out. He saw Alex going at it with one of them and he was about to tell them to move out when the sound of a gun shot made him turn his head towards where Murdock's kidnapers were. He saw the old man holding a 9 MM pistol, with it pointing in Alex's direction. Alex screamed and flew backwards, the bullet had hit her in the left of her chest. She landed hard on the ground on her back. She whined and then she was quiet.
Murdock's eyes almost popped out of his head, his heart stopped a second. He was frozen. "ALEX!!!" He screamed, as a force of power came from the darkest parts of him, and he didn't try to hold it back. He was filled with rage, hurt and grief wrapped into a huge ball of emotion that had built up over the years. First Nam, and then the POW camps, and now this. His heart couldn't take anymore than his mind could. It was a strength not even B.A. could hold back very easily. Murdock lunged at the old man, and none of the guys even thought about stopping him.
Murdock knocked the gun from his hand with a kick to the wrist, one so hard that he almost snapped the wrist in half. He dropped the gun and yelled in pain. Then Murdock showed him where Alex had learned those 'Fancy Moves' from. He kicked the old guy in the head and he fell to the ground on his back. Then Murdock sat on top of him and began pounding him so hard that his own fists were covered in his own blood. Murdock couldn't handle the thought of Alex being dead. "You killed her, you son of a bitch! And now, I'm gonna kill you!!" Murdock said with his rage in his usually sweet and happy go lucky voice. Murdock raised his fist over his victim's adam's apple and was about to bring it down with all he had, when B.A. grabbed him from behind and yanked him away from the man. "He ain't worth it man! You kill him an you go ta jail for the rest of yo life man!" B.A. said, trying to hold Murdock back and comfort him at the same time. He was holding his emotions in as well, at Alex's being gone. Murdock struggled against B.A.'s grasp and finally broke it as he stomped down on B.A.'s foot.
He grabbed the 9MM off of the ground and pointed it at the man on the ground. B.A. let him go, fearing Murdock might try suicide. "C'mon captain, don't do this." Hannibal said calmly even though he was panicing inside. Murdock couldn't hear him. Murdock was crying. He was about to shoot a child killer. He cocked the gun and checked his aim. Yep. Dead on. "Murdock! No! Don't do it!" Alex sat up painfully and screamed, seeing him pointing the gun right between her shooter's eyes. Murdock quickly turned his head and looked at Alex. She smiled and pulled up her shirt. She had a bullet proof vest on! "So that's where that went to..." Hannibal thought to himself. When they had searched her, they hadn't found it. Murdock was so happy he handed the gun to B.A. and ran over to Alex. Face and Hannibal and B.A. followed.
Murdock hit the ground on his knees and grabbed Alex and hugged her. "Ow big brother! OW!" Alex exclaimed making a painful face. Murdock let her go. He pulled his hand off of her and saw they had her blood all over them. His eyes got huge. Murdock looked up at Hannibal with panic filled eyes. Alex sat there as Hannibal went around and pulled up Alex's shirt in the back. He saw her back and made a face. Then he gently pulled her shirt back down. Face had seen the Colonel's look. "Colonel?" Face asked worried that Alex had really been shot after all. "Alright kid, what did he hit you with?" Hannibal asked as he came back around and stood beside Murdock. At first Alex couldn't tell him, then she looked into Murdock's scared eyes and replied, "A stick." Murdock ran his head over her head and she looked down at the ground in shame. She couldn't tell them what else he'd done to her. Never.
B.A. heard Alex's answer and was going to go and do the same to them, but then he caught Murdock and Face glaring at them and decided against it. He didn't want to get Murdock all upset again, he didn't want to see a murder today. The baddies were all out cold. "Here Alex, grab on." Murdock said turning his back to Alex. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he stood up holding her. Then, Alex was suddenly crying, and she would, under NO cercumstances, let go of Murdock. Murdock kissed her hand as she leaned against the back of his neck and cried.
Then she sat up and looked at B.A. "I'm sorry I took your knife, I only took it so I could find Murdock, the guy who shot me took it from me an put it in beer." Alex said to B.A. but before he could answer, Alex went back to crying on Murdock. "I thought you was dead Murdock...I didn't think I was ever gonna see you again big brother...I...I..." Alex said, stopping in mid sentence, she suddenly fell asleep. "Colonel!" Face yelled and Hannibal felt for a pulse. He let go and nodded. "She's okay, the pain finally got her. C'mon, let's get her home. I can't take care of her without supplies." Hannibal said and Murdock climbed into the van still holding Alex. Hannibal took the small med kit from the back of the van and took out a needle and a little vile of liquid. He stuck the needle into the top and sucked some of the liquid into the syringe. Then he carried it into the van.
"Here B.A., hold her a second, she isn't all the way out, and I know she's going to feel this." Hannibal said as Murdock let B.A. take her gently. Hannibal had him hold her on her side as best he could without holding her too tightly, and he stuck her in the hip with the needle. Alex felt it alright, and yelled, biting B.A. in the process. B.A. hardly felt it and knew she hadn't done it on perpose. Hannibal took the needle out seconds later, and put it back into the plastic needle cover. Hannibal noticed Alex had relaxed again and ran his head over her forehead. "That...Hurt...Grampa..." Alex mumbled going back into sleep. "I know captain, but it'll make you feel better, go to sleep now. We're all here and we're on our way home. Murdock will hold you the whole way." Hannibal said and Alex nodded and fell back into sleep. B.A. smiled down at her and handed her back to Murdock.
Murdock took her and held her on his lap with her head on his chest and her back pointing towards the dash board. B.A. tore off in the van. Kelly remained behind after Hannibal tied the baddies up and she called the police to come and take out the trash. The bounty hunters were arrested, and Kelly refused to tell Lynch where The A-Team had gone.
When Alex woke up 2 days later, everyone she loved was around her. Murdock was asleep on the floor beside her and the couch holding her hand, B.A. was asleep in the chair, Face was asleep on the other couch. She looked around for Hannibal, but she didn't see him. Then she felt something warm on her back and then stinging too, and she jumped. "Hey kid, welcome back." Hannibal said from behind her as he continued to carefully wash out her cuts. "What is that grampa? It stings." Alex asked. Hannibal finished her last cut and put the secret concocktion away. "Don't worry about what it is. You'll feel better soon." Hannibal said coming around so she could see him. B.A. heard voices and woke up. He was glad to see Alex was awake. " hey little mama, how ya feelin?" He asked smiling as he sat up straight in the recliner. Alex swallowed as she lay on her belly on the couch. It felt like she had been in that same position for a week. Alex looked down at Murdock and squeezed his hand. Murdock felt it and opened his eyes. He looked up and saw Alex smiling down at him and he sat up, rubbing his eyes. "Hey muchacha, how ya feelin?" Murdock asked and Alex swallowed again.
"My back hurts, but I am okay cept for that. I need a drink too." Alex answered and Hannibal went to the kitchen and got a Coke from the fridge and brought it back to Alex. Murdock helped Alex take a drink and sat the can back over onto the coffee table. "I'm glad to see you." Alex said to Murdock after her throat felt normal again. Murdock kissed her forehead. "We were worried about you muchacha. I'm glad to see you too." Murdock answered and Alex sniffed. Face, over on the other couch, was awake now too. He felt guilty, he had to tell them, he just had to. Face sat up and put his feet on the floor. 'Here goes nothing' hr thought to himself.
"Uh, guys, I have something I have to tell Alex. It concerns all of us, so nobody has to leave." Face said and everyone looked at him, ready to listen. "Well, six years ago Murdock and I met a lady, her name was Alex, you were named after her, she was your mom. Murdock and I both loved her. Murdock was still living at the VA at the time when you were born and your mom had a secret about you. She told it to me and made me promise not to tell you until you were old enough to understand, and I have. But now I think you are old enough to hear it. She told me a few months before she died that...." Face couldn't hardly find the words he needed. "What is it daddy?" Alex asked, getting worried about the look on his face. "She told me I wasn't your father and that Murdock was. I'm not your daddy Alex. Murdock is." Face said looking down at the floor, he felt a little better. He felt a ton of bricks being lifted from his shoulders, he'd held that in for 6 long years.
Murdock was almost shocked for words. Then he looked at Alex and saw how stunned she was. "Face, why didn't you tell me?" Murdock demanded. "She made me promise Murdock. It was her dying wish Murdock, I couldn't not fullfill her ladt wishes, could I? I'm sorry Murdock." Face said Murdock looked at Alex again. "I'm your daddy." He mumbled, fainting. He scared Alex, whom yelled and started crying. She looked at Face. "You lied! How could you? You tell me not to unless I'm scammin somethin an then you do? What was you doin? Scammin me?" Alex yelled as she his her face into her pillow and cried. Hannibal and B.A. were both totally shocked, and B.A. was too shocked to say anything, but Hannibal wasn't. Murdock woke up seconds later and sat up. He heard Alex crying and Hannibal trying to comfort her. "Listen kid, Face didn't have a choice. It was a promise he had to keep. Your mom asked him to keep it from you until you were old enough to understand, Face didn't want to lie to Murdock and you, but he had to Alex." Hannibal said and Murdock looked up at him. "Yeah muchacha, like when I promised you Face wouldn't hit you if you came home. Remember?" Murdock asked and Alex remembered. She nodded and calmed down. Murdock smiled and took his jacket off. He handed it to Alex and she buryed her face into it. Then she looked back at Murdock.
"But I love Face too. Does that mean he's big brother now?" Alex asked and Murdock looked over at Face. Face smiled a PR smile and Murdock looked back at Alex. "Absolutely." HM answered and Alex smiled. B.A. finally wasn't shocked anymore and smiled. "Now you an Crazyman are gonna get even crazier!" B.A. said and Alex laughed. Hannibal laughed too, just glad to hear Alex's laugh and giggle again. "Dad,-er, I mean Face, I still love you and I don't hate you cos you lied to me." Alex looked at Face and said.
Face nodded thankfully and was quiet. Murdock had took it well enough, and Alex seemed happy now. But Face felt like he'd just lost his baby for good, like she was dead. Even if she never really was his, and he knew he'd have to tell them one day, he loved her so much it hurt all the same. And, he'd miss her calling him daddy and the occasional crazy fool. Face needed to clear his mindm so he went off riding for awhile.
the end of part 5
part 6 coming soon!