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On the Run

Chapter 10

"...." Talking

'...' Thinking

[Warehouse]

"Yes, we got them." One of the workers said to the cell phone. "Understood, I'll go over and check for their corpses, and we'll...."

"Cancel that thought, there aren't any corpses for you to find." The door was shot open, Maria and Lisa walked in calmly.

"Ahhh! Ghost!" The guys yelled, dropping everything that was in their hands.

"Ghost? I'm far from dead." Maria said, snapping on her red leather gloves as she looked at Alan. "Alan, sweetie. You totally wounded me." She said, putting a hand over her heart.

"You're not hurt anywhere." Alan said with a nervous smile.

"No, I'm just wounded very badly in my heart." She said, a knife slipped into her hand, raising her hand, the knife was engraved in a guy's forehead. "And I think I forgot to mention that I'm a very good aimer."

The guys looked down at the dead man in front of them, very disturbed, then Alan picked his head up and glarred at them. "Stop wasting time with them! Get them!" He barked an order, no longer looking cute.

All the guys grabbed some sort of weapon and charged towards them, and they were welcomed with open arms. Alan watched as the 2 girls easily killed 2 guys. He backed up from the whole group, slowly trying to escape.

Maria jumped up, did a 360 degree flip in the air and landed in front of Alan, blocking his way. "Where are you going honey? The party is not over!"

Alan took a step back and glanced over his shoulder, all she saw was Lisa walking towards him calmly. Behind her, the group of men are all dead. He smiled nervously and began moving towards no where in particular.

"Don't kill me, I can... I can tell you who I work for." He pleaded, his back against a wall.

"No need, we already know you work for Voltare." Lisa stated coldly.

Alan's face paled, Maria smiled and turned around. "I count to zero, and if you're not gone...."

Lisa turned as well, both of them began walking towards the door, Maria started counting down. "3.... 2.....1.....0!"

Turning around, she sent out another knife, then smiled and walked off with Lisa. Behind them, Alan stood there face plae, eyes wide. Slowly, he slid down the wall, blood coming out of his mouth.

[Hotel Room]

Nancy checked the equipments quietly as Katherine laid on her stomach, still unconscious after the blow on the back by the fallen roof. She turned around, recording down the changes in Katherine.

"We should never hire that house fixing company again." A weak voice rang out.

Nancy turned around and smiled at her. "Welcome back to the light." She said, pulling out a chair and sat down beside her bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Aside from the pain on my back, I'm fine." She said, turning her head sideways to look at Nancy. "Can I please lay on my back?"

"Yeah, if you want your back to hurt even more."

Katherine rolled her eyes and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "How long will I be out?"

"Around 1 week or so."

Katherine nodded and closed her eyes. "How's Kai?"

"He's fine, you pulled him down right in time. The broken roof fell on you completely, he just got some dust on his body." Nancy then looked Katherine seriously. "Kath, what happened between you and Kai? I don't believe...."

Katherine sighed and gritted her teeth, then looked at Nancy frustrated. "Did you see that look on Mr. Dickenson's face? He looked as if he was ready to strangle me or something."

"Since when did you start caring about other people's opinions about you?"

"Since when Mr. Dickenson arrived here!"

"Kath... forget about what he said, what you feel is up to yourself, no one has a right to tell you what to feel."

"Great speeh, maybe you should take your own advice." Katherine stated cooly, Nancy is the same as herself, she should take her own advice sometimes.

"Kath, what are you afraid of?" Nancy asked, fronwing. "Even though Kai's everything like your father, but it doesn't mean that he'll act the same way as well."

"Don't mention him, I'm in no way related to him!" Katherine said angrily, her eyes narrowing. "That bastard! How dare he do that? If I know where he lives right now, I will personally kill him!"

Nancy sighed and shook her head softly. "Kath, you know Voice blocked that informatoin from us delibrately, or else with our skills, tracking down a few people is a peice of cake." She then brushed her hair back. "Voice did that for a reason, because he didn't want us getting arrested for doing something stupid." She glanced down, her hands cluntched together. "Knowing us... we'll probably go find them as soon as we can."

"I know... but sometimes... I really wish that I could..." Katherine trailed off, looking down at her pillow, her whole body tensing.

Nancy nodded and stood up. "I'll leave you to rest, get better soon." Turning, she walked out of the room.

Katherine lay on her bed, thinking, dazing off. Seriously... can she actually believe in men? But they are....

Suddenly, a noise in the hallway caught her ears, she tensed up and closed her eyes, waiting for another sound. Soon, the door opened and someone walked in. A familiar scent was caught by Katherine, it's Kai, she laid very still.

He walked over, stopping in front of the bed for a moment before bending down and pulled the cover up to her neck. Then tenderly, he brushed some of her hair out of her face, and leant down to place a soft kiss on her forehead.

After a minute, the door opened and closed again, he left the room. On the bed, Katherine opened her eyes and looked down at the cover on herself. She sighed and buried her head into her pillow, she wants to love him desparately, but.....

[Outside of Katherine's Room]

"So... what did you do to him?" Chiriko asked as Maria and Lisa walked into the room.

Maria grabbed the nearest seat and dropped into it. "What I always do... let them see the light at the end of the tunnel, then completely destroy their hope."

Chiriko laughed and leaned back into the sofa. "Better than what you did to that guy that was trying too desparately to get you in bed with him."

Nancy smiled and leaned forwards gracefully, lacing her fingers, her elbows stood perpendicular to the table in front of her. She gently laid her chin on her laced fingers. "I wonder where he is right now." Then she laughed softly. "Wherever he is right now, I bet his reproductive system is not too good right now."

Maria slowly peeled off her gloves, and dropped onto the ground. "How can his reproductive system work with just half of it left?" Then all of the girls laughed at that one.

"Wow... wait... you mean, you acutally.... cut... the guy.... I mean..." Ray stuttered, looking at Maria unbelievably, whom just shrugged carelessly. The Blade Breakers looked at her alerted, wondering if Mr. Dickenson made a right choice to choose them as their bodyguards.

Chiriko turned towards Ray with a smile and patted his hands. "Don't worry Ray, we won't do that to you. And besides, that's old... if we wanted, we'll do something new when we get the chance again."

"This time, I should slip in some AIDS virus." Maria suggested, and looked at Lisa questioningly. She looked back at Maria and shrugged her shoulders, signaling a yes.

"You're... so cruel." Kenny whispered, barely making it audioble.

Maria smiled and bowed a bit while sitting in her chair. "Thank you, I take that as a compliment."

Kenny blinked, sputtering with an answer, Nancy smiled and looked at them lazily. "Kenny, ignore her... she'll take whatever nasty things you say to her as a compliment, so don't even bother."

Again, everyone laughed at that comment, Lisa turned and walked away towards her room. In the middle of their laughter, Max looked up and saw Lisa heading else where, his eyes followed her.

[Lisa's Room]

She walked into the dark room and sighed in comfort, she feels better in the darkness. Turning around, she kicked her door shut while turning on the light, just giving the room a dim glow.

Turning, she walked deeper into the room, her cloths scattered behind her, soon, she was wearing nothing. It's another one of her dislikes to wear the same cloth that she had just killed with. Taking long strides, she walked slowly yet confidently towards her closet. Pulling the door open, the smell of her perfum flew out at her. She looked around for something to wear when her eyes landed on her whip lying in the corner quietly. She slowly bent down and touched it softly... she hasn't used it in a long time. The other cases have been easy ones, they did not require her to use her weapon.

With a sigh, she stood up again and pulled out a pair of tight teal pants, then everything seemed to come to her easily after that. She grabbed an underwear, a bra, then a dark green veil shirt... it's almost black in some lights.

With all her cloths in hand, she turned around not bothing with closing the closet and walked over to her bed. Upon arriving, she dumped all of her clothing onto her bed and began re-dressing. She pulled on her pants and pulled the zipper up, then buttoned it up. She then picked up her hair and messily tied it up, not caring how she might look. Her hand lingered on her back, all those whip marks from her abuser are still there... fresh as new.

Just then, the door was opened and Max walked in. Lisa glanced at him over her shoulders, she saw him break immediately and turned tomato red. She just turned back to her garments on the bed, from the soft sounds on the carpet, she can tell that he's walking towards her.

She picked up her green bra and slipped it on, just as her hands went around the back trying to button it up, Max a step faster than her as he finished it for her. She didn't say anything but to drop her arms beside her.

His hand didn't leave her back, instead, they traced every scar on her back, making her shiver slightly. "Lisa... who did this to you?"

Lisa glanced down, considering if she should tell him the truth or not. Then with a sigh, she picked up her head and blinked. "My father."

Max gasped and pulled his hands away immediately. "How can that be possible?"

"He raped my mother... before they got married, and after they got married." She crossed her arms over her chest, still has her back facing him. "Then he got tired of her... and came to me."

"He...."

"He has a fetish." Lisa continued on, cutting him off. "He appearantly likes rough sex, leaving whip marks on my body is his usual style." She said calmly, as if not talking about herself at all.

The room was then quiet, out of the five of them, she perhaps has the worst relationship with her father... she's just thankful that she wasn't pregnent when his child.

Suddenly, Max's hands touched her waist, she tensed up. His arms went around her waist and he pulled her back into him, holding her tightly, his chin on her shoulder. "I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you."

Lisa frowned slightly, does he know what he's talking about? He's talking as if he was meant to protect her all her life. She sighed and looked down at his hands. This is the second time that he has broke her rule. Should she keep her words and kill him... or at least cut off his hands for punishment. After a few moments of deciding, she finally gave up and dropped her arms, she placed her hands on his, the warmth from his hand transfering onto hers.

"I promise... I won't let anyone hurt you again." He whispered, breathing his vow into her ear.

She remained silent for a few seconds before turning around in his arms slowly, he lifted his head from her shoulder and looked into her green eyes, losing himself into them. Lisa reached up and brushed her fingers over his lips, then locking her arms behind his neck, she pulled him down to her level and kissed him full heartedly.

How long hans't she be able to do that? Upon this day, she still doesn't understand why this guy before her can stir up the deepest emotions within herself.....

TBC....

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