As the leader of the neon clothing men approached them from the entrance of the above level, Gage had to wonder why her sister hadn't heard them when she first came in. Was Abby losing control of her abilities like she had just seconds before? Had they been waiting for her all this time?

"Kilmartin this has nothing to do with you, so why don't you just leave us to do our busyness with this street trash." The leader sneered flashing his blade with arrogant pride.

"You know Marco, you're way out of your territory." The blond young man said. "Why don't you go back to the sewers where you crawled out from?" Gage had to wonder if the guy was acting out of fear or just plain stupidity.

"Well, look at the Blondie boy standing up for himself." The thick man said. With his broad shoulders, long arms, and dark hair Marco reminded Gage of a gorilla she once saw when she was younger, at the Bronx Zoo. Abby had provoked it into trying to smash the glass and the other Gorilla's had come to his aide. This blond stranger was now Abby and Marco was the Gorilla. Marco and his boys were a joke really, that wasn't what she was worried about. But like the Gorilla, Marco was just part of a small group that was run by a giant ape. The ape was the one she didn't feel like getting into a tangle with.

"I guess we could get two for the price of one, today's special kiddies." Marco and his pack were now just a few feet away from them. She wasn't sure the two of them could take them down.  Marco was the only one who would carry a weapon just for show, the rest were about fist to skin. Doesn't mean they weren't all about being brutal. Marco snapped his fingers. "Get' em." He commanded, four of his men walked forward slamming their fist into their palms. "I'm sure we can do this in a civilized manner," Gage said moving away from the car until her back was against the pillar. Two of the men were in front of her, the other two were already engaged in hand to hand with the blond guy. "I guess being civilized is a bit much." She ducked as the first guy threw a punch at her, his fist connecting with the concrete pillar making a sickening crack. He yelled in pain as she kicked his knees knocking him down. The second guy dove at her but she stepped side ways kicking outward the heel of her boot connecting with his stomach. "I really did want to be civilized." For a moment she panicked and looked around for the man who had helped her out. Afraid that Marco's boys had taken him out while she had been busy handling the two monkeys. Gage sighed with relief as she watched as the blond man easily took out the two men, who up until a minute ago were doing just fine on their own. She smiled as he straightened out his coat. "That was fun."

"I am not leavin' until I get what I came for." Marco snarled suddenly he was knocked out cold. Every man that was standing behind him looked around confused as hell. There leader had just been taken out, but no one could see how or why it had happened.

Out of nowhere a blade had been thrown in their direction with ease Gage caught it by the black handle. It had been just mere inches away from the blonds' heart. Although when she looked at him his entire body had changed. Red waves that looked similar to volcanic lava, had made his form solid.  "That wasn't very nice." She said closing the blade into its handle. The blond young man had returned to his normal state.

"Hey it wasn't us man." One of Marco's goons retorted confused as ever.

Someone grabbed her by the arm pulling her back, that's when gunfire erupted from one side of the parking lot. More people crawled out from the pillars of the under ground lot. Marco's group scattered about liked roaches. The blond young man was holding Gage so that her back was pressed against his chest, using his body to shield her from the bullets. For one insane moment she considered screaming at him for his stupid move, until she took notice of the sound. The bullets were hitting him, and dropping to the floor. When the bullets stopped she looked up, half of Marco's men were on the floor in blood. "Is there a bounty on me?" Gage muttered. "Are you ok?" she turned to the man who had saved her life seconds before. "Yeah, thanks."

"We should go." He said.

"Yeah,"

"Not so fast." Female voice lingered in the air. Gage looked around for the source of the commanding tone. "You know for once I'd like to leave a place without facing some sort of confrontation." Gage nearly growled as a woman in dark pants and leather coat appeared out of nowhere. She had thick dark hair that fell neatly around her shoulders. Gage relaxed when the blond beside her greeted the woman with what felt like a forced smile. "Lexa, fallowing me again?"

"Actually, yes and no." the woman said. Then looked at Gage with an unreadable expression. "Got a minute?"

The man looked torn between wanting to stay with the young lady and talking to his teammate. He turned to the young lady with a sincere expression. "Stay here?"

She really didn't feel like arguing with him so she gave him a nod of her head, he walked over to the dark haired female and the two talked in low voices. Gage didn't like the way the woman was looking at her every few minutes. She wished that she had been the one to have the control of sound now, instead of her sister. The young mutant walked over to one of the bodies and took notice of something on the back of the man's neck. It looked like a tattoo of some kind. Gage knelt by his side her fingertips gliding over the tattoo it was a silver lightning bolt inside were numbers in bold colors.

*Flash*

'Danny what is that?' the small dark haired girl asked as she fingered the tattoo on the older boys arm. 'It's nothing just something I got today.' He answered stiffly walking out of the room.

*Flash back to the present*

On a hunch she went over to the next body and pulled back the collar of his worn jacket, the same tattoo, different numbers. Looking over the next three it was the same. Gage unconsciously shudders rubbing the back of her neck where we just barely see three numbers 865.

"Sorry, Jesse."

"Sorry isn't good enough. We gotta find her Lexa."

Their conversation had gotten loud enough for her to hear them again. They were arguing and there was something in his voice that made her want to go over to him and comfort him. He was hurting about something, someone.

Right now she had to get home to the others fast before they would begin to worry and send out a search party for her. She straightened up as he walked over to her and stood beside her. "You ok?"

"Yeah, I gotta get home." Gage said. "Thanks, for you know watching my back."

"Wait, you're not seriously thinking about walking home after what just happened are you?"

"Yeah."

"Are you nuts? There could be more of those guys out there. Look, I can give you a ride home. It'll be a lot safer."

"Thanks but, I can hold my own, besides I've been through worse." She said walking away from him. "I'll see yah 'round Jesse."  She smiled to herself thinking, actually hoping that she would see him again.

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Come on did you really think she would be going to Sanctuary that fast? Ok should I continue on? Or just drop this altogether? N E questions, comments?

Come on now, it's 5 AM; I need something if you guys want the next chapter!