Daddy's Girls: Chapter 10
Author's note: Well, the suspense of another chapter was killing me as much as all of you, so here's another morsel to satisfy your craving. Keep reading and reviewing!
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Jon smiled slightly as he noticed Roxanne and the man who stood next to her. He was the same guy who was hanging
around the booth few minutes before the exchange. Jon kept his eyes on the girl and ran his hand under the table
until he felt the bug. He then spoke into the pin on his trench coat in a calm tone, "The guy with the 3 little
girls…grab them they know too much." Jon then headed towards the entrance.
"Were leaving now!" Buddy grab Roxanne arm and lead her towards the back door, "Annie grab Jess."
"Why do we have to leave now! We just got here!" Jess protested.
Annie grabbed Jess's arm and dragged her, "Shut up were going."
Jess stared at Annie dumbfounded. Then she noticed that Annie turned around and looked over her shoulder and did
the same, immediately noticing two men in leather heading straight towards them.
"Ah… got it…"
With that, she grabbed her small rucksack while walking out and slung it over her shoulder before walking out quickly.
But the moment they left the club, the four of them realized they had walked into a dead end. Another pair of Jon's
men were awaiting them.
"Nice of you guys to come to us on your own… would have been a pity if one of those beauties here got hurt,
wouldn't it?" Thug #1 said, playing with a strand of Annie's hair.
"True," Jess said, pulling something out of her sleeve. "It is a shame you guys have to be hurt."
Before anyone could react, two shuriken flew out of Jess' hands, striking one thug into the hand and another in
the shoulder.
"YOU LITTLE BITCH!" both thugs screamed in pain filled anger.
One of the men advanced on Jess as the other, who had been toying with Annie's hair, grabbed a handful of it. Or
tried to. She deftly knocked his hand away before quickly ducking under the right hook Buddy threw. It sent the
first thug sprawling, and the second soon followed after Buddy uppercut him with a sharp left.
"RUN!"
Buddy still had a tight grip on Roxy's arm and pulled her behind him as he sprinted for the car, trusting that
Annie would do the same with Jess. He found his faith well placed as the redhead sprinted up from behind, lecturing
Dusty's daughter the whole time.
"What kind of a crazy stunt was that?! If Buddy hadn't reacted so fast, we could've been in big trouble!"
"Take a look around, Annie, we are in big trouble!" Jess retorted calmly. "And you're pretty naïve
if you think those guys were going to let us go without a fight. I just started it before they did."
"That's my whole point, Jess!" Annie said in exasperation as they reached Buddy's car without any more
incidents. "Didn't anyone ever teach you that the first rule of self defense is that if you don't need to
fight, then don't?! We might have been able to distract them, or back up and avoid them before you started throwing
weapons around."
Buddy's somewhat disappointed, angry, and worried voice broke into their discussion. "We'll discuss THAT shortly,
now get in the car!"
Annie and Jess quickly climbed into the back seat, as Roxy and Buddy did the same up front. Buddy threw the car
into gear and peeled out of the parking lot quickly, turning the car back toward the direction of town and Boulderhill.
Now that the immediate danger was over, he took a moment to look over the three girls unfortunate enough to get
mixed up in his undercover operation. What the hell were these three doing in there in the first place, let
alone all of them together?! One look into the rearview mirror at Jess' maniac grin and lack of clothing gave
him one piece of his puzzle, and a glance over at Roxy's heavy metal look gave him another. The glares Annie shot
out from under her hat at the other two pretty much sealed up the explanation, but he wanted to hear this firsthand.
I also want to know how they managed to dupe Brad into going along with all of this.
"Okay, Annie, what the hell were the three of you doing in a club like that?" Buddy demanded as he locked
eyes with her in the rearview mirror.
"Hey, I can explain!" Roxy protested from the front seat. "What are you asking her for?"
"Because I don't have the time or the patience to filter the truth out of your explanation," Buddy snapped
back.
"Well, Buddy, this is really what happened…" Jess tried to stall him with her sweetest and best 'this-is-how-I-weasel-my-way-out-of-trouble'
voice.
Buddy smiled maliciously at her from the driver's seat. "The same thing applies to you, Jess, I know how you
operate. I only want to hear this explanation once, and I'd like it to be accurate, so let's have it, Red."
Annie shrugged, pretending to be nonchalant although she was anything but. "I was under the impression that
JESS and I were going out to a country club. You can imagine my surprise when we pulled up in front of THAT,"
she jerked her finger behind her for emphasis, "pit hole, and things deteriorated from there when SHE showed
up."
Annie shot a pointed glare in Roxanne's direction as Roxanne retorted. "Yeah well, next time I'll remember
to ask Jess if she's bringing her COOL friends."
Jess' burst of laughter cut off Annie's reply. "I wish I could have captured the looks on your faces, too…it
was just priceless!"
"I knew you had to set this up." Buddy simply shook his head and sighed as he turned the conversation
back to Annie. "And your father and Dusty went along with this?"
"Why wouldn't they?" Annie shot back giving Jess the most murderous glare Buddy had ever seen on her
face. "Dad's the one who's always telling me I need to get out more, so it isn't like he could contradict
himself by saying no. And I'm sure Dusty figured I'd be the responsible one. And I tried to be…I even called Dad
to come get us, although he might not have gotten the message because SOMEONE," Annie's glare darkened, "hung
the phone up on me."
"Just like you to go running back to Daddy," Roxanne taunted.
"At least my father can trust me not to get him killed!" Annie snapped back quickly. "Unlike you
who put us into yet ANOTHER dangerous situation."
"ENOUGH!" Buddy's frustrated shout silenced all three girls at the same time. Lord, I can't even think
straight. I'm gonna have three angry fathers at my throat, one of which is already on his way here…that is if we
make it out of the area. He sighed deeply and did the only thing he could do at the moment, and that was lecture
the hell out of them.
"Well Annie," he began, "that's really great you called Brad, but unless he shows up really soon,
that's not going to help us much." He shot a look back at Jess as he asked, "And what the hell were you
doing with shuriken!?"
Jess flashed him a charming smile. "Don't worry Buddy, Gloria and Bruce trained me really well in their use.
I won't hurt anyone I don't mean to."
"You yourself just said that place was dangerous, so we have to protect ourselves." Annie piped in, finding
herself unconsciously defending Jess. "I brought my knife along just because I've become extremely suspicious
and paranoid by nature, and now I'm glad I did."
"Well, I'm not," Buddy said harshly.
He started to ask Jess if her parents knew she was carrying dangerous weapons around, but cut off the stupidity
of his own unvoiced question. Instead, he continued to grill Annie, the one he had previously considered the most
innocent of the group.
"Does Brad know you're hiding a knife on you?"
"Yeah, I told him," Annie replied truthfully. "Besides, the Ranger Boys taught me well, and it was
originally Jesse's idea that I learn how to use one."
"Look, Annie, just because Jesse Hawkes has an idea, does not mean that it is automatically a good one."
When Buddy saw that Annie simply stared back at him evenly, he stopped wasting his breath lecturing her, instead
he returned to conversing with all of them. "You girls are WAYYY too young to be throwing weapons around."
He caught Roxanne smirking at him out of the corner of his eye and turned on her. "I suppose you're carrying
too?"
"I don't know, care to search me?" Roxy smiled invitingly. Her smile disappeared as she caught a glance
out the side mirror. "Uh Buddy, there's three cars following us…"
"Shit!" He cursed loudly, speeding up. "All right girls, hang on, and lay low!"
Jess and Annie ignored his request and instead turned around in their seats, to get a glance out the back window.
Three black vans were coming up from the rear. The girls notice somebody's arm sticking out of the first vehicle's
passenger window.
"He's got a gun!" Annie grabbed Jess both ducking down, as the first hit struck the back window. Annie
and Jess both screamed softly as the glass shattered over their backs.
