The shot rang out through the quiet room. It wasn't quiet anymore. People were screaming all over the place and getting down on the ground to avoid being shot at even though there weren't any more shots. The guards were trying to make people calm down and be quiet. Then, Shalimar heard a sound behind her.
"Shal..." Brennan managed to get out.
Shalimar spun around to where Brennan was standing and used her feral sight to look at him. He had his head down and was clutching his stomach. Then she looked more closely and saw that his hands were red.
"Oh my god!" she said frantically as she ran over to him, catching him before he fell to the ground too hard. She laid him down gently. Her hands were shaking as she moved his hands away from the bullet hole. "Oh my god," she said in a whisper. Her hands hovered over the wound, shaking badly.
Anger sprouted inside of her and took over the fear and the horror that she had felt seconds before. She sprang up and flew towards the man, her feral eyes cutting through the darkness. Her hands were outstretched in front of her and she launched herself at him. She caught him by surprise as she hit him. They both fell to the floor with the man on the bottom, Shalimar on top. Her fingers were clawing at the man's face when his strong hands caught her wrists. He held them tightly inches away from his face. He could feel her shaking with rage all over. She tried to rip out of his grip but he wouldn't let her go.
"You bastard!" she spat, still trying to get her hands free.
"Don't make this worse than it already is Shalimar," he said in a low voice.
She heard more clicks and turned to look at where they had come from. She saw a couple more men surround Brennan. Their guns were aimed at him. Brennan lay helplessly on the floor, his hands over his wound trying to stop the bleeding.
"I can make this all stop if you just cooperate with me," he said calmly.
"Don't hurt him anymore," she said as she turned back to the man. She was still shaking with anger.
"He won't get hurt anymore if you do what I want," he said.
"Fine. Just help him!" Shalimar replied.
He let go of her wrists and told the other men who surrounded Brennan to put their guns down. He and Shalimar got up off the ground. Shalimar walked over to Brennan and knelt down next to him. A single tear ran down her face.
"I'm okay..." Brennan said with a pained voice. His breathing was uneven and labored.
"Take him," the man said to the guards, referring to Brennan.
The guards picked up Brennan and took him away. The man grabbed Shalimar by the arm and announced to the crowd, "Alright everyone. You can all go now. Sorry for the disturbance. Hope you come back another time," he said with sarcasm in his voice. The people slowly got up off the ground and made there way towards door.
"You're crazy," Shalimar sneered.
"And you're coming with me," he replied back, hauling her towards the door that the guards had taken Brennan out. They reached a van where the men were waiting. "Get in," he said to her with a sharp tone as he motioned for Shalimar to get into the back of the van were Brennan was lying.
She obeyed him and got in and went to right side of Brennan. There was another man in the back of the van. He was on the left side tending to Brennan's bullet wound. He was trying to get the bullet out.
She reached out her hand and took Brennan's. They were all bloody but she didn't care. As long as he was going to be alright...
"You're going to get better," she told Brennan as she held back tears. "It's going to be alright. We're going to get out of this."
"I know..." is all he managed to say. He was concentrating too much on keeping his breathing close to steady. Every now and then we would wince at the pain and movement.
The man finally got the bullet out. "Hold him up for a second while I wrap this bandage around him," he ordered Shal.
Shalimar carefully took her arms and lifted Brennan into a sitting position. The man then began to wrap his stomach at where the wound was. He finished in no time at all and Shalimar gently set Brennan back down into a lying position again.
They rode in silence for what felt for an hour. She had lost all sense of direction half way through the ride. They had turned so many times she didn't know which way was which by then. She just gave up on trying to find out where they were. She figured that was the soul purpose of why they were doing it, so Brennan and herself wouldn't know where they were when they finally stopped moving. After she gave up with the directions, Shalimar sat there the rest of the time clutching onto Brennan's hand.
The van finally stopped moving.
"Out," the French man ordered as the door opened.
The doctor man got out first, followed by Shalimar. The doctor and Shal hoisted Brennan out and put each one of his arms around their shoulders so he would have support for walking. They followed the French dude into a building Shalimar or Brennan had never seen before. They went down a hallway and then turned to the right at the end of it. They went down that hallway a ways and then stopped in front of a doorway to the left. The man opened it and went inside. The doctor, Shalimar, and Brennan followed him, not that they could do otherwise. It was a damp, cement cell with a chair in the corner. One set of chains was on every wall except for the wall with the door.
The guards that had been following them came up behind Shal and four of them took hold of Shalimar's arms tightly.
"Hey!" she protested, trying to get out of their strong grasp. "Let go of me!"
"I'm afraid that's not possible, Ms. Fox. You see, I know you are very strong. I can't take any chances in you getting away," the French man said.
The guards dragged Shal towards one set of chains, all the time she was thrashing to get out of their tight hold on her. Two of the guards took the chains and placed them around Shalimar's wrists and secured them. They finished and backed away.
Shalimar tugged at the chains with all her might but they wouldn't move at all. She growled and flashed her eyes at them in anger.
The guards then when over to Brennan and took him over to the opposite wall and chained him. He didn't put up much of a fight because of him wound. After the guards were done, most of them left the room. The doctor followed them. The only remaining people in the room were two guards and the French man. The French guy just stood there for a minute looking at both of them before speaking.
"Now I know Adam is a very smart man," he said.
"Is this going somewhere?" Shalimar snapped at him.
He looked at her and replied calmly, "If you'd have let me finish, why yes, it is going somewhere. Anyways, as I was saying before you interrupted me, Adam is smart. Smart enough to have some sort of technology to keep you in communication at all times. All of you." He stopped and studied Shalimar's face.
She stood there calmly, not letting an emotion but hate and anger escape from her face.
He continued with a slight grin. "So either tell me what links you all together or I take everything away from you. You get to decide."
"Nothing," she said as she glared at him. "We don't have anything."
He turned to look at Brennan to see if his face would hint anything. Nothing came but pain and anger.
"Very well," he replied as he turned back to Shalimar.
He motioned to the guards. They moved over to Shalimar and started to search her for things. They took anything they could find. They took her cell phone, all her jewelry, everything.
She was fuming mad now. They had taken away her link back to Sanctuary whether they knew it or not. Now, Jesse wouldn't be able to track them. Shit! She though. This is just great!
They moved onto Brennan next. They took his cell phone, his keys, his wallet, and his comlink.
The French person walked over and looked over all the things. He told the guards to take the stuff and leave. To put it somewhere 'safe'.
After they left, he spoke up again. "Now that that's all cleared up we can move on with things." He smiled. "I want to know where Adam Kane is."
"I don't know," she said calmly.
He walked towards her till he was right up in her face. "I'll repeat it once more. Where is Adam?" he said slowly.
"I told you, I have no idea where he is!" she told him, as she got even closer to his face. They were inches apart and no one was backing away.
He stood his ground. "Do we really have to do this the hard way again Shalimar? Remember the last time that happened? Your boyfriend over there got a opening," he said sarcastically with a slight smirk.
"She's telling the truth! Adam's gone, okay? We don't know where he went or if he's even alive anymore," Brennan spoke up behind him.
The man turned around to look at Brennan. Anger replaced the pain that once almost took over. He walked over to the chair that was in the corner and sat down in it. He made himself comfortable before talking.
"You better hope he's still alive, because he's the only one's that maybe can save you now." He smiled an evil smile and laughed.
