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Chapter 3

Rick and Steven sat at a table in an adjacent room, as Rick continued to gloat about their recent success, and glancing twords both doors where the hostages were.

Steven looked around still disgusted with the place that Rick had picked out to hold their 'precious cargo'.

"Why did we have to some here, of all places?" Steven asked as he touched a burned picture on the wall, and watched it crumble.

"Because this is the last place anyone would expect us to be!" Rick replied pulling a deck of cards out of his jacket pocket.

"Wrong man, this is the last place anyone would expect me to be; however, I can't say as much as you." Hitting him in the head as he said it.

"Ow...Why did you do that for?" Touching the back of his head, then going back to shuffling the deck of cards. "So, what now...I mean we already decided to get Gage...his wife will no longer be needed. What's the boss want done with her?"

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Sydney's Cell

Listening to the conversation going on in the other room where Rick and Steven were presently, She began to worry about the safety of her husband and unborn Child. With that thought, she wrapped her arms around her stomach a protectively and put her head on her brought up knees.

Suddenly without notice, a cold pair of little hands, touched the bare part of her shoulder, making Sydney shutter at the chill.

"Please don't cry lady," Sydney brought her face up to see a small gaunt child with dirt on her face and past bruises that never healed. "You've got a boo-boo on your leg, does it hurt?"

"Just a little but it's okay, What's your name sweetie?" Sydney asked still holding her stomach.

"Holly-Ann," She just said, "what's yours"

"My name is Sydney. How long have you been in this place?" At that question Steven came into the room forcing the girl to go with him, Sydney got up and tried to help her.

"Let her go!" Sydney practically screamed at him.

Steven quickly pulled his gun on her, holding the child between his strong arm on his side. Sydney stopped dead in her tracks when the coldness of the gun touched her neck. She was afraid of what he'd do to her and her unborn baby if she tried to help the child, or worse what they'd do to the little girl.

"You don't want to taunt me lady ranger!" Steven said pulling the girl out of the room putting his gun away, at the same time a pain hit Sydney in the stomach making her double over.

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Walker and Trivette pulled up at the burnt warehouse, unaware of the situation in the building going on. Trivette radioed it in and took to the front doors of the burnt building, guns in position to fire as they kicked the doors in and surveyed the first floor

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Gage woke up groggily and held his head, shaking off the drowsiness. Unexpectedly, Gage heard someone yelling, soft and gentle as a young girl, cried out. He got up and went to the door where a window, where glass used to be, saw steven going into a room across from his, and heard something that made a cold chill run down his back.

'Sydney'...That voice rang out and it was unmistakable whose it was. His lovely partner and wife was in danger, and he couldn't get to her beyond this...burnt door. He thought for a minute before realizing the latches on the door were rusted enought for him to somehow 'knock' it down.

He surveyed the room for potential items to hit the door with, but he found nothing. He took a step back and did a round house knocking the door down. Not even a step out, he heard a door slam and a Syd's scream.

'Alright that's enough, I've got to find Sydney, Now!' Gage said seeing Rick sitting at a table playing a game of cards. He went over to him tapping him on his shoulder.

"Not now Steven, I'm playing to win..." Rick said sarcastically not looking up to see who it was.

"To bad, You loose," Gage said uppercutting him out of his chair and into the ground.

"STEVEN!" He screamed as Steven came out of Syd's holding cell, holding the young girl at his side, and seeing Gage in hand to hand with Rick, he threw the girl to the ground hard making her cry out.

He ran to Gage and caught him in a hold as Rick took a cheat shot to his back knee's making him fall. Gage quickly took his stance back as he noticed Syd appear infront of the door way, holding her stomach and starting to fall, holding onto the wall as she called out to Gage.

"Sydney, are you okay?" The little girl asked looking up from the ground.

"Gage, help me..." She said. "it's time.."

"Not another step Ranger, or your wife and child dies."

Walker and Trivette at that moment came barging in taking over the two men and Gage ran to his wife, right before she passed out and collapsed into his arms.

"Sydney, no....wake up Shorty...." He cried out to her.

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