Lyrics belong to Journey "Separate ways", lol mostly cause it has a good starting beat.
: Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched and went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you:
Amy's POV
I was feeling awfully woozy by the time Asha opened the bathroom door. Also very disoriented, no windows meant no idea what time it might be outside. I didn't think it was morning yet, but who knows maybe I had dozed off. I didn't get up from where I was sitting, head leaning on the bathtub ledge, just looked up at her.
"Fuck, Katia," Asha barked looking at me. "I told you not to hurt her too bad." Asha came over, kneeling next to me. I thought about trying something, but the throbbing pain in my leg was an unwelcome reminder of just how bad an idea that was. I sat up as she fingered my now bloody bandage, pain shooting through me.
"It's just a scratch," Katia scoffed from the doorway. "The baby tried to escape, she asked for it."
"What did you do to her?" Asha asked, looking back over her shoulder at Katia.
"I threw my knife at her leg," Katia shrugged.
"God, Katia," Asha shook her head. "Now it's going to take both of us to carry her to the car."
"She can walk. Can't you?" I looked up at Katia, she raised an eyebrow expectantly, hand moving to thigh where I knew the knife was strapped. I nodded slowly.
"Yeah, I can walk," I started pushing myself up, favoring my left leg. It was stiff, but actually not too bad to put weight on it now. Asha grabbed my bicep, pulling me up quicker than I was ready for, I stumbled a little bit into her as my vision blurred.
"Whoa," Asha caught me, pushing me up again. "Easy baby, you want a piece just ask," she wrapped an arm around me waist to support me. As much as I hated her touching me I had to put my arm over her shoulder and accept her help. At the door Katia stood grinning as she watched us.
"Just let her walk," she spoke as Asha shoved us past her.
"She can't walk," Asha insisted.
"Yes she can."
"No, she can't you fucked that idea right the hell up."
"She can walk you're just babying her cause you still are wet for her girlfriend."
"Okay, fine," Asha pulled away from me and I fell to the ground with a crash. "See," Asha pointed to me as I lay in a completely useless pile on the floor just inside the pool house.
"Letting her drop doesn't convince me you don't want her girlfriend," Katia smirked, crossing her arms.
"Do you really want to get into this right now?" Asha asked, narrowing her eyes and crossing her own arms at Katia.
"Yes, I do," Katia nodded. "Why aren't we going to kill her?"
"Because we have the Glaxco-multi..."
"Twelve-nine. Yes we all know. And yes it will be fun to blow things up with it. But why not kill her?"
"Because Lucy will thing she has saved her girlfriend at the expense of thousands of others."
"Uh-huh," Katia nodded, not looking very convinced. "I'm sure she'll be crying herself to sleep over people she has never met while she's sliding inside her girlfriend."
"Hey, I have a name," I threw in from the ground.
"Shut up," they both ordered.
"I could get away if I really wanted to," I mumbled, starting to push myself up. Katia grabbed my hair, pulling me to my feet. "Damn it what is up with you and my hair?" I asked, tittering a bit, trying to find my balance without putting equal weight on both feet.
"Walk," she demanded, shoving me forward, I stumbled, but stayed up. "Do you still think she needs your help?" Katia asked snidely.
"Just cause I don't want to waste the extra five minutes following her to the car doesn't me I still want Lucy." Katia only laughed, pushing me along.
"Where are we going?" I asked as I was roughly pushed through the house, taking most of my concentration to remain upright.
"The factory," Asha answered. "Set up things for our little firecracker show."
"Firecrackers?" Michal asked from the bottom of the stairs, eyes wide. "What are they mommy?"
"Nothing Michal. Come with mommy," she shoved me to Asha, letting her take over moving me through the house. Katia scooped Michal up into her arms. Poor kid, I glance at the clock, it's after one am and the kid looks exhausted.
"Come on Amy, move the tight ass of yours," Asha prods me with what feels like the barrel of a gun, I don't have time to check that theory as I am shoved out the front door, then roughly over to the car.
"Now go back to sleep my little prince," Katia sounds sickeningly sweet tucking Michal into the back seat. "We are just going for a ride to Asha's factory."
"Ano," he nods sleepily, slipping into Slovakian. "Je to odtial'to d'aleko?"
"No, baby," Katia smiled, smoothing his hair.
"Dobru noc, momma."
"Dobru noc, Michal," Katia shut his door and turned to us. "Put her in the trunk.
"What? No," I started to try to squirm away for the first time since the bathroom.
"Open the trunk," Asha ordered, holding my wrists so tightly I couldn't pull free. Katia unlocked the trunk and lifted it, then taking my feet they lifted me inside. I tried to fight them but really was too weak to make any real difference. Plus I figured if I struggled to hard they might drop me and then I would have a cracked skull on top of everything else.
Lucy's POV
"What are you doing out here?" Max asked, leaning sinking into the folding chair on my balcony, I was on the ledge looking out over the city. "I thought I said to make this day good, cause it could be your last."
"Yeah, there wasn't much chance of that," I nodded absently, still looking off into the distance.
Why?" Max asked, sounding a little amused, I turned to look at her in all seriousness.
"Because everything that could make my day good is currently being held hostage by two crazy fucking bitches." Max looks me over for a second before speaking.
"Why do you love her so much?"
"I don't know," I answer honestly. She nods, accepting that, but there's more. "I guess because I feel settled with her. Like before I was always searching for something. And once I met her the feeling of being unfulfilled went away."
"She completes you," Max nods.
"Yeah but when you say it like that it just sounds totally lame," I laugh.
"I hate to burst your bubble but you two are sickeningly lame."
"I know," I smile, thinking of Amy, and of Barcelona. I feel my heart twist and know if we aren't there together I can never go back. My smile fades and I look down at Max. "We have to get her back."
"Yep," she nods. "We will. Are you ready to do this?"
"Yeah," I jump back onto the balcony, brushing off the back of my pants. "I am gonna punch Asha in the face so hard," I say as I walk past Max, she laughs following me into the room.
"You and me both."
When we step into the hallway the others are all waiting, looking tense and ready for battle. I notice Janet and Scud are standing awfully close, and when I look closer see they are actually holding hands. Three days ago I would have given him so much shit. But fuck it, if they're happy all the better.
Max doesn't say anything about it either as she surveys our group. I have to say if I was looking at us from outside I wouldn't think we were much. Sure Max looks all badass, especially in her olive cargo pants and black tank top, showing off just how ripped she really is. But the rest of us? Dominique looks like a chain smoking twelve year old in high heals; Scud has computer geek written all over him, Janet, she just looks like she should be wearing fluffy bunny slippers. And me? I feel like the weakest person in the world right now. I guess the important thing is I know we can all kick some serious ass.
"We all know the mission," Max starts, heading for the elevator, we all fall in line behind. "Stop Asha, and retrieve Amy. Kill if you have to, but I'd rather take prisoners." We all crowd into the elevator as she continues. "I think at this time of night we might as well just waltz in through the front doors," she glances at me and I nod.
"She won't expect that."
"Right," Max continues and we exit the elevator. "We spread out, Lucy and Scud head up, we'll clear the first floor and follow you up."
"Sounds good," Scud nodded.
"Everyone got the plan?" Max asked the girls who nodded, Dominique lighting a cigarette as we exited the hotel.
"Be careful," Janet whispered to Scud as we approached the car. I slid in the back seat with them, letting Dominique ride shot gun.
"Let's do this," Max turned the key.
And nothing happened.
"What the hell?" She turned it again, and still nothing.
"I told you this car was a piece of shit," Dominique commented. Max glared at her and popped the hood. I got out with her to help.
"Those fucks," Max cursed as I rounded the hood she already had pulled up.
"What?" I asked, looking down in the engine for a minute before I figured out what was missing. "They took the battery?" I asked stunned. "Did no one leave today? No one noticed they took the battery?"
"Janet and Scud with in the bedroom all day. Dominique was in someone's bedroom and I was planning, and cleaning my guns."
"A day to remember, huh?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"Oh and what did you do?" Max asked, letting the hood slam shut.
"Watched 'Breakfast at Tiffany's" on AMC," I answered. "Let's check my car."
A quick look under the hood showed my battery was also gone. Which aside from fucking us tonight was also probably not going to go over well with the rental company if we lived through tonight. I glanced around the parking lot spying a blazer not to far off. Nice ride, easy to steal. I smiled starting for it.
"Um where are you going?" Max asked, starting after me.
"Getting us a ride."