A/N: Short chapter, i know. I'm in a writer's block here. Er..
It's nice that people like it and actually reads it cuz i'm starting to think i'm like, retarted here.

Chapter 27: Think Hard…Not too Hard

Kasumi didn't know why he did it but he did…
He destroyed their only chance. Their only hope. "What the fuck did you just do that for?" Kasumi screamed. She looked upset. "I haven't finished with the guy! He could've told us where she was!"

Did I say upset?--I meant, enraged.

"He did."

"No he didn't." Kasumi retorted.

Was he the only one who heard?

King walked down the hallway and appeared in the kitchen doorway with a pump action shotgun, Kasumi following right behind, screaming.

"Since when did you get so fucking stupid?"

Abby and Ruby froze in their seats, they looked at each other, bewildered. Instead of yelling back (like what he mostly did even if they were just fighting about the same food) he just stood there, listening, looking down at his gun.

He had saved her life. Was she blind enough not to notice that he had freed himself and that he was ready to knock her out? King cocked the shotgun, loading the chamber with a live round, oblivious to the world around him. Was she deaf? He said it loud and clear…

…Water and Wastewater treatment.


The Water and Wastewater treatment. It had all been for nothing. David…that son of a bitch. He had lied. It wasn't there. Everything was normal in that place. No signs of anything.

No signs of her.

Kasumi passed a window, looking inside. Some sort of meeting was going on. While these people were enjoying their lives -well, as much joy you could get from your job- a little girl's life was hanging by a delicate thread with Ashley standing right at the top with a pair of…giant…fucking…scissors.

They passed more doors, all of them bared the same logo.

They didn't have those a few years ago…

She stopped dead in her tracks as if she had just figured out a mystery nobody has ever solved.

A few years ago.