Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, etc. - Any coincidence with any real living people is purely accidental.


Where Life Takes Us

by JoBO

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Prologue

They had been flying for hours, but still she couldn't stop her body from shaking violently. He laid an arm around her shoulders in a final attempt to clam her down, but not even he could calm her down anymore.

"Relax! It's over now."

Their eyes met for a second, but then she quickly looked away and forced herself to look on her hands, because she didn't wanted him to see how scared she really was. That she was nothing more that the kid, which she all those years had tried not to be.

"They will never let me go. I'm too important for them… but I can't do it anymore."

She tried to keep her voice as normal as she could, but still he read her like an open book. He brushed the hair away from her face and kindly he forced her to look at him.

"It's over. We are almost about to land, so they can hurt you anymore."

She quickly shook her head, which left her hair very disorderly, but she didn't seem to notice it as she kept his glance with fearful eyes.

"You don't know HIM. He has contacts all over the world."

A stewardess with a phone in her hand came over to them before he could answer her.

"Excuse me, Miss, but there is a phone call for you."

With shaking hands she took the phone, which the stewardess gave her, and put it to her ear. She immediately froze as she recognized his voice even thought she knew it only could have been him.

"Well, my little girl, did you really think that I wouldn't be able to find you?"

She didn't say anything, so he just continued his monologue.

"I must say, that you almost fooled me, but that was only want I expected since you always have been trained by the very best…but, my dear…as you already know: No one deceives me!"

He held a rhetorical pause. She wanted to throw the phone away, but somehow it felt like it was glue to her ear. The only thing she could do was to listen to his word as she had done so many times before. His control over her would never end.

"I'm just calling to let you know that we no longer need your service, so I really hope you are going to enjoy your flight or what is left of it!"

She dropped the phone, which in the same moment went dead, as she realized what he had meant. When she caught the questioningly glance form the man beside her, then she couldn't hide her fear anymore.

"They are going to kill me!"

In the same moment the plane began to shake as an explosion tore a hole in the side of the cabin and flames began to jump into the air from the nearby seats. The survivors from the explosion tried to get away from the flames, which almost with lightning speed consumed the cabin, but without any luck. Within a second the cabin was filled with smoke, so she couldn't see anything. She was just about to panic, but then she felt his hand in hers and she remembered.

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The car drove away as it began to hail down on the big house, where they had just delivered the dreadfully news. For the policemen in the car it had just been another bad day, but for the people in the house it was the end. Especially for the woman, who would have giving her life for his, but now it was too late.

He would never come back to this house anymore. Never take her into his arms and tell her that every thing was going to be all right again. Never be there for her in times of need and keep an eye on her anymore. He was gone and this time it was for real. Not even he was able to come back form his wet grave on the bottom of the ocean, where only the scattered pieces from the plane marked the place.