The two shadows took the form of two of the burly guards he had seen earlier that day. Or had it been longer? He realised he didn't even know how long he had been here. They could already be looking for him...

'Please Syd, be careful,' he thought.

His 'punishers', as he had called them in his mind, came closer, revealing what they carried with them. A crowbar and brass knuckles were loosely held in their hands. Gage tried to steel himself against what was coming. But when the first blow came, he had to bite his lip not to scream out. And as they rained blow by blow on him the resolve not to scream broke and his cries could be heard in the entire building.

After a long while blissful darkness came which he invited, because it meant he would see her beautiful face, and forget about the pain.

'Sydney...'

Walker RAM

Sydney gave a small gasp, while clutching her stomach. Walker immediately turned to her from his place behind the wheel.

"Are you okay?" he asked with a concerned voice.

"Yeah," Syd replied while straightening on her seat, " Just a few cramps, nothing serious. I guess my morning sickness likes the evenings too." She smiled a small smile.

They had been searching for Gage for two days now, and they hadn't found any leads, except for mr. Anderson. But somehow he managed to be one step ahead, each time they were close to him. This afternoon they had finally found a clue. In one of the buildings Anderson did his dealing, they had found a body. A body which Syd recognized as one of her and Gage's old contacts, Stan Harding. The theory they had now was that somehow Gage had bumped in to this old contact, who somehow caused him to be found out. There had been a few people in the neighbourhood who had seen a van speed out of there, heading for the West side of the city. So now they were searching all of Andersons property on the West-side of the city. It was already pretty dark, but Trivette had called them to say that there was one warehouse left in that part, so they decided to investigate that one, and pray that it was the one where they would find Gage, alive.

"Have you seen any movement yet?" Sydney asked Walker, while searching the area from her place in the car.

"No, but I think I have now," Walker whispered, "Stay low."

They saw four men enter the building, one of them being the infamous mr. Anderson.

Sydney jumped up, "Let's go!" she said, but Walker put a hand over her arm.

"We should wait for Trivette and the others" he replied.

Sydney looked at him with pleading eyes, "Walker, if it was Alex, would you wait?" she asked with a strong tone in her voice.

Walker took in her determined looking face, and knew that if he didn't go with her, she would definitely go in alone.

"Alright, but we are only going to take a look, and see if he's in there."

Sydney nodded, "Let's go." she said while slowly getting out of the car.

They slowly entered the warehouse, Walker taking the upper floors and Sydney taking the ground floor and what seemed to be the basement. She had almost covered the entire ground floor, when she heard voices.

"I want you to finish it tonight."

"If he isn't dead already, Jimmy here really went at it," a male voice said in a laughing tone.

Sydney could feel her blood beginning to boil. 'He is here!' was her following thought. She peeked out from behind the crates where she was standing. There were three men standing there, she wondered where the fourth was when she saw the men leaving the room. Knowing that they were going to wherever Gage was, to finish it, she decided to follow them.

Meanwhile Walker had found the fourth man, and was having a little trouble handling him. It was a heavy guy, but he was also really fast. So while Walker was fighting, Sydney followed the other three to where they were going.

When she caught up with them, they were standing in front of a heavy looking door. 'Wait a minute, there were three... Where is that Jimmy guy?' Her thoughts were ended by a gun which was pointed at her head.

"Now miss, get up real slow," the man said.

"Well, you must be Jimmy," she said, while taking in the situation. The chances were bad, three against one, and she didn't know where Walker was. But she decided to take the chance and spun around so fast 'Jimmy' didn't have time to react when she slammed her fist in his face. But her luck didn't last long. The other guy had jumped in, grabbing her from behind. She reacted quickly, but couldn't avoid a few punches, before throwing her leg up, hitting the guy's head.

Mr. Anderson just stood there and watched while two of his men were being beaten by a lady, a pretty good looking lady, to be honest. Although his men were good and got in a few punches they still ended on the ground, knocked out.

He decided to put an end to this ridiculous situation. Grabbing his gun he took a shot, to show that woman who was in control here.

Sydney had just knocked out the second guy, and was turning towards their leader, when she heard a shot and felt a searing pain. She felt like everything went in slow motion, her turning around, the smoke which bellowed from the gun, the smug look on Andersons face. And her, sagging to the ground.