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Last time-

Well boys because Kai was stupid enough to loose Evlin you will be one man down for your next mission." Tala, Kai, Bryan and Spencer all smirked at that. "There is a weapons cash east of the Hanoi boarder in Asia. You have one week to retrieve it but be warned, rebels found the cash and it is now heavily guarded. You leave at 0400 hours.

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Chapter 6

Bright Red Hair and Brilliant Blue Eyes.

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We sat in the helicopter waiting for the drop point. We'd done a fly over and Voltaire wasn't kidding when he said the weapons cash was heavily guarded. If any of us got out of this alive it would be a miracle. I mean sure, were good but I'm not sure if we are good enough to get out of this in one piece. We were one man down as well which was going to make this harder but at least Evlin was safe and out of harms way. The chopper did one more fly over of the site before it took us to our designated landing site to the north.

Evi sat on her new queen sized bed. Looking up at the white drapes that hung around her, she let out a sigh, just like a princess ah Tala? Funny she didn't feel like a princess. She just felt lonely. So totally alone. Evi knew it was stupid feeling that way. She had her parents and Bret and they were great but they weren't her boys. Sighing again Evi looked across the lawn and over the fence to Talas' old house. There was a small girl with bright red hair running around in they yard chasing after a butterfly. Evi felt her throat constrict. Tala had a little sister, and she was beautiful.

She watched the small child play for a good half and hour before something that Kai had said came back to her.

FlashBack

"Oh and Tala wants you to check up on his dad for him, I forgot to tell you that before apparently he is still right next door."

End of FlashBack

She had completely forgotten about Tala's father. Jumping off the bed she pulled on her skate shoes before running down the stairs. At the bottom of the landing she ran into Bret.

"Wow, steady on there young one!" he said in a fake Irish accent.

"Sorry!" Evi called over her shoulder before she slammed the door behind herself.

She ran down the path to the front gate then across the Volkov lawn to the front door. Evi banged on the door with her fist. There was a moments silence where what she was doing caught up with her and she began to feel slightly nervous. Evi started wringing her hands together when the door opened and a woman with blonde hair and a friendly smile looked out at her.

"Can I help you dear?" she questioned, a blank look on her face.

"Ah, could I speak to Mr Volkov please?" Evi asked with a confident smile, ah if only her stomach matched her smile everything would be better.

"Oh, sorry love, he's at work right now. But he will be back later."

"Oh, okay could you tell him I called around." She smiled.

"And you're name was?" she asked.

Evi gave a nervous laugh. "Right, sorry! My name is Evlin Smith."

"Okay, I'll tell him you stopped by."

"Thanks." Evi smiled and began to walk away.

"Mummy, mummy the butterfly got away!" the little girl ran up and hugged her mother around her thighs. Evi turned to see the girl, yes definitely went swimming in the fathers side of the gene pool. She had the same fiery red hair and bright crystal blue eyes as Tala, she even had the same nose.

Evi felt tears welling in her eyes as she turned away and started back to her house next door.

Daddy, Daddy your home! The little girl came tearing around the corner of the kitchen at top speed. Her mother laughed at the sight before she remembered the girl form earlier.

"Honey, a girl came around to see you earlier while you were at work, looked about seventeen or so, said her name was Elen Smith or something."

"Evlin Smith?" the woman's husband corrected.

"Yes, that is it. Why do you know her?"

"I used to, anyway how did she look?"

The woman gave her husband a curious look before answering. "Very well I guess, she is a very pretty girl."

"Where did she go?" he asked.

"Ah, she went next door to the other Smiths, I guess she must be visiting them or something."

Evi sat in the kitchen staring blankly at the wall while her mother prepared diner for the family.

"What's wrong sweetie?" her mother asked, she had been watching Evi ever since she came into the kitchen and was getting a little worried.

"Nothing is wrong exactly… I went to see Talas' father today but he wasn't there, I saw his daughter though. She is so much like Tala, it's incredible considering she has a different mother."

"It is remarkable isn't it? Mind you, they don't have different mothers."

"WHAT? Mrs Volkov had a baby when she was so sick?"

"No no no! Before Talas' mother died she had some eggs frozen and when Mr Volkov remarried his wife couldn't have children so they used his ex wife's eggs and Tasmin is the result."

"Oh!"

Bullets flew everywhere as Tala, Kai, Bryan and Spencer weaved their way through the trees to the weapons cash. They paused and each took out several guards then quickly his behind trees as bullets rained down on them.

Tala threw a grenade to the left of the group to course a distraction as he and Kai moved to the right to take out the watchmen in the guard towers. Spencer and Bryan charged through and secured the weapons while Kai and Tala cleared the perimeter leaving no room for mistakes. Kai radioed for a helicopter to come in and take the weapons back to base, once it was all over the boys were left to make their own way back to base.

Evi sat in her room reading a book. It had been nine days since she had gone to see Tala's father and he still hadn't come to see her. Maybe she was meant to go and see him instead, she didn't know. Anyway right now she had more important things to worry about. In two days she would be going to school for the first time ever in her seventeen year old life and it scared the shit out of her. Evlin wasn't stupid, quite the opposite in fact but she had heard from some of Bret's friends that there were some bullies at the school where she would be going, mainly girls who tried to make new comers lives miserable. Then a thought struck her. Why the hell was she scared? It was only school! She had almost been killed many times and it hadn't bothered her! She had had to navigate the entire team through a minefield, hell she could handle this better than anyone. All she had to do was block them out and of that didn't work she would give them a black eye or something to that effect, maybe a broken nose?

There was a knock on her door and then Bret came in holding a mug of hot chocolate. "Here, mum thought you might want this. She said you've been quite lately."

Evi took the cup and smiled in thanks before raising her eyebrow. Bret chuckled.

"Okay, quieter than usual! Are you still worried about going to school on Monday?" He asked as he sat down beside her on the bed.

Evi shock her head, she really liked Bret, he was funny and nice and he had gone out of his way to make her feel welcome. "Not anymore. I've decided it isn't worth getting worried over. I mean, I've been shot at and shot and I wasn't as worried or scare as I was before, I just decided that of I get picked on I'll give them a black eye or a Broken nose or something." Bret laughed.

"That should work! Nah, if you stick around my mated you shouldn't get picked on too much. We're what are known as the cool catz so hanging with us will give you instant status so you'll be SET! What are you reading anyway?"

"The Bridge to Madison County. It was something Tala told me to read when I was ten. Tala loves books and literature." Evi explained.

"Really? It doesn't really fit with his image."

"Ha, you'd be surprised! Kai is an artist, and both Spencer and Bryan are great musicians, you give them an instrument and ten minutes later they can play it."

"Yeah?" Bret asked. "What about you?"

"Me, well I'm a bit if an all rounder I guess, but I'll never be as good as them."

"You never know, one day you might just surprise yourself." Bret ruffled Evi's hair before standing to leave.

"Thanks for the drink."

"No problem." Bret closed the door on his way out.

"What the hell! Are you nuts Kai?" Tala looked at Kai as if he had finally gone completely insane. "We cant just up and go like this!"

Kai looked at Tala and smiled. It had been two months since Evi had gone and now was their perfect chanced to escape. "Kai think about this, Evi is in America and we are in the southern corner of Asia, how the blood hell do you think we will get to America?"

Kai smiled again before answering. "There is a boat that leaved from a port seventy miles due east of here in two days, we can make that no problem and it goes straight to America.

"Come on guys back me up here, we cant just leave!" Tala looked at Bryan and Spencer for confirmation that Kai's idea was completely stupid.

"It works for me." Bryan muttered, he didn't want to get into a fight with two senior members of his team. Spencer nodded in agreement with Bryan. "Besides when are we going to get another chance like this?" Spencer backed Kai up, who gave a fuck about choosing sides anymore.

"And we get to see Evi again, you cant tell me you don't miss her Tala." Kai was going to ad that he had heard Tala humming the song he had sang the night Evi had left but thought better of it.

A huge smile broke across Tala's face. "You know this is crazy don't you?" he asked the rest of his team. They all nodded.

"Sounds just our style then ha?" Kai, Bryan and Spencer all let out a cheer. This was it. They were going.

I know I haven't explained the time very well but anyway Evi has been gone for two months and three days ago the boys got sent on their mission and now it is done they have to find their own way back but they aren't going back.

Hope everyone enjoyed it, I don't know if it is because I'm writing it and then reading it or not but to me it seems crap. But as long as you guys like the story it's all good.

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