The safe house
The figure opened the door. Luke was standing there. "Do you have a phone I could borrow," he slurred, "I crashed my car."
"Sorry, we don't have phone service here," the figure said.
"What about a cell phone, Spook?" Luke said, "I ain't leaving until I made a phone call."
"I'll have my security escort you off the premises if you don't leave," the figure said.
"All I want is to use phone," Luke slurred, "Why do you have to be so difficult?" He took a swig from his bottle.
Meanwhile, Kellie and Sam had made their way to the back window. Kellie took her jacket off, wrapped her hand around it, and broke the window. She heard a thump behind her. She turned just in time to see a guard collapse and Sam standing over him.
"Nice work," Kellie said.
"I have to be good for something," Sam said, "Now let's go."
Kellie and Sam climbed through the window and found themselves in a bathroom. They went down the hall and found the living room.
"Who are you?" the girl said as she saw them enter.
"Shh," Kellie said. She pulled out the bottle of vodka and began pouring it around the room.
Kellie felt someone grab her ankle. It was Tyler. "Are you who I think you are?" he said, still sedated, "Are you really here?"
"Go to sleep," Kellie said. She finished pouring the alcohol around the room. She turned her attention to Sam and the girl. "You two get him out of here. Same way we came in, Sam. I'll make sure you get a head start."
"Who says I'm just leaving with two strangers," the girl said.
Kellie pointed her gun at her. "Me and my gun," Kellie said, "Now help Sam. Don't try anything. I will be asking questions of you later. My mood then will depend on your cooperation now."
"Let's get out of here," the girl said.
Kellie waited until the threesome had gotten out of the room. She pulled matches out of her pocket. She lit one match and lit the alcohol on fire. Then she proceeded to use the rest of the matches to light whatever else would burn.
Outside, the hooded figure decided to ignore Luke and turned to go back inside.
"You can't go in there," Luke said.
"Why is that?" the figure said.
"There's smoke coming out of the roof," one of the guards said, pointing at it.
Luke didn't waste minute shoving past the hooded figure and running into the house.
"Kill the drunk and whoever else he's with," the figure said, leaving.
Luke found the living room covered in flames. Some one reached though the flames and grabbed him, pulling him into the fire.
The guards that followed Luke backed out of the house.
"You put on quite a show, Slinger," Luke said, "A little much. But I like."
"Shut up and follow me," Kellie said. They exited through the bathroom window. They emerged from the blazing house, their clothes dirty and their skin black from the debris. They were coughing.
"I hope you have a gun, Luke," Kellie said, seeing the guards come around the side of the house.
"Never leave home with out it, Slinger" Luke said, pulling it out of his jacket.
"Start shooting," Kellie said, running for forest as she fired off shots. Luke did the same. Gunfire was exchanged. Several guards went down. Kellie spent more time shooting and Luke made it to the cover of the forest before she did.
"I'll cover you," Luke shouted, "Just run." Kellie ran as Luke fired shots at the remaining guards. Kellie made it to the forest as the guards disappeared to the front of the house again.
Without a word, Kellie and Luke made their way deeper into the forest. Eventually, they caught up with Sam, Tyler, and the girl.
"This would be so much easier if he would come out of this," the girl said, "We wouldn't have to carry him."
"Stop whining and just move," Sam said.
"So it's your lawyer love slave back from the dead," Luke said, "You must be ecstatic, Slinger."
Kellie rolled her eyes. "Let's help them carry city boy," she said, "Luke, you take one of city boy's legs from what's her name? I'll help Sam with his upper body."
"Umm…Mace," the girl said, "My name is Mace."
"Who names a kid, Mace?" Kellie said, "No offense to you."
"Hold on a minute, Slinger," Luke said, "I did not sign on to be cheap labor. I've got soft hands."
"Luke, stop arguing and do it," Sam said, "If we all carry him, we'll get to the car faster. The faster, the better. I really don't want those guys back there to catch up to us."
"I'm low on bullets," Kellie said, "I don't know about you, Luke. I'm pretty sure Sam has most of her bullets if not all of them."
"Well, before we go any further, I want to know you are and why you kidnapped me," Mace said.
"I'm Kellie and I'm pretty sure you weren't in that house of your own choosing," Kellie said, "You can thank us later. Now move."
