Chapter 22: No More Nice Sami

"Feeling better?" EJ asked taking a quick glance at Sami.

"Can you go any faster?" Sami asked laughing. The windows were down and the breeze felt wonderful on her face. She had been a virtual prisoner at the Well's mansion for the last two weeks since she had been released from the hospital. Her family as well as EJ's family had banded together after another attempt on her life had been made.

"I swear EJ, if I stay here for another minute I'm going to scream!" Sami said restlessly.

Sami had been stuck in the hospital bed for days and the highlights of those days were the frustrating visits from her family as well as the Wells family. The women in her family kept pushing her to remember her personal past while EJ's family kept cramming her full of Wells family history. Then the men in her family started drilling her hourly for information she couldn't remember in an attempt to catch the person who was threatening her before the Wells men did.

"What do you want me to do Samantha? Sneak you out of here so you can slowly bleed to death?" EJ said trying to keep his patience.

Sami glared at him. "Go get me a wheelchair!"

"Yes your majesty!" EJ said giving her a sarcastic bow. "And what do you propose to do once you have a wheelchair?"

"I'm going to wheel myself right out of this hospital and away from you and everyone else!" Sami said unreasonably.

"Come on Samantha, be a good girl and be patient a little longer." EJ tried to cajole.

"Patient! You want me to be patient! Do you have any idea how patient I've been for the last few days? I've been a damn Saint! I've patiently listened to your family drill into me the Well's family history. I've patiently listened to my mother and Carrie list all the great things about being a Brady. Not to mention keeping silent as my father and John drill me for information I don't remember. Do you have any idea how many times I've had to stop myself from telling everyone to take their damn questions and information and to shove it up their… nose!" Sami replaced the last word with a less crude one.

"What's stopping you?" EJ asked finally realizing what the trouble was.

"What do you mean?" Sami asked.

"If you want to speak your mind, do it. Lord knows you've never had a problem doing that before you lost your memory." EJ replied.

"So you're saying that I can say what I want?" Sami asked as if it had never occurred to her.

"Well, maybe with some discretion of course…" EJ said remembering all the times that Sami's mouth had gotten her into trouble.

"It's just that everyone keeps telling me that I'm reformed and everything and I don't want to let them down." Sami said biting her lip.

"Samantha, the best thing about you is that you go after what you want regardless of other people's opinions." EJ said. "You say what you want to say and you do what you want to do."

"That sounds pretty selfish." Sami said warily.

"Well no one is perfect." EJ said grinning.

"So the next time Kate says a snide remark…" Sami asked thinking about all the possibilities.

"Blast away!" EJ approved.

Sami's eyes lit up. "EJ, how soon can you get me that wheelchair? There are a few things I need to get off my chest." Sami said her face wreathed in a devilish smile.

EJ shook his head. "Give me a few minutes, I'll be right back."

EJ left the room and searched for a wheelchair. 5 minutes later he heard an explosion. He raced back to Sami's room and had to push people out of the way to get inside.

Once he was in the room he looked around at the chaos and his heart sunk.

"Son of a bitch!" Came the curse from beneath a pile of rubble.

EJ raced to move blackened equipment out of the way until Sami's head popped up from the other side of the bed. She had tipped the bed over to protect herself from the blast.

"That's it! I've had it! I'm not going to stay here like a sitting duck while that psycho tries to blow me up. God damn it! He made me tear my stitches! I swear when I find that bastard I'm going to kill him!"

Sami returned to the present as EJ slowed down the car slightly. In the blink of an eye EJ became tense and alert.

"What's wrong?" Sami asked noticing the change in EJ's mood.

"We're being followed." EJ said shortly as he took another glance at the dark Sedan with no license plates that was tailing them.

"Are you sure?" Sami asked. Her euphoria at being able to leave the Wells Estate was fading fast.

"That car has been tailing us for the last 15 minutes. Hold on!" EJ said taking a sharp turn at the very last minute. The trailing car missed the turn.

"Samantha, there is a gun in the glove compartment, I need you to pull it out and hand it to me." EJ said calmly as if he was asking her to hand him a drink rather then a gun.

"You have a gun?" Sami protested.

"Please Samantha, do as I ask." EJ replied shortly glancing behind him.

The car that had been tailing them reappeared. A second black Sedan reappeared in front of them forcing EJ to slam on the breaks and skid sideways.

With surprising ease, EJ regained control of the car just as the black cars behind him sped up along side his and tried to ram them off the road. There was thud and a screech as the two cars bit each other.

"Son of a bitch!" EJ cursed. "Hang in there girl."

"Don't worry about me, just keep driving." Sami replied.

"I was talking to my car." EJ corrected just as the car was jolted again as it was rammed behind.

"What is it with men and their cars?" Sami said rolling her eyes. "It's not like…"

"The gun, Samantha." EJ interrupted her.

Taking a deep breath so that she could get control of her shaking hands, Sami opened the glove compartment and pulled out a wicked looking semi automatic gun. She felt sick to her stomach. An unpleasant memory threatened to surface but she shoved it down.

"What do you want me to do with it?" Sami asked hoping that he wasn't going to ask her to shoot it.

"Put it on my lap upside down with the handle facing you." EJ instructed so that he could reach it quickly.

"You're not going to be able to drive and shoot this thing." Sami pointed out.

"Just do it!" EJ demanded and winced as the car took another hit.

The gun flew out of Sami's hand and onto the dashboard. "Oops! Sorry EJ." Sami apologized as EJ glared at her. She tried to make a grab for it and instead just managed blocked EJ's vision.

"Just leave it!" EJ snapped. "Bond never had to deal with this shit." He muttered but not softly enough.

"I said I was sorry!" Sami snapped back. "It's not like I'm trained to do this kind of stuff.

Hang on!" EJ said as he slammed on the breaks and jerked on the wheel until the car did a 180. He grabbed the gun as it slid within his reach and began shooting out the window with the car moving in reverse.

The bullets hit the two cars which caused them to spin off the road. EJ stopped the car and then switched gears so that the car went forward. He passed the cars without looking at them.

"Aren't you going to stop and find out who they were?" Sami asked surprised as she turned her head to look behind them.

Instead of responding, EJ pushed a button on the wheel. Aloud he said. "Dial Casper."

There were a couple of rings before a voice answered. "Casper here."

"Casper, this is Playboy. I was just ambushed by two cars on Wyndam road and I need a clean up team there right away. The GPS trail should show you where. I have Trouble with me so I can't investigate. I'm returning Trouble to safe house and I'll contact you once she is secure. Playboy out." EJ said and then pushed the button on his steering wheel to hang up.

"We don't have to go back EJ!" Sami insisted. "I want to know more about the bastards who are after me."

"It's not safe Samantha." EJ explained.

"To hell with being safe. I'm sick of just waiting around doing nothing." Sami complained.

"Samantha, you're not a trained agent. I would be endangering not only your life but mine as well." EJ said grimly.

"Then train me!" Samantha demanded.

"Training isn't like taking a self defense class." EJ said. "It's not only physical but mental as well. Do you think that you have what it takes to kill someone?" EJ asked.

"I don't know." Sami said truthfully.

"When you do know, we can start training." EJ said firmly.

"You don't think I could do it do you?" Sami asked a little insulted.

"I think you're physically capable but I don't think you could ever kill another person." EJ said.

"I want you to teach me." Sami asked sincerely. "You can't always be there to protect me and I'm sick of being afraid."

"Are you sure you want to do this?" EJ asked.

"Absolutely!" Sami said determinedly.