Title: Out Numbered

Part III

Rated: R

Out in the forest Olivia and Monica were busy looking for any signs of Elliot and Krista. Olivia could find absolutely nothing that signified that they were anywhere in that area. Monica stomped her foot in frustration and looked over at Olivia. She didn't want to give up but she was starting to think it might be more useful to start walking along the road until they found help. She was holding her gun down by her side, there wasn't anything out there to threaten them at that point.

"Maybe we should just go back to the road and start walking, I'm sure we can't be that far from a gas station. Even if we do find them we don't know how many they are or if they have weapons, we could be in big trouble here." Monica said even as they continued to walk deeper into the forest. Olivia thought about Monica's suggestion, but she didn't agree with her. For all they knew Elliot and Krista were already dead, or being tortured. The were losing time and day light, and who were they going to get? The authorities? Hell she WAS the authority!

"Look if you want to go back and try your chances on the road then be my guest, but as you know I'm a police officer and I think between the two of us we can handle this." Olivia said and not a second later did she see a light off in the distance. She squinted slightly and got down pulling Monica down with her.

"What the..."

"Shhh, there's a house." Olivia whispered and then pointed into the distance. Monica looked to where Olivia was pointing and nodded when she saw the window. It wasn't completely dark out just yet but they were in the forest and the sun was setting, making it a lot easier to see the light in the window.

"Wait a minute, how do we know they have Krista and Elliot? They could just be normal people with a phone." Monica whispered and then started to stand up again but Olivia pulled her back down. She lost her footing and landed on her ass and cried out in pain. "Stop doing that!"

"Okay you're right, they might be normal people who don't have Elliot and Krista but what if they aren't? If we walk right up and knock on the door who knows what will happen?" Olivia replied, Monica nodded, Olivia was right they could be psychos and who in the world would have a house like that in the middle of nowhere.

"Okay how about this," Monica pulled the back pack she was carrying off of her shoulders, openend it and placed the gun inside and zipped it back up, "I'll go up there and knock on the door, you get a little closer and watch me. If something bad happens then you can come after me."

"Then it might be two against one, or even five against one." Olivia replied, "Do you really trust those odds?"

"You're telling me that you and Elliot have never been out numbered before?" Monica said and got to her feet and brushed her butt off, "I doubt they are just going to out right attack me, maybe I can finally get to a phone. They don't know that we are connected to Krista and Elliot so if they do have them then they might just try to keep quiet about it." Olivia thought about that, if the people did have Elliot and Krista then they would have come after them too, if they knew about them. Chances are if there was no one out there looking for them then they didn't know they were there.

"You really want to do this?"

"I'll have my gun, and I know how to use it. Don't worry about me okay?" Monica patted her on the shoulder and started to walk towards the lit window. Olivia followed behind her slowly staying as much out of sight as she could while still watching Monica. Monica stepped up to the door to the rather large house. It had two floors and from what Olivia could see at least 15 different rooms. It was a well kept brick house with ivy climbing up the side that she was now on. She pressed herself against the bricks staying just around the corner from the door. Monica reached up and knocked lightly and then took a step back. After another moment the door opened slowly and Monica plastered a smile on her face. "Hello, my car broke down probably a mile from here. I went walking in the woods cause I thought I saw something and I just came across this house."

"Oh that's just terrible," a female voice said she stepped outside and Olivia got a good look at her. She was shorter then Monica but in great physical shape, she wore a black tank top and a pair of short jean shorts. She had red hair that was as long as her shoulders, she held out her hand for Monica to shake, "I'm Liz, would you like to come in and use the phone?"

"Sure that's great my name is Monica by the way." She held out her hand and shook Liz's and then stepped inside. Olivia breathed a sigh of relief but she didn't make her appearence just yet, she stayed by the window on the side of the house. The light wasn't on in that room so she flicked on her flashlight and looked inside. From what she could see there was a nice bed, with a floral bedspread and canopy. Across from it there was a cabinet which most likely held a TV or stereo and under the window there was a desk with a computer on the right side. Nothing looked odd in there and she was starting to feel a little stupid. Still staying below window level she crept to the next window, which wasn't lit either, and shone her flash light inside. This room was a little less normal. It looked completely sterile, and was decorated like an operating room. In the corner there was what looked like a large dog cage by the door but it was empty. She swallowed hard and immediately thought that she had to get Monica out of there but she didn't want to just walk up to the door and knock on it. She tilted the light to one of the tables and she could see fresh blood on the tray and on some of the tools that sat there. Suddenly the light in that room came on and she got startled and ducked down as fast as she could and stumbled back until she was behind the house.

She landed next to a set of stairs that looked like they probably lead down to a basement. Thinking she might have been spoted she quickly went down the stairs and shut her flashlight off and tried to make her breathing as quiet as possible. She slid her gun into the back of her jeans and pulled her shirt up and over it so if someone did find her the weapon wouldn't be visible right away. She looked at her watch and waited for five minutes. When she didn't hear anyone coming she turned and looked at the door that would open into the basement. On top of the fact that there were 5 obvious dead bolts on the door there was a latch and a padlock through it on the outside. Whatever they had in the basement they didn't want it getting out, or anything getting in for that matter. There were no windows looking into the room so she didn't know if Elliot and Krista were in there. She thought about going back to the car to find something to pick the locks, but the car was almost a mile away she didn't have that kind of time and besides Monica could already be in danger.

Suddenly she heard a loud scream and two gun shots in rapid succession. She jumped slightly and quickly crawled up the stairs staying low to the ground. The scream was Monica's there was no doubt in her mind about that. The gun shots that followed sort of worried her, if Monica was going to take a shot at someone she wouldn't have screamed like that first. She would have stayed quiet, pulled the gun, and taken her shot she wasn't about to draw attention to herself. Olivia now knew that she was alone and she was going to have to figure something out and fast.