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CHAPTER 06

"You could have avoided all that pain if you gave the password the first time I asked you"

Jay heard Captain Reed's voice from behind him. The man had come in to the cell with a syringe in his hand lazily trudging while Jay shouted at him to hurry up with the antidote loudly agreeing to do what ever they ask.

Jay pretended to not hear his words but bit his lips to stop him from running his own mouth fearing it would only result in some more harsh treatments for Erin. He slowly ran his fingers through Erin's hair and was relieved to see her breathing normally. he could see her falling in to sleep out of pure exhaustion. trails of sweat ran from her head to her chest and her T shirt was completely drenched with it.

" you know we made it easy for them by bringing it in to our country with army protection. If they had to do it them selves how hard could it have been for them!" A sick chuckle vibrated on the walls of the cell. "So why not complete the rest of, y' know blast the thing and maybe we'll be doing a help to some sore souls like me"

Surges of fire went through Jay when he heard how easy it was for this man to talk destruction of his own people. He was totally not who he used to be. Captain Reed was the best mentor Jay had ever had. Although they were both great Jay could cleanly place Captain Reed and Voight in two different positions when it came to personal traits. They were both good at what they did, protective of their teams, but Captain Reed did it in a more fatherly way, more fatherly than his own father. If Voight was tough love then Captain Reed was all motherly to the young soldiers who were adjusting to the tough life at the army. His personality made his soldiers do what they did with will and not just for the sake of the command. Reed wasn't the kind of person who hid in his bunker, he was always out there with his soldiers, in training, in down time and in war. He was there for Jay every step of the way and now Jay couldn't even believe he ever knew this man. Like a switch was turned on, a totally different human had emerged from the same body. Maybe the sensitive man in him didn't sustain the damage his family faced. Jay was pretty sure Doctor Charles would name his mentality with something he cannot pronounce but definitely the tall man with the unprecedented personality was sick in his mind.

Jay slowly kept Erin's head on the cold floor and walked to face his former supervisor.

"Sir" Jay called him with all the respect he could summon, to give him one last chance. "you need help, so let me"

"I'm beyond that point" came a stern reply. Previous chuckles had disappeared to the oblivion replaced with true rage.

"What do you want from all of this, what will you get?" asked Jay when he realized he couldn't get thru to Reed. It was a familiar feeling for him. Felt just like he was back in interrogation room with a suspect who wouldn't talk. For a moment it seemed Reed contemplated the answer to what Jay asked. And for a moment Jay had the slightest of the hope that maybe Reed was rethinking his purpose in this.

"I want revenge, Biggy wants to regain his reputation, which he lost of course because of your undercover gig, and the other party wants us to pay for simply stealing their bomb, their bomb. Can you imagine how we would feel one of our complex army research was stolen ? we would nuke them won't we, they are doing the same. "

" it does not justify what you are doing"

"we stole that bomb and brought on to our soil, our researchers probably will make it more deadly, make many of it and then use it to kill its original owners. Isn't it the end game? Jay is your skull that thick? why the hell do they want to examine it, they are going to make a new weapon out of its technology. And when that weapon kills all those innocent children and men and women out there, you are part of it too. How does it make you feel ? So they decide to take a life for life. whats more justifiable than that."

"If that bomb goes off here" Jay said as he got more closer to Reed that their faces were within inches of each other, like the closeness would make Reed understand what Jay wanted him to realize. Can you imagine the destruction it will leave, can you imagine how many people this will kill? the chaos it will cause, the cyber attacks that will follow, all the patients that will be dead in the hospital, the road accidents? You are part of it and how would that make you feel? Jay made clear his argument. His pointer finger tapping at Reeds Chest where his heart resides.

"So its OK to unleash all that destruction and chaos on someone else land?

"You don't know that for sure" Jay shouted impatiently. He so badly wanted to talk sense in to this man but it was like singing in to a deaf man's ears.

"I know, Okay I know" This time it was Reeds loud voice that echoed through the walls. " because if it is such an evil bomb, why didn't they allow us to destroy it as soon as we found it, instead they want to examine it, for what? to make new kind of pancakes?

At this Jay fell silent, there was a truth in it. True, but killing in response for killing was not justifiable in his head. It had to stop somewhere.

" believe me Jay, I-feel-fine" said Reed as his pointer finger tapped on Jays chest and Jay fell back a feet. There was a moment of silence but Reed started to speak again as he place a few rolls of blue prints on Jays hands.

"right now I want you to take these and devise that miraculous plan of yours , caption ' how to steal a fifty kilo bomb from a highly guarded military facility" The sarcastic smile that followed was unnerving and Jay knew his captain was not a fan of having to steal from the lab.

"you know the same security plan, you were there with me when our team restructured the lab's security, so why me and not you " Jay asked. He knew the admiring request that came from Big D had something else behind it.

" do you really think biggy wants you to do this because you are the best?"

"Do you take me that silly? really? furrowed Jay folding his hands in protest.

" he is not sending his men because he know you will definitely set up a trap in your plan. Honestly Jay, I don't believe this will work out nor does big d. He is sending you on a suicidal mission, he is making you pay for locking up the bomb. May be you'll make it because I know how stubborn you could be when you want to get something done or maybe you wont. Either way you need to keep mum if you get caught. Big D will keep Erin alive until you keep mum and until you sit in the electric chair or die of old age in a prison"

If there was a pinch of hope in Jay to turn this man to good, it vanished in a heart beat upon hearing the words. Although he knew in his heart what this man needed was Dr. Charles,he was also beginning to understand that captain was now beyond help. He was too far gone to be brought back to the land of compassion. It was time to protect others from him.

So Jay took a step close to him closing the gap between them, threateningly close. "And what If I refuse again, you kill us and you get nothing" he asked.

"Son you think we are sane enough to kill you or her? she has been very useful so far, y' know, if you think this could be so easily solved by just death, then let me remind you there are things that could be done to a beautiful woman that are worse than death"

Jay knew what his former captain meant, he needed no elaboration as Reed's canine eyes danced over Erin's sleeping figure. What Jay did not know was what took him over. A totally unforeseen sucker punch landed on the captain in a split second with all Jay's might. Captain Reed was completely floored. He was struggling to breath. Jay almost landed another kick on him targeting his rib cage but the captain caught it with lightning speed. Next moment each was grabbing to the other in a locked position, there was a delay of a second from both fighters, each weighing in on their position. Jay wasn't planning on this, it was impulse, it was the rage that washed him over at this ruthless man's future plans for the woman he loved. Now that he was locked by his own mentor in a posture impossible for him to move Jay started second guessing his move. He knew he was weak, he remembered feeling dizzy every now and then because of deprivation of sunlight. His opponent was good eight inches taller than him and was stronger than him. And if he is to succeed, he had no more than thirty seconds to over power his captain before the gang members flood in to the cell when they hear the struggle. So in that split second Jay realized that this is the game changing moment. The soldier and the cop in him worked at lightning speed calculating what his next moves should be in this fight and after this fight.

But his split second delay became his mistake and in an instance his knee was locked by Reed and he felt the sudden jerk and the surge of pain that erupted from his knee. Before he fully registered the pain Jay sprang in to action catapulting everything in him, his will power and the physical strength. Because if he allowed his body to acknowledge the pain then his body will slow him down and that was not what he needed now. On the other hand the captain made the mistake of underestimating his student, he knew Jay was weak, he thought the knee jerk would subdue him. What he didn't know was how much this soldier turned cop was matured as a fighter during his cop life. They were now at each others throats trying to squeeze the life out of them, inevitably staring in to each other.

"you are forgetting that I taught you how to fight, You can never beat me" Captain tried the emotional aspect speaking with what voice left in him thanks to the grip Jay had on him, when he felt how strong Jay was holding.

" I remember everything, but I learned a thing or two at the CPD" Jay said through gritted teeth. He pushed all his strength in to his next move. Pushed the captain away from him releasing both of them and while the captain tried to balance himself from falling down Jay doubled over and pushed him, kicked his groin and knee in a series. Reed fell down unable to balance himself. Jay straddled the fallen man, grabbed his head and smacked it on the stone floor twice. Blood splattered on the floor and Jay quickly fell away from the captain in disgust and exhausted.

Before he even put his butt on the floor he was pushed to the wall by someone. The rough wall scathed Jays face. Large hands that grabbed him didn't let him move an inch and he was too weak and dizzy to fight it. Not that he intended to anyway.

"Get him to a hospital, make up a story" Jay heard his captor shout at his men.

"what the fuck did you do" he shouted at Jay. "How the hell are you going to go in to the lab now, he was your way in"

Jay turned around turning his back to the wall, sending Big d a good few feet aback.

Jay collected the blue prints scattered on the floor and stationed him self down on the floor and opened the blue prints that were so familiar to him. Big D looked at him unsure of what to do. Jays mind had its gears working on his next move. When he came to a conclusion he looked up at his captor.

"You don't need him, I'm all yours "