Hey, sorry for the wait- also, a warning, rating has gone up; there's bad language in this chapter and…other stuff. You'll see- it's nothing too bad!

The man walked silently up to Alex and Hex, who eyed him with equal distaste. Even though both boys were at the mercy of this man they could not help the lightened mood they had recently acquired.

"So what's going on outside?" Hex asked the man, knowing he only spoke Spanish. The stranger looked Hex up and down before picking up their rucksacks and swinging them close to Hex's head, the man intended to scare Hex but scowled when he realised the boy had not even flinched. The man walked over to Alex and his hand moved to the pack around Alex's waist.

"Whoa whoa!" Alex said as the man's hands went to remove it. "Watch where your hands are going."

"What's he doing?" Hex asked and Alex recoiled slightly.

"I don't think you wanna know mate." Alex replied but the tiredness that influenced the boys happy state was going from Alex now as he became more alert, as the man removed Alex's pack. But Alex knew he couldn't make a big deal out of it; that way the man would know it was important. "Damnit." Alex said once the man had left.

"What?" Hex asked.

"He took my pack." But Alex refused to lose his cool again; he felt ashamed of letting it happen once in front of his friend. He knew Hex wasn't the most confident of people; it was up to Alex to remain calm in this situation; not to let Hex worry.

"Oh no-"

"Don't worry." Alex said quickly, "I'll get it back." There was a moment of silence.

"If they took your pack do you think they'll take Amber's…?" Both boys turned in concern to each other before beginning to shout for the man to come back.

"I'm bored." Amber said in a quiet voice. "I wish I knew what was going on." She looked towards the door and sighed.

"I wonder what happened to the boys." Li replied. Both girls sat in a room similar to Alex and Hex's, tied up back-to-back. There was little light in this room and the low hung naked light bulb swayed back and forth, making the shadows on the walls grow and shrink. Li blinked slowly as she watched them. Finding the fatigue of her day was finally catching up with her.

"I think they were thrown into separate rooms." Li jumped as Amber spoke suddenly; evidently Amber had not become tired yet. "There's a window up there," Amber looked to the door and there was a small window set in the door. "Let's get up and see what's going on-"

"We know what's out there!" Li said impatiently, "there's a corridor, a few doors and a bit more corridor- everything is blocked out by concrete wall!"

"Alright, alright." Amber sighed in defeat. "Just an idea…" she muttered. Amber felt Li lean against her back and she realised Li was falling asleep. "This isn't the best of times to take a nap Li!" Amber shouted but found after a few moments of the following silence that she too was finding it difficult to keep her eyes opening. "Don't…sleep…beavers…" She muttered incoherently before falling into a peaceful slumber, being propped up by Li.

The door creaked open, a man with a forgettable face walked in. the reason his face, or even he himself, was so forgettable was the fact that in this building there were so many like him. Silent and seemingly unmoving, just watching, waiting on the edge of chaos was the way with these men. In their black and white suits, dark sunglasses to shield their eyes from anyone getting too close and guns held close to their shirts. His eyes swept the scene from behind the darkened glass; he walked over to the girls and picked up their rucksacks from the wall. He stood and was about to walk to the door when he saw, wrapped around the waist of the dark skinned girl was a belt bag. He eyed it suspiciously before walking over to the girl and removing it. He left.

Lily knelt at the door that led down into the basement of the museum; silently seething at the thought that anyone had the audacity to create a drugs factory beneath it. She could see, below her, her father stood in the middle of the room. The Texan man, who her father had greeted as Milo Seacress, was looking at the bags Hector had laid out.

"This is good…good." He muttered as he looked at the bags. He knelt down and lily had to lean further in to get a good look at him taking out a knife from his boot. He held up a bag against his knife and looked at Lily's father.

"Please, go ahead." Her father said and Seacress slashed the bag with the knife, its fine white powder spilling out onto the table. He picked some up and rubbed it between his fingers.

"I should congratulate you." Seacress looked up, "this is some of the best stuff I've seen." He raised a finger to his nose and inhaled deeply, Lily felt some feeling of hatred for the man as he did so. "Good." He said finally. "I'll take it all." Hector nodded and smiled, the two men shook hands and embraced. Lily was so infuriated by her fathers actions that she was about to step forwards when a hand landed on her shoulder.

"You're not escaping that easily." She turned to the person next to her. Pedro's hazel eyes appraised her deep pools of brown. She was so shocked by his sudden appearance that her defence faltered for a moment and he raised the back of his hand and hit her face. She made no noise but the sound of contact echoed through the room. "That's for escaping last time."

"Pedro?!" They heard from below, evidently Lily's father and people below heard the commotion. Pedro turned Lily around and twisted both her arms painfully around her back. He forced her down the stairs, as they descended her eyes never left her father's. Pedro took her to the bottom and threw her to the floor in front of her father. She hit the floor with such force that she barely had time to regain balance when her father pulled her hair so she stood and they were face to face.

"How dare you defy me?" Her father whispered manically and his face was so contorted with rage that for a moment Lily felt like giving up; like this situation was too scary, to adult, for her to deal with. She found her breath was caught in her throat and she couldn't talk, she just stared with frightened eyes into her father's. She was so terrified that it took a while for her to notice the pain he was causing as he tugged roughly at her hair.

"Fuck off." She gasped, suddenly finding her voice. Her father's grip loosened, as though he had finally realised what he'd done to her. Lily's father had been a man of many manners and salutations; one of them he upheld with his child was the way in which she talked to her parents, or any person older than her.

"I am your father. And yet you swear at me-?"

"YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER." Lily screamed, hoping to block out his voice, to reassure herself that he meant nothing to her. Her eyes streamed from the pain and her watered eyes caught a glimpse of Hector's face; shocked and old from stress. He let go of her hair and she fell to the floor.

"You are no daughter of mine." He said in return, he looked at her one last time before turning away. "I'm so sorry you had to witness that-"

"No matter, no matter." Seacress said and waved a beefy hand. "Your daughter…" He eyed her up and down, Lily avoided his glare. "Could be useful…" he seemed to be formulating a plan. "She goes to school in England right?" Hector nodded, "well then I think I may have solved some transportation problems-"

"I'll never help you." She stood up.

"Do these mean anything to you?" Her father had walked away to a man who was next to the door; he held up rucksacks for Lily to see. She could have denied knowing that they belonged to her friends but missed the opportunity as the natural reaction of recognition crossed her face. "I thought so." Her father walked back to her, "you will do as I say or you friends will die." Seacress' booming laugh echoed in the room. "Now leave with Pedro until I call you again." Pedro went to take her arm but she took a step away from them all.

"I suppose it's not worth anything to tell you that I hate you?" She asked and her father sighed in boredom.

"Not much, no." She nodded and allowed Pedro to drag her from the room.

The door opened to his cell and Paulo looked up, he was shocked to see Lily being led in by an unknown boy, but he could hazard a guess at who this boy was.

"Lily," Paulo said reassuringly to her and was concerned as she walked as though in a daze, she didn't acknowledge his greeting and only looked at him when her foot hit his.

"Paulo!" She exclaimed and knelt next to him, she embraced him and he, as best as anyone whose arms were tied behind their back could, hugged her back. "I'm sorry about…everything." She whispered and moved away from him. He shrugged.

"Nothing's your fault here Lily." He said but was silenced as Pedro's hand hit the back of her head. She stood defiantly.

"Piss off." She said and now Paulo didn't know what shocked him the most anymore; her being hit or her using bad language.

"Watch you mouth." Pedro raised his arm again.

"Don't raise your hand to a woman." Paulo shouted, outraged, both Lily and Pedro looked down to him. Pedro shrugged as though Paulo's remark meant nothing.

"Remove your bag." Pedro said and Lily obliged. He took it from her and was about to move off when he realised she could be hiding things elsewhere. She seemed to know what he was thinking and took a step back. He smirked at her action but walked up to her nonetheless. Pedro walked with such animal like distinction of a predator after prey that she walked away from him fast and her back hit the wall. Paulo had no idea what was going on between the two and just looked over at them in confusion. Lily knew if Pedro did a body search he would find the gun fastened to her leg. Pedro put his hands to her neck and she knew that stopping him would make him more determined. His hands travelled down her body, feeling what was underneath the black cotton of her dress. She stared at a spot on the wall behind him, not wanting to show him the power he had over making her feel intimidated.

Paulo watched in disgust, his voice was gone for a few moments as he realised that when Amber had told of Lily's betrayal to Alex, Lily had regretted it a moment after. It could be seen on her face, the way her eyes stared ahead blankly. Pedro's hands moved to Lily's thighs and she tensed thinking he may feel the outline of her weapon. Lily's dress had many layers on the bottom half to make it poof out slightly, as was the style she favoured for dresses. Luckily this meant that the shape of the gun was hidden from his hands underneath all the material. She relaxed as she saw there was no change in his facial expression; if he'd found the gun his smile would've widened. But she gasped as his hands moved to the inside of her dress and travelled slowly up her leg. She suddenly felt sick, violated and weak as she realised his fingers were inches away from the red ribbon tied to her thigh.

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER." Paulo shouted, Pedro turned to him and his hands left Lily's body. She stood, still staring at the opposite wall, her breathing was too fast. Pedro walked over to Paulo and stared at him as though trying to understand what this boy thought was wrong with his actions. "You disgust me." Paulo said "come mierda…conchetumare." (A/N: you really don't wanna know what that means). Pedro punched Paulo in the stomach before walking to the door, picking up their bags and walking off. Paulo doubled over when he left, coughing, gasping, trying to regain the breath that was knocked out of him. He looked over to Lily who slid down the wall, Paulo's hands were bound and tied to a table that was nailed to the floor, but he crawled over to Lily. "You OK?" He asked and her eyes flicked to him.

"What's happening?" She whispered to him. "What the heck happened in these few short hours to make this happen?" He had no answer to give the distraught girl. She smoothed hair from her face and pulled her dress as far down as it would go.

"Lily," Paulo whispered but she stood up suddenly.

"I've got to get you guys out of here." She said and walked to the door. "You're not meant to be here. Five friends on holiday shouldn't be involved in uncovering a foreign criminal…" her voice trailed away as she tried the door, unsurprisingly it was locked. She looked back to Paulo, "If we could just…what?" She asked and Paulo realised that he'd be smiling slightly at what she'd said about Alpha Force and made his face straight.

"Lily, take a minute too-"

"No!" She said and took a pin from her hair and turned back to the door.

"You're going to pick the lock?" Paulo said in admiration.

"Oh right, sorry." She came over to him and began to untie his hands. She worked in silence for a while and Paulo could tell that there was still nervousness about her that she developed from what Pedro had done. Paulo had no idea what to do about it though; it was a situation that he felt way out of his depth, he had no idea what to say to her. "There." She said and he brought his hands back and rubbed his wrists.

"Thanks!" He exclaimed and walked around to get his legs back to normal; he came over to the door eventually and heard the lock click. Lily smiled in relief and opened the door slightly; there was no window in this door to see outside.

"It's clear." She whispered.

"Did you see where they took the others?" Paulo asked and Lily shook her head.

"They're probably in another side room. C'mon, we'll get them out." Paulo followed her out and they took looks around, ensuring no one was there. They moved to the middle of the corridor and were about to run to the next room when a door behind them opened. They turned to the sound of shouts and muttered swear words.

"GET OFF." They heard Hex shout and looked to see Hex and Alex, their hands still bound, being dragged from their room by two suited men. The shouting subsided as both groups stared at each other from across the hallway in surprise. Before either group had time to react the lights above them flickered, they looked up to see the low lamps that hung from the ceiling flickering light into the corridor. They looked back to each other once more, before they were plunged into total darkness.

Yeah, so now you get why the rating went up! I just wanted to ensure that Pedro was completely out of the picture for Lily because, knowing me, I'd bring him back to mess something or the other up.

Yeah so. That's the end of this chapter! Again, apologies for the wait.