A/N: Sorry about that cliffhanger! Can't say I won't do it again, lol! This is very similar to the first chapter, but from Riley's POV. I want to dedicated this chapter to those writers who have inspired me to be a better writer, thanks! A huge shout out to Axxonly for the Beta, I appreciate your hard work very much! As always I don't own MacGyver

Riley was not a happy camper, she stood just behind Mac and Jack as they looked down at the building where the stolen laptop's signal was coming from. The team had been flying back from a mission when Matty had given them this assignment. The boys had taken it easily enough, but for some reason Riley couldn't shake her bad mood. She knew this assignment was important and the reason they had been assigned it, but all she wanted to do was crawl in her own bed and take a nap. But here she was standing on a hill making sure that the laptop's signal didn't change or move. She glanced at her own laptop to check the readings.

"Are you sure the stolen goods are in there?" Jack asked

Riley resisted the urge to sigh or slap Jack on the back of the head. "Yes Jack, I tracked the signal that Matty sent me back to this building, you know the only building in the area. The stolen DARPA laptop is in there." Jack seemed to take her flippant tone in stride. He may be a giant jokester, but he knew when to get serious, sometimes.

Both Mac and Jack's attention was on the building, but Riley was getting impatient to get going, "So what's the plan Jack? Storm the gates? Crash the van through the front gates A-Team style? Maybe we can tunnel under the compound and pop up right where the laptop is."

That got a reaction out of Jack, he gave her a confused look, "As great as those ideas are Sweetheart, I do believe boy genius over here has something else in mind. Mac?"

Riley felt a little bad she knew they had had years more training than her, first in the military, then with the DXS, she needed to get her head in the game, so to speak. Making the decision to try to adjust her attitude she turned to Mac.

"Care to share with the class." Jack asked when Mac didn't immediately take over for Jack.

Mac pointed at a spot in the fence line, "if we cut through the fence at the back of the building, it will give us cover from the guards. Then we can take the first guard out as he gets close. Then Jack can take the guard at the door, and pose as him while Riley and I make our entrance into the building. We can take down anybody we might stumble onto, and retrieve the stolen laptop. Without disturbing the other guard until we are long gone."

Riley ran it over in her head it sounded good to her, but…. Jack voiced it before Riley figured it out, "Well that sounds good and all, but we don't know how many people are in that building." Riley nodded, that would be a major flaw. She and Mac could easily take a couple of guys, but more than three….

"There are three vehicles parked in the small parking lot, so theoretically each guard could have driven their own car here." To Riley's ears it sounded like Mac was reaching.

"Or each vehicle could have come filled to capacity, so there are twelve people waiting on us in that building, which we can't see into." Riley couldn't get past the thought of what if there were more than three inside guards.

Mac shook his head, "I want to build a thermal imaging device, but I'm lacking several important components."

Everybody was silent for a moment thinking it over, "Hey Riles, how quickly can their people hack into that laptop?"

Sometimes it really annoyed her how Jack just couldn't seem to grasp computer stuff. Shaking her head she explained it to him, "it could be minutes or it could be weeks, it depends on the encryptions, which I suspect are top notch, and who they got to hack it. Without knowing those two things it's impossible to say."

Jack nodded like he had been expecting that answer, "Webber?"

Matty's answer came swiftly, "Yes, Dalton."

"What do you want us to do Boss Lady? Should we go ahead against an unknown amount of unfriendliness or wait and gather more information." Jack frowned listening intently to what Matty had to say.

A sigh came from Matty. "I was afraid that you were going to ask that. I contacted DARPA, and from what they told me it would be in our best interest to get that laptop back as soon as possible." Riley had figured Matty would say that, their team had the worst luck when it came to timetables.

"Understood." Jack said, then he turned to Riley. "Do you have a weapon? I don't want to send you in there without some sort of protection." She hated having to carry a weapon sometimes, carrying a laptop was second nature, but a gun wasn't yet. But she nodded, reached into her backpack to pull a small pistol. Jack nodded in satisfaction. "Good, now we are going to follow Mac's plan. Once you're inside the building stay sharp, and call if you need me. I hate sending ya'll in against an unknown force." Yeah, Riley hated that part too.

Riley checked the laptop again, before stowing it in her backpack, they quietly made their way to the fence when she noticed Mac started hunting around on the ground. But Jack again asked her question before she could. "Hey Slick, what 'cha doin down there?" Mac looked up, "I'm, looking for something to give my knife more leverage to get through the fence."

Riley laughed internally and dug out the wire cutters that she had brought along just in case. "Might I suggest using these?" She passed Mac the cutters. When she noticed the look that Jack was giving her she shrugged and answered "Thought they might come in handy." And it gave her a huge amount of satisfaction to have been proven right.

Mac made quick use of the cutters, and handed them back to her. Once she placed them back into her backpack she withdrew the gun again, determined to be able to protect herself and Mac if needed be. Jack signaled them to hide against the building as they heard the guard approaching. Jack stealthily attacked, and the guard was quickly knocked out. She and Mac made quick work of restraining and stuffing him under a bush. Jack motioned for her and Mac to get closer.

"I'm going to repeat what I did here, with the guard in front, then y'all can make your entrance." Jack said quietly. Riley still trying to stay in a better mood, and didn't roll her eyes, she knew that Jack was just trying to protect them the best way he knew how. So she just nodded, and followed Mac. After Jack took the other guard out as easily as they first, they zip tied him and drag him back to join his friend. Getting back to the front door Mac made quick work of the lock and the two of them slipped into the building. As soon as they cleared the door she quietly shut it. The lobby was empty of everything except for a few empty boxes. Directly across from the entrance was a hallway that probably led to where they were keeping the laptop.

Mac leaned close and whispered, "Can you tell if the laptop is out here or if it's in the other room?"

Riley shook her head, "I'll have to check." She had slid her backpack around, slid the gun back into it and was pulling the laptop out when things started to go downhill.

"Mac, Riley, can one of you give me a sit-rep?" Matty asked, but Riley ignored her boss's request at the sight of three guys with guns coming down the earlier empty hallway. 'Shit' she thought, as both her and Mac tried find cover.

"Freeze!" Once of the guys ordered.

Neither Mac nor Riley froze and two shots rang out, both hitting Mac. Riley turned, rooted to the spot, unable to do anything but watch her friend fall. He spun half around falling with a thud onto his face on the floor, red blood already starting to slowly seep out beneath him. Riley froze in terror and fear. One of the guards grabbed her arm, using her anger and worry she spun around to deck him, but another guard was there and punched her in the face first, stunning her.

"Take her to the back. I'll check the one you shot." Riley heard through her daze as she was roughly drug backwards.

The front doors of the building burst open with a mighty thud and Jack stormed in. But Riley didn't even have time to cry out, before the two guards reached the door to the back room. They shoved her into the room with two other waiting guards, and two technicians cowering on the floor, while one of the guards shut the door.

Another of the guards loosely tied Riley's hands in front of her before turning to the one that held her. "I told you that somebody would come for that damned laptop!"

"Well it's a good thing that we didn't take it back to headquarters then, isn't it!" The second guard shot back.

Riley opened her mouth to tell them that they should just go ahead and let her go, but guard one punched her in the mouth splitting her lip. "Nobody asked you honey. Now be a good hostage and wait silently."

In Riley's ear she heard Matty demand a sit-rep, 'Oh god Mac! If these maniacs killed him'" Riley brought her thoughts back from that dark place. Two of the guards were fighting about what to do next.

"It's just one more. We shoot him just like that first guy, have fun with Sweet thing over there. No biggy." Guard one leered at Riley.

Guard two shook his head, "The way he took down that door says special ops. No, we keep this one." He shook Riley for emphasis. "With us, use her as a hostage, and then after those two nerds find what we need, we shoot them both." They looked at the other two guards in the room, who both shrugged.

Guard one sighed, "More brawn than brains. Fine, we slip through the door, shoot your special ops guy…."

"Fine, we'll do it your way!" Guard two gave in. "But I'll stay here with her. Hey dumb and dumber get over here and back him up."

The other two guards moved up beside the first one and guard one slowly inched the door open.

"Sit-rep, now!" Matty demanded

The first guard was at the door using it as cover to try and ease out without being seen by Jack.

"Mac is down Matty. I don't know how bad it is, and they've got Riley." Riley was so glad to hear Jack's voice, she just needed him to say that Mac was ok.

The guard that at the door started to swing it open a tiny bit more. Riley had to let Jack know, "Stop!" She yelled.

Jack instantly replied, "I'm coming, sweetheart."

Any other reply was lost. The door crashed inwards smacking off of guard one's head, knocking him to the floor, as dazed as she had been. Jack came storming through, guns blazing taking out both the other guards, and kicked first guard in the head knocking him out.

The second guard was still standing behind her, only in the melee he had gotten his knife out and was holding it against her throat, Riley held really still, but her brain was whirling with ideas 'Huh I wonder if this is how Mac feels' then she brought herself back to the present, it was no time for her thoughts to be wondering, Mac's survival might be depending on her and how quickly they got out of this situation.

Jack held his gun steady on the second guard, "It would be in your best interest if you would lay that toothpick down and let her go." Jack said his voice low and menacing.

His tone of voice sent shivers down her spine.

"And let you shoot me?" the guard scoffed. "Not going to happen." The knife tightened against her throat. Riley had an idea, but she needed Jack to focus on her so she could tell him her plan. She looked at him then her hands, at Jack then back at her hands. Jack saw her and looked down at her hands. She held up three fingers, and pointed to the ground, then did it again. That time Jack gave a slight nod of understanding. So she started the countdown. On three she dropped, her whole body going slack.

Startled the guard dropped her, giving Jack the opportunity to take him off the board. Riley jumped to her feet, quickly untying her hands, and sprinted for where she had last seen Mac. He was on his stomach facing away from her, and Riley couldn't tell if he was breathing or not by his jacket. The slow seep of blood had become a puddle. She swiftly flipped him over on his back so she could better see what had happened. It was then that she saw that he had been shot in the neck and took another round to below his ribs. The neck injury was a deep furrow across the outside of his neck that steadily oozed blood enlarging the pool beneath him. His skin was noticeably paler. Riley placed her fingers on his jugular 'please don't let him be dead, please don't let me be dead' She chanted as she felt for that all important pulse of life. She couldn't feel anything. Realizing that Jack wasn't there she screamed in desperation:

"Jack!"

A/N2: I'm sorry, please don't hurt me! I promise no more cliffhangers for this story!