Chapter Twelve

"Greetings Stone Cold." Spinelli said cheerfully as Jason entered the room.

"Are you ever going to stop calling me that?" Jason demanded.

"Why? It suits you." Spinelli stated unaffected by the harsh tone in Jason's voice.

Jason just shook his head at Spinelli's actions. "I need your help." Jason said finally.

"What do you need the Jackal's assistance with?" Spinelli asked as he watched the older man closely.

"I need all the information you can find about Sorrel's warehouses. Specifically any new ones." Jason told him with a sense of urgency.

"No problem. May the Jackal ask why you require his vast cyber skills?" he inquired as his fingers got to work on his beloved computer.

"Sorrel took Elizabeth as leverage." Jason spat as his anger threatened to erupt again.

"Elizabeth? You mean the waitress form Kelly's? The one you... Does the Demented One want you to kill him?" Spinelli asked as he looked up from the screen.

"Apparently. Just find me the information and quickly. Elizabeth she... she's hurt. I need to find her." Jason said almost pleading. He had to find her, he just had to, and soon.

"I'll find her don't worry." Spinelli assured him as the warehouse listings popped up on the screen.

Jason paced as Spinelli worked. The young man was the newest member of their little group. Jason stumbled upon Spinelli several years ago when he was on a job. Sonny hadn't been happy when he first met Spinelli but in the end, he understood why Jason took him in.

"I found something." Spinelli said softly.

"What?" Jason demanded as he rushed over to the desk where Spinelli was working.

"Sorrel just bought a warehouse on the edge of town." he explained as he pointed to the screen.

"That's no where near the dock. It doesn't make a lot of sense." Jason said almost to himself.

"It's isolated and the last place anyone would look." Spinelli explained.

"You have a point. Where is it?" Jason asked as he thought about what the young man had said.

Spinelli wrote down the address and handed it to Jason. "Stone Cold what if your beloved..." he started to say.

"I don't want to think about it. By the way Sonny says to pack up." Jason said as he started towards the door in a rush.

"I thought we were residing here for..." Spinelli said in confusion.

"It's better if we're gone before Sorrel and his men are found." Jason explained as he started to get agitated. He didn't have time for this. He needed to get out of there and he needed to find his Elizabeth now.

"Then I'll be packed when you return." Spinelli began to gather his stuff up. "I hope Elizabeth is found safely."

"Me too." Jason stated and then ran out the door and towards the warehouse where he hoped Elizabeth was being held.

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Jason watched the warehouse carefully. Sorrel had six men surrounding the warehouse. Two more men along with Sorrel himself were inside. The only person Jason cared about was Elizabeth. He could feel her pain and fear from where he was hiding. Jason was almost scared to find her. However, he knew that if he didn't rescue her soon she might not make it. "They need to die."

"Jason you need to think about this." Sonny said calmly as he looked at his protégé.

Jason glared coldly at Sonny. "I'm not going to let them live. What you do is your business."

"This is your thing Jason I'll do whatever you want." Sonny said finally with a deep sigh.

"Kill them." Jason said coldly.

Sorrel's men didn't know what hit them. By he time Jason and Sonny entered the warehouse they were covered in blood. Both men were in full beast mode focused only on killing whoever stood in their way. The other two men were taken care of easily and without raising Sorrel's suspicions. Jason found the man not far from where Elizabeth laid unconscious. A blind rage filled him. "You're going to die tonight."

"No. I don't think so. You want the girl alive and I have a gun aimed at her head." Sorrel taunted smugly.

"If she dies I'll drag your death out for days." Jason warned his jaw clinched.

"Even you aren't that sick." Sorrel gulped.

"You have no idea how far I am willing to go. You took the only person I've ever cared about. There is no way I'm letting you leave." Jason spat as he walked slowly towards Sorrel.

"Well maybe I should shoot you instead." Sorrel threatened as he watched Jason stalk towards him without a bit of fear.

"If that's how you want to play this out." Jason said with a slight shrug. Sorrel's expression registered surprise but he still turned the gun on Jason. The sound of two gunshots filled the empty warehouse. The smell of gunpowder mixed with the coppery sent of blood. Jason took a step back as the bullets struck him in the chest. Blood bloomed on Jason's shirt as pain momentarily flooded him. "You shot me." he said slightly amused.

"What... what you should be dead." Sorrel gasped as he staggered backwards in shock.

"I get that a lot." Jason said calmly. "Now I'm going to kill you painfully," he growled and then let the beast out.

It was over almost before it began. Jason had so much rage built up that Sorrel barely had time to register what was happening. Jason ripped Sorrel's throat out sending blood everywhere. He didn't take anytime to enjoy his victim's blood. Instead he proceed to gut the older man. Within seconds Sorrel was dead. Jason dropped his dead body feeling nothing from the kill.

Elizabeth was lying on the cot not moving, barely breathing. Jason knelt beside her and brushed the hair from her face. He gathered her in his arms trying not to cause anymore pain. "I'm so sorry. I didn't... I hate that you got hurt because of me."

"Jason?" Sonny called softly.

"She's... she's dying Sonny." Jason whispered unable to take his eyes off of her for even a second.

"I know." Sonny replied with a shake of his head.

"I can't... she's in so much pain." Jason said as his eyes filled with tears.

"I'm going to leave you with her to think." Sonny told him softly.

"I can't. I love her so much. If she hates me I'll never forgive myself." he said almost to himself.

"She loves you Jason. Either why you risk losing her." Sonny gently reminded the younger man and then walked out the door quietly.

"I love you so much. I shouldn't be able to you know. Love isn't an emotion I'm supposed to be able to feel. But I love you. I know you're in pain, Elizabeth. I can feel it. I want so much to take that pain from you but I... I don't think that I can. I hated Courtney for what she did to me. I don't want that to happen to us." Jason ran his lips over Elizabeth's face as he spoke. He had an impossible decision to make. There was no right or wrong. "You're so beautiful. When I see you everything else fades away. I love touching you, kissing you. When we make love... I can't watch you suffer. I just can't. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I love you." Jason whispered as he kissed her neck gently. His fangs elongated and pierced her soft skin.