Hey guys! Another chapter is up! I feel really good about this chapter! You'll see my character again, but she won't be talking. She's currently unconscious...Errr...But you will hear from her possibly in the next chapter! Thanks so much for the reviews once again, and the likes on my OC! Don't forget to tell me what you think!
Chap. 8
Private had dragged the girl's body to the nearest tree. The girl that tried to pickpocket him He had sat her up to trunk of the oak taking in her features. Her stomach looked hallowed, and she was caked in dirt. Her hair, a dark red that was now grimy, and greasy. Light scars echoed her skin everywhere he saw that was visible. He would have taken a closer look at the scars to see what they were caused by, but he heard voices. The voices of his teammates he scurried up the tree like a squirrel.
Private held his breath, as they walked by, "The car should be this way…" He could hear Skipper's voice, it sounded worried. Private kept his breathing low, and clutch one of the tree branches above to steady himself. He must have clutch the tree too hard, because it broke off. He knew the team had heard it crack.
He prayed silently.
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The team cranes their neck towards the nearby trees. They heard it. Skipper nods at his team to spread out, and search for the noise. Hoping that it just might be Private closed by. Skipper's gut felt that he was close by, and usually his gut was right.
Kowalski shuffled quietly into the trees he watches as Skipper, and Rico separate ahead of him. He walks a little farther then he stops, and travels back to what he really saw. He went back to oak, and there he saw a broken branch, and a girl lying near the trunk of the tree. He checks her pulse, "She's alive…"
He looks up, and sees a familiar face. He jumps down from the branch he's on making his way in front of Kowalski. Kowalski stands up from crouching, "What happen?" He asks looking down at the girl making sure she hasn't woken up. He watches as she twitches like she was having a nightmare. Who was this girl?
Private shrugs, "She tried pickpocketing me for money, but I caught her in the act. Clever, but not quick enough." Private puts his hands in his pockets, and leans back on the tree near the unconscious girl. He looks at her, before turning back to Kowalski. There was something that made Private want to keep his eyes on her. He shifts his gaze to Kowalski he was smiling, "What?"
Kowalski smiles, and pushes his glasses up. Usually, he would put his contacts in, but since they were on a chase for Private he decided to stick with his frames, "Nothing," He smiles more, "You do know there's other ways to deal with pickpockets other than knocking someone out?"
Private snaps, "Sorry, I've never dealt with a pickpocket before."
"That's just it." Kowalski said, taking a look back to see if Skipper or Rico was back yet, "Why do this? When you have no experience alone on a mission. I mean I understand why you're doing this, but why alone? We could help you, Private." Kowalski narrows his eyes, "If you can answer me that, I won't let Skipper, and Rico find you. This would be your mission, not ours."
Private thought about this. Well, what does it mean to you? Why do this all on your own? Private casts his eyes to the red head sleeping away. Maybe you won't be on your own…He smiled. He knew why he was doing this. For the truth. For the God honest truth. Not anything false, fakes, or lies. Just honesty, pure openness, and truth that's the reason he does this.
Kowalski wonders what he thinks. Part of him hopes that he'll get the question wrong, but he knows Private better than that. Private speaks, "This is something I need to find out about myself. I mean, this is the truth about me. Not about the team, just the truth, and I. I need to find this out on my own, and maybe being on my own might make me stronger…"
Private waits for Kowalski to answer him. It seems long, but it becomes short, "Go."
Private's grin stretches to his ears, and throws a hug around Kowalski, "Thank you, K'walski."
Kowalski grins at Private whose hugging him. It makes him think to when he was, so little giving everyone a hug he saw that needed one. Kowalski clears his throat from choking on too many memories of younger Private, "You better go, Private, they're on their way back now probably." Private let's go, and Kowalski reaches his back pocket, and his back, and hands from what was in his back pocket, "You'll need these on your mission."
Private looks what he had handed him car keys, fake I.D.s, credit cards, and a what look to be a file. Private stares in shock of Kowalski, "You knew I would be leaving didn't you?" Private knew he could trust Kowalski, but this he was not expecting from him.
Kowalski gives half of a smile, "You don't keep your promises that you make anymore." Then he adds, "I am also a genius." He smiles, cockily.
Private rolls his eyes, but then his gazes his eyes on the girl, "What about her?" He turns to ask Kowalski who is now walking away not caring for the conversation anymore, "K'walski! K'walski, what about the girl? K'walski!" Private whispers his name harshly to get him to come back.
"Your problem, not mine!" He shouts, almost in a whisper.
Private sighs, and says a naughty word under his breath. He walks over to the girl, and kneels down to her level. He brushes her oily strands of hair out her face. Who are you? He slides his backpack off him, and places his gifts from Kowalski in one of the pouches of the pack, but leaves the keys out. He slips out a blanket to put over the girl's shivering body, and slips the backpack back on. He stands, and plans to walk off leaving the girl in the cold air of winter, but he can't. He can't just leave her there. He would feel like a jerk if he did. He rubs his face, "I hope I don't regret this." He puts his long arms underneath her shoulder blades, and knees to lift her bridal style, "Now I just have to find the car." He sighs, and walks off with the girl in his arms.
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Kowalski silently treads to meet Skipper, or Rico somewhere in the park. Without watching where he was heading he bumps into a man, Kowalski says a sorry to man, and decides to head on. He decides to not make any more conversations than needed the man probably is a rude New Yorker anyway. The man says sorry back to Kowalski, "Sir?" Kowalski turns back to the man, "I'm sorry sir, but have you seen my daughter, by chance.
Kowalski now sees what the man looks like. Black sunglasses cover his eyes, blonde hair neatly tuck over his right side, and a suit that must have cost a fortune. Kowalski instincts that Skipper had taught him kicked in he felt an evil presence towards the man. His instincts to him to run, "I'm sorry, no, do you have a picture? That might help."
He reaches for something in his suit, and Kowalski steady his hand towards the gun he has hidden. He didn't like the look of the man. The man unfolds the picture, and hands it over to Kowalski. It was what Kowalski was afraid of. Her fiery locks, her pale complexion, and her bony features it was a no brainer that it was the girl Private knock out. Kowalski keeps his cool, "No, sir, I haven't." Kowalski tells a lie to protect Private from the man looking for the girl. He should have told Private to leave her, or give her to him. Something, he should have done.
The man nods slowly, and then Kowalski notices a huge five finger claw mark scars his face. It was safe to say it out did Rico's scar. What had happen to him? Kowalski cringed to think about it. He thought that the girl that Private had put in an unconscious state could have been the one to do that to him. The man spoke up, "Well, thank you…"
He searched, for Kowalski's name, "Dmitri Coal." Kowalski said, giving a fake name to the man, "And yours?"
That's when his cellphone rung, "Excuse me, Mr. Coal, it's important."
Kowalski sneak away from the strange man, and hope that Private had left the girl. But Kowalski knew that he didn't Private had a big heart not too. Kowalski prayed that Private had hustled off, and the man wouldn't find him. Kowalski bit his bottom lip, and rung his hands through hair to think about what to do, "Why does it always have to be Private?" He cursed, but he knew that wouldn't help Private at all.
So what do you think? Am I headed the right way, or is Private headed the right way? Reviews please! I would love to hear what you think will happen to Private, or my OC. Or any other character in my story. Or what you really want to see happen. I love hearing that kind of stuff! ;)
-AdorkABLE Rosy