Author: Sorry this chapter (well, really all the chapters so far) is so short! I'll try to make future one's longer!
"Who's out there, is it Brian?" the leader asked.
"I don't know." his man replied.
"Well find out!" the leader yelled in annoyance.
The man scrambled out the door and closed it behind him. Sydney held her breath while praying that it was Gage, Walker, and Trivette. However, it was not her lucky day.
The man reappeared a minute later with a man Syd recognized, it was Brian. The leader smiled and walked towards him. They shook hands, and then embraced in a hug.
"Long time no see man!" Brian smiled.
"Yah I know, I've been pretty busy." the leader replied.
'"I can see that John." Brian said as he surveyed the room.
The leader, now being called John, brought Brian over to where Sydney was seated. She looked up at Brian and glared at him. He just smiled and responded,
"Nice to see you Sydney. It's been what? Five years?"
"It's funny," Syd replied, "time can pass but feelings never do fade. Especially not hatred."
"Come on Syd," Brian said, "you know you want me."
"Ha!" she laughed, "Not in this lifetime, not in the next one, not EVER. And also, NEVER call me 'Syd' again. That's reserved for friends only, sorry."
"I'll call you whatever I want," Brian growled, suddenly aggressive, "and if you have a problem with that I really don't care."
"Brian," John interrupted, "we have to take care of some business here. You can get reacquainted later."
"Fine." Brian said to John, though he was still glaring at Sydney.
"How do you want to deal with them?" John asked, gesturing to the crowd of nervous women.
"I thought this was your gig." Brian replied, now glaring at John.
"Well, yah but . . . listen Brian, your girl here's a ranger."
Brian then broke out in laughter.
"You still have that problem with Rangers? Ha! I thought you would have moved on, guess not. But yah, I know what she is. Sure is different from the Sydney Cooke I remember."
"Well if we're going to make it look like she's dead too, I don't want to be responsible for killing a ranger. I was promised that there wouldn't be any Texas Rangers here, you're calling the shots now." John answered.
"Fine with me." Brian smiled. "Now how should we kill them? Fire? A horrible accident? Or perhaps just a classic execution? Yes, let's go with that. Now, who wants to be first?"
"If anyone is going first it's going to be you." came a loud, booming voice out of no where.
John spun around and yelled,
"Who said that?"
Sydney smiled, for she knew who had spoken. It had been a man's voice, it had been Walker. And where Walker was, Gage and Trivette were too. Hope was restored and Syd knew, that things would be okay.