Banks whose been on his six the whole time, slows to a stop beside him as he too looked up, taking notice of the pack instantly. "What is it?"
"Campers, rangers, different people-they-they use those lines to pull supplies into the trees, keep 'em away from predators." Brand explains, looking at him.
Behind them, others slowly start catching up. Dom slips on something slipper which causes Kim to immediately react and moves to help her up. As the two women are back on their feet, they move closer to Banks and Brandon. Geary who got infront of them when Dominika slipped, stepped up onto a stump to move over it but ended up slipping off instead, causing Dom to laugh.
"What's up there?" Banks curiously asks, ignoring the others.
"Probably nothing. Nobody out here."
Geary picked himself up and moved away from the stump. "Hey, how much father are we going before we stop, huh? My dogs are fucking barking here."
"We keep going till I say we stop." Banks says walking up to him.
"I got a cramp." Geary complains, grabbing his right thigh.
Dominika sits down on the stump Geary had just slipped off, pulling the rope to keep Kim close to her. "Geary, you're always fucking complaining. You don't hear Jensen complaining. He just keeps his mouth shut." She tells him as Banks hands her his water bottle.
"Well, that's because Jensen doesn't have an inquisitive bone in his body. Hey, I'll prove it to you guys. Hey, Jensen, what are you thinking right now?" Geary asks turning to look at the bigger man.
"Right now?" Jensen asks moving up and stopping a few feet from him.
"Yeah."
"How many different ways I can rip you apart." Jensen honestly said, causing Dominika to laugh.
"That wasn't very nice, Jensen." Geary said, grabbing his water bottle and goes to take a sip but it's empty.
"Oi, Geary, you want some water, mate?"
"Yeah. Yeah, that would be great."
"A shame."
"You know, you're a real piece of shit, Jensen." Geary tosses down his bottle and rushes towards Jensen, about to throw a punch but it's stopped easily by Jensen, who blocks it then back hands him before punching him.
Brandon moves up behind Kim, watching the fight for a second or two before grabbing a hold of Kim's shoulders to move her over to the side, causing Dom to nearly topple over. While the two men continue to fight.
"Geary, Geary, Geary." Dominika tried.
"Run. Run, damn it!" Brand told Kim as everyone focused on Geary and Jensen.
After a few more hits, Jensen had Geary on the ground. That's when Dom noticed Kim taking off into the woods. "Wait wait! Banks, the girl!"
Banks aims his gun towards Kim and fires a warning shot that hits the tree she was running past, making her stop instantly. He then turns back around to Brandon who was moving up behind him. "Wow! That was exciting. Come back, girly." Kim, nervously turns around and begins towalk back. "Oh yeah, I see that look in your eyes. Newsflash: I'm not gonna miss her twice." When Kim returns, Banks grabs her and forces her to her knees then he rests his arm on her head. "Now...I don't understand you people. How many people do I have to kill before you get it through your thick skull that I am not fucking around?" He yelled the last part.
Brandon takes in a few deep breaths, looking down at his sister, seeing how scared she was before realizing that he needed to stop and do what this man told him to do. "All right, I got it."
Dominika walks up and over to Kim, leaning down grabbing her underneath the arm. "Come on." She says gently before tugging on the rope. "Get up." Saying a bit more foreful.
Later that evening, the group stops in a small clearing and sets up camp. They all hover close to the fire and get ready to sleep. Both Geary and Jensen are already out cold as they rest by their spot by the fire. Brandon, hoists up one of the packs into the trees to keep their supplies safe.
Kim who is sitting on a small stump, turns her head to look over at Dominika who is laying on her side inside her sleeping bag, staring into the fire. "Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Let me tell you something." Dom responds quickly, looking away from the fire and over to her slowly. "I'm only gonna tell you once, so listen up." Kim shifts a bit but continues to look at the young woman waiting to hear what it was she wanted to say. "I've been watching you. In fact, I'm surprised that you're still alive." She glances around before looking back at the teen. "That was stupid-trying to escape. He will kill you."
"Why do you even care?"
"I don't." She replies indifferently. "I care about self-preservation and I'm not gonna let you fuck that up for me."
Kim looks at her only for a moment before turning to look away. "Okay.." She quietly says to herself then glancing at her once more, noticing that she was now looking over at Rhodes.
Brand ties off the rope on a branch then he walks closer to the group, about to make his way over to sit by his sister, but before he walked over he was stopped. "Hey. I don't want you two near each other." Banks tell him.
"I'll come over there." Rhodes says, motioning that he would go over to sit next to him instead.
"No. No, that's not what I meant. Send the girl over." Banks says, looking over at Kim who quickly looked at Dominika who was looking at Banks with a confused look on her face. Not really wanting to let the girl get to close to him. After a beat and intense staring between her and the leader, she tosses the rope that she had a hold of all day long away from herself. Letting Kim move.
"Kimberly." Rhodes called a bit distressed about seeing his kid sister near the man who has no reguard for any human life. She stops her movements and looks at him.
"Brand, it's fine." She assures him. "You don't need to make such a big deal out of it, okay?" Kim then walks the rest of the way to sit down beside Banks, who moves his legs over hers.
"Yeah, Brand. It's all good." Banks repeats with a smile.
He sighs some before making his way over to the same spot his sister had once occupied next to Dominika. He sits himself down and leans back against log. His eyes glued on Banks. "You lay a hand on her and I swear I will hunt your ass down-"
"And Kill me." He finishes before leaning back and closing his eyes to let sleep come to him.
He watches Banks drift off to sleep for a moment or two before shifting his gaze to his sibling who in turn closes her own eyes to try and sleep. Brandon ran his hand through his hair before turnng his head, seeing Dom looking at him.
"Brand?" She smirks while arching her brow at him.
He shrugs with a small smile on his own. "Just something Kim calls me." He replies. Both knowing that they really couldn't talk to one another without Banks getting a bit pissed. He could tell by the way the man looks at her that her was seriously into her. So the two remained silent after that, both only look at one another for the longest time before Dominika turned herself around and closed her eyes to go to sleep. In turn, Brand did the same.
A couple hours later, Brandon awoke, looking around at Dom, Geary, Jensene then finally over to Kim and Banks. He noticed a knife laying on the ground next to Geary. He silently got himself up from his spot then made his way over to the weapon, picking it up and then slowly started to stalk up to Banks.
Moving closer, Kim stirs awake, noticing her brother drawing nearer with a knife. She mouths some words to him but he mouths back to be quite. "Brand, don't." She whispers. Suddenly, Jensen from behind hits Rhodes on the backside of the head, instantly knocking him out cold. "Don't! Brandon! Brandon, wake up!" She cries, trying to get up to get over to her brother.
"Whoa." Banks says quickly after waking up, pulling her back to stay put.
"Brandon!" She cries, trying to get him to wake up before turning her attention over to Jensen. "You piece of shit!"
Dominika shifts awake from the cries then moves to get up, looking over at the freaked out teen before seeing Brandon on the ground. "Banks! What the fuck?" She asked loudly to get his attention before making his way over to Brandon's side, checking to make sure that he was still breathing.
"He was being stupid again." Banks said getting up, grabbing Kim and pulling her up off her feet then shoving her over to Jensen. "I don't think Brand here, quite understands that I'm not fucking around." He said to Jensen, giving him a nod towards the teen.
Jensen nodded his head before pulling the teen off into the woods as Dom looks up from Rhodes. "What are you doing? She asked getting up and following him out into the woods a ways.
A little while later, Brandon finally stirs then slowly begins to open his eyes. His vision blurry a bit before hearing the sounds of Kim yelling in the distance. Then his vision starts to slowly begins to clear up while both Banks and Jensen moves into his view.
"Hey, good morning, sunshine." Banks greets him. "We, uh, want to get an early start on the day."
"It ain't gonna do us any good walking around in the dark." Brand informs as he slowly tries to sit himself up.
"I'll bet that lazy shit Lawson is out there sleeping somewhere." Jensen replies, looking down at him while Geary pack up his things. "Gives us a chance to get a head start on him."
The only ones missing were Dominika and Kim, which Rhodes finally realizes. "Where's Kimberly?" When no answer came, he starts to sit up some. "Where is she?"
"Hey!" Geary scolds, picking up a stick and moving infront of Brandon. "Let's just put a pin in that enthusiasm of yours for a moment. You dig?"
"No more bullshit." Banks says taking a step forwards. "No more grab-ass nonsense. You understand?"
Rhodes just stares up at him with a grimace look on his face. "The man asked you a question." Geary said standing standing next to Banks. "You answer the man with respect. Do you understand?" He said poking him with a stick he picked up. "Answer him." Brand just gives a nod for a response. "He understands."
Kim and Dominika walk up. Brand sits up fully this time seeing his sisters face. It was obvious that she had been hit, her upper lip looking like it's been split open but the bleeding had stopped. The only thing that Rhodes could assume happened was perhaps Dom helped her to stop the bleedng while there were nowhere insight.
"Kim, you okay?" He asked with a concerned tone in his voice.
"Are you happy now?" Kim asks looking down at him.
"Come on now, Kim."
"You don't even care what happens to me, do you?" She says softly. "Just like mom."
"That's not true." He shook his head. "She left us, Kim. I'm still here." He points out before she quickly walks away, forcing Dom to follow her. "Kimberly!"
Brandon turns his attention back to Banks whose staring down at him. "Next time...she dies."
After walking for a few more hours, Brandon makes a stop, sitting himself down and looking at his watch while all the others stand around waiting, not understanding what the hell he was doing but allowed him to do what he needed to do.
"Why'd you stop?" Banks finally asks walking around Dominika and Kim to get closer to Brand.
"Just checking our direction."
"How can you do that from here?"
Brandon picks up his watch then looks back at Banks. "You take the hour hand here and you point it at the sun. You then bisect that line between that hand and the 12-"
Banks raises his hand to silence him. "Fine, I believe you. You really are Mr. Survival, aren't you?"
"I just wanna keep my sister safe."
Once they had their rest stop, they continued through the woods but still no sign of Lawson, causing Geary to rush past Kim and Dominika to reach Banks. "This is bullshit, man. All right? We don't even know if Lawson's out here, let alone the goddamn money."
Rhodes takes a few more steps after hearing Geary's words before topping to see a burnt up map. "He was here." He says pointing down to the map.
Banks looks down and sees an empty box of smokes, he picks it up and reads the name. "That's him."
"Son of a bitch, we are on this motherfucker." Geary cheers, making his way over to a fallen log to sit down.
"Keep your bloody voice down. You want him to hear us?" Jensen said glaring over at Geary.
Dominika see's the fallen log that Geary was moving to and pulls Kim along with her so that they could go sit down and rest. Flies could be heard buzzing around as they got closer. Hearing the sound, she finally see's what was on the other side of the log. "Holy shit."
"What's that smell?" Geary asks, leaning back against the log.
"Guys, you gotta see this." She says, backing up causing Geary to turn around and see a dead body of a border control officer.
"Oh fuck!" Geary moves quickly, up off the log and away then starts coughing from the smell.
Kim peers over the log to see the body herself, but she is quickly pulled back from Dominika. "Get away." She says to the teen.
Rhodes moves to stand beside Dom, looking over the log so that he could check out what was drawing everyone's attention. "Oh shit." He sighs, recognizing the dead body. "Jeez, Walt."
"You know this guy?" Dominika asked looking at the officer then back up to Brandon.
He looks at her and nods his head. "Yeah, I work with him."
"Not anymore, you don't." Banks says looking up at the body then to Brandon.
Brandon moves closer to Walt's body and begins to check his pockets for anything useful that would help explain what happened to him. Finding a piece of folded paper in his shirt pockets, he opens it up to find an odd about buying a sail boat. He folds it back up before moving away from the body.
"So what happened?" Banks asked.
While looking around the body, he finds an empty shell cap. "I'm guessing Walter was your friend's ticket to Canada. Something went wrong."
"Obviously."
"Walt paid the price."
"Then what?"
Brand begins to walk around, scanning everything carefully to put the crime scene together. "Your buddy's hit. He's close." He stops, seeing the blood on the leaves and dirt with a smoked cigarette bud in the ground. He picks it up to look at it. "Sat down right here and smoked himself a cigarette. Bad habit."
"Yeah, it'll kill you."
"Tied off his wounds using Walt's belt."
Geary looks a bit confused as he looks from Brandon over to the dead body then back to Rhodes. "Hey, how do you know all that?"
"Magic." Jensen answers. "What do you think? It's his job, isn't it?"
Rhodes turns towards Dominika and holds out the folded up piece of paper he found. "You do the math. We don't make that kind of money." She looks at it a moment before taking it then opening it up to read what it was. "Son of a bitch told me he'd gone fishing." He shook his head remembering the phone call from earlier that day before looking around once more. "Your man's hit, fell down this slope. He's slowed down. He'll be easy to track."
"That's good, real good." Banks smiles, then yells out. "Lawson! We're coming to get you, motherfucker!"