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Chapter 3

Leaving the hospital that evening, Serena kept her head low. She was too emotionally drained to acknowledge the porters and nurses who stared at her with hushed whispers on their tongues. No doubt news of Bernie's dramatic departure had spread like wild fire within an hour of her leaving.

"Yes Jason, I know I'm late… Yes Jason… y-y-yes… ok I'll be home soon… sorry" Serena hit the end call button on her phone and let out a heavy sigh as she dropped the phone into her bag. This day honestly couldn't get any worse.

Pulling her coat tightly around her, Serena crossed the car park. She was vaguely aware of rapid footfalls behind her but only fully acknowledged them when a voice yelled her name. Turning, she was met with the sight of Bernie running across the road towards her. Rolling her eyes, she quickly decided she didn't have the energy for this either, turned, and continued her journey towards her car.

"Serena wait!" The voice sounded desperate, but still Serena did not turn.

"Shouldn't you be packing?" Serena spat, anger heating her entire body.

"Serena…" Bernie said breathlessly as she came to stop beside the brunette "Serena I'm so sorry…"

"I don't want to hear it, Ms Wolfe" she cut in, finally turning to the trauma surgeon "You've made your choice. Now if you don't mind, I have to get home to Jason"

Bernie reached out a hand to stop her leaving but Serena shrugged it off and made to move past her "Serena, wait" Serena stopped at the sound of the broken voice, her back once again facing the blonde "I did make my choice. But…"

"Please please! I need help! She can't breathe!" pleaded a rough voice as their hands desperately grabbed at Bernie's arms from behind. Serena turned then and briefly made eye contact with Bernie before rushing off on instinct towards where the man was gesturing, their doctor's masks firmly in place.

Bernie reached the vehicle first, the side door of the van flying open upon her arrival. Looking inside though, she found the van to be empty. Frowning and turning back to the man, she suddenly felt herself pulled backwards into the van by two strong arms. She'd barely registered awkwardly landing on her side before she felt herself roughly dragged by the hair to knees. Adrenaline suddenly flooded her system and she swung her fists around and tried to pull herself from the assailant's grip, however painful it was to her scalp… and then she felt it. Her head was wrenched back exposing her neck. As her eyes met Serena's panicked ones, it was only as the needle went in that she realised the door was closed and they were moving.

"Serena…" she said breathlessly as the needle left her neck. Tears began to run down Serena's face as she thrashed, her mouth open as if she were screaming but no noise penetrated Bernie's ears. Bernie shook out of her stupor, my god, was she deaf? "What have you injected me with?!" She yelled it, she knew she had… and yet she couldn't even hear her own voice, just felt the vibrations rip through her throat.

"Bernie!" Serena cried, terror shaking her voice "What have you done to her?!" Her hands were wrenched around and she felt her wrists being bound together with duck tape.

"Fuck me, you didn't tell me there'd be two! I only had one dose!" The man holding Bernie spat "How the fuck are we gonna shut her up?!"

"Its fine… this one shouldn't put up too much of a fight, she's the one who's gonna be the problem" The man holding Serena threw the duck tape down and grabbed both their bags. Looking inside, he found their phones and handed them through to the front of the van.

Bernie's eyelids suddenly became hard to keep open under the weight of the heaviness clouding her mind. She let her arms drop to her side as her hair was released, unaware that her body was falling forward until the hard floor met the side of her face.

As Bernie's eyes stared unseeingly, she vaguely registered jerky movement at the corner of her vision and then two hands lifting her head to cradle it in their owners lap as best they could.

"Mmmm sssss-ss-ss…" She tried but her mind wouldn't focus on the words, why couldn't she hear herself?

The van hit a speed bump and her cushion was suddenly no longer beneath her, her head coming back down to instead crack against the floor of the van once more. This time the thud resonated through her skull and her hearing came back, noise blasting through her ears and causing her eyes to open wide at the shock.

"BERNIE! Get off me! BERNIE!" Serena broke free from the men's grip once again and crawled to cradle Bernie's head once again.

"S-Serena!" she said clearly "Serena you have to get out!" Serena looked down into Bernie's wide-open eyes, realising they still weren't focused.

Bernie began to hear a thrum echo in her head. The thrum began to panic her, she was going back, dear god she couldn't go back there. She had to get Serena out of here; Serena wouldn't survive where they were going.

"Serena, please…" Her voice trailed off, her mind fogging again "You have to get away, they'll kill you" With what little control she had over her limbs, she reached up and grabbed at Serena's shirt "we have to find the embassy…" Serena's brows knitted together in confusion as Bernie's words registered with her "They'll fly you back to England, Seren…a" her voice trailed off again as her eyes began to dart to seemingly random points in the van.

Serena's head shot up, tears blurring her vision, and met with those of the man who'd injected her.

"What did you do to her?"

He said nothing only smiled a dirty grin that chilled Serena to the bone.

"Its ok" Said an all too calm voice behind her. Turning her head, she realised it was coming from the front seat "She won't be harmed."

Serena's nostrils flared "How could you possibly know that?" she growled "You've just injected her with- with- GOD KNOWS WHAT!"

"She wont be harmed" he repeated, "She will however begin to hallucinate. Nothing bad, the drug is mostly used for pleasure, not pain" He let his words sink in, knowing exactly what kind of thoughts would be racing through the brunettes head.

"I wont let you fucking touch her!" She spat, tightening her grip on Bernie.

A rumble of deep chuckles left his mouth as he turned around, his sharp green eyes piercing right through Serena's "I'll give you one thing, you got fire in your blood, Ms…?"

This time Serena did physically spit at him.

He chuckled once again and turned back around in his seat "I like a woman with some fire in her. Your friends gonna have a rough come down from those drugs" He continued without pause "Best make sure you sort her out, fire lady. Wouldn't want her to under-perform when the time comes." Once again he paused his sentence, allowing all sorts of thoughts to invade Serena's head. He was determined to break her down and douse out that flame, she was useless to him anyway. Might as well have some fun.

Serena looked down to Bernie, her eyes still wide, as she began muttering to her self. A tear ran down Serena's face as her lip wobbled, she'd never felt fear like this. This didn't happen to people like her, this only happened to people who got involved with the wrong kind of people… or unfortunate children. This wasn't happening. They weren't being kidnapped! This was all just some nightmare, she'd wake up soon… she would!

Her panicked train of thought was broken and she lost her balance as the van came to a stop. The doors flew open and before she could even react, she was dragged from the van, her grip on Bernie lost as she fell from the step and onto the concrete.

Pulled to her feet once more, she risked a glance back at the van as she was physically walked towards a brick building. The men at the door of the van blocked her view, however with the shuffling that was going on, Bernie was clearly giving them some bother.

Turning her head back, she tried to pick out details that may be useful to her later should she regain access to a phone. She made out the beginnings of a sign before she was shoved trough a door and into a dark corridor.

She was guided down the hall until she came to a halt outside another door. Her captor opened the door and roughly shoved her inside as a series of shouts sounded from where she'd just came. The door slammed in Serena's face and she heard the tell tale sound of a lock clicking and heavy footfalls.

"Give them hell, Major Wolfe"