"That was stupid," Danny hissed as he hung up the phone and threw it aside. Shawn was still gasping from his punishment. "I told you not to try anything!" He shouted as he punched Shawn again. Shawn's lip split and blood poured down his chin.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Shawn managed to say as his lip swelled. His face had become a patchwork of bruises, blood and swollen skin, his left eye was black and almost completely swollen shut. The blood from the cut above his eye had dried and his face itched.

"You think I'm going to fall for that?" He asked. He wrapped his hands around Shawn's neck and squeezed. He leant forwards and whispered into Shawn's ear, "You will pay for your mistakes. You make any more, Santa Barbara will be paying for your mistakes too." Danny let go and stepped away.

"You…want ..to know?" Shawn asked through wheezing breaths.

"Know what?"

"I read…their minds," Shawn stared at Danny. "They know nothing….they don't know where we are."

Danny nodded, "Good."

"Doesn't mean they're going to… give in to your demands."

"Then they'll have a lot of blood on their hands."

"No," Shawn shook his head, "you will." Shawn watched Danny walk to the nearest surface and gripped the edge with both hands. He leant hard on the wood and hung his head.

"Don't think you'll be able to talk your way out, my mind has been made up."

"Okay," Shawn backed down. Danny lifted his head and turned back around "How about some food," Shawn spoke up.

"What?"

"I don't know how long I've been here. I didn't each much the day you grabbed me and I'm starving, any chance of some food? Maybe a drink?"

"Why should I?"

Shawn whimpered in frustration. He was tired, hungry, tied up, beaten and bloody and the fate of most of Santa Barbara lay in his hands. All he was asking for was a little water and a sandwich. "Please," he begged, "Please."

Danny relented. "Fine…Adam!" Danny shouted. Adam appeared round the doorway a moment later.

"Yes Danny?"

"Watch him," he ordered, "What ever you do, don't untie him or give him anything. He's got a smart mouth so don't listen to a word he says."

Adam shook his head and then changed it into a nod, "I promise."

"Okay," Danny gave his brother a slap on the shoulder. "I'll be back in five," Danny gave one last warning glare to Shawn before striding out the room.

"So…Adam," Shawn began.

The young man stuck his fingers in his ears, "La la la la la, I'm not listening!" He sung.

"Oookay."

The pair waited in silence for the brains of the operation to return. Ten minutes later, Shawn heard the van pull up to the building and footsteps signalling Danny's return. He entered the room with a paper bag and pulled out a soda cup.

"Drink," he ordered and he pushed the straw towards Shawn's mouth. Shawn sucked up the cool drink and then winced as the fizzy drink stung the cut on his lip. He sucked down as much as he could before Danny pulled the cup away.

"Thank you."

Danny ignored Shawn and pulled out a cheeseburger, he unwrapped it from its greasy paper and held it towards Shawn. Shawn leant forward and took a large bit of the burger and chewed on it furiously. He swallowed and then leant forward for another bite. He managed two other bites before Danny pulled the burger away and threw it away. He then handed the bag to Adam and Shawn watched in silence as the pair ate their own food.

"Why?" Shawn asked as they finished.

Danny scrunched up the paper bag and put it in the trash "Why what?" He questioned.

"Why the bomb?"

"Why not?"

"People don't just blow up a city without a motive."

"Maybe the money's my motive."

"The money is your compensation," Shawn said incisively. "What did Santa Barbara do to you?"

"Why do you care?"

"I want to know, need to know why I'm here," he explained.

Danny stood from his seat and pointed to his brother, "He is the reason."

"I don't understand."

"Our parents died in a car crash when I was seventeen. The city decided I couldn't look after him and they took him away from me. Took me five years to track him and down and convince everyone that I was capable of looking after him….by then Adam wasn't himself anymore, withdrawn, quiet, cried himself to sleep," Danny turned to watch his oblivious younger brother. "It has taken years to get him back to a semblance of what he was before our parent's deaths."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't want your pity!" Danny snapped. "I never asked for anyone's pity!...I vowed the people that split us up would pay and now they will."

"No!" Shawn shouted back, "Innocent women and children will die! People that have never heard of you will die and for what?"

"Shut up!" Danny pulled his hand back and slapped Shawn across the face.

"How did you do it?" Shawn asked without hesitation. "The bomb?"

"I did a college course in engineering, wasn't hard to find out how to make a bomb online," Danny explained begrudgingly.

"So let me get this straight, you ruin hundreds if not thousands of lives when you set off that bomb, then you ruin your and your brothers lives, running for the rest of your lives."

"It won't be like that!"

"Why not?"

"We'll have the money."

Shawn laughed, "You really think they're going to give you that money? They'll let me die before that happens."

Danny stepped towards Shawn, "For your sake, I hope not."