Chapter 6: Taser

Parker was out of the van before Hardison got into the drive way. She ran around the side of the hotel. Hardison parked to follow her when a man came into his view. The man was wearing a suit and the white dress shirt was spattered with blood. He saw Hardison and started running towards the van. Hardison forced the door open just in time to clip the man and send him tumbling. The goon got up and grabbed Hardison by the jacket and pinned him against the van. Hardison let out a gasp but then laughed as he saw a blonde standing on the car behind him. She was holding the taser that she always seemed to have on her. She jumped off the car bringing the taser down on the back of the man's neck.

When the man fell Parker grabbed Hardison's arm and led him to the door Eliot was behind.

Eliot threw his foot out as hard as he could, forcing it into Vlad's shin. Vlad came falling down and one of the guards reached for his gun. Maggie threw a punch into his eye and sent him falling backwards. Eliot moved to stand up and Maggie tossed him the knife she was hiding. Eliot grabbed it by the handle and forced it into the floor pinning Vlad's jacket to the ground inches from his shoulder. Eliot sent his knee into the face of the man Maggie had hit and stood up to take out the other one. He grabbed the chair which still had a lot of the barbed wire on it and broke it across the other man's head. Eliot vaguely heard his name being yelled and turned as Vlad was thrusting a knife in his direction. It sank deep into his arm and Eliot screamed out. Pull the knife out of his arm he pressed it against Vlad's neck forcing him against a wall.

"Why do all this huh? Why take Maggie?"

"We have been watching you for weeks! We saw you with her a number of times and knew you were with her. Obviously we were not wrong!"

"Sorry to burst you superior bubble but ya' were."

"Then why did you come. You must have known it was a trap."

"I'm not letting her get hurt because you wouldn't just come after me! Didn't have the gut's did ya?"

"This isn't over. I will be the one to end you!"

Eliot just smirked. He pressed the knife closer to Vlad's neck. Vlad twitched a little before hearing a noise outside. Assuming it was his third man he fought back. Eliot, distracted while trying to judge where outside that noise was coming from did not see Vlad force his fist into Eliot's side. Eliot screamed and crumbled to the ground as the door burst open. Vlad turned towards the door in time to see a skinny blonde girl pointing a taser gun at him and shooting. He fell to the ground. Parker was still holding the trigger down as Hardison ran into the room and fell to his knees next to Eliot.

"I…I think he's still breathing," Maggie stated, interrupted by a sob.

Parker finally let go of the trigger and looked around at the room. She saw a bloody hunk of barbed wire near the bathroom door and pieces of a bloody chair next to it. On the other side of the room was a pool of blood and a few feet away from that was a very motionless Eliot. As soon as she saw his chest move to his breathing she ran out of the building and came back with a bulky duffle bag. She dropped it next to Hardison and zipped it open. She grabbed a large role of gauze and looked at Maggie. "What's the worst here?"

"Over here, he was shot on this side. But he's going to need stitches." Maggie still could not look away from Eliot, her broken hero.

Hardison had taken off his jacket and put it over Eliot's legs. "Called Sophie already. She n' Nate'll be here in ten minutes with an ambulance. 'Till then we'll need to hold him together." While he was talking he grabbed another roll of gauze and started on Eliot's wrists. Maggie dug through the duffle and found some butterfly bandages for his head.

Nate and Sophie pulled up as they finished covering all the wounds they could find in the motel room. Nate jumped out first and ran toward Maggie. He was planning on grabbing her in a hug and never letting her go but stopped mid-stride seeing all the blood and Maggie's tear streaked face next to Eliot. Sophie opened the back hatch of the ambulance and started pulling things out that she thought Eliot might need to patch himself up.

She got out expecting to help Eliot in but soon saw that he was far from the ability to walk. She helped carry Eliot into the ambulance. Hardison convinced Maggie that Eliot would be ok and told her to follow the rest of the team in the car he came here in while he went to find Eliot's truck.

Nate did not know much about how to fix people up so he resigned to driving while Sophie and a very focused Parker worked in the back.

Sirens blazed in the distance, Hardison must have called the police after we left, Parker thought, I would've killed them.