Thanks so much for all the reviews, I'm glad so many of you came back to continue reading after such a long time between updates. I wanted this chapter to be longer than this but it was taking too long so I figured I would just update what I had so far. Hope you like.

As usual parts in italics are flashbacks.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Chapter 15

The night air was bitter, the kind in which you could see your breath in front of your face. However Jo drove along with her car window rolled right down. This had more to do with the fact she felt ready to throw up and didn't wish to do so all over her car. The fresh air pouring in through her window was the only thing stopping her from doing this.

She was getting closer to where she had to be, where she had to meet Ged. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then sighed as she remembered his most recent call…

Jo was in her office and for once she felt the need to tidy her desk. It had quickly become a mess again since she had returned to work after everything that had happened. Usually she liked the mess but she was so nervous after Ged's call that the mess was making her more and more nervous to the point where she was just becoming stressed out.

Her version of tidying was more moving one pile of rubbish to another side of the desk and switching post-its round and such. However, her "tidying" suddenly came to an end when her cell phone began to ring. She grabbed hold of it and answered it. "Danville,"

"Alabama, has anyone told you how sexy you sound on the phone?" Ged asked.

"Where the hell do you want to meet?" she asked him.

"I gotta say, I thought you would back out. You got more balls than I thought, baby."

"Where the hell do you want to meet?" she asked enunciating every word clearly.

"You really do like getting right down to the point don't you?" Ged snickered.

"Tell me now or I swear I will hang up."

"Easy, Alabama, remember that I'm the one calling the shots here. You hang up and you won't know where to show up. You don't show up and I kill another lovely lady."

"Fine then, where do I have to show up at?" she asked.

"First you have to do something for me."

Jo rolled her eyes and asked, "What's that?"

"Tell me something…"

"I could tell you a lot of things, I guarantee you won't like any of them." she spat at him.

"You really are feisty tonight. I like that Jo…I think we could have some fun if you're feeling feisty…"

"What do you want to know?!" she yelled, regretting it the moment two techs in the hall glanced up to see what the commotion was about. Jo just turned her back to them. "What do you want to know?" she asked, a little calmer this time.

"Never mind, I'll just take a look for myself when I see you. You'll meet me at a familiar place, Jo, the warehouse where this all began."

That was the last place Jo wanted to go but what choice did she have.

"Oh and if you're not on your own and you don't do what I say then I will kill the bitch I got stashed. Her blood will be on your hands, Jo."

"I'll be alone." she told him.

As she pulled up outside the warehouse she felt her heart begin to pound even harder in her chest. She hated that it had all come down to this. She was being forced to meet Ged. She didn't want to but they had been her orders and if she didn't want him to hurt another woman she had no choice but to obey.

She sat there in her car, studying the building. The place looked like a death-trap. She knew it wasn't safe inside, for more reasons than the charred floor was likely to give way beneath her feet. She almost jumped a mile when she heard her phone begin to vibrate from where it lay on the passenger side seat

She reached across and read the text that it had just received, 'You gonna wait out there all night, Alabama?'

Jo sighed as she realised she was being watched. She had no idea where Ged was but he could see her from wherever it was he was hiding. Taking another deep breath she switched off the engine and climbed out of the car, stuffing her phone into her pocket as she did so. She slammed the car door shut behind her and walked towards the warehouse.

All she could do was pray this wasn't all some huge stupid mistake. She could only hope she had thought it all out thoroughly enough.

~0~0~

As soon as she stepped inside the building the smell of charred wood, burnt rubber and burnt plastic hit her, all mixed together creating a foul smell that left a bitter taste in her mouth. She took a few careful steps forward and suddenly stopped when she heard a shuffle behind her. She turned to see what, or rather who, had made the noise. It was, as she knew it would be, Ged.

"Hi, Alabama, it's so nice to see you again." Ged said with a smirk.

"Wish I could say the same." she spat at him.

"Don't be like that. We had such good fun together last time." he said as he took some slow steps towards her.

"Yeah, it was the best fun I've ever had being buried alive and left to be worm food." she scoffed.

Ged just laughed and then said, "If possible, you're even more beautiful when you angry."

"How's this gonna work, Ged? I mean no offence but I don't want to spend the last ten minutes of my life having a conversation with you." she snapped impatiently.

"Sweetheart, you're gonna live for more than ten minutes and it's not a conversation I want to have with you." he said as he took another step towards her. He was now just a couple of feet away from her. One big lunge forward and he would easily be able to grab her.

Before he had chance to pounce on her she pulled her gun out and aimed it at him. However, she didn't expect him to do the same thing at the same time and she had to throw herself behind a burnt wooden crate to avoid being shot by him. She quickly ducked from behind it and fired at him. She watched him dive behind some other burnt wooden crates, then without wasting another minute pushed herself up onto her feet and ran.

She wouldn't get near the door because Ged was somewhere by it so she had no choice but to run further into the Warehouse. Besides, she only wanted to leave the warehouse knowing Ged was dead….or she wanted to die knowing she had done everything she could to try and stop him.

She had to quickly duck down as another shot was fired and a bullet buried itself into the crate beside her. She sat there and listened to him walking around. She wished she could tell where he was but every sound echoed around the warehouse and it made it almost impossible to tell where he actually was.

"You're not playing by the rules, Jo! I told you I would kill that bitch if you didn't do what I said!" Ged shouted to her.

"Where is she then, Ged!" she shouted back before crawling across the floor, just in case he could work out where she had just shouted back to him from.

"Oh, she's floating about here somewhere." Ged replied.

Jo thought his choice of words were odd, but she had to suddenly forget about them when she felt him reach over the crate and grab a handful of her hair. She pulled away from him, ripping a nice chunk of her hair out in the process. She went to fire her gun but the son-of-a-bitch was running from her.

She kicked the crate aside and ran after him, trying to keep her gun aimed at him, but it wasn't easy. Ged took off running up a steep flight of steps that looked anything but safe but Jo had no choice but to follow after him. Ged crossed the small landing and took off up the next flight of stairs. Jo tried to follow but he suddenly turned and fired at her.

She had to throw herself down to avoid being hit in the chest by the bullet. She cried out in pain however as the bullet skimmed her arm instead, taking with it a chunk of flesh. It hurt like hell and she knew it would bleed…a lot, but it was in no way a fatal wound.

She pushed herself to her feet, grabbed her gun again and took off up the stairs, trying to work out which way Ged had gone. She couldn't help but wish he wasn't so fast. She came to another flight of steep stairs and took off up them. She hated the fact he was leading her higher and higher up. One more large flight of stairs and they would be out on the roof. Despite knowing it would have a fantastic view over the boat yard and the water it was the last thing she wanted.

She looked up as another shot rang out. This time a bullet skimmed past her face, missing her by inches. She quickly fired her own gun, missing Ged by inches as he ran from her again. She watched as he dashed across a walk-way that stood thirty feet above the warehouse floor. She ran up a small set of rickety wooden stairs and chased after him, her gun still aimed at him. She wanted to shoot but she couldn't risk wasting the bullets and she gave up on the idea entirely when he ran out of sight.

Still chasing after him she turned and ran along the same walk-way he had just dashed across. However, she didn't realise just how unsafe it was until it was too late. She screamed as she felt the floor literally drop from beneath her. Her shocked scream was mixed with that of pain as she felt the broken floorboards rip into her flesh as she fell down. It was only by gripping hold of the floor and hanging on for dear life that she didn't fall right through the hole she had made and to the ground thirty feet below.

She could feel her body slipping through the hole and quickly managed to grab hold of the rail at the side of her. She tried to pull herself up but it was hard and the pain in her right side made it all the more difficult. She wanted to glance down and see what damage the sharp wood that had cut into her flesh had done, but she daren't look down at the drop she was surely about to make if she couldn't pull herself up.

"Well, what have we here?" She heard Ged say.

She looked up and suddenly wanted to cry. She knew the bastard wasn't going to help her up. She was like some wild animal caught in a hunters trap and Ged was the hunter who had returned to claim his prey. She ignored him as he made his way carefully towards her, taking care where he stepped. She continued to try and pull herself up but could only yelp at the pain such movements caused her side.

"Jo, that's really not a safe place to hang around." Ged joked.

She scoffed and looked up at him and glared. She could only attempt to cling on to the railing with her one hand for dear life, her other hand struggled to keep grip on the dusty floorboard below it, her blood pooling from the bullet wound on her arm only made the attempt more difficult.

"Aw Jo, you know it didn't have to be like this. I had planned a nice romantic evening for us. By romantic I mean I was gonna tie to down to a crate in the back there and fuck you until you begged me to stop."

"Then shoot and kill me?"

"See, you were imaging the same thing. See Jo, you and I are just the same, we think so alike." he said as he knelt down right in front of her, making sure he was safely positioned so that he wouldn't go through the floor like she had.

"I'm nothing like you!" she spat at him.

She yelped in pain as he reached out and grabbed a handful of her hair, pulling her up out of the hole slightly but only so he could kiss her hard on the lips.

He pulled away and growled at her, "You're right, because you would have helped me outta this hole, but me, I'm gonna give you a helpful shove through it!"

Ged let go of his grip on her hair and let her fall back through the hole, the only thing stopping her from falling right through was her grip on the rail. She tried desperately to reach up and cling onto the floorboards with the tips of her fingers as well but her hand was covered in blood so the tips of her fingers kept slipping off.

Ged got to his feet and lifted his foot up. He aimed it right at her hand on the rail and was about to bring it slamming down on her hand when a shot rang out.

Bang!

TBC

Sorry to leave it on a cliffhanger. Let me know if you want more.

Who could have fired a gun? Could it be Mac?