Chapter XX
Jake
12:32 AM
"When given your post, you do not do anything but keep guard until it is time for you to go get lunch or sleep. Is that understood?" One of the men in charge yelled at the line of men. They were all in a warehouse looking area, it reminded them all of a prison. "Is that understood!" he yelled again. They all nodded at him, but his eyes swept to the one with the combat boots who stuck a cigarette between his lips and blew it out carelessly into the air.
Jake didn't care to hear this bullshit; he knew what he had to do. He had to guard this place – shoot down anyone who tries to trespass. Easy. He had been here for two days now and they just repeated the same shit over and over, guard, guard, guard.
"Am I boring you son?" The man asked, marching over to Jake with a glare. Jake looked at him and narrowed his eyes sharply.
"I'm not your son, I can promise you that. And yeah, you are."
Daniel snickered softly beside him, it made Jake bolder.
"I know what my job is; I am supposed to keep others out and everything here in." Jake's eyes sparkled with humor, "you're just repeating the same things over and over with big words to make yourself think you have a responsibility."
The man before him reddened in the face. His eyes were too close together and his nose bridge too large. His hair was black and swept backwards on his tiny head. Typical nerd looking guy with a body too long to be attractive and a frame to thin to be healthy. "You're a cocky little shit, aren't you?"
"I've been told."
When they were dismissed to their rooms Jake and the rest of the guys were led down a white hallway and through a cafeteria with five different round tables. After this they passed through another white hallway with their own separate rooms. Jake had the second to last; Daniel had the first in the hallway.
Jake didn't bother to look around the room; it was simple enough with plain white walls and a tiled floor. There was a bookshelf with different reading material in it and a small window near the ceiling where he could see the water surrounding them all. He had a bed in the left corner of the room, it wasn't too comfortable, but he'd slept on worse before.
That night he thought of Sherry again, he thought of her skin, of her laugh, of her dorky smile and her blush… her kittenish fury. Her mouth on his neck, her moans and her compliance to his own body.
"Fuck." He hissed as he felt his cock start to stir at the thought of her body… his hands drifted to his hardening erection and he pulled his pants quickly off his body until he was in his boxers.
That night Jake fantasized that Sherry was with him, that she was climbing up over his waist and whispering dirty things in his ear, that her blonde hair was tickling his face and that she reached down in between their bodies to grab him and work her small hands over him with expertise. Soon he found himself moaning her name rabidly into the air and jerking his hips into his tightening hand, imagining that it was her instead.
"Sherry! God!" He growled as his hands tightened and moved faster and faster over him, but it was Sherry's hand to Jake as he grunted up at her and she whispered his name huskily. He felt the familiar swelling in his stomach, a pressure that ran throughout his entire chest and made it harder to breathe. His chest expanded with his short breath's and his veins throbbed with the energy of his hands as he approached the apex of his pleasure.
"Fuck!" He yelled as he finished with a jerk of his entire body. He threw his head back into the pillow, baring his teeth at Sherry above him as her image faded from his mind.
Sherry
1:22 AM
Sherry ripped the mask off her face hastily and looked towards Leon who was doing the same. They had touched land safely and quietly. They could hear the wind stirring in the air but were practically blind. Almost immediately Sherry took out her flashlight and handgun.
"Are you alright?" Leon whispered hoarsely.
"I'm fine." She informed him stoically, analyzing the dark area as best as she could. "I don't see anything, I think we're good."
"Okay, we just have to get to the entrance from here. I know a few areas, but we'll probably have to wait until daylight, one of them should come out and then we jump on whatever they use and it'll take us underground."
"What do we do until then?" Sherry asked with a cough. She was itching to get out of this suit. But she knew she'd have to wait until she got inside of the lair first.
"We'll move forward to where I am pretty sure there will be an elevator shaft." She looked to Leon with a nod and then up at the sky. There were so many stars twinkling down at her, and despite all their light everything around her was still enshrouded in darkness. "Okay, let's get moving."
She nodded and followed Leon quietly in the dark.
"Are we going to kill them?" Her voice became tight, "I mean if we're not sure of what's going on I think it'd be a little … over-the top to kill them."
"We'll knock them out, whoever it is that comes. If they try to threaten our lives then we can take more drastic measures but no, I don't want to kill them either. However if they threaten us – things change."
Jake
9:20 AM
In the morning he ate the breakfast silently. He analyzed everyone he had come here with. There was Daniel, then there's the muscular murderer who liked to go by the name Sully. There was another one who looked like he was frightened of everyone, his name was Vincent and he had red hair with green eyes and a long face. There was also Wayne, his skin was pink, he had a round face and an even rounder figure, and he was the mechanic and the one who tried too hard to be everyone's friend. And then there was Ralph who had a paranoid look to him, he was short and thin with dark skin and a wide stare. And finally there was Jake.
"They don't appreciate you looking at them like that." A foreign voice came to Jake's attention. He turned in his chair, looking up at a man who wore a white lab coat and a tag that read Kruspe. He had a small smile on his face, "You must be Jake Muller."
"Yeah, and?" Jake glared at the man. He wasn't here to make friends, and these people seemed set on getting to know each other for some strange reason.
"Well, I'm the man who runs this entire operation." Jake noticed the German accent, "Care to explain to me why it is that my colleagues already have complaints about you?" His green eyes flashed with humor, "They seem to say that you have a bad attitude."
Jake thought for a moment, "well clearly they're pussies." Jake smirked when the man laughed, "They're tryin' to make friends and don't understand that I'm not here for that."
"You're here for the money, correct?"
"Damn right." Jake turned his back to the man and continued eating his sandwich, hoping that he would be gone, but when the presence didn't leave he turned back around and stared at the man with an annoyed stare.
"You have no respect for authority do you?" The man asked with a stare that hinted at amazement, "Do you know who I am?"
"I don't care. I'm here to be security; why in the world would what you do concern me?"
"I like your attitude." Kruspe said with a raised brow. "You're blunt."
"I've been told." Jake watched Kruspe walk around the table and gracefully take a seat, he clasped his hands onto the table and observed Jake silently, Jake rolled his eyes and swallowed the last of his meal and then pulled at his sleeves before crossing his arms. "What do you want?"
"I don't want anything, I just want to talk." Kruspe smiled.
Jake smirked. Fucker, you think I don't see that you're up to something?
Sherry
10:05 AM
"This is it." Leon told her, the sun was beating down harshly on them. The grass all around them swayed viciously with the winds and Sherry hair looked like a haystack. They were staring down at a square metal plate on the ground. Clearly it opened to some sort of stairway, or ladder or elevator.
"Way to be discreet." She murmured.
"Well he is clearly confident, don't you think? If he's not bothering to hide the entrance to his laboratory he clearly thinks that he can handle whatever may come."
"Or maybe there is nothing to have hidden." She suggested, noticing how Leon stiffened slightly at the suggestion. "What happens if we're wrong?"
"If we're wrong then we get out before they notice our presence and then we never talk about this again." Leon pulled out his handgun and made sure it was loaded.
"Now we just wait for someone to come up right?"
"Yes, it may not be today, and if it's not today then we need to do something to catch their attention and make sure they come up here." Leon looked around at the rocky land and the water around the island, "I hope it won't come to that. If it does then they will know that there is something going on."
"What if they have camera's around the island?" Sherry murmured, casting wary looks at everything around them.
"Then we do what we have to do when they come after us."
Jake
3:46 PM
"Alright we need two on level D today. We need two on C and two on A." The man who had been yelling on the second day stated. "Any volunteers for C?"
C was the second underground floor. A was the outside, and D was the deepest level. Sully and Ralph stuck their hands out for C, they looked at each other and then at the man- whose name escaped them all- with hope.
"Okay, you two got A." He jerked his hand towards a door; they went to it quietly and left behind, Jake, Daniel, Vincent, and Wayne. "Okay what about A?" Jake's hand went up instantly as did Vincent's. The man looked at them both and then shook his head.
"Why the fuck not?" Jake asked with a frown.
"I want you on D, Muller," the man sneered, "that simple."
"I want A-
"I don't give a damn." He hissed at him, "Get out of my sight and get to Floor D before I ensure that you are terminated from this operation."
With a growl Jake stalked off to D with Vincent on his heels, but the jerk-off stopped Vincent and told him that he wanted him on A and that Daniel was to pair up with Muller.
Perfect. Jake sneered mentally and stalked to the elevator shaft marked D with his partner on his heels. When the elevator doors closed Daniel started blabbing relentlessly.
"That man hates you. It's because of the way you first spoke to him. If you hadn't spoken to him like that he wouldn't care but you decided to mouth off to him so now whenever you want something he's just going to deny you."
"Then I'll do the opposite, I'll want things I don't and get the things I do."
"That's if he doesn't see through the bullshit." Daniel laughed as the shaft took them deeper into the island. "So, you never told me, do you have a girlfriend back home?"
Daniel noticed Jake Muller's jaw tense.
"That's a yes then." He thought about the type of girl Jake Muller was probably into, "mhm, was she tall, blonde with long hair, stacked and rich? A heartless bitch and a pro between the sheets?"
Jake said nothing.
"Or was she weak and easy to manipulate?" Daniel cocked his head slightly to the side when Jake's hands tensed at his sides, "am I warmer?"
"No. Not at all." Jake said through clenched teeth, glaring at the man beside him, "I don't have a girlfriend."
"Did she break up with you?" Daniel asked.
"Shut up-
"So she did." Daniel shrugged, "I'm sorry to hear that. But with your attitude it isn't a shock. Did you speak to her the way you –
"If you don't shut your fucking mouth I'm going to rip your jaw off. Do you understand me?" Jake hissed in his direction, his eyes on him now. Daniel shivered and nodded. "Good."
Another minute passed before the elevator stopped. They moved out and started down the long narrow grey hallway, moving forward silently. The further they moved down the hallway the stranger it became, they eventually passed a window and stopped to look. There were at least twelve different scientists working on computers in a large laboratory below them, the window overlooked them all. Daniel and Jake noticed huge tanks with blue liquid inside of it. Jake raised a brow in confusion but moved past the window and down a few steps; they went through another elevator that led them to the ground level they were expected at.
They stepped off the elevator and noticed security personnel dressed in black with their eyes on him and Daniel.
"Are you the two new guys?" One of the men asked, he had dark hair and a glistening stare. Kinda' looks like Ken Marino – Jake thought with a smirk. Daniel nodded at him, "you don't look like security," the man informed Daniel.
"Well they sent us, so you've got us. What do you want us to guard?" Jake asked dismissively. The man rolled his eyes at Jake's attitude and led him to the right and then towards the middle of the laboratory where the different scientists were working. Jake looked up and could see the window that he had stared at them from.
He counted eight tanks in total, they looked like they could fit people inside of them and he noticed one of them was being drained, he looked towards Ken Marino who turned around and stared at Jake expectantly.
"What?" Jake asked.
"Do you have any weapons on you?" Ken Marino asked with an annoyed stare. Jake shook his head and crossed his arms. "Good."
Jake glared at him, "What do you mean 'Good'?"
Jake felt two bodies throw themselves on him. He yelled at the force as they knocked him to the ground and his breath exploded out of him. He cursed with anger and tried to roll onto his back as two different set of hands crushed his wrists and arms to the cold tile beneath it, it seemed like bleach.
"What the fuck!" He yelled as two more hands pressed his face to the ground. He heard Daniel yelling distinctly somewhere off in the distance, questioning what it was that they were doing to him as if they might actually answer.
Jake twitched at a faint prick at the side of his neck. They're trying to knock me out! Mother fuckers! He growled with anger and kicked out violently. But on his chest it made it difficult to actually harm someone.
"Don't fight them Jake!" He heard Daniel yelling as his movements became sluggish. He roared one last time, grabbing at the floor under him helplessly and become weaker and angrier as the seconds passed. No, no, no!
"Give him another shot!" Someone yelled as Jake fought the swell of exhaustion overcoming him. He felt it again at his neck.
"What are you doing!" Jake roared.
"Hold still!" Someone yelled at him.
He jerked at the prick at his neck and then his skull crashed against the tile between his face as he blacked out.
...Uh-Oh.
Jake is in trouble... Not good, not good, not good!
So tell me: What did you think? What do you think will happen to Jake - more importantly :D
I have bad thinks in store for our dear characters.
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