Katie strode back into the dimly lit hall and looked about wondering where Hawk had gotten to. Her icy eyes glanced around the hall and then settled on Hawk sitting in the corner with his goons and saw a dark haired short skirted woman on Hawk's lap teasing and kissing him a little too much for Katie to be comfortable. She scoffed and rolled her eyes her whole rich facade was gone now as she strode through the hall and across to the rooms where she and Hawk had been staying. She pulled the key card from her clutch and swiped it through the door and pushed it open briskly and closed it latching it closed. She wasn't normally nervous but she just seemed a slight bit on edge recently she had always been when there was a man who had her under his control and his goons constantly watching her. She threw the clutch onto the bed and turned leaving the card on the desk. She pulled open the wardrobe doors and pulled up the wooden bottom, she heaved the silver case from the wardrobe and put it on the bed pulling her hair down and shaking it out in slight frustration. She clicked the case up and froze as she thought she heard something fall from the next room and paused for a moment seeing if she could hear something else, when she didn't she turned back to the case and opened it revealing all sorts of small gadgets, headsets and different manors of tracking equipment and metal detectors anything that would help Hawk find what he was looking for. She knew the headsets and radios should cover a few hundred miles which would keep Drake happy enough and maybe make their search a little shorter. She snapped the case closed and locked it again. She felt a wire wrap around her neck as someone began trying to choke her.
***
Nate looked around and checked his watch wondering where she was she had said 15 minutes and it was going on 25. The party was winding down and if he didn't meet with her soon he might not get the chance seeing as Hawk was constantly breathing down her neck probably a good thing seeing as she was crossing him after he had openly hit her across the face. Was that normal for the rich? He wondered where Harry and Chloe had gotten to feeling slightly dirty at this deal he was making then again he always felt like he was doing something a bit suspicious.
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Katie gasped as she felt the wire pulled tighter across her neck cutting the oxygen off. She gasped and stumbled back the grunts from the man as he hit into the wall against the mirror. She was getting out of breath fast so she needed to think faster. She whipped her head back hitting the man in the face. He gasped and grunted loosening his grip for a moment giving her a moment to take in a few quick breaths before he pulled tightly again. She gasped thinking she had let out a call for help but nothing came out.
***
Nate sighed and turned starting back into the hall and saw Hawk with a dark haired girl in the corner clearly getting too intimate. Get a room he thought but then again he wondered if Katie knew about this or not. She probably did and didn't care seeing as it was Richard Hawk, a rich, yet incredibly ignorant, rude obnoxious man who probably didn't deserve the money he had and he certainly didn't need even more so they had to find the treasure first. Nate strode across the hall and into the corridors which had grown quite seeing as most of the people were now out on the deck either thinking,How romantic or I wonder who this person is. He couldn't see Harry or Chloe anywhere so only expected she had either brought him back to Sully or Harry was still staggering about leaning on her but then again he knew Chloe wasn't the type of girl who would put up with that kind of carry on. He frowned as he heard muffled grunts from one of the rooms and paused listening for a moment.
***
Katie kicked the man hard in the shin and turned head butting him again, hard. She saw it hadn't made much of a difference to him as he turned and looked at her grabbing her and threw her into the mirror. She gasped and fell to the floor feeling the broken glass cut the palms of her hands where she landed. She looked up at the man who came towards her clenching his fists. She had never seen this man before and had no idea what he had against her but guessed he was some mercenary or bandit she had doubled crossed. She looked up as she heard the door knob rattle.
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Nate frowned as he heard the glass break and rushed forward trying the handle it opened but it was caught on the chain. He frowned and could heard the calls of a woman saying "Get back" and a man telling her in return to "Shut up". He backed up a moment and kicked the door breaking the chain and allowing him to enter the room. He saw Katie on the floor and bloodied while the man stood over her. He turned and looked at Nate who looked from each in turn. He ducked as he saw a fist flying towards him and tackled the man hitting into the bed and falling over. Nate rose and was about to hit the man when he felt himself pushed roughly ending up on his back on the carpet. Katie stood up and picked up one of the heavy cases and flicked it open and pulling a taser from it. She began charging it and glanced over her shoulder at Nate who was wrestling with the man on the floor trying to keep him from cutting his neck with a knife. Nate struggled to hold the man's hand that was drawing to close to his neck he could even feel the coldness of the steel on his neck and groaned as he tried to keep him away. The man hit Nate roughly across the temple making him groan and loose track of what he was doing for a moment. Katie pressed the taser to the mans neck as he began seizing up and groaning as he fell off Nate. Katie looked down at Nate seeing he had a small cut on his temple and bent down looking at him.
"Are you alright?" she asked helping him as he sat up slowly. She smiled lightly "I had everything control" she said helping him up and leading him to the bed sitting him down. She looked at the body of the man and rolled it over she saw what looked like dog-tags slip out from under his shirt. She frowned and bent down beside him looking at them seeing a mark in the shape of a skull with a cigar in his mouth. She had seen that before. She pulled them off and looked at them closely. Only one man had that symbol on his men, Eddie Raja.
"Of course you did" Nate said feeling his red lip and bruised cheek. She looked over her shoulder seeing he smirked slightly as she looked at him.
"Take a look at this" she said throwing the dog-tags to him as she stood up and moved towards the bathroom. Nate looked down at the skull and sighed heavily falling back onto the bed knowing this had gotten a hundred times worse if Eddie Raja was involved. Katie smirked as she heard him sigh knowing he and Eddie had never gotten along no matter what even though they were almost alike...almost.
at all.