Warnings for torture and sexual content.

RESCUED

Jensen rolled his head weakly; he was strapped to a wooden table that was inclined. They had him in nothing but his pants and it was cold.

His face felt swollen and rivulets of blood coursed down his torso.

"Do you still think that your team is going to come for you?" Saldano taunted.

"Ii know they are." Jensen answered his voice hoarse and his lips were dried and cracked.

"And do you expect that when we moved you here minutes after we got you and removed anything that could be tracked and destroyed it."

"Jared likes to make crossroad deals." Jensen gritted his teeth as he was back handed. His mouth filled with the coppery taste of his blood and wondered just how much he had left.

It had been three days, they barely gave him enough water to keep him alive, they had fed him maybe half a cup of bitter broth, and they wouldn't let him sleep.

He was hurting everywhere and had been tortured for hours at a time. He had no idea how he wasn't in shock.

"You killed my father agent so this has been sweet revenge for me I just can't figure out how I should let you die, I could castrate you and let you bleed out, I could set you on fire, or I could let my men have their way with you then use you for target practice."

Jensen felt his insides curdle because if anyone was capable of doing these things to him it was Saldano.

"I was doing my job." Jensen murmured his eyes slipping shut. He screamed back awake when the bucket of ice water hit him.

"Is it you job to kill people?" Saldano snapped.

"It is when your dad was killing innocent people for his own gain."

"How can you be so sure that they were innocent?"

"Not many twelve year old girls present imminent danger." Jensen groaned.

"You're not the grand agent you always think you are now are you?" Vega asked his face so close to Jensen's he could nearly taste his breath.

"I am what I am."

"Let's see how cocky you are once my men have pummeled that tight little ass of yours." Saldano laughed.

Jensen cringed as Saldano grabbed his package hard.

"But I'm the one that's going to pop that sweet cherry ass."

Jensen's heart was galloping in his chest; he would rather take hours more of torture than face this nightmare.

"You're not gay." Jensen breathed.

"What does gay have to do with prime virgin ass male or female?" Saldano laughed wickedly. "There is nothing like splitting open that tight, tight heat of a first time taker and the screams just make me last longer."

"You're a sick son of bitch." Jensen spat.

"I will have you begging." Saldano growled. "Oh I love blood play so I will be slicing you up while I take that plump ass."

He stressed his point by cutting into Jensen's side.

Jensen wanted to fight, kick, yell, anything to get out of this now.

His prayers were instantly answered when commotion began loudly outside the building and Jensen saw the red laser light settle on Saldano.

He waited for the man to fall dead only one of his men saw the light too and pulled him to safety.

"This is not possible!" Vega yelled. "Kill him now!"

Jensen heard the guns being aimed at him but an explosion shook the building and men starting falling as the sniper found his targets.

"This is far from over Ackles." Saldano roared and disappeared out a door.

Jensen nearly sobbed in relief when he saw Jared and Arandi walking through the smoke.

Jared looked at him worriedly and cut him loose.

Jensen could in no way stand on his own.

"Jen this is going to hurt but it's the fastest way that I can carry you."

Jensen nodded and tried hard not to cry out when Jared took him into a fireman's carry.

The motion was too much and the darkness claimed him

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Jensen startled awake half expecting to be still strapped to the table but he was in the Scorpion Elite helicopter with his team that had somehow found him and rescued him.

He was lying across the seats while Jared and Arandi tended to him as best they could.

Misha was flying this time looking back in concern.

"Saldano?" Jensen croaked out.

"He got away." Jared growled.

Jensen eyes traveled to Arandi who seemed so quiet but her eyes were bright with unshed tears.

"Hey." Jensen whispered to her.

She met his eyes and Jared left them alone. "Jensen I….."

"You found me and I'm right here." He stressed seeing the fear in her eyes and somehow he knew that she had been the one that had found him.

"You're so hurt; my God what did they do to you?" She sniffled as she cleaned blood from him gently.

His hand trembling he reached for hers. "You got to me before the worst of it began." He shuddered. "Hey c'mere."

Arandi got closer to him holding his hand.

"You know they would be proud right?" He said looking at her right in the eye.

Arandi was confused.

"Your parents." Jensen murmured. "You're amazing." Intense pains filled him everywhere and he cried out, his body too weak to handle it he slipped into unconsciousness.

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Jensen was in and out of consciousness; never awake long enough to figure out where he was or even what day it was.

His body was raging war on him in pain and what were probably infections from the numerous injuries he had gotten while being tortured.

The only thing that he was sure of was that every time that he did open his eyes Arandi was right there with him and that comforted him like nothing else.

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"His pain tolerance is through the roof." Doctor Wedge proclaimed. "Just looking at him made me want to surrender."

Jared stared down at Jensen in the hospital bed angry and worried. He hated seeing Jensen down, still and Jensen should not even be in the same sentence but there he was so pale and so still it made Jared's heart ache.

The things that had been done to him the things they had planned to do to him were savage

Jared knew the risks of their job hell they were in danger at every turn yet it was hard to see his best friend and might as well be brother clinging to his life and it was going to be a cold day in hell before Saldano Vega got away with it.

"He's holding his own just the high fever is concerning me, I'm certain they didn't take the time to sanitize their torture equipment." Dr. Wedge shuddered.

Jensen had suffered an alarming loss of blood which made him cold added to being kept in cold conditions had probably kept him alive longer numbing his body from most of the pain.

Now that his body was warm the pain was etched even on his unconscious face and Jared was glad that Jensen was unconscious.

Jared watched as Arandi paced liked a caged cat waiting for Jensen to wake because no matter how many times anyone told her that she had done the right thing to listen to Jensen and leave the guilt still nagged her.

Jensen was too alive to be this still, his sparking eyes and never ending spice for life and his job. This man lying there in front of them made her ache. What if this was it for Jensen and he couldn't come back from it, what would she do because he found a way past her walls and that meant something.

She wasn't sure what or if Jensen would even care about that at all but she wanted the chance to find out.

Seeing Jared and Misha worry and Jared ready to rip someone in two for this showed her just how close these men were. They played around a lot but they were brothers closer than even some real blood brothers.

Jensen suddenly began to gasp and arched off the bed flailing his arms. "Alexis." He cried out.

Arandi felt her heart sink; did Jensen have someone she didn't know about?

"It's not what you think." Jared told her as he helped the doctor hold Jensen still.

She felt embarrassed that her emotions had shown on her face.

"She was the only woman that Jensen ever let get close to him and she betrayed him." Jared explained.

So he had one of those too.

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Jensen was running trying to escape Vega and watching his team dying one by one.

"Stop it just kill me." Jensen screamed.

"I am killing you agent slowly and painfully by taking everyone you care about." Saldano laughed wickedly.

Jared's lifeless eyes stared at Jensen and he couldn't breathe.

Saldano walked out of a door dragging Arandi. "So beautiful agent and you let her die." He said as he slit Arandi's throat.

Jensen fired his gun until it was empty but the bullets had no effect on Vega. Jensen fell to his knees helpless his entire team dead around him and he was all alone with no one to save him.

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Arandi watched as Jensen thrashed on the bed screaming out for Jared and pleading for his life.

She had no idea what he was seeing but it had to be horrible.

His fever was spiking again the doctor was having a hard time keeping it down and Arandi patiently cooled his skin with wash clothes.

"Arandi I need you." Jensen whimpered brokenly.

"I'm right here Jensen right here with you." She soothed as she gently ran the cool cloth over his forehead.

Jensen opened his eyes to look at her, glassy with fever and wide with pain. "Are you ok?"

Arandi had been warned by Jared that Jensen tended to do crap like that, be the one that was worse off than anyone and still be concerned about everyone but himself.

"You want me to be ok then you better fight this crap and get well agent." She said evenly.

Jensen half smiled at her and closed his eyes with a heavy sigh. He finally settled down.

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Jensen forced his eyes open and blinked trying to see and found Arandi asleep in a chair with her head on the bed.

He remembered what had happened and that his team had found him and he might feel like crap steam rolled and put through a wood chipper but he was alive.

He lifted his hand which really shouldn't weigh so much and gently touched Arandi's head.

She looked tiredly up at him.

"Where is Jared?" He whispered because really anything else wouldn't work.

"They got sent on a mission." Arandi said as she stretched.

"You didn't go?" Jensen asked confused.

"I left you behind once already and regretted it."

"Arandi it was the only way and you know that."

She only looked at him.

"Welling and Durance?"

'Both doing well now."

The doctor walked in at that moment. "Agent Ackles, how are you feeling?"

Jensen decided to give him the colorful analogy he had come up with when he opened his eyes.

The doctor laughed as he checked Jensen over. "You're far from a hundred percent but I think you can do the rest of your recovery at home if you'd like."

"Yes I would like that." Jensen said anxiously. He wanted his own soft night clothes and warm soft bed and comforter.

"I'll get you released then and I'll stop by later to check on you. I assume Agent Remington that you will be nursing him back to health?"

Arandi blushed. "I will be there for him." She clarified.

"Alright then I'll get the meds he still has to take and we can get him to his apartment."

The doctor left.

"You don't have to babysit me." Jensen mumbled.

"Oh really let me see you get up and dress yourself."

Jensen glared at her, he did not like being weak but he was.

"There is no shame Jensen." She added softly.

"Maybe not for you." He growled.

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Jensen was cozy in his own bed within the hour and just the short drive in the doctor's car had worn him out.

"I'm having food and groceries delivered to you in the next hour or so and Agent Remington I suggest that you go get anything that you might need from your own apartment now. We are getting snow later tonight and the conditions are going to be less than suitable for anything."

Arandi did as she was told and put her things in the guest room.

Jensen had already drifted off as the doctor readied to leave. "He may still get a fever so just keep him hydrated and give him the medicine if the fever gets too high call me and I'll come or if anything else that seems out of the ordinary happens. I have a snowmobile."

Arandi walked him to the door and then she locked up and did her best to get the apartment comfortably warm.

She started some soup for Jensen and got him to eat some of it before he started to grumble. She made sure he used the bathroom and got him all settled into his bed.

She was so tired and debated on whether to stay with him in the room or go sleep in the guest room and finally decided to stay close by in case Jensen needed her.

Bundled up on the recliner she pulled into the room she fell asleep within minutes.

She wasn't sure how long she had slept when she startled awake to find Jensen's bed empty. She worriedly got up to find him and grunted in pain as she flew back hitting the wall full force and then Jensen was on her grabbing her from behind in a choke hold.

Still dazed from hitting the wall Arandi pulled at his arms trying to understand what the hell was going on and it soon became clear.

"You tried to kill me." Jensen hissed pulling his arms tighter.

Arandi' vision was already graying out but she could feel the fever burning through Jensen.

"I trusted you and you betrayed me Alexis." He yelled.

Arandi tried hard to talk but couldn't get a peep out.

"I should have killed you a long time ago." Jensen said in her ear. She wondered what was going to happen to him when they found him with her dead body and he tightened even more and everything faded to black.

TBC

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