The jet is lying on the field waiting as we turn the corner. Shane gasps and we drag him to the stairs that desend towards the ground. We help him aboard and I place him in a chair whilst a catch up with Hale." Hey, so no signs?" I ask "none, no traces what so ever. I searched the perimeter and found nothing. Again." I frown slowly before saying "hmmph, what should we do?" he shrugs "well go sort out his leg and we will head to my place in the east for now, I don't think the boss will love this." "your right, he wont." I turned and went to aid Shane.
He was slumped in a chair breathing shakily. "you feeling better yet?" I ask hesitantly. He slowly turns his head to face me and whispers "is everyone dead…?" I don't say anything and just stare into his eyes. He works out the answer and looks down at the floor. " come on, show me your wound." I say tenderly. He pulls up his pant leg and I inspect the damage. "looks like it only grazed you but your still bleeding so let me wrap it up." I tell him whilst reaching out for the roll of cloth. I wrap it tightly and he winces, "don't worry, I think you'll live." I joke. He doesn't smile so I stop talking and go back to Hale. "so, what do you mean 'your place'" I ask. "hmmn? Oh, well I have a place in the east that we're going to. We cant exactly go back to the boss' place can we? And its not like he's safe anywhere else. I know you've never 'protected' anyone before but that's what you do." He replies. I roll my eyes and continue "okay, okay I get it. So how long is it gonna be?" "erm… half an hour? Its close by but hidden away." He explains while checking his watch.
I nod and go back into the mane section of the jet. "im getting changed." I call back as I walk into the toilets with a duffel bag. I quickly strip and pull on my tight, black suit. I slit the knives and other weapons into their holders before flinging the tacky uniform back in the bag. I tie my hair up in a tight pony tail and step back out into the main part. Shane looks up and his eyes widen in confusion. "pfft, oh yeah, this is what I usually wear." I say matter of factly.
He keeps staring and I sit down next to him. I throw the bag onto the seat opposite and place my feet up calmly. " what are you?" he asks suddenly. I turn my head to face him and chuckle. "hmmn, I cant tell you, but to you, im the good guy." I say with a wink. He frowns at that answer "so, you've killed people? Like the woman who killed the people at school?" with this I bang my feet down and jerk my head forward in confusion. "wait! A, woman?" I ask. "well, yeah. She was wearing a similar outfit to you but looked worse, she started screaming my name and shooting people… I got scared and ran into the kitchen. I think she heard your footsteps and fled." He says, his voice breaking. "I left them to die, like a coward." He pulls up his knees and sinks his head down into them. I nod understandingly and rub the top of his back "there was nothing you could have done, so don't blame yourself."
I stand up and strode into the pilot area to where Hale was observing the pilot. "hey, Hale." He turns and asks "what? Wait your all dressed up I see." "listen. Shane says that a woman attacked the school." I say seriously. "what? A woman?" I nod in response. "hmmn, I don't know any woman capable of that much massacre." "neither do i." I say simply. "master Hale, 5 minutes to landing." Says the pilot. " okay, Ed." Hale responds.
"oh, who's this?" I ask changing topics. "oh, yeah you probably havnt met. This is my butler, Edward, his ansestors have looked after mine for so long, we go back a while." Hale says kindly. "oh, nice to meet you Edward." I say casually and flash him a smile. Edward flicks a switch and gets up from the seat, he turns to me and extends a gloved hand. " hello, miss Kat. Please call me Ed, I am very pleased to meet you, Master Hale has told me quite a lot about you." I shake his hand and glance at Hale. "oh, he has, has he?" he smiles warmly and I decide that I like Ed, he then returns to his seat and flicks the switch again. "okay tell Shane that we are landing." I leave and return to Shane.
"hey, we are landing now." I say and am about to walk to my bag when he stops me "where?" he grabs my arm. "what? Oh, Hales place. Don't worry, it's a safe place." He doesn't let go and tugs me towards him. I stumble but he doesn't loosen his grip. "whats happening." He asks me stiffly. I get annoyed with him pushing me around and swing around, pinning him to his chair. He cant move and I bring my mouth close to his ear. "look, I cant tell, you and it would be a shame if ii had to kill you, so don't keep irritating me, kay?" I ask. He nods violent to show he understood and I let him go.
He stays in the position for a while before relaxing. Suddenly the jet dips down and Shane grips the arms of the chair in a panic. I chuckle to myself and stand upright in front of him. Suddenly we dip again and touch the surface of the ground below. We roll to a stop and I pull up one of the window blinds. I look out at the beach and a calm ocean swaying gently to an unknown rhythm. I cross the floor and open up another window to see a large mansion standing further up the beach protected by the mountin that loomed over it and away from civilisation. "of, course, if Hale was going to live somewhere, it was going to be here." I say under my breath as I study the grounds. I heard Shane get up and I turn around to meet his height. He walks slowly to the door and tests the floor each time he takes a step like the floor will give way to him.
Hale and Ed come out of the other door and join us at the door. Ed steps in front and opens the door with a flourish, the stairs fall down and into the soft sand, sinking further in with each step we take, out and down. When everyone is out Ed starts to walk towards the building and Shane follows closely behind while I tag a long next to Hale at the back.
I nudge him in the ribs playfully. "okay, so ive got to admit, this house is pretty amazing looking. I never really knew you had a house of your own." "aha, first it's a mansion, second, well the boss recruited me only last year, so I kinda had a home before that." He shrugged innocently. "hmmn, okay I suppose so. Well how long will we have to stay here?" i ask in reply. "well, we have to work something out, and before the boss knows that we almost had him killed, because there is going to be police, investigators maybe worse people who go to that school and see whats happened. I actually think we should train him with some basic skills so if we have to leave him, he is not completely defenceless." Hale states. "hmmph, you can train him." I say in a huff as we come to the grand doors.