Chapter 45
Stephanie walked into the building ahead of the woman with the gun, when the woman pushed Stephanie in the back with the gun Stephanie whirled around to glare.
"If you are going to be stabbing me in the back, then at least tell me your name." She growled, trying to rub the spot that was probably bruising.
The woman grinned, "You can call me Ash." The she pointed with the gun, "Now move your ass."
Stephanie roll her eyes but walked into the room, in the middle stood a table with cuffs on it. She turned back to Ash, "You are smoking something if you think that I am getting on that table." She said crossing her arms.
Ash just smiled, pointed her gun at the ground by Stephanie's feet and shot. The sound echoed through the room making Stephanie scream, "What the fuck crazy… that could have hit me."
Ash smiled and pointed the gun right at Stephanie's chest, "Next one will hit you if you don't move."
Stephine narrowed her eyes, for the first time when being kidnapped she got angry, not scared. She was so done with this shit. Done with people thinking they could walk all over her. Done with people thinking she was weak, but mostly done with people putting her in danger. And now she had two other little people she was thinking about and so she started forming a plan. She knew Ranger would come get her, but she was not going to wait any more.
"Fine." Stephanie said with a glare walking over to the table and hopping up. "What do you plan on doing with me?" She asked, wanting to get as much information as possible.
"We are going to use you to get what we want…. And maybe have a little fun with you while we wait." Ash said with a grin. "Now go ahead and lock your wrist into that cuff right there." She said pointing to the cuff on the left.
Stephanie narrowed her eyes but slid her hand in the cuff, putting it on but making sure that is was lose enough to slide her hand out, starting to form a plan.
"Look, ASH." Stephanie said with sarcasm lacing her voice. "Quite frankly, I am tired of you and your boyfriend's shitty attempts to be criminals. You are obviously are not very good at it, since a little kid like Timmy could mess you up. Then you really fucked up when you decided to mess with Ranger and my friends."
Ash narrowed her eyes, walking over to put Stephanie's other hand into the cuff on the other side of the table, "If we are so bad, why do we have you here."
Stephine rolled her eyes at her, "Because you had to cause a major car crash AFTER we took not one but two of your hide outs and all of your men." Stephine grinned at her condescendingly, "Sounds rather pathetic to me."
Ash reached a hand up and backhanded Stephanie hard enough to draw blood with her gun, "How is that for pathetic?" Ash sneered.
Stephanie grinned, spitting the blood out of her mouth, "Hitting a someone cuffed to a table…. So bad ass."
Ash sild her gun into the holster and grabbed Stephanie's other hand, bringing it to the cuff and locking her in, "Yes and now you are stuck here…. So, I guess I win." Ash said before she walked out of the door leaving Stephanie there alone.
Stephanie tried to slide her hand out of the first cuff, after a lot of pulling and scraping her hand hard enough to draw blood, she got her hand out. She slid her hand under her leg where she hid the phone she had taken out of Ash's pocket when she back handed her.
She quickly sent Hector a text with the phone, telling him to follow the GPS signal of the phone. He sent her a quick text back that said coming that made Stephanie grin. She then turned the sound off and slid the phone under her leg again when she heard someone walking to the door. She grabbed the cuff with her hand, holding it tight to her side, so they couldn't see her lose hand. She watched the door slam open and a man who looked like had seen one to many pizzas and beers walked in with a crow bar.
Stephanie narrowed her eyes, "Hello, can I help you?" She asked trying to sound brave.
He grinned at her, "I was told that you have a smart mouth and needed to be reminded of your place."
Stephanie grinned, "So what you are saying is you have come to beat a tied-up woman…. Very brave of you."
The man narrowed his eyes, "Ash was right, you do have a smart mouth." He said nastily.
Stephine shrugged, "Yes but am I lying…. You have come in here… with a crow bar…. To beat a woman, who is cuffed to a table." She said.
The man grinned, "Yes I am… and it is going to be fun." He said walking closer.
Stephanie waited until he was right next to her, finger sliding down her face in a way that made her gag. "To bad you won't get a chance." She whispered with a grin.
The man raised an eyebrow with a grin, but his face contorted in shock when Stephine pressed the stun gun pen she pulled out of her pocket to his neck and turned it on high. She watched as he started shaking before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell hard to the floor. She slid the stun gun pen into her back pocket.
Stephanie grinned down at him, "Asshole." She said hopping down to grab the crow bar that was laying next to him. But it was just out of reach, she pulled as hard as she could against the wrist that was still cuffed to the table. But it was on to tight for her to pull her hand out. She stretched her arm, her fingers inching a little bit against the floor as she for the crowbar, but it was to far.
She stood up and huffed out a breath, "This is not going as I planned." She muttered as she looked down at the body. She decided to try and reach the crowbar with her foot, reaching out her body and stretching her leg this time. Her foot inching across the floor, closer and closer to the crowbar. Her toe finally touched the bar and she grinned, inching it closer and closer to her. When it was finally within her reach, she grabbed it and slid it between the cuff attached to the table. She couldn't get the leverage to get the cuff to break, she climbed back up on the table trying to slide the crow bar from a new angle. She pushed the bar into the ring between her wrist and the table hard, but no matter what way she turned she could not get the cuff to break without hurting her wrist. "Fuck." she muttered. She blew the hair in her face up and out of her eyes as she pulled her and as far as she could away from the table. Then she took a breath and swung the crowbar towards the table trying to break the cuffs but almost had a heart attack when it went dangerously close to her hand.
"Fuck." She muttered, "That was to fucking close." She looked up when she heard someone coming towards the door. She quickly laid back down, tucking the crowbar alone her side by her free arm. The she put her free hand close to the cuff to make it look like she was still cuffed.
She watched as the door swung open and Ash came back in. Ash looked down at the man on the floor, eyes narrowed. "What did you do?" Ash growled.
Stephanie made her eyes big, "Ummmmm what do you think I did when I am cuffed to a table…. your man had some kind of seizure. He was getting ready to hit me and then he just started shaking and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. Then he fell to the ground." Stephine shrugged, "I figured it was karma coming for him." She grinned, "Hopefully you are next."
Ash narrowed her eyes and crouched down to look at the man on the ground, feeling for his pulse. When she looked back up at Stephanie, Stephanie just shrugged and grinned.
Ash stood up and walked over to Stephanie glaring, "I know you did something."
Stephine shrugged again with a smile, waiting for Ash to come up right next to the table, "Prove it." She said.
Ash reached for her gun to point it at Stephanie, but it was to late. Stephanie grabbed the crowbar and swung hard hitting Ash across the top of her temple. Ash went down hard, knocked out cold with blood trickling down the side of her face. "Take that bitch." Stephanie muttered as she looked down at Ash on the ground next to the man.
Stephanie hopped down and reached for the gun, but just like the crowbar it was just out of reach, "Are you fucking kidding me?" she muttered. She began the same reaching with her foot the same way she had with the crowbar. She was now hungry, tired and extremely pissed off. She was supposed to be at home right now, eating dinner and telling Ranger that she was pregnant. BUTTTTT no she was kidnapped AGAIN!
She finally caught the gun with her toe and slowly pulled it towards her, when it was close enough she reached down and grabbed it. After a quick check she saw that it was still fully loaded, now to get free once and for all so she could go home. She pulled her cuffed hand as far away from the table as she could before aiming the gun at the connection between the cuff and table. With a quick prayer and one closed eye, she fired. The gun exploded and echoed in the massive cement room but had the desired effect when her hand sprung free, the cuff still dangling from her wrist. She took a few steps back and took a deep breath, trying to get her racing heart to stop feeling like it was going to come out of her chest.
Nope she thought, not going to work. She turned and threw up all over Ash's legs as the adrenaline, fear, anger and every other emotion came rolling out of her with the relief that she was actually free now. After a few more deep breaths as she calmed down, she looked down and started laughing as she saw that Ash was now covered in vomit. She was not going to be happy when she woke up, Stephanie thought. She took a few more deep breaths, patting her stomach and looking around. The problem was she didn't know how many more men were outside the room, she knew at least one. The leader who was driving the truck that brought them here. She also didn't know how long she had before they came in to see what the noise was about.
She quickly thought up another plan, grabbing the crowbar and racing to the side of the door. She would wait until someone came in looking then knock them out. She was standing against the wall by the door taking slow and even breaths while she waited, hand starting to tremble. It felt like forever before the door finally opened to revile another man she had never seen before.
"Ash, what the hell is going on, Jimmy wants to know." But the man paused and looked down to see the two knocked out on the floor, "What the fuck?" he muttered. He looked around the room before he turned to go back out the door. However, when he made it all the way around to the face the door again, his eyebrows raised in surprise as he took Stephanie in standing there.
Stephanie used his surprise to smile and say, "Hello." Before swinging the crowbar hard again. The mans eyes widened as he saw the bar coming closer but had no time to stop it. His eyes rolled in the back of his head and he fell to the ground with a large thump. "Take that." Stephanie muttered.
She took a deep breath walking over to the door, so she could peek out, but before she could get to it, it swung open again. Reveling another man, she had never seen before. "Fuck, did they go to Bad Guys R Us and get a bulk pack of bad guys." She said to herself. Then man raised his eye brows at her before looking round to see the bodies she was collecting. She gave him a smile and a shrug, "Sup?" she asked him.
He began walking towards her with a grin not noticing the crowbar behind her leg, she waited for him to be within reaching distance before pulling her arm wide and swinging the bar towards him. He saw it in time to raise an arm to block her swing. She heard the crack when it his arm, he was in pain but he was not out. She tried to swing again, but this time he was able to grab her arm and tackle her to the ground.
He was straddling her waist, trying to pry the crowbar out of her hand as she continued to swing. He grabbed her hair slamming her head back on the floor, but Stephanie had enough adrenaline running through her veins that she hardly even felt it, but it made her struggled harder. The man punched her in the face, glancing across her cheek bone when she turned. So, he tried again, pulling his arm back so he could backhand her hard across the face making her see stars. She kept pushing her heels in the ground, trying to up heave him off of her, but he was just to big. She knew she was slowly losing, with each smack and punch to the face.
Finally, he just pushed her arm with the crowbar down with one hand and wrapped his other hand around her neck, squeezing. Stephanie closed her eyes, trying to push past the panic and pain. She let her body go limp and slid her hand down under his leg to reach in her pocket. She tried desperately to pull out the pen, but her vision was getting darker and darker. She gave one last shove with her hips to upset him off of her and was able to slide her hand in her pocket as he went up and she went back down. She pulled out the pen, flicked it open and shoved it into his crotch that was on her stomach. Then she pushed the clicker and watched as his eyes widened then rolled into the back of his head. She gasped a deep breath as his hand slid away, but it all came out is a huff when the man fell on top of her unconscious. She just fell flat, arms at her side, trying to get enough energy to breath and to push him off of her. She had to close her eyes, as the adrenaline started to fade, the pain started to seep through.
"Fuck" She finally whispered when she was able to mostly breath again. She knew she wasn't going to be able to push him off, so instead she tried to slide to the left as she pushed him off of her to the right. It took a few minutes, but she was finally free. She curled up on her side, her head starting to pound. She was done fucking around. She rolled to her knees trying to take deep breaths and see through the blood that was in her eyes. She sat back on her heels, feeling her right eye, it was almost swollen shut. The left eyes seemed to be fine, but she had to wipe the blood that had run from her nose back when she was on the ground. She spit a large pile of blood onto the floor as it drained from the back of her throat.
"Fuck, fuck fuck." She said as the pain continued to build, and with the pain came anger. She was sooo fucking over people kidnaping her, hitting her, making her bleed. Plus, she knew that Ranger and the guys were probably going crazy. She was going home, right fucking now. She threw the crowbar down and reached over to the man, of course he didn't have a gun. She pushed the taser into his neck and gave him another quick jolt, telling herself it was to make sure he was out and not because she was pissed. She looked over at the other two on the ground and walked over giving each one of them another quick jolt from the pen, once again telling herself it was 70% to make sure they were really out and only 30% because she was angry.
She then pulled the gun off of the table where she had set it and made sure to flip the safety off. She slid the pen into her pocket, ready for when she would need it again. Then she tried to walk over to the door, but her head was starting to get light headed. She had to lean on the table for a moment before taking a deep breath and started walking across the room to the door. She was halfway across the room when the door opened again. This time it was a man in a suit and he looked around with his eyes narrowed.
Stephine raised her eye brows at him and raised the gun to point it at him. He looked at her and gave her a small smile, "Seems you have me at a bit of a disadvantage here." He said sliding his hands into his pockets.
She gave him a sarcastic smile, "I would have said the same, but you kind of pissed me off." She said. "So I took it out on your people." She started to walk slowly to the side, inching her way to the door. "You do have me curios though. Who exactly are you?" She asked.
The man grinned, "Just someone who paid for something and expected it to be delivered. Instead, I have lost all of my men, you have knocked out my girlfriend and I still don't have my computer chip." He shrugged moving slowly to the side away from the door.
Stephine grinned, "We tried to warn you, tried to get you to go away. But you just kept coming…. You just kept pushing… but you pushed the wrong family." She said her back now to the door.
"Well what are you going to do now?" The man asked.
She shrugged and started walking backwards, "I am going to go home, get some food and go to bed." She said.
The man frowned and pulled out a small pistol and pointed it at her, "You see that is a problem for me…. If I can't have my chip, then I will get to have you." He said with a grin pointing it at her chest. "Plus, I don't think that you will actually shot me."
Stephanie's eyes widened, and she felt all of the anger and pain rush through her at his words, "Normally." She growled, "You would be right. I don't like to shoot people, but if its between me and you. I choose you." She said pulling the trigger and watched as the bullet left the chamber and hit his shoulder, his arm with the gun falling as he looked at her in shock and pain. She walked over and pulled the pen out of her pocket again, "I am sooooooooo over you and your people. Next time leave me the fuck alone." Then she pressed the pen to his neck and pushed the button. She watched as he peed his pants and his eyes roll back before he fell to the floor.
She turned and stared walking towards the door, her feet getting heavy with each step. She had only made it two steps when her knees started to go out. All of the pain from the car crash, mixing with the pain from the beating she took and the multiple punches and slaps. She took her third step and slid to her knees as the adrenaline that had been helping her through finally faded away and she was just left exhausted. She looked up as the door slammed open and Ranger and others ran in. She could only focus on Ranger though, he was her pin point as he rushed in and fell to his knees in front of her.
"Babe." He whispered as his hands cupped her cheeks gently. But it still hurt, and he winched when she hissed. "Are you ok?"
She gave him a grin, the blood in her mouth giving her an almost manic look that only frightened Ranger more. "Peachy…. but I think I need to go to the hospital." She said softly.
Ranger raised an eyebrow, she never willing went to the hospital… and she never asked. His fear increasing as he looked her over trying to figure out what blood was hers and what was from the people around the room. His hands roamed as he kept looking.
She tried to grab his hands but fell back on her feet and would have kept going if Ranger had not grabbed her. "Stephanie." He said his eyes going wide.
"Babe." She said back softly. "I have to tell you something." She whispered, and her eyes started to close.
"What?" he asked her sliding his arm under her knees and shoulders to pick her up.
She rolled her head onto his shoulder, "I am pregnant." She whispered into his ear.
But her eyes slid open when he said back, "I know." As he walked out the door.
"Well who the fuck told you, because I am going to kick their ass." She growled before finally passing all the way out.