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The vast expanse of inky blackness that was Highway 6 was slowly illuminated as a far off cluster of headlights approached from the city. The two vehicles, mere car lengths apart slowed and cautiously drifted to a halt on the narrow shoulder. Without killing the engine, the passenger and driver's side door of the second vehicle, a police cruiser, both blew open and the figure of a woman hopped out and scurried over the gritty terrain to the orange Pinto parked in front of it.

Halfway there, the figure stopped and hurried back to the passenger side of the police cruiser.

"Hurry up, Kris!" Sabrina scolded, reaching inside and taking her younger friend by the arm. "We don't have time for this!"

Kris's face still looked white. "I…I'm coming! Just gimme a minute!"

"We don't have a minute!" Sabrina shot back. "Look, I'm sorry, but she was gonna see it anyway, how were you planning on explaining a cop car to her? I won't let her kill you just hurry up!" But when Kris didn't immediately comply, Sabrina realized she didn't have the patience to wait for her an instant longer. Heaving a sigh of exasperation, she pushed herself away from the police cruiser and crunched over the gravelly asphalt back to her Pinto, idling a few car lengths in front of her. She couldn't see the passengers in the dark, even with the cruiser's headlights, but she knew exactly where to go.

Kelly had already rolled down the window when Sabrina stormed over to it and slammed both hands on the passenger door.

"Kelly!" Sabrina shouted angrily, crouching down to look through her window. Just as she thought, there was Kelly, guilty as sin, sitting in the passenger seat with her arms folded stubbornly across her chest. "Just what in the hell are you doing?!"

Kelly sent her a side-eyed glare. "I alr-"

"No!" Sabrina cut her off. "Don't give me any of your bullshit! Do you have any idea how stupid this is?! What, do you want to get yourself killed?!" Her wrath moved to Max, squirming in the driver's seat. "And you?!" she yelled at him. "What the hell is wrong with you? She's pregnant, Max! What were you thinking?!"

Max couldn't look at her. He shook his head slowly. "I didn't want her to g-"

"Don't!" Sabrina warned furiously. She took a deep breath and seemed to regain some composure. She spotted Jill in the backseat.

"Don't even look at me." Jill warned, before Sabrina lit into her. "Like I could have stopped her."

Sabrina took a deep breath. Due to circumstances, Jill was off limits. "Okay, we're turning around right now and we're going back to the hospital."

"Sabrina-" Kelly sighed.

"No, Kelly!" Sabrina cut her off. Kelly leaned forward to protest and, relieved though she was at being able to catch up to them, Sabrina had to fight hard to not sock her best friend in the face. "Are you crazy? You. Are. Pregnant! With his kid!" Her finger jerked toward Max. "And you're gonna go back to where you nearly got killed? After where Jill nearly got killed. What is wrong with you, Kelly!?"

Kelly's face darkened. "Nothing is wrong with me!" she snapped. "I'm trying to protect us! So you can either get in the car and help us or you can get out of the way!"

Sabrina looked taken aback. "Kelly, no." she said seriously. "We cannot take this risk. Look at you…you can't even- Listen to me, if you want to protect Jill and your baby then I'll help you. But not like this."

"Then how?" Kelly shot back. "Bill? You think Bill is gonna help us? Cause- I'm sorry- but I don't see him sticking his neck out for me and Jill. He won't even believe our story, no one will. We need that gun back. We need to get to these people before they get to us. We're not going to jail."

"You're not going to go to jail!" Sabrina sighed. "What has you so convinced-"

Suddenly, Kelly's face was inches from her own. "You weren't there, okay!" she snapped. "To have your name attached to that... place... to have any evidence that could suggest you did something there is terrifying. They are terrifying! I know in my gut we aren't the first ones they've taken. We're just the first ones that escaped. Who knows what they could do to get us back? It's killing me thinking they might come after Jill, and me and...and my baby. After seeing what's in there... not only do I want that gun back, but I know I have to stop them. You don't have to come. None of you have to come. But I need to do this. Right now. With or without your help."

Sabrina took a step away from the car and swore under her breath. In a twisted kind of way, Kelly made sense. That in itself was terrifying. She hadn't yet worked out what to say to Kelly when she noticed Kris slinking up to the car. She gave Jill's window a timid knock and Max, more than eager for the distraction, obligingly rolled down his window.

"Jill?" Kris chanced.

Jill popped up from the backseat. "I said we would talk about this later." She said firmly. "Right now is not later."

Kelly let out a cry of frustration. Max may have been glad for the distraction, but she certainly was not. "I'm doing this, Sabrina." She said stubbornly. "You can't stop me."

"I won't let her go alone." Max said quietly, his eyes still fixed on the dark road ahead.

"What, you too?" Sabrina replied sarcastically. She leaned through the open window to see Jill in the backseat. "And you?"

Jill looked annoyed. "Well, I'm sitting back here, aren't I?"

"We can all go together." Kris said quietly. "In Ryan's car." She shot Jill a nervous look. "I…I am a cop, after all."

"Who's Ryan?" Jill asked irritably.

"Her boyfriend." Sabrina answered quickly. "And now you want to get involved in this sideshow too, Kris?"

"Boyfriend?" Jill echoed, before Kris could respond. "What boyfriend?"

Kris whirled on Sabrina, a look of disbelief on her face. "Sabrina! And ex, Jill. He's my ex-boyfriend."

Jill threw up her hands and Sabrina groaned. There couldn't possibly be a less appropriate time for side drama. "Boyfriend, ex-boyfriend. It doesn't matter!" Sabrina dropped her head into her hands for a moment and when she looked up, Kelly knew she had won.

"So are you with us or not?" Kelly chanced.

"Yes, I'm with you!" Sabrina snapped at her, her mind whirring frantically to come up with a plan. "Okay. Okay, we go in the cop car. Together."

Kelly smiled. "Thanks, Bri."

"Yeah, yeah. Save your thanks for tomorrow. If we're still alive." Sabrina sighed. "Just leave my car on the shoulder. And if something happens to it, Kelly, just know that you're going to be the one who breaks it to Bosley."

"Like someone's gonna want to steal this junk heap." Jill grumped from the backseat. But, because she was already getting out of the car, Sabrina chose not to comment.

Minutes later, Sabrina's Pinto was safely parked and the five of them were squeezed into Officer Ryan Floyd's police cruiser, Kris again at the wheel. The Pinto was completely out of sight before Sabrina finally allowed herself to believe that she was doing something this reckless and stupid.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." She sighed, buckled up in the passenger seat. "I don't suppose you have a plan. Kell?"

In the backseat, wedged between Max and the passenger door, Kelly shook her head. "I'm working on it."

"I thought so." Sabrina sighed. "Did you at least tell Bos what you were doing?"

Jill laughed sarcastically and Kelly shot her a dirty look before shaking her head. "No. No one else needs to be involved."

Sabrina wasn't surprised. "Great. One less lawyer for Charlie to hire. And that's if we don't get ourselves killed."

"No one is getting killed." Kelly said quietly. "I really doubt they'll be there. We get Jill's gun, shut them down, and then we call the cops, okay?"

"Well, since you put it that way." Sabrina replied irritably. "We'll just have to hope Bos doesn't try to get ahold of us tonight. Charlie might feel like filling in three new job openings if Bos tells him about this stunt we're pulling. Kris might not be the only one losing her job today."

There was a brief silence and in it, Sabrina realized what she'd just said. Maybe she'd do best to just not open her mouth until they were safely back in Los Angeles.

"C'mon! Are you kidding me, Sabrina?" Kris asked hotly. "Can you just...shutup about anything!?"

"Oh my God, Kristine!" came Jill's outraged voice from the back. "It's like I don't even know you anymore!"

Kris groaned. "Jill….later, remember?"

"Later?" Jill echoed angrily, pushing herself forward. "Don't you 'later' me-"

There was a steel grate separating the front seat from the backseat, but still, Kelly and Max found it necessary to pull Jill back into her seat.

"How about you two change the subject?" Max said quietly, speaking up for the first time since climbing into the backseat. "Bridge Grove is a few hours out. You girls can come up with a plan by then, right?"

Sabrina ignored the looks Jill and Kris were giving each other in the rearview mirror. "We do have a plan. But we need a better one. One where nobody gets hurt. Kelly and Jill are out, so it's up to us three."

"Nobody is getting hurt." Kelly insisted. "I'll go in. It'll be quick. In and out."

"You?" Sabrina asked with a derisive laugh. "No, you're staying in the car. You've got one hand and I think you've already put Junior there in enough danger."

Kelly leaned forward and gripped the steel grate in her good hand. "I have to. I know where the gun is."

"Only because I told you." Jill interrupted her. "I'm not staying behind either."

"You can't even walk." Kelly shot back, whirling on her friend. "You're not going in."

"What, you can and I can't?" Jill argued. "If you're going in then I am too."

Max looked nervously between the two arguing women on either side of him before holding out a hand to calm them. "Look-" he spoke up. "I think it would be best if I went in. Alone."

"Why you?" Sabrina blurted out from the front.

Max looked around the car, aware now that all four women were staring at him. Wasn't it obvious? "It would be safer….I'm a man. I can-"

His four female companions immediately burst into protest and though outnumbered Max stood his ground. "What, my kid gets to go and I'm supposed to stay in the car?" he asked angrily. "No. I'm going."

The car was quiet for a moment. The humming of tires on asphalt filled the silence before Sabrina finally spoke. "So all five of us are going." She said after a moment. "That….might work."

"We're armed and we outnumber them by two." Kelly pointed out. "There's only three of them left- that we know of- counting the doctor."

Jill looked thoughtful. "And only one of them isn't a senior citizen."

"An ambush." Kris mused, almost pleasantly. "I like that."

Sabrina turned and stared at her before turning back to Jill, Kelly, and Max. "Okay. We can make this work. Kelly and Jill, just fill us in on all you can remember about the inside. Every detail you can come up with."

"There's a notepad in the glove compartment." Kris offered. Sabrina looked pleased. She rooted through it, pulled out the notepad and a pen and slid them through the grate to Max, who gave Kelly's wrapped up right hand a short look before handing the bundle to Jill. "Can you make us a map, Jill?"

Jill was already in the process of doing just that. "Mmhmm." She answered absently, already absorbed in her sketch. The car grew silent as she worked, Kelly, Max, and Sabrina watching intently as the scrawled lines Jill was making on the yellow notepad paper slowly became the rooms and hallways of Divinity's Reach as she remembered it from the previous night.

After a few minutes of drawing, erasing, and redrawing, Jill lifted her pen and thoughtfully studied her crude map. "I….I think that's how it was." She said slowly. She looked to Kelly for confirmation and her friend, trusting Jill's memory better than her own, could only shrug. Jill's stare returned to the map a bit longer, then lowered her pen to make a quick X where she remembered Bruce storing her gun, before ripping out the page, rolling it into a tight cylinder and sliding it and the pen through the metal grate to Sabrina.

"I think that's it." Jill said, almost apologetically. "There could be more to it…it's…hard to remember exactly."

Sabrina unfurled the map and gave it a quick once over. Of course it wouldn't make as much sense to her as it did to Jill and Kelly. But it would have to be enough. "It's fine, Jill." She answered her. "Where did you get in, Kris?"

Kris was able to look away from the road just long enough to give the notepaper a quick tap with her index finger. "Same way we came out. Right there. And Jill didn't draw the fence. There's a fence."

"There was a fence." Kelly mused to herself.

Max looked puzzled. "I don't remember a fence."

"I remember the fence." Sabrina sighed, feeling obligated to sketch it in after marking Kris's entrance. When she was finished, she laid the map in her lap and turned toward the backseat to give a humorless grin to Kelly, Jill, and Max.

"Well…" she started pleasantly. "..if anyone's got any bright ideas, I'd love to hear them."

It was just past two in the morning when the police cruiser rolled to a quiet stop within sight of Divinity's Reach Memorial Hospital. The building looked ominous even from a distance, shrouded in moonlight with thin wisps of floating clouds helping to lend an overall eerie feel to the sight. It was only a silhouette from where they stood, but the mere sight of it after last night's events gave all five occupants of the car a well warranted case of the chills.

Sabrina glanced back at Jill and Kelly in the backseat and noted the apprehensive looks on their faces. "Still think this is a good idea?" she quipped.

She saw Kelly's eyes narrow. "You know we don't have a choice." She grumbled back. "Go, Kris."

"And kill the lights." Jill added quietly.

Against her better judgement, Kris obliged. The police car jostled as it bumped its way from the paved highway to the dark gravelly road that led up to the hospital's entrance. The girls and Max were silent as their car rolled up the road, past the sagging chain link fence and closer and closer to Divinity's Reach. No longer a silhouette, the five were reminded at just how run down and foreboding the half-finished structure was up close.

"I can't believe you let someone drop you off here." Sabrina remarked, shuddering.

Jill shot her a dirty look. "Yeah, I don't know why I didn't call 'Nazi experiments' right off. Kelly could have just waited to bleed out until we got back home."

Her sarcastic reply made Sabrina grateful that there was a metal barrier between them. She shook her head and remained silent as the car slowly bumped over uneven terrain in the dark. Kris didn't dare go any faster for fear of hitting something in the dark or making too much noise that would attract the attention of whoever might be hiding inside.

It felt like ages before Kris finally coasted to a stop about twenty yards from the pile of concrete that she'd used to climb into the window that had been her entrance. There was too much loose debris lying about for her to risk getting any closer than that. A flat tire right now was out of the question.

"Well-" Kris whispered, putting the car into park. "-this is where I got in. Now what?"

Sabrina glanced at her and then to the backseat at the rest of her companions. Now what, indeed. It was dark outside, but the moonlight was bright enough to see the window Kris was referring too. It was still broken, the smaller shards glittering in the moonlight where they lay scattered in the window sill and along the surface of the concrete pile below it. It seemed the most logical way inside.

"We need to make sure it's empty before we go in." Kelly answered before Sabrina could.

"We?" Sabrina scoffed. "No way, look at this place. You're sta-"

"We already talked about this!" Kelly argued back, exasperated.

It was Max who decided to stop their argument before it even got started. "Okay, okay!" he said, loudly enough to distract the two bickering women. "We're all going inside. But first…" he managed to keep his voice from shaking. "…I think we need to make sure that we're the only ones here."

"He's right." Kris added softly. "You're already hurt."

"Exactly. I think that you and Jill should stay in the car while we check the place out." Max said, turning to Kelly. He continued quickly, raising his voice over both Kelly and Jill's protests in the hope that he would also have Sabrina's support once his idea was voiced. "Just until we know we're alone! What would happen if we had to run? Sorry, but both of you would slow us down if it came to that and you know I'm right. You know it."

Max, along with Sabrina and Kris, held his breath as Kelly and Jill shared a look. Giving her head a resigned nod, Kelly turned back to him and Max instantly knew he'd won.

"You're right." Kelly answered after a moment. Admitting she was too weak for anything seemed to pain her, but there was a baby to worry about after all. "But, I know where the gun is. I have to go in with you once the coast is clear."

"And you will." Sabrina cut in. "As soon as we know it's safe."

"Safe." Jill scoffed, looking out the window at the rough terrain and loose debris. "Not even walking around out here is safe. We'll break an ankle or get tetanus before those people can get to us."

Sabrina had to agree. "Yeah, well…no choice, right?" She unbuckled her seat belt and pushed open the car door. "I'm not going alone, am I?"

Max quickly scrambled into action. After all that big talk, he was pretty sure staying behind with Jill and Kelly was no longer an option for him. "No, I'm coming, I'm coming."

Sabrina was already out and pulling open Kris's door by the time he'd managed to climb outside.

"Officer Barbie." Sabrina joked, pulling open Kris's door for her. Her younger friend, already in the process of getting out of the car only scowled at her.

Kris's first thought was to dig around in the trunk, hoping to God her ex-boyfriend had stored something useful inside. After shuffling through some smelly workout shirts and gym bags, she got her hands on a tactical flashlight. A machine gun would have been better, she thought wryly, but a flashlight was better than nothing. Flashing this into someone's eyes would momentarily blind them. Also, she had her gun – sans one bullet, of course.

"Well, we're ill-equipped for this." Sabrina muttered, shutting the trunk for Kris. "I left my gun at my apartment last night. I never thought about it until now."

"They're probably gone." The young blonde tried assuring her with a half smile. "Hey, you know what? Here." She tugged at her belt and released the gun from its holster. "I have a flashlight, you take this."

Sabrina looked surprised. It wasn't much of a fair trade. "No, Kris. Keep-"

She shook her head, looking a bit ashamed. "I think you're probably a better shot than me. I kinda...dropped the ball last time. Just in case of an emergency. I trust you."

"Well, thanks." Taking her word for it, Sabrina took the gun and felt if her pocket was deep enough to hold the pistol. She equipped the safety so no toes would be lost while she moved around and shoved it in as far as it would go. It felt strange, she was used to the heaviness of her snub nose Magnum, a gun Kelly had enviously been eyeing up since she'd purchased it. Maybe if they came back from this alive, she would go shooting with Kelly...and not let her use it. It would be the best sort of revenge for this moonlit adventure than anything else she could think of.

Max watched their exchange and frowned when he realized he was the odd man out. No weapon. No flashlight. Two sticks of gum in his pocket, and unless fresh breath could get them out of a fix, they wouldn't be useful. Pouting, he poked Kris in the arm. "Uh, you sure you don't have anything else on you?"

"Umm." She remembered something and dug into her pocket to hold out a gleaming set of handcuffs. "Do you want these?"

Max stared at them in disappointment. "No. How do I defend myself with those?"

Kris sighed openly and pocketed them. "I guess you don't. I'm sorry, I left my pepper spray on my belt, but..." She grinned. "You're a guy, you can make due with your fists, right?"

He didn't seem convinced. "Just because I'm a guy doesn't mean I can't get hurt."

"You'll be fine." Sabrina waved at him. "You're not exactly lacking in physical fitness."

Normally this kind of talk would go a long way with him, but considering they might all be walking straight into hell, not having some sort of shield made him feel vulnerable. Still, he stuck out his chest bravely. "Okay, I can do this." He told himself aloud. He looked at Kris, "You blind them," and then at Sabrina, "and you shoot them," and a quick nod to himself, "then I go in for the kill."

Kris snorted, patting his shoulder. "Atta boy."

Sabrina lifted a finger to her mouth, silencing them as they drew closer to the broken hospital window. It would have to do. Walking through the front doors would be an invitation for trouble, what they were doing was already dumb enough. She crouched down, signaling for her two companions to do the same. Veering off to the side, she eyed up the crumbled concrete mess Kris had pointed out earlier, which lead up into a broken out window.

"That's it?" Sabrina asked.

Kris nodded. "Yeah, let me-" She clicked on her flashlight, shining the bright light into the darkened window.

"No!"

Sabrina immediately tackled her arm down, wrestling the light away in a slur of swear words and clicking it off. "What's the matter with you?! Jesus, why don't we just march in with a parade?!"

"They didn't see that." Kris argued back, snatching her flashlight from Sabrina's grasp. "Like I said before, they probably aren't even here."

Sabrina only shook her head, saying nothing until they reached the window. It wasn't as big as she expected and she noted a large lethal looking shard of glass that was still stuck in place. If it wasn't her imagination, she could see blood on its edge. She wasn't too keen on the idea of slicing herself open like Kris had. She turned to her, her tone softer. "Just keep that stupid light off unless we really need it."

Kris mocked a salute. "Yes, ma'm."

Sabrina could hear the sarcasm and turned around with a roll of her eyes. "You know, Jill told me you were shy."

"Mmmhmm. She told me you were nice."

Insulted, Sabrina opened her mouth for a rebuttal but the sound of glass breaking and shattering on the concrete silenced her. Both women snapped their heads over to the window, where Max had removed the annoying shard out of the window and was halfway inside, feet first. He paused for just a moment with a blank expression on his face to look back at the two women. "What? She already shined the light in the window. Might as well." With that, he slipped down and disappeared.

Sabrina blinked her astonishment.

"Huh. He is a lot like Kelly." Kris echoed Sabrina's statement earlier at the hospital, then jogged past her to her catch up with Max. There was still a limp in her gait from her mishap with the window last night, but Kris appeared unmindful about the possibility of tearing her stitches apart. That much was made apparent by the way she gracefully flew up the concrete debris and swung herself through the window on the first try. Sabrina cursed to herself as she stumbled up the fallen structure after them and poked her head through the dark window.

This was it.

Down the rabbit hole they went.