Save The Girl

Catch Me

            It was half past ten when I met Joe at one of our meeting spots. Just above a liquor bar sat our small hideout. Joe was completely dressed in all black, his hair slicked and eyes worried. Upon spotting me he pulled me inside and hugged me tightly before releasing me.

"My arm." I complained, as the small stinging sensation subsided.

"Where's Selena?" His voice was groggy at best.

"What do you mean? I told you I wasn't bringing her."

"And I told you that if she was with you...," Joe stepped away, "what did the people look like? Your attackers?"

"I don't know," I sighed, "I had my guard completely down. Maybe one guy was around six feet, large shoulders with a scar down his right arm." I honestly hadn't paid much attention tonight to the people around me. Big mistake.

"You're a trained operative. How the fuck did you not stake out your surroundings?"

"Joe," I tried calming him. "I was out of the club. Off the team. I quit. How was I supposed to know that one dinner would end up like this?" I took in the surrounding area, my nose burning from the smell of strong ginger.

"You said you thought they were Onyx. How?"

"The only detail I could make out was that each attacker had the mark of the Onyx. The black triangular pyramid. I've been on that case so long I wouldn't forget that image."

As Joe paced the room a few times he finally stood still. He gave me a once over before pulling out his attached cell phone. It sat on his belt, and now in his hand.

"Who are you calling?"

"Help." He assured me, just as a knock came to the door. No one was suppose to know we were here, and I meant no one. Although my arm and ear were out of sorts, I took a stance, watching as the knob turned and a man appeared.

"Demi, Joe." A smile crept across the man's face. I had let the scene before me soak in just as another built operative entered. It was Joe's younger brother, Nick. Both guys trained together and came into the agency together. They were inseparable. I wondered why he wasn't his partner.

"So any word?" Joe cut straight to the point.

"Its not good. Apparently whoever tipped off the group about Demi's whereabouts also knew about her home. I hacked into a signal feed that was coming from one of the vans just blocks from Gino's. They were watching you." Nick pulled out his phone, scrolling through it to show me the ping off of cell towers.

"How could you not catch onto someone stalking you?" Joe asked annoyed as I rose my sore arm.

"I was nursing myself back to health," I informed him, "it hurts like hell believe it or not." I walked away from the two as Nick continued.

"Whoever was following you, knew exactly where you were going to be tonight. They planted vans near the restaurant and at your home. They even placed one outside of here." Nick's eyes were lifeless as he said that.

"Here?" I questioned as Nick explained the situation he went through before coming up.

"We have to get out of the city. Its not just Demi. Someone is hunting all of us." Nick slid his phone back into his chest pocket, his eyes working over the two of us. "I'm sure whoever that guy was without a head downstairs sent for backup before he lost it."