The Agents

Chapter Seven

"Oh my gosh! You shot him!" Victoria screeched. The others were freaking out as well, though I noticed with amusement that none of them made a move to help Jaxon.

"Why on earth would you shoot someone?" Josh asked, rather loudly seeing as we were still in the small stairwell and the sound travelled.

"You didn't even blink! You just shot him in cold blood!" Austin exclaimed.

"Would you all stop talking and calm down already?" I asked, annoyance creeping into my voice.

"How are we supposed to calm down? You just killed somebody!" Victoria squealed.

I just rolled my eyes and put the gun back into the holster inside my jacket. Taking the couple steps forward to where Jaxon had finally stopped sliding down the stairs, I turned him over so he was on his back. "He's not dead," I stated simply. His hand fell from his chest to reveal the dart protruding out of it.

"But... What... No... You... You shot him?" Victoria said, not sounding very sure.

"I shot him with my dart gun, not my real gun. He is just unconscious," I said. "Your faith astounds me with its magnitudes by the way," I added sarcastically.

"Oh come on Carter! That's not really fair. With all the secrets and tempers and unknown visitors lately, how are we supposed to know what's going on?" Aaron asked defensively.

Instead of responding to him, I said, "Josh, Austin, Aaron; pick him up."

They didn't look sure about that, but moved passed me to do as I asked anyways. I walked back to the door at the bottom of the staircase and typed in the code. The lock clicked and I swung open the door. I walked in and turned around to find them all still in the stairwell looking at me.

"Well, are you coming or not?" That got them into motion. "Wait right there," I said, pointing to the empty area in front of the curtain. I walked over to the storage closet and took out a chair and rope before heading back over to where they were all standing, staring at the room in awe.

"I never even knew this was down here," Aaron said.

"You were never supposed to," I stated. I set the chair up so that it was facing the black curtain. "Set him in the chair," I told the guys.

"What?" Austin asked, shock clouding their features. I cocked my eyebrow at them and they picked him back up and set him on the chair.

"Good. Now sit over there." I hooked a finger over my shoulder at the ground behind me.

"On the ground? But I'll get my clothes dirty!" Victoria squealed.

I looked at all their expensive business clothes and a smirk found its way onto my face. "What a tragedy."

Looking very unhappy, Victoria sat down with everyone else. Picking up the rope from where I had set it earlier, I walked over to Jaxon and tied his hands together behind his back. Then, I took his gun and all his other weapons before going back to the storage closet, setting his stuff in there, and taking out another chair. I walked back out and set it up so that it was facing Jaxon.

"What are you doing?" Victoria asked. I glanced over at her to see that she was the only one looking at me. Everyone else was still looking around at the training bunker.

Without replying, I looked down at my watch before focusing back on Jaxon. I sat down on the chair and crossed my legs. Jaxon peeled his eyes open just after I folded my hands in my lap and looked back up at him.

"Well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes," he croaked out.

I didn't say anything, just kept my expression blank as I looked at him.