A Soldier's Love (closed)

[Asa]

I don't know if I can Jack. I...

She fell silent still crying silently feeling like she was losing her mind. She had no idea how to survive this much less whatever Robert had in store for them.

 

[Ravenloft]

"You've got to Dani, you've got to, what's the alternative? Going back to the hell Robert put you through?" He reached out to touch her, trying to give her his support. "I'm here for you and I'm going to see you through this."

 

[Asa]

She just looked over at him scared and confused and tired.

I... I guess...

 

[Ravenloft]

"Try to get some sleep, it will still be a few hours before we make it to the cabin." He tried to calm her down even though he knew they weren't going to get far in a stolen car.

 

[Asa]

She just nodded and tried to get comfortable to sleep. Sleep found her but so did the nightmares.

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack glanced over at Dani whenever her nightmares made her whimper and gave her a soft pat on the thigh. "It's okay Dani, you're just dreaming." He told her even though she was still asleep. He wasn't sure it helped at all, but she seemed to relax whenever he said that.

Looking up in the rear view, he noticed a car following him. He took an extra ramp and got right back on the free way, testing the guy. And sure enough, he was following them. Jack woke Dani up with a gentle shake of her thigh. "Dani, we've got company. I need your help. Try looking out the back and see if you recognize the guy driving the car behind us. He's been following us."

 

[Asa]

There is at least 4 in the car. Andrei... I think is in there.

She was terrified as she realized someone else in the car.


Mike... Mike is in there.

She was shaking Mike almost terrified her more than Robert... Mike was far darker and much more cruel than Robert.

 

[Ravenloft]

"Mike made a big mistake, fun with me..." jack growled as he flexed his hands on the steering wheel. He looked over at Dani with a dark purpose in his eyes. "Got your seat belt on?" He asked, getting ready for a crazy maneuver.

 

[Asa]

She visibly had the belt on but also was visably lost in some memory at the presence of Mike. Her rapid rambling telling so much more than even Robert knew about Mike and her time with him and anyone he owed money to.

 

[Ravenloft]

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Jack slammed on the breaks and let the car behind them rear end them, inst in timely reaching out to protect Dani from the impact.

The tires screeched and they collided, jolting both of them sharply forward in their seats, then back. He growled and killed the engine and popped his belt off, tearing out of there like a mad man. Reaching in the back seat for a tire iron.

He strode right up to the other vehicle and hefted the tire iron in one hand, shattering the drivers side window and immediately tugging the driver half out the window. The guy was already in a daze and he knocked him the rest of the way out with a blow to the head with the end of the iron, careful not to kill.

The driver was one thing, big Mike was another issue entirely. He turned just in time to deflect a blow from the rear driver side door as the big man kicked it open. "Mother fucker! You're a dead man!" Mike shouted, crawling out and coming at Jack.

Jack flexed his shoulders and cracked his neck, waiting till the last second to dodge the burly son of a bitch! He caught him across the shoulders with a glancing blow from the tire iron, making him cry out in pain. "You're gonna pay for that! I was just gonna kill you... now I'm gonna keep you alive long enough to watch me treat Dani like the bitch she is before I slit you're fucker throat! Mother fucker!" Mike growled as two more guys poured out of the car. "Get the whore, drag her ass back here, boys! Well do it right in the middle of the street if we have to!"

One of them had a knife, the other a gun, Mike however had just his fists. Instinct took over and Jack jumped and slit across the roof of the car, kicking the guy with the gun in his face! Breaking his nose!

He caught the guy by his wrist and forced him to fire the gun up in the air several times before elbowing him in the throat and turning the gun on the man with a knife, taking him out with a single shot even as the first guy crumpled to the ground in pain.

Mike was already running up to tear Dani from her seat though. Jack aimed at him, shouting for him to stop, but he couldn't risk shooting and hitting her.

 

[Asa]

Dani saw what was happening and was terrified trying to lock the car and balling up away from the window staring in terror as Mike neared the door. Fear level reaching a breaking point she was screaming and crying as she heard him pounding on the glass. Her eyes darted only briefly to Jack panicked that he was not stopping him. She then was drawn back as she heard the glass finally give way.

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack had one shot left and he had to make it count, taking a deep breth, he leveled the barrel of the pistol up at the big bruiser's head... and fired just as he shattered glass in all over Dani. Mike fell limp and still on the pavement beside the car. This was going to be hard to explain... Jack dropped his hands to his sides and rushed up to the body and looked through the broken window. "Are you okay?" He asked, bending down to roll Mike over, making sure he was dead. "I... I couldn't let him touch you..." he tried to reason away the murder he'd just committed. "It was self defense."

He looked down at the man's lifeless eyes and frowned. "We can't leave them here... not like this... shit!" He rubbed his face, not knowing what to do next, still holding the gun. "Shit, shit, shit!" He looked back down the highway, at least no one had seen what happened, he'd picked an old road that didn't get much use this time of day, but it wouldn't be long before somebody drove by. "Dani... I know you're freaking out right now, so am i, but I need your help. We need to make this look like an accident... somehow... help me get them back in their car, we need to push it off the road... I.. I've got to rig it... to blow up." It was the only way he could imagine would cover up the situation. "Dani... Dani... I need your help!"

 

[Asa]

She was shaking barely registering anything her hands still pressing firmly against the seat trying to push herself as far away from Mike as she could. As if she had not seen him fall. Then a voice... Jack's voice... She tried to focus even through the intense panic and fear.

Jack...

Her voice barely a whisper her breathing still near hyperventilating as she tried to reconnect her mind to the reality of Jack being there talking not Mike. She still had not registered the glass all over her nor the blood.

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack flung the passenger side door open and knelt down, crunching glass into his knees, quickly checking Dani over, she was cut up a little but she would live, he touched her cheek gently, trying to draw her out of her panic. "It's okay darlin, he's not going to hurt you any more. Please, please come back to me now. I need you." He said softly but urgently.

 

[Asa]

Unconsciously she recoiled from the touch as her eyes tried to focus on Jack.

Jack... Mike ...he... He was here... Why would Robert get him involved. Robert was the one who got me away from him.

 

[Ravenloft]

"Easy Dani, it's me, Jack." He glanced down at the pool of Mikes blood and frowned. "Mikes gone darlin, Mikes gone..." he considered it and tucked the gun behind his back in his belt. "To kill two birds with one stone, I would guess. I don't think he expected Mike to make it back. Now he knows just how far I'll go to protect you. Come on, we have to move, darlin."

 

[Asa]

Okay...

Her voice still low barely a whisper almost afraid Mike would sit up. She tried to get past him out of the car to Jack needing to feel safe right now as she bit at her lip

Wha... What do we we do?

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack shifted out of the way so that Dani could slip out of the car. He noticed Mikes eyes were open so he quickly forced them shut, thinking of Dani. Last thing he wanted was for his empty stare to wig her out. "We need to get him back into the other car. I have to make this look like an accident, before anybody else drives by." He hopped up onto his feet and scooped his arms up under Mikes, lifting his top half. The guy was massive and fucking heavy. "Get his legs, it will be easier to carry him, I've got most of the weight on my end."

 

[Asa]

Every fiber of her mind and being said run as she fully looked to Mike dead or not. She looked to Jack biting her lip but tried to pick up his legs.

How... How are you going to do that?

 

[Ravenloft]

"Funny thing, when you learn how to disarm I.E.D's, you sort of get an idea of how to rig them after a while. Come on, there's no telling how long we have to do this, we have to be quick." Between the two of them, they managed to get the men back in their vehicle and he told Dani to get back in theirs and start the engine, they had to get out of there quickly.

He rigged the car to blow and put it in gear, letting it drift off the road and into the ditch. Running to their car, he shouted for her to duck, just in casE shrapnel got thrown their way.

 

[Asa]

Scared by all of this she did what he needed her to do more scared of losing him to this explosion than injury to herself.

Jack...

She called out when everything happened.

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack was pelted with debris and felt the scorching heat of the explosion as he dived behind their car with its crumpled up rear end, getting out of the worst of the blast. The rear windshield tooh a few pieces of shrapnel and caved in, in a shower of shattering glass. Yeah, this car was fucked. But at least it was still running. He got up and quickly crawled in, wincing a little from a wound or two he felt but couldn't see on his back. His hands stung and his knees hat been cut up and scuffed brim the broken glass and his dive for safety from the explosion. Nothing a good soak and maybe a little TLC from Dani wouldn't fix once they got your the cabin though. "How was that?" He asked as he put the car in gear and drove away from the scene.

 

[Asa]

She was still scared and almost wishing she had one of the Valium.

Mike and all the hell that was... When Robert got me out of all of it... The Valium was to help me relax and sleep after the nightmares. Then whenever Mike would show up at the club or something then... Just whenever Robert said.

She continued rambling about it all and Mike till she was finally able to calm any.

 

[Ravenloft]

Jack let her ramble on even though it pained him to hear it all, she needed to get it all out in the open. He would occasionally look over at her with love and understanding as she talked and nod, calmly taking it all in.

Finally, he slipped a hand over along her thigh and glance over at her, softly saying. "The nightmare is over, in an hour or so, we will be at the cabin. No one will find us there. Then we can relax and start planning our next move. I was thinking, what if you and I record a counter message for the media? Just you telling your side of the situation? In your own words? I can drop it off at a news station. That should go a long way toward blowing this wide open."

 

[Asa]

What good would it do... You don't think Robert will use where he found me and what I do against me?

She sighed she had been around Robert long enough to try to second guess his next move.