Into The Darkness

She stepped into the darkness and although her eyes were betrayed by the dimming light and the thick cloud of cigarette smoke hanging low the musky room her feet seemed to know the way. She stepped in and out of murky puddles just another side effect from the unkept building and its constantly leaking roof.

The rats seemed to be running in herds but one of them strayed and intercepted her path causing her to stop and take a deep gulp of air into her lungs before taking the next step. “This is the only way” she thought to herself.

Finally, she could see the profile of a chair with a man sitting in it slumping slightly forward, she could make out the outlines of his face with help of the cigarette coal laminating her view for a brief second as he took a drag, she hesitated for a moment then approached the man.

“I have what you asked for, now let him go”

She placed the briefcase on the table in front of him on the table in front of him and without even looking up at the woman he opened the briefcase.

“Count it” she said; “it’s all there” you could hear the distinct sound of desperation underlined with a hint of panic in her voice. “I gave you what you wanted, now tell me where he is!”

The man extended his right arm and pointed to a narrow passageway leading out of the room. She immediately turned and walked off into the direction that he had pointed in, her walk quickly picked up to a running pace when she saw the door at the end of the narrow hallway. She slammed open the door and gazed inside the flickering fluorescent light overhead revealed a person tied to a chair in the far back corner.

“John? Is that you?” Her anguished cries were answered with a voice that she recognised despite it being muffled. “I am going to get you out of here” she said as she ran straight towards him, she ripped the tape from his mouth and said; “it’s going to be ok”

John looked up and gave a tired smile as he said: “Hey Sis, you came back for me”

“That’s what little sisters do” she replied

She proceeded to untie the ropes around arms and legs that were restraining him to the chair then helped him to his feet.
As they turned for the door she saw the man from before standing in the doorway then heard him say in a smug voice: “you thought it would be that easy? You really thought that I was just going to let you walk out the door?” he grinned then continued “now, as nice as this little family reunion is, I think I am just going to end it, make sure that everything dies today, right here in this room; You, your brother and the truth of what really went down”

The man lifted his right hand once more this time revealing a 9mm that was now pointed directly at her.

“I thought you might say that” the woman said as she pushed her brother to one side and reached for her belt, with one swift flick of the wrist the womans first dagger landed firmly in the mans shoulder casing him to drop his weapon, he immediately bent down to grab it and as he came up the second dagger was flicked with accurate perfection and imbedded itself firmly between the mans eyes leaving his lifeless body to fall to the floor.

She turned to her brother once more and said; “come on John, let’s get you out of here”