Chapter T.E.N

"How do you feel?" I asked Braxton.

"I thought you said this didn't hurt! It feels like someone is tearing my stomach!"

"Good, that means you swallowed it." A lot of people weren't swallowing it, so the agency made it hurt to swallow so we would know if they did or not.

"Okay, so what next?"

"Nothing. You wait until I contact you with what you need to do next. Go to work and carry on with your normal life."

"Okay? What about finding my Dad?"

"We'll find him." With that I turned around and went for the door. Then I heard it, a gun cocking. Slowly I turned around. [This is going to be fun.]

"What are you going to do? Shoot me?" I challenged, when I was fully turned around.

"Put your hands up!" Braxton said we're trying to find his phone to call caps. [First mistake.]

"No," I replied while looking over Braxton's shoulder. Then I started to move my eyes, to make it seem as though there was another person behind him.

"Now " I shouted, he immediately turned around to look at the person who wasn't there. Then I quickly signaled for Sniper to jump, he did which sent Braxton flying backwards. When he hit the ground the gun came out of his hands. [That was too easy.] Laughing, I pulled out my gun and cocked it.

"You know, I'm really sorry you did that." Bending down I reached into my boot and pulled out a needle, I pulled the needle back releasing air into it, then walked over to Braxton. [Wait! The Agencies report on him said he had a daughter. Now this I can work with!]

"Well, I was going to kill you but I just remembered that you have a daughter!"

"Don't you dare touch her!" Braxton screamed.

"Then don't do that again."

"You wouldn't kill a child!"

"No I wouldn't, not a young child anyways, but I will let my boss do it, and trust me that is not something you want. He would tear her apart but don't worry he wouldn't kill her, just make her suffer and then turn her into himself, a monster."

"I'll do whatever you want, but please don't hurt her." [God, he's a predictable idiot!]

"Get up. Don't do anything stupid or it will be your little girl that pays. You got it?" He frantically nodded then got up.

"Come on Sniper." I called as I walked out the door. According to the agency Braxton had no security cameras, so there was nothing to erase. [That went well!]

Once I was in the car I picked up the phone to dial Nico but decided it was too early for dinner. As I pulled into the driveway I realized that Jeremy's car was there. [Crap.] When I walked into the house I didn't see anybody in the living room.

As I threw Dominic's keys in the kitchen counter I heard grunting coming from the gym. [Well, I can't say I'm surprised.] Sniper bolted into the gym when he heard the noise, ready to attack if need be. When I made it to the gym I saw Dominic handing Damon his usual 200 lb barbell.

"That's probably not a good idea Dom!" Nico said as Damon reached up to grab the barbell.

"The idiot said he could do it," countered Jeremy. Jeremy didn't like anyone and apparently Damon wasn't an exception. Nico sighed then shot a look towards me, asking silently for me to help, but I waved him off.

"Let him do it if he wants to. I said to Nico, reluctantly he nodded. Dominic put the barbell down in the slots. Then Damon picked it up. You could tell he was struggling to pick it up all the way, from the looks of it he couldn't even lift it up let alone bench it. After a lot of grunting the barbell still had it moved, but an inch.

"Set it down, take off 40 then try." I said when it was clear he couldn't do it. Damon shook his head but Dominic pushed down making the barbell return to their slots.

"What was that for! I could have done it!" Exclaimed Damon.

"Yeah, and pigs can fly!" Jeremy said snapily. Laughing, I walked over and took twenty off one side of the barbell while Dominic unloaded the other side.

"Hey Lee. I totally forgot about you coming over to help fix my computer. I actually bought a new one this morning." Jeremy said while we were twisting the sleeves on the end of the weights.

"It's fine Jeremy."

"You sure? I mean you were coming over to help me but I wasn't there, you can hit me if you want."

"You're fine Jeremy! If you keep asking me if I am sure, I am going hit you." He nodded then came up and hugged me from behind, and buried his face in the crook of my neck.

"Go ahead." Domininc said once his sleeve was on all of the way. Damon nodded, then got up and tried to lift the barbell, he was able to lift it straight up. Then he lowered it down, it was almost touching his chest. He tried to lift it up but he was obviously struggling. Sighing, I nudged Jeremy off me and went to help him up because Dominic was busy playing with Sniper.

"I got it!" Damon breathed when I went to lift it up. [Why do I even bother?] He almost made it to the slots but he couldn't and it quickly came down again. I caught it right as it was about to hit his chest.

"I said I had it!" Damon yelled at me.

"You're an idiot! It almost crushed you. So clearly you didn't have it!" Jeremy yelled right back at Damon.

"Yeah, well let's see you do better!"

"He does 210 regularly and I don't recall you being able to even do 200, so I wouldn't go there," I countered.

"Whatever. I bet you can't bench that much either!" He spat back at me.

"What do you want to bet?" Jeremy asked.

"If she can't bench it, then that stupid must have to stay outside."

"And if I can bench it you have to break into the school and graffiti the lockers, saying Damon was here." I finished while smirking because I knew he would lose. I usually benched 140 lb multiple times so doing 160 one time shouldn't be too difficult.

"Bet." Damon said as he got up and motioned for me to lay down. [This should be fun.] Sighing I laid down and grabbed the barbell. It was very hard but I managed to get it straight up, then brought it down, almost touching my chest.

"Told you she couldn't do it!" Damon sneered, as he said that I let my barbell go down further than with all my strength I drove it forward. Once I did that I was an inch over the slot, then I moved it backwards and put it in.

"No way! Let me check the thingy. There is no way she could lift that when I couldn't!"

"She's just stronger than you." Jeremy shot back.

"Looks like Sniper stays and Damon gets to piss off my mother!" Dominic said as he went to the kitchen to get his set of keys to the school.

"Now this, this is going to be fun!" Jeremy said as we all nodded in agreement, well everyone except for Damon who was busy inspecting the barbell to see if I had somehow cheated.