She stands there, helplessly watching
the dogs rush towards her, knowing they
are too close for her to run to safety.
She can hear the rumbling growl they are
emitting, and sees the anticipatory
gleam in their eyes as the saliva drips
from their gums.
Suddenly, a hand gets a crushing grip on
her arm as she is roughly jerked back
and nearly off her feet, and all but
dragged back down the driveway.
Trying her best to regain her balance
and keep up, she looks over and sees
that her rescuer is Jaun. He shakes his
head slightly at her, and continues to
run, pulling her along with him.
They get to a car that has been left
running, and Jaun pushes her towards the
passenger's side and grabs the
driver-side door and quickly gets in,
jerking the shifter into drive. Kristen
quickly follows suit, and Jaun makes the
tires scream, so hard does he gun the
engine, and Kristen sees her two
abductors running into the street, a
mere 3 feet away from their car.
"Get your head down!" yells Jaun.
She complies and then hears a gun shot and
sees a puff of smoke rise from the car's
dash, nearly in front of her nose.
"Maybe this is a bit more excite than I
was really wanting" she thinks to
herself. "Too late now, though."
Jaun tells her it is safe to sit up, and
she quickly raises her head and looks
back. But there is nothing to see, so
she turns back around and nervously
folds the hem of her skirt to have
something to do with her hands.
"The plane departs in 15 minutes" Jaun
explains. "So we have to hurry." He
pulls up beside the curb, and shuts the
engine off. Turning to look at her, she
realizes that his eyes are a very deep
blue, and his lashes are so long they
somehow manage to touch his arched
eyebrows.
"Come on, no time to lose."
She gets out, and he grabs her hand and
moves towards the entrance at a fast
walk, pushing past anyone who is
standing in front of him. "Where are we
going?" she asks.
"To Switzerland, a chateau in the barren
alps of Trivoli" he replies. Looking at
her, he smiles and says, "You will like
it there. And as you may be there for a
while, be glad that the government chose
this as your "safe house". But there is
no time now for any further
explanations."
By this time, they have come to the
boarding ramp for their flight, and join
the late-comers who are entering the
plane.
They are shown to their seats, and with
a sigh of relief Kristen removes her
pumps, rubbing her left heal where she
thinks she has a blister starting.
Jaun leans closer to her and says in a
quiet undertone, "I'll need for you to
give me the tapes now."
With a quick in-take of breath, she
turns towards him, wondering how he
could have known that she had the tapes
with her.
He smiles at her with genuine warmth and
explains, "I recognized the cases when
you opened your purse to pay for your
prescription."
Blushing at her own naivity, she opens
her purse, intending to give him the
tapes. Before she can pull her hand out,
her stomach flips over and the
compartment lights flicker, as the plane
drops and then stabilizes.
With rising concern she looks out the
window beside her, and sees another
smaller, lighter jet, seemingly gliding
along as an escort to the bigger plane.
"Damn, we've been intercepted!" Jaun
growls through clenched teeth.
Knowing this is definitely more
excitement than she can comfortably
handle, she tries to clear the lump from
her throat and then asks, "Intercepted?
But....by whom...............?"
At this point after all she had been
through in the past few hours...Kristen
began uncontrollably "sobbing". Jaun
held her his his arms trying to console
her. As he held her he realized... even
though he was 20 years her senior, but
after all these years of secretly
watching over her -- he was in Love with
her. They have been drawn together
because
of her need to simply try and get what
she thought was.... 1 dishonest Chairman
out of office and now the whole Defense
Department was involved...Jaun can not
lose her now. He has to be able to tell
her his inner feeling before it's too
late.
As the airline continues to Switzerland
the smaller aircraft backs away, knowing
that if a crash occurs all the secrets
on the tape will be destroyed.
Once she finally calmed down... which
seemed like hours, he now proceed to
tell her the rest of the story.
"Uh Kristen....there's something else I
didn't mention," hoping there would be no
need to. Not only are the Istanbul
Turkey Liberalist after these tapes.
There is also a faction of our own
internal defense department that will do
anything to get ahold of these tapes.
I have been in communication with our
government all along and I know that the
Turkey Liberalist have been all killed
at the mansion that we escaped from. Our
CIA mercenaries went in and wiped out
the whole group. But, now we have a
whole new problem....the plane belongs
to the group in our organization that is
trying to overthrow our government and
they know exactly where we are going.
Even though I am able to hear the
communication of what has happened in
the USA -- I have no way of letting them
know what is now transpiring. As far as
they know we will be safely in
Switzerland soon. They won't be here to
help us."
The plane slowly transcends to the
ground. Kristen, by now is so terrified
that she cannot speak ... she is in
utter shock.
Jaun's mind is racing...he has a gut
wrenching pain.... he has to think of a
way to save this innocent girl from any
more pain.
