Before it's too late

Prudence

     'Now' Prudence mouthed when she saw the dim flashlight start to turn to their room. Hector lunged at the woman, sending his knife into her shoulder and causing her to topple to the ground where Prudence grabbed her gun and shot her, twice. As soon as their officer screamed though, the rest came running.

Irons was next in, putting a bullet in Hectors abdomen and the impact caused him to tumble into the wall, Prudence threw her dagger but it missed Irons and slammed into the doors frame instead.

"We are the police put your weapons down and hands up" Irons stated as he took aim at Prudence. She had already lost her weapon but her room was filled with other options.

Another officer emerged through the door and moved to cuff Hector as officer Irons kept his gun aimed at Prudence. But Hector grabbed her arm and pulled her down. He bit down hard on her arm and she shrieked in pain and shot him, once in the leg and then again the in arm, he released her from his mouths harsh grip but not before taking a bite out of her. She was shaking with fear as she saw her exposed muscle. While Hector was taking chunks out of Burns, Prudence spun around grabbed three arrow heads, freshly sharpened and threw them in all directions. Irons got one to the rib and crumbled at the touch but kept his gun pointed at her and shot. He unluckily missed her heart, she was fast and had punched through her window, the bullet grazed her thigh as she jumped and fell down to the ground with a thud.

"Get him and call for back up" Irons demanded as he ran down the stairs to catch her.

Prudence had never been this afraid, maybe afraid wasn't the right word. She wasn't afraid anymore, not of anything, well she was afraid when Agnes was taken away but now she saw that the fear she had for Agnes was really just rage against the people that took her. All these people, just as their father said, taking what belonged to them, breaking into their home, threatening them with guns. Guns are used for hunt, not for pleasure, these officers were shooting at her for pleasure she thought with a huff as she lunged out the window and for a moment she was flying. She felt her leg snap as she hit the ground and screamed out in pain.

"Stop running" Irons demanded his scream echoed through the wind. "Put your hands up! You are under arrest for the abduction of-"

"Oh bite me" she yelled and lunged at him, but Irons knew better than to let the bad guys get away. He shot her and this time he made sure he didn't miss.

"Agnes, sweetie stay in the car, we will be right back." The officers shut her in, locked the doors but she wasn't going to sit back and watch them destroy her family.

"There you go" Drake said with ease as the door slammed shut. Saoirse was still in his very unpredictable grasp. "Now what to do with you?" He hissed in her ear. "Not so fast," he was tired of all this fighting back, he moved his dagger momentarily and jammed it into her stomach.

"Ahh" she screamed, then began to pant, he stabbed her. Her eyes grew wide within that moment of pain and he let her fall to the ground, clutching her own stomach, trying to stop the blood from spilling to the floor.

"No, no, no" Cassie said helplessly. They were here to save them and now... the Durr's were going to kill them as well.

"Leave her alone" Trevor screamed "I'm begging you." He knew it was no good, but he had to do something, say something. He couldn't just sit there and let him hurt her.

"Oh you are begging me are you?" Drake bent down to Trevor's cage and smiled. "She begged for her hubby," he pointed the dagger soiled in Saoirse's blood towards Cassie's cage "he begged for his sissy," the blood spirted off the dagger as he moved it towards Rodrigo's cage "and you beg for her..." he let out a wicked laugh. "You people don't get it, beg all you want, your cries mean nothing to me, to any of us."

"How many are you?" Coleman said as he adjusted to sit, he was too tall and had to slump over slightly.

"Ha" Drake huffed as he heaved Saoirse off the ground.

"Leave her be" Coleman warned but his threat was useless when he was the one inside the cage, with no way of getting out.

"Ha," Drake said again as he moved to strap her down to the table.

"No" Trevor screamed out and began banging on the cage, as hard as he could, hoping that maybe this time the cages door would give way and he would be able to save her.

"What you doing over their? What are you doing to her?" Coleman questioned as Rodrigo and Cassie turned away from the table unable to look at what was to come of their supposed rescuer. "What are you doing?" Coleman barked but a caged dog didn't cause even a hesitation as he lifted her body onto the table, he didn't struggle he lifted her with ease but slapped her down hard.

"Your friends outside?" Drake questioned as he pulled Saoirse's arm down to the cuff, her shoulder popped out and she screamed again as she punched at Drake and kicked at him trying to get away but his strength was too much for her, she couldn't win.

"Yeah and they are about to come marching in here and take your filthy ass to jail so you might as well stop what you are doing" Coleman stated as strong and as authoritatively as he could while trapped, crouched in a blood soaked cage. "You don't need another death on your hands." Coleman tried to reason.

"Please stop, please stop" Trevor said over and over as he continued to pound on the cage.

"You don't have to do this" Coleman said as calmly as possible, he held onto his leg, stopping the blood from oozing out of his wound.

"Oh but I do." Saoirse was strapped down but still fighting to get free.

"Damn it IRONS" Coleman bellowed, "that was your freaking cue to come save us!" Coleman waited, staring at the door willing Brent to come running in and save the day. But the door remained shut and the cages remained closed and Saoirse remained struggling on the table, crying out for help, for help she knew she wouldn't get.

"That's it, in the car, time to go." Burns slammed the curser shut and cursed down at her arm. "He bit me" she said through gritted teeth.

"Where's the girl? Agnes kept talking about a sister."

"Irons has got her." And as if on cue he brought a very pissy Prudence up in handcuffs slamming her in next to her brother.

"Good work Irons."

"You too Burns." She was now covering her arm with her opposing hand but blood continued to spill out.

"Medics are already on the way." Officer Johnson stated, she had brought up the cars and called it in, more officers were on the way. This whole area all 22 acres would be a crime scene.

"Wait," Irons looked around cautiously, "where are Coleman and Saoirse? They were supposed to..." Irons looked to the barn. "Get ready to move, weapons at the ready," he motioned for the barn and the others followed. Burns stayed by the car, she didn't notice that Agnes had gotten out of the rover and was sneaking back inside her house.

Agnes didn't see her siblings in the car, she didn't see that they were in trouble. She stayed low and stayed out of the light, out of sight. Which was easy because her family never used artificial light, only candle light and sunshine. She made her way into her house where she saw that the kitchen table was pushed out of the way and muddy footprints trailed along the old floor.

"Prudence?" She whispered "Drake?" She made her way up the stairs slowly "Hec-" but then she saw it. She wanted to scream but she cupped her hand over her mouth instead. There was a body in her house. A dead body in her house. She rushed around it but her shoes hit the blood and she dragged tiny bloody footprints with her up the stairs.

"Pru-pr-purdence" she cried softly, but her house was empty. She let tears fall down her face as she slumped to the floor. People were mean, they took away her siblings, they took her away from her family and now they were sure to hurt her family, and then her. She wouldn't let that happen. She looked out the window when she came back down to the kitchen and saw the lights from the police cars, and she knew what she had to do.