The Claim

Fire And Fury

The drive to Elijah's cabin was quick, even if it didn't feel like it to Jensen. He was desperate to get to the cabin and his mind kept playing tricks on him, telling him that she was already dead and that there was nothing he could do to save her. Shaking those thoughts from his mind, he focused on the road ahead and noticed the turn to the dirt road he had been eager to see.

The cars stopped half a mile away from the house. Since they had the element of surprise, Jensen thought it would be wise to use it. They would flank the cabin from all sides and attack all at once. He had made his orders very clear: kill everyone on sight and find Eloise. His men could kill them all, Jensen didn't care, but Elijah was his. He wanted to be the one to kill the son of a bitch that had taken the woman he loved prisoner.

It didn't take long for Elijah's men to be defeated. Jensen's men were fast and real sharpshooters, while Elijah's were a mess with no particularly good skills whatsoever, making them easy targets. They made quick work around the cabin until the very last hallway. It was heavily guarded and Jensen knew that was it.

A few of Elijah's men tried to ambush Jensen's men, but it only resulted in them getting beaten to a pulp and then executed. Jensen knew they were close, he knew the only reason for that hallway to be so heavily guarded was because they were guarding something important.

The door at the end of the hallway opened and shots were fired. Jensen told his men to hold their fire, afraid that a stray bullet might hit Eloise. Telling Jake to take his position, he waited for him to have a clean shot. The men on the other end kept shooting and when they were reloading, Jensen could've sworn he had heard Elijah's voice yelling that he had won.

Jake was lying on the ground, ready, when the first man came out from cover and started shooting again. Jake took a deep breath and pulled the trigger. Elijah's man didn't see it coming. "One down.", Jensen heard Jake say. It didn't take long for Jake to take down the second shooter, and for them to make their way down the hallway.

When Jensen walked in the room, Elijah was standing behind a very bloodied and unconscious Eloise, his gun pressed to the side of her head. Anger took over and Jensen lost it. Lunging at Elijah, Jensen punched and kicked Elijah until he had to be pulled back from him. When he looked down at him, Elijah was dead, being beaten to death.

Freeing himself from his men, Jensen kneeled in front of Eloise and tried to wake her up, but with no success. Checking her pulse, he found it weak and knew she needed a hospital. Yelling at his men to find something to take the cuffs off of her, Jensen kept caressing Eloise's face and talking to her, coaxing her to fight and to stay with him.

Someone found the keys in Elijah's pockets and freed Eloise from her restraints. Jensen picked her up and carried her back to his car, which was now parked just outside the cabin. He didn't know who had brought the car there but he was beyond thankful.

The drive to the hospital was silent, with the exception of Jensen's voice whispering in Eloise's ear to stay with him, tears streaming down his face, breaking the hearts of the two men that were in the car with him. All they could do was hope and pray that Eloise would be okay, otherwise their boss would never be the same.