Line Of Fire •L.A•

24. Is Not To Be... Pt. ll

Felicity can feel the cold cement beneath her. She can tell she's not in the back of the SUV anymore. She wants desperately to go back asleep to stop the throbbing in her head but a voice is talking to her." Felicity? Felicity?"

She can't place who is calling her name but then a new voice joins in the pleading." Flick? Wake up."

She pulls her eyes open at Luke's tone. When her vision clears, she moves her head to the direction of his voice. Her minds registers that her hands are stuck behind her back. She blinks a few times and everything comes into focus. Luke is tied up across from her. Matt behind him.

"What happened?" She coughs, blinking rapidly due to the pounding in her head.

"I'm not sure." Luke answers, he winces as he leans his head back and Felicity notices the blood on his cheek. Him and Matt are breathing heavy.

"Where's Tara?" Matt asks.

"I don't know." Luke answers a second time. "Not here."

"FBI tough guys!" A man enters the room. He looks at Felicity with a sickening smirk." And girls." He walks into the light so they can see him fully. He seems oddly familiar but Felicity can't place why.

He's got gray spiked hair and he's wearing full biker black leather. A ugly scar sits on his even uglier face.

"It's been a long time."

"Where's Doctor Lewis?" Luke exclaims staring up at him.

"We left that broad behind. This isn't about her." The man mutters before leaning down in front of Luke. "You don't remember me do you?" He smiles at him. Luke just gives him a blank stare. "Or maybe I've confused you with the whole Phillip Dowd thing."

"You knew him?" Matt asks, his breathing coming out strained.

"Nah, I just knew that if I copied the worst killer this towns ever seen." His smile widens."You guys would come running. Right as soon as the bodies started dropping."

Luke's gaze hardens." So here we are. You made a big mistake kidnapping three fbi agents."

The man chuckles as he stands. Then he kicks Luke in the side. Felicity gasps as his head shoots back and his teeth grit together in pain. But in seconds his turns his eyes up to look at the man. His hard gaze turning more venomous than Felicity thought possible.

"Remember me now?"

"Doesn't ring a bell. We put away a lot of dirtbags like you." He spats.

The man moves towards Felicity. Before she can do anything, he grabs her hair and pulls her head back to look at him. Pain erupts on her scalp and she grinds her teeth together to keep from screaming out." Take a good look at me, Coben." He whispers, coming a little too close for comfort.

The name makes Felicity freeze. How did he know?

He gives her a smug smile before he moves on to Matt." What about you, Simmons?"

He forces Matt to turn to him." It's the scars isn't it?" He says as Matt squints.

"Maybe it's an improvement." Matt mutters, turning away with a scowl.

The man chuckles as he gets to his feet. Felicity watches as he swings and hits Matt square in the face. He walks off to the side and lights a cigarette as if he hadn't been doing anything wrong.

After a short while he walks back. His face somehow harder than it had already been. He leans back down in front of Matt and begins saying something in a language Felicity can't understand. Until the last word. The name Bobby. When Matt just glares at him, he pulls open his shirt and puts out his cigarette on Matt's chest.

Matt hisses in pain and his head falls onto his chest. "Son of a-"

"You three are gonna pay for what you did to my brother." He points threatening fingers at the agents.

"What we did to Bobby?"

He jumps forward to Luke's eye level." Don't you ever say his name! Ever!" His voice grows quiet." He's dead because of you." He makes eye contact with Felicity." They beat him to death right in front of me. And then they made sure my face would be a reminder. For the rest of my life." He seethes as he runs a finger over his scar. Felicity realizes exactly who he is as he finishes his speech.

"That's all on you, Louie. You can't be a hit man for the Chicago mob and not know that you and your family are gonna be marked." She answers, eyeing Luke and Matt. If she could distract this lunatic, maybe she could buy them some time to figure something out.

He stares at her with enraged eyes." No! You!" He points at Felicity then at Luke and Matt." And you two! Allowed them to put me and Bobby in general population." He stalks forward to felicity and leans in close." With Los Reyes. Because you knew exactly what they were going to do to us." Out of the corner of her eye she notices his hand shaking and she knows what's to come. She braces herself.

"Prisons a dangerous place!" Luke calls out from behind them. From his tone Felicity can tell he's trying to get Louie away from her.

Damn you, Luke Alvez.

Louie turns immediately and socks Luke in the face. "I will watch all of you suffer and die just like my brother." He growls as blood trickles from Luke's mouth. Felicity can feel her heart beating in her ears.

Louie leaves them for a moment as his second in command enters. They share angry tones as they make their way out of the room, and all three take that time to struggle to their feet. They can hear his men yelling in the distance.

"Something important is going down tonight." Luke mutters." And they're not going to keep us around for the main event."