Arrows - Animo Sequel {Completed}

Chapter Eleven: Security

Chapter Eleven: Security

Mo's P.O.V.

There was a quiet creak outside the door, like someone had stepped on a loose floorboard. I sat up from where I'd been lying on the bed. I wasn't sure what time it was or how long I'd been just lying there, praying for death. It had to be the next day though. Why else would the door be opening right then? It was time to leave. Time for me to live out the rest of my life married to an alien I despise.

Didn't mean I was going to go that easily.

I couldn't see who was coming for me, but as soon as a pair of hands grabbed my arms I flung myself onto my back and started kicking my legs out, trying to land a hit somewhere. Anywhere. "Don't touch me," I snapped. "Leave me alone."

Whichever alien it was wasn't talking, which unnerved me a little. They could at least make some noise, right, so I didn't feel like I was fighting a ghost? No dice. Not a sound.

I was grabbed around my waist and thrown over someone's shoulder. We started moving instantly. It was like they were in a hurry to get me on their spaceship and back to their planet. I tried kicking again, but the person grabbed my ankles and just kept running.

"Put me down!" I all but screamed. "I'm not going! You can't take me, I'm not who you think I am!" The only sound my captor made was a quiet shushing. I wasn't going to be quiet. "No! Put me down!"

Not being able to see what was happening and not really knowing my surroundings that well anyway, on top of having a kidnapper who won't talk to me was incredibly disorienting and I didn't enjoy it. At all. Not to mention the fact that I could hear footsteps thundering after us. Jesus, was the whole group escorting me to the ship? Why were we running? Surely they didn't think the Avengers were coming for me. And why was I thrown over someone's shoulder? I sure as hell didn't want to leave Earth, but I could walk on my own and keep my dignity in tact.

I was finally set on my feet what seemed like ages later. I stumbled a little, but it didn't take long for my temper to come back. "Jesus Christ, Garfield, I'm perfectly capable of walking myself to my doom. I'm not some stupid damsel in distress."

Calloused fingertips touched my face; I flinched and tried to shy away. Barely a heartbeat later the blindfold was gone and I could see again for the first time in hours. It wasn't Garfield's sly face and cold, dark eyes staring back at me.

"Barton?" I said quietly, my tone one of disbelief. My best friend, the man who'd hurt me in more ways than I could imagine in the last two days alone, was standing before me, his hands clasped in front of him and his blue eyes watching mine.

The right corner of his lips quirked upward. "Hi, Mo," he said, his voice just as soft as mine was.

I jumped on him. He stumbled backward in surprise, catching me around the waist just before I could ricochet off of him and hit the floor. He held me tightly, one arm around my waist while the other had a hand in my hair. He was shaking; I could feel his body trembling against me. I tightened my grip on him and laid my head on his shoulder. Was I crying? I couldn't tell. I couldn't comprehend anything. Seeing Barton in front of me, back to normal again, was like a shock to my senses. I couldn't speak.

I was not going to be the one to break up the hug. Barton eventually stepped back and planted his hands firmly on my hips. I could feel every one of his fingertips pressing against me. He was grinning, that same look that he always seemed to save just for me. He was really himself again. He'd come back for me.

I was tearing up but pretending that I wasn't. "How did you know where to find me?"

With his pinky, Barton tapped the corner of the cell phone Fury had given me that I had stashed in my back pocket. I hadn't parted with it, even after I'd been returned home at the end of that first year. It worked much better than mine, anyway. Barton's wide grin lessened into a soft smile. "The tracking device in your phone. Did you really think Fury wouldn't have added that feature in?"