Sagwa couldn't believe what she had done.
She sat on the ground next to the van, huddled in a ball.
'You killed those cops, you sided with the man who is going to kill you.' She thought.
Sagwa peeked around the corner, watching as Kreed busied himself with taking the weapons from the dead cops.
She got up, staying in a low crouch and started moving away from the van slowly, he was so busy that he wouldn't notice until she was gone, just as long as she hurried up.
She stopped, trying to figure out which way to go, it was dark and she couldn't see any houses.
Where the hell am I?
Sagwa sat down on the bank a few feet from the van when she realized that running would get her nowhere considering that there was nowhere to run to.
It was like a desert, just a large patch of ground.
Until she saw the light in the distance, it was a house, it had to be.
"Where the fuck are you?"
Kreed came around the van and froze when he saw her holding her knees to her chest.
"What are you doing?"
Sagwa rolled her eyes, "Flying. What does it look like I'm doing?"
Kreed sighed and took a step closer, "I thought you would be running."
"To where?"Sagwa motioned out around her.
Kreed lent down and took hold of her upper arm, "C'mon." He started pulling her toward the van.
"What if someone finds them?"
Kreed opened the van and kept a firm grip on her arm as she climbed in, "They'll think it was a robbery."
Sagwa waited for him to clasp the cuff to her wrist, but he didn't, he simply let go of her and closed the door.
Sagwa was looking down as she rubbed her raw wrist where the cuff had rubbed when she had been jumping around earlier.
Kreed got in and glanced over at her, "We still have a while before we get where we're going, you might as well get some sleep."
She didn't need to be told twice, so she awkwardly lay down on the seat and closed her eyes.
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Kreed drove with his jaw clenched.
He glanced over at Sagwa who had finally fallen asleep; he knew he wasn't making the best choice by leaving her un-cuffed, but he couldn't bring himself to cuff her after she had helped him.
He shook his head, 'What is wrong with me?'
Sagwa turned, in her sleep she clearly forgot where she was because she fell across the seat toward him and continued sleeping even as her head hit the leather next to his leg.
Her hair had fallen across her face, and before he could stop himself, he gently moved the hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear.
He frowned at the bracelet, Brays.
She did look a bit like her father, he mused, noticing her full lips.
But what jumped out were her eyes.
Kreed shook his head and looked back out on the road, hoping his thoughts would return elsewhere and stay away from the girl he was hired to kill.
He had a job to do, and he would do it, no matter who she was related to.
He just needed to make sure he didn't start having any emotional attachment, which was something he had been good with in the past, although he had a feeling things might be changing.
There was something different about Saga Brays.
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"What are we going to do?!"Yelped Red.
He and Gabe were staying with Em at her apartment. And he had been hysterical the entire time that Sagwa was gone.
Em, who was sitting next to him, put her hand on his leg, "Calm down, we'll find her."
Raya had arrived and she sat behind Gabe, who had his head buried in his hands in his long black hair falling like a veil.
Gabe felt terrible, he felt like he was dying.
His heart hurt, literally, for Sagwa.
The woman he loved, had always loved, was out there dying, if Cortez hadn't killed her already.
Raya rubbed slow, small circles on his back, "She'll be okay, Gabriel."
Gabe clenched his jaw and didn't move.
He didn't want people telling him Sagwa would be okay, he wanted to make sure she was okay.
And until he could do that, there was no way for him to continue his life.
