The Girl That No One Noticed...

Chapter 48

                                                     Sang

I woke up to find I'd been drugged at some point and was now laying on Uncle Phil's desk in his office, alone. The last thing I remembered was Sean looking sick as he hesitated on doing his job before telling him to get it over with and having the wound in my side cauterized. I struggled to sit up giving a soft groan as the room started to spin, only to find I wasn't alone after all. "Uncle Phil, what the heck did you give me to make the world spin?" I moaned out as he chuckled softly back as he helped me sit forward. 

"A small dose of sedative goes a long way to help with the pain, nothing more considering I know how much you hate being drugged, it helped you stay still while we checked you over too." Phil said it took his words a moment to register before I sent him a look of confusion. "What do you mean we?" I quipped if he'd let all those guys watch me completely naked and unconscious we'd be having a problem. "Just Dr. Green and myself the others waited outside, in fact that's where they're all at now." Phil nodded at the door and I sent it a cautious glance. 

"Is Nate doing okay?" I had to ask, no mater how much it hurt knowing he'd been harmed because of me. "He's a little worse for wear but he'll live, might have a new scar though." Phil answered truthfully to my groan. I hadn't been the one to shoot him but I'd done enough that it felt like I was the one who'd pulled that trigger, who'd caused him pain. "I ruin everything." I pouted as Phil tried to convince me otherwise, it wasn't really working as I shut him out, getting lost in my thoughts. I had made a mistake, let myself get soft and left Slou on the bathroom counter, a deadly mistake that was unlike me. 

I had been un-alert during the time of the attack, not knowing they were there until it was too late, also unlike me, I was loosing my edge, h*ll I was loosing it period. I hadn't been able to fight Rocky off and wound up captured by one of my worst enemies and then beaten and nearly strangled to death by Greg, I felt dread creep in at that thought. If I couldn't protect myself how was I supposed to keep the guys safe from the horrors of my past? The fact I had killed someone to get out of that dungeon and escape however let me know I was still capable of doing what I needed to do to survive, but for how much longer if I keep being coddled?

 I had fired a shot to kill people shooting at us and let Raven take the other when I could have shot both and possibly prevented them from getting a shot off, preventing Nathan from being shot in the first place. I had gone soft and in my situation that wasn't only deadly for myself, but for whoever I came into contact with as well. The nightmarish thoughts of watching the fourteen guys I cared about being gunned down or tortured to death had a new and painfully concrete plan in place for me. 

"Uncle Phil?" I cut off his rambling slowly as he stopped and sent me a cautiously quizzical look. "Yes?" He asked lightly, eyebrow raised in the way I loved to remember. "Do you remember when you promised me a long time ago that if I ever needed anything I could come to you for help and you would get me what I needed no questions asked?" I murmured lowly, I didn't want anyone hearing what I was about to ask him, even if his wall were supposedly sound-proof. "Yes, I remember, and I meant it." he answered truthfully even as I saw his thought gear clicking into place at my words and a frown settled on his face. "I need a plane ticket." I stated on a whisper as his frown deepened, I cut him off as he began to I assume object. 

"Remember no questions asked, and whatever I needed." I stated in a rush. "Do you think you could get me one tonight, it would have to be non-commercial?" I quizzed, Slou and a few others didn't do commercial air lines, he shrugged slightly. "To where exactly?" okay that was a question but it was a needed one. "Anywhere. Anywhere but here." the words hurt my heart to say as the pain cut deep in my chest so much worse than all my other injuries. I didn't want to leave but I knew I had to run to save these boys from me and my past, where I went the horrors would surely follow. I wasn't so much scared for myself anymore, after being the girl no one noticed for so long I was good at the disappearing act, good at running and so that's what I was going to do. 

"I'll see what I can do, but what about..." he trailed off as he nodded to his office door, I kept my face expressionless to hide the pain that implication brought. "Remember old man, no questions." I gritted out as he nodded and started to type at his computer. "Here's one headed for Phoenix Arizona, it's a cargo flight leaving at 6 in the morning, would that work?" he questioned softly. "Perfectly, but I need another favor from you." I murmured out as he bought and printed the ticket out for me before handing it over, I clutched it tightly in my hand. "Anything." he responded instantly, I truly loved the man before me like the father figure I never had in that moment. 

"I need you to go to victors and grab my go-bag from under the bed, Slou off of the bathroom counter and it would help even more if you could find a way to have Harper in the parking lot for me by 4 in the morning." I said as I jotted out the items I needed and exactly how and where to find them in Victor's mansion of a home, writing it down so it would be easier on the old man. I had been enjoying my time with the guys, even settling in more with them but that had never stopped me from keeping a go-bag packed with my weapons, and all other essentials in case I needed to disappear, fast. 

"Everything will be waiting for you in the parking garage beside my car by 4 o'clock. And Sang please promise me you'll be careful, wherever you go." the old man said as he stepped away from his computer and hugged me as firmly as he could without jarring my injuries any more than they had been. "I'll do my best." I murmured out, holding back the tears that threatened to fall, I couldn't make promises that I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep.

 "Well you should get some rest if you plan on getting up early and sneaking out past those boys, I don't think you need any more sedative, but it's over on that chair if you do." Phil pointed and I nodded solemnly back. "I love you little one." Phil's eyes softened towards me and the tears welled up even stronger as I continued to fight them back. "Love you too old man." somehow the words felt like one of the worst goodbyes I'd ever said.

 With one last short nod he left the room, closing the door softly behind him, leaving me to my sad, lonely and depressing thoughts. Those thoughts quickly turned back to the old mans previous words, how exactly was I going to sneak past fourteen Academy guys without some help? I mulled the question over for a few moments before my eyes landed on a chair in the corner, maybe I wouldn't have to sneak out after all, a little sedative does go a long way you know.....hmm.