Where are you going?

Chapter 19

Julia's POV:

He held the gun with one hand as the other held my hands while he rushed me to walk along the dark streets of LA. We were walking fast close to the brick wall, scraping my skin sometimes. Something had definitely changed and I had to know what had happened to him before I went any longer with him into the dark. I stopped in my tracks and pulled him into the hard wall before getting a look at him, but he noticed and held on to me harder and forced me to stop in my action. "Don't! They are testing my trust, Julia. A few are walking just 50 feet away. Just do as I say. Trust me.". I kept going as he told and kept my ear close to his voice as he was guiding me a long the street and poking me with the gun, which I thought was a bit exaggerating. "Gangs?". I asked. "Yeah. All of them, together.". His voice was so quiet yet so deep and it made me curious but also kinda scared. Even if I succeeded in turning around and looking at him, it would probably be too dark to see his face. "Where are you taking me? And what the fuck were all of those women doing in the basement?". "I'm newbie, remember? I only know that you have to go to B14 because you didn't cooperate.". I Heard him lightly chuckle but shut up as he remembered it wasn't anything good. "He tried to touch me.". I said as I could hear his breathing getting faster and sounding angry just by hearing that. "I think that's the last thing you should worry about in here. They are doing some eerie shit in here. Just keep slapping whoever tries to touch you, and I will try to save your ass.". "Colby?". "Yeah?". "What is B14?". "I wish I knew.". I looked around a discovered other gang members dressed almost the same, with the bandanas covering their mouths, like I could hear Colby did. They were all doing their business while a few noticed Colby and I but made nothing out of it. There was light wherever they all were going, and being about 20 on both of our sides, a lot of light was around me and I saw a lot clearer after getting used to it. Colby walked towards one of the men, carrying a bag of something I didn't know yet and asked where B14 was and walked away with me again. "I don't think this is good, Julia, but if I run out with you right now, they will shoot. Trust me, I've seen people like you and I try.". He kept saying that, but I also needed to hear something he hadn't told me yet. I believed him and how the odds were, but what would they want from me, a stupid little girl who slapped one of them and heard a little too much? And what were they doing in that basement? "I believe you, just... just don't do anything stupid Colby. I'm not blind, they've hurt you. They hurt those women too.". A few minutes went by and Colby turned towards the big glass door with my handcuffs in his hands. Two armed men looking like the other gang members were immediately by our sides and followed us as Colby whispered something in their ears and later kept going away with me. We went further into the building and I started to hear the music and see the lights, reminding me of the club but I soon saw what this really was. Half-naked dancers were hanging from the ceiling while some were sitting in laps of men I couldn't recognize. Alcohol and drugs were in the air and clearly doing well on the people in the room except me and Colby. This was a brothel, with eager visitors and worn out workers whom I hoped still was conscious even though it didn't always look like it. Colby and I just went through the room without letting out any surprise and kept going further into the room, turned left and back another door into another room dimmer. This room wasn't as occupied as the first but scarier and intoxicating. My body froze when seeing the men in front of me, but Colby didn't notice yet. Justin who I slapped and two others were sitting behind a big round table in the middle of the dim room. Colby was keeping up his façade better than me and kept walking until a man stopped him and grabbed me by the arms. I saw Colby being dragged by two other men and in one quick action was tied to a chair in front of the big round table and in the hands of Justin. Behind the table were two men, and I now recognized one of them. Adam from the motel was sitting with his cocky smirk and looking me up and down. His green eyes followed my edges, my line and he just kept sitting peacefully in that couch of his. Well fuck me. Whoever was dragging me didn't give a shit about my wrist or the rest of me, because soon I was pushed to the concrete floor and hit it hard. I heard Colby struggling in the tied rope and how he discovered Adam, who he had beaten to unconsciousness. Guess he became conscious afterwards. "Tie her up and tread her like a real lady for fuck sakes, Benjamin. Have some fucking manners. Ha.". I heard Justin's laugh echo in the big room. I jumped out of the place I was laying and kicked Benjamin on his knee, making him scream and land on the floor. I though good of Benjamin, but I guess he was right. My attitude only gave me problems. "Fucking Christ. Grab her!". I rushed towards the table and hammered the handcuffs' chain on the sharp edge, broke it and punched one of the men approaching me before I was hammered into a steel chair and tied with rope like Colby. I hit the guy pretty hard, but only because of the adrenaline pumping in my veins and the stupid look on his face. It felt good and so I kept going before I knew what I only imagined what would happen to me. Something Adam and Justin never finished and something I never wanted them to start.

I was in the chair, tied like Colby looking into his eyes. I kept the eye contact until they started to hit him while he just sat there in the chair. "STOP! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!". I yelled. I just heard the fists hitting Colby's body, shattering the thought of his healing body and making me angry. Adam stood up from hovering over Colby and turned towards me with the smirk of his. "aw how sweet. A pretty in love with the newbie. Don't worry, I'm just finishing him the way he couldn't finish me at the motel, sweety. But I would honestly worry if I were you, I mean you should've seen what he did to those women just when he arrived. Horrible monster Newbie.". "Shut up you filthy liar! Julia don't believe a word he says!". Colby yelled back from the place he was pinned down at and looked at me through the pain he felt. His eyebrow was busted and he had a black eye from Adam but I could see his blue eyes clear, and I could see him telling me the truth. Colby would never hurt anyone, right? But why did it fell weird to say that then? He had killed zombies, knocked out five men and beat up Adam. He did all that to save himself or me. "Aaaghr PLEASE! You almost beat that girl to death, Newbie!". Adam yelled again trying to control his anger in before punching Colby again. I didn't say anything this time. I honestly didn't know what to say. Adam grabbed something from his pocket and folded it to then look at it himself. He walked slowly towards me and I saw Colby's head fall and hang, looking down on the floor as if he was embarrassed, but no sound left his mouth either. Adams bloody hands held on to the picture and held it in front of my face, forcing me to look at it. I could still hear the music in the background, the laughter from the room next to us and the smell of prostitution filled this room as well. The picture didn't scare me as much as Colby quietness did and I forced myself to look away from it. From the dead girl laying on the floor with Colby's shoe next to her. I didn't want anything to do with it. I wanted to have New York's streets under me and its light above me. I wanted Violette's arms around me and I wanted to start over in so many ways. I wanted nothing to do with this, even though I didn't fully believe Colby did this. That's when I heard his whisper. I heard his beautiful voice. "I only knocked down five dickheads to the ground and made a big fat idiot unconscious because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants.". Before Adam could turn around to Colby, I lifted my leg into his crotch and kicked him in the balls, later on hearing his pathetic scream and then Justin's arms grab me. I saw Colby free from his chair some way and I smiled at him to make him know I believed him. He wouldn't kill just to kill. Tell me whatever you want and remind me I only have known him for four days, but he has saved my life more than one time. I saw his blue eyes again, I saw his dark hair, his full lips, his busted eyebrow and his big figure in front of me. Then I saw the gun beside his head and my lungs began to fire with my voice into the room. "STOP! DON'T SHOOT!". Everybody stopped in their tracks and both Benjamin, the guy I punched in the face and Adam stood up from the floor. Justin was behind me and the third man I never really got the name of had the gun in his hand, pointing at Colby's head. "Take your clothes of and we won't shoot... Pretty.". His word made my body froze again and created bad goosebumps on my skin. "Fine! As you want!". I yelled, felling a gun pointed at myself while Justin loosened the rope around my arms and the chair. When I was free from it I looked around and saw the men having a creepy and yearning look at me when I stood up from the chair. I knew what they wanted from me at that point. And I knew I had no choice to fight. These men weren't real humans, but sick minded criminals knowing my worth as a woman in their world. I kept my eyes away from them all, including Colby as I took of my pants. I was shaking by the feeling of vulnerability but felt better when I saw how Colby had closed his eyes and turned his head the other way. The room was cold now, and it was quiet around me until one of them spoke again. "Take all of you clothes of or Adam will!". I knew they only looked at me as an animal and a way of earning money, of course not Colby but everyone else. I hurried with the shirt and threw it on the floor, loosing my dignity as they wanted. But also gaining what I wanted. They stood still for many seconds where Colby grabbed the gun out of the hands, I grabbed the other while exposed and shot Justin in his leg, then Adam the same place. The sound of the bullets getting shot out left a ringing sound in my ear and a shock though my arm and I saw the bullet rip through the so delicate skin of both men. "C'mon we need to hurry.". Colby had already shot the two others and the guards who stood by the door, leaving us alone in the bloody scene near the couch and round table. I didn't feel any regret in shooting them and left it there. I saw the big watch in the wall and saw it was midnight, I saw the surprised look on Colby and then saw him shoot one last time at the two men I never got to finish. The last thing I saw was the pale look in their faces and a left question they never answered me. What did they want?