Vermillion

5

"When will she wake up?" His gruff voice echoed in the room.

"In the next half hour" one of his men replied obediently.

Circe was in fact already awake, listening closely to what was happening in her surroundings, using her attentive mind to come up with a plan.

Based on the echo in the room she figured it was big, expectant of a man who was able to kidnap her from one of Europes most notorious agency's.

His voice couldn't have came from over five feet away. His mans voice came from right next to the bed however, leading her to formulate her current plan.

She jumped up quickly, but underestimated the sedative that was still in her system, causing her to stumble a little.

Quickly grabbing ahold of herself, she used her light weight to her advantage, hoisting herself up, wrapping her legs around the mans neck and twisting her body so they both came tumbling down onto the ground, her landing gracefully, straddling his face and him landing with a thud on his back.

Before anyone could come and pry her off, she bent back, grabbing his gun out of the holster on his waist and pointed it towards his face.

When she finally looked up at her surroundings, five men were standing stunned with their hands at their guns, and their supposed leader who looked just as surprised as they did, standing at the back of the room.

The room was large, as she had guessed. There was a bed in the middle of the back wall with black silk sheets. The floorboards were dark and expensive looking.

Directly across from the bed, there was a vanity with a chair in front of it, and a door leading into another room next to it.

There were two other doors in the room, but she assumed the door with the noticeable lock on it was her way out.

The walls were a deep red colour, her favourite, but that was the last thing on her mind right now.

"Where am I?" She demanded, the gun still pointed towards the worried looking mans face.

He kept squirming, causing her to become irritated with him.

She hit the butt of the gun against his temple, knocking him out instantly, stopping his annoying movements.

"That's better" she said to herself with a sadistic smile on her face.

"Drop the gun" a voice calmly demanded, causing her to once again look up.

"Or what?" She teased, twirling the gun in her hands.

"I don't have time for this foolishness, just drop the gun" He demanded again, his calm exterior slightly faltering.

"But I'm having so much fun" she pouted at him.

He didn't reply.

"Okay, here's how we're going to do this" she pulled off the safety "you are going to tell me what I am doing here" she pointed the gun at his right shoulder "or I will shoot your trusty man here" she smiled down at the unconscious man and patted his head.

"Put the gun do-" his words where cut off when the sound of a gunshot interrupted him.

"Oops" she pretended to act shocked, placing a hand over her mouth with an innocent expression, which quickly turned serious.

"There's another shoulder here just aching to be shot" she pointed the gun towards his other shoulder.

"For fucks sake, put down the gun and I will tell you" his seemingly calm facade completely dissolving as his expression turned into a frustrated one.