Trust Fall (Deadweight series: Book 1)

Prisoner

"Well? How many more till we're out?" Danny said as he sat by the bound and gagged Reena.

"I can only make Molotovs so fast, Dan. Chill." Yaman huffed angrily as he shoved torn pieces of clothes into glass bottles of alcohol before lighting them and throwing them at the zombies that were just below at the doors to the building. There angered growls filled the empty deserted office building as the wailing from the dead silenced and finally, after half an hour, the zombies had went silent.

All of them had been burned to a crisp and now, Danny and the others could move. Danny forced Reena to her feet and pushed her forward, all of them having guns out which Reena could only logically assume were loaded.

Danny stayed beside her while Yaman and Trek walked in front of them, and finally Carter walked behind Danny and Reena. They got outside the building and walked for a bit while Reena was questioned by Danny.

"Who are you with?"
"Did you do this run alone?"
"Do you know Moonlight?"

When Moonlights name was mentioned, Reena glared daggers into Danny. He laughed at this and had the group stop. "Ahhh... So you are with Moonlight. This'll be fun then."

Danny put his Ak away and pulled out a pistol, he pulled the mag out and pointed the gun at Reena's head. "Take the rag out of her mouth."

Trek did as they were told and Reena, after the rag was removed, continued to glare at Danny without speaking. This time, she didn't even flinch. With as much that had happened with Moonlight's group, she was determined to protect them. No matter what. So, she stood firm as Danny grabbed her chin.

"We could make your time with us worth while, girlie. Just tell us where Moonlights base is." He smiled as he got close to her face.

Reena spat at him. He let her go and wiped the spit from his cheek before looking at her with a harsh glare. She stepped away from him and, despite her hands being tied, tried to run but Trek and Yaman wasted no time tackling her then pulling her back to her feet and holding her in place as Danny gave a hard punch to her stomach.

The hit to her stomach sent a sharp pain threw her body and she nearly fell but Yaman and Trek held her up as she whined in pain. "F... Fuck you." Reena said as Danny grabbed her hair and pulled her head back to looked at him.

"I could've fucking thrown you to the zombies. Moonlights a dick, along with his whole crew and you will find that out. So I wouldn't protect them." He told her behind clenched teeth before releasing her hair roughly.

Reena felt tears come to her eyes as she clenched her teeth and kicked Danny in the crotch. Danny went down and Trek and Yaman nearly broke her arms slamming her against a electrical pole. Not knowing what else to do, having no one with her, and no form of communication she let out a agonizing scream.

"MOONLIGHT! TEQUILA! PLEA-!" Yaman shoved a rag in her mouth and took a rope tying her to the pole. They all listened but didn't hear any zombies and with that, after Danny recovered from the hit below the belt, he stood up and took out a knife.

Reena tried to get loose with all her strength but simply couldn't. Her heart was beating to fast and at this point, tears were running down her face. If that wasn't Moonlight's fragile... this is where she was going to die. Reena looked at Danny as he came towards her but instead of being scared, she found herself a new resilience.

She couldn't let these guys find the base. She refused to. It's put every one she's had an amazing time with in an extremely dangerous position. Tequila, Ronnie, Dingo, Moonlight, Rambo, Rey, Lasko, and Phil... It could even come back on Ella and the others. And... what about her sister? She still had to find her.

Reena thrashed around until Danny grabbed her hair again and put the knife to her neck. "You're gonna tell me where the base is or-"

A gunshot rang out nearby and Reena saw Yaman fall to the ground and a red puddle form beneath his head. Everyone went in alert but not quick enough as Trek went down after a barrage of gunfire. Danny looked around from behind cover and that's when Reena and Danny both saw Moonlight duck behind a concrete divider. Reena couldn't help but begin crying as she saw Ronnie and Rambo too.

She didn't think that they cared about someone like her that much, honestly. She was new and disposable but Moonlight still gathered a team to come help her. In a few minutes, Danny and Carter were running away with bullet wounds and Moonlight cut Reena free. She looked at them after she got the rag out of her mouth and smiled widely.

"Thank you so much... I... I really didn't expect anyone to come save me..."

Rambo looked at her after looting the bodies of Trek and Yaman. "Did you tell them about base?" He said rather harshly.

"No. No, I promise." She replied wiping her eyes.

"Are you sure? Because if you did, if you're working with-"

"Rambo." Moonlight said sternly before looking at Reena as Rambo went silent. "Are you okay?"

Reena nodded and hugged them, even though Rambo didn't give a very long hug. They accompanied her back to base, well except for Rambo who just up and left, but Ronnie and Moonlight made sure not to let her out of their sight.

She didn't know if that was a good or bad thing but she felt safe nonetheless as she made the long journey home with them. Finally, when she got home, Roadie continued to teach her self defense skills.