Chapter 187: No one could have known
Pickle POV
I need to quit dwelling there's nothing to do now but to figure this place out. They fucked us right out of the gate. I should have listened to my gut and backed out when we followed them here. They had at least thirty men in here hiding and waiting. We went down fighting though, the kid even held his own almost as long as Gio did.
We didn't have a chance though, there was too many of them. They knew what they were doing and went with safety in numbers, something that we underestimated.
No one could have known their numbers had grown that quickly, our intell was only two weeks old.
Gio is alive still, I can hear his shallow breathing now. His face is fucked, his nose and cheek bone are broken for sure I heard that shit break when they hit him with a lead pipe on day one.
His eye brows spilt open, not important enough to worry about now but that electrical burn that they cut open on his leg looks infected now and that's going to give us some issues. I might have to carry him out. No I can't he's going to need to walk cause I can't carry them both out. I'm not leaving that kid behind if he's still breathing. Gio's tall and lean but hopefully he can help get the kid up on my shoulder.
I'm going to have to set my shoulder back in place first thing. I slowly try to lift my legs up so I'm in a L position. I moan out in pain quickly quieting myself as the lashes on my back reopen and the pain is almost blinding. I take a deep breath and try again my shoulder and my ribs scream out from the pain, I lower my legs and do it again and again, working out my stiff muscles and getting them to work through the pain.
I'm going to have to grab them with my legs and squeeze keeping them wrapped up til they pass out or I can snap their necks. Then I'm going to have to try and untie my hands with my burnt feet and fall about seven feet on my back. My raw, bloody, freshly whipped back. Yeah no problem sounds like a breeze!
I stop and take some breaths trying to ease my pain some. I whip my head over to Gio, I don't hear him breathing now and I can't see well enough to see if his chest is rising and falling.
"Gio" I whisper. Please don't be dead.
"Gio" I say a little louder. Come on man move or something. The lights to low in here and with the blood in my eye plus the swelling I can't see that clearly.
"Giovanni" I say as loud as I can without drawing attention to us.
He begins to stir and moan. That's it come on wake up.
"Gio can you hear me?" I say quietly.
He turns his head to me and nods. I notice now part of his ear is gone. His whole head on the side is caked in dried blood. They fucking cut his ear mostly off.
"When they come back act asleep and get ready to fight for your life" I say.
He nods and smiles more blood coming from his mouth.
I hear a hum and a slight mechanical moving sound. I try to look around without making it look obvious. There in the left corner I see a camera.
"Gio keep your head down we're being watched. It's too far to tell if it has sound or just picture. Only small movements from now on until we know who's someone is watching us. I hope I'm right and it's my brother."
I move my hand the best I can and tap out Brain in morse code on my other hand. The light on the camera starts going on and off. It does it a few times, it's morse code. Thank god my brother found us, now we just need to buy some time till they bust in here and save our asses.
"Get ready" is all he says. I nod slightly and smile the best I can with my bruised and swollen face.
Just then the door flys open and three men come dragging in the kid. Two men pulling him by his arms letting his feet drag behind them. He's unconscious and really bloody, he starts moaning as they bring him in front of me.
I can't remember his name he's Marco's nephew. That's shity of me, more then likely they are going to kill him to get a reaction from us and I can't remember his name.
"You awake?" One asks while the one not holding the kid up walks over and punches me right in the jaw and before I can even taste the blood I jerk my head up and quickly grab him in between my legs and squeeze while I lift him up the best I can. I can feel his bones breaking with each tight squeeze between my thighs. I keep squeezing as he fights me, I squeeze as hard as I can till I feel him take his last breath. He's dead before the others realize what just happened.
I let his body fall to the ground as I start laughing a crazy bloody laugh. I look down at his body and spit a mouth full of blood on it. "Come on bitches! Let's do this!" I yell looking back up at the others laughing harder and louder.
A man I didn't see before runs at me with a knife. He lunges at me, I lift my legs at the perfect time kicking him in to Gio.
Gio manages to get the guy in a hold with the knife wielding hand straight up and the other locked under Gio's leg. I watch with pride as the man who whined and cried the loudest about how MMA has no place in real street life and death scenarios squeezes a man hopefully to death with a move I taught him using this exact scenario.
I laugh harder as I gather all the spit and blood I can and spit it at the fatter man that's now staring me down realizing they're about to lose another man. I laugh as some of it hits his face and neck.
He wipes it off dynamically as he drops his part of the kid. He quickly grabs his gun from his pants pointing it at me. I feel the bullet pierce my skin as all hell breaks loose. I scream in pain as I feel the bullet rip through my chest. I hear gun fire in the hall way some where and I know my brother's found us. They dropped the kid on ground, he's unconscious so he should be safe-ish for now at least.
It's getting hard to breathe my chest feels too tight. I can hear my blood dripping on the ground even over the noise and just before everything goes black I see my brother running for me yelling my name.