Chapter 17

Chris raised his hands in defence “Hey I was just about to then the next thing I know, 3 guys jump me. I was a little preoccupied in not dying I sort of forgot about him.” Chris explained, and I sighed in frustration. Jace raises an arm in the air to get our attention “Um...Can someone explain what the hell is going on?” His voice cuts in. Chris looks at him for a few seconds, and then turns to me completely ignoring his remark “What are we going to do about him?” Chris asks me, pointing to Jace. I look at Jace up and down; mentally debating on what would be the best thing to do with him. I ignore the screaming in my body as I gazed at him, and just focused on the feelings of hate that I had towards the boy. “Free him into the big wide world and let him go home.” I reply bitterly “He’ll keep his mouth shut if he knows what’s good for him.” I notice Jace flinch a little at my cold words, but I ignore him. “Faith we leave him to fend for himself he will be dead by the morning.” Chris counters talking about Jace like he is a circus animal being freed into the wild “You heard that guy; he knows him and is going to his boss. This guy has a big bull’s eye on his forehead now.” He points at Jace. I clench my jaw as I realise how right he is. I look at Jace again, the thoughts of the last conversation we had 3 years ago flashing through my head. I can feel the anger boiling inside of me. I turn back to Chris. “Well we could just dispose of him ourselves?” I suggest, and I can hear Jace’s gasp at my words. “Dispose of me?” Jace repeats in shock “I’m not a fucking bin bag!” “I can put you in one if you like?” I propose taking a few steps forward as the urge to hit him overtakes me. Just before I reach him I feel Chris arm on my stomach stopping me. My eyes are glued to Jace’s, and instead of being intimidated like everyone else who is at the end of my threats, he stares back at me with a curious expression. Almost like he wanted to see if I would go through with my word. “Faith, he’s a civilian. You know we can’t kill him and we can’t leave him alone.”Chris explains slowly in an attempt to calm me down. My glares never leave Jace’s. “So basically, he’s coming with us. Ed can decide what to do with him.” Chris concludes, and I shoot my head to him giving him the glare now. “He’s coming with us?!” “You never know, he did work with the drug dealer-” Chris stops himself and turns to Jace “What was his name?” he asks him. “Dan was a drug dealer?!” Jace shrieks in shock, and Chris turns his head back to me. “He did work with Dan for-” Chris stops and once again looks at Jace. “How long did you work with him for?” “I worked with a drug dealer for a year?!” Jace shrieked again, and it seemed like he wasn’t even hearing Chris voice anymore, he was just shouting to himself in disbelief. Chris turns back to me “He did work with Dan for a year; he could be useful in tracking him down.” Chris justifies finally. I clench my jaw as I take in his words, and I can see his eyes reassuring me that it will be fine, that I just need to relax. After 3 years of living and working with Chris, I knew him pretty well, which includes being able to read the looks he gives people with his eyes extremely clearly. I sigh in defeat and give him a small nod. He smiles slightly and takes the arm off my stomach that was stopping me from plunging a fist into Jace’s face earlier. I turn my face to look at Jace, who had got out of his shocked state about his colleague and was looking at me to give him the final decision. “I guess you’re coming with us then Jace.” I finally say through gritted teeth. I actually notice Jace attempt to hide a smile “Is is a long drive?” he asks, and I fur my brows at the random question. “It’s about 45 minutes in the car, why?” I ask puzzled. The smile is released onto his face “Because you have a lot of explaining to do, and 45 minutes to do it in.” He announces, and suck my teeth in irritation. Jace knows that I’m annoyed as I used to do it all the time when I was younger when someone pissed me off. Even through the current circumstances, he just couldn’t help his obnoxiousness “Can we stop for doughnuts on the way? I didn’t eat at lunch.” I reach for my gun again, but Chris’s hand is once more on me before I pull it out. Chris has an amused look on his face that matches Jace’s. Great, they’re both irritating assholes. “Let’s just go before I add a 5th person to my body count tonight.” I state calmly, turning to walk out of the shoe shop we had destroyed while hearing the sniggers of both of them behind me. Oh this car journey should be fun with Jace’s questions about the last 3 years. I should have shot him when I had the chance.