"Black Rose, I'm wounded and in this state I can't drive…"
'I will help you if you cover your face.'
"Alright but first let's go back to the car because there is a first aid kit in the trunk."
Mouse went back to the car and opened the trunk and then opened the door of the passenger side and sit down and but the seat back, he took of his jacked and shirt off.
"Alright Black Rose, the trunk is open and my face is covered."
Jenifer turned around and walked over to the trunk and found a first aid kit and saw a handgun and sniper rifle.
She took the first aid kit and went over to Mouse.
She walked up to the passenger seat and saw Mouse exposed upper body.
'For a mouse you have quiet some muscles.'
She tried to lighten the mood and forget what just had happened.
"Well you do live up to your name Black Rose, you show your thorns when you need to."
Jenifer opened the kit and looked at his wound.
'Well your one lucky mouse, the cut doesn't seem deep so you don't need stitches.'
"Black Rose can I ask you something?"
'Sure.'
Jenifer poured some alcohol on the wound and start to clean it.
"Why won't you look at us when your blindfold is off?"
Jenifer didn't say anything.
"Are you afraid that you might discover we are all handsome man and will fall for us."
'No… it's just that Warry was afraid… so I thought you all were the same, that you don't want to been seen.'
'Now sit up.'
Mouse fallowed her instructions and sit back up.
'All done… don't make any stupid moves to aggravate it or the wound will reopen.'
Mouse removed his jacket out of habit and when Jenifer saw what he was doing she fell back and covered her eyes immediately.
'What the hell Mouse!'
"Ah I'm sorry Black Rose…"
"Where is your blindfold?"
Jenifer turned around and stretched out her arm.
While Mouse was putting it on, he apologized again to her.
"Well just so you know I don't mind if you were to see my face."
Jenifer smiled deject, 'Well I do mind… I don't want to see you because I don't want to get attached to you all because you will step out of my life soon anyway.'
'And faces are harder to forget then voices.'
"So this is a protective measure for yourself."
'Something like that.'
Mouse pulled Jenifer towards him "Don't say sad things like that…we can come and visit you if you want."
"But know this Black Rose, you may not be able to recognize us, but we all have seen you so we would recognize you wherever you are."
Jenifer smiled 'Then I have 5 guardian angels.'
"That doesn't sound so bad."
'Mouse?'
'Those guns in the trunk of your car…are they yours?'
"Nope not mine, I just keep them in there."
'So they are Gunners guns.'
"They are, he is an ex-military and he is the best in gun handling. He was well known for it… but he got kicked out for reasons unknown."
'Then what's Warry's specialty?'
"Computers, software and hacking."
'And Knifes?'
"Well knife combat, but he is also a skilled con artist."
'And you were a race driver before you joined Grey?'
"Correct."
'Mouse, can we get out of this place…I don't want to stay here.'
"Sure let me call Grey first."
Jenifer nodded and went back to the back seat of the car and laid back down and covered herself with the blanked and closed her eyes.
"Where are you guys?"
"We are on our way to you."
"Don't bother, let meet up at the cottage on Strangers Hill."
"How is Black Rose doing?"
Mouse turned around and saw her sleeping.
"She is KO right now."
"Alright see you on Stranger's Hill."
Mouse started the car again and drove in revers from the path on to the main road and headed to the new meet up place.
[Strangers Hill]
Mouse arrived at the cottage and Gunner and Knifes were waiting outside.
Both man came up to the car and saw Jenifer sleeping in the back all curled up and holding her blanket really tight.
Gunner opened the door of the back side and pulled Jenifer out carefully.
Knifes saw Mouse had some trouble getting out of the car and helped him.
"I need a smoke."
Knifes handed him a cigarette and a lighter.
Mouse light it and took a big hale.
"Take her inside and if she wakes up, give her some crackers and water."
"Why so little?"
"She threw up twice, her stomach shouldn't digest anything heavy right now."
Gunner nodded and took Jenifer inside.
"What happened out there?"
"When we took off from the warehouse we were tailed by a car."
"I told she needed to hold on tight because I needed to shake them, but she was very calm."
"Is she fearless or something?
"No… she level headed, she said just don't crash into anything while you do so."
"Then why do you look agitated."
"That because when we hid on Ghost Road, I was attacked while on the phone, Black Rose must have noticed, and when I only got scraped by a knife she hit the assailant on the head so hard he died."
"When I told her he was dead, she threw up again…"
"But it was self-defense… didn't you tell her that."
"I didn't get the chance to do that, because I was bleeding and because she had her blindfold off she had her back turned to me and was more concerned about seeing my face."
"But didn't she see your face when she attacked the person?"
"No because my back was wide open to my attacker."
"Then how did you get your wound treated?" Grey came out side and asked him.
"Black Rose did that for me, after I opened the trunk for her and covered my face."
"After she was done I pulled my jacked of my head, forgetting that she wasn't wear her blindfold and she just fall back out of fear and covered her eyes."
"I told her I didn't mind if she saw my face but she stubbornly turned around."
"So I tied her blindfold back on."
"You opened the trunk and let her in it without supervision?" Knifes looked at Chris agitated.
"What if she took a gun from the trunk…not to mention she may start to think we might kill her."
"All my guns are still in the trunk." Jack suddenly spoke.
"Is she still sleeping?"
"Yes… I put her on the bed and covered her up but she didn't want to let go of the blanket.
"She probably thinks she is safe if she has it." Grey said to Jack
"This is not good… although she doesn't want to get attached to us or depend on us, she is starting to do so." Mouse looked concerned.
"She knows very well we have to let go of her soon… and she doesn't want to go home."
"But she will be all alone after this."
"She puts up a brave front now and tells herself she will be fine, but will she really be fine?"
"Tonight she killed somebody…you think that won't affect her at all? Even if she change the subject on it, it won't go away and if she doesn't deal with it soon."
"Let me talk to her, even if she didn't use a gun, killing someone for the first time is hard." Jack suggested.
"Please do, but remind her it was out of self-defense and she saved a person's life."
"Don't worry Chris."
The four man went back inside and discussed tomorrow's meeting.
Gunner was near Jenifer's door because she could have nightmares.
[Next day]
Jenifer woke up an noticed her surroundings smelled different and she was on a bed.
She climbed of the bed but she knocked something over, what let Gunner know she was awake.
"Do you need help?"
'Gunner is that you?'
"Yes."
'Can you help me out of this room? I'm hungry.'
Gunner went in to the room and saw her trying to move a heavy bed stand from her legs because it had fell on her when she knocked it over. He picked up the bed stand and put it back in its place.
"Are you in pain anywhere?"
Jenifer stood up and pretended she was fine and it didn't hurt, but she couldn't fool Gunner.
He noticed she had a hard time walking so he wanted to picked her up.
'Don't pick me up!'
Gunner was a little taken aback by her yelling at him.
'I just need to bear with it, I can walk on my own.'
Gunner then took her hand and placed it on his arm so she could use it as support.
Jenifer refused it and pushed herself away from Gunner and started to walk on her own.
Gunner noticed she wasn't herself and just fallowed after her slowly.
"Black Rose stop."
'What is it?'
"Stairs."
Jenifer was looking for the handrail to guide her down. She slowly took it step for step and after 10 minutes she was down.
When she was down she tossed her blindfold and ran out of the door.
Jack picked it up and looked at the door she just ran out of.