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  You stop in front of the door, and pull the knife out of your pocket. Once you remove the sheath you turn around and remembering what Tiffany had taught you in her crash course, you swing the knife towards the neck of the guard. Once he figures what you're doing he grabs your arm, but by the time he does the knife is already in his neck. You feel his grip loosen as he slowly falls to the floor and bleeds to death. With the enormous man dealt with you walk towards the front desk and take the gun out of your waist band.
  
  "Ivo can you come out here?" You call out.
  
  Ivo comes out of the back room with a look of confusion on his face. This look quickly turns to dread when you point the gun at him. "Whoa, easy there boss," Ivo responds frightened. "I don't know what this is about but you don't want to do this, I'm part of Westfield's gang and he is somebody don't want to fuck with."
  
  Before you can ask Ivo about Victoria you hear footsteps coming down the stairs. Still pointing the gun at Ivo you briefly look out of the corner of your eye and see it's Tiffany. She walks over to the body of the guard and as before pulls the knife out of its neck and cleans it on the dead man's shirt. After patting down the corpse and taking a gun from a shoulder holster, Tiffany walks over to the front desk.
  
  "There is no way in hell I'm going to miss this," Tiffany says she also pulls a gun on Ivo.
  
  "Tiffany what the fuck is this?" Ivo asks with fear in his voice.
  
  "My friend here is going ask questions and you're going to answer them, if you don't I'll shoot your fucking head off."
  
  "Westfield kidnapped my sister, her name is Victoria, she's twenty with black hair and a razor bob haircut, was she brought here?" You demand to know.
  
  "I haven't gotten any new girls in a while, although...wait I got a call earlier today, there is someone who is going to be brought in tomorrow morning around five."
  
  Tiffany walks behind the front desk placing her gun against Ivo's head. "Ivo you're not lying to my friend are you?"
  
  "No of course not, besides I had no idea she was kidnapped and being brought in here against her will," Ivo tries to explain himself. Tiffany lowers the gun from Ivo's head. He breathes a sigh of relief but before he can take another breath, Tiffany like she did with the guy upstairs, jams a knife into his throat and like his henchmen, Ivo falls to the ground and bleeds out.
  
  "Sorry for the last minute change of plan, but the opportunity to kill that piece of shit was not something I could pass up, besides I knew you were uncomfortable with the killing so I decided to meet you half way," Tiffany explains. "Now we have six hours before your sister arrives, we need to move the bodies and you need to hide, I'll deal with any johns that come in."
  
  Tiffany picks up Ivo's body by the shoulders while you grab the legs. As you're moving the body, you become uneasy once again. "Are you alright?" Tiffany worries as she sees the expression on your face.
  
  "I'm moving a fucking corpse in a brothel in the middle of the night, I'm fucking far from alright," You express yourself.
  
  "Come on Ben, we're very close to getting your sister and getting out of here don't fall apart on me at the last moment, remember freaking out doesn't help with anything," Tiffany manages to calm you somewhat as you help her move Ivo's body and then the guard's body. Once you are done moving the cadavers, you looks around the back room. There is a small bed with a small television on a TV tray. Underneath the TV tray is a shotgun.
  
  "Don't tell me I have to wait in a room with dead people again," You whine.
  
  "Yep and this time it's for six hours and you have deal with two stiffs," Tiffany informs. You sit on the bed, trying your best to ignore the bodies, as Tiffany heads out the door. Your stomach groans with pain and it dawns on you that you haven't eaten since lunch. In addition to your hunger, exhaustion is also taking a heavy toll on you. Trying to sleep proves to be a difficult task due to the events of the day, not to mention the fact the situation isn't over yet and fear of what may happen creeps into your mind. Somehow after a few hours you manage to doze off. Your peacefully break from the brutal reality you're in comes to end when you're awoken by someone shaking your arm. When your eyes focus you can see it's Tiffany.
  
  "C'mon sleeping beauty, your sister and whoever is bringing her here, are going to arrive soon." Tiffany points out.
  
  "So what's the next step?" You ask while pulling yourself up off the bed.
  
  "I'll take care of Victoria's escort, you stay hidden behind the desk, hopefully I'll able to handle it by myself but if things get dicey I need you to offer support."
  
  "Sounds simple enough," You pick up the shotgun in the room and make your way to the front desk, where you place your weapons under the counter.
  
  Before long you hear the front door open and you crouch behind the front desk. "Hey Ivo," You hear a man's voice call out.
  
  "Hi there, Ivo is busy at the moment, can I help you?" Tiffany responds as she walks towards the front door.
  
  "You can help me with a lot of thing gorgeous, but it's important we take this girl to Ivo first," Another man's voice answers Tiffany.
  
  "He's in room 207."
  
  The sounds of footsteps walks past you and you quietly lift up your head over the counter to see two men walking beside your sister while Tiffany walks behind them. As they are walking you see Tiffany take out a gun and shoot one of the men in the back of the head. The gunshot causes Victoria to scream and hit the floor as Tiffany move the gun to the second man. Before she can fire another round the man knocks the gun out of her hand. He then strikes Tiffany knocking her to the floor and pulls out a gun of his own. You need to aid Tiffany before she is killed.
  
  > use handgun
  Picking up the handgun, you aim and fire at the man before he can shoot Tiffany. You strike the man in the side causing him to stagger. This buys Tiffany enough time to grab her gun off the ground and fire several rounds into his chest and he plummets to the ground. You rush out from behind the counter and run up to your sister who is still cowering on the floor.
  
  "Get away from me!" Victoria screams as you reach your hand to her.
  
  "Vic, it's me Ben," You try to calm Victoria down.
  
  Victoria looks up and when she realizes it is indeed you, she quickly gets up and hugs you tightly. "Ben, oh thank god, they were going to force me to do these horrible things and they said they would kill me if I didn't, it was just so awful."
  
  "It's alright, you're safe now," You reassure your sister.
  
  "I have a confession to make, I was dating this guy named Steve and I didn't tell you about him because I was worried you'd freak, anyway I was at his house yesterday and this guys showed up and Steve handed me over to them, I don't why and then they just killed him, it was so scary, I had no idea what was going on, then they took me to this chemical plant and held me in this room for several hours and then I was brought here," Your sister rambles due to being in a state of shock.
  
  "Look you two, this family reunion is very sweet, but it won't be long before Westfield learns what happened here and we have to be long gone by then," Tiffany interjects.
  
  "Who's she?" Victoria inquired.
  
  "Tiffany is a friend, you can trust her," You answer.
  
  The three of you promptly exit the hillside apartment building. As you make your way out you can see rays of sun beginning to appear in the sky. "I don't think I'll ever to repay you for helping me escape that place," Tiffany thanked you.
  
  "You helped me rescue Victoria, I should be thanking you."
  
  "Where are you going to go?" Victoria asks Tiffany.
  
  "A few blocks up the street is a bus station, around eight the RA-22 will stop by and it will take me to Ronan, once I'm there hopefully my parents will take me back in," Tiffany plans out.
  
  "Thank you again for everything," She hugs you goodbye and begins walking up the street.
  
  > go home
  "C'mon Vic let's go home," You suggest to your sister.
  
  "Don't have to tell me twice" She responds. You and Victoria get into your car still parked in front of the apartment building and drive off.
  
  "How were you able to find me?" Victoria asks.
  
  "I had help from Sophie, she was able to figure out where you might be," You answer.
  
  "Sophie...I haven't spoken to her in years, I was such a bitch to her, she must have called me for help a hundred times when she got addicted to drugs and I just cut her off completely, why'd she help after all that?'
  
  "I guess she thought it was still the right thing to do regardless of what you had done."
  
  "I'll definitely call her later."
  
  When you arrive home you look in the back seat of your car and discover Victoria has dozed off. Quietly you open the back door and carefully pick her up to avoid waking her. Carrying your sister with one hand you use your free hand to open the front door head towards Victoria room. You gently place her on her bed and make your way towards your own room and quickly doze off upon lying on the bed.
  
  > Four hours later
  You pick up the last bit off waffle off your plate with a plastic fork and place it in your mouth. After eating a very satisfying meal, you sit at the kitchen table in a relaxed mood. Your sister is safe and now all that is left to do is put the events of yesterday and last night behind you. It's going to be more difficult for Victoria to recover as being kidnapped due to the actions of a person she thought loved her and nearly being forced into prostitution is not going to be something you can just shrug off. Still the worst part is over and staying focused on the future is best thing you and your sister can do. Your thoughts are interrupted when your sister comes running into the kitchen.
  
  "Ben, you should see this," Victoria says with a hint of fear. You follow her into her room and look at a news article she was reading on her laptop:
  
  Shooting at Bus Station leaves one dead.
  
  A shooting at a bus station in Van Hove has left on person dead. According to Van Hove Police, an unknown gunman entered the bus station around 7 AM, he then took out a gun, shooting and killing a women waiting for a bus. The women has been identified as Tiffany Horowitz, 20, who had been declared missing five years ago when she ran away from her home in Ronan. Police have also said the victim had a "W" carved on her, which is the trademark of the violent Westfield gang. The town had already been on edge due to a similar murder yesterday, Steve Upton, 28, had been found dead in his home also with a "W" carved on him. Sergeant Arthur Miller of the Van Hove Police Department said this at a press conference:
  
  "All evidence points to these murders being gang related, both victims had connections to Westfield's gang and were not random killings, we'll do everything we can to find the killers but in the mean time I'd like to reassure all citizens that they have nothing to worry about."
  
  You look away from the laptop unable to read anymore as your eyes begin to water. Looks like you and Victoria are both going to take a while to recover.