I sat in the passenger seat of my partner's black van, "I'm just sayin, them gold diggers are everywhere. You can't just go 'round gettin chicks no more." He said, explaining why at the age of thirty, he had already been divorced three times. "Back when my dad and mom where your age, there was no divorcing, women didn't have no right."<br/><br/>"Sounds like some good days." I replied absently. I usually never agreed with what he had to say, but he was technically my superior, so I just let it go.<br/><br/>"Ah, whatever." He said, swatting away the conversation with his hand, "I hear the boss is hitting one of his debtors real hard."<br/><br/>"Really? What's the loot?" I asked. The boss would often leave some of his collateral to one of the members of the gang, a way to keep us all a little more happy to be working for him. The only time we were gimped would be if he decided to just kill or brutally injure his debtor. In that case, someone would get clean up, and it was often one of the younger guys like me.<br/><br/>"It ain't a what this time bud." He said, "It's a who, that's why I get to drive this ole girl."<br/><br/>"Are we kidnapping someone for real?"<br/><br/>"Yep, a girl about your age." He said tapping the steering wheel to the beat of the song playing over his radio, "Sack 'er, and bringer 'er to the boss." He sang, way off pitch. He pulled up in front of the girl. I heard the back doors open, and some shrieks, before silence. "Too easy." My partner said.<br/><br/>We arrived at one of the buildings our gang operated out of. It was just an old and abandoned building that we had furnished with just as old and abandoned furniture. To my surprise, my boss was there, and looked pretty damn angry. When we carried the girl in, he yelled at her with such a rage that I was afraid he might just kill her. She didn't look like the type to go screwing around with Linus, so I assumed she was just a casualty to someone else. Instead he yelled at the girl, then shot a glance at me. "Teach her a lesson, why don't you?" He commanded. I was surprised that he singled me out, as most times he would just glance over me as if I was non-existent.<br/><br/>"Absolutely sir." I said<br/><br/>My partner gave me a sly grin, and nudged me, "Lucky dog." He said, which I gave a nod to. Linus and everyone else left, leaving me alone with the girl.<br/><br/>They just tossed her on the couch carelessly, so I just adjusted her so she would be in a more comfortable position. I took a folding chair from nearby and put it down in front of the couch to wait for her to wake up. "What did you do?" I said in quiet contemplation, not really talking to her.