With everything they had been through Kat didn’t doubt that Eric would be fine on his own. Some part of her wondered if things would be better if they did split up. If something went wrong, at least one of them would be alright. The only thing that bothered her was being left with Tony. If something went wrong, she’d probably need rescuing again. It was needless to say that was a situation she did not want to find herself in again, at all. She didn’t want to think about it. However… If something did go wrong, and she did find herself in that situation again, she was sure that Eric would do something that would get himself killed, especially with how badly wounded he was. Kat knew that she wasn’t in the best shape either, and would probably not last very long in a fight. But at least she could stay on her feet.<br/><br/>“Once you’re done checking your ‘things’, just meet us back the house.” She looked at Eric out of the corner of her eye. It was probably better that they met somewhere that wasn’t where Ryan and his gang were. Or better yet, somewhere that was easy to get to just in case something did happen. It was kind of a ‘let’s meet up here, regardless of what happens’ type thing. While Eric was gone, she would also see if she could get any more out of Tony. He had to be aware that they were suspicious of him. Wouldn’t he try to ease that suspicion? Wouldn’t he speak up and explain why he was here, that way they wouldn’t be as suspicious? Assuming he was on their side, of course. Maybe she could ease her way in, in a slow and subtle manner, to see if she could get him to talk and reveal anything.<br/><br/>If not, that was when she and Eric would have to work a little magic. In her current mood, Kat was all for working a little magic to get information, she really didn’t care.<br/><br/>“If you see or hear anything else, please don’t do anything stupid, just pull out and come back to the meeting area.” She added quickly, hoping that Eric wouldn’t decide to try to pull off one of his clever plans. Not only was she done with being kidnapped, she did not want to have to go find Eric. They couldn’t keep looking for each other all the time. Nothing was getting done, it was about damned time they sat down and found out what was going on around here. Tony aside, there were a lot of other things that were not adding up. She had heard some things while she was being held prisoner. Also, she was curious about this code… After she apologized to Eric for lying about not knowing anything, they were going to have to find out what was so valuable about it. They were so close to uncovering everything.<br/><br/>---------------------------------<br/><br/>“Just kill him.” One man said. He was rowdy, lusting for blood.<br/><br/>“If you speak out of line again, you’ll be the one getting killed.” His leader snarled. “Now, Ryan, back to our little conversation. What brings you this way?”<br/><br/>This was exactly what Ryan had not wanted to happen.<br/><br/>Here he and his men were, face to face with their worst enemy. Adam was not just a simple rival. Oh no, there was too much history between the two gangs, too much bad blood, that rivalry was no longer a suitable term. They were enemies. Most likely, they would remain enemies until the day they died.<br/><br/>What was even worse? Adam had Ryan at gunpoint. He was almost powerless to do anything, without getting himself killed.<br/><br/>“None of your business.” Ryan glared at Adam, who just snorted.<br/><br/>“Let me educate you a little: anything that happens within this area is my business.”<br/><br/>Ryan remained silent. That resulted in Adam shooting one of his men. Any average person probably would have spilled the beans at that point, but not Ryan. He was in that military mindset. Whenever he started to think like someone in the military, he didn’t let shit like this bother him. Sometimes his men thought him cruel. Even though they knew the rules they felt like he was sacrificing them. Some of them might even think that he was protecting Eric, completely discarding them, and that the military was more important. They would be wrong, of course, but that was how some of them thought.<br/><br/>Adam shot another one of Ryan’s men. “I can keep this up all day.”