“Where the hell is he?” Kat was a little concerned that Eric hadn’t showed up back at the rendezvous point yet. After a few minutes passed, she began to feel a little anxious. Something must have happened, she thought to herself, otherwise Eric wouldn’t have taken this long. Then again, maybe she wasn’t all that surprised. Some part of her had expected him to take longer than needed but she should have known. She hoped that, whatever he was doing, was not involving any fights. If she had to drag his corpse back to the captain she was not going to be happy.<br/><br/>“Should we go looking for him?” Tony asked. It was the first time he had said anything since they left that territory. She eyed him a little, as if telling him to explain himself a little more. Unfortunately he didn’t seem to get the message.<br/><br/>“I don’t think it’s necessary right now,” Kat said slowly.<br/><br/>“He’s your partner, isn’t he? I’d be concerned if I was in your shoes.”<br/><br/>“Look, I know Eric will be fine. Trust me.”<br/><br/>“If you say so,” Tony gave a shrug and leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. The tone of his voice, and how insistent he seemed, started to make her worry a little. He really came off as if he was hiding something. Whether it was intentional or not, remained to be seen. He certainly was not good at keeping a poker face if he was trying to hide something. She had half a mind to push him a little, speak her mind, and was about to, but stopped herself. It might not be a good time to get into that now. Then again she really was not in the mood for putting up with this shit. She should start to question him a little more. But she needed to play her cards right in order to succeed.<br/><br/>After coming to the conclusion that there wasn’t any easy way around, she just decided to come out with it. “Let me ask you something.”<br/><br/>“Oh?”<br/><br/>“You seem to know your way around this place fairly well, despite it being outside of Captain Leonard’s jurisdiction. Why is that?”<br/><br/>---------------------------------<br/><br/>“Well, dear Adam, feel free to keep me for as long as you want. I don’t really have much planned for today anyway.” This would be around the time Ryan would smirk a little, but not in this situation. He was keeping his expression neutral.<br/><br/>This was more of an annoyance than something he was worried about. He knew how dangerous Adam was, but he was also a bit of a coward. It wasn’t nice to play with your food. If he had the balls to kill him, he probably would have done so, but no, he’d rather just show off and act cocky. He could tell that he was starting to become irritated as well. These kinds of games were something Ryan was particularly good at, unlike Adam, who has always lacked patience and wanted everything to be easy for him.<br/><br/>“Keep it up.” Adam snarled, “At this rate, you’ll watch all of your men be killed right before your eyes. You won’t have a gang anymore after that, now will you?” There was some laughter from Adam’s men.<br/><br/>“We’ll see about that.” Ryan shrugged.<br/><br/>“You think I’m joking?”<br/><br/>“You never did have a sense of humor.” Now, here was where Ryan would expect Adam to challenge the dare and shoot someone. But, as expected, he had not. He just ordered one of his men to kick him.