Captivity

"Ughh my head hurts."

Amber tried to slowly open her eyes but was immediately blinded by a bright light and quickly closed them again.

"Did our sleeping beauty by chance just wake up?" She heard a familiar voice, it was Brians.

"If that's the case wouldn't that make you my prince?"

"Well, I guess so. Quite your lucky day to have such a beautiful man as your prince. Do you want a kiss to wake you up?"

"No thank you I would rather kiss a frog." His ironic comments made her calm down.

"Good, because I wouldn't be able either way, hehe."

She opened her eyes again but this time with more caution. And even though everything was blurry in the beginning, her eyes slowly adjusted themselves to the light, allowing her to finally see the surroundings. Her hands were tied behind her back on a chair while right in front of her was sitting Brian in the exact same situation as herself. He was covered in bruises and blood it seemed like he had been tortured for quite a while.

"What happened, you look like someone threw you down the stairs?!"

"That describes it pretty good, more or less. Those damn thugs of the Cosa Nostra family continuously tortured me to squeeze the location of the treasure out of me."

"Did you give it to them?"

"How? If even I don't know where it is. Luckily they didn't take my pendant otherwise we would have lost our only clue."

"And I thought they were real gangsters, hitting me from behind like cowards... ugh"

The spot where she was hit throbbed again. Only now she took a closer look at the location they were in. It was a small wooden shed that was probably built long ago since it had a slight mouldy smell. There were small cracks between the planks and a small dirty window on the roof let some light in. Scattered around them where multiple old items that apparently know one needed anymore so they dumped them here. But what troubled Amber the most was the intense heat in the room, her clothes were already drenched in sweat and her throat started to dry out.

"Where did they bring us? I can't remember anything that happened after being hit."

"Ha, good question, I'm glad you asked. After you suddenly collapsed I started shooting at the guy who knocked you out and could surprisingly land a hit on him! But I'm not an experienced fighter so I couldn't do anything when the other guy with the knife overwhelmed me. Without any hesitation, they restraint me and covered my head with a stinky bag after which I heard a quiet wheeze. They then brought us on a car and then on a helicopter until we landed where we are now, or at least that's what I think. I could look out of the door one time when they entered the shed and it looks like we are in a desert in the middle of nowhere, presumably somewhere in the Mojave desert."

"So we can't really escape since we don't know how far the nearest city is and we could probably die from dehydration or starvation before we reach it.

"And don't forget that they'll probably be after us while on the run."

"Aaaah in which mess did I get myself into."

"There might still be a possibility to escape from here. Do you remember that helicopter I just mentioned? I didn't hear it leave after we landed so it probably is still here somewhere. But say could you find anything useful in the archives?"

"Those god damn archives were locked with a fucking pin code! You didn't say anything about that, I nearly got caught by someone."

"So you couldn't enter huh."

"Who said I couldn't?" A bright grin showed on her face despite the situation they were in.

"As smart as I am, I obviously found a solution to the problem and could unlock the door. After I hid in the archive from a passing janitor, or at least I think he was one, I finally found the document regarding your pendant but someone completely bl..."

The door was pushed open as the three henchmen entered the room. Amber immediately stopped talking as she didn't want to reveal anything to those thugs. Two of them seemed to be injured since one had a bandaged arm and the other one a bandaged head, probably the one she hit with an extinguisher.

"Ooooh look at that, Misses Firefighter seems to have woken up" He pointed the knife in her direction.

All three of them stood now menacingly before them and while one swung his knife around the other two repeatedly punched their palm showing that they were ready to use force.

"Now then should we get into business?"