Chapter 6

Angel's POV:

As the night went on and we danced, a guy approached us, I turned to watch him as he walked up to us we were already drunk at this point, "Do you want to dance?" He looks directly at me as he says this and I say, "Me?" He nods his head and I look at the girls, they giggle and nod their heads at me Fox mouthing, 'Go have fun!' I look back at him and say, "I'm Angel." "My name is Alex," he says smiling at me. He put his hand out for me to grab, I took it, and we walked to the dance floor and began to dance together. He was incredibly hot and just the distraction I needed from everything.

For once my knee felt no pain and it wasn't giving out. I lived in that moment. We danced for hours before we ended up leaving together. I went back to his task force headquarters, went to his room, and had sex together. I pretended to fall asleep awaiting him to fall asleep fully, when he finally did around 530am I carefully got up, got dressed, grabbed my stuff, and slipped out.

I sneak through the hallways of their headquarters so as to not wake anyone sleeping. I thankfully don't run into anyone as I hit the exit and get outside. I start to walk alone toward the nearest gun range. I was not entirely sure where it was because I was unfamiliar with this area, but I kept walking until I found one. Thankfully it was open, I walked inside, and up to the counter.

"I would like to purchase a gun and use it on the range," I say to the guy behind the counter. "Sure, but you need a different outfit for the outdoor range we have open right now, so I just need your size," He says looking at me. "Medium," I reply and watch him turn and reach into a box to grab an outfit. He hands it to me, I grab it and he says, "Changing rooms are on the right in the back woman's is the door to the left with a W on it." "Thank you," I say smiling.

I look at the guns and pick out a handgun, I purchase it and some ammo, I walk towards the changing rooms, enter the Women's one, change, put my stuff in a locker, close it, and take my new gun and ammo to the outdoor range to get some training alone in. I look around at the different courses wanting a real challenge, so I chose the one that requires you to run, slide, and shoot at moving targets through the wooded course. I hit the button on the pole right before you walk into the wooded area that activates the course targets. I load my gun, place my extra ammo in my tactical vest pocket, hold my gun up, and enter the course. I duck and dodge through the course aiming at the targets and hitting them.

I run up to a hill and have to slide down it to continue the course so I get a running start and then slide down the hill. I nearly flip but catch myself a branch smacking me in the face. "What the fuck man," I say still sliding down the hill approaching the bottom. I shake off the pain in my cheek, standing up as I hit the bottom of the hill, I start to run again as I spot some targets up ahead. I aim and hit them smiling to myself as I continue to run through the course.

2 hours later:

I get to the end of the course finally smiling and panting. It was so thrilling to go through an active course and I hadn't been through one since before the accident. My knee felt fine and if there was any pain I didn't feel it. I grab my stuff from the locker room, place it in the bag I was given, and then walk out of the changing rooms. "Do you know the way to Denver Road?" I ask the guy behind the counter. "It's about an hour away by foot, I can call you a cab if you would like?" The guy says.

I nod my head, "Yeah that would be great thank you, I lost my phone." "It's all good, did you have fun?" He asks me, I nod my head, "Yeah that was amazing!" I laugh a little, as he goes, "Looks like you cut your face up pretty good." "Yeah, some branches kicked my ass," I say laughing. He laughs and calls me a cab, "It will be here in about 5 minutes," he says as I nod at him and say, "Thank you! I might be back," I smile.

He waves to me as I exit the building and wait for the cab. It arrived 5 minutes later, I got in and gave the address of where I knew I wanted to be dropped off and it wasn't right at headquarters. It took us about 30 minutes to get to the road the headquarters was located on. I get out when the cab stops, pay him plus a tip, get out, and close the door. I watch the cab drive off before I head toward headquarters, a pounding headache starts, and I brush it off as I keep walking. About 5 minutes later I hit the headquarters driveway and knew the cameras activated showing I was home.

I walk inside not making eye contact with Keegan who was inside waiting, I faintly hear him say, "Angel what the hell happened to you?" I didn't stop walking, ignoring him because I was more focused on pushing the headache away. I walk to my room, open my door, looking at the ground, not noticing Ghost sitting in the chair in the corner of my room. I close the door behind me and turn around my eyes widening as he says, "It's 9 am, was he worth it?" His eyes fall on my face and the cuts on it, "What the fuck happened to your face?"

I detected some concern in his voice as he said this, stepping toward me, he pulled off my mask before I could protest, exposing my beat-up face from the active course. He touched his gloved hand to my bruised and cut-up face causing my breath to hitch in my throat. I nearly forgot how to breathe for a moment before I shook myself out of it, "I was on an active course, chill," I say turning away from him, not wanting him to stare anymore, I feel him behind me as he says, "Where is your knee brace and why aren't you wearing it?" "It doesn't hurt anymore," I say feeling a little numb, my head still pounding.

"Go clean up, go to the infirmary, I'll meet you there. No arguing," He says, "Now, that's an order." "Yes Sir," I say turning towards him and leaving my room, heading towards the showers, I head into the women's, get undressed, and get into the shower. I wash up, get out, and realize I forgot clean clothes because Ghost was incredibly distracting sometimes. I wrap my towel around myself exit the shower room, and head towards my room. I look down for a moment and run right into a solid form, "Shit sorry," I say looking up to Keegan who had grabbed onto my waist to prevent me from falling over.

"Why are you in just a towel Angel?" He asks, I look up at him and laugh, "I forgot my clothes, Ghost kind of blindsided me when I got back so I was distracted for a few and he gave me orders." Keegan was still holding onto my waist and said, "Yeah better listen to orders." I nod as he finally lets me go and I bolt for my room closing my door behind me. I leaned against my door wrapped in a towel, my heart beating fast, there was too much contact, and I needed a moment to breathe.

My head was still pounding as I gathered myself and pushed myself away from my door. I walked over to my closet and opened it, grabbing a regular outfit of black jeans and a camo t-shirt. I pulled on a pair of socks and when I looked up I saw myself in the mirror on the inside of my closet door. I looked like hell and that I had gotten into a fight with someone and not a bunch of branches. I brushed my hair and slipped on a pair of sneakers.

I exited my room and headed for the infirmary, passing by Price and Keegan who were in a heated conversation as I walked by I briefly heard Keegan say, "She was in just a towel! It drove me crazy!" My eyes widened knowing he was talking about me. I keep walking until I make it to the infirmary and walk inside.