A bargain gone wrong

Now that I know that Alia is holding Noor inside her father's home, I not only know where the villain is holding my friend, but I know that she now has two hostages instead of just one. The problem is I care very little about Noor's father since I know that he is a Knight Of Lucetia. First of all, those idiots think that they have the right to do whatever they want just because they have done a few good deeds. Those jerks simply have gotten way too big for their britches and it looks like one of them might be paying the price for it right now. Second of all, one of the those so-called heroes killed my best friend Kat, the friend that I knew my whole life. Granted, Kat was trying to do something horrible at the end of her life, but Marion could have saved Paris and brought in Kat alive, but that blonde monster decided to take the easy way out. If Alia had called me and asked me to be a hostage for just Noor's father, I would have given her my loudest laugh possible and hung up.

I can tell Louise is clearly unhappy about me becoming the hostage of a lunatic because of the way she is looking at me, but I have **** in the matter. I must do whatever it takes to save my friend even if it injures my back and even if it costs me my life. All of my friends mean the world to me. They have meant even more to me after Kat died. I will not lose any more of them. Louise simply has to understand that. I fear that she does not because of the way she is approaching me. I thought she was going to try and convince me not to put myself in danger again, but I was wrong. Louise put her hands on my waist and gave me such a wonderful kiss while stabbing her tongue into my mouth. It went through ten seconds of bliss as I felt my whole body blushing. I could feel searing heat radiating throughout my body.

"That is just a sample of what will be waiting for you if you stop the bad guy and come out of it alive," Louise promised. "I will make your every waking dream come true."

"How can I fail with an incentive like that?" I wheezed.

"I will deliver you into battle on one condition," Louise ordered.

"What?" I wondered aloud.

"That you relax for the entire trip," Louise commanded with the strictest look imaginable to make sure that I knew that she meant business. "I won't talk to you and you won't talk to me. You will keep your eyes closed the whole time and take several deep breaths. I want you to empty your mind while we are in my car."

"You got it," I responded since I knew I could say nothing else without the possibility of getting hit again.

"I'm not a psychologist but I think that has been a big part of your problem," Louise guessed. "You haven't been relaxing enough. You have been operating like a whirling dervish ever since Kat's ****. No one can keep up that pace for this long without suffering some physical damage."

"I guess relaxing hasn't been much on my mind lately," I complained.

"I think that you should exercise more as soon as you are feeling better," Louise recommended.

After Louise's lecture was over, I spent a few minutes in my friends car following her advice. Breathe in and breath out. It was just so hard for me to empty my mind because of all the junk that I had gone through lately. The meditation exercise that Louise ordered me to use was helping my back slightly, but I had no way of knowing if it would be enough to keep me from getting severely injured while trying to save Noor. I had a plan to confront Alia without fighting her, but I knew my plan was a long shot.

I was jolted from my exercise when Louise stopped the car. I knew that we were in the right place because of all the shouting. I quickly got of the car and was blinded by all of the red flashing lights for a second. I could see a modest brick house nearby that was obviously the source of all of the excitement. I heard my favorite idiot Hugo arguing with Alia over his bullhorn.

"Send in Connie now!" Alia demanded.

"We don't negotiate with terrorists!" Hugo refused.

"I will shoot the girl!" Alia promised.

"NO, DON'T! I'M COMING!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

"We cannot guarantee your safety!" Hugo warned me.

"The only way that you are going to stop me from going after my friend is to shoot me!" I spat out as I penetrated the line of police cars.

I could hear my heart beating in my ears as I approached the front door. I half expected Alia to gun me down before I even got to the front door. Just before I made it to the double door on the left, Noor came out on the right. I shared a split second hug with Noor that made me cringe when my friend touched my back. I knew that it wasn't a good idea to delay going in any longer because I knew that the lunatic might get mad at me and do something stupid. The first thing I saw when I got into the house was Noor's father.

"Thank you for what you did for Noor," the man spoke while attempting to shake my hand.

"I did it for her!" I snapped while slapping his hand away. "I didn't do it for you!"

"Are you mad at me?" Daddy Dearest asked.

"I am not mad at you," I clarified while walking towards Alia with as much confidence as I could muster. "I am mad at what you represent. If you'll excuse me."

"You are very noble," Alia spoke while leveling her gun at me.

"I apologize for the delay, but I had to tell off an idiot," I begged.

"You are very polite too," Alia complimented me.

"May we please talk for a second?" I probed.

"I guess so," Alia conceded. "What do you want?"

"I know how you feel," I began.

"How dare you!" Alia freaked. "You have never been married and you have never had a husband savagely taken from you!"

Alia swung her gun at me in an attempt to head butt me with it. I ducked under it and was prepared to punch the terrorist as long as her gun wasn't pointed at me when I heard two of the worst sounds that I have ever heard in my life. I heard a loud popping noise coming from my back and I heard someone screaming. The really bad part was that I was the one screaming. I collapsed to the floor in pain while a few tears fell down my face and was I was barely able to move. I remembered all of the things that Louise promised to do for me if I came back alive and I realized how unlikely that was with a maniac pointing her gun at me.