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The movie just ended when the sound of gunfire is heard. Jacob and Ana look up in shock. "Jacob, get Ana to her room and out the safety escape." Calum orders as the men rush from wherever they were before to take defensive positions.
Jackson comes racing in from outside and pulls the two out of the room they were in and shoves them to the stairs. "Get going, Ana! Jacob! Get your asses out of here now! Jacob, you are in charge of her safety. Go!"
Ana and Jacob race up the stairs. They go into Ana's room, but Ana instead of going to her walk-in closet where the escape route is goes over to Damen's room and races to his secret entrance to the study. "Ana! What the hell do you think you are doing? We have to get out of here." Ana ignores him and opens the entrance and steps down the stairs that will take her to the study.
Jacob has no choice but to follow. Damen is going to kill him if anything happens to Ana. "Ana, what are you doing?"
"I don't have any weapons of my own. I know where Damon keeps some in the study." Ana replies as if the answer is obvious.
"We need to leave and get to safety. Do you have a death wish? or perhaps you wish me dead?" Jacob thinks the second option is the truth.
"Stop being so melodramatic. I just need to get-" just then the door to the study breaks open and Hawk enters. He looks around and finds the two kids and smiles.
Jacob tries to stop him but Hawk just picks him up and throws him against the far wall. Jacob hits and slides down leaving behind a hole in the wall the size of his body.
"Jacob!" Ana screams but he doesn't move. Ana's furious now. The only weapon within reach is Damon's ornamental dagger that he uses for letter opening. She grabs it and hides it against her arm.
Hawk grabs her and brings her up to him. "My aren't you a pretty little thing?" He starts touching her.
Ana's anger is already high from what he did to Jacob, but his touching her like her father makes her beyond furious.
"Damon says, that I don't have to let anyone touch me there if I don't want to, and I don't want you to."
Hawk smiles sickeningly, "Damon isn't here, what are you going to do about it?" Ana could scream, but the sound of guns firing would most likely cover it up. The fact that Hawk is this far in means that Jackson is down too. She is on her own.
The anger Ana feels ignites into an inferno, "This." Ana swipes the dagger across Hawks crotch with as much force as she can. She sees blood on the dagger so she knows that she's scored. That and he lets her drop. She then eviscerates him. As he goes from clutching at his family jewels to clutching his intestines to keep them from falling out, she slices his throat.
"You slimy bastard. The first slice was for touching me, the second for hurting my bodyguards and the third is to stop the fighting." Ana says then spits on him before turning from the dying man to check on Jacob. She lets out a relieved sigh as she finds him breathing and a strong steady heart beat.
"Jackson!" Ana Calls hoping that he isn't too hurt. Jackson pulls himself into the study holding his gun out, he's bleeding from two locations and Ana is more furious.
"Are you badly injured?" She asks in concern.
Jackson, looking from her to Hawk's mangled form says, "I think I should be asking you that. I'm in better shape than he is."
"I need help." Ana says in frustration.
"Where are you hurt?" Jackson asks urgently. Ana is covered in blood.
"I'm fine, this is all his blood," Ana says shortly.
"Jacob?"
"He's out, but breathing and his heartbeat is strong. I need help cutting Hawk's head off, I'm not strong enough and we need to stop the fighting."
Jackson goes over to Hawk's body, he's still alive, but not for much longer. He takes out his knife and starts cutting Hawk's throat along the same cut Ana slit his throat. It takes some effort and he gives more than one grunt of pain as he continues the grisly task.
After some minutes the knife separates the head from the spine. He takes the head and gives it to Ana. "Here you go Little One. I don't want to be in your shoes when Damon comes home though."
Ana's been trying to NOT think about that.
Ana takes the head out and has Jackson give a piercing whistle that is even heard over the deafening gunfire. As the gunfire ceases Ana steps forward and tosses the head where it will be clearly seen.
"It's over, lay your weapons down and surrender." Her clear young voice rings loudly in the sudden silence that falls over the house.
In shock Hawk's men start throwing down their guns after placing the safety on. As they all kneel with their hands over their heads Damon comes in with the men that he had with him, guns out and finding targets.
"Ana?" Damon asks after taking in the scene of the men kneeling and then finding Ana covered in blood. His eyes seem to skip the head lying in his entry hall floor.
"I'm fine. I can't say the same for Hawk though." Ana assures Damon who goes over to her and pulls her in for a hard hug. It is only then that he takes in the bodyless head lying on his floor.
"Where is he?" Damon asks, his voice cold and hard.
"In your study, sir. Or at least his body is." Jackson answers, Ana is held so hard to Damon it's to hard to breath and she starts pounding on him to let her go. He does so rather quickly as he realizes he's holding her too tight.
"Sorry, Damon, your study is rather a mess." Ana says as Damon looks at her.
"You want to tell me why you are drenched in blood Ana?"
"That pig cornered me there. He threw Jacob across the room, he's still unconscious. Hawk then started to touch me. So I sliced him across the gonads. He hurt my bodyguards so I sliced him across the abdomen, he started this fight so I sliced him across his throat like I did my father. Then I had Jackson help me cut off his head. I needed to stop the fighting so I brought his head out here and threw it down. They had just surrendered when you got home."
Damon hides what he's thinking, "I see." He motions his men to begin collecting the weapons.
"Well, Little One, it seems you have a new title now." Damon says, looking at Ana thoughtfully.
"What do you mean?" Ana wants to go shower, the blood is stinky and is starting to make her itch.
"You're the new Hawk." Damon's words make her pull her head up sharp to look at him.
"You're kidding right?" Ana is only ten years old.
"I'm afraid I'm not. Congratulations Ana." Damon smiles a bit coldly now. There is no way Ana can hold together the Hawk group at this age.
"Dammit." Anna's word has him wiping his smile off his face.
He watches her curiously as she turns to the prisoners. "Who are the second and third to Hawk?"
One of the men look over to her, "I'm second." He motions with his head, "That's the third." Their doctor is working on him to stop the bleeding. He's young, younger than Damon. "The third was Hawk's son."
"I see," Ana says thoughtfully. Then she turns her attention fully to the second and orders him to give her a run down of their operations. When he mentions the slave trade her eyes become hard once more.
"You have girls ready for the auction?" The auction was the following week.
"Yes, ma'am." The second feels strange answering to a young girl, but she is now his boss.
"Damon," Ana says in distress.
"You can take them to my hotel. The Sands hotel." Damon has an idea about what Ana wants to do.
"I know where the girls are kept, I can take some men there and then take them to the hotel." Jackson says as the doctor finishes stitching him up.
"Have you called your wife and told her you're okay?" Ana nods as she says this.
"Yeah, but I might have failed to mention the new scars I'll be sporting." Jackson tries to make light of the wounds.
Ana looks at him horrified. "She's going to kill me."
"No, Ana, she knows what the dangers of this work bring. She's relieved that I'm not badly injured." Jackson grits out. The doctor is saving the numbing agent for the more seriously injured members.
"Let it be, Little One." Damon urges Ana.
"Fine, after you take the girls from the warehouse and drop them off at the hotel, make sure they have clothes, decent clothes, food and medical attention. Then go to Hawk's house and bring me the rest of his family." Ana looks at Damon again and he nods, "They will be given accommodations here."
Ana's stern look then turns soft, "After that you'll be free to go home. Take some time to rest."
"That's an order Jackson," Damon backs her up.
"Yes, bosses." Jackson gives a pained smile as he stands up. He gathers up some men and they head out. Shortly after several vehicles are heard leaving.
Damon gives orders for the disposition of the men for the night, until Ana makes up her mind what she wants to do about them. Then he calls for the maids to start cleaning the mess that is in his house.
"Ana, go shower and get cleaned up, we'll meet back in the back living room." Ana nods and heads to the stairs but starts shaking so bad that Damon, who was watching for something like that to happen, went over and caught her up to him.
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