this gif perfectly shows what's going to happen in this chapter. just ignore the rock, fast 7 was my biggest inspiration for this story 😂😂😂😂

Movie 🎥 Furious 7 (2015)

Happy Reading xx

~T

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S C A R L E T T 💣

"Scarlett Jones. I've heard so many things about you. Russell's daughter, right?" Cruz spoke in his deep voice, a strong Bulgarian accent laced in with his confident tone.

I had found out that Black Arrow was a Bulgarian organization, which explains how Cruz and my mother was Bulgarian. Other than the obvious, my mother being a spy from Black Arrow, she met my Dad who she did eventually fall in love with, even though she was too proud to admit it, and had me: 'The Accident'. Anyways, she freaked out about that obviously, the fact that she fell in love with someone from The Organization and even had a baby, so she bolted. What a fantastic mother, honestly.

"Good things I hope," I retorted cynically, watching him as he strolled around the conference room, walking around the long table with his hands behind his back.

He was somewhat old to be honest, considering that he was forty years old now and he wasn't one of those people who looked immortal when they were like fifty. He was about six feet tall, dressed in a pure white expensive suit and what looked like Saint Laurent shoes. His hair was a dark cocoa brown, which was short and cropped neatly. His beady blue eyes were focusing on different points of the room as he walked around, talking loudly.

"Sarcastic, just like her father," he chuckled lightly; his words making me scowl. I was tired of these constant comparisons of my father and I; they were starting to get really annoying. "Anyways, let's get done to business."

"Right, boys," he addressed the large gang of men in the room.

While they were fiddling around with a briefcase, I decided to examine my surroundings. I was currently seated at the head of the humongous table that took up a large space of the middle of the room. To my left, that whole side of the room was made of glass, giving us a skyline view of Las Vegas. I raked my brains for a way to get out of these thick ropes, but nothing was coming to my mind. I was still distracted by all the new information I had found out.

"Is that it?" Cruz questioned in a mocking tone, gazing at the open briefcase, which Andrei held open for him.

"Yes, Sir," he answered in his thick Russian accent.

"A USB?" Cruz laughed, picking up the tiny silver USB from the briefcase to stare at it up close. God's Eye was a tiny USB stick? "Well, at least we've got it now," Cruz chuckled maliciously now.

"Umm, there's no way we can operate it though," Andrei said quietly, causing Cruz to snap his gaze towards him.

"What?" he demanded with narrowed eyes. Andrei swallowed thickly averting his gaze to the floor before he spoke.

"There's only one person who can control the thing, he's the maker of it. Niall Horan," Andrei told him in a tense voice, almost as if he was afraid of how Cruz would react.

"And where is this Niall Horan?" Cruz enquired sharply, cocking a brow at Andrei.

"With The Organization," he told him in a small voice. "We thought he was somewhere in France, but it appears that The Organization had tricked us into thinking that. He was still in Las Vegas," Andrei explained to Cruz, causing him to sigh harshly.

"You people are useless! I ask for God's Eye, and I mean anything and everything needed along with it! You get me the actual USB but not the person controlling it! идиоти!" I acutally laughed out loud at that, mostly at Andrei's confused expression when Cruz called him and his men that. That was 'idiots' in Bulgarian. I've always wondered how on earth did I know the language so well when I got older, apparently my mother had taught it to me at a very young age.

"Something funny, Scarlett?" Cruz snapped at me all of a sudden, cocking a brow questionningly. I immediately shook my head, averting my gaze from his intense one.

"Why don't we use her?" My mother spoke up all of a sudden.

"What are you talking about?" Cruz furrowed his brows.

"What I'm saying is, since The Organization has Niall Horan, why don't we use Scarlett to strike a deal? Niall for her," my mother suggested, her dark eyes glinting mischieviously as Cruz slowly nodded his head.

"Sounds like a plan," he smirked, moving his gaze to me, making me swallow thickly. "But find a way to keep her, make the deal a trap. She might be valuable," Cruz spoke sharply, making my mother nod curtly at him.

Andrei parted his lips to speak something but just then, the door of the conference room burst open. About four people all dressed in black rushed through the doorway, holding their guns up causing Andrei and Cruz's men to react the same way. My body flooded with relief when I recognized all of them as Valkyrie. Jade and Damien weren't here, but Vlad, Seth and Max were, along with Harry. Harry and I locked eyes, his gaze burning into mine as he tried to reassure me in some way that I was going to be okay.

"Vlad!" Cruz greeted the bulky man cheerfully, the corners of his sea blue eyes crinkling as he laughed oddly.

"Cruz," Vlad grunted, with a curt nod of his head.

"Where's Ford?" Cruz immediately asked, his eyes gazing behind Vlad as if he was expecting Ford to just walk in randomly.

"You know very well he never attends missions," Vlad scowled as if it was the most obvious thing.

"Shame, I really wanted to meet him," Cruz shrugged lightly, walking over one side of the room where a table of drinks and snacks was available. It was such a strange situation to watch.

Andrei, my mother and their men, along with Cruz's bodyguards were standing along one side of the room, holding their guns up with tense facial expressions. On the other side of the room, Vlad was standing there along with Harry, Seth and Max, all of them having their eyes narrowed, brows lowered and lips pressed into a straight line. All while Cruz was happily having a glass of whiskey and I was tied up, sitting at the head of the table. I was worried that our team wasn't enough to overcome Andrei and his gang, but then again I've never actually seen them in action. Who knows? They could probably take all of them down in one go.

"Cut the crap Cruz, you know why we're here," Max snapped all ofa sudden, probably annoyed with the way Cruz was acting. Maybe he was always like this. Cheerful in the most serious moments.

"And you think I'm just going to hand it over to you?" Cruz scoffed. "Yeah right, but I do have an offer to make. I heard that you've got Niall Horan, the man who is supposedly the inventor of this extraordinary device," Cruz took a seat on one of the chairs facing the windows.

"What kind of an offer is this?" Vlad asked curiously, his beady raven eyes glancing at me before darting to every corner of the room. He was studying his surroundings, most probably to formulate a plan to get God's Eye, get me, and escape without getting killed.

"As you can see we have Scarlett here," Cruz gestured to me, before snapping his fingers at a muscular man nearby.

The guy didn't understand what the hell Cruz was asking him to do, causing Cruz to scowl deeply in annoyance. Andrei threw the man an annoyed look before walking over to me, causing my eyes to widen and a gasp to escape my lips when he pulled my chair back. He grabbed my wrists, roughly pulling me to my feet and spinning me around so my back was against his front and I was facing my people. My blood ran cold when he pressed a sharp knife to my throat, my face paling when he put slight pressure on it, causing my features to fall. Harry instantly yelled out, almost bolting before Seth held him back. Vlad was confused, he snapped harshly at Harry, wondering why on earth did he react so strangely. It was obviously because my worst nightmare was about to kill me.

"Right," Cruz muttered awkwardly, giving Harry a strange look, who was gazing furiously at Andrei. "Where was I? Oh right, so we have Scarlett and you have Niall. You can see where this is going."

"Scarlett for Niall," Vlad muttered under his breath, even though I could clearly hear him from across the room.

It was probably my accute sense of hearing, my supernatural powers were kicking in already, due to all the panic and anger I was feeling right now. Not a good mix. Obviosuly I couldn't really do anything because I could barely move my body, due to the way the ropes bounded me tightly and the fact that Andrei was holding a knife to my freaking throat. Any sudden movement will cause the sharp blade to tear the skin of my throat, and I certainly didn't want that.

"What d'you say, Vlad? The Organization's time is up now. It's time for Black Arrow to rise and take your place. You've been at the top for far too long."

"No," Vlad grunted roughly, pulling his dark wonky brows low over his narrowed eyes.

"What?" Cruz whispered harshly all of a sudden, his happy oddly cheerful demeanor vanishing in an instant.

"I said no," Vlad snarled, holding his pistol back up again, aiming for Cruz's head this time.

Cruz held a stony expression on his face, standing up all of a sudden and grabbing a gun from one of the men nearby. He turned around towards the windows, holding his gun up and firing it at the glass. My body jolted slightly at the sudden shots fired and the glass shattering, causing the knife held to my neck to push into my throat slightly. I winced when I felt the blade cut my neck, blood dripping from the small wound down my olive skin. Harry noticed this, his body twitching, wanting to help me out so badly but he couldn't. He could mess things up completely if he did. I was caught off-guard when Andrei started pulling me towards the broken window, a cool gush of wind flowing through it as the noise of cars honking entered the room through the open space.

I started struggling vigorously, calling out to Harry as Andrei tugged me along. A shriek left my lips when he suddenly shoved me through the window, my legs tripping over one another as I felt him grab my hands. I didn't make the fall, I was suprised to find myself clinging to the edge of the window. My hands were clamped onto the bottom of the window, feeling shards of glass dig into the palms of my hands painfully as I clung onto the edge for my dear life. I groaned in agony when Andrei's foot came down on one of my hands, pressing onto it harshly, causing blood to run down from my palms to my arms.

"Scarlett!" I heard Harry call out, before I started hearing gun shots. It had begun. I couldn't hear anything else due to the noise of rushing wind, even though we were on the third floor, the drop was terrifying.

Panic was flooding my body, tears building up in my eyes as I cautiously gazed down, my breath halting in my throat at the horrifying height. I looked back up instantly, locking my teary eyes with Andrei's multi-colored ones.

"Please," I begged loudly, causing him to use his feet to push my hands off, causing them to nearly slip. "Stop!" I screamed at him, trying my best not to struggle because if I did, I would fall.

"To be honest-" he started to say before meaty hands grabbed him and pulled him back. The pressure of his feet were lifted off my hands, but the force of the way he was dragged away caused them to move further back, making them let go.

But suddenly, a pair of large rough hands grasped my own bloody wounded ones tightly. My body flushed with happiness and relief when I stared back at a pair of green eyes.

"Harry!" I cried, mostly because of the happiness I felt, but also because of the pain from the deep cuts in my hands. He grunted as he pulled me up suddenly, tugging me over the edge and into the building safely. My arms instantly went around his shoulders, hugging him tightly to me. But the sounds of gun shots caused me to react sharply. My head snapped upwards, trying to take a look at the chaotic situation but Harry's voice distracted me.

"We need to get moving."

I pulled away, getting up to my feet along with Harry as we moved to one side of the room, one of our hands joined together. We ducked down behind the snacks table, which was toppled over. Before I could even speak, he joined our lips in a firm kiss, wanting to reassure me that he was with me from there onwards. My blood that stained his hands was smeared across my cheeks, as he cupped my face firmly. But I didn't care. We pulled back quickly, exchanging no words as he started to pull out any forms of weapons he hand. He handed me his gun and a knife, which I took gratefully.

I inhaled sharply when the knife cut the palm of my hands again, making me curse harshly at how stupid I was. I dropped the knife with a clatter, bringing my hands up to study my wounds. They looked disastrous, bleeding all over the place, dripping down onto my jumpsuit and to the floor. Harry noticed me staring at my hands, graping my wirsts gently but quickly and pulling them towards him. He let go of them momentarily to reach for the table cloth of the table we were currently hiding behind. He ripped pieces from it and started to wrap them around my palms. I took this moment to quickly catch a glimpse of what was going on. It was absolute havoc.

There were guns firing, bodies dropping dead, blood splattering against the pure white walls. Everything was just horrifying. I sucked in a breath when I spotted my mother fighting Seth, pretty much beating the shit out of him. I ripped my gaze from the view, turning back to Harry who had just finished off bandaging my hands.

"I'm getting you out of here," he told me firmly, his hand coming up to cup my cheek firmly.

"What? No!" I responded instantly. Since Blaze's death occured so suddenly, I was almost paranoid something similar would happen to Harry. This made me want to stick with him throughout the whole time, to do as much as I could to protect him; even if it meant killing people. "I'm staying."

"Scarlett, do not argue with me right now. Enough has happened. You're wounded, badly. Damien will be here soon, I'm sending you back home with him," Harry snapped at me harshly, annoyed with how stubborn I was being.

"Fuck no. I'm not going anywhere Harry," I growled at him, picking up the knife. "If you're gonna protect me, then I'm gonna protect you. It has to go both ways," I told him firmly, grasping the knife tightly.

I shot up on my feet, jumping over the table and sprinting towards were my belt and bracelets were lying. I dodged everybody who were coming at me, swinging my fists at everyone who did, knocking them out instantly with my powerful punches to their pressure points. Once I reached the other side of the room where my items were, I quickly strapped on my belt and bracelets, keeping an eye on Harry who was fighting this athletic Asian man. A man came sprinting towards me out of nowhere, screaming loudly as he swung his fist at me. I reacted quickly by ducking down, bringing my leg up to slam it into his abdomen. The force of the kick pushed him backwards, causing him to stumble and fall. But he was back up on his feet in an instant. He wasn't a great fighter, I deflected his punches easily, striking him hard at his weak spots while my eyes were constantly darting around the room for Harry.

Andrei's men were going down, most of them were scurrying out of the room, others were dead. There was only Andrei, my mother, Valkyrie and a couple of men left. Cruz had mysteriously disappeared, and so was the God's Eye, which he must've taken with him.

My leg shot upwards, the bottom of it colliding harshly and powerfully underneath his chin, causing him to snap his neck upwards towards the ceiling with a loud crack. He crumpled to the floor, I ducked down to press two fingers against his neck, breathing in relief when I felt his pulse. He was still alive, just paralysed.

My head snapped towards the doorway where Andrei and my mother were escaping through. But just before my mother left, she pulled out a circular copper-colored object, pushing her thumb down on the green bottom on top of it. I caught a glimpse of red numbers, as she chucked it across the room, where it landed right beside Harry's feet, who was still fighting the Asian guy near the windows. My heart literally stopped when the ball rolled slightly to its side, revealing a timer counting down. It was a bomb.

"Harry!" I screeched, just as he knocked out the man he was fighting.

I started sprinting towards him, watching the timer count down from five seconds. His eyes widened with confusion when I approached him in top speed, my hands jutting out ot shove him. With all of the panic I was feeling, I felt the power course through my veins as I put all my strength into my arms, shoving him to the other side of the room. His back collided with the wall harshly, causing it to crack slightly due to the force of the shove as he slid down against it with a slight groan. He opened his eyes again when he heard the timer ticking, his lips parting, face paling and eyes widening.

"Scarlett! No!" he literally roared, making me instantly realize what was near my feet.

I looked down, my heart shattering when the timer started beeping, revealing all zeroes. It exploded. There was a blinding flash, the roar of the explosion so loud I was partially deaf, it was almost like everything was sucked into a vacuum before reversing, somewhat like a supernova. The fearful blow of the explosion caused me to fly into the glass windows, making them shatter into a million tiny shards.

My body twirled and jerked as I fell, no sound escaping my lips because of the wind in my face, making it impossible for me to breathe. I fell down at a speed that constricted my throat so that I couldn't scream nor breathe. Everything was a blur, time seemed to slow down when I was falling, but in the seconds it took me to reach the ground I knew I was never gonna make it out alive. My body finally collided with what was the hood of a car. I felt cracks in the bones of my body as it hit the hood of the car. The glass disintegrated, the noise of crushing metal ringing wildly in my ear along with the hoarse howl of people as I felt myself slipping away.

And then, everything went dark.

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-that was a slightly longer chapter than normal. I really enjoyed writing it!

-were the action scenes good? What do you think of Cruz? I pictured him as Tom Hanks cuz why not😂 Scarlett's mother is played by Jordana Brewster, it's uncanny how similar they look.

-Any predictions?

-if you're enjoying this story, please do check out my other works, Freak and Flawless 💖

Until we meet again...

~T