Kidnapped By Assassins: A Hacker's Story

11. Talk About an awkward Dinner

Knox Martin POV

As I walked into my room I heard her cuss my name. "Son of a b***h Knox." she says out loud, I can hear the distaste in her voice.

What was I suppose to do? Go against my orders? Our friendship was important to me but so was work, and these people don't take kindly to someone saying 'no' to them.

"Nice to finally meet you in person VJ" I say calmly. I'm expecting her to go crazy. It is a pretty big betrayal and I'd understand If she did. Hell, I'm pretty sure id do it to if I was in her position.

"Knox?" I hear her whisper, I can hear the hurt in her voice. I nod slowly and then see her face change.

Prepare yourself...

She slowly started walking backwards, I can see how hurt she is. I can see the anger in her eyes, the betrayal she feels. She picked up the lamp that rested on my bedside table and threw it towards me, I duck and it goes past me.

Yeah. I deserve that.

"You son of a b***h! I trusted you!" She yells at me.

Yeah I deserve that too...

"hey, calm down..." I unconsciously say, rather patronisingly. Not on purpose though.

She picks up the alarm clock and throws it.

"For f**k sake, I thought you were my friend!" she yells and I duck again.

That one hurt more than what I can assume being hit in the face with a lamp feels like.

She continue to yell and scream. Again I can't blame her for it, but she needs to calm down, there are neighbours around and she'll get into a lot of s**t if they hear, Elizer already hates her and she's going to make it worse on herself, especially seeing we still don't know what Kane wants with her.

"for three f*****g years! for three f*****g years we worked together! y-you knew things about me that no one knew!" she yells again I can hear her voice breaking, but I can see she refuses to cry, she's always been like that, she hated crying. That was also true, we'd spend hours online just talking into our headsets, she helped me get through my parents' death and I helped her through all the s**t that went on at school.

She opens the drawer of the side table and pulls out and throws a stapler at me I move to the side and it misses. A stapler? I didn't even know I had a stapler in there...

She rummages in the draw and pulls out Leo's Dvds. I see a small pitiful smile rises on her lips. and she throws them at me.

"Hey! be careful with those, they're fragile!" I yell, attempting to catch them. More to the point, if Leo finds out I had them he'd have a hissy-fit. he's very protective of his porn. He's pretty weird to be honest.

Jordan starts walking towards me with a DVD case. she opens it and pulls out the DVD and throws it at my head, I duck again and the DVD flies into the wall, breaking into pieces. I look down at the pieces of the DVD that now lie all over the floor. Leo's going to be pissed.

She walks towards the book case and pulls out book after book and throws them at me while cussing again.

"You... *throws book*

*Duck*

Fucking... *throws book*

*Move to the side*

Asshole...!" *throws book*

*Duck again*

As she continued throwing books at me, Miles, Jace, Eli, Leo and Seth run in, with Belle not far behind them. Jordan picks up a big book and throws it at me, I duck again and it hits Leo in the face. Ouch. from what I've heard he's been getting beatings from Jordan for the last 14 hours, maybe even longer.

"stop f*****g moving you lying piece of fruitcake!!" Jordan yells, not caring about hitting Leo in the face.

"but you hate fruitcake?" I ask confused. She's always hated fruitcake, I remember how she'd go on about how adding dry fruit to a perfectly good cake could destroy friendships.

"that's the f*****g point!" she yells as she threw another book, this one was heavier than the last and got me right in the stomach.

I didn't really know what was going on as I was hunched over holding my stomach, attempting to catch my breath.

"hey, I was about to throw that!" I hear her yell.

"Knox you alright?" Leo asks me, as I'm still hunched over. "yeah I'm fine." I say as I breathes out. I stand up straight just as Jordan comes running at me and lands a punch on my face, I fall backwards.

"Put me down! I'm not done punching him yet!" she yells again. my cheek hurts and so does my heart. she was my friend. and I lost her in the worst possible way. I will kill Kane if he hurts her. I may be a hacker, but being around assassins for a year, you pick up a few things. She doesn't deserve any of this, none of it, and its my fault. After my parents died, Kane found me and I was hired by Phoenix Security. I didn't want to give them information on her, but they threatened me when they threatened my sister, I already lost my parents I wasn't ready to lose her too.

I fell flat back on my ass on the floor. I looked up again and saw Jace carrying her out of the room. cussing all the way down the stairs. Miles offers me a hand and I take it and pull myself up off the floor. Leo is whining about his porn DVDs. its quite pitiful. amusing, but pitiful.

with that we all walk down stairs.

Jordan Maston POV

Fucking Knox, I trusted him and he's part of the f*****g reason I'm in London! If I wasn't handcuffed to this f*****g chair I'd rip his head off. I don't care if it's gruesome he bloody well deserves it.

My mind was racing over my encounter with Knox. I trusted him. He was my friend. Even though I didn't know that he lived in a different country. He knew things about me that no one, not even my parents knew about. My parents... We 'met' when a mutual 'friend' hired us for a hack. Three years ago. Apparently it meant nothing. I helped him through his parents death. We'd talk for hours on our headsets. He was American. But lives in London, and is hired by the same f****d up organisation that ordered my kidnapping. He was the only one that knew me for, well, me. The air around the dining table was thick with tension. My eyes wandered to each person. Jace was to my right and Belle was to my left, Belle's brother, Seth sat next to her and Miles was next to him. Leo was next to Jace and Knox sat next to Leo. Eli, was at the end of the table and was staring at me, as I continued to try and get my hand out of the cuffs. Every once in a while they chain would clink on the wrought iron back of the chair. I shift my eyes back to the cuff and attempt to move my wrist around. This is going to leave a mark. I think to myself. "quit trying to get the cuff off" I hear Eli sneer as I look up at him. "quit being a fuckwit Elizer, oh, wait you were born like that right?" I ask sarcastically. I look to see Belle and Seth snicker to one another as Eli's face turns red in anger. The room went silent again, the only noise was the chain on the chair. Which I was now only doing to annoy them. The doors, to what I assume is the kitchen open and a bunch of people walk out holding plates of food.

Food! Glorious food!

Wow. I actually am pretty hungry...

Suppose it has been like 14 something hours since I've eaten, maybe even longer.

A petite lady walked over to me and placed a plate of seafood pasta dish in front of me. I stare at it.

"She can't eat that, she's allergic to seafood" I look up and see Knox looking at me.

Maybe I wanted to eat it! I protest in my head.

Yes. Because you want to die.

it'd be easier than all this. as much as I don't want to die, I really don't want to be here either.

The lady apologies to me and takes the food and replaces it with a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. everyone else on the table now had food in front of them.

Knox remembered my allergy?

He's still a f*****g liar and I still want to punch him in the face again.

I look up from my plate and see everyone eating theirs. I could feel the emptiness of my stomach but I refused to eat.

I need to continue to make things difficult.

I looked down at my food and then back up.

"I suggest you eat something, before I get someone to shove it down your throat" I look at Eli, and glare at him and his remark.

"No." I retort.

"Eat"

"No."

"Eat It"

"No Thanks." I smile.

"For f**k sake, eat it!" he was getting angry, I could see his face getting redder by the moment. Everyone at the table was quiet. even Leo didn't have any remarks or sexist comments.

"No. Why the f**k would I make it easy for you?! you kidnapped me! you kill people and your mysterious 'boss' wants me to do something for him. so why the f**k would I make things easy for you!. I am going to make it my personal mission to make things a living hell for you!" I yell at him.

"Belle! take her the f**k up stairs, you're of guard duty" he says or rather yells flustered.

Jace holds out the key to my cuffs and hands them to Belle across the table. Belle stands up and bends down and unlocks the cuff that was attached to the chair. I stand up and walk up the stairs. once we reach the top of the stairs Belle turns right and we walk into a large room. she unlocks the other part of my cuff as she closes the door.

"You know, you're making things difficult for yourself" Belle says in a sincere tone.

"yeah I know, but how am I suppose to react? be the terrified girl and cry all the time?, in the books and movies they seem to get into just as much trouble as the sarcastic girl who makes things difficult" I ask as I walk over to the bed. "less than 24 hours ago I was somewhat happy with my life, broke an asshole's nose, was hacking, and waiting for my parents to come visit me. and now I'm in London surrounded by Assassins and thieves, waiting to meet the person who wants me do something that will probably break my moral compass. not to mention a person I thought was my best friend who is also part of the reason I'm here" I finish. Belle stares at me as I was talking and sits down on a couch opposite the bed I am now sitting on.

"Knox didn't want to do this to you." she says.

"w-what?" I ask confused.

"Knox has been with the Agency for a year. he didn't want to do this, but after his parents' death, they threatened him by using his sister as collateral. so he joined. and has been hacking for them ever since. it was only about 3 months ago that the Boss wanted him to find you. firstly he refused and they beat him for it. and then threatened his sister so he'd comply. he hated every moment of it. there were times he was going to warn you, but they caught on. he cares for you Jordan. He really does, even though you just met in person."

"K-Knox...?" I say quietly. theres a knock at the door and Belle walks over and opens it. she smiles and walks out.

Knox walks in. holding a plate of blueberry pancakes.

"look, I know you don't want to talk to me, but you need to eat something." he says lowly.

he walks towards the bed and places the plate of pancakes in front of me and starts walking towards the door.

"Knox wait" i say. He turns around to face me.

"Belle told me. I'm so sorry"