I sit up abruptly and splutter through a cough, trying to get some air. Everything shape shifts like it did when I woke up before and I can distinguish what had been a blur into my surroundings. I realise I'm in a car.

"Oh good. You're awake." Jack grumbles from my side, without a sparing glance because he's driving.

"Oh great, I'm awake." I groan, still coughing. I lean back into the chair and close my eyes, pretending I'm not here. While I'm still stuck with him there's no way I'll be able to get out of here and get my daughter.

"I'm gonna cut to the chase and just say the plan." He says, keeping his eyes on the road.

"No need, I already know what I'm doing." I cut over him, waving a hand casually and the sound of leather being scrunched between his hand on the steering wheel fills the car, making it evident he's tense.

"Oh really?" His voice is forced, full of spite. Not the Jack I used to know.

D.A.R.E. really has changed him.

"Yeah, I go in there to do your dirty work, get caught by all the agents and thrown back in jail." I shrug like it's nothing but unless he has a plan to make me invisible somehow, that's exactly what will happen.

He slams a hand on the wheel out of frustration. "Wrong. I'll be creating a distraction. Then you run in and do the dirty work." He says, his hands then easing on the steering wheel a bit.

There is one thing I then wonder whether he will admit to me or not. "What about Robert? The only computer I can truly access all your information on is his. He won't run out and be deceived by your stupid distraction!" I exclaim,allowing his anger to reach me.

As expected, he goes quiet for a moment. "He won't be an issue. I already anticipated him being a problem and I took care of it." He says, much quieter than before and he freezes up a bit, refusing to look at me.

"What did you do?" My voice is softer than I even knew capable as I ask him, even though I know the answer.

"It was painless." He says and then he clears his throat just like August does when he's nervous.

He's lying to me.

I find myself crumpling up in grief anyway, even if Robert was one if the reasons that E.I.O. became so corrupt, he was still the man who loved me unconditionally and promised to be there when no one else would. Including my stupid fiancé.

Ex-fiancé.

"How did you find me Jack?" I ask, changing the subject and sucking up the urge to burst into tears. I thought I had been so careful when I went to the shops but obviously I wasn't both Jack and Robert had found me this morning, within the hour.

"I just know you." He shrugs.

"You don't get to say that anymore." I hiss. "Tell me the truth."

His shoulders go limp. "And maybe also a little background check into the man I last saw you with. Voila. Unfortunately, Robert also had the same idea." I really underestimated both Jack and Robert. I was stupid to think I could go into hiding for a whole week without being found by some of the countries smartest, most skilled men.

"The house wasn't even in his name." I muse, not meaning to say it out loud.

"You don't know what kind of background check I did." He quickly retorts before slamming on the hand break. "We're here, get out."

I give him a slightly scared look but find myself slowly going to take off my seat belt. This is it. There's no way that I'll be going into the building, now is my chance to get away.

"Don't even think about running, Willow. I know you, remember?" He adds when he takes one look at me and my face gives away the truth. That I was going to run. "There are men all over this place, dozens of moles and spies on our side. They've been give the order to take you out if you try anything." He adds slowly.

"You'd let them do that?"

"Looking out for number one and number one only." He replies, looking away from me and putting the car back into gear. "Now, get out."

"I can't believe how much you let them change you." I sigh flatly as I pull on the door handle.

"I changed myself." He calls out to me once I've left the car and have begun to walk towards the building. I guess I have no choice but to go through with their dirty plan else I'll never be able to see my little girl again and the only parent she'll have on this planet will be Jack. I imagine the day where my little girl has grown up all alone and wanders who her parents are so she goes on a search and all she finds is no good Jack who will train her up to be a D.A.R.E. member.

Not happening.

I pull my jacket around myself closely and continue to the entrance. I consider myself extremely lucky when I make it s far without an agent in sight but I know that there's no way I'll make it two steps in. I can guarantee the CCTV has already picked it up and swarms of guards are all heading my way already.

I suck in a large breath and come out from behind a bush and I saunter through the doors as carefree as possible. Its then that the only agent in sight, one behind the reception desk bends down to grab some files from a lower shelf. I pick up the pace and turn a corner, hiding behind a large locker unit and take a few breaths to calm down.

I've made it.

Before I can take even one more step, revealing myself from my hiding place, a loud crash sounds out over the whole building that leaves my ears ringing. Only a few seconds later agents all go running past and I sink further into the unit so I'm properly hidden. When it's been a short while I jump out and hurry to an elevator and pressing myself into a corner of it even though it's glass. I slam the button that takes me up to the level I need to be.

I know it'll be at least half a minute to get up to Roberts level but it'll feel like an hour with all this suspense being pent up in my body. I watch the city become smaller and smaller beneath my feet. My gaze falls onto the HQ car park and I gasp when a giant cloud of smoke is being released. I'm getting further and further from being able to tell what's causing it but a gust of wind clears my view and I realise it's the car I had been in with Jack.

It's now rammed into the side of the HQ building, smoking like crazy so there's probably a fire and there are crowds of people all around it.

That's his idea of a distraction?

If it blows up, I die!

I wonder for a moment whether he was still on the car when he drove it into the building but then again, the is Jack were talking about. He probably pulled out a parachute and flew away to safety.

Then again, him being free and somewhere I don't know is not good. It'll be harder to get away.

The doors to the elevator opens and I'm pulled away from my gaze directed at the car and I realise my time is running out. Some agents will probably return to get stuff before the fire engines and police show up to evacuate the building.

I literally launch myself down the corridor, catching eyes with someone in an office but when they see me and look away as if they hadn't seen anything, I assume he's one of D.A.R.E's moles put there to keep an eye on me. I finally make it to Robert's office and have to kick the door down when I find that it's locked. It's left on the floor in a sorry mess and I remind myself to fix that before I leave not that I have time but it's better to leave less of a trace.

I know it would have smarter to pick the lock but that clever idea only came to me after I made the mistake of destroying the door. I guess the panic is finally getting to me.

I fling myself onto his chair, guilt taking over for a second but I push through that I hit the power button on his computer. It lights up and it takes just couple seconds to crack his password, wriggle through the sidelines and make it to the main frame.

Then I have to stop myself and think to myself, do I really want to do this?

Jack doesn't deserve a second chance. And if I do this he gets off scot free while I'm bundled with a child and forced to go into hiding. Anyway, they have proved themselves to be excellent spies and trackers, who knows if I'll even successfully conceal myself and my baby. Not to mention August.

I hope he's okay. What if Jack took him out after I was knocked out?

An unsettling feeling is released into my stomach and I find myself feeling a little nauseous.

Perhaps it's then the nausea that takes over my thinking ability because I carry on searching for all of the info they have on Jack, which is a lot and erasing it. When I'm about halfway through I get an idea.

I'm not happy that Jack will get off without a single consequence.

So what if I enforce one?

I hunt through Roberts draws madly and make quite the mess until I find what I'm looking for.

A USB.

Where I can store everything on this computer and the E.I.O system including any secret encrypted rubbish and I'm going to present it to the police. I hope this isn't exactly what I told August not to do but now I can see the whole picture and what August saw before I did.

That this can't be allowed to go on any longer.

I get all the info onto that which takes a few panicked filled minutes. I feel a gaze on me at one point and I find a very dressed up agent stood leaning on the doorless door frame because I ruined it, just watching me. He's definitely one that belongs to D.A.R.E and is just keeping an eye on me so I chose to ignore him.

When some footsteps out in the hall sound out, his attention is captured for a moment and I whip out the USB and throw it into a pocket knowing that what I've done is essentially the exact opposite of what I was asked to do. However there was only half of what Jack has done on the USB and I removed all information of him from the system, so technically I did what they asked?

I then remove all trace of my presence on Roberts computer and haul the door back in it's place taking just a couple extra minutes to screw the hinges back in place though once I'm done I can't help but notice the door then makes a squeak.

The agent who had been watching me then swivels on Roberts chair and does a double check on my work, seemingly pleased when he finds out the job is done. He talks into a watch on his wrist, telling his guys I did it before he looks over at me with a smug grin.

That's when I know it's time for me to leave.

His hand reaches behind his back and a gun is pulled out on me, I curse myself for not carrying a gun like I usually do. Also, the fact the I didn't really see this coming even though I should've.

They have no use for me now so I'll be taken care of.

I back up towards the door in the room as he releases the safety, his grin widening. "We thank you for your work, Willow. But we won't be needing you anymore." He then raises his gun so his aim is better and places his finger on the trigger, all my senses feeling as if they're on fire as I try to figure out how to get out of this.

I grab the thing closest to me, a folder and hurl it at him, missing the gun though it does hit his other arm, distracting him for a second as I reach out for the door handle.

And miss.

But before I can reach out again a bang sounds out throughout the room. I squeeze my eyes shut, tightening my mouth so I don't cry out and I feel my knees weakening as I sink to the floor. Surprisingly there's no pain after a few moments and I open my eye to see the agent on the floor, the gun lying a small way away from him.

I then look to the door frame that is doorless yet again and see August stood there out of breath.

I groan. "I just fixed that!"