Monday, August 11, 2008

I looked up. Jade was standing at the door with a gun in her hand.
"Jade, what's going on?" I asked.
She didn't answer. Two men walked in, one of whom I recognized as the man I saw in the window at the hotel. They handcuffed Chris and led him out of the room.
Jade lowered her gun. "Are you alright?" she asked.
"I'm fine, I think." I slowly stood back up. I was a little confused about what was happening. I noticed my camcorder in Jade's hand.
"Where did you get that?" I asked.
"We've had it ever since we knocked you out that first day."
"Wait a minute," I said. "You mean that you were the one that first kidnapped me?"
"No, not me personally. Our organization knew that the enemy needed you for something, and that they'd probably kill you after getting it. We needed to protect you and whatever it was you had that they wanted."
I pointed at the scrape on my face that I'd gotten in the explosion at the warehouse. "You call that protection?!"
"Sam, we didn't mean for you to ever leave the cabin. But there was some leakage of information and we had to evacuate you before the enemy got there. We were a little too late."
"I see," I said, trying to get things straight in my mind. "So what about Chris?"
Bert straightened up in his chair.
"What about me?" he asked.