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Mag had many reservations about leaving the car, one being the very real possibility that once she exited that she would be shot dead on the spot, but she couldn't exactly just sit and wait for something to happen, the police had already taken notice to the vehicle and it was only a matter of time before they came to investigate, so it was with a heavy sigh that Mag, took the gun from Esther and pressed it to her head, making sure the safety was on because lord forbid any mistakes were made, C.T would rip her to shreds. "Out" She ordered, getting into character as she grabbed her laptop with her free hand, and exited the car, forcing Esther in front of her before she moved towards the building. The cops spotted Esther and moved forwards, only halting when they saw that Mag was armed and had her weapon pointed directly at Esther.

And now... the guns were coming out, Mag fidgeted not liking that so many weapons were trained on her, she stepped behind Esther a bit before speaking out in a steady tone. "Let me through, I need to speak with Bradley, I want to make a trade." The cops clearly didn't know how to handle this request as they looked around at one another searching for guidance, clearly there was a Sergent on scene and the FBI had yet to show. Mag would use their inexperience against them. Without waiting she pushed Esther forward keeping the gun securely pressed against her skull as she moved forward, the cops cleared space afraid to be the cause of the girls execution and so Mag mad it into the house unharmed. "Where is Bradley?" She demanded of the guards in the foyer, and reluctantly they pointed up stairs. So far so good, Mag approached the door they had pointed out.
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Bradley was being difficult, as expected, but still it was pissing C.T off, the b*****d thought her to be stupid it seemed. He didn't have a list made, and hadn't planned on bringing one for her tomorrow, but just because he didn't have one prepared didn't mean he couldn't produce one. His computer was still up and running after all. Gesturing towards his computer with the gun she had taken from him C.T spoke. "Make one." She demanded, and Jacob looked hesitant, that single second of pause in search of an excuse caused C.T to raise the gun and struck him with it on the top of his head, not hard to create permanent damage. She began to give the order again but there was a knock on the door that brought her pause.

"C.T, I've brought the girl." A muffled voice spoke, C.T's eyes went wide, she recognized the voice as Mag's and had to quickly work to hide her reaction, because she didn't give herself away to Jacob, but on the inside, C.T was furious with Mag for bringing Esther here. "Come in." C.T spoke removing her blood from the door for just a moment, allowing Mag and Esther to shuffle in before sealing it once again. She took a moment to give Mag a stare that roughly translated into 'What the ******** are you doing here?' and Mag returned it with 'I had no choice.' C.T gritted her teeth and shook her head letting Mag know that they would discuss this later.
"Get on his computer, and find some info." C.T ordered Mag, who hesitated. "Actually we are here to negotiate and exchange...." C.T gaze almost melted Mag. "An exchange... for who." C.T demanded, she still hadn't looked at Esther, refusing to make eye contact with the girl. "You, for her." Mag spoke quickly.

C.T paused, for a moment, straightening up as her eyes finally left Mag and landed on Esther. She was conscious of the anger there in Esther's eyes as well as the worry, and wished she had did more to cover the bullet wound in her gut, she was glad that her back was to Jacob because there was a myriad of emotions that spread across C.T's face, there was so much she wanted to say but couldn't, and now she was having a hard time keeping strong, but Jacob helped her out, by laughing crudely, and that was all she needed to harden her gaze and shake her head at Esther. "I'm not going anywhere," C.T spoke venomously "And neither is she." C.T finished turned back to Jacob, who had since stopped laughing as she walked upon him and pressed her finger deeply into the wound she had created in his shoulder. "Laugh now, b*****d."

C.T turned to Mag, who was all but pleading for them to get out of there with her eyes. She knew that Mag hated being there, just as much as she did, and maybe even Esther, but C.T couldn't leave empty handed, not with the damage she had caused, walking out of here now, they would probably be shot at, even with Esther. They needed to prove something now, or else things would get rockier later. "Keep looking." C.T ordered, she looked down at her gut again, checking her wound, the fragments were still in her and they didn't look like they would be getting pushed out without help. s**t.

"I've found more files, but there locked."

There was hope, C.T turned to Bradley "What's the pass?" She demanded and Jacob looked like he was fixing to refuse to answer so C.T pushed her finger into his wound again, causing him to yell out in pain, a bit too loudly, she knew his cries would make the cops outside anxious. "Shut up and give me the pass" C.T hissed.

"Connie."

C.T grit her teeth, "Don't ******** with me." C.T was going to move to open a larger wound in Jacob's other shoulder but stopped when Mag spoke up behind her. "It worked, that was the pass."

C.T stopped and glared at Jacob, stepping back. "You're sick" C.T spat disgusted, as she turned from him to see what was on the computer, she looked at the folder Mag opened, and found that it was her file, from the day she was born, until the day she disappeared, pictures of her family before she was taken, and pictures of the abuse she had been put through all documented, the most sickening thing of all, was the unsigned adoption form left in the file.

(Let me know if this was an awkward place to end, if it helps, what C.T see's will stun her, before leading her into outrage.)

C.T wanted very badly to comfort Esther, to go to her girlfriend as the girl began to puke up the contents of her stomach, she wasted to take the girls hand when she had reached out to her, but above all, she wanted to be comforted. She needed something, because write now she felt like she was breaking. She almost did it, she almost dropped the entire mask she had been been keeping up and buried herself into Esther's arms, but Jacob Bradley just had to open his ******** mouth.

C.T reeled on him. "Things I shouldn't be messing with?" C.T yelled, she grabbed Jacob by the collar lifting him up, ignoring her open wound screaming in protest as she slammed him against the wall. "This is my life! All of that stuff in that file happened to me! Because of you!" C.T had eyes had began to water upon seeing her file, pictures of herself with the family she couldn't remember breaking her heart. "But you had to destroy all of that!" C.T wailed. "And for what? Why?" She demanded, ignoring the tears that now stained her cheeks. Jacob didn't look like he had an answer that he wanted to give and that only mad C.T angrier as she dropped him to the floor, turning to Mag as she wiped at her eyes. "Download the file, we have what we need to destroy him."

"What about the list?" Mag asked, her voice was filled with sympathy laced in her voice. "******** the list, I just want him." C.T whispered, closing her eyes, and collecting herself briefly before looking at the screen as Mag moved the mouse around a few clicks later and the files were moving over to her external hard drive. While Mag worked C.T starred at the pictures in the file, watching the faces of her mother and her father trying to see if she could feel anything, but all she felt was another wave nausea. She remembered what Esther said, about her father having her girlfriend sent away and killed. He could have easily did that to C.T's parents.

"Where are they?" C.T asked, her voice hollow, words so vague that even Mag turned to her with a questioning gaze. "What?" Jacob asked, coughing now as if he were truly hurt, he had no idea how much worse this could get for them. "My parents," C.T started not turning away from the screen. "Where are they?" Jacob went quiet, his eyes touching the still open file. "I asked you a question." C.T's patience was running thin as she stepped closer to Bradley who still had answered her. "Where are they!"

(Sorry to throw another hard choice into your lap, but you get to choose, C,T's parents. Alive. Or dead.)

C.T wanted to kill him, she wanted to rip off his limbs and beat him to death with them. That would make her feel better right? Shutting him up would solve everything wouldn't it? Once and for all, and hell it'd be easy she was already bleeding, she had all the power she would ever need to destroy him, and he just kept talking as if she couldn't erase him with the snap of her fingers. Or she could just shoot him, yea that'd be easy, easier than using her blood, she needed to save as much of it as she could anyway, she was on the verge of blacking out.

She was so intent on what she wanted to do to Jacob that she hadn't even noticed Esther stepping in between them until Jacob was yelling out in pain, C.T saw that Esther was pressing down into his wound painfully in the same ways that C.T had been just moments before. C.T was stunned out of her anger by the action, as well as Esther talking to her, providing a distraction that she needed. Esther was reminding her of the trip they said they would take, maybe they could find her parents, after all Jacob did say they were alive.

C.T gave a weak nod, allowing her eyes to meet Esther's, if she continued to look at Bradley she would attack him, and that would be it. "Got it boss." Mag sounded and she stood to join Esther and C.T, she was a little more forceful in nudging C.T towards the door, and C.T allowed herself to be led away.

"What have you done to my daughter?" Jacob demanded, but C.T didn't give him an answer she was already out the door, and into the hall way where the waiting guns of more than a few cups were pointed her way. She had almost forgotten about the cops. Almost.

"You're ward is in there, bleeding to death. You can try and capture us here, but I warn you we will fight back, and it's a fight you will lose, or you can go and save him and make yourselves look good on the news later. You're choice." Without waiting for an answer she pushed past the first cop roughly, and since he gave her passage she figured she was safe to move on. "Where's your car?" C.T asked, tiredly once they made it to the front door, knowing that there would be more cops outside. "Right out front, no too far away." Mag assured to which C.T nodded. "Good, don't think I can walk for much longer." She warned before pushing the front door open, and giving the same story to the cops waiting outside, that she had given to those upstairs. It helped that most of these officers were in Jacob's pocket, she could tell that most of them were off duty, because they didn't even bother radioing for back up. "Let's go." C.T mumbled.

C.T winced when Esther pressed into the wound with her shirt, but this pain was probably deserved, she knew that Esther must think so, with the amount of worry C.T had put her through, but for C.T it had been necessary, if the worst that happened to her today was a gun shot wound. She would take it, no matter how much this little wound was turning out to hurt. Grunting, C.T placed her hand over Esther's applying the lightest of pressure herself, really she just yearned for the contact.

"You shouldn't have come here."

C.T looked over at Esther, before looking down at her lap. "I'm sorry." C.T spoke sincerely, she was sorry that she had worried Esther and that she had forced Esther's hand in making the girl chase after her. She was also sorry that Esther had to see the things that she had. "I just had to do it." C.T reasoned, though she didn't think Esther wanted to hear that so she quieted down as Mag drove, they weren't to far from home and pretty soon they were pulling up to garage, there were a few of her people waiting outside, with a stretcher, Mag had called them up and told them to be ready. C.T thought about protesting for just about a moment, but her tired body, begged her to reconsider, as she stepped out of the vehicle and nearly fell.

C.T allowed herself to be guided by Mag and the others onto the stretcher, closing her eyes and letting out a long sigh as exhaustion finally hit her, being able to lay down after so long gave her body a much need rest. It also helped that Mag had pressed a needle into her skin injecting her with a pain killer that also made her more than a little drowsy. C.T didn't even feel the kiss Esther had placed on her hand, before she was whisked off for 'surgery'.

The process was fast, all the medics had to do was remove the bullet fragments and C.T's body would heal itself, and although some of the fragments had went in deep, they really didn't have much trouble getting them out, they didn't have to be as precise with C.T as they would with a normal patient, so they were able to dig deeper, much easier. With the bullets dropped into a metallic dish, Mag exited stepped back letting her assistants patch up the wound while she approached Esther. "And that's that." Mag said with an easy smirk, she was trying to earn her way back into Esther's good graces because she wasn't sure where she stood with the girl. Mag showed Esther the fragments in the dish. "Only three fragments and they didn't pierce anything important, she's already started healing, she'll be loopy for a bit because of the drugs we gave her, but being C.T and all her it'll wear off quicker." Mag spoke as the other medics left the room, to wash their hands and most likely inform all the others on the boss' condition. "So.... Wanna keep em?" Mag asked pressing the dish towards Esther.

"Alright, I'll get rid of them." Mag said with a shrug, welp she should have known that wouldn't work, but hey she had to try. Besides, in her day she had seen many wives and sons take these and make jewelry out of them, it was cool in a action hero sort of way.

"As far as Jacob Bradley is concerned, it's over." Mag said confidently. "The list would make this go a lot smoother, but the evidence on him alone is enough to destroy his campaign as well as open a federal investigation. It'll be a matter of time before those names C.T wanted are exposed to the public." Mag said with a smirk patting Esther on the shoulder. "And don't worry, just because most of us are exiled doesn't mean we don't have people in high places, this will be handled properly you have my word." Mag said with a wink, moving past Esther and walking away with the dish in hand. "She'll be waking up soon, might wanna get ready for that. She's going to be in a little pain, but Connie doesn't like taking drugs so we can't really fix that. Just give her some water from that cabinet over there," Mag called pointing to the cabinet as she made her exit. "Make sure she drinks it slowly."

As if on cue, C.T began to move, and quickly following her movement came her pained groans, a low whine as she struggled through the drowsiness of the whatever it was that had put her under, and the sudden, burning pain in her gut.