Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Guest Star:
Julian Cheung - Douglas Chung aka Virgo
Andy Lau – Joe (The Head of Security and P.R.A.)
Daniel Wu – Michael Wu
Ada Choi – Jessie Leung aka Cancer
Sonjia Kwok – Christina Chan
Later that night, Erin was lying in her room when she felt odd about something. There were some unfamiliar noise coming from the rooftop. Eventhough she was on the second floor, she could easily detect something. How come Joe didn’t tell me the P.R.A. was coming? She wondered to herself as she got out of bed.
When she was out at the hallway, she looked over the stairwell and saw a few shadows shifting by the window, the silhouette showed through the moonlit windows. Her first reaction was Michael, they were probably after him. She rushed up the stairs and barged into his room, startling him awake.
He let out a gasp but when he realized it was Erin, he let out a sigh “What is it?”
Erin covered his mouth the minute she heard the rooftop shuffling “Shhh…they’re here for you.” She reached down for his hand “Come on.”
“Where are we going? They can’t get into the security.” He let her lead him outside. But when they stood at the stairwell, they saw two people in dark uniforms already inside “Oh shit! How did they get in??!” he cried while Erin pulled him back into his room.
“Is there any way to escape?” she asked while pacing the floor. The lock in the room door will not hold the others for long.
Michael turned to her suspiciously “Why are you helping me? Aren’t you with them?”
She let out a sigh “As hard as it may seem, I think you’re innocent.”
A smile suddenly crossed his face “You do? I knew you liked me!!”
She shook her head “This is not the time to be flirting!” she scolded “I can’t explain now, but we have to get out of here. Is there another exit?”
Michael turned to the window “It’s three floors down.” He said unsure of what she was capable of doing.
Her eyes widened at the window when she saw the shadow growing bigger “Get down!!” she pulled him to the floor and covered him with her body. The glass flew all over the place while the figure unbuckled his wire that supported him. She turned her head up and slowly stood up “Brad?”
He threw the wire belt aside roughly “What are you doing in his room?” he demanded.
Michael stood up next to Erin as he looked at Brad “I don’t think it’s none of your business.”
Brad suddenly charged at Michael with his arms around his neck while Erin tried to stop them “Brad, nothing happened!! I was just warning him about you guys…” but he wasn’t listening to her as he continued to choke the guy. Suddenly she used all her might to push him off. Brad came stumbling back while he watched Erin help the enemy up.
“You’d do all that for him?” he said in disgust.
Erin shook her head “I know you don’t believe me, but I’m really-”
She didn’t get to finish when Michael put his hand over her mouth, his eyes gave her a shake that said she shouldn’t say it “Your friends will be trapped, even if they get inside the house, they will be attacked by my guards.”
Michael was right since Mia and Reina were in a vicious fight while Darren and Andrew were fighting. Doug and Jessie were attacking five smaller body guards. The team was slowly losing with more guards attacking them.
Mia cried in pain when Reina spun her legs from under Mia and tripped her hard against the carpet “Mia!” Darren called trying to get to her but Andrew wasn’t about to let it go so soon.
Reina pulled out her gun a she pointed it to Mia “Stop or I’ll shoot her pretty little head to bits.” She threatened.
In a second all the fighting stopped, Michael could hear from the silence downstairs that it was over “Who do you think won?” his smile widened.
Brad charged at the smug faced guy while Erin pushed Michael out of the way and the two merged into a fight. It was the first time they were against each other, even in training they were never battled together since Brad never wanted to hurt her. Erin put up a good fight as she took advantage of his soft heart to secure him using her arms to hold down his arms over his back “Brad, listen to me.” She was panting as their fight was too fast pace for her.
“No, as long as you are standing by him, I will not listen to you!” he grunted as he used his full force to grab her arms and flip her over his head. She would have landed on her head but he quickly supported it.
Their eyes met and she tried to tell him with her eyes that she was not doing what he thought she was doing. But he was too angry, never letting his patience take over. She rolled away from him and stood up next to Michael “You don’t understand anything!” she blurted out.
“I understand everything.” He shook his head sadly “I can’t believe you would care about money so much as to forget about your conscience. You’re not the girl I fell in love with.”
Her eyes covered in tears as she heard him say the words she’s waited so long to hear. Yet she could not say them back or tell him the truth. The three were interrupted with Reina and Andrew dragging in the other four. Her gun was brought out pointing to Brad “I found a few rats looking for food.” Reina snarled.
Michael let out a laugh “Good job! So, you guys thought you could come in my home and take my stuff? It’s not that easy.” He turned to Reina and shook it towards Mia “Looks like you girls have some history together.”
“You traitor!! Kill me, I don’t care…even if I turned to a ghost, I’ll haunt your every nightmares until you go to hell where you belong!” Mia cried viciously.
Reina smiled satisfactory “Sure…don’t flinch…” she warned before pulling back her trigger.
“Wait!” Erin cried. She turned to Michael “Can I have a word with her?”
He debated it but eventually nodded “Make it short…” he warned. Michael nodded to Reina who moved her gun over to Brad who wasn’t tied up.
Erin walked over to Mia but the girl refused to meet her eye “Look at me….” She said earnestly.
Mia snapped her head to face her “Why? So I can see the greed in your eyes? The traitor in your blood? I can’t believe you Erin.”
“Sometimes, there are things that you don’t know.” She said sadly. Suddenly her eyes lit up “Do you remember when you joined the P.R.A. and I said you were too weak to be an agent? I gave you the worse welcome ever?”
Mia looked down to the ground as she answered “Then I told you that I would prove you wrong.”
“Do you remember why I pushed you and teased you?” Erin asked with earnest eyes.
Her eyes moved up slowly “Because you wanted me to be stronger than you…” her eyes tilted sideways as if she got her hint, they quickly softened as a smile grew on her face.
Erin shook her head slightly, indicating for Mia not to say anything. She reached over her ear and moved the hair aside from her ears but at the same time used her index finger and thumb to pull out the earpiece. Erin hid it carefully behind her palm as she walked back next to Michael “What are you going to do with them?”
“Kill them of course. That way the head will be scrambling around for new agents.” Reina smiled wickedly.
Michael nodded “That’s a good idea.” He turned to Erin “We have no choice.”
She shook her head slowly as she backed away towards the group, standing between the gun and the other five “You can’t hurt them.” She insisted.
“Fine, we’ll just kill you too.” Reina aimed the gun at Erin.
Michael quickly grabbed her wrist “No, you can’t kill her!” he commanded.
In the second, Brad wrapped his arms around Erin’s neck “Don’t move or I’ll kill her.” He pulled out the knife on his belt and laid it closer to her neck.
“NO!” Michael pulled Reina back as Brad inched closer to the door “Don’t hurt her…” he said softly.
“Sorry Erin, gotta use you as a hostage.” Brad said against her ear. They inched towards the door with the other five behind him “Go first.” He ordered the group. The hesitated, but eventually did as he ordered.
Michael shook his head sadly “And you say you love her…then use her as a shield, you’re sick!” he spat harshly.
“Shut up! This is all your fault!” Brad cried to Michael. He backed away towards the window with Erin still in his arms “If you have any heart left, you will leave this guy.” Brad whispered as he pushed her into Michael’s arm then turned and jumped out the window.
Erin quickly spun around “Brad!” it was three floors down, how would he be able to make it. She looked out the window and saw him rolling a few times before getting up. There was a slight limp to his walk but she was able to breath again.
“Let’s get him!” Reina said to Andrew and Michael.
He shook his head “No. We’ll let them go this time. But when they come back, we won’t let them get away.” Michael said darkly. He turned to the two “Your work is done, go back to bed.”
“Yes Sir.” Reina and Andrew said simultaneously.
Erin looked up at him “Thank you.” She said whole heartedly.
Michael shook his head “Come on.” He began walking out of the room and Erin followed him to the living room.
She looked around at the darkened room “Why are we standing here?”
“I’m tired of this life Erin. I don’t care if they catch me anymore. All you guys wanted is the proof that I was smuggling drugs into the country using the kids at the orphanage right?” he was reading her mind “That’s the only reason why you agreed to work undercover, if I'm not wrong." she didn’t reply as he continued “Don’t you want to know where the proofs are?”
He turned to look at her while she shook her head “Why are you doing this? We both know you’re innocent.”
“How do you know?” he asked with a sly grin “Don’t tell me my charm worked too well that I could cover your clever eyes?”
“I don’t have hard evidence, but I believe my gut feeling.” Erin concluded.
Michael laughed with his head shaking “Well, I’m about to prove you wrong.” He walked over to a large Monet painting that he bought years before and took it down. Behind it was a safe that he opened with a combination of five numbers. He pulled out a large manila envelope and handed it to her.
She stared it at “But…I don’t understand…”
He let out a sigh “I am just very tired of these games…the cat and mouse one never appealed to me much. I just don’t want to be the mouse anymore.”
“But you didn’t do it.” She insisted.
Michael smiled at her warmly “Whatever the truth is, don’t research, you will only get hurt in the end. I don’t want to see you hurt.” He sighed as he reached out to stroke her face with the back of his fingers “God, you look so much like Julie!” his heart ached to hold his girlfriend again “Can you do me a favor?”
Erin looked up with saddened eyes “Anything.”
“Can I hold you?” he smiled when her brows raised “I won’t do anything else, I promise. I just miss hugging Julie.”
She nodded and moved into his opened arms “You are such a romantic.” She sighed as she felt his arms tightened around her waist, her head leaned on his chest while she closed her eyes. She felt a tear drop on the top of her head as it dripped slowly down her scalp. She vowed that very minute that the truth will be exposed.