Georgie watched as Boomer got to the top of the ladder and pushed the hatch up a little and looked around, he took a few minutes before looking down at her and nodding. She sucked in a breath and began her ascent, she really wanted to get one more deep breath of fresh air as well. Damn, she could feel a slight cool breeze coming down the shaft and she closed her eyes. God, she really needed this. As she neared the top, Boomer held out a hand and leaned over.
“See if you have a signal, I don’t want you up here if you don’t have to be,” Boomer said and she nodded and wrapped one of her arms around the rungs of the ladder and held on while she moved the phone with her other hand.
She looked and saw that indeed she had enough bars on the phone to make a call so she nodded and then punched in her sister’s number this time. She loved her parents but they were probably freaking out.
“Hello?” she heard a man say before the phone even rang on her side.
“Who is this?” Georgie asked and heard someone suck in a breath.
“Fuck, Georgie?” the man said and she nodded. Duh, fuck!
“Yep,” she finally said.
“This is Ice,” he said and she wanted to sigh with relief.
“Okay, I am just calling to let you know I am fine, Boomer is fine, we are going to be crossing the border in about three days’ time, uh we are kinda walking,” she said, “but trust me we are going to be fine. It will just take a little longer than what I expected.”
“Georgie, listen, I’m glad you are okay, can I talk to Boomer please?” he said and she nodded but before she handed the phone over she said.
“Tell my parents I am fine, and tell my brother not to come out here, and make sure Sofia doesn’t fly off the handle.”
Ice sighed loudly and said, “Too late for that. I will make sure I pass along the messages.”
“Okay,” she said and then handed the phone up and held on and waited for Boomer, she really didn’t want to go back down yet, she needed some fresh air.
“You got Boomer,” he said into the phone when he got it and she watched him carefully as he talked to Ice, something was going on, she could tell by the sound of Ice’s voice, and because her sister hadn’t answered, she would have, shit, Georgie hadn’t had time to think about it. No way would Sofia ever give her phone away to someone when she was missing. She just wouldn’t. Boomer’s eyes came to her and he nodded and then said.
“Yeah, man, I will make sure I tell her. Okay, let me make my call and we’ll go from there.”
He disconnected the phone and looked at her and said, “One more call and we are gone.”
She nodded and bit her lip, she really wanted to know what was going on, but he had to take care of business first. She saw him stand up and walk a few steps away to get privacy as he dialed. It only took a moment before someone must have answered his call as well because he started talking.
“Fling, yeah, we are at the shack. Make sure someone picks our ass up on the other side. You know it is gonna take us three days, until then, man, make sure you tell whoever is picking us up to bring some fresh clothes and shit, we will make it to the first fucking hotel and check in to get cleaned up.”
He was silent as whoever it was talked to him, he nodded a few times made a grunting noise and then said, “Yeah got it. Okay, make sure you tell the Ops we have this under control.”
Boomer bent down and looked intently out a crack in the shack, the building didn’t have windows but she knew when she walked inside that several of the slats in the walls were gapped a little since the light had been streaming in. She wanted to rise up and see what he was looking at but when he swore she knew something was not right.
“Fuck, how the hell did they find us?” Boomer snapped and then he said into the phone. “Shit, I forgot to do that, damn it to hell, was in too big of a hurry and truthfully I wouldn’t have anyway, they were total dumbasses, who would have thought they actually were that smart. Yeah, we are gone.”
He hung up the phone and said, “Come on, baby, back down, we have some visitors. Once we get down don’t move too far, we need to check for trackers, they found us somehow.”
She nodded and went to move down the shaft and she heard someone start yelling and it was followed by a few shots at the shack, the noise was loud in the shaft and she moved as fast as she could without falling down on her ass. Georgie looked up, Boomer was pulling the door closed quickly and then he moved fast. When he reached the bottom of the ladder he pulled it hard, once, twice and finally the third time she flinched as the ladder came off the side of the shaft and dirt rained down on them. When the dust cleared, Boomer was looking up and he frowned.
“Fuck, come on,” he said and she looked at him warily.
“What is going on?” she asked as she was pulled behind him.
“Well,” he said, stopping and then running his hands down her body swiftly, she squeaked especially when he ran his fingers under her bra and then she growled.
“Really? I am pretty sure that they didn’t put anything in my bra while I was out.”
He nodded. “Maybe, but they are tracking us somehow.”
He moved to her jeans and ran a hand around her waist and then went lower until he reached her shoes, which he lifted up. She sighed and braced herself on his shoulder and against the dirt wall.
Slowly he felt on the bottom of one shoe and then lifted the other. When he groaned and then pulled something out from her sole, she frowned and looked down.
“What is that?” she asked and he grimaced.
“Well, yeah, this is how they found us, and like a dumbass I didn’t check before we left that shit hole. Fuck, seriously, you would think I was a novice, motherfuckers,” he said and then took the small little black piece, walked to the table, and hit it with a can he had grabbed. They could hear someone yelling still, the voices drifting down the shaft, but they sounded too far away.
“We need to move, get some distance between us, when they finally come in the shack, they will find the hole and thus know what we are doing,” Boomer said and she nodded.
“But…” she said and then looked back. “They will uh, follow us, won’t they?”
Boomer paused and then nodded slowly and said, “We have weapons, and more at the next cavern. By the time they get down here, we should be a fair distance away.”
Georgie nodded slowly and looked back and said, “Okay, this is gonna suck saying this, since you know we are down here and shit, but maybe we should make sure they can’t follow us, I mean if we don’t, then we have three days running down here in the stale air. They will catch us, we will have to shoot our way out of here and who knows if we will make it. You said earlier that you were a master of explosives, I am feeling like maybe it is time to prove that.”
Boomer shook his head. “No way, there is one little thing wrong, I will bury us alive.”
“Well, we are dead anyway if they catch up to us. I mean, I am assuming they want us for a reason, although I’m not sure what the hell it is. But I would feel a lot better if we at least have some time to get to the other side,” Georgie said and Boomer looked at her with an intense expression.
He looked up, and they heard the voices clearer now and she said, “You know I’m right.”
He nodded slowly and then took her hand and pushed her down the corridor with two flashlights in her hand and said, “Go, run, make sure you are far enough away when this goes that if it collapses on me you will still be able to go. If I don’t come behind you in an hour or so, just keep going, someone will be there at the end of the tunnel to help you.”
Georgie bit her lip, she really didn’t want to leave him, but she also knew she would hold him up if she were still here with him when he set off whatever he was getting ready to use. In a split second she lunged forward and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down and kissed him.
Boomer didn’t hesitate, his arms wrapped around her and he kissed her back, sweeping his tongue in her mouth quickly and forcefully, making her suck in a breath through her nose. Shit, he kissed as good as he looked, she thought and then pulled back and looked at him.
“I swear, if you die after that kiss, I will come back and hunt your ass down to kill you again. I really would like to see if you can kiss as well when our lives are not in danger,” Georgie whispered and then kissed him quickly and let him go. “And no, I wasn’t thinking that out loud, I knew what I was saying.”
“Go on, baby,” Boomer said. “I will catch you in a few.”
She nodded and turned, holding up the flashlight she did what he said and she ran.
Boomer watched as the light moved down the tunnel. Damn, she could kiss, he thought and then turned around and went to the box in the corner. He knew they had to have something he could use down here. But he hadn’t been down in so long, he wasn’t sure. When he flipped open the lid, he grinned. Oh hell yeah, he thought and reached in, grabbing what he needed to make sure he would do the job right. Not too much and not too little, enough to make the ceiling collapse.
He moved back to where the shaft was and looked up, yep, they had found it, the door was sitting open and he could hear them yelling at someone to get some rope from the car. Yeah, not happening, assholes. He quickly ran the wire he needed and set the charges above his head at the top of the ceiling, unfortunately he didn’t have a timer, so he was gonna need to light this bitch and then run like fucking hell.
He heard someone.
“If you come up now and surrender, we assure you we will kill you quickly,” the voice said and Boomer rolled his eyes, were they that fucking stupid? Probably, he thought because if they thought he would ever give himself up, or risk Georgie getting into their hands, they were insane. He smiled. When she had jumped on him it had caught him off guard, her sweet lips touching his had felt right.
He moved to the next charge and attached the wire, oh yeah, now that he had tasted her, there was no fucking way he wasn’t gonna sink his cock into her. Damn, he thought she was sexy before, but after this, she was a fucking goddess. Boomer admitted he sucked at relationships, women, he just couldn’t ever read them, and if he did, then he didn’t want them. He was picky, Sunny used to tease him that there wasn’t a woman in the world who would put up with his brand of crazy. He looked back into the darkness and smiled. Maybe there hadn’t been before, but he had obviously been looking in the wrong fucking place. Georgie seemed to fit him quite nicely.
He attached the last of the wire and then moved against the wall, looking up as they threw down a rope and he saw a man standing at the edge, ready to be lowered down. Bring it, asshole, come on down for a fucking visit, I will roll out the red carpet, he thought and then pulled his lighter out of his pocket and flicked it. He held it to the long wick he had run and without looking back, he ran.
He counted in his head as he ran, using his footsteps to keep his count. Fuck, he pushed himself as he reached twenty in his head, he needed to get farther. He heard someone behind him yell and then a bullet fired, fuckers couldn’t see him but they were trying to make sure he wasn’t waiting for him.
He reached thirty and BOOM! He fell forward with the force of the blast behind him, the air was thick, the cloud of dust swept over him and he put his head in his arm and breathed through his sleeve. Fuck, this sucked. He counted, waiting at least for the worst of the dirt to settle once again, he didn’t want to inhale dirt for the rest of the day until he could get to the next cavern where there was water waiting for him to at least clean himself up a little.
“Oh shit,” Georgie said and knelt down next to him. He looked up and saw she had her shirt over her mouth and she was feeling him over.
“Baby,” he groaned and said, “can you maybe stop running your hands over my body while I am laying here on the floor, if I get a woody, it will take longer for me to get up.”
“What?” Georgie said, confused, and then she rolled her eyes. “Really, you are going with a cock joke when I thought you were dead?”
He rolled over on his back and grinned up at her and nodded. “Yeah, figured it would help me get into your good graces, did it work?”
Georgie shook her head. “No, now come on. We need to keep moving.”
“Nope,” Boomer said and then pushed his way up. “First I need to make sure the tunnel is sealed; I don’t want any of those bastards getting through the dirt.”
She nodded and then paused. “Okay, I will wait here.”
“Hey, you should have been a lot farther than this,” Boomer said and glared at her.
“Yeah, well, I decided you weren’t planning on following directions anyway so I found a little dip in the wall and pushed myself back in it a little,” she said with a grin. “Just in case you fucked things up, you know.”
Boomer snorted and shook his head. “Yeah, okay, gimme a minute, I will check it out and come back.”
She nodded and watched him move backwards. She sucked in a little breath and told herself not to cry, but she was close. When she had seen him lying on the ground, she had panicked. She didn’t want to be alone down here, she didn’t want Boomer to get hurt, she didn’t want to get hurt, basically, she really wanted to treat this a little bit like a field trip, you know the kind you had in school where you have to go and find crap, well this was her field trip, she was living in denial.