Chapter20

River, Killer and I step inside first. She is laying on the bed, and gets up when she sees us all standing there. I move to the side of the bed as River, Texas and Spade remain by her feet. Beauty and Killer go to the other side. Mercy and After stand next to me. Snake walks in and goes behind River, not sure he knows what is going on but he will soon. Bull folds his hands and stands by the door. 'We need to check your arms," River tells her. 'For what." 'We think you might be doing drugs." Mercy says. Harley frowns, looking at all of us, scepticism plastered to her face. She must be having a sane moment. Shocking us when she lifts her hands up. The chains we put around them dangling in-between. 'Check," She says, and her dark circled eyes look to my woman. 'You can come closer," She smiles at Beauty when she says this. Beauty walks the first step, my body tightens in preparation for what comes. Killer having a more faster and less bloody plan grabs her around her waist. Planting her directly behind him. His eyes are void of any emotion when he bends down, his face so close to hers, 'You don't get to make decisions. I am checking." He doesn't give her a moment to think about it when he grabs her arm and lifts up the loose shirt she is wearing. Killer presses his thumb on the upper part of her arm. The sharp nod from him has After throwing her knife over to him which he catches as Harley starts going bat shit crazy. We all move in after that in a rush. I got my knee on the bed and my hand is holding her face down as River, Spade and Texas keep her legs straight. Killer digs the implant out. Her screams are muffled by my hand. 'Got it." Killer says and we let her go as Mercy shoves a needle in her neck. 'Question is, if we got this out so easily why the fuck didn't Harlow think of it? She is one of the 9s." 'I didn't know." The small voice has us all turning as Bull moves from the door and we see the pesky woman standing there with Knight standing at her back looking a bit ashen. 'Well now you do. Looks like we might have a cure darlin'" Texas say. 't95 was an unsafe drug we perfected under a microscope but the test subjects had a weird effect with a patterned dose of the drug. My dad was the one who had the drug trials and formulae destroyed." 'So who worked close to your dad? There must have been someone your dad would have trusted?" River asks from across the room. 'Yes, there was one, but he died some months ago." Harlow says. 'What's his name." Harlow looks at all of us, her eyes stopping long and hard on me. 'Captain James Rounder," Harlow answers. River seems to have whatever he is looking for and gives her a nod. 'Can I see her," She asks. 'Later, we knocked her out with some morphine." Mercy answers and my head turns in time to see Killer and Beggar having what looks like a heated conversation. Both of them look pissed. This is bad. They are up to something.