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Rain looked at Carter. “You done for the night, or you still wanna check that out?” Rain asked, knowing that she wasn’t done for the night, and hoping he wasn’t either.
“No, let’s go do that,” Carter said, and Demi shook her head because she knew the real reason why Mileena left and it wasn’t a headache.
When Fantasy saw Carter making his way toward the door, she quickly excused herself from her admirers and began making her way to intercept him before he left J.R.’s. That was until she saw Rain pushing her way through the crowd right behind him. She stopped and was content to watch the way he moved. Fantasy imagined that he was off to inflict pain on somebody at Rain’s command, and that excited her.
Once they arrived at the address that Carla had given Carter, they got out of Rain’s car and approached the building. The place was in darkness. Rain tried the doorknob and then she looked through the glass.
“Doesn’t look like anybody is here,” she said.
“Let’s go around back,” Carter said, and Rain followed him. As they got around to the back, Rain smelled cigarette smoke and she and Carter ducked into the shadows and moved closer. There were two men on the loading dock, apparently taking a break from loading the truck. When they were done, they flicked their cigarettes into the wind, got back on the forklift and went back inside.
“Door’s open,” Carter said as they stepped out of the shadows.
“After you,” Rain said and followed Carter into the warehouse. He listened for the sounds of any activity and then he moved in the opposite direction. They went down one of the aisles lined with boxes marked cleaning supplies and opened one. It was filled with the QBZ-97, a Chinese made 5.56-millimeter assault weapon. Rain checked a few more boxes and found the same thing.
“What do you want to do?” Carter asked.
“This
is your show, I’m just the bitch ridin’ shotgun.”
Carter looked around. “Burn it. Burn it to the ground. Start hitting these bastards where it hurts.”
“I’m for that,” Rain said and began walking away.
“Where are you going?”
“I got just the thing for that. Come on,” she said, and they slipped out of the warehouse, went back to Rain’s car and she opened the trunk.
“Damn. That’s some serious firepower you got there.”
“Everything a girl needs for self-defense,” Rain said as Carter looked over the array of weapons she had in her trunk. Rain got enough C-4, timers and everything else they’d need to blow up the building and then she closed the trunk.
They returned to the building and while Carter watched her back, Rain set explosives throughout the warehouse and then set the timers for five minutes.
“That should give us more than enough time to get far enough away from here,” Rain said as they headed for the door. But when they got outside, both men were out there. They opened fire on Rain and Carter, and they were forced back into the warehouse.
Carter looked at his watch. “We don’t have time for this! Cover me!” he yelled and when he did, Rain stepped into the doorway and opened fire with both guns. She kept firing as Carter came running out, then she ducked inside for cover. But it didn’t matter because she had hit her man with several shots, and he was down.
The other man fired at Carter as he made his way toward the truck. When his gun was empty, he jumped off the platform and made a run for the cab. Carter went after him and hit him with two shots just before he got in the truck.
Rain ran up behind Carter. “Come on, we gotta go,” she said, and they ran back to her car, got in and drove away. But they didn’t go far because Rain parked the car and got out.
Carter got out too. “Fuck are you doing?”
“I like to watch shit burn,” she said, as the warehouse exploded. “Yeah, I got a little pyromaniac in me,” Rain said, as they watched the warehouse burn until they heard the sirens in the distance. After that, Rain drove Carter back to J.R.’s, and he went home to see about Mileena.
“You feeling okay?” Carter said as he sat down on the edge of the bed.
“Just a headache. I’ll be okay.”
He caressed her cheek. “Can I get anything for you?”
“No, really, I’m fine.”
“You sure?” Carter asked and tried to find the words to say what he wanted and needed to say. But Carter Garrison never was a man of words, he preferred to let his actions speak for him. “I want you to know that I heard what you said and I’m gonna try to do better,” he was able to force out.
“What did I say?” Mileena asked even though she knew what he was talking about.