Just My Luck...

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

Thud. Rattle.

Shaking? Why was the world shaking? Slowly opening her eyes she bit back a hiss from the light that flooded into them. Night time... The internal clock in her body told her it was night.

Once her eyes focused properly she could finally see that the bright lights were from the street lamps and not any impending sun light risk which was a small comfort except for the fact that she could feel her arms bound behind her back.

Great... she mentally seethed.

"You know, getting shot point blank hurts like hell," Rogue said turning her head to look at the driver's seat.

"Wouldn't know," came a humorous chuckle from the bounty hunter who only looked in the rear view mirror at his awake captive.

"Give me your gun and I'll let you know what it feels like," She glared up at him, yellow circling her eyes.

Not good... I'll have to feed soon now. Not part of the plan...

"You know, you're how old and that's the best response you can come up with? Your wit is astounding."

"Look who's tal..." she paused upon seeing Doc. "Great, and you have him too... Why don't you just kill me now, seriously?"

"Well I wasn't a hundred percent positive it was him but thanks for clearing that up for me."

Rogue just scowled up at the man.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"Nice job, genius," Doc said groggily. "tell the nice merc who I am," he scowled looking at the front, noticing the fact in the rear view mirror. "Rocko Marx. Why am I not surprised? You always did want a reason to kill me."

"Sorry, buddy boy, Raven wants you alive," the merc said.

"Great, and here I was hoping you'd just let the bitch here kill me and put me out of all of our misery," he scowled at her. "Why is it whenever I see you, i get tied up?"

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

"So you know each other? Great, even better," she remark, rolling her eyes.

"And how were you captured smart ass? I don't see any wounds on you," she remarked giving him a pointed look. Besides I wouldn't kill you... Though she didn't say that part aloud.

"And of course Raven would want us alive. And I'm pretty sure I know his plan once he has us. Gave him a few too many ideas while undercover." She chuckled more to herself than anyone else who was in the van.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"In order yes, chicken shit here tranqed me and nice one," he listed, earning a scowl from Rocko. "Oh, cram it up your ass. You probably did something similar to her instead of fighting her head on, am I right?"

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

"Demon hound," she answered. "Nasty little thing. Than shot in the head point blank."

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"Now why didn't I do that?" Doc mutterede. "Geez, Marx, you're even more pathetic than I thought."

"Can it!"

"What was it last time...?" Doc continued. "Claymore?"

"Gas bomb," Marx corrected. "You had something I wanted."

"and apparently i still do," Doc stated plainly. "How often we gotta do this, Marx? You come in, you do you r little tricks, i hunt you down and kick your ass all over the place."

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

Rogue sighed, tuning them out, working out a way to get out of this. Doc getting captured as well wasn't what she had in mind. Of course it's just as well. It seems none of her plans went how they were meant to when Doc was in the picture.

"You know what, you're both pathetic. What is up with guys an their little games? Worse than children..."

Well that should hopefully cause a bit of a distraction while she tried to think of a good way to get out of this. She could always try her original plan of escape but that would mean ruining her planning and she wasn't sure she wanted that just yet. Rubbing a hand over her left hand she could feel it was still mostly intact. Good.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"I needed someone to practice on," Doc said petulantly, reaching up his sleeve. Looks like Marx still hadn't learnt. Hello, lock pick.

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

"You know what, I blame you Doc,"

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"My fault?" Doc said, sliding the lock pick out. "My fault? If you'd kept your promise, we wouldn't BE in this situation and we probably already would have killed this loser."

"Oh you think so, huh?" Marx shot back at them.

"Uh, gee, let's see," Doc said thoughtfully. "She's a vampire and i kick your ass alone. Yeah. You'd be dead."

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

"And which promise was this? I was taking care of the whole Raven situation for you and no I never actually betrayed you. I just had to use you to achieve the end result and YOU fucked that part up. A few seconds more and he would have been a pile on the floor."

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"You told me I wouldn't get face to face," he shouted at her, working o the duffs.

"God, would you to shut up!"

"This doesn't concern you, Marx!" Doc growled, turning back to Rogue. "You KNEW I didn't want to see him. You did it anyway. Plan or not, that was the last thing i wanted to do! and if I'd known there was an actual plan maybe he would be!"

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

"Wrong, I said you couldn't go to the cage fights or else then my cover was blown. Second, you had to believe I betrayed you. He would have seen through an act and again, cover blown."

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"You think, I'm that bad an actor?" he mocked. Yeah, Raven might have seen through it. But Raven was also overconfident. They could have pulled it off. "A signal would have been nice. A warning. A drugged donut, you have any idea how hungry I get after being knocked out. Hey, Marx!" Doc kicked the back of the seat. "You hear me? I'm Hungry!"

"Shadup!"

"Get me a pizza and some holy water and I might just do that," Doc shot back, working on the cuffs. Come on!

["Rogue" Annie Amina Cross]

'Do I think he's a bad actor ha!'

"Ha, and women NEVER fake an orgasm." How she managed to say it with a straight face she'd never know. Certainly not something she'd have said in any normal situation. His sarcasum was becoming an annoyance.

"And you... shut up?" Ha! "I was in one of your shirts in your living room and you TALKED the whole time."