Shiruta, Kahndaq - Friday Evening
Anyone who calls the prisons in the US were inhumane needed to go to one in Kahndaq.
They called two beatings a day an interrogation.
//"Careful, the she-wolf still has fire in her."//
She didn't know what the hell the guards were saying, but it was more than clear that they wanted her to confess to killing five men. Trouble was, she hadn't done a damn thing like that. Neither had Charlie.
They didn't take kindly to finding a guy without a face as a suspect either.
As they led her down the hallway, she kept her eye out for Charlie's cell. He hadn't looked so good since the last time she'd been trotted by to break their spirits. Morons.
But... he wasn't there.
"Charlie!" Renee shouted, breaking away from the guards to cling to the bars and look inside. Not another partner...
The cell was empty. It didn't look clean by any stretch of the word, but it did look cleaned out. As if no one were using it anymore. The guards glanced idly over at the cell, clearly not really paying attention. They were far too busy watching Renee and grinning in a very uncomforting manner.
..smoke? No!
Renee grinned as the guard slammed her head against the bars, heading ringing, but knowing this would work. It just had to.
//"Smoke?"// The first guard asked, looking closer into the cell. The other held Renee against the bars tightly.
//"Better put it out then,"// the other answered.
"Binary gas, actually," Charlie answered as his fist slammed out to catch one of the two guards in the nose. "Better make this one count, Renee!"
"Don't have to say that twice," Renee said, a evil sort of glee in her voice at that. Twisting, she swung her shackled arms up to knock away his baton. Once that was taken care of, drove her knee up into his stomach and brought her elbow down on the man's head.
Despite his earlier display of strength, Charlie's voice sounds a bit thready. "The keys. As fast as you can. We don't have much time."
"I never thought I'd say this," Renee said, snagging the keys and unshackling herself before opening the cell door for him. "But I am very glad to see you."
A moment later she added, "Thought I lost you for good there."
"I'm--" Charlie paused to cough softly. "I'm with you all the way to the end, Renee." He stood unsteadily and reached an arm out to support himself on her shoulder. "We're in this one together."