A non-expendable asset

Chapter 1:

Sadness with a touch of excitement

"Mom! I'm home." Said the tall red head walking through the front door to her and her mother's home in upstate New York "Mom?" She called once more hearing noise coming from her living room "Mom?" she called a last time before reaching the doorway into the living room of the house. In her living room sat a group of some of the scariest men she had ever seen (except for the Asian guy, he was just kind of cut in a kitten sort of way.)

"Damn darlin'! You look just like your daddy." an older man with long graying said upon seeing her standing in the doorway

"Who are you people? And how do you know my father I don't even know my father?" The redhead said starting to back away from the room.

"Now hold on." said a very muscular middle-aged brunette standing from his spot on the couch "We're not going to hurt you?"

"I don't give a shit what you say." The red head said "How would I believe what you had to say anyway?"

"Fiery spirit just like her mama." Said the one with long graying hair

"How do you know my mom?" The red-head asked "who are you people?"

"I'm your father." Said the brunette

"My mom said she didn't know who my father is." Said the red-head "Where is my mom?" She said moving to look around the empty house

"When we got here…" Said the brunette "someone had already got to your mom."

"Where is she?" Asked the red-head

"She's upstairs." Said the Brunette "She's dead Callie."

"No!" Said Callie "I just saw her a few hours ago."

Callie was making a move to leave the room when two large hands grabbed her shoulders and held her in place.

"Let me go!" Yelled Callie

"Don't make me do something that we are both going to regret." Said a gruff low voice in hear ear, no more than a whisper.

"Callie." Said the brunette "We need you to come with us."

"Why?" Asked Callie

"Because someone is targeting you." Said a younger man with a shaved head

"Why would anyone be targeting me?" Said Callie

"Because of me." Said the brunette still standing

"Why you?" Asked Callie

"The work that I do angers a lot of people." Said the brunette and some of the people that I have angered would love to get a one up on me in any way that they can, and one of them found out that I had a daughter."

"Why would you care if I lived or died?" Asked Callie "As of ten minutes ago I wasn't even aware that I had a dad."

"Because even if they do not know their kids, fathers never want to see their children get hurt." Said the brunette

"Barney." Said the older man with the graying hair "We have to get going, they could be back any minute."

"You have to come with us." Said Barney to his daughter "You'll be safer with us."

"Do I have a choice?" Asked Callie

"Only if you think you have one." Said the man holding her by the shoulders

"Gunner you can let her go now." Said Barney to the man behind her

"We packed you a bag." Said the adorable Asian

"Yay. A group of men packed my bag for a, what I'm assuming will be a very long stay. Unless one of you is homosexual I will need to go shopping." Said Callie

"I don't know about anyone else but I've started to thing Yin Yang here may swing for that team." A short, bald man, with a weird ear said to her as he left the room.

"It's because I'm small isn't it?" Said Yin Yang as he walked out of the room "It's always because I'm small."

"You're not small you're fun sized." Callie said patting him on his shoulder as he left the room

"C'mon princess." Said the older man with long hair "It's time to go." He said threading his arm through hers.

"Tool." Barney said "Not my daughter. I'll kill you if you look at my daughter like that."

"No harm done." Said Tool unthreading his arm from Callie's "Gunnar? "You commin' " Tool said to the brute that held her before

"Yeah."Said Gunnar "I'm commin."

"What am I going to do about school?" Asked Callie as they all walked to the inconspicuous van parked across the street

"Damn!" Said Barney "You're still in school?"

"I'm seventeen." Said Callie "So yeah."

"Darlin'" said Tool "You ain't gonna need no schoolin for where we're goin'"

"Don't worry." Said Gunnar climbing with her into the back of the van "We make enough money for our lack of schooling."

"And what do you people do?" Asked Callie

"We can't tell you." Said the massive blond man as the van started up and sped away.