Tina:  Ok, ok Dave first thing first.  Let’s find the other woman and get them both back to the ranch and then do all the necessary arrangements.

Dave: Well I think that’s what we should do, come on get inside boss it’s warmer and safer for you.  And you could keep an eye on this innocent by standard poor woman.  I think she’s been hurt badly too and probably by the same person who hurt all of us and the missing woman as well.

He has a lot to answer to.  He can’t run forever.  I swear if he did hurt you badly I would hunt him down and make sure he’s dead meat.

Tina:  I know that Dave and thank you for being so protective.  I’m going inside now and you get down there and find the woman for me Dave and this time please don’t come back without her.  Promise me you’ll look for her everywhere Dave, promise.

Dave:  I will Tina, I promise to find her and bring her back with me if it took me all day.  But I want you to promise me something too boss.

Tina:  What?  What is it Dave?

Dave:  Promise me that if you see the shooter again or you feel in any danger at all that you’d get behind the wheels and drive back to the ranch to get help, promise me Tina, promise.

Tina was struggling now.  She couldn’t promise such thing.  She must make sure he was safe too and back on the ranch with her.  She was in turmoil.  She looked at Dave with tearful eyes and reluctantly nodded her head.

Tina:  Well I rather not Dave.  I just can’t leave you behind. But if you insist.

Dave:  I do, I insist Tina.  Just listen to me.  I promise you I will be ok.  I will be back and with the woman too.  She couldn’t have gone far.  If she is somewhere down there I will find her, I swear I will.  Now go.  Get inside and get warm.  I will be back soon. 

Tina turned herself backward towards the vehicle and before she could put her hand on the door’s handle she heard a faint voice. Tina stood still and her heart started hammering inside of her.  The blood drained from her face and she looked aghast. 

Help.  Help me.  Help.

Tina put her finger on her mouth gesturing to Dave to keep quiet.  She wanted to be sure that she was hearing something and that her ears weren’t playing tricks on her.  It might have been faint but the voice was there.  She whispered to Dave.

Tina:  Shush Dave.  Can you hear that?  Someone is out there.  Listen.

Tina was actually petrified and her legs felt weak and wobbly.  What if it was Dodger?  She couldn’t face him again.  She doesn’t have the courage to do that.  But why would he be hurt?  Naaah it couldn’t be him.  She would just let him rot in hell anyway.  But it wasn’t a voice of a man.  She was sure of that.

Dave’s felt that his heart had stopped when his boss whispered to him.  He kept quiet and listened too.  He put his hand on his ear to make sure he won’t miss a thing.  He heard it too.  It was a very faint cry for help.  They looked at each others with shocked eyes.

Tina:  It’s a voice of a woman I am sure of it.

Tina was still whispering and she was less horrified now.

Dave:  Yes it is I hear it too.  Oh my god boss.  Could it be? Could it be?

Dave was stammering like an idiot now.

Tina:  Oh Dave what’s got into you?  I sure hope it is her.

Dave:   It’s her.  It’s her voice isn’t it boss?  It’s the voice of the woman we’re looking for.  Isn’t it boss? 

Tina looked at him and without a moment of hesitation she started to run down towards the voice.  Dave pulled himself together and followed her down the hill too forgetting the pain in his knee.  He was running like a possessed man.

Dave:  Wait Tina, wait.  Boss I am right behind you.  Be careful please. 

Tina was not listening.  She kept running down.