Kidnapping!

[Dr. Daniel Carter]

Daniel_P_Carter* The sun was a little brighter than he remembered it, the grass a little greener, the sounds all the more sharp and the air just a little more brisk. A lot had changed in a day, one thing among the list Daniel's perception of the world. Dying rather had that effect on a body. Or at least nearly dying, he supposed, was just as potent. He had assembled himself in his usual wear, a tarnished, once-white button down shirt and a pair of khaki pants, his trademark glasses that were in constant need of adjustment, and a nice pair of sturdy boots. The only new addition to this ensemble was the cane he was using to limp around the campsite of the excavation. His leg hurt, but he couldn't really complain, after all, just yesterday as a result of a cave in it had been (C)
Daniel_P_Carter* Crushed and bleeding out. He had been told the queen herself had lent her healing powers towards saving him and repairing the extensive and life threatening damage, but she was no longer here and Daniel could remember none of it. Stepping out of the canvas tent and into the sun he held up the arm not grasping the cane to shield his seemingly now sensitve blue eyes from the light. "Good morning, Dr. Carter!" he heard a voice to his left and turned his head. It was an aide of some kind with a log book come to update him. The sounds of hammers and chisels working steadily reached his ears and he turned towards the massive pillars that were once a glorious Ulsterian temple now buried beneath the rock that his team was methodically uncovering(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* more of each day. "Good morning." he replied, voice a little weary. "We have some more samples of the text along the wall in the thrid left quadrent... I didn't know if you wanted to take a look at the rubbings Davis did or not, Sir." Daniel nodded half heartedly. His work was his passion, that was true enough, and it was hard to ever resist the test or the excitement of decoding some ancient script, but today he had a lot on his mind. He lifted his gaze to the mountainside where his oldest, most trusted friend was sitting, ignoring him. The great silver wyrm Halar was strange in more ways than one when it came to humans. He had been afraid for Daniel's life the previous day, and was now too proud to admit it, and so went on ignoring the archaeologist(C)-
Daniel_P_Carter: -as Daniel was acting as if the entire ordeal had never happened at all. Daniel sighed and shook his head, nodding then to the aide and followed him towards the table they had set up to hold anything of interest of value found in the upper layers of the flaky clay. Halar would get over it, or so he hoped. Either way, angry as he was, the great silver dragon was watching the campsite like a hawk, just in case there were even the slightest hints of a repeat accident.(F)-

lillith_luminatti: The message had been recieved from Theoren. Find one Daniel p. Carter and bring him back to Phoenix for a meeting. She hadn't asked who the man was, hadn't asked why. she didn't care really. Theo's business was his own. Said message had given what daniel looked like, and where he would most likely be. now how would Lillith manage to get all the way to Ulster? so easy now. One moment within the forest of Luminatti lands, chasing after Aeron and Adam. The next telling her sister in no uncertain terms to go spend some time with Elg while she herself took care of some business. And as quickly as she was there, she was gone again. A simple thought, a picture within her mind as her hand wrapped around the stone within her pocket, and a lone woman would appear within the midst of the dig site daniel was within. So casual she looked as she shimmered into veiw. Quicksilver mane glistened in the sun, fathomless pools of mercury sweeping the area as she heard shouts go up upon her arrival. Casual her dress was as well, well worn jeans hugging shaply legs, a simple blouse of white silk clinging to ample mounds. Cowboy boots upon her feet, a single silver spur adorning one. Not a word she spoke, simply standing there, watching the people getting sight of her, a sly smirk upon lips of rose. though she looked so everyday, so mundane, her aura spoke a different story. She held herself with regality, pride, intense Power and strength. She was Lillith Luminatti, and she was known. Her timbre finally rang forth, silver bell sweet sweeping over the land, commanding with its presence. " I have come for one Danil P. Carter. Where is he?"

[Dr. Daniel Carter]

Daniel_P_Carter* It was not every day that a female voice carried over such a place looking for Dr. Carter (though lately it had seemed to happen more frequently than usual). He looked up from the table where he was going over some Enochian script found at the base of what Daniel thought had been an altar to Lugh but now appeared to only be the top of a smaller pillar. It was an amazing language, really, supposedly brought down from the heavens by angels themselves, warped by demons, and then abandoned as a celestial language altogether. However that didn't mean that there weren't still places where the script was found, temples of old and ancient mosque-like structures dotted in caves throughout the deserts of the east. He laid the tablet down gently(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* and squinted in the sun looking towards the silvery woman who had apparently just walked right into the excavation site. Not that it was really a high security operation, simply odd in that they were at an excavation and that was not usually a place people went on a sight seeing tour. He reached for his cane and grasped the handle tightly, letting the bulk of his weight fall on it with minimal pain in his leg. He started for her, albeit slowly and with a limp. Holding out a hand to her a look of slight confusion and expectation crossed his face, his eyebrows knotting as he pushed his glasses back up on his nose. Extending a hand to her he cleared his throat and tilted his head, even as the aide he left at the table protested that the woman could not(C)-
Daniel_P_Carter* see Dr. Carter right now and that she would have to wait her turn. Daniel ignored him. "That would be me. Dr. Daniel Carter..." He said in hesitant introduction as he extended his hand to this woman that looked nothing like that extra manpower he had asked for from the capital. "Can I help you with something, Miss?"(F)

lillith_luminatti: Her eyes would never leave him as he approached her, even as his 'aide' scampered behind protesting her arrival and the need to speak with Daniel. Almondesque hues would narrow slightly, gauging his limp. A new injury. Lush lips would part slightly, a soft breath gathered in oh so slowly. As she did, something happened. She gathered unto herself his pain, a pain she felt keenly. Lillith was an empath, among so many other things. Not all of it did she take, just enough to where he could talk to her, concentrate solely on her and her presence there. on her message. She had a job to do, and she would do it.. by -any- means necassary. As he put his hand out, she would waste no time in taking it, grasping it in a firm handshake. Lillith took much in such a simple gesture. never pressed to hard and sure as hell didn't slip in no limp wrist crap. " Dr. a pleasure to meet you. I come with a proposition. An invitation has been extended to you to meeta friend of mine at the Phoenix guild. He is quite interested in you, and your work." Those eyes of her remained locked upon his. Never swaying, even as platinum locks tended to stray across a face of such intense beauty, yet still managed to be decidely cold and oddly dark.

Daniel_P_Carter* He returned the shake firmly. He had after all grown up in a largely matriarchal household. Her eyes were rather intriguing, but more was the fact that as they touched the pain throbbing in his shin seemed to melt, the screaming losing to a now dull roar. His brow furrowed at her, wondering if there was any possibility that she could have done such a thing? He understood the principles of healing such as what Kahlan had done, it was a perfected form of Reikim or so he liked to view it. But he was a man of science and history, and such things as Angels or witches, vampires and the like were no more than fairy tales to him. He gripped the cane a little tighter, wondering further what a woman like this would even be doing here (C)
Daniel_P_Carter* His answer was soon given. She was a member of the mecenary guild that had an outpost in Ulster. A small frown crossed his face then, his wonderment at the situation all but disappearing. He smelled trouble. Nothing that had to do with a crime ring could be good. "The Phoenix Guild?" He echoed, arching a brow. "I've heard of them. They're criminals." he said pointedly. He did not much like them. He had avoided the safehouse they kept like the plague and wondered what possible leverage they could have against Ulster that the Queen would even allow them to nest in his humble country. "I'm sorry, but you'll have to tell your friend that I'm otherwise occupied. We've got two more weeks before the first cold snap to finish this site(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* on the Queen's command, and then I'm scheduled to be in the Aon desert for a month after that." He stated as properly as he possibly could. He couldn't help that creeping thought of why a band of mercenaries would have any interest in him or his work, after all, there wasn't much profit in tomb raiding or grave robbing these days. And even if they had some kind of rare artifact chances were there was someone else in the international archaeology society that could help them out with it.(F)

lillith_luminatti: Her lips would purse slightly as he spewed forth his denial of her request. It would seem as if the shadows around her would lengthen slightly, was the sun setting? No. Though her countenece remained calm, everything around her changed to something.. darker. Colder. She'd tried the 'nice' approach. she had a job to do, and by fuck she'd do it. " Sorry to hear that Dr. Unfortunately, you will be coming with me one way or another. I don't know why Theoren wants to see you, and i really could give a shit. problem is, he asked me to deliver you, and what he asks of me.. I do. So.. here's the deal. You're hurt. I can fix that, you can come with me, see what he wants, yadda blah. Or.. you're hurt.. and I can make it worse, and you -still- can come with me to see what he wants yadda blah. See? I'm giving you a choice." Arms would cross over the bounty of her chest, thrusting forth a tease of milky flesh. Though Lillith was indeed beautiful, alluring.. hell she was Luminatti for fuck sake.. she was not one to seduce. She simply.. was such a way in a manner of speaking. Being the scientist that he was, he would be a person that was capable of seeing everything around him. He would see something change within her. He would feel it.. something growing. and oh.. it was more then just the fact she was becoming a tad bit pissy..

[Dr. Daniel Carter]

Daniel_P_Carter* He grit his teeth. This woman was something else, and there was a hint of fear in him for a moment, a fear that maybe all his life he had been wrong about the existance of supernatural beings and that perhaps he had just pissed one off. But that fear slowly melted by the heat of his logic and he shook his head. "I'm not hurt, I'm fine, I'm healing. Furthermore, I don't care if you or your boss is god himself, I have a job to do and even if I wanted to I couldn't just go trasping half way across the world and leave this dig or my next scheduled dig without a leader. If he has a problem with some antiquitous artifact then he can look up any number of archaeologists to help him with it, but I am not disposed at the moment nor is any of my team."(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* He said almost rather indignantly. "And threatening me will do little good. I just got my leg crushed yesterday by a boulder, Miss. You can hurt me all you wants or kill me if you think it would help, but I'll still disincline your request for an audience with your benefactor. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a temple to uncover." He said turning to go, praying to whichever of the multitude of gods he'd studied that might be listening that he had done and said the right things. He never had been a pushover. In his younger days whenever he had heard the word no he had done whatever he possibly could to get around the ruling, fought the authority, et cetera et cetera. Maybe she would take the hint and leave. He limped away, but not towards (C)
Daniel_P_Carter* the table, but retreating towards the tent Amariette was sleeping in. He could hide there for the rest of the day. Maybe she had been right in telling him he should have gone back to bed. Suddenly he was getting a headache and needed to sit down. Fear had a tendency to make him a little seasick.(F)

lillith_luminatti: She'd tried. Moron. Why didn't people just go with the easy way? Not like she minded making it hard.. really she didn't. Another breath was gathered in, and this time what happened woiuld be far from taking his pain away. They were in the middle of many people she knew would come running swiftly once she began. So be it. Heat was rising, boiling forth from her position. Rolling forth in waves, whipping her thick mane about her body in a frenzy. " Fool.." she would mutter as she let forth that within her. Fire raged from her being, pouring out from her, working to encircle both she and Daniel before he could make it to the tent. As this was happening, she was pulling her Browning Hi-Power from the small of her back. The only gun she'd managed to retrieve after theo brought her home. Gun raised and a single shot was sent off even as she was moving towards Daniel. She was fast. Faster then any normal human. She was bearing down upon him as she shot to blow out his injured leg. the fire was raging higher and higher around them, working into a smaller and smaller circle quickly. She -would- take him, come hell or high water.

Daniel_P_Carter* There was pain, kind of like the pain he had felt when the rock had crushed his leg the day before. Talk about it not being his week. Crumpling to a heap on the ground his hands went around the shin where her bullet had struck rather true. He couldn't dodge bullets, he couldn't get away from it even if he had full range of mobility. Cringing in pain he looked down to see blood soaking through his pants and pouring down over his hands down to his boot and finally pooling on the ground. He fought back tears as flames errupted around them, sending everyone in the area into screams and a wild panic. He could hear people running, tools clanking and a generally chaotic evacuation inciting. He looked towards the tent that had Amariette(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* who couldn't possibly be sleeping any longer. If he let the flames continue it could burn down the whole camp, endanger her, not to mention the countless others that were working with him, and destroy all of his ... oh god no... not his notes. Not his journals, his books... He looked over to Lillith, face still contorted in pain. "Stop!" His strained voice cracked in panic. "Stop it, put this fire out! You're going to hurt people!" he cried out in pain again as he felt a surge through his leg. Damnit, the bullet was stuck in his tibia, and it was great enough that he couldn't even so much as move. Blotting at he pressed a hand over the wound trying to keep the spill to a minimum. "I'll go, just leave the camp intact... " He looked up to the mountainside(C)
Daniel_P_Carter* but Halar was nowhere to be found. Looking back up to her with a tear streaked and dirty face his lips formed more of a scowl than anything else. What did they want with him? What was he getting himself into? Would they release him once he had done what they asked of him? He didn't have time to ponder. Gunshot wounds bled well and often brought shock with them. The last thing he saw was her coming for him before he felt his head hit the dirt and everything went black.(F)

lillith_luminatti: A flick of her head to remove shining strands of silver from her face, and the fire was gone that quick. Stalking towards Daniel, replacing the pistol into the waistband of her pants, she would stop next to his prone body, gazing down upon him. Though he would not see it, her face would soften, and she would sigh. Crouching down beside him, easily she grasped his passed out form, hauling him over her shoulder in a firemans carry. Quite strong she was, and she stood with a fluid ease, mumbling as she reached into her pocket. " All you had to do was come with me. I didn't want to hurt you dammit. Idiots I swear. All of you." She would glance around, seeing the horrified looks upon so many faces. A woman was rushing out of the tent, screaming was beginning from her. Hells. How irritating. She would stare at the woman, lifting her free hand, giving a devilish smile and a salute. " I'll bring him back.. eventually." With that her hand was shoved into her pocket, a coy wink was given Amierette, and she and Daniel would disappear. In but a blink of time Lillith Luminatti stood within the Phoenix Rising, dumping the unconcious Doctor upon the floor, slipping a smile to Antione. " Tell him I have a package for him darlin'.. and give me a whiskey."