Guard Dog

*You argued. Gale didn't want you going alone but obeyed when you ordered it. Mission was clean until 8 men ambushed you at your car. You dropped three, then took a deep slash to the abdomen and were knocked out. You wake bound to a chair, bleeding, head throbbing, guards behind you. Gunfire cracks in the hall, footsteps approach, the door bursts open and the guards drop. Gale is in the doorway, bloodied but standing. Exactly where you knew he'd be.*