Wyn let out a short chuckle. "I like the confidence. Well, I'd have probably liked it more if we had met under different circumstances, perhaps over a drink or two back at the campus bar..."

[i]Just fantastic, dude. Flirt with your freaking kidnapper, why don't you? No wonder everyone thinks you're incapable of taking anything seriously...[/i] he thought to himself right after he said what he did. His charm had gotten him what he wanted on more than one occasion, but the stoicism of this woman was a sign that the chances of it working on her were slim. Even so, why should he not be himself in such a situation? It seemed pointless to mope about his past finally catching up to him. His life had been almost too good to be true up till now, and fate never promised it was going to continue.

"You or him? So you're supposed to be the nice one? I guess I can believe that. Regardless, as they say - better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Not that I can say that I know you, actually. You want to give me a name, or shall I just keep calling you sunshine?"

A sudden realization about what she had just said then hit him. If her father had found out his location, did that mean that his friends and anyone else currently close to him were in trouble? He quickly turned back to the grill to make an urgent inquiry.

"Wait, he knows where I was? So... if his guys go over and don't find me, what's going to happen to anyone who [i]is[/i] there?"