"I'm just going to kill them so I can go" Stated the skinny man Aleecia almost knocked out. He was the feeblest of the three, he had dirty blond hair and teeth that bulged his thin lips.
"Or you could just go and leave us…let the bomb do the work" Luke bargained
"What are we going to kill them with? They took our guns" The cute one with the mole below his nose and a bang that covered his left eye completely, scoffed dramatically.
"Exactly, they want you to die with us. We have a way off this island, you all can be free. All you have to do is..."
"Shut up" the biggest of the three snapped "We'll just have to use our bear hands" he punched his hands together, making his way towards us. Aleecia and I stepped back but Luke stood his ground, pointing at the watch on the man's hand. "You have approximately four minutes to kill us and look for a way off this island, that's practically impossible. You choose"
"I was trained to die" the man cracked the bones in his neck
The cute one pulled out two ankle knives and pointed it at him; he stopped in his steads. It set off a chain reaction and soon every one of them were holding some kind of weapon at each other. I bobbed my head understandingly.
Suddenly, everything was a bit more vivid. I could finally understand why they left these three behind. They were useless, slow and mountains of burden. The skinny one was weak, the cute one had an irritating bang in his face that he kept flashing back every minute which in turn made him useless, he was basically a one eyed man and the big one walked with a limp and used his mouth quite a lot. I was with them for a couple seconds and I wanted to rip them apart with my hands. Not to mention they all had weapons and were slow to use them.
Only then did Luke step back. He lined himself with me, placing something in my palm. He squeezed it lightly.
"When I say go, you take Aleecia's hand and you run. I'll hold them off as long as I can but you need to go"
He let my hand loose, and I opened my palm slightly to look at what he had given me. It was my ring. The ring I had received from Ray before his untimely death.
Tears clouded my eye and I held onto the hem of his shirt as he was about to walk towards the group of flustered men.
"I'm not leaving." I insisted in a whisper
"Mia"
"I'm not leaving. No more deaths, no more blood" I contended. Almost immediately shots circled the air around us and I screamed as the three men fell to the ground one after the other. I looked up to see Carlos holding up two guns, almost identical to Luke's.
"Carlos!?" I yelled in disbelief and he smiled.
"I found them" he mumbled before his eyes rolled back in his head and he fell in a lump to the dusty ground.
I ran up to him. He was still breathing.
"Who is he?" Aleecia questioned as I knelt down beside him.
"You need to get out of here" he smiled weakly. "You need to live for you, your baby and myself"
I shook my head. Carlos wasn't dying he was far from it. Sure he was weakened but he could survive this. He just didn't want to. "I can't live for all three of us"
"We have to leave him, he's hurt" Luke blurted taking a watch from one of the dead guys hands. I scoffed at him.
"He was hired to kill me and he didn't, he helped me instead. I'm not leaving him"
"All the more reason..."
"Well I'm staying until someone helps me" I spoke defiantly, sitting beside him to prove my point. Carlos laughed weakly, showing me his abdominal wound. It was a through and through shot and he had lost a lot of blood.
Aleecia signaled me out of the way. "He's losing too much blood" she spoke in a hurry, tearing a piece of cloth from his shirt.
"You're a trained killer, you must have known how to patch up a wound" she argued and he closed his eyes wearily
"Maybe it's time I go home to my wife and child" he groaned
"Maybe it's time I go home to Ray and bring my child with me" I scoffed back and he attempted to dissuade me, looking away a second later as I raised my eyebrows at him dismissively. He couldn't tell me to do something he wasn't willing to do. He couldn't tell me to live, if he didn't intend to.
"Three minutes. We need to go" Luke quarreled, helping Carlos up with my assistance. We both threw his hands over our shoulders and tried to keep up with the swiftly running Aleecia.
A while into our run and we stopped to take a breath as the weight of Carlos became too exhausting to carry.
"Leave me here" he insisted and I strapped his hand around my neck once more.
"Let's go" I beckoned Luke and he nodded his head despairingly, taking Carlos's hand over his shoulder and lifting him to his feet. The watch started beeping, signaling that we had only a minute and thirty seconds to reach the other side. I gasped. We wouldn't make it in time at this pace.
"Leave me" Carlos grumbled once more and I stepped on his toes. He yelped and I frowned.
"I'm not leaving you. So either you run or we die!" I urged and he opened his eyes to look at me.
"You're not leaving" he questioned and I shook my head.
"I can't do this on my own. I need you to be apart of my child's life. I need all of you to be"
"Okay" he nodded, taking his hands from around our shoulders "let's go" he whispered sprinting away. Luke looked me over briefly, nodding his head slightly with a fast disappearing smile before running after Carlos.
I smiled trying to keep up with them. Was that a yes? That had to be the first time I'd ever seen him smile.
We reached the other side of the island and I spotted the copter some meters away.
"10 seconds" Aleecia screamed from inside as the chops began twirling in the air. Carlos was the first one inside. Luke helped me in before jumping in beside me and slamming the door shut.
Almost immediately there was an uproar in the distance and I could see the trees being sucked in by a strong force. Dust circled the air above as the thunderous sound approached swiftly.
"Let's go" we all yelled at Aleecia and she lifted the copper into the air in fright as the ground beneath us crumpled and the blow sent us swirling in the sky. I screamed for my dear life until eventually she regained control of the vessel and we were flying away from the rapidly deflating island.
Tears crawled down my cheeks at the sight and I looked at the ring that was still clenched tightly in my fist. Apart of me wanted to throw it out there and let it disappear with the island but the bigger part could never.
Carlos and Luke both took one of my palms into theirs, looking out through the window innocently as we moved above the deep waters and towards a supposed better tomorrow. I smiled, my tears disappearing as I realized, I wouldn't be alone. Even though my enemies were still out there unharmed and free, I had three people who would look out for me from this day forward.
"So uncle" I looked over at Luke "God father" I scanned Carlos "And Aunt" I looked at Aleecia "Where are we going?"
"The only place we can" Luke mumbled
"Canada" Aleecia confirmed bitterly and I looked between them
"Isn't that where they take the prisoners" I questioned, thinking about Caleb.
Carlos snickered shortly, groaning as the pain from his abdomen spread through his body. He coughed weakly "It's where the Shadows are born." He added and I snatched my hands from there's.
"Then why are we going there?" I probed.
Luke took one of my fingers into his hand and placed it behind Aleecia's ear.
"Can u feel that?" He asked and I nodded, feeling something like a lump. There was something under her skin.
"If I go anywhere unassigned, poison surges throughout my entire body and I die" she whispered bitterly and I inhaled sharply, trying to process the information.
"Rowan and I are children of the committee and founding fathers, therefore we weren't implanted at birth. However after the stunt I pulled last year, I got an arm implant. It sends an alert to the company if I breech the borders of Canada." Luke explained and I scoffed in disappointment and grief.
"So that's what happens if they catch my baby?" I sunk into the seat in bewilderment.
Carlos chortled "Over my dead body" he coughed once more, this time coughing up blood.
"Aleecia?" I squealed and she signaled that Luke take the steering. They exchanged places and she took out a first aid kit from a hidden compartment.
"This is going to hurt a whole lot" she warned and gestured that I sat in the front with Luke. I reluctantly did as told and was happy with my decision to obey orders as Carlos's painful moans rang deafeningly throughout the copter. I looked around hesitantly as the space became suddenly silent.
"He'll be fine" Aleecia smiled, finishing her work. He was knocked out cold
"How are we going to do this and not get caught?" I asked finally.
"They already know we've survived" Luke explained "But they don't know you have"
"Are you going to leave me?"
"No"
I let a relieved breath go.
"I know a friend that can take these out. It's risky but"
I nodded. "And me?"
"You're going to become a makeup addict, I know a man" Aleecia smiled evilly "He'll teach you how to add pounds, take them off… basically how to change your face using makeup"
I grunted. I hated makeup.
"Our new life awaits" Luke added with sarcasm and I looked on the ocean below us. I was in some deep shit. I had no idea how to tell them about my father but I guess it didn't matter. If he thought I was dead then, they'd be nothing to worry about.
"Crap I left the pilot on the island" Luke cursed and I laughed. I had no idea why I was laughing but I laughed. I laughed so hard, tears flooded my eyes. Soon Aleecia and Luke were laughing as well. Eventually I calmed myself down and then the tears came, they just appeared out of nowhere and everything came tumbling down all at once.
"I'm pregnant with Rowans child and he's dead" I couldn't stop crying, the pain was unbearable, "And you left the pilot on the island. The island just blew up with Miss Ven and Ray." I paused "Ray blew up twice." I started laughing again through heated tears, earning scared and confused looks but I was clueless as well.
"What's happening to me" I asked wiping my eyes.
Aleecia chuckled briefly "You're pregnant" she replied.
I was pregnant. O God. I was pregnant.