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Chapter 11 - Chapter Eleven: Death and Rewards

"Wait, so you're telling me that you were shot and killed by two stormtroopers due to a misidentification and thought that you were your older sister when you went into the kitchen to do something." Diana said and asked in a shocked and concerned tone of voice.

"That is how it went down and the way Lia and Finley found me was even more horrifying than how I was shot." Juliana said in a calm and collected tone of voice.

"And how did Lia and Finley find you in the kitchen?" Diana asked in a concerned and curious tone of voice.

"Uhhh… I don't think you want to know that, Diana." Juliana said in a nervous but calm tone of voice.

"But I really want to know. Please tell me, Juliana." Diana pleaded with Juliana but to no avail.

The four of them plus Juliana talk for hours on end until they hear a really suspicious noise from behind. Lia and Finley look while Trinity and Diana stay where they were at. Then, a scream was heard. It wasn't Lia who screamed because, she ran back and came back, out of breath and still has her voice. Finley runs in the opposite direction of Lia and is very scared of what they just saw.

Lia takes Trinity in her arms and ushers Diana out of the hollowed tree and moves them forward. She then tells Diana and Trinity what they saw and heard.

"Diana, Trinity, we were somehow being followed. We spotted your husband with a group of stormtroopers and they were covered head to toe, in blood." Lia said in a disgusted and creeped out tone.

"How is this even possible, Lia? We were literally in the clear for ages. Why now!?" Diana asked Lia in a scared and panicked tone.

Out of nowhere, a gunshot went off in the distance. The three turned around and saw Jesse and his men advancing on them. And quickly. Then, a second gunshot that was closer to them was heard and all three of them looked at each other to see if they were shot. Diana looked down and saw that she was bleeding from her abdomen. Diana falls to the ground and starts to go pale.

"DIANA!? Jesus, are you alright!?" Lia yells in fear and in a panicked tone of voice. "Get my daughter out of here, Lia. I don't want her to see this play out." Diana said in a weak and panicked tone of voice.

"How am I supposed to do that when you're bleeding out of your ABDOMEN!?" Lia said in a panicked and worried tone. "YOU'RE LITERALLY DYING, FOR CHRIST SAKE!?"

"Just run with her in your arms and don't worry about me, Lia. I'll be alright." Diana said in a panicked and calm tone.

Lia ran while holding Trinity in her arms, watching Diana bleed out of her abdomen. She looks on in horror as Diana passed out from the blood loss. Then, Jesse showed up with Finley, tight in his grip and he stops in front of Diana's unconscious body. He looked down and went into shock as he saw his wife laying in a pool of her own blood but he saw that she was still breathing.

A few hours after the run-in with William and Jesse, Lia and Trinity went into another hollowed out tree and started to rest up from the chaos that just ensued. They started to get cozy when they heard another suspicious noise. Lia tells Trinity to stay put while she went to investigate the noise. She realized it wasn't anyone suspicious, it was just her twin brother, Finley, catching up to them.

"Finley, why do you always have to scare me!?" Lia said in a sarcastic yet worried tone.

"I don't know. I just like to scare you, I guess." Finley said in a tired and defeated tone of voice.

While Finley, Lia, and Trinity get caught up with all of the chaos that had ensued within the past few hours, Diana was taken to a government hospital where she was taken care of for the gunshot wound to the abdomen. The doctor then tells her of what would've happened if no one had spotted her sooner than how she was.

"You would've been dead within ten to fifteen minutes later if you weren't found like you were." The doctor said in a concerned and monotoned voice.

"So you're saying that if I was not found, I would've just been left for dead." Diana said in a shocked and tired tone of voice.

"Yes, you are correct, Mrs. Lindsey." The doctor said as he left the room. The doctor then closed the door and revealed himself.

It was…

After Finley, Lia, and Trinity were rested up and calmed down from the chaos, they headed to a more safe and less crazy place. They headed off in a random direction as they had no idea to where they were.

"Hey Finley, do you know where we are headed or are we just going in a random direction?" Lia asked in a confused tone of voice.

"No, I don't. I wish I did but alas I do not." Finley said in a sad and confused tone of voice.

"Well, if you don't know where you're going, why are we walking in the direction we came from?" Trinity asked in an adorable yet really sassy tone of voice.

"I don't know, Trinity. I just don't." Finley said in a sarcastic and defeated tone of voice.

After a few hours of being lost in the woods, the trio finally found civilization. They look to see what town or city that they are in and see that they are somehow in British Columbia. They all looked at each other in shock. They had no idea that they traveled that far west. Then, Lia and Finley realized that they are in the area where their dad grew up in.

"Hey Lia! British Columbia is where dad grew up! We could possibly be safer here than in St. George!?" Finley said in an excited and happy tone of voice.

"Wait Finley, we could possibly go to grandma and grandpa's house and we could be safer that way!?" Lia said in an anxious yet excited tone of voice.

They ran in the direction that their grandparents' house was located. But when they got there, they saw the neighborhood that they lived in. Was completely decimated. The twins and Trinity looked on with shock and horror on their faces and feared the worst. All three of them ran to the house and checked to see if their grandparents were dead. Their discovery. They were dead.

"Oh my god!? Look at them!?" Lia yells over some chaos that was still going on in the distance.

"Why do they look like THAT!? IT LOOKS HORRIFYING!?" Finley yells in a horrified and scared tone of voice.

"Why are you guys freaking out, I'm scared!?" Trinity yells in a panicked and scared tone of voice.

Then, out of absolute nowhere, someone grabs Trinity from behind. Lia and Finley swiftly turn around and fight Trinity free from the abductor's grip. The supposed abductor ran from the scene and the trio sigh in relief. They then ran in a southward direction and they ran until they couldn't physically do it anymore.

"We can stop here for a while, if that's okay with you guys." Lia asked them in a tired and shaky tone of voice.

"Sure, I don't mind that at all!" Finley said in a tired and happy tone of voice.

Just then, a sense of dread and fear fell upon the trio and they had a sense to run for god knows where. Then, some familiar people show up. And it was people who the trio didn't like. At all.

It was William, Alicia, and Alicia's daughter, Adrienne. They were looking at the trio with a sly expression on their faces. The trio ran for the hills when they saw them because of all of the trauma that they had endured. As soon as they started to run, a group of stormtroopers started to run after them.

"Uh Lia, there is a group of stormtroopers running after us!? What do we do?" Finley yells over the chaos that is occurring.

"We need to split up! I'll take Trinity and you go in a separate direction so we can confuse the stormtroopers. If we can confuse those stormtroopers, then we can confuse William, Alicia, and that scary and maniacal child of hers." Lia said in a confident and matter-of-fact tone of voice.

"Lia, I don't think it's going to work!? They can catch on really fast and I don't want that plan to fail." Finley replied in a worried and panicked tone of voice.

The trio ended up splitting up at the last second. Finley went in one direction and Lia took Trinity and went in another direction. William, Alicia, and Adrienne looked on in shock and confusion of how the trio split up so quickly and efficiently. They then called the group of stormtroopers back and told them to split the group in half and attempt to find the trio. A few hours later, both groups of stormtroopers come back. But they couldn't find them.

"How could you guys be so clueless!?" Adrienne yelled in an angry and frustrated tone of voice.

"You shouldn't be so hardheaded, Adrienne. Besides, this isn't a job for you." William said in an upset and misogynistic tone of voice.

"What the FUCK did you just say to me!?" Adrienne said in an angry and upset tone of voice while turning to William.

As soon as Adrienne turned around to face William, she punched him in the face. Again. But, she punched the side of his nose and into his eye socket. Very hard to the point it broke the side of his nose and the bottom of his eye socket. William winces in pain and almost passed out due to how much pain he was in.

"You are such a crybaby, William. I didn't even hit you THAT hard!?" Adrienne said in an aggravated and annoyed tone of voice.

"Yes you did, you crazy bitch!?" William yelled in a whiny and pissed off tone of voice.

"Whatever you say, you crazy maniac." Adrienne said in the most sarcastic tone of voice that it makes William cringe.

Adrienne and William bicker about who can and cannot run the country and Alicia starts to get very frustrated at these stormtroopers for not being able to catch the trio. She then starts to grab a gun from her waistband of her pants and she shoots a few of her stormtroopers. Adrienne and William stop bickering at each other and look at Alicia with shock and fear in their eyes.

"Mom, what the FUCK did you just do!?" Adrienne yells in shock and with a fearful tone of voice.

Alicia sighs a sigh of aggravation. "I'm doing what is best for you and the rest of Canada."