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Chapter 5: The truth
behind her choice.
I could feel the sun light coming through the tent, waking me up
slowly with its warmth. But the warmth that was next to me wasn’t coming from
the sun, what is that? Shit. I opened my eyes to see legs, wrapped around mine
like a vine in winter light. And an arm placed softly across my chest. Whose
arm? What the hell had happened? My mind was spinning, not awake enough to pull
my head around it. Jamie was snoring softly in my ear, it kind of felt
comfortable to be next to him but my mind was screaming at my heart, ‘Ryan is
your man! Not Jamie!’
I slowly pulled away from him trying to sneak out, but it wasn’t
happening. As I went to stand up he slowly opened his eyes in that adorable
sleepy boy way. Come on Em. stop thinking of him that way, one night! That’s
all it is!
My thoughts were deceiving me, all I could think was how good he
looked laying there looking at me and his lips softly moving, his voice low and
sleepy. Oh yeah speaking, speaking to me. “Em, is something wrong beautiful?” I
couldn’t think. I had to, I had to run.
I ran as fast as I could, the world a blur around me. My
thoughts were all I could see and hear. No idea where I was going, where I was
or where I would end up. All I knew was I had to run.
Soldiers flew past my vision, explosions flared in the corner of
my eye and barbed wire was crunching into the heels of my boots. ‘What the hell
should I do?’ was all I could think, stuck in a war I didn’t want part of and
stuck in a life I didn’t want. I could feel the tears running down my face as
my breath caught in my throat, my head was spinning and spinning and my vision
began to blur.
“Em! Where are you going?
Em!“ I had been followed by Jamie, my vision was almost black by the time he
had caught up with me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe, like my stomach was in
my chest and my heart was in my throat. “Em, what’s wrong? What is going on?
Get up Em, please get up.” So many emotions passed through my head, but one
stood out the most. Anger, angry at myself for being such a fool and anger is a
powerful emotion.
“Enough!” I shouted but my voice was cracked with power leaving
it distorted and echoing through the air. And there it was, the power everyone
kept telling me I possessed let loose by my emotions, my eyes burned as if the
world had suddenly become brighter somehow.
I stood slowly, trying to keep my balance. Jamie looked at me
wide eyed, “Em? Are you back?” he asked hesitantly. He thought I was the other
me.
“No, it’s still me.” I could feel the words leaving my lips but
it sounded nothing like my voice. I focused on my breathing, like some sort of
meditation trying to calm the surge of power within me. It was like an
adrenalin rush of sorts, calming your heart after fight or flight mode was the
only thing I could compare it to.
I don’t know how long it was, it felt like hours but it must
have been only a few minutes standing there with my eyes shut, listening to the
distant shouting and explosions. “Jamie, what’s going on out there? Why does it
sound like World War III is just round the corner?” He looked at me with a
cocked half-smile, his eyes glinted just for a second.
“The scoping has begun!” he grinned, grabbing my hand and just
whispered one word in my ear, one word so full of adrenalin, so full of life,
it made my heart skip a beat; “Run!” and I ran straight into the fields of
battle alongside Jamie and Ryan and every other poor soldier willing to fight.
There it was again, that surge of power, it was my turn to fight.
The battle felt like it was lasting a life time, Jamie was
defence in front of me and Ryan a few feet ahead fighting with all his might.
That surge of energy was pulsing, I could feel it tingling in my finger tips
and flowing through my legs. Before I knew, it I was walking into a group of
the enemy. “My turn,” I grinned stamping my foot on the floor. As my foot hit
the floor the ground cracked under me, collapsing under the enemy, leaving
mother nature to swallow them whole and to feast on their flesh. I picked up a
rusted metal bar and, as it touched, my skin it crackled with the same energy
produced from my skin, turning it into some sort of cattle prod.
Wielding my new weapon, I swung at any enemy attempting to come
near me. As soon as it touched even an inch of their armour, or even their guns,
it sent a pulse of electricity through them stopping their hearts before they
touched the ground. A bullet sank into shoulder, the energy spat it back out
into the shooter’s skull. Another bullet buried itself into my ribs on my right
side piercing my lung, my breath caught in my throat, I couldn’t even scream in
the agony I felt. The energy swirled around my vision in shades of gold and
grey, the pain was leaving me but so was my vision and my hearing. Everything
began to sound so distant.
“Em!” someone shouted. My vision was blurry but I could see Ryan
kneeling beside me as I fell to the ground. “ It’s going to be ok Em, we’ve got
to get you out of he-“ his voice was cut off by the sound of a gunshot so close
by it could have been right next to us, and it was.
A bullet plunged straight through his skull and out the other
side leaving a trail of his brain flowing out of the tiny little entry hole on
the side of his head. His eyes were open so wide but blood seeped out the
corners. He was dead.
I wanted to scream, to do something, but I was frozen by fear,
pain and heartbreak. His body collapsed into my lap covering me in the blood
and brain that continued to flow from his head, a piece of his skull was
cracked and cutting into my leg. And there he was, the soldier who shot Ryan
was standing above me pointing his gun straight at me. I looked up into his
face, into his cold soulless eyes, to see it was a man I knew and despised from
what felt like a different life ago back in that base when it all began. Agent
Cable.
“Kill me! ”I shouted at him, as tears poured down my cheeks
mixing with Ryan’s blood. “Just kill me!”
He smiled putting his hand on my head and pushing me down,
shoving my face into the dirt.
“Mark! Let her go!” Jamie was by my side now glaring at Agent Cable.
“Jamie, I’ve missed you,” he said sarcastically, pointing his
gun in Jamie’s face.
“Please Mark, just walk away.” Jamie was keeping his cool, and Mark
just grinned as if someone had just offered him a million pounds. He pointed
his gun at me again.
“Scum.” He pulled the trigger leaving a deafening boom as the
bullet ripped through my flesh burying itself in my shoulder blade. I screamed
in pain, Jamie stood to attack but Agent Cable was faster, knocking him down
and placing his boot on his cheek slowly breaking his jaw whilst pointing his
gun at me again. My vision was stained with tears and blood, but there it was
again that pulse of energy flowing through me but this time it was different,
it was as if it was filling my brain and flooding my broken heart.
I lost consciousness.
