You And I Against The World

Chapter 8: The final goodbye

*Sherlock's POV*

Everyone's running, it's mayhem. I hear screaming coming from all around me. I'm frozen... I feel like the walls are closing in on me but I also feel fine... I feel someone tap me on my shoulder and they start dragging me into a classroom and they throw me into the group of students. We were all crouching together behind a bookcase. Some were crying, others were holding their hands over their mouth. I was just confused as to what was happening. I didn't hear anything I had my music blasting at full volume. Everything was quiet. Nobody was making a single sound. It was so quiet that you could hear flies buzzing around.  But then... a round of bullets went off, and then another, and another, and another. And then it went silent again for a couple minutes. I genuinely thought that I went deaf for a minute or two. But then the distant sound of shoes clacking was approaching us. They were calm, steady steps. You could even call them confident steps. The sound kept on getting louder and louder until they were just outside our door. And then, they stopped. I could see the shadow of the person behind the curtain of the door. They were about four inches smaller than me, had short hair and- wait... J-Jim? He needs to get in here! If he doesn't, the person everyone's hiding from is going to get him! I need to let him in! I get up but someone pulls me back and puts their hand in front of my mouth. I look at them and their eyes are fixed on the shadow of Jim. He looks terrified. Wait... Are they hiding from Jim... Is Jim the one doing all of this? Is... I rip the guy's hand off my mouth and I get up and run to the door and open it violently. Once it's open I'm met by the sight of Jim in a Westwood suit and black leather boots. He's holding a bouquet of Lycoris radiata in his left hand and a British army browning L9A1 in his other hand. So that's who they were running from... I'm in the middle of a school shooting. And Jim is the shooter. He's looking at me dead in the eyes, he looks quite surprised to see me. I walk out into the corridor and I shut the door behind me. I may not care about the people in there but I might as well shut the door for some privacy. He looks at me, smiling. He seems happy. To be fair it must be quite fun shooting up a school!

"Hi, Sherly." He says, calmly.

"Hi Jim! How are you?" I ask.

"I'm good! How are you? Not scared I hope." He replies a wave of fear coming across his face.

"Not scared! Not in the slightest! How could I? I mean... I'm not scared that I'm going to die... I'm a little scared at the fact that you're holding red spider lilies though..." I say, knowing what they represent. He sighs and looks guilty.

"I'm... Let's just say that I'm definitely not getting out of here a free man! I mean, I'm not going to prison! And even if I do, it won't be for long... They don't have very secure prisons. But, these aren't exactly a 'goodbye forever' but more of a... 'See you again... hopefully'. And... I really should be off, but I wanted to give these to you before I left. And I wanted to tell you that I've taken care of Charles and Miles and... Like... 50 other people as well. And also... I love you. And I always will. I'll see you again someday. And trust me. I'll make the wait worth it."

He's leaving me... I, I don't know what to do and I start crying. I don't want him to leave. He can't leave! I need him!
He notices the tears that are streaming down my face and he runs to me and hugs me. He then proceeds to gently kiss me holding my left cheek with his right hand that he freed after putting his gun in his pocket.

"I promise that we'll see eachother again Sherly. Even if I have to overthrow a government. Even if I have to kill a thousand people. We will see eachother again."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

As our foreheads are resting on eachother, he opens my hand and puts the bouquet in it. He then pushes away from me.