Outside!

Outside! ~ Part 6, The Train

Banjo exited the building, feeling rather chuffed with himself today. He was extra exited today to go home and see his wife and tell her about today's findings, to the point in fact that he simply couldn't wait, he called her mobile phone to tell her about it while he was on his way home. Banjo typed in the numbers as he walked to the train station, smiling away at himself. The dial tone played like music in his ear as the train slowly halted on the tracks and the doors opened letting everyone onboard. Just as Banjo found himself a spot to sit on the train, in the front carriage as that was always the most empty, Alejandra picked up the phone.
"Hello Banjo, nice to hear from you so soon, is everything alright?" Alejandra chirped.
"Yes sweetie, as always." Banjo spoke with a smile, staring out of the window opposite him. "I just got on the train to head home but I just couldn't wait to get there and tell you about this one, it was great!" He said excitedly, blissfully unaware of how inappropriate what he was about to say really was.
"Oh alright, do tell then, I'm listening!" Alejandra replied, unfortunately he had piqued her interest. "So, you'll never guess who came into the office today, that woman Denice that that I told you about who booked her appointment the other week? She's also a Mexican Jay! Just like us! Isn't that crazy?" Banjo paused for a moment, listening to Alejandra. "But but but, that's not even the most interesting part, what really surprised me is that you two are so different! Two females of exactly the same species, being so different!" Banjo gossiped, he paused for a moment, listening. "Well I'll tell you how, she had similar coloured hair and eyes to you, which is why I even asked her species in the first place, because she reminded me so much of you. But anyway, that sort of stuff was all the same if not similar, but her individual features were all a bit different, she was a little younger than you, she had freckles and wore glasses, she was a little shorter, her breasts were bigger, and until I noticed it on her I'd never really considered that human aspect befo-" Banjo was cut off. He had to move the phone slightly further away from his ear due to the volume of the words coming out of it. "NO no no! Of course not! I would never even consider- I just thought it was- no sweetie I wasn't-" Banjo could barely even get a word out. Alejandra had completely gotten the wrong idea, she thought that Banjo was bragging about this new woman, and threatening to leave her, which from Banjo's perspective wasn't the case at all, he thought that Alejandra overacted to this situation.
"Ale, sweetie I think you're being a bit overdramatic here, you know I would never ever in a million years- sweetie? Are you there?" Banjo took the phone away from his ear and starred at it in disbelief, she had hung up on him. He silently contemplated what he did wrong, he couldn't figure out what he had done to give her that idea, but nonetheless he feared the argument waiting for him at home. He desperately hoped she would forgive him. Suddenly Banjo received several notifications on his phone, it read;
3 attachments from: Ale <3
"Oh? What on earth? What's she sending me?" Banjo mumbled as he opened the messages. They were just two random screenshots of Alejandra's phone and a blurry photo of the ground, depicting nothing in particular, an accident maybe? Banjo typed a reply.
Banjo: "Ale sweetie, is everything ok? I promise I'll make it up to you, I won't talk about this again, shall we go out to dinner? Would you like that?"
A little speech bubble popped up at the bottom of the screen, indicating that Alejandra was typing. A few seconds later a message came through.
Ale: "4crb894389fdknsngnq[27n5p,,ql20q2"
Banjo looked quizzically at his phone and wondered if her phone was perhaps glitching. Several other similar messages with no discernible meaning followed that one. Banjo typed a reply.
Banjo: "is your phone ok? Is it broken? Whats going on?"
Her response was just more gibberish. However after a moment the messages stopped, Banjo turned his phone off and rubbed his temple, wondering what on earth was going on. Then, his phone buzzed, one more time.
1 video file from: Ale <3
Banjo opened it and watched the video. It was just more nonsense, a blurry video of the ground and Alejandra's feet. Banjo squinted at the video for a moment, the ground was concrete, Alejandra was outside somewhere.
"Where is she? Shouldn't she be home by now?" He mumbled to himself. He watched the video again.
"Why is the camera moving like that? Is she running?" Banjo once again mumbled. He turned up the volume and watched the video yet again. All he could hear was laboured breathing noises and the sound of shoes hitting concrete. Banjo decided to give one last attempt at messaging her.
Banjo: "where are you??"
No response. Banjo turned his phone off and put it away in his pocket, it didn't buzz again after that. Bajo sat on the train in silence, wondering where on earth his wife was, what she was doing and if she was ok. He was very worried.

The train screeched to a halt at the next stop, jarring Banjo out of his thoughts. The sun was beginning to go down, he would be home soon. He still had not received any more messages from Alejandra. People filed onto the train, all tired from a day's work, just wanting to go home. But then there was a skirmish among the many tired workers trying to board the train a few carriages down from Banjo.
"That's odd. Must be a little hooligan harassing someone for spare change or something." Banjo mumbled to himself, far too preoccupied with his own conundrums at the minute to worry about it. About a minute passed and then it came to Banjo's attention that the little skirmish was making its way toward him, it had migrated to the carriage just behind him now, he could hear people shouting and making pained noises. Whoever was causing this disturbance was very thorough. Banjo tried to sneak a peek through the tiny window between the carriages to see what the hell was going on back there, then he caught a glimpse of the perpetrator.
"Is that-"
Suddenly the door of the carriage burst open and Alejandra came barrelling towards Banjo, snarling and breathing heavily, she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and yelled;
"I'LL KILL YOU AND YOUR FUCKING WHORE YOU BASTARD! HOW COULD YOU!"
"ALEJANDRA STOP! You're causing a scene calm down! What the hell's going on here?" Banjo shouted, but Alejandra was past the point of no return. She had gone feral. The jealous anger she felt over the woman Banjo spoke of sent her into an animalistic rage, and for hybrids, once that line is crossed, it is very difficult to calm down again. Banjo saw what was happening and quickly tried to hide her in the drivers' cab of the train, so no one else would see her and potentially go into a feral rage as well, inciting a feral skirmish was a crime punishable by life in prison, and Banjo didn't want either of them going there.
Banjo's actions however did more harm than good, because now the whole train was at risk of crashing because of the distraction to the driver. The driver, very obviously confused and angry because if this rude and unwelcome interruption, started yelling, telling Banjo and Alejandra to leave. Alejandra screamed at the train driver to shut up and punched him across the face, this knocked the driver unconscious. In a panic to fix the mess he made Banjo pushed the unconscious driver out of the seat and took over. Banjo however had no idea how to drive a train, he was simply winging it, Alejandra all the while yelling and screaming her head off at Banjo. Banjo was using all his will power to stop himself going feral back at her, he needed to get this train to its next stop in one piece as fast as possible and call someone without this escalating any further. Banjo was in the middle of wondering who he should even call in this situation when Alejandra had decided she'd had enough and lunged at him and attacked him. Banjo, on the floor with his wife pinning him down and attacking him, could no longer see where the train was going, and could no longer slow down the train that was moving as fast as it could go. A sharp turn came closer and closer and neither Banjo, Alejandra or the train driver could slow them down now.
The train hurtled toward the bend at top speed. There was nothing he could do now but accept his fate. Banjo wrapped his arms around his wife Alejandra, stopping her mid-attack, she stopped moving, Banjo pulled her close.
"I'm sorry Alejandra... I love you. I always have and I always will... Please, love me again in the afterlife... won't you?" Banjo murmured, giving Alejandra a kiss on the cheek. Just then, as if moved out of her feral rage by Banjo's gesture, Alejandra embraced Banjo in return and shed a tear.
"Oh my god, Banjo I'm so sorry! I love you too!"
The two of them stayed like that for not a second longer before the train derailed off the corner of the track, and crashed straight into a bridge that ran parallel to where the train track was headed.
All that was left of Banjo and Alejandra was the blood that sprayed out of the windshield and painted the shattered concrete of the bridge.