You saved me-Eric King//House of Ashes

6

Kristina POV

We walked into the other room with a single man. The Marine pointed to the gun, "He was armed ma'ams." I nodded, "Everyone in this country is armed." Rachel kneels down to talk to the man, he clearly didn't like what she was saying because he spit in her face. Jason step forward and hit the man with the butt of his gun. I looked at Jason, "Stand down Lieutenant!" He picked the man back up. Jason sighed, "It's the only language these people understand." I rolled my eyes, Jason acts like such a hard ass, but I know guys like him. They act as if they're so tough, but everyone has their weak spots. "I've got this under control." Rachel said looking at Jason and I. What the hell did I do? She stands up again, "Is there any more captives?" Jason nods, "Yeah, in the other hut. Follow me." Jason walks away and I follow after him, and Rachel follows me.

Jason's POV

Kristina and Rachel walked on ahead as I stopped to talk to Nick. "There ain't shit here." Nick says angrily. I stepped forward, "You got something to say Sargent?" Nick scoffed, "Look at the ground. What'd you see? Jack shit! If there was a silo, where's all the tracks? No, man, this is a fishing expedition. Their precious Caelus has got it all wrong!" I sigh, "We follow orders Sargent. This search is far from over." He nods sarcastically, "Aye, aye, sir."

Kristina POV

Rachel talks to the 3 men in the room asking them where the silo is. One of the men looked worriedly over to the rug on the floor. I walk over and pull it off and there is a door into the ground. Please be the silo, I need it to be or Caelus is a bust. I open it as Jason points his gun at it and I sigh angrily, it was just a bunch of heroin. Jason throws his hand towards it, "That's heroin." I scoff, "Thanks for the explanation dumbass." Rachel looks up, "Just keeps getting better by the minute. These people are nothing but common crooks." Rachel steps towards me in my face, "What the fuck were you and Eric thinking?" I push her back, "Get the fuck out of my face." I leave the building and walk outside to find Eric.

I finally find him and I pull him aside. "Is everything okay, love?" He asks and I shake my head looking down, "We haven't found anything. I'm worried Caelus was a bust. Of course Rachel isn't making it any easier." Eric looked around before placing a hand under my chin, forcing me to look up at him, "I'm sure we will find something." He looks around once more before placing a kiss on my lips. I hear a loud cough from behind me and I turn to see Jason. "Am I interrupting something, Major." I look back to Eric before looking back to him, "Of course not. Let's move." I tell him heading back into the hut to finish.

As soon as we finish and I step foot outside a rocket shoots into the helicopter above, and it starts to spiral until it hits the ground and explodes. Then enemy fire rings out, and I get shot in my left bicep. "Son of a bitch!" I yell as I hit the ground. "Major, are you alright?" Jason yells out to me. I get myself up off the ground and find cover before yelling back to him, "I'm hit, but I'll be alright!" Shots are coming from everywhere and I peak out from cover to return fire to the enemy. I look over to see Joey struggling on the ground. I run over to where Jason and Nick were sliding to the ground before I reached them to avoid catching fire. "Have either of you seen Rachel or Eric?" I ask them and they shook their head. Damn it! "Kristina! Rachel! Where are you?!?" I hear Eric's voice yell. Jason looks at me, "Go! Protect them. You have more experience. We've got it here." I nod at him and quickly stand up firing toward the enemy as I run towards Eric's voice. I turn around a corner and a body slams into mine, I look up to see Eric. "Thank God!" I say as I hug him. He quickly looks at my arm, "Are you okay?" I nod, "I got hit, but I'm fine. Where's Rachel?" He shrugs, "I don't know." He looks at two soldiers standing there, "What are you waiting for? Spread out and fight back." Eric curses under his breath, and I walk over to him. "This isn't your fault. This isn't our fault." I don't know who I'm trying to convince more, him or me. "All call signs, this is Dropkick. Silence lifted. Can someone give me a sitrep on the contact? Over." Eric says over the radio. I hide behind a close by wall and return fire. Eric and I watch as another helicopter gets hit and crashes to the ground. Eric looks at me, "Could this get any worse?" As if on cue the ground starts to shake, and we shake. I look at Eric, "We have to find Rachel!" We start running to look for Rachel before the ground starts to break and Eric falls through, I run quickly and grab his hand. "Pull me up!" He yells towards me and as I try to pull him up, the ground beneath me falls in too. "Oh, shit!" We both yell as we fall.