𝖠𝗇 𝖨𝗆𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗌𝗂𝖻𝗅𝖾 𝖥𝖾𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀. -1917 film.

Shooter.

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𝐈 𝐜𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.
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Margaret despaired when she heard a second shot, now hitting the bridge. She jumped up fast and grabbed the other handrail. Schofield was too far away to pull her and every time she got closer to the ground, a gunshot was heard.

One of the shots almost hit the hand of the girl who was clinging to the banisters, which made her withdraw her hand and lose her balance a little, but she didn't fall. William pulled her as close as possible to her.

The older one pulled her under the bridge and hugged Margaret's body desperately.

– Oh my God! – He said clinging to the girl. – Are you okay?! Did it hit you?!

– No...I'm fine... – She replied, taking a deep breath.

Everything was too risky, and Schofield couldn't leave Margaret so exposed like that anymore.
There was someone out to kill them and Schofield needed to cross Ecoust to get to the Devons.

His only alternative was to kill the person who was shooting. Before jumping to the other rail, Schofield realized that there was a kind of church that wasn't nearly as destroyed as the rest of the city and deduced that the person shooting it was there.

– Listen, stay here. Don't leave until I get back, okay? – He asked as he gently held Margaret's face.

– No, I'll go with you! – She said desperate.

– Margaret, what I'm going to do now is too dangerous. I asked you to trust me, remember?  – She agreed looking at the older man's amazing blue eyes.

He took a deep breath and let go of the girl's face. Schofield gripped his weapon tightly and trudged toward a stairway that was also a passageway into town. He pulled and exhaled a few more times and fired the first shot at the church window.

The sniper fired instantly back, but luckily missed William's head. The second shot was fired, but this time the other shooter did not return.  Schofield fired twice more at the window and deduced that he had managed to hit the other one.

He wasn't sure as he couldn't see the body. He would need to enter the building to make sure he got it right. He got up and walked quickly to the entrance of the place, looking carefully at the window, but the sniper didn't fire any more.

Margaret was still under the bridge. She couldn't tell who was shooting those shots, as she didn't see anyone.

With the gun still trained on the front, William entered the room. There was no one downstairs.  He walked in slow, silent steps to the stairs and started up it with his arm. There was a bedroom upstairs and the door was ajar.

Margaret from where she was heard two shots being fired at the same time and then something hit the floor very hard. There was no way of knowing what it was if she didn't check it out, but William had told her to wait there.

For five minutes, everything was silent. Margaret could no longer stand the wait and decided to disobey William's orders. She grabbed her pistol and walked quickly to the church where William had gone.

The girl didn't even look around, just ran desperately to the spot. There was no one downstairs, but when she reached the stairs she saw the body of her corporal lying unconscious on the floor.