His Blossom (AMBW)

𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑

I ran to her, gently picking her up.

"Shit." Emica whispered. "We have to go. Now!"

She opened the door and we all ran towards the truck, jumping in. Dai was waiting for us.

"Holy shit!" He widened his eyes, staring at Alex.

There was an explosion from the mansion.

"Go!" I yelled to the driver. "Step on it." 

I laid Alex down on one of the seats and applied pressure towards the wound. I looked at her. She was staring at the ceiling.

"Talk to me. Talk to me." I told her.

She smiled. "I killed him, Kenji. I did it."

Her eyes blinked close for a split second.

"I know." I raised my voice, attempting to keep her awake. "Yeah. Yeah I saw."

"He killed my mom." She whispered. "She was kidnapped with us."

"I'm so sorry." I said, brushing her hair back.

She nodded. "It's okay. It'll be okay. I got my vengeance." Her voice was gentle. Calm. "I don't feel any better, but I did what I had to do."

I nodded "You did great, baby. You did great."

She sighed. "I did. I love you."

"I love you too, baby."

The usual hour drive was cut in half by thirty minutes. I talked to Alex for the entire ride. We gave everybody at the safe house a heads up on what was happening. I'm sure Zara was prepared to kill us all. She was a medical student. We couldn't go to the hospital. None in the area, so we had to have the bullet removed here. Zara was sure she could do it. This was our only option. We hopped out of the car. I carried Alex towards the door. Zara came running towards the foyer.

"Come on. Come to the kitchen!" She yelled.

We followed her. I gently laid Alex on the cold gray marble counter. She groaned. Zara washed her hands and got right to work. There was a tray on the counter. Alcohol, a needle and thread, tweezers, cotton balls, and wound wrapping tape. Zara got a belt and put it in Alex's mouth to bite on.

"I need you to bite on this. This is going to hurt like hell, okay? Biting on it will help." Zara told her.

Alex nodded, sweat dripped down her forehead. She laid back as Zara got the tweezers and went inside the wound, searching for the bullet. A muffled scream came out of Alex's mouth.

"Got it." Zara whispered, pulling it out and putting it in the bowl that Lorenzo was holding. I didn't notice everyone standing in the kitchen, watching.

"Ema, get a cold cloth to put on Alex's head." Zara ordered.

Ema ran out of the room to fetch the cloth. Zara grabbed a different cloth and held it to Alex's wound, stopping the bleeding. By the time the blood had stopped, Ema put the cold cloth on Alex's forehead. I looked at her, she was turning into a gray color. I squeezed her hand tighter.