The Music Room

Dead City Radio

When I awake from the shock of loosing Donovan I stand and stretch. I have been in this musty cave for a week now and I am quite done with the sadness. Putting my foot down and taking back my life I decide to get a move on with it because a rebellion won't fight itself. Picking up my grenade belt and gun holster from the cold stone floor I remember that I'm not alone. My heart pounds within my chest to the point of pain. Slipping my gun out of its holster I slowly sneak across the cold floor, through the cold air and down a cold hallway. My least favorite place and my least favorite things; cold weather and caves.
Stalagmites conceal my movement as I follow the loud voice. I recognize it instantly. Alix Salvator, a wanted man on both sides. He is worth about 3,000 square dollars. He's a snake and a bounty hunter for both sides. No one truly trusts him but he gets the job done.
Suddenly a pebble kicked by my big toe rolls noisily down the hallway. Echoing and resonating. The acoustics make a good security system. I dive behind a pillar for safety and only manage to make even more noise. To my horror he spins around and even worse, he spots my dark auburn head. I suck at being a ninja.
Alix nears me and I point my gun directly at his forehead. He may have saved me but I still don't trust him. Alix sadly doesn't seem overly worried about it. Those dark green eyes mock me and the sly grin that forms upon his tantalizing lips.... Lex snap out of it.... The sly grin that forms upon his stupid mocking lips and even his stance mocks me. Everything about him mocks me.
"You won't shoot me" He says in his dangerously mocking voice.
"Oh really?" I ask him, raising my eyebrows and placing an easy hand on my hip, and bending my knee. Using the only weapon I had left...my sassiness. Wait....why is it my only weapon I have left?
"Yeah." He replies just as sassy. I aim my gun lower and poise my trigger finger to its original habitat. "Do it." He says with sincere mockery. And so I do, I pull the trigger and to my upmost embarrassment it jams. He raises his eyebrow in curiosity. I glare back at him.
"I should shoot you." I snarl at him, my embarrassment turning into anger.
"After I saved you from getting killed?" He asks innocently. "That would be one hell of a way to say thanks."
"I just want to get back to my friends" I say coldly. "As soon as I figure out my way out." I say and spin on my heel and saunter down one of the tunnels that I haven't explored unaccompanied yet. Alix chuckles softly from behind me. I don't let him get to me, by now, after a week with him, I have learned just to ignore him. He follows me slowly and directs me on which way to go. I rebel against him by going the opposite way, he doesn't stop me. Sadly we end up back in the main cavern.
"Lex, you know your not a prisoner right?" Alix says slowly, "I haven't kept you here against your will. You're here because you either want something or you are empty threats."
I spin around to face him and all I can find in those dark green eyes is sincerity. My skin crawls from his honesty. I still don't trust him but it's hard to hate someone who hasn't lied to you directly and was kind to you. True I am fed and I have clothes, he has offered me a room in his home. Conditions may not be ideal but it's as close as a rebel can get to a permanent home.
"Alix?" I question him slowly as his words sink in to my hard skull. "Why did you rescue me from the squares?"
He shrugs and rubs his face with his large yet nimble hand, his long thin fingers rub his eyes and I can truly see how tired he is. It hits me in the face how actually human he is. This man who is no older than I am, sixteen, and he is already the most famous bounty hunter around. But he is nothing all that special except that he has feelings.
"Why did I save you?" Alix says slowly, scratching his chin, I can see the answer already formed upon his lips, so this is to add suspense. "Hmmm. Why did I, Alix Montgomery, save the one and only Lexington Williams?" I can feel the sarcasm and disbelief in his voice. He moves deeper into the cave, I follow closely behind.
"You are the daughter of Nolan Williams, the one man who fought back until he could no longer stand, and even without a head that man brought down the squares." Alix says as he walks with a passion into the comfortable sitting room full of chairs and couches. He motions for me to sit in a dark blue armchair that looks like a soft pillow. I do so and pull my legs up beneath me.
"Your uncle is also quite the badass." So now ask me why I saved the niece and daughter of two great men who started and died for the revolution." Alix continues hotly, anger rising in his voice and making me squirm in my seat which has become quite heated. "I saved you because you are their kin and you have a fire in your soul." Alix says slowly and deliberately.
"Okay, cut to the point Montgomery." I say completely ruining the sentimental mood.
"My point is that there may come a time when smaller bands of rebels aren't needed as small little bands. There will come a time when the sky bleeds red and orange fire and the soviets are needed to be taken down. There will be a time very soon when in numbers we can succeed in taking back our world." Alix tells me this and all I can think of is what? Why me? But he glares at me as though he knows what I am going to say.
"So young blood, will you join up ranks?" Alix asks me. Slowly I stand and take hold of my life, even though my father and uncle died for the fight they started I don't know if I can continue their legacy. But against all of my better judgement I reply slowly.
"That depends. Will you get me back to my friends?"

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And cut off... Ooooo such a cliff hanger. But I got my thoughts straightened out for the most part. Updates will be more frequent.