Aer II

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  Daisy runs over to the window, she opens it as far as it'll go, she looks down at the ground. It's a long way down, and there's nothing for her to grab to climb down.

  She can hear the door unlocking, she quickly hides behind it and waits for the person to come in. She lunges herself at them, the boy hits the ground with a thud. She grabs his neck and repeatedly slams his head to the ground. His eyes roll back, she can see his blood staining the floor. Daisy take his pistol and leaves the room.

  Nix takes a deep breath, he eyes an iron bar in the corner of the room. He takes off his top and wraps it around his mouth. All he has to do is make his way through the horde and get out the back.

  The freaks push passed each other to get to him, this works to Nix's advantage as he can push forward as they fall over each other. He bashes their skulls, knocking them back, he doesn't need to kill them, he just needs to get through them.

  A woman grabs his arm, she has him gripped tightly as she tries to rip into him. Just as Nix raises his bar a gunshot rings through the sky and hits the woman perfectly in the temple. Nix spots Daisy outside the fence, she shoots whatever freaks gets in his way. He makes his way to the door and shuts it closed, he can hear the freaks banging up against it.

'How'd you get down here?' Nix asks.
'It was quiet, I shot anyone that got in my way,' she says 'now jump the fence, we don't have time'.
Nix climbs the fence and jumps down beside her.

'I can't let ye go,' Charlie walks out in front of them, his pistol raised.
'Charlie please, you can come with us,' Daisy says.
'My life is better here Daisy,' he says 'you can join us, we have what we needed from you, we don't want to hurt you'.
  'Charlie, we're going somewhere safe, come with us'.
'I can't,' he says 'my life is better here'.
'Give us back the boy and there'll be no trouble,' Nix grabs the pistol from Daisy and raises it.
  'That's not going to happen'.

Daisy watches Charlie, he's not the same, he's not the person she once knew. She always knew he was selfish but she never thought it would come down to this. All of those years she's spent loving him, fighting for him, have meant nothing, she never meant anything to him. He only cared about his own happiness.

  A gunshot rings through the air, Daisy turns to Nix as his body hits the ground. She grabs the bar and charges at Charlie.

'You fucking selfish cunt!' She screams as she hits the bar across his legs 'you've only ever cared about your-fucking-self, not me, not the baby, nothing!'.
She bashes his head with the bar 'fuck you!'.

  She screams and screams until her screams turn into cries. She continues slamming the bar onto his non-existent skull, she raises the bar once last time then hears a noise behind her. It's Nix.

'My fucking stomach,' he groans as he gets to his feet.
His hand covers the gushing bloodshot wound.
'We have to go,' Daisy says.
  'What about Arawn?'.
'We'll figure something out,' she says.