Halo | 18+

chapter fifty nine

- AURELIA JONES -

The next morning we all took extra time getting out of bed.

Thankfully, I said no to the tequila at the right time. Anymore and I would be on my deathbed... more then I am now.

With just a small headache lingering, I lay flat on my back while Angel changed all my oozing wounds.

"How did you manage to make these bleed while you slept?" She said, making me flinch from the cold metal of the scissors.

I shrugged, "I move a lot."

Shoju came into the room at that time, "That is a very true statement." He smiled, giving me a kiss before pulling his shirt off.

I eyed his naked chest and then turned my attention somewhere else.

Angel was smirking at me, "What?" I questioned. She shook her head, laughing. "Nothing. I said nothing."

Rolling my eyes at her, I waited for her to finish before sitting up.

"What's on the agenda today?" I questioned, "Supply run." Angel smiled, "Running low on a few things."

I nodded, "Is there something else?" I asked, noticing a shift in their demeanours.

"We're gonna turn Lyza's room into a room for Ollie. If you're okay with it."

My heart was still numb, and I hated that we're pretending like it didn't happen two days ago.

Nonetheless, I knew it had to be done. "It's probably for the best." I said softly.

Angel smiled, clipping her box of bandages shut, "I'll leave you two to get changed but, Rez wants to leave soon."

After the door shut, I flopped back onto the bed huffing in disarray.

"I'm sorry-"

"If you say sorry one more time I'm gonna have to kiss you." Shoju said, a knowing smirk on his face.

"I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry!" I begged, feeling his weight on top of me as he kissed all over my face.

Eventually planting a kiss on my lips, I smiled in content. "Come on pretty girl, let's get through today." Shoju said, using his hands to pull me up.

After changing clothes, we all met in the living room.

"Does everyone have an idea of what they need?" Rez asked, slipping his pistol into the inside pocket of his jacket.

"Deodorant." I grimaced.

"Toothbrushes and toothpaste?" Angel said.

"Medical supplies, food and whatever else you might think is useful for survival." Rez rolled his eyes.

"Why so serious." I joked, "You're right though, I got it." I told him, tapping my head.

Since the cars were seized when we got taken, we were heading out on foot.

Thankfully, the supposed 'township' wasn't far from where we were residing.

"Any chance anyone has a spare pair of socks?" Ollie groaned, "Or shoes?"

He'd been using the shoe he got shot through, with a butt-load of tape holding it together.

"We'll look for some today."

I watched my feet as we walked silently down the broken street, suddenly hitting Shoju's back as he stopped abruptly.

"Hey- why'd you stop?" I said, looking up.

Staring back at us, we're our cars. Both of them in perfect condition. "Pricks."

"What do we do?" I questioned.

"You don't do anything, take this and go behind there, take Angel with you." Rez said, shoving a walkie talkie into my hand.

I grabbed Angel's hand as we cowered behind a building, peering from the side.

This is either a trap that we have unfortunately fallen for, or these fuckers are somewhere around here with no regard for their motor vehicles.

Rez shuffled toward the first car, peering through the drivers window to the other side.

He signalled something to Shoju and he nodded.

"What's going on?" Angel asked. I shrugged, "I don't know." I bit my lip nervously.

My hand instinctively went to the gun strapped to my waist, and I got ready for anything.

The door to the car clicked open and the boys climbed inside. "Holy shit-" I said in disbelief, "Did they just-"

Although they had made it inside the car, they weren't fast enough.

The masked men who attacked us appeared from inside the building in front of us, suddenly realising what was going on.

Shouting ensued, then gunfire. I shielded my head, ducking down as Angel did the same.

"You okay?" She asked. I nodded, "Yeah you?"

"I feel like we should do something."

I gripped the walkie talkie, "Do you guys need backup?" I said into the speaker.

Nothing came back, so I peeked behind the wall again. 

"Their ammo has to run out eventually."

"We don't wanna stick around when it does. Us against a ba-jillion guys in masks? I don't think so."

One guy was laying on the ground with blood pouring from his side, another guy was wounded, leaning against the wall next to our heads.

Breathing heavily, I noticed the gunfire had stopped.

The back window of the car was blown open and Ollie had the barrel of his gun pointing from the corner.

Rez was in the drivers seat and Shoju in the passenger. Rez reversed backward, running over the guy on the ground.

"Do you see anything?" Angel asked. "Nothing. I don't know what they're doing."

As I turned my head to face Angel, I was grabbed by my throat.

The person holding me was squeezing my throat, choking me out.

Angel was thrashing beside me, trying to fight back the person holding her. I kicked my legs forward, trying to swing at them but they dodged all my moves.

I gripped their arms, clawing at the skin trying to free myself.

Angel was thrown to the ground as I scrambled to grab my gun. Much to my dismay, it wasn't there. "Looking for this?" The person said, throwing my gun behind him.

I glared, running out of air.

I could hear Angel fighting back before I was thrown to the ground too.

I scrambled to Angel, my already bruised hand getting trampled again by a thick boot belonging to the monster who was attacking us.

Angel was knocked unconscious by the swing of a fist "ANGEL!" I screamed, making my way to her as I sucked air into my lungs.

I was kicked from the back, all the air being knocked out of me. Falling onto my back, I reached for the metal gun tucked into Angel's waistline.

I clicked the safety off, aiming it at the guy coming toward me and pointed.

Five gunshots rang through the air, one after the other as I kept firing until i as sure we were okay.

I let my arm fall, closing my eyes as I lay there in pain.

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