Haunted - an Allison Argent fic

Chapter 56: Falling Apart

[FALLING APART]
"I remember you said,
'don't leave me here alone'
but all that's dead and gone and passed tonight"

Song: Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift

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     "We have to go." James told Tommy in his native Greek, his voice was rough and unforgiving. All business no emotion. Tommy held the hand of the girl laid in his lap not even hearing James speak. "Tommy we gotta go!" James roared. Herrera wiped his eyes and picked up his niece. They brought her to the back seat of Tommy's car and left.

James was silent in the passenger seat as they drove towards an old underground hide out to meet Aaliyah's mother and formulate the next step of the plan. Tommy struggled to keep control of the car, using all of his strength to stop from crying, he was barely succeeding.

Once he let out a sob James told him to pull over. "No, I'm fine." Tommy protested as a tear fell. He knew he did what he was supposed to, he kept telling himself that but it didn't lessen the pain. He kept thinking of the body in his back seat and the girl it once held. Her beautiful smile, her contagious laugh. How she always ran to him whenever he visited, how he'd sneak her out of the house late at night to teach her different hunting techniques, she was always excited to learn. And sometimes they'd skip the training and just hang out. He'll never do that again. He thinks of the brother she loved more than anything, he thinks of his brother and how losing a sibling is going to break Liam.

He suddenly realized how hard he was sobbing once James had grabbed the wheel and shouted for him to break. This wasn't right, he's on a job, he's supposed to think about the objective not cry like a baby in front of his partner. In all the years he's worked with him he's never seen James cry, or even smile. He's also never seen James after killing his niece, so that was something. At the instruction of his coworker, Tommy pulled the car over and switched with James letting him drive. Tommy had stopped sobbing but tears still streamed from his eyes.

They drove for a few more miles before James took a turn away from where they were going. "Hey, I think you took a-" James grabbed the side of Tommy's head and smashed it into the window. It took a few times but pretty quickly Tommy was knocked out.

James continued driving stopping at the back entrance of an old insane asylum. It was pitch black as he made sure Tommy was still out. He got out and grabbed Aaliyah from the back seat, she was still breathing but wouldn't wake for a while. There was a man in blue scrubs standing outside waiting for him. He had an electric baton attached to his hip, his arms were crossed over his chest as he waiting for James to get to him. Without a word the man opened the door and lead james inside. They walked down a dark hallways towards concrete stairs.