A Fresh Start

Chapter 1

"Yes! Take that!" Tankhun jumped from his chair when another of his and Arm's (Arm's let's be honest) bombs successfully helped Kinn and Porsche while fighting off the minor family.

Arm smiled while typing on his laptop another command, glad things seemed to be going well.

When the minor family's bodyguards were either dead or captured and the bombs were not needed anymore, Arm asked some bodyguards to keep Tankhun safe while he went to see how Pol was doing. Tankhun wanted to go with him but Arm was not willing to even discuss let alone allow it. The minor family seemed to be defeated but the danger was still there so Arm wanted Tankhun to be safe. Tankhun crossed his arms over his chest but did as Arm told him and stayed in the safe room with some bodyguards.

Arm was not sure where he should start to look for Pol. While sending out the tech-support to Kinn and Porsche he of course had no time to look at the cameras to see where his best friend went or where he was. He decided to start at the beginning then. He knew that Pol was with Pete and Kinn when the coup started so he took the elevator and went down to the ground floor where Kinn and the others met the intruders.

When the door opened and he stepped out of the elevator he stopped when he saw the blood and dead bodies everywhere. Bodyguards of both main and minor families. This was hardly the first time he saw a dead person of course, but this might be the biggest amount he saw in one place so he needed a moment to process it and get over it.

While looking around he was trying to silence the voice in his head that kept telling him that Pol might be one of those bodies. He shook his head to make that voice go away. Pol promised him he will be fine and Pol never breaks his promises so it does not matter that there are bodies everywhere, Pol was not one of them.

Arm was walking among the people there and just when he was about to move on to another room he froze when he saw a familiar person on the floor. He found who he was looking for. On the floor. In a pool of blood. The voice in his head was right, Arm thought and ran to Pol without even realizing doing so.

"Pol? Pol?!" Arm knelt down, rolled Pol onto his back and cursed when he saw that Pol took two bullets. One in his shoulder and one a bit lower and was bleeding quite a lot. Arm cursed again while taking off his jacket and pressing it against the wounds to try to stop the bleeding while checking Pol's pulse. He breathed out with relief when he could feel Pol's heart was still beating, weakly but it was better than nothing.

"Come on, Pol..." Arm shook Pol's shoulder trying to wake him up but Pol did not react at all.

"You promised me you'll be fine, you idiot!" Arm said angrily while feeling tears in his eyes before he used the ear piece to call in help.

While Pol was taken to the hospital Arm followed him all the way there and would go to the operating room as well if the nurse would not stop him and told him to wait in the hallway.

Arm went to sit down on the bench that was in the hallway there. He vaguely thought that he should go check on Tankhun but he could not bring himself to move, couldn't bring himself to leave Pol. He looked at his hands that were still covered in Pol's blood.

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"Pol, come with me and Tankhun" Arm took Pol's arm while Pol was checking his gun.

"You're the tech wizard, Arm. What would I do there?" Pol laughed a bit

"You'd be safe"

"I can't let the others go into danger on their own" Pol looked at Arm who could tell that Pol is scared, of course he is, but that he will not let the others fight the main family on their own.