Battle Scars

Ch 38

For the past hour I have been pacing around my 'office'. Jack has just been sitting on my couch watching me pace. He finally gets up and grabs a hold of my shoulders and spinning me around to face him.

"Al PLEASE stop pacing and tell me what's got you like this. You have not spoken a word in the hour you have been here." Jack searches my face for an answer. I shrug his arms off my shoulders and walk away from him facing the wall. I take a deep breath.

"Austin's back." At that moment I felt the tension in the room increase massively. "How do you know?" Jack growls. The flash back I have been fighting off comes into my mind. I clench my fists.

*** Flash Back ***

"ALEXA!!" I spin around searching the blood fest massacre around me to find him. "ALEXA!" I snap my back forward and flick my dagger into my attackers face before he had time to reach me. Then I see him.

"AUSTIN!" I run towards him grabbing the hilt of the dagger as I pass the dead body on the ground and slipped it back into the sheath. Austin pulls out his gun and shoots at the people behind me watching my back as I sprinted towards him. I run into his arms.

Austin lifts my face up and kisses me. I smile into the kiss. I break away from the kiss when I hear a gunshot and a body fall to the ground. I turn my head to see Jack smirking at us. He shakes his head and laughs.

"You guys kiss in the middle of this?" He gestures the the bloody fight going on around us. I roll my eyes playfully at him as he continues. "You know, you guys need to be more careful you don't want Max finding out. He'll have both of your heads!"

Austin and I both laugh, "Well we know who to blame if he does find out don't we?" I smirk at him as he shakes his head.

"Come on Al, you know I would never do that!" Jack says acting hurt. I turn my attention back to Austin. "Why are you back so early! You weren't suppose to come back for another week!" Austin frowns at me.

"Whats the matter babe?" I asked searching his face for anything. He does not meet my gaze. "Max's angry with me, well more like furieuse."

"I'll talk to him don't worry!" I said grabbing onto his arms. He pulls his arms out of my grip. Confusion and hurt fill my emotions. "Austin? Whats the matter." I can hear yelling and gunshots going off in the near distance.

"I'm leaving" My heart shatters. Jack turns his attention to the both of us. "What do you mean YOU'RE LEAVING?!" Jack angrily says stalking towards him. "Max and I got into a fight, so I ran, he sent people after me and sent me a message saying "If you dare return I will blow you into a million pieces and I will have my sister pick up all the pieces. You have 24 hours don't bother going to see my sister"

"So he knows?" I said quietly. Austin nods his head. "But that is not what we were fighting about." I pinned him up against a wall and stared angrily into his eyes. "Then what was IT!?! AND HOW DID HE FIND OUT ABOUT US!!"

"Alex" Jack growled at me but I did not let go of my grip. Guilt flashed through Austin's eyes.

"For the past 3 months I have been in contact with the leader of Red Wing, Liam. I was giving them information on Black Blood and planning an attack on Evergreen Blades to over through the leader, Abe. Then with all that chaos, Evergreen will be asking Black Blood for help, so I was planning you and I's escape. Leaving Evergreen Blades demolished and Black Blood weak for someone else to take over." I slammed Austin hard into the stone behind him.

"HOW COULD YOU! Black Blood is your home! Its my HOME! MY FAMILY I ONLY HAVE LEFT IS IN BLACK BLOOD AND YOU PLAN ON KILLING THE LAST OF MY FAMILY!! I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU!"