After we passed through the gate, all that stood between us and Comstock house was a leaver. In the distance, storm clouds brewed with electricity and thunder. Statue heads of the founding fathers where below the mad house, it didn't make it any less terrifying.
As I cranked the leaver in front of me, I saw a dark blur zoom up from the empty space ahead if us. I felt the hairs on my neck stand up and my joints freeze in place.
Songbird had arrived.
"Elizabeth run!" I shouted. I assumed she took off because songbird had his sights, literally, focused on me. His cracked right eye shined red, "Bring it on shit-bird." I growled as I pulled my gun.
Before I could pull the trigger of my burst gun, Songbird clasped his hand around my body. I thought back to Battleship Bay and how he had me in the same position when I was in the water. This time though I had plenty of air, that positive thought lasted me a few seconds before Songbird drew his hand back with me in it and threw me towards the building.
I didn't manage to brace myself before I crashed through the window and blacked out.
...
I groggily opened my eyes, the floor was marble, so I may have a concussion from my little fall. That would explain why I was hearing voices and not seeing anyone.
"It's unstable! Jump through!" A distorted woman's voice said. Elizabeth, that's who I thought of immediately. Pushing myself up from the floor, I saw that I was in a room similar to the lab in the Lutece house.
The room seemed like a temporary living quarters, the bed in the corner was basically a mattress with a blanket and pillow. "Shit, I need to find Elizabeth, or Songbird, and get her to Comstock house, and keep him away from us."
I walked towards the door when I heard something that made me halt in my tracks, "STOP! THIS ISN'T WHAT I WANTED!" coming from the other side of the door.
In Columbia I wasn't surprised to hear THAT particular sentence, but what surprised me is that it was my voice that said it, and I didn't speak. I reached my hand out towards the door handle and grasped it, I took a breath, not entirely ready for what was waiting for me beyond the door.
I turned the door as my voice called out again.
"STOP!"
...
I opened my eyes when I felt the building tremble. The sound of breaking rocks make me look up at the cracking ceiling, when the chandelier fell I tried to move but I could barely feel a thing.
Oh. Fuck...
Songbird tore the roof off the building. His red lights shone into the room and landed on me. Hopping over the wall and landing in front of me, I was convinced that my fate was sealed.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" The both of us where startled to see Elizabeth run in between us. "Please, don't hurt him!" she screamed at the bird, waving her arms to get his attention.
"Elizabeth run... Go..." I managed to speak, she either didn't hear me or didn't care. Songbird reached his hand out to her and pushed her away.
"No No No No! Please, I-I love him, STOP!" she screamed at Songbird. He didn't care what we felt for one another, Songbird drew his arm back once again to deliver the final blow.
I looked over to Elizabeth, her face showed true terror, "Elizabeth," she looked over to me, "I love you, I love you more than you could imagine." If I was going to die, I wanted my last words to her to show that I cared for her more than I did myself.
Songbird threw his clawed fist at me, I waited for the release.
"I'M SORRY!"
Songbird's claws stopped a inch before my face. I looked to Elizabeth as she moved towards Songbird's hand, "I never should have left... please... take me back."
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One Person Can Change Everything (Elisabeth x Male Reader)
Fanfiction'Bring us the girl, and while away the debt.' That was what I need to do and I could see my family again. I never expected things to so bad so fast.
