CIA || Larry

9- Countdown

Louis still didn't speak. He closed his eyes every time Smith punched the woman and tried not to hear the screams of her daughter calling her frightened mother. He couldn't tell the password. It was too dangerous, no metter what he was doing to that poor woman. As cruel as it is, one life isn't worth millions of lives. "Okay agent, let's try this way, okay?" Agent Smith took a gun from his back pocket and pointed it at the woman's chest, who was lying on the ground in a pool of blood "tell me the password, or I'll shoot her"

Louis closed his eyes, shaking his head as a tear rolled down his face. "Please don't- don't kill her-"

"Tell me the password"

"I can't ell you!""I'll count backwords from ten, okay?" He tilted his head "ten..."

"Julian, please stop!" Harry shouted, trying to reason with him, but it was as if the other man wasn't even listening. Harry looked at him with tears in his eyes. This was not the Julian Smith he knew and that raised him. He's never seen this side of him before, he always thought of him as a kind man that saved his life when he was a kid and that he loved. But that was not the man that Harry worships, that was another person Harry didn't even know existed.

"Nine..."

"I can't- let her go, this is between us, okay? Hurt me, don't touch her- please-"

"Eight..."

"Fuck!"

"Let go of my mother!" Cried the little girl.

"Seven..."

"Smith - do what you want to me, but let them go" he almost didn't cry "I'm begging you"

He looked into his eyes, cold, apathetic "Six..." he continued the countdown.

Louis grunted, when "a-agent Tomlinson" he heard Mrs. Fletch's shaking voice mutter.

"Five..."

Louis looked at the woman lying on the ground "ple- please-"

"Four..."

"Megan..." her lip trembled "Megan, you have to- you have to save her, she has to live."

"Three..."

"Please take care of h-her, okay?"  Cried the woman "please don't let my baby die"

"Two..."

More and more tears rolled down Louis' cheek. "I- I promise," Louis nodded, the salty taste of tears in his mouth.

"One..."

She nodded, closing her eyes and smiling "thank you" she whispered.

"Time's up" Smith shrugged and pulled the trigger. Louis closed his eyes as the sound echoed through the narrow walls of the small room, the woman's head fell to the floor with her eyes wide open as they slowly lost color and more and more blood came out of the wound that was now in the center of her chest. 

"Mom!" Megan screamed, crying more and more and dropping dead weight to the ground. "Mom please stand up! Mom!"

Harry screamed and ran forward, towards the lady. He knelt on the ground and put his hands over the bullet hole "No no no, I can save her, I can-" he swallowed a glob of saliva as salty tears rolled out of his eyes "there's still something I can do, I-"

"Harry-"

"Do not touch me!" He shouted when he felt Julian's hand touch his shoulder. He stood up and took a few steps back, his hands were shaking and his eyes were scared "you- you killed her, you-"

"Son-"

"Don't call me son, I'm not your son and you're not my father!" He interrupted him again "you're- you're a monster, you-" he let out a sob, his breathing was heavy and his asthma wasn't helping at all "I trusted you, I thought-" he fell to the floor without air, one hand on the floor while the other on his chest, clutching his t-shirt "I thought I could trust you" he closed his eyes when he began to see everything around him turn black.