Unbreakable Hearts

Part Two: Nothing But Darkness

Meghan was awoken by the sudden commotion, seeing Josh holding his knife and clenching the opposite fist at first she was rather confused but that's when she noticed the other men in the room with them. "Oh God.." Was the only thing she could choke out as her eyes darted from Josh to the other men in the room. Fear had suddenly drained over her whole body, her hands were shaking and her eyes were rapidly blinking, this was like a shaken bottle of pop being slowly dropped, sooner or later it was going to hit the ground and explode, affecting everyone in close proximity of it.

Meghan scrambled up to her feet, standing behind Josh who was still at the ready, willing to die in order to keep Meghan alive another day. "Get outta here.." Josh mumbled in a fearful and shaky tone of voice. Meghan knew he was scared as well but she believed in him, he was one of the bravest guys she knew.

The bandits started approaching them slowly, each of them with sadistic and perverted smirks on their faces. "Meghan, run!" Josh yelled before running at the two nearest guys, taking them down to the ground. Almost immediately three others were on on him, viciously punching him in the back of the head and within seconds the tide was turned and the bandits were on him, beating him down even worse than he thought. Meghan jumped on one of the men's backs before stabbing his back, repeatedly. Within moments the man was bleeding out all over the floor, that's when a group of other men came inside. They took Meghan down and began punching her in the head as hard as they could. "Let's make this bitch pay, hold her down!" The leader shouted pulling out a pocket knife. The other bandits began holding her down, pushing her head into the ground and kicking her hard; making sure she would in fact stay down.
"You leave her be!" Josh screamed, almost cried out, as he desperately fought against the three men who were holding him down, keeping him from helping her. Josh elbowed one of them in the crotch causing him to lower his head in pain and that's when Josh struck, digging his fingers into the man's neck, desperately trying to buy some time. "Oh now what the fuck?" The leader said and motioned more men to start attacking Josh, and in seconds he was being viciously beaten again. He tried his best to fight back but it all happened to fast. He punched one of them away from him and turned to face another but that's when he felt a knife sink deep into his stomach, then again, then again; this happened two more times before he was thrown outside into the cold rain.

Meghan desperately fought to get the men away from her but they were to strong and, from what she had just seen them do to her brother traumatized her completely and she couldn't stop screaming, knowing he was probably dead outside. One of them had pulled her pants down and began abusing her most private area while the others ripped her shirt and disgustingly abused her chest. She fought as hard as she could but it ended as soon as she felt a knife slash across her face, then immediately following the a heavy object was slammed repeatedly against her head until all she could see was nothing but darkness. The sounds of the men abusing her, the terrible feeling they gave her and the taste of blood in her mouth had all intensified. She found herself asking, what had they done to her? They continued to ravage and attack her in the most sick ways the could think of, and she tried to fight but eventually saw no point to it. It was practically already all over for her until she heard a gunshot, then multiple gunshots. The sounds of the men yelling and their feet scrambling all over the house was all she could hear, more gunshots until a fist landed against someone. That's when she heard the familiar voice yelling out in anger as fists kept landing upon something, it was Josh beating someone to death.

It took every bit of strength he had to try and will himself up, he'd lost a lot of blood but he figured if he was going to die, then he was going to die for her. He used every ounce of strength in him to walk to the door, when he got in and saw what they were doing to ner every single bit of weakness he had turned to anger and sadness all at once. Quickly he grabbed his backpack, pulling the pistol from it and firing at each of the men, killing the ones that were specifically holding her down first. He then turned his attention to the others who were running at him, one by one they fell to the ground and now it was just him and the leader left standing. Josh dropped his pistol and ran at the man, tackling him down the ground before viciously beginning to punch him as hard as he could, breaking his hand over the man's face even but nothing would stop him from ending this man's life. In fact Josh kept throwing punches into the man's face, long after the man had gone motionless and lifeless.

"J-Josh?" Meghan whimpered looking around, desperately trying to see but there was nothing there, nothing at all but darkness. Josh immediately stopped what he was doing and hurried over to her side before lifting her head from the ground, looking at the place where her piercing blue eyes used to be, now it was only blood, bits of her broken eye socket and her slashed up eyes, that had no color whatsoever. Josh felt his whole body shake as he looked at her. Immediately he wrapped his arms her and the held onto each other, crying. "It'll be okay. It'll be okay..." Josh said in between cries as he rubbed her back, but he didn't even know if he believed his own words.