A Stranger Love

Part 3

I got up and put on my uniform. Put my hat on and headed out the door. I walked to the facility and was faced with something traumatizing. "What happened here?" "One of the prisoners went hostile and took a few guards out" I looked at the amounts of guards being taken out in beds to the medical center and some to the morgue. "The guilty has been detained and is being executed today" I gasped a little, I couldn't help but think. I ran to the prison cell blocks and looked up and down for any sign of him. "What's got you in a rush?" I sighed in relief, "Their executing a prisoner today" "you didn't seem the type to be hyped up about a killing" I looked at him in disbelief then shook my head. "Oh no, that's not what I meant" he looked at me and smirked. I couldn't help but feel a little light headed and nauseous. He got to me sometimes, he could be planning anything. To my surprise my face was red also. "Just checking up on me?" I looked at the bars for a second to remind myself that this was a prisoner. At times it comes by that we are friends. "Yea, being your personal guard and all" he looked at me with a questionable face. "The commander assigned me to be your guard, how dangerous you are and all" okay, that was a lie. I hope he didn't see through it. The commander did no such thing, people sometimes joke about me being his personal guard or personal trainer, their since of humor. "I thought they would've picked someone more-" he looked at me up and down, "capable?" he said in a questioning tone. "I'm very capable, just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't do the job" he looked at me and laughed, sinister, but a laugh none the less. "Humans are weak, their not the dominant species. They know that and try to keep us under control" I crossed my arms and glare at him, "Humph" "Look, you know how you tasered me when I first got here?" "How could I forget" my face flushed a light pink. He just smirked, "It didn't faze me until that imbecile put 'this' on me" he pulled at the collar on his neck. "Yea, you anamorphic animals have powers" "Not all of us, but yea. I am not like other anamorphics" I looked at him. "You look different?" I'd never seen any other anamorphic look like him before. "No, I'm much more powerful and not as wounded by such things" he waves his hand at me. I was assuming he was talking about my taser. "Oh, so your saying without that collar your practically invulnerable?" "Precisely" he was just laying on the cell bed with his hands behind his head. "What did you come here for?" I snapped my attention back to him, "Um, to check on you" I turned away and crossed my arms to keep my face from flushing. It did anyway. "You know I'm not too far away from the same thing myself" I turned around and looked at him in his such nonchalant position on the cell bed. "What do you mean" "The execution" I pondered in thought for a minute till it hit me, "T-their gonna execute y-you?" he nodded his head up and down slowly. "No" I shook my head and hands. "I heard the commander say it himself, you wouldn't question his orders, would you?" I could feel myself losing it. No, he can't do this to him, to me. I don't know why, but I couldn't live with myself if he died. I think I l- no that can't be. "Maria" I shot my head up and looked at the person who said my name. He was standing at the bars with his hands around two. "Y-you-" "I heard the guards say that name a couple of times while talking about things, I just wanted to know if that was you" "Yea, that's me" their going to kill him, I can't let that happen. I looked at him with determination in my eyes. "Your gonna live, don't worry I'll make sure of it" I gave him a miniature salute and ran off. "Maria you can't-!" I heard him yell, but I didn't bother to listen. I made my way to the commander's office and burst through the door. "You can't do this" he put down the papers he had in his hands and raised an eyebrow. "You can't execute Sh- prisoner 52" we numbered the prisoners, it's how we kept track of everything. He shuffled some papers on his desk and picked up a file and opened it. "Murder, vandalism, treason and threatening to destroy the world" "that was him?" I whispered to myself. "That's what you want to save, I'm surprised he hasn't been executed yet" "I won't have it" "Maria-" "commander" I stared at him with stern and pleading eyes. "I don't know what you think your doing, but the next time he steps out of line-" "Thank you! thank you! thank you!" I hugged him over the desk. Then released him and straightened my uniform out. I cleared my throat, "You won't be disappointed sir!" I quickly saluted him and ran off, before I left I could've sworn I heard him say something. "I doubt it" I ran to the prison cell where he was, he wasn't there. Where could he be, why wasn't he there, he should've been there... "Looking for someone?" I turned around and saw officer Zilver and Zcourge. They were holding a limp and beat up Shadow. "What are you doing?" I never liked these officers, they were always bad news. They hated anamorphic animals, I didn't like them at all. "We were just teaching this scumbag a lesson" "A lesson in how to be a terrible person?" I shot back at them. "He already was before we came along", they threw him in the prison cell. "Stay away from my prisoner" "Who says you have the right to tell us to let him off?" "I do" the commander walked up behind me. "Oh, um, yes sir" he saluted him and they walked away, they gave me a dirty look. "Um, sir-" I turned around and he just smiled at me and walked away. "M-maria" I walked into the cell where he was laying on the floor, "Yea, that's me"