In the Deafening Silence [ BELLDOM AU ] [ COMPLETED ]

We're Animals

Dropping my gun instantly, I jog over to Matthew and find that he's unconscious, his chest moving slightly up and down. I place my hand inside of his, feeling his cold touch calming my racing heartbeat and chilling my warm skin. Morgan comes up behind me and tells me to open the panel over his heart, the same one I opened when we awoke Matt for the first time.

"What will it do?" I questioned once I saw the black chip that I implanted a couple of days ago sticking up. Morgan tells me it will shutdown and restart all the drones with the same system as Matthew's, but he tells me he might not wake up after the reboot. Looking to the man laying on the table, I study his resting facial features. His sunken eyes, his crooked nose, his thin lips, everything about him is lovely to look at. "How do we know this will work? What if this chip is a fluke and we're all dead?"

I can hear my family mentally scolding me for even asking those questions, I know that the blonde wife of Chris is also complaining to me that I have no trust in others. Truth be told, I never did before, but I feel like now isn't the best time to change my ways. I look behind me to Chris and Tom who hobble into the room and stand waiting for my first move of the resistance. Morgan places a hand on my shoulder in reassurance and nods his head in understanding.

"It's for the greater good," I whisper to myself as I slide the micro chip back into place and watch the computer beside Matt's now still body read a new sentence. Override in Process. Taking Matthew's hand in mine, I rub my thumb over the back of his knuckles and stare at his face. "Please don't leave me, Matt. Wake up... for me."

"We should get going," Morgan states, motioning for Chris and Tom to come over to where we stand. He whispers something in the wounded brunette's ear as Tom looks to Matthew on the table, feeling remorse for me as he slides an arm around my shoulders in a hug. "Chris will stay with Matthew to make sure nothing happens with him while we're away. Tom, you, and I will leave to look for the psycho, hoping that he hasn't fled yet."

I nod my head as I glance up from the cold hand intertwined with mine to look at all the faces around me. There are people who are stricken with fear, others who are building with excitement, and some that are ready to give up but, I know, that without them we couldn't have gotten here, we couldn't have started a revolution, or taken down the one person who's destroyed us all.

"Let's go." Picking up my fallen gun, I follow Tom to the doorway where Morgan stands with half of the people he rescued from the prisons while the other half stayed in the room. Looking back to Chris and Matt, I can't help but to feel like this will be the last time I see the both of them again. I can't lose the brunette father again after nearly watching him die, and I definitely can't lose Matthew. He's done so much for me that I haven't noticed before. "Hold on a minute."

I run back to the two of them and tightly hug Chris before leaning down to push my lips on to Matt's own cold ones, feeling something igniting in me as I do so. Pulling back, I brush his hair out of his face and wait for his eyes to open, hoping that he could fight with us in his physical form and not by electronic means but his eyes don't even flutter at my touch.

Leaving his bedside, I go back to Thomas and Morgan who walk out of the room with everyone else following. I keep my gun gripped tightly in my hands as the group behind us saunters down the hallway with great pace until we enter through a doorway that was left open when the resistance first came through. The room we were in was built like a hangar but planes nor automobiles were stored in here.

"These people are sick," I hear Tom say beside me as the lights high above us flicker on and I see the metallic glare of metal out of the corner of my eye, catching sight of rows upon rows of drones as I turn to look at the them. "I-I can't believe they did this... to innocent people. This psycho is definitely a psycho."

"I'd watch what you say," Morgan says as he points to cameras above the doorway he entered from and mentions that even though the drones are not on now doesn't mean that they can still hear us talking. "Let's just keep moving. We will have to cross the training yard to get to the main building from here."

Once again, we take off and exit the hangar with stride as we meet the cold and bitter wind of the inner city and see the tall government building that we've been waiting to take down since the beginning. There's a feeling in the pit of my stomach that tells me to stop and turn around but I've made this far and I know I can't turn back now.