In or Out: Loyalties

Part 5

Trixie's POV

I did know about that story, even though I hadn't joined in then I was told about it many times. Her father was more important to the Chosen than anyone else, apart from us, knew. I felt deceitful lying and pretended to think about my son. I didn't really though, it was too painful. Remembering hurts, that’s why I try to never do it. Except this, her father.

After a century of planning in secret meetings throughout the country the Chosen were ready to start. Yet he who had started it was in a tricky situation, he had a wife and child who were both clever enough to stop him, well that's what he thought anyway. Nothing but the death of himself will stop the control, he was so confident, so smug that he issued himself as keeper of it all which is why it will only go down when he is dead. Anyway that is why he started up a double life, one moment he was a loving family man the next, well, he was plotting to take over the world. Which he had done so successfully.

When the right time came he faked his own death, had his wife kidnapped by his employees and then left his beloved daughter as an ‘orphan’ not caring what happened to her even when he himself was planning on killing each and every orphan. This to him was a foolproof plan and we all agreed until today, when I was so nearly executed by him and then met his daughter. That’s right Kitty’s dad, her very own father, her own blood destroyed the world to make it all ‘perfect’.

She’s hunting down the man that she wants revenge for. It’s so confusing; my head can’t cope with this all. She even looks like him; she has the same eyes, the same colour hair and the same determination.

I won’t tell them though, why should I? She was planning on letting me blow up! Oh no, I am so confused, twice today I’ve been on the brink of death, this morning I was as close to supporting this than I ever would be and now I’m hanging with the Rebels, one of which wouldn't care if I was dead or not. 

At least I have Amy. But then again I don't really think she's reliable even if she seems nice, she's a fighter, a rebel first and then a friend to random traitors she meets who own really high heels.

Kitty's POV

Click. And with that all chances of hope and possibility vanishes and instead a feeling of grief and dissapointment floods me. Can anyone else understand let alone describe my emotions? I was, like the other Rebels, this close to having everything back, my home and my life even if I didn't have my parents, I could have done them justice. The closest we've been in the long ten years of training for this moment. Right beyond the door he stood, it would have all been over and now click, he's gone.

He must have been alerted by someone, but who? Only the highest members of the Rebels were told of this, that must only have been twenty people carrying this one secret and so then what? One of us spilled the beans? A traitor in the small and exclusive group of people, who each vowed to secrecy or face death?

Apparently so.

We keep walking and just as Amy starts to comment how lucky no commotion has happened so far, an alarm begins to ring.

A high pitched shrill repeatedly rings in our ears, lasers burst out in a shocking red whilst they search the floors around us in the dimmed then darkened corridor and then the lights all go out leaving us in the claustraphobic darkness.

'Amy, if we're still alive after this, I'm going to kill you!' I cried as I tried to feel my way forwards, I couldn't even see my hands stretched out in front of me and I was starting to panic.

'How could I bloody jinx us by simply saying-'

'Shut UP!' I called.

And then the lights turned on, a group of men with hard helmets and automatic weapons were facing us and then they fired.