Mute

Chapter 16: Bombs Away

I got up from the corner and walked to her. "Go away. I'm not eating."

"Shit I thought you can mind read. Did you take off his finger?"

Her face lit up. "You- ." She reached her hand through some hole. I held her hand and smiled. I  guess she really did ripped his finger off. Her other hand was stained with blood and there was a severed finger on the floor by her toes.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came to save you what else does it look like?" I called Jeanine. "Hey did you get her out yet?"

"Did YOU get out yet? I'm about to initiate lockdown. Don't forget Ava's grandparents." I heard her bark orders then hang up. I elbowed the lock and held my elbow in pain. She pointed to a gun on the floor. I picked up and aimed it at the lock. It busted open and the place started to grow loud.

Ava wiped the blood from her hands and continued to kiss me multiple times on my cheek. She pulled me in for a long one on my lips. She started feel me up from my hips until her hands hit my head. "That spandex doesn't seem to fit. I could help you out of it when we get home."

"Ava!" I hissed. She laughed. She had a different tone to her. More like a drunk girl. Ava is more like a sober girl with a tiny temper. I pushed the one off of me.

"Are you ok?" She asked smiling. I heard other gun shot and Ava fell. Then the face began to change and I covered my mouth and looked where it orginiated.. Another Ava stood there with messed up clothes. She had marks all over her. She looked at me with a tears in her eyes.

"You shouldn't be here....."

I grabbed her shoulder and glared at her. She had bad bruises under her eyes. Her cheek had a cut. "What happened to you?"

"My dad let Lane kick my ass." She chuckled nervously. She put the gun into her pants and held my hand She averted her eyes. "Lane made a clone of me to trick the people passing by. Because the real fucked up shit happens in the back. But none of that matters. You have the bombs right? They go off 30 minutes after they planted."

"Fuck did you want me to bring them?"

She retreated her hands and folded them. Even when angry she was fucking cute. I forget every day that I am apart of this dream. Her lips twisted and she huffed.. She was still in pajamas but I can see where Lane ripped her shirt. "How can you fucking forget? I can't just teleport, its been a few days, the cops would have probably confisca-"

"Relax I already planted a few. Now how do you put this place on lock down?"

"Force open the door. It will cause the place to lock down trapping everyone inside."

"So then we have 15 more minutes." I said placing one in the wall behind us. She wrapped her arms around my neck.

"The clone was right. You do look good in spandex" She leaned in to kiss me. This one felt more at home. As in a 'I missed you' kiss. Of course I missed her. I dont know what I'd do with out her. She looked at me and held my face. She began to cry again. "I just can't believe you are here."

"I will always be here for you. Now and forever." I kissed her forehead. "Now let's get this over with." We teleported around and dropped bombs as we went. Lower and lower we went. Suprisingly haven't seen Lane or her father. We already heard the first bombs going off upstairs

She laughed but not loudly. The cuts on her lips started to bleed down her neck. She felt it. I wiped it off her lip. "Ava I'm so sorry I-"

"Hey. Remember what I said what would happen if I saw you again?" A gun shot came from around the corner and hit Ava in the arm.

Her face crumpled and she grabbed me with her good arm. She teleported away to the bottom level. "The bottom level is the most important!  It's where the labs and information are. It has to be blown to bits."

We teleported and dropped the bombs. It seems like we did the job. We both were determined to see this through. The explosions rang out from upstairs. She looked at me and smiled. She held my hand tightly.

She looked ready to teleport but then another shot erupted. Milliseconds, in milliseconds it happened. He couldn't have known where we were. We stopped.

She stopped.... She fell. Her eyes, what used to be a window were now dark and full of dispear. Everything suddenly became a blur. My body started shaking and my head started hurting. The ringing of my ears grew loud. My face covered in what ever escaped the back of her head. My tears felt like needles coming out as I held my hair and fell to my knees. Slow motion kicked in as she hit the ground. Her blood started pouring out of her head. She was breathing slowly. Slower.... Slower. It stopped.

She was gone. Her body laid in her own increasing crimson pool. I pulled her onto my lap. "I'm a good shot. Maybe I should help the marines or some shit like that." I heard Lane laughing slowly towards us. I was speechless.

The blood. There was so much. Her brain was splattered on the floor. My eyes suddenly cleared. Ava had a shot at the back of her head. Her hair dipping into the forever flowing blood. I flipped her and her eyes unfocused and her mouth open. "Ava no... Don't... No....You can't....... Ava please....... I- I need you....." I cried. More bombs rang. I looked to my side. There was still a way to get out. The stair well to the escape pod. But I have to leave Ava here.... I couldn't move. I felt heavy. My body refused to leave her. I tried to get up but I was too weak.

I looked down at Ava and moved the hair from her face. Jean was right about her life. But I can't.... I can't spend it with her. She was mine. I loved her and now shes.... I held her close to my chest and sobbed.

"Turns out Ava was going to live a normal life. But seeing as she wanted to spend that life with you, I had to cut it short. Tragic, I suppose. A waste of talents and beauty." Lane's sighed through the hall. The reloading of the gun echoed closer to me.

I took a few deep breaths. "You are just a selfish prick."

"A selfish prick who won..."He put the gun to the back of my head and readied it. "At the end of the day isn't that all that matters?"

Yesterday we were perfect. Everything was perfect. She was perfect. She has always been perfect. Why haven't I seen that till this year.....

No I have. I never grew the balls to tell her till this year and it wasn't to her face until she asked me about it. I looked down at her and gave her a tight squeeze. I looked back at her face and her limp body.

"You two can live your Romeo and Juliet life in Heaven I don't really give a shit. You are a failure TJ. Ava died because you failed. Have fun living in paradise. Any last insults before I blow your brains out?"

I kissed Ava's cheek and quickly turned around and reached fo-

Bang.