Abraham Lexington: The Devil In The Deck

Chapter 1: The Night That Changed It All

Wesley J. Thomas's: pov
2007 August 2006 26/Iraq/

Bullets darted past me, as me and my men disseminated like scattered showers, avoiding the sandstorm of bullets storming at us.

The noisome decomposing bodies filled the air around us, as the Iraqi desert sands whisked away towards us.

The vitriolic Iraqis spewed out of each of their mouths something in there own language, their own war litany or some sort. Who knows, all I knew was we were in way deep over our heads, but were to far in to pull out.

"Bikujin, Îslam"

"Ji hovan re"

"Get down!" I goaded vehemently, firing back at the incessant Iraqis, who poured in rapidly. "Pull back!"

"Aiqtalhum"

Bodies lasped left and right, some from the enemies side, some from ours. It was a unnerving sight to see, our fallen brothers courageously fleeting to there deaths. Me, losing hope in a victory that seemed so far fetched, not even god could retrieve it.

"Amdi!"

"Move move move!"

"Nar!"

"We should draw back, it's to many of them!" I shouted with cowing presentiment, as an ominous knot seized my gut, touting madness, "Sarge!"

"Hold your ground!"

Suddenly my eyes caught quick glimpse of my best friend taking a storm of bullets to his chest, slowly decending with each shot, before he gave way to the ground and howled in intense agony.

"I'm hit!"

"Shit!"

"I've been hit!"

"Hold your ground!"

"I've got you..." I cried with laceration, dragging him to safety behind a ruinous brick wall. then I lied him there and stayed myself beside him securely, "hey hey hey, I've got you mate!"

"M-m-mm-mmmy ch-ch-ches..." He desperately gasped to say, his eyes fluttering in languish, as he clinched desperately at his chest howling like a wounded wolf, "aaah! I-i-i-I c-ch-can-can't b-b-br-bre-breathe...ugrh!"

Tears swelled up my eyes, creeping from each side down my dirty cheeks, as my lips quivered and my heart ached .

"Ssshhh, don't...calm down, I'm here!" I cried cradling his quivering body in my arms, as he grew colder and colder each second that went passing by. "Stay with me mate! You hear me! You can't leave me now, remember our deal, remember!"

"Y-y-yes...i-i-i rrrr-rrr-rememb-brr-ber...u-uugh!" He wailed with twitching eyes and lips, grasping me tighter, to the intent of never letting go it seemed, "p-p-please...p-please k-kill mmm-me...arrrgh!"