Aleatory

Chapter 12 | Xavier

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FUCK. I fucked up. Shit.

I was sprawled in a heap on the floor, my ribs burning and my leg throbbing. The ringing alarms weren't making my situation any better either.

"Shit!" MS breathes out, helping me up.

I wince in pain but push myself off the ground. MS puts one hand around me to support me up and Brooke picks up my crutches.

"We can't get caught here. We're technically trespassing, even if my car is in their garage. Move. Quick. We need to leave now. They might call the cops." MS says nudging Brooke back into the woods we just came from. The car was on the highway barely a few meters away, on the other side of these woods. We just had to get to the car.

We stumble together back into the forest cover at a painfully slow pace. I can vaguely make out some men dressed in black heading towards us.

"MS look." Brooke says pointing a trembling hand towards the men.

"Oh shit. Xavier, can you move any faster?" MS asks turning to look at me.

"I'm sorry...I...I can't move faster than this." I say clutching my ribs.

MS nods and turns back to face Brooke placing her hands on her shoulders "Brooke go, run to the car. We... We'll catch up. But just in case we don't... then I want you to drive away and get help, okay? I'll help Xavier. Now go."

"No."

"Brooke, please. I won't be able to protect both of you if it comes down to it. Leave and get help if we don't turn up."

Brooke glances between us both and shakes her head adamantly in refusal. 

"Brooke go!" MS says again pulling me up. Brooke stands there frozen.

"Brooke there's no time! go go go!"  MS exclaims. Brooke finally nods her head in understanding and nervously looks around before running off back the way we came.

"Come on Xavier. Let's go." MS says as she frantically glances around.

"I-I I can't. I can't move further than this." I pant out in pain. I stare at her anxious face and shakily breathe in. I can't let her get caught because of me.

"Leave." I say as I push her away and stop. "Go before they catch you. You shouldn't end up in jail just because of me. Go!"

She stares at me for a while, her eyes hardening.

"Don't be an idiot. I'm not leaving you." She says as she puts her hand back around my waist and wraps mine around her shoulders.

"We've barely known each other for a day, and although you did run me over, it's not worth you going to jail because of me. I've already got a criminal record, so it doesn't matter to me. You need to leave. I won't tell on you guys, so don't worry about it." I say trying to push her away.

She stares at me for a few seconds and then smacks me right on the back of my head.

"Owww. What the fuck lady! I have a concussion you know." I sputter in shock

"First of all, you're barely concussed okay. Also, I don't really think we will end up in jail if they catch us." She says as we walk further into the trees trying to avoid being caught. I stare at her questioningly.

"I mean the fact that we're in the middle of nowhere and this place still has such tight security says a lot. Not to forget the mob of people looking for us right now. We're mostly going to end up dead or worse."

I freeze and my blood runs cold at the thought.

"Move, they're almost here." She says trying to pull me along faster but a sudden sharp pain shoots up my ribs making me double over.

"Fuck. I can't move." I pant clutching my sides.

MS pulls us behind a huge oak tree and pats my back. She glances around the tree and catches sight of the group of men looking for us.

They stand at the edge of the woods right where had been hiding when I had accidentally set off the alarms. The men split up and cautiously walk into the forest scanning their surroundings. I sigh in relief as I see them heading in a direction away from where we are hidden. I stick my head out a bit from behind the tree to get a better view when one of the men catches sight of me pointing us out to the rest of them.

"Shit." MS whispers yanking me back behind the tree as she pulls her phone out. I vaguely see her calling someone from the corner of my eye as I take in pained panicked breathes trembling in fear.

"Code Black. 6 targets identified. More expected. Locatio-"

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. A fucking cripple and a little bitch. Did you really think you would be able to hide from us, especially with that stupid red mess of a head?" This guy with heavily tattooed arms and a knife in his hands says as he pulls her phone out of her hand and flings it on a tree shattering it.

The other men with him laugh and I notice they are all armed.

"We're not looking for trouble. We just got lost and turned up here." MS says pushing me behind her.

"Oh really? Well then, I guess I must help you out. Why don't you come back to the estate? Rest for a while, find a map." He jeers condescendingly, while the others laugh again.

"Listen, let us go before you regret it." MS threatens changing tactics.

"What're you gonna do? Huh? Call your boyfriend?" he says clutching her chin and tracing it with his knife.

I move forward in anger to punch him straight across the fucking face, but MS pushes me back again and pulls out a gun from under the back of her jacket aiming it at the man in front of us.

"Well, I guess you're going to find out." She says as she shoots right through his kneecap. He releases a bloodcurdling scream and falls to the ground writhing in pain.

My ears ring with the sound of the gunshot and my eyes are locked with the man screaming in pain. There's thick red blood oozing through his fingers and I'm frozen in place, horrified and dazed.

"Xavier get the hell out of here!" MS shouts grabbing my attention again.

She shoots another one of the men in his shoulder and sends a roundhouse kick straight into another's jaw. Using the back of her revolver she pounds the head of the guy swinging his knife at her, making him crumple into a heap on the ground. She lifts her foot up to kick someone else but he catches her leg before she can.

He spits out some blood and pulls out his knife swinging it close to her face. A thin trickle of blood drips from the cut on her face shaking me into action and I limp over and smack him right in the balls using my crutch. He lets go of her leg screaming and drops his knife which I kick away.

"What the hell! How are you doing this?" I pant pulling MS up. "Forget about that we need to run." MS says pulling me along shooting at the men. We see some other men running towards us and quicken our pace. I'm limping along with MS when I vaguely hear a gunshot. MS gasps and puts her hand on her side only to pull it back covered in blood.

"FUCK!!! Holy fuck, are you okay? You've just been shot. Oh my god, what do I do?" I say pressing down on her wound trying to stop it from bleeding. "I'm fine. Keep moving. " She gasps in pain. "We need to get out of here."

"Neither of you are leaving here." A menacing voice says and I turn around only to get hit straight across the head with a baseball bat. My head swims and I fall to the ground dizzy.

My vision blurs and I pass out for the second time within the last 24 hours.