Secret Silver | hiatus

24. allies

03.19.2018

... Zara, I don't know how much of this you'll actually read. Even though you're the strongest person I've ever met, even stronger than me, I know there's a side of you that's afraid of your own feelings. And you might be afraid that reading my final words would, in a way, destroy you.

So if you've read this far, I'm proud of you. I don't know how much time I've got left, but did you know I turned down a promotion two years ago? As the leader of not only Jupiter, but the entire Northeastern district. It was a job that anyone would kill for. But it meant having to travel. Twice the amount of undercover operations. It meant being away from you.

And there's only so much time away from you that I can endure.

I hope that the information I've given you will help you in the future. Hell, I hope you'll never even have to read this journal, because if you don't, then that means that my heart is still beating. But I need you to be wary.

The people closest to you can sometimes betray you. It's happening to me now. Sometimes, the people you'd give your life for will hurt you in such a way that it breaks something within you. So be careful, sweetheart.

Just be careful.

-

Doors.

The amount of doors that were in the building was ridiculous, some grand and some small. With each turn we took, it felt as if we were trying to get out of an eternal maze, but when Oliver spotted a sign that, in German, read "Sky Room", we knew that we had somehow, after constantly taking out guards and watching Silas trip over his own feet several times in an attempt to be as quick as us,ended up exactly where we needed to be.

I removed a gun from my belt and tossed it to Silas, who caught it effortlessly. Oliver remained beside me and loaded his own as the three of us faced the grand wooden door, its contents taunting us, daring us to enter, trying to instill fear within us.

But we were not fearful. We were out for revenge.

"Zara," Oliver huffed, taking off the jacket of his guard uniform and throwing it aside as he stared at his phone, "Lucy and Lucas have eyes on the Sky Room. They got into a security room, so they can see the cameras, and they've disabled everything they can with the software Silas gave them."

His eyes seemed lighter than usual underneath fluorescent lights as they darted knowingly around the hall.

"But they can't get down here without being seen."

"Where are the Arc agents?" I asked. We'd lost communication with them almost immediately after killing Schneider, so all three of us had been especially on edge. Lucas and Lucy were most likely not communicating by earpiece because they had to stay quiet, so it was smart of Oliver to bring alone a second communication device.

"No clue," he said, and I could see the ribbons of concern in his eyes. Something I'd never seen before. "So it's just the three of us."

I removed Leon's ID swipe card from my bag, holding the plastic in front of me, the feeling of it against my palm making shivers rack through my body.

There was some static in my earpiece before I heard Lucy's voice echo through my ear.

"This is fifty-five. We've got two guards armed at the door. There are only two people in the room. One I think we can identify as Harris, the other is a woman. I think--"

Some more static. A gunshot. Silas's gun dropping to the ground. He'd heard it, too.

"Fifty-five?"