Winning The War; BOS 4

Declaration Of War

"Guys they're alive!" Ashley calls as she comes racing down the hall and barrels into Maddison, crushing her in a hug. Antonios hand flicks out and keeps her upright. Shannon, Delance and Crystal race around the corner and leap at Maddison to hug her as well.
Antonio attempts to keep Maddison upright but both end up falling, Maddison landong ontop of him. The girls climb off laughing except there was no sign of a smile on Maddisons face. She swiftly straddles Antonios stomach and checks for a pulse on his neck to find it getting weaker.
"No. I've lost too many Antonio. I can't lose you too." She says frantically.
The girls stop giggling and look between Antonios still body and Maddisons frantic one. The boys come running around but stop quickly at the sight. "Please. Stay awake Antonio. You said you'd do anything for me. I need you to stay alive. I can't lose you." Maddison swiftly unbuttons his shirt to reveal the bruise on his chest was darker and more ugly looking.
"Please. Don't make me slap you." She sobs.
Still Antonio doesn't move or make a sound. Maddison shakes her head and stands up. She looks down at him, tears flowing from her eyes. She can't stand to watch him breath his finial breath and turns to walk away. "I thought you were gonna slap me."
Maddison spins around at the sound of a croaky, pained voice to see Antonio looking at her. "If your chest wasn't black and you weren't so close to death I would slap you. If you ever leave me Masters I promise you that I will never live with myself. Even if it wasn't my fault. I will do anything to wipe myself from Earth. Because without you there is nothing worth living for. Your what keeps me alive. Without you I would have died when I was 19. Then when I was 20, then 21 and so on. I would have died every year after I turned 19. That's how much of an impact on my life you make. A normal week I could be targeted and almost killed around 30 times. But I'm not because your always around. If you leave I'm as good as dead and I know you never want me to die." Maddison hissed, tears in her eyes.
She turns on her heel and runs off down the hall. Antonio laughs dryly as he painfully sits up. "How she does that I'll never know." He shakes his head and leans against the wall.
"Can someone get me a big bag of ice or something please?" He grumbles and Kyle hurries off.
"What the hell happened after you two left the academy?" Ash asks.
"Well Maddison stopped the car we were in. I lurched forwards and smashed my chest into the front. Then her army of hitmen and woman came and helped us. We were taken to her multi-billion dollar hitman bunker where we controlled helicopter drones and shot down the bad guys all over the city. Her dad came out of my company building with her boyfriend on a chain. Before he could kill her boyfriend I put 50 or so bullets into him so now her dad is really dead. Then the people realise tat we are all alive and started fighting back. Then we came here. There are some other little details that happened but you don't need to know about them." Antonio explains.
A bullet flies past his face and a man jerks and falls dead to the ground outside.
"We should close and lock the doors for now. There are a few strays who want us dead." Maddison spat and dropped the gun she was holding to the ground before taking the ice from Kyle. She takes off her thin jumper and wraps the ice in it before walking over and pressing it to Antonios chest.
Crystal quickly closes the door. "Why didn't you tell them about the explosion?" Maddison asks as she kneels beside him.
"Well they already knew about that remember." He replies.
"No please. Explain that to us." Dylan says with narrowed eyes.
A flash back of the missile coming in slow motion flashed through Maddisons mind. Then close ups of the men her father were with. She jerks away from Antonio, dropping the ice to the floor. "This is bad. Antonio you need to heal quickly. If my mind is yelling me the truth then we're about to go to war. Not another battle. A war." She babbles quickly and tries to hold the ice to Antonios chest again but her hands were shaking too much.
Antonio puts his hand over hers. "Talk slowly. What do you mean? A war between who?" He asks calmly.
"Don't sound so calm. This isn't something you can be calm about." Maddison snapped. Her voice betraying her fear.
"If you'll explain I'll understand." Antonio says and Maddison took a deep breath.
"The missile that blew up our car wasn't American. The people who were with my dad came from that same country and had their counties flag on their jackets." She says and everyone looks at her in confusion except for Antonio. He just looks at her sadly.
"Three equal horizontal lines. White on top, blue in the middle, red on the bottom." She whispered and Antonio breaths in sharply.
"Please tell me I heard that description wrong." Delance pleads but Maddison shakes her head.
"The missile was Russian. The men my dad was with were all Russian. If so then the others were too. Russia is trying to start a war with the United States." Maddison sniffs. Antonio pulls her into a hug.
"If the United States accept the declaration then war will begin. We're retired from the army and navy so we don't have to go. But..." Crystal looks at Antonio.
Maddison sobs into his shoulder. "I don't want you to go. I'll lose you. This war is suicide." She sniffs.
Antonio strokes her hair.
Everyone's phones beep and they turn them on. Each show a live video of the Russian President. He says. "Мы объявляем войну Соединенным Штатам. Если вы не примете нашу декларацию, тогда нам просто нужно уничтожить всех вас."
Delances jaw clenches.
"Care to translate?" Kyle asks her but she doesn't reply. Maddison does.
"I learnt Russian after I went deep cover when I was 18. He said 'We are declaring war on the United States. If you do not accept our declaration then we will just have to destroy you all.' There's no choice. The United States has to accept which means Antonio has to go to war."