Hope is Dead

Chapter seventy two

''Let's just put the gun's down and talk about this.'' Luke said trying to be reasonable ''Not until Brock put's his gun down.'' Marcel walked over to Brock lowering the gun so it wasn't pointing to Jon then Evan lowered his ''Do you see what this is doing to us?'' Lui asked getting their attention ''We're ready to fire at each other.'' they looked at each other but Brock stared at him ''Why were you and Luke behind them?'' Brock asked, Brock then looked down looking at Lui's stomach ''Are you bleeding?'' Jon and Evan looked over at him ''Oh my god.'' Marcel helped him stand some more ''Just a bullet wound.'' Luke looked back at the dirt road ''We need to start going.'' they looked back and they started walking around the cars heading down the road towards the gas station.

''Marcel slow down.'' Lui complained making Marcel stop, Luke turned going back and picked Lui up again carrying him down the road ''How far did he saw it was?'' Jon asked while Brock and Evan walked behind them, Evan was trying to tell him everything from here on out would be fine ''Five mile's out?'' Luke said trying to remember seeing a sign for it right after he spoke seeing it was right, they kept walking getting further from the small camp seeing another sign for it. Luke smiled ''Almost there guy's.'' he said looking at Lui who was trying his best to stay awake looking very pale ''Almost there.'' Lui nodded looking at the road.

They finally made it getting Lui inside fast laying him down, Luke pulled Lui's shirt up while the other's looked around ''It's becoming infected.'' he said and looked around seeing a knife, he grabbed it and grabbed a water bottle washing the knife before cutting into the wound, Lui grabbed his arm screaming. Jon ran over sitting with him making sure Lui didn't move. Marcel went behind the front desk looking around finding a couple pack's of smokes and a lighter that still had fluid in it, he sighed and put a pack in his pocket along with the lighter and stood up ''Find anything?'' Evan asked looking at the candy bar's on the other side of the counter ''No.'' Marcel lied and left the counters walking to Brock.

Lui grabbed Luke's arm after Jon got up ''Stop.'' Luke looked at him confused ''What?'' he asked putting pressure on it ''Stop.'' Luke then herd the begging in his voice ''Let me be with him.'' Luke looked over noticing the other's were pre occupied, he looked back to Lui ''Let me be with David.'' Lui pleaded, Luke looked down fixing his seating ''Lui don't make me the one to do this.'' he mumbled and looked at him seeing Lui put his head back with a tear leaving his eye as he shut them. Luke looked down before letting go of Lui's side, Lui grabbed his arm again ''Don't let me turn.'' he whispered, Luke looked away pulling his gun out.

He then gave it to Lui ''Let the other's say goodbye.'' Lui chuckled a little ''They know I care about them.'' Evan stood up hearing him ''They know why I want to go.'' the other's looked over walking over to look at them as Lui raised the gun to under his chin, Lui opened his eye's seeing his friends around him ''I'm sorry.'' Brock nodded ''It's ok.'' Brock said grabbing his hand ''We understand.'' Marcel covered his mouth turning around, Luke got up and walked to him hugging him, Evan hung his head shutting his eye's while Jon stared at him, Brock then got up and turned away going to the back of the store, Lui shut his eye's breathing out before pulling the trigger.

Everyone started crying for obvious reasons, Marcel hugged Luke tighter while Jon turned leaving Evan's side going into a back room, Evan ran after him only to stop seeing Brock in a corner crying, he didn't know who to go to. Luke saw Evan didn't know who to go to and pulled Marcel towards Brock letting Evan go to Jonathan. Marcel pulled away and looked at him ''I need to be alone.''he said and walked out of the gas station going away from the window's pulling the smokes out and took one out lighting it with shaking hands, he breathed in putting the smokes away and pulled the cigarette out of his mouth blowing the smoke out and hung his head feeling stress and sadness fade away into the evening.

The tears came back as he continued to smoke, Luke comforted Brock hugging him, rubbing his back ''I don't want to stay here.'' Luke pulled away and looked at him ''I can't.'' Luke nodded ''Right, we'll keep walking.'' he said and went to the door knocking getting them out of the back room, Marcel peeked inside seeing them all walking to the door so he blew the smoke away and crushed the cigarette into the pavement and leaned on the wall, Luke walked over smelling the smoke but just figured it was in the air.