Leaping into freedom • Ash Lynx [Edited]

4.|| I couldn't save you

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Edited - November 30th, 2022
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||Third-POV||
Eiji was pushed back by Arthur as he held Y/n in his arms. "What did Ash tell you?" Arthur asked.

"Nothing," Eiji said, glaring up at him, "I can't kill you since you're a precious gift for Dino," Arthur said and nodded to another guy that held a knife at the woman's throat, doc yelled at them to leave her alone.

"Talk, or she dies," Arthur said

"He said to retrieve what he and Y/n left here," Eiji said and the man named, Abraham Dawson started to babble about something, the doc said that what they were searching for was on his desk. "Kill her," Arthur ordered.

"But I talked!" Eiji yelled and Arthur looked at him, "You, I'll take. Ash will suffer watching Dino have fun with you. And better, he's going to suffer watching me and this little butterfly here having a little fun" he said and looked at Y/n that was now sitting on the floor beside the doc while she was waking up.

"I'm going to crush everything important to him. Skip died. These people will, too. You, you'll be drugged by the old fag and sucked to the bone. And the city there... will be mine" Arthur continued and grabbed Eiji by the hair.

Y/n opened her eyes and saw what Arthur was doing to Eiji "Don't touch him!" She yelled and all attention turned to her, Arthur's eyes got widen when he felt a gun at his head.

"Your big mouth was too loud, you didn't hear your watchmen go down... Drop 'em. Or I'll bust his brains out" Shorter said and the guys dropped their guns, except for one, Abraham.

Everything was quiet until someone opened the curtains and there stood F/n and Griff, Y/n felt tears in her eyes when she saw her father walking out. Abraham started to scream in horror.

F/n and Griff mumbled something and started to walk toward him but Abraham shot them both.

"No!" Y/n yelled and the guys run away, Shorter cut the rope around Y/n's wrist and she runs up to F/n and cried more as she tried to stop the bleeding together with Mr. Meredith.

"How are they? Shorter asked.

"We doing what we can, they finally came around and remembered something. Don't die now Griff, F/n, for Ash and Y/n" Mr. Meredith said while glancing at the crying Y/n.

"Why for them?" Shorter asked Y/n looked at him with red and puffy eyes.

"Griff is Ash's brother and F/n is my dad!" She said, still crying, as she looked back at her dad. "Please, dad! Don't leave me! Not you, too"

||Time skip||

||Y/n's POV||
We stood outside the doc's office, Shorter hugged me as I hid my face in his chest, "It's going to be okay Y/n" I hugged him tighter. Eiji and Shorter talked for a while but I didn't listen, my thoughts were just on my dad and Griffin.

||Time skip||

I was standing by Shorter when Eiji and Ibe walked in.

"Who are they?" Ibe asked and I sniffled

"My dad and that's Ash's older brother," I said, pointing at them as Shorter held my waist for comfort. "One of Arthur's men shot them. But we can't take them to a hospital or the syndicate will find them" Eiji said.

"Syndicate?" Ibe asked and the doc started to tell him about a drug.

I didn't want to hear it again so I just sat beside my dad and held his hand.
"Please Dad, please wake up. I know you're in pain but please, don't leave yet, I love you"

||Time skip||

I held dad's hand as I cried silently "Doc?" I asked, through my tears.

"12:32, I'm sorry," he said and I started to cry even more than before, "No" I whispered and run out of the room. I heard the Shorter call for me but I kept running, and tears streamed down, 'Dad... I'm sorry, I couldn't save you,'