Healers blood

Chapter 6 Jayce

Living in Fort Helen has brought a little piece to mind. There's something almost like home here. Maybe it because my sister and girlfriend are here or maybe it's because I'm away from war. I wake to the smell of bacon and the size of the grease on the pan. “ The last time you cooked for me I left for war and now you cook for me when I'm at home”. I said taking a piece of bacon from the pan and eating a piece of bacon. I go for another piece but Ana smacks my hand.
 “ You have to wait for my brother and your sister are coming to”. She said putting the breakfast on a plate. “ We're discussing how to save the people in the super blood hospital”. My interest in what she's saying grows a little my sister is in a super blood hospital and I want to get her out. 
 “ What hospital are we going to,” I say pouring out coffee into a white ceramic cup when you're at war it's the little things you miss for me that my drinks not tasting like metal and warm meals.
 “ The one in the coastlands it was Sylvie idea,” Ana said and as if on queue Sylvie, Andrew, Dominick, Wyatt, and even James walk in. I give my sister a hug. It almost feels like I'm hugging everyone else when I hug her. “ So what do you say we discuss the rescue”. Ana said setting down a plate of food for everyone.
 “ The people in my fleet will take them,” Sylvie says looking at Ana. I notice Dominick agreeing with Sylvie the last remember Dominick was stubborn and wouldn't agree with anyone. “And I say we rescue the people during the day no one will be visiting during the festival” I could tell that Sylvie was sure of this but I could also see Ana's eyes turn to anger. 
 I quickly jump in to stop a fight. “ What if we go the next day on visiting day it will look like we're visiting someone but really were helping them escape.” Ana looks at me stunned I'm stunned myself it I don't show it. The war changes people me it changed the way I handle emotion.
 “ I'm with Jayce it does make sense and the people won't be as scared”. Wyatt said he was leaning up against the frame of the door he put a piece of paper back in his pocket and walked over to us.
 “ Well I'm with Wyatt,” Zac said his hands rested on his head. By the way, his eyes looked he looked like he did get much sleep.
 “ I think that's a good idea, I'll do it”. Sylvie says looking at me from her chair.
 “ That just leaves Dominick and Ana,” Wyatt said his arms crossed over his chest looking down at Ana and Dominick with a look of an almost threat.
 “ If Sylvie goes then I'll go to,” Dominick said looking at Sylvie they hold each other's hands a thin line of protection goes through my brain. When this meeting is over I'll have a word with him I thought to myself.
 “ Ah  I'll do it I still think it's a bad idea but I'll do it,” Ana said putting a gun that she was taking the magazine out of over and over again on the table. After everyone was done eating they all go outside of Ana and me dorm Ana follows Sylvie out to discuss more plans. 
 Before Dominick can go outside I pull the back of his shirt and he stops moving he turned around slowly looking at me. “ How long have the two of you been dating,” I ask looking at him my arms crossed.
 “ Two years,” he said with a look of nervous confusion on his face he shuffles his feet on the ground looking down at them. He had to know this was coming. “ How did you find out,” He asked tilting his head. 
 “ Well for the one you agreed with everything she said and I saw the two of you holding hands,” I say crossing my arms over my chest and looking at him with a smile. “ Dominick your my friend if there's anyone I trust it's you”. I say he breathes out and laughs I pay him on the back and we walk out of the bunker  laughing and pointing at each other Sylvie runs up to Dominick and gives him a kiss on the cheek he wraps his arms around her and they walk away I watch Sylvie's curly red hair bounce up and down as she walks. I laugh and put my hands in my pockets walking away. Ana runs up to me and grabs my arm. She looked at me with the crazy Irish look that she gives when she's about to do something. She pulls me away from our bunker and to the exit doors but they were different. When we go to the doors instead of sunlight there are planes tons of them there probably there to make quick escape. She leads me into the plane and she sits down in the cockpit and the plane starts to run I'm knocked off balance not expecting the plane to move. When we lift off the ground I run by a window and look outside I see the sky and a few birds. 
 “ I could use some help at the cockpit”. She says looking back at me her eyes wild I walk over to her with every step the plane shakes and I can feel the energy running through the plane I sit down in the copilot seat and look out at the sky in shock I didn't know the sky was so beautiful above the smoke of the factory's. She looks at me a smile on her face. “ Have you ever been to a forest”. She said I shake my head still looking out at the sky. I turn my head over to her. 
  “ where are we going,” I ask looking at her with a smile the sun was shining through her hair to make it look like she had sunlight in her hair.
 “ To another base,” she said looking at me with a smile we “ To show you where your sister will be if the rescue goes as planned. She looks back at the sky when we hear an engine stop My stomach drops as I feel the other engine stop and we fall. I hear gunshots and Ana's scream as we fall from the sky I reach for her hand and find it we hold hands I feel the ground and the snap of my arm I let out a scream of pain but the minute I do I feel the familiarity of my lightning heals my broken bone.  I look over at Ana she looks back at me tears fill her eyes and she holds her stomach blood forms around her hand. I run to her before she falls catching her in my arms I lay her down on a small bed of unburnt grass. My hands shake as her eyes become lifeless with the bit of strength she has she gives me her necklace and puts it around my neck. Moving her finger on my chin her hand slowly falls and she takes her last breath. 
 “ No Ana come back please come back”. I say moving to the piece of shrapnel in her side. I take it out and put my hands on her side I let the electricity run through my veins and I watch it go to the hole in her side. “Please Ana doesn't go, I-I love, you, you can't leave me,” I say louder this time in hopes that she can hear me. Her blood runs in my fingers I look at her face again her green eyes are lifeless no longer filled with wonder I put my hand on her head and stroke her hair still soft. I put my head on hers and let the tears roll down my face onto her eyes. Her hair still smells like the soup from the shower she took the night before. I scream at nothing particular I just scream I pick Ana up and hold her in my arms rocking her back and forth still crying. I feel a sharp pain go through my skull but I don't care I keep Ana in my arms her body growing cold I feel another sharp pain in my head and the rest of the world goes dark. I wake up back at my dorm hoping it was all a dream I look over at the other side of the bed but she wasn't there I turn my head not able to look at her side of the bed I see Andrew crying and holding on to something of Ana's I stand up and walk by him he's only a year younger than me but he looks like he's fifteen. I realize he looks like Ana same eyes and Hair. 
  “ Her favorite smell was the smell of a campfire,” he said looking at a picture of him and Ana when they were little. His eyes move to the necklace that replaced the locket now sitting on my bedside table along with the picture of Ana that was taken only a year ago. His green eyes were bloodshot from tears but his veins were different from everyone else he was a blue almost like an ocean. I look at him trying to hide my confusion, but he sees it anyway. “ It's the injection they loaded me with so many that My blood has become that color,” Andrew said walking over to the bed and sat down in Ana's spot I flinch not wanting the sheets to move from what they were, but I don't say anything. Andrew moves his hand along her pillow a tear runs down his cheek and for a second I'm reminded of the tears that filled Ana's eyes. 
 “ Do you want a drink Ana always kept whiskey somewhere” saying these words I remember that night we snuck out and swimming in the waters of the sealands I remember kissing her lips under the saltwater I touch my lip wanting that feeling again. A tear starts to form in my eye but I quickly blink and the tear goes away. I look in a cabinet and a bottle of perfume falls out I catch it and set it down gently letting my fingers linger on the blue color. I pour a glass of whiskey in a glass and give it to Andrew but he puts up his hand and shakes his head so I take a drink the whiskey tastes like fire going down my throat but it tastes good so I have another. When Andrew leaves I have already have drunk half a bottle I feel my legs fall and I fall on the ground taking another drink of the alcohol. I stand back up and walk to Ana's dresser finding her jewelry I pick up the bracelet that I got her holding it my hand. I find her vale that she would have worn to our wedding it was beautiful there were periwinkle color flowers and a powder blue netting I find her wedding dress which is also a powder blue. I try to picture her in it but I can't all I see is her body in the patch of grass. I lay the dress and vale in her spot that she would be laying in reading her favorite book and drinking a glass of tea before she goes to sleep. I go to pick up the cup the was on her nightstand but I can't I let it stay there. I look for another bottle and I find an unopened bottle of wine. The color of the bottle was a deep blue which was her favorite she loved the ocean and the sky. I drink the bottle of wine until I can't stand. Dominick walks in just as I start to wobble to my bed.
 “ Oh Jayce what are you doing,” Sylvie said who walked in after Dominick Sylvie takes the bottle of wine out of my hand and Dominick helps me up. Looking in Sylvie's eyes I see tears and in Dominick's eyes, I see pity towards Sylvie. I don't know why they look like this. I wrap my arm around Dominick and he walks me to his and Sylvie's room. I sit down on the chair and Sylvie walks up to me with a rage that was wet with warm water see puts it on my forehead. I've never seen Sylvie so caring I hold the orange to my head and start to fall asleep when I wake my head starts to hurt so I close my eyes. 
 I hear Dominick start talking. “ Sylvie you are an amazing person sometimes these things just happen but it's never your fault.” I squint my eyes and see Sylvie crying into Dominick's chest. 
  “ Do these things happen more than two times Dominick do they.” She said her voice was shaky still confused I don't know what they're talking about.
 “ Sometimes it's just not meant to be these things happen for a reason” I've never heard Dominick sound like this he was sad crying even though I still don't know why but for some reason I didn't think it was placed to ask why they were sad. 
 “ I know it still hurts though,” Sylvie said her head still on his chest he wraps his arms around her a tear goes down Sylvie's check. 
 “ I know but we'll get through it we always survive these things”. Dominick said and Sylvie sees me open my eyes and walks over to me I sit up in the chair and act like I didn't hear anything, but Sylvie knows better than that she looks at me and her eyes are still red I brush a piece of hair out of her eye and smile she smiles back but I know it's not real.  I don't want to go back to my room so I stay with Dominick and Sylvie, my head still pounding and I still feel tired. How can Zac do this everyday and still be able to walk around without feeling dizzy. Dominick gives me a pair of sunglasses " Here this will help your head" he said laughing at me when I scramble for the sunglasses desperate to have some type of closer from my head pounding. When the plan starts none of us want to go but we go anyway the boat ride made my stomach josal and I feel like throwing up when the boat ride was finally over the streets were crowded,which made my head buzz with electricity from the people's brains, it's been a year since I came back here and I can't see my family. I walk around in the street until I find Ana's old house and go inside the curtains have holes in them and so do the window they look like bullet holes the people must have figured out that she's a rebel than fear strikes me my family what of the capitol knows I'm a rebel to. I walk to Ana's room and find a stuffed bear that she must have had since she was really little and I also find a picture of the two of us I put the two of these things in a satchel that I have. I also find a big bag of chocolate in a cabinet in the kitchen I put that in my bag too, Ana loved chocolate she also loved to read her favorite books were books by Moby Dick. She loved reading about the sea if she never got to go to the ocean in person she went to the ocean in her mind. I walk around her house for what felt like only a few minutes finding a few books one of them was a book called Velveteen Rabbit she used to read that book to my sisters all the time, when she would the book I would always imagine her reading that book to our kids if we had them, I put the book in my bag and walk out of the house and sneak into Dominick's get a picture of his parents and a clock I also take a pair of boots that were his father's. I put them on and leave the boots that I had there to make it look like I didn't take anything. When I walk out I see Dominick talking to Zinnia who was eating an apple. She looks like our mother her hair was a brownish blonde and her eyes were almost orange like a sunset she was still short I laugh a little. I hear someone start yelling.
 “ Give me that bread boy or you will be punished” I look around and it was a security I go to start running but Dominick bets me sliding in the sand he uses himself to block the whip from hitting the little boy who runs off the whip hits his eye I see Zinnia run up to them reaching to punch him but misses, he punches her in the eye but she stays standing. “ No one has ever stayed up from a punch they usually back down with the first punch,” the security says his voice is raspy and he was short but still taller than Zin. I keep watching but don't do anything because I can't. Zin punches him in the nose and his nose instantly start to bleed he goes to punch again but Zin dodges it and ends up kicking his legs and making him fall to the ground but he gets back and punches her making her fall to ground she hits her head probably making her feel dizzy he kicks her in the stomach I flinch knowing that Zin is in trouble. I run up to her but security stops me holding me back. I hear Dominick let out a cry of pain when the security whips him again and again I see Sylvie look at him with a look of fear the security holds her back too, but she puts up more of a fight then I am she trying to push through security and she actually manages to get out but the security grabs her waist and holds her back. Zinnia stands back up blood from her lip drips on her shirt her eye is half closed but she keeps fighting. That's my sister I say in my head and I start to smile. I know she's going beat this security up. She spins him around punching him in the mouth than his stomach. She kicks him in the legs making him fall to the ground but this time she wastes no time kicking him in the head. Which knocks him out she unties Dominick and he leans against her they walk back to our house I see my aunt and I see May standing next to her.  I smile at them the security pushes me to the ground I fell on my elbows how badly I want to see them to hug my aunt to hear May's voice to talk to my sister, but I can't because by talking to them I would put their lives in danger. I go back to the boat and go back to base, I open the door to my room and half hope that Ana will be there but she isn't.