Allurance

Chapter 18

After the gunshots there was screaming and then it went silent. I looked at Tom. I hated him right now but we both knew that we had to work together to fix whatever the hell was going on. I slowly walked back up the stairs. "Follow me. Do you have a gun?" Tom whispered as we quietly went back inside the ballroom. I nodded and brought the gun out of the pile of tulle. Tom got his gun out and loaded it. It was still silent. We walked through the hallways and we reached the door for the hall.
"Ready?" Tom asked. I nodded. We both took a deep breath and he opened the door. We both went in at the same time. Everyone was lying on the floor. Some were under tables, some were covered in blood. Then I saw two very familiar people with huge guns in their hands. "Well hello! I'm glad you decided to join us!" The woman said. I pointed my gun at her.
"I don't think I introduced myself! I'm Amy." She said to the room. She jumped off of the stage and walked through the people on the floor towards us.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"I want everything you own." She pointed her gun at Tom.
"No chance." He said.
"Then I'll have to kill everyone here." She shrugged.
"And then you can watch Oscar deal with her." She looked back at Oscar and then back to me. "And this time your friends can't help you." She said.
"If you kill me, Oscar will kill you and vice versa. So don't try anything. Just drop your weapons and come with me."
Tom and I looked at each other. He gulped and nodded slightly, beginning to put his gun to the ground. I followed. Then he flipped his gun upside down and fired at Amy. I immediately ran past her and shot at Oscar, hitting him in his leg. I quickly kicked off my shoes and ran over to the family table.
"Follow our lead." I said to Harry, Sam and Harrison. They got out their guns and nodded.
"Gwen, Gwen, Gwen." Amy said. I looked behind me. She had Tom at gunpoint on the floor.
"So is it I kill Tom, then you, then force his family to give me everything? Or is it the easier option?" She said.
"Is it even worth knowing the other option?" I asked, standing up with Harry and Sam and Harrison behind me.
"Tom just gives me everything and everyone walks free tonight. That's the easiest option." She smiled.
"Tom? What do you think about that?" She asked him, pressing the gun harder into his forehead. He was thinking about it. Don't hand it over. Don't hand it over.
"Is there any other option?" I asked, moving closer to her.
"What the hell are you doing?" Tom asked, panicking.
"Why? Are you suggesting giving yourself up for us?" She smiled sinisterly.
I swallowed, "If that's what it takes to leave Tom and his family alone. Then yes." I said, intensely staring into her eyes.
"So we get to take you and keep you for whatever we need? You'd do that for the man who killed your fiancé?" She asked. Rage started bubbling inside of me.
"You'd give your life up for the man who lied to you about his feelings?" My breathing got heavier and my eyes were fading out everyone else in the room.
"You'd let us kidnap you...for a man who wants to kill you?"
"Shut up." Tom said.
"Because, let's be honest...he hates you doesn't he. And you thought he loved you." She tilted her head and pouted her lips.
"He doesn't hate me." I shook my head and walked closer to her. My mind went back to Tom and I's argument in the car.
"He doesn't hate me." I repeated.
"But he does hate you." I said to her. I shot her three times in the chest. She didn't have enough time to react. She fell to the floor and landed in her own puddle of blood. Oscar started shooting at us all. Tom ran and grabbed Amy's gun and started shooting at him. Oscar kept moving so none of us could get him. We all stopped and looked at one another.
"On one, everyone shoot." I said. They all nodded.
"Three...two...one." We all started shooting at Oscar. He got hit in the leg again and then his upper arm.
"You guys think you're all so clever. You'd risk your life for this piece of shit." He said to me and looked at Tom.
"And you let a woman into your business who you knew could mess it all up!" He said to Tom. "You're all pretty fucking stupid if you ask me." He shrugged and loaded his gun again.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"To see you all die." He smiled.
"And I want to start with everyone else." He smirked. We all looked at each other in panic. There was nothing we could do. Then the gunshots started firing. We all ran back over to the table Nikki, Dom and Paddy were sheltering under and we all stayed there.
"I love you all so much." Nikki cried. I looked behind me. He was literally killing everyone. I turned back around.
"We love you too." Sam spoke for everyone. Everyone was crying apart from Tom. He was just trying to figure out how to fix it.
"There must be something we can do!" He said. Dom shook his head, "We've lost this time." I looked at Tom and grabbed his hand. I could hear the gunshots getting closer and closer. We held eye contact and tears flowed out of my eyes like never before.
"I don't hate you. I couldn't if I tried." I shook my head. Tom clenched my hand tighter. I paused and took a deep breath.
"And that is why I have to do this." I said and let go of Tom's hand. I got out from under the table and stood up.
"GWEN!" Tom shouted after me.
"Kill me and let everyone else go please." I pleaded with Oscar. There was our table left and that would be it.
"Kill me in whatever way, I don't care. Just let everyone else go free." I said, trying not to look at the bloodbath behind him.
"Gwen stop!" Tom shouted.
"Deal." Oscar said and pointed the gun at me. I turned to Tom.
"I love you." I mouthed. Tom was frozen, he looked at me wide-eyed. He couldn't move. He wanted to...but he couldn't. My chin quivered, trying to hold back a sob as I turned around to face Oscar.
"Goodbye princess. I guess you won't get a happily ever after, after all." He smiled.

BANG