Pause: Time never really stop's

1. Timeless

Everyone shivered because in their midst was a trigger happy serial killer, he cackled as he shot up to four people with his black and yellow pistol.

My name is Andreas Corvi and I just just turned 16 this month and like every other, I spent it visiting my parents graves.
My parents had died a long time ago, to others it felt like 5 years, but to me it felt like yesterday. It was as if everyday of my life, I wake up to a living torment in which my parents die Over and over again and this sequence repeats every night until I learn to live with it, it stopped a little bit when I started visiting their graves with my imaginary friend who i named "Darkness."

I always sat down next to my parents graves and talked to them, deep down I knew they were gone but my heart did not want to accept the fact, my dad had died while saving me from a bullet which was misfired in a robbery and a few weeks later mom committed suicide.

I always blamed myself for their deaths, if only. if only i wasn't such a burden they'd still be alive right now at least that was the case until i met Darkness, Darkness was neither man nor woman it was an entity at least that's what i believed in, crawling through an empty wave of trauma i met Darkness. It embedded within me and took away all my troubles.

I got up from the grave, dusted my butt then walked away. I walked about a half mile to a bank at October county where I had usually withdrawn my stored money. I walked to the bank and entered unaware of the crisis i was about to befall into.

The accountant was taking an awful amount of time and the person she was attending to was blocking the way so I  couldn't really see what was going on until i saw the red liquid. I heard a thud on the floor and it was the accountants body, blood poured out of her impaled skin like water from a bottle.

I was scared, terrified in fact the visions I had tried so hard to oppress where taking over me and i lost all contact with Darkness. The man who had killed the accountant turned back and looked at everyone.

It was TriggerFinger, one of the most deadliest Serial killers this side of the world, he's a genius with a pistol and rumours have it that he never reloads his yellow and black tinted gun. I backed up to the wall I mean who wouldn't all the other visitors at the bank scrambled like ants who just got their ant hill stomped on.

Triggerfinger shot the three officers who guarded the entrance and shot four civilians who ran towards it. He walked over to the accountants desk and pressed a button under it and a metal casing closed the door. He just locked us in and the only way out was behind him.

He ordered everyone to lye down on the floor and we all obeyed. He walked around us looking down at us like he was some kind if God.

"I know your scared, so let's take our minds off the fright, yes yes let's play a game, that would be fun right." TriggerFinger spoke to his unfortunate hostages which included me.

Nobody reacted so he said his last words again. "that would be fun right." And this time we a nodded at him half headedly and he continued.

"The name of the game is "Hero" He stopped for a moment gazing at everyone like a hawk and then continued. "The rules are simple, I'll bring out three. Only three unlucky guests from the crowd and line them up, I'll count to ten and shoot them and since I'm a fair psycho there's a way to win and in order to win you have to stand in front of a victim of your choice and save them from the bullet. Kay okay let's start then."

He grabbed three teenagers all three of them girls and lined them up on their knees for his little game, this was cruel i wanted to vomit but the fear in my stomach wouldn't let me. Triggerfinger started counting down.

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Two men from the crowd got up from the floor and went in front of two of the girls who were lined up, by the way the girls screamed and cried, it was obvious it was their parents. But then that just left one girl who no one stood in front of. I looked at the crowd everyone keeping their head down, some even praying, most angry at what Triggerfinger was doing but none of them would risk their lives.

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Flashbacks of when my dad died where coming back to me it has been at least two and half months since i saw any flashbacks, thoughts were running wild in my head no no no i thought to himself what was my head telling me to do. That was crazy.

4

He looked around, still none coming to this young girls aid, the thoughts and flashbacks running through my head suggested I'd do something very dangerous. Without Darkness I couldn't withstand the thoughts and I eventually succumbed to it.

3

What will i do, my legs were already prepping me to get up but i didn't want to I mean, I barely knew the girl in question.

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I got up and ran towards her, all the other hostages on the floor looked at me as he ran at full speed to take a bullet for a girl i didn't even know.

1

I jumped in front of her and Triggerfinger pulled the trigger, the bullet was shot but never reached its destination. I fell down to the floor but i wasn't shot, the girl i was supposed to save wasn't either i had never heard impact or screams in fact i didn't hear anything at all.

I turned looking at the hostages and they were all in stopped positions, they weren't moving at all. I got up and i saw the bullet shot by Triggerfinger in mid air everything was stopped in motion except for me.

I couldn't believe what was happening, i was sure this wasn't real and i was also all to sure I  was becoming crazy. Time came to a standstill and yet i was still moving within it. I walked over to the bullet Triggerfinger had shot and took it out of midair i didn't think that would work but was thankful it actually did, I recreated the scene from a sci-fi movie I had watched and placed the bullet at the side of Triggerfinger's head.

I walked over to the door switch located behind the accountants desk and pressed it, the door didn't open and i could guess why, in order not to raise suspicion if time ever actually resumed, i lyed down on the floor near the girl i was supposed to save, and I lye there looking at everything and everyone in a standstill motion and after a few seconds time resumed the hostages I was looking at started moving. Triggerfingers brains where splattered on the floor and the door opened.

I got up and made a run for it along with the other Hostages.

"Today we have witnessed a miracle, something that could not be explained by science, in a bank robbery at October County today the serial killer Triggerfinger had caught up to 50 hostages, seven dead and none injured. But what is so baffling is the security tapes which recorded a live feed of the scene which took place and if you look closely you can see Triggerfinger shoot a bullet at a hostage and another second later the same bullet disappears from that point and appears in his skull. There is no scientist in the world who can explain what happened and this raises the question, Is there a God, And has he now appeared. Those are the questions being asked today and this has been Channel 6 news."