Nikolai Zinoviev X Meg (self insert)

Cutting Ties

​Several cars with the same military umbrella logos on them were outside the apartment building. Catching sight of them as she ran forced her to stop in her tracks. It was jarring to see as people were led out from the building. Even more so when a the sounds of bullets peeled off in short bursts from much farther down the blocks. People screamed a few voices she knew from her neighbors. Knees weak her feet moved automatically taking her to the front door so she could see Lena.

A large man in the uniforms she knew as whatever team umbrella stopped her quickly holding out his arm.

"Miss! We're evacuating now. Please follow me."

Almost not even hearing him she snapped up to look at him confused not sure what he was talking about. It had only been no more than 20 minutes. How could things have gotten so bad in 20 minutes? A wailing man bumped the man, he turned to catch him as he fell over. Glancing to the door she saw the opening and walked past him quickly knowing that Lena was probably still inside. She needed her and she needed to get home and grab her things if this really was an evacuation.

She forced all thoughts of what she had seen to go away, her sole ​worry was Lena. Hopefully she would do okay and they could get her help that only made sense she figured, after all isn't that why they were here? None of this was something she could make sense of. Coming up to her floor she went for the door quickly and found it was still left open. A few doors down she could hear other soldiers inside probably dealing with something. Walking in quickly worried she'll get in trouble she hoped that Lena was still doing fine.

"Lena?"

To her confusion Lena wasn't there. The couch was empty save the blood stains she had left behind which looked still wet and fresh. Immediately worried she hurried to the other rooms to find her.

"Lena??"

But she wasn't in the bathroom or her room, each quick glance starting to make her a bit panicked. Where could she have gone? Back in the hall at a loss of what to do she wondered if the soldiers had already taken her and maybe she had just missed it? But she saw no ambulances or gatherings of many people. How exactly were people being evacuated? Hearing steps made her look over towards her front door and she stopped again surprised to see Nikolai in full tactical gear walk by.

"Nikolai?"

A sense of relief came over her at the sight of him but confusion quickly came next as she started walking over. He heard her and paused in his tracks not looking to her. Slowly he faced her looking for what she could was very tired. He didn't look like he wanted to talk which she figured was understandable he was busy doing whatever it was these men were doing now. But she needed answers, hurrying over she looked around worriedly. Turning to her he stowed his hand gun at his side and gave her a blank look.

"Nikolai- What's going on?"

She could see in his face that he was thinking, like he wasn't sure how to say anything. She didn't know that he had hoped he wouldn't see her again. It was annoying now as he was working and he had just shot her friend. Whatever gripes she had now were none of his concern and he was in too deep now to waste time talking to her. Though seeing she wasn't dead did give him a sense of relief. Seeing how his face was so cold and didn't change in expression made her uneasy. She knew he was working but clearly something was wrong, beyond absolutely everything of course.

When he spoke it made her stop as his voice was so unexpectedly cold she didn't know how to react.

"You need to get out of here. Now."

Such a sudden demand had her hesitate still trying to process him even being there.

"Wha- Okay. I just-"