Jyrus | Secret

45: Jonah's Secret

The drive down towards the beach was a long and silent one. Jonah wanted to break the tension a bit so he put his hand on Buffy's arm.

"He really loved you, you know."

"Yeah, I know." She replied simply.

"Jonah I don't want Cyrus to experience what I'm having to. I'm keeping you alive, I promise." She said.

"Just before they left, she said to me that she was done with me. She's not coming back if we leave it." Jonah said after a little while longer. Buffy has a confused look on her face.

"I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that Jonah," she started.

"My husband just died for you, I'm risking my life for you. You don't want that to go to waste do you?" She asked.

"Of course not." He replied.

"Good We're nearly there."

They drove around for a bit and noticed a couple people running towards them. They were dressed in pretty messy clothes, probably for work. Buffy rolled down the window and stopped them.

"Hey what are you doing?" She asked them.

"What does it look like? We're running away from them." A woman replied.

"Away from who?" She asked.

"Two people, they had guns and killed some of our coworkers." Another man replied. Buffy looked at Jonah and he nodded back.

"Where?" Jonah asked them.

"A warehouse, near the docks. You'll know which one it is since there's only one."

"We'll take a look, get home to your families now." Buffy said and rolled the window up again.

"That's gotta be them." She said and drove towards the beach. A few streets down they saw the warehouse and they inconveniently ran out of fuel a couple minutes away.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

"Yep," she smiled sadly. They walked quietly until they arrived at the warehouse. The was clearly someone there since a light was on inside.

"I'll go first." Buffy whispered and snuck towards the door of the warehouse. She opened it and walked through. It was about 10 seconds before Jonah heard a response.

"Oh Jonah, come on in." TJ said in a high pitched voice. Jonah turned the corner and aimed his gun right at TJ. Buffy was struggling under TJ's tight grip.

"Fucking let me go!" She screamed.

"Don't struggle, I might kill you." TJ replied and pulled a gun out with his other hand before pointing it at her head.

"Drop your gun Jonah, or she dies." He said. Buffy shook her head violently.

"Don't do it Jonah, just FUCKING SHOOT HIM!" She yelled. TJ pushed the gun right up against her head.

"Shut the fuck up before I blast a bullet in your head. DROP YOUR WEAPON!" He shouted.

"Okay, fuck," Jonah panicked and threw his gun down before throwing his hands up.

"Good, now where were we." He wondered.

"We were about to kill you and that other bitch." Buffy said.

"We let you live. We let you go, and you wasted that chance." He replied.

"You killed my fucking husband!" She screamed.

"He shouldn't have ran in on us like that, how's Cyrus by the way Jonah?" He asked.

"Good." Jonah replied.