RECKLESS IN INK (BOOK TWO)

B2/C9

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Zelda

I turned off the music as we reached the town, we were in a convoy of four, we were the last one to cross into the town. I saw movement in the buildings as we drove past "this doesn't feel right boss" Reggie says to me, I saw citizens standing on the side of the road near the buildings but they started to run away just before Reggie pulled to a stop when we all heard the explosion. The first Humvee had driven over a mine. Metal from the first Humvee flew everywhere but that wasn't all. The explosion was just the start of it as we were getting hit by bullets coming from the enemy. 

"Everyone out!" I yelled out, I ran towards the closest building placing my back against the hard wall. "Everyone okay?" I radioed, hearing my team reply back. I saw Sergeant Tate slowly walk closer keeping his back against the buildings. 

I threw my thumb up saying we were okay but it turned when I saw a come in view in the window in the opposite building to where I was standing across from. He held an RPG over his shoulder but as I aimed my weapon and just before I pulled the trigger, he pulled his. I was too late. The RPG hit our Humvee, making it explode right in front of me, metal flew everywhere I ducked into the building before I died from a metal plate flying at me. "Fuck!" I growled out but I couldn't stop. I had to check the building that I was in for anyone who wasn't wearing a marine uniform. I quickly and quietly climbed the staircase with my weapon raised, I pulled my trigger as I saw a few enemy soldiers shooting out the windows. As the last one turned to me I pulled my trigger before he could raise his weapon, shooting him in the forehead. 

I blew out a breath, feeling my heart bump fast. 

I rushed down the stairs as I heard more explosions going off, hitting buildings as well as guns being fired. I heard Razor barking and growling by the time I came out of the building moving to the next one with JP and Creed following behind me. "Where are the others?" I yelled out.

"In the next building" JP yelled back, I gave him a nod. 

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We were trapped in the town, it had turned night. We were fucked, we had to call in reinforcements because the enemy just kept coming. We were running low on ammo and water. We didn't think it would take this long to clear out a town but because they kept coming in with their own reinforcements we had to stay where we were. 

As I leaned my head against I could see the bright full moon high up in the sky and I couldn't help but think about Jäger, what was happening back home. Was his mother okay? When he wrote that letter It had already been a month since he sent it. It sucks not knowing anything but as I sat there wondering I heard a copper in the distance. "We have a supply drop coming in, over." I heard Sergeant Tate say over the radio. 

"Roger that. Over." I moved to see it, Razor's head popped up waking James up. 

"Supplies," I tell him, he nodded his head as he pats Razor on the head. I stayed in the shadows of the building so the enemy couldn't see me. I saw the supply crate drop right near us, the only thing was that it had been dropped on the Humvee's roof. So someone would have to climb up and open it, we need it wasn't the pilot's fault as he did not want to stick around and be shot down. 

I woke up the rest of my team since we needed to supply the 2 other groups. I was the first out the door keeping low as I could, I quickly climbed up the Humvee, Creed threw me the crowbar that was left inside the Humvee before I popped the lid open. I could hear yelling before I could hear the gunshots, bullets were flying everywhere as I threw my team ammunition boxes, bandages, water and food. I looked right to see a few enemy soldiers run out of their hidden spots, they pulled their triggers so I quickly turned to the crate grabbing the rest before I threw them down to Creed and JP. I felt a bullet fly right past my head before I turned and jumped off the Humvee. 

As I was about to step into the building that we were hiding in, I felt something hit my arm. I grabbed it once I came through the door, leaning against the wall. As Kylo quickly rushed over pulling out his medical kit, I leaned back out the door and pulled my trigger shooting the guys who remained on the road. I was hit by a bullet. So he sat me down and ripped open the sleeve to my uniform and bandaged it up. "You're going to be okay boss. It was only a flesh wound."

"We need to get these supplies out," I tell the guys as Kylo helps me up. They knew I wouldn't stay down for long. JP took the lead as he kicked the back door open, pushing through the pain from my arm we went to each group giving out ammo and medical supplies. 

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Once the sun was in the sky, the heat was bad. I was stiff as we sat on the floor of a building. I rolled my shoulders and my neck before I heard my radio go but I tried to listen only static came through but as I was about to say something back, buildings started to blow up. I tried to radio through to the other groups but I only got static back, I sighed as I grabbed my gun from the floor. We needed to get a signal to call it in, we needed to get out of here otherwise we were going to become P.O.W (Prisoners of war) or worse, dead.

Let's go," I tell my men. 

We took off shooting every enemy we came across, the building that I knew Sergeant Tate was in was now half rubble. "Sergeant Tate! Can you hear me?" I yelled out but as I stepped over some concrete slabs I could see blood but it was him. 

I snapped my head up when I heard someone yell for me "Captain!" I see Creed pointing to a Jeep, the enemy had Sergeant Tate and was loading him into the back of the Jeep. 

"Shit" I mumbled as I climbed back over the rubble as I rushed towards them, shooting anyone who came in my way but as I took cover behind a car I didn't see that an enemy in a building had an RPG pointing right at it. When I was about to take off again, the guy had pulled the trigger, in that very short moment, I barely heard anyone except someone calling my name. I looked back over my shoulder to see Reggie and James looking at me, the next thing I knew I was being flown across the road. My eyesight became blurry but all I could feel was a hot burning pain in my leg. I tried to get up but I couldn't. I couldn't move my body, only my head. I could feel the blood in my mouth as I coughed, I could hardly breathe. I somehow managed to pull something out of my pocket, as I held onto it for dear life my team came over to help me.

As everything went black for me, my team noticed I held one of Jäger's letters in my bloody hand, a letter he sent to me. The letter he told me he loved me...

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