Hope II

Promises

I looked to see him approach, looking right at me through his murderous eyes as he took steps closer, and I to him until we reached the point where we were in breathing distance of one another. 

The man I wanted so badly to kill now stands at my feet, vulnerable. 

'If it is hope you are looking for... you're wasting your time... there is none' 

I stared into his brown eyes, looking at him as I exhaled my breath onto him 'That's where your wrong Thomas' I said 'The only time we lose hope, is when we stop believing in it... until then, we just have to find it' 

I saw the look he gave me, and it was one I could not judge.  

He shook his head slightly as I tried to resist the urge to shoot him in between his two eyes, my fist clenching as I thought so hard about it, but knew it not to be a wise decision. 

I looked at him with a scowl as my hand waved over my weapon 'Someday' I said to him 'I will put a bullet between your fucking eyes' 

He took a step closer, the tip of his shoe almost touching off mine as he looked directly into my eyes 'Well then' he said, holding out his hand to me 'Until we meet again' 

I looked at him and ignored the hand gesture, turning my back on him and jogging out of the pool that wrenched of corpses.

***

The transmitter hit the solid ground of the snow blanketing the rooftop, and as it did my boots shot into the air, standing straight and immediately sprinting across the rooftop towards the ladder. 

'STAY ON HIM!' I shouted just as I grabbed the ladder, clicking the sides of my boots off the side bars and sliding down, jumping several feet from the ground to quicken my descent. 

I sprinted to the gates, opened them ever so slightly so I could squeeze out into the moonlit town towards the light of the headlights, the one street lit up in the desolate town. 

Snow fell all around me, yet I ploughed through with my heavy boots, sprinting like an athlete through thick and tough snowy textures before I turned a corner onto a side street with far less snow, faster and faster to the beat of my throbbing heart ready to shoot out of my chest and race me to the destination, the clock ticking, counting down to Ger's death. 

Adrenaline pumped through my veins, the soles of my feet tearing along the deteriorating ground of the town's pavement, faster and faster I ran with the cold fog cutting through my face, my speed increasing with every step, cutting down a dark moonlit alley and shouting 'NO!' just as I popped out of an alley behind my brother, Dylan and Dwayne 'I'm here!' 

The sudden transfer from darkness to the bright light blinded me momentarily... but then I saw him face to face, and fury filled my bones as I gazed upon the very man I sought to kill all this time, standing with a dark scowl looking straight at me when I approached my brother and stood in the centre of the street, the bright lights of the jeep shining in front of me. His men surrounded us on rooftops, guarding him while he stood in front of me, face to face with his hands by his side. 

My eyes stayed on him constantly, finally our paths cross again. I stepped out in front of the trio of my group, standing in front of them, standing head on with the Ripper on the ground of fog and snow. The rush of adrenaline pumping through my veins, my fists clenched, ready to launch an attack and finish the threat. 

'Jerry' he said, no smile and no grin just a tight tension between us both 'I told you I'd find you'

I nodded slowly, standing with my arms dangling by my side in front of my men, my eyes looking darkly into the Ripper and my fingertips waving over my holstered pistol 'You're late'