The Lying Incident

“Get on the ground.” He whispered. He then pushed me onto the ground with David turned around tightly grasping my hands in between his, and for a few seconds did nothing but stand besides me. He brushed some hair away from my face, and muttered under his breath, a sentence along the lines of ‘I’ll never forget you’. Before I could ask for an explanation, Margot and I were roughly pushed behind him, and he stepped forward into plain view.
“It’s me you want- I’m the secret weapon.”
The henchmen stepped forward at the declaration, and removed a no longer concealed gun from his back pocket. I longed for a moment to tell him it was a mistake. He had the wrong person-that it was all a lie. That I was the one they wanted instead, but I didn’t. Mr. Hendricks dying words had been ‘save the weapon’, and that’s exactly what David planned on doing.
An urge to step forward caused a flinch to cross over my legs, and Margot placed a steady hand on my shoulder.
“He’ll be fine. He chose this.” She whispered, knowingly.
A hint of fear shot through David’s eyes and he turned to me, a wave of emotions flowing between us. Unsaid words swarmed my mind. Everything he would say to me if we only had more time. How much he loved me. How he knew I would be safe. The reasons for sacrificing himself for my protection. He looked to Margot giving her a look that said ‘Take care of her for me.’ She nodded. David gave me one more pondering glance as the man wound a thick rope tightly around his wrists.
All of the thoughts that had been hidden inside those dark brown eyes, he was finally ready to let go. He had too. Not only for my sake, but because he as well needed to relieve himself from them- because this was goodbye. Forever.