I have done, what I have feared doing, and yet what I have wanted to do since the Ucen. the night after I found out Evelyn and the president had been kidnapped I didn't sleep. I spent the night preparing for and executing a rescue attempt. Me and Raito built some weapon from chemical and gear we could find around the common areas. We made smoke bombs from some emergency flairs, and used the springs in our beds to make cross bows. You may be wondering why we didn't just let the secret service take care of it, well they were moving to slow. They wanted to wait till morning and negotiate, but I know Quentin. he doesn't negotiate. once he's decided he's gonna kill you, he will stop at nothing until you're dead. As we ran for the other side of the complex. We heard Oliver and Grace walking. We hid in some lockers and peered out the slits on the door. I could see them walk a couple doors down from me they were out of site but I heard Grace say, "Oliver why do we follow this guy?" "Because he' a good leader." said Oliver. Grace Continued," I don't know, I've been thinking, sure we've had ultimate freedom with Quentin, but lately it's felt more like cage. For the first time I'm thinking back on the things I've done and I am sickened. My actions are coming back to haunt me, and it's crushing my heart. I regret the things I've done, and I want to apologize to all those I've hurt, but they've all been killed and it's to late."
Oliver responded, "Sis, quite talkin' forgiveness, what's done is done, live in the now, forget the past, and don't care about the future. All this forgiveness talk and you're sounding like mom." Grace sigh and said," Mom... I miss her Oliver." Oliver got angry and yelled, "you miss that bible thumping, holy roller. She never approved of us. We were never good enough for her. I'm glad she got turned, so I don't have to ever hear her chastisements again." Grace slapped Oliver across the face. "Don't you dare say that about her. She was still our mother, and now that I think about it she was right to rebuke us. Look at what we've become. We've killed dozens of people because some psychopath told us to. I realize now she was hard on us because she saw where we were headed and she loved us enough to try and pull us from that. Quentin only keeps us around because we help him gain power, the moment one of us no longer becomes useful he'll kill us. The only reason he let me live, after getting bitten, was because of his sick attachment to me, being the only girl." Oliver pause and said. "You know what you better stay out here for a while and cool off. I don't want you pissin' Quentin off, and where is that moron with the meat sacks." Just as Oliver said that I heard the loud thumps of the feet of Quentin's muscleman, Dolph. I also heard the shuffle of feet with him. Maybe it was the hostages.
Slowly Dolph approached I heard Oliver yell, "hurry up you infinite mass." Dolph passed us and I could see chains, but it was difficult to see through such narrow slits. two silhouettes with bags tied down over their heads shambled into view. I hoped that it was the president and Evelyn, but I quickly began praying that it wasn't. Because one of the masked figures lunged at the lockers and began gnawing through the bag and at the locker to my left. I couldn't remember was Raito to my left or right. I heard Dolph smack the slack-jaw, and open the locker. he said "what have we hear?" I feared that we were discovered. Until I heard the rustle of a paper bag. Apparently they was a bag lunch in the locker next to me and the slack-jaw smelled the rotting tune sandwich. he threw the sandwich at the slack-jaw and said, "Hungry? knock yourself out." the slack-jaw smashed the sandwich against it's bag but couldn't get it through. They continued on into a room down the hall.
Raito jumped right out of his locker but I had problems with mine. Raito had to let me out. I asked, " how did you get out so easily?" he responded, "it was easy I had a lot of practice getting out of lockers in middle school." we headed down the hall to the door they went in. It was unlocked Raito peeked in and saw that it was empty. We crept in and went to the door across from us, this time we heard voices on the other side. There was vent connecting the two room Raito got on a table and looked through. He could see Quentin, and his gang all talking. The hostages were tied up in the middle of the room, and the slack-jaws were chained to a pipe on the far end. We had to be delicate.
We waited for a little bit to see if an opportunity would arise, and it did. Raito accidentally knock over a box and the noise caused Quentin to send Oliver in to check out the noise. Me and Raito hid as best we could. Luckily a rat scurried across the floor and Oliver said, "It was just rat." Luckily this didn't satisfy Quentin. He said, "Go check the hall way, just in case." Oliver turned and closed the door behind him, and we took our chance. as soon as the door closed, we jumped from cover. Raito got a rope around Oliver's neck and I hit him over the head with a nearby Pipe. We had to catch him before he hit the ground so he wouldn't make to much noise. However, Quentin still got suspicious. "What's goin' on in there?" We had to think fast so I did my best impersonation of weasel and said, "I'm fine, I just tripped." We then picked up Oliver's unconscious body, carried him out the other door, and tied him up. By the time we got back to the outer room, I heard Quentin say, "That moron is taking to long. Dolph go check on him." This time we had a little more trouble. When Raito jumped him he just grabbed him and threw him across the room. I tired to fight him but he was just to big. I stabbed him in the shoulder and he didn't even slow down, He Sparta kicked and i landed ten feet away from him. This gave me just enough time to load a round in my crossbow. Just as he wrapped his massive hands around my I got the cross bow under his chin, and fired. The blood splashed on my face, I got sick I almost passed out from the shock. Dolph stumbled back removing his hands from my throat to clench his own. He pulled out the makeshift arrow, and feel backwards with a large thud and a small gurgle I watched the life leave his eyes. I had just taken the life of a human a fellow human being, not a lifeless shambling corpse, a living breathing man.
Although I didn't have time to dwell on this, because as soon as Quentin called out to Dolph, and he didn't respond. Raito and I were showered in a flurry of lead. We took cover, but no before a bullet grazed my cheek taken a significant chunk out. Then I heard it that miraculous sound. It was the sound of the firing mechanism jamming in Quentin's gun. I heard him trow down his gun, and pull out his pistol. I heard him pull the hammer back, and say,"walk away, or I put a bullet in your girlfriends stomach, and throw her to the meat bags." I froze in my steps, and remembered what Grace had said earlier. I called out to her, "Grace, I heard what you said in the hallway. You don't have to follow him." As I spoke I looked through the vent. I saw Quentin with his gun pointed at Evelyn. It was a revolver six shooter. I didn't know if my word were landing with Grace, but they sure were pissing Quentin off. "He is no great leader, he's a coward." Quentin Heard me say this from the vent and fired three rounds into the vent. I dived out just in time. That's when it hit me. He only has three shots left.
So I picked up the pipe I used to knock Oliver out, and I said, "He has time and time again made you kill. You murder two people back in UCSB because he told you to." as I said this I taped the wall a couple feet from me and just as I hoped he shot a round right where I made the noise. I continued pissing him off, "You know he is evil, he has made you lose your humanity. Retake it from him, help us." Quentin let off another round, this one barely missed me. "Please Grace, do it for your parents!" That's when I heard a gunshot inside the other room but no bullet came through the wall. I yelled for Evelyn and she responded, I heard the president say, "We're fine too, thanks for asking." So I knew Quentin was of ammo, so I decided to make an entrance. I loaded a crossbow, set off two smoke bomb in the room, and kicked down the door. I looked at Quentin, and I saw where to bullet had gone. He had shot Grace who was still alive but clutching her stomach. Quentin scramble for another gun but put crossbow to head and told him to put his hands on his head. Which he did. Raito tied up his hands and held on to him I went and untied Evelyn and the other hostages. I told them to head to the medical center, get checked out, and send someone here to help Grace. I went over to Grace, she had lost a lot of blood. She was dying the doctor wouldn't be able to make it. I held her hand as she began to cry. She asked,"Jake, is it to late for forgiveness am I damned?" I looked her int he eyes, and told her, "No, your past means nothing, Christ will forgive you, even if humans won't. All you need do is ask." She smiled, and said then I guess I'll see you again someday, and with those words she breathed her last. Tears began to stream down my face, I closed her eyes and folded her hand over the wound.
I heard Quentin scoff behind me. "Ha, she was weak, she deserved to suffer more. Just like all of you. That's why I keep living." The anger boiled within my heart, and I said, "NO! You live because I let you. I could have put an arrow through your face and know one would think less of me for it. Heck I probably could still do it and no one would care. You're the weak one. You take the easy way out kill your problems and they go away. It takes strength to deal with them and learn to live with it. You think I'm weak, well who's the one tied up right now? " Quentin gave a dark smirk and said, "Not me." He had a knife in his back pocket which he used to cut the rope. He punched Raito, knocking him out, and lunged at me. I shot him with the cross bow. but it hit him in the side of the gut. I didn't have enough time to aim. I used the crossbow to knock the knife out of his hand. I then ducked when he took a swing at me. While ducking I punched the arrow which stuck out of his side. He screamed in pain, I grabbed his throat, and slammed him up against the wall. He Said, "You won't kill me, you don't have the guts." I said, "Correction I won't kill you because I have a heart, but that doesn't mean a won't put you with your kind."
"My kind?", he said. I simply looked at the slack-jaws on the other side of the room. He looked back at me and said, "No, no please!" His pleading fell on death ears, as I walked him across the room, he kicked and fought but the arrow in his torso made him weak. The slack-jaw had gotten excited with all the blood in the air. They were pulling at their chains. I brought him just out of reach. The slack jaws' nail were rubbing against him he kept pleading and pleading, and I was ready to throw him at the, but that still small voice returned and told me, "No, let him one last chance." So I threw him to the ground out of the reach of the slack-jaws. I began to walk away, "I'll be locking you in here, and the authorities will do with you what they see fit." When I turned my back he grabbed his knife from the ground and ran at me yelling, "I'll teach you to turn your back to me." As he moved forward I spun around and kicked him. He flew 15 feet, and hit a wall. As he stood up his arm got tangled in a chain, and he looked to see the chain was attached on on end to a pipe, and the other end to a slack-jaw. He screamed as they dug into his flesh and began to devour him. I then picked Raito up, closed the doors behind me, picked Oliver up in the hall, and brought them both to hospital. For the next few days I stayed in my room. I wept, prayed, and came to term with what had just happened. I now present this to you. I hope this was the last major obsticle in our way as we begin distributing the cure.
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