My Fire -Charles Leclerc

Chapter 25- Calm Down

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Apocalypse- cigarettes after sex
I know the end- phoebe bridgers

Enjoy!!!!
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December 23, 2011- Hershey, Pennsylvania

⚠️ Blood mentions and violence ⚠️

I walked out into the open parking lot, I was face with the sight of my father and a man. A gun in the man's hand separating the two of them.

I lock eyes with my father and his eyes go wide.

"Maggie baby, just go back to the car" he says and the ban with the gun turns to look at me

"This is the kid huh?" He asks

"No no no, don't even look at her." My father speaks with a certain tone in his voice, one I had never heard.

The unknown man takes a step toward me and i back away

"Don't run away little girl" he jeers as I continue to back up

Suddenly my father lunges at the man in attempts to keep me safe.

For his efforts he got a bullet to the chest, in the end in would've ended up skinning his heart but something about the artery it hit. It was basically 1% survival chance.

" No" I whisper and the world slowly turns to slow motion

The man drops the gun and quickly flees and I watch my father drop to the ground.

As soon as he hits the ground, everything comes back to speed.

I run over to him and drop to his side, I try to move him but at the lightest touch of his body he groans in pain.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" I whisper fighting back tears

I touch his shirt to see where the wound is when I look to my hand I'm horrified.

My cold, white, pale hands were no longer white.But deep red. Stained by the blood from my father.

"Oh god" I say and my ears begin to ring as people come out of the store having heard the gunshot

I finally look at the wound and it's was terrible, his white undershirt was a deep red color and it was slowly seeping to his neck.

The wound itself was deep and blood was flowing straight out of it

"Maggie, it's fine. Just don't look at the blood ok" my father asks struggling to get his words out

"No no no, this can't happen. Come on dad you can't go you have to stay." I plead tears flowing down my face at this point

"I'm not going anywhere baby." He says quietly as people begin to crowd me and my father

Someone called 911 and someone else began to try to stop the bleeding.

Another person tried to get me away from my father but that wasn't going to happen because I was glued to his side for about 20 minutes when the ambulance finally arrived and shortly after mark and Kelley

"Maggie!" Kelley calls out as she gets out of the car and I turn around, my eyes still blurred from crying

I ran to her and gave her a massive hug that I wished could've lasted for ever and solved everything

Mark came out and began to ask me what happened. I slowly explained to him what happened that I saw then he relayed what I had said to the police.

After about 10 minutes they asked me if I want to say goodbye to my dad for the nignt because he was going to have to go into a surgery.

I got it together and went to the back of the ambulance and saw my dad in the most heartbreaking way.

"Hey mags." He says

"Your going to be okay dad, I know you will." I say quietly as he nods

"I love you kid" he says as I begin to tear up

"I love you too dad" I say quietly.

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March 15th,2023- Boston, Massachusetts

Miserable was the best way to describe my mood since the news Kelley gave me.

I hated the way the world worked and it worried me that the man who killed my father has any possibility of being free.

I was also scared, whenever I think back to the event I realize that when the guy referred to me it was as if he knew who my father was or knew of me. I was scared it was someone who possibly had bad blood with my father and was out to get him.

I don't think I should worry as I live in a different continent, but it was the idea.

I wanted so bad just to go home and sleep off this funk but I had another two days of this conference thing.

Friday was the last day but we had one big meeting and we were all free to go after it concluded. Freya and I got a flight that was later at night so we could get home as soon as possible. My plan was to get back, and we'd get home around 3 so I'd just drive to Christian once I got home, maybe change and pack some clothes but then drive to London. And I'd get there before noon.

"Maggie for dinner what should we get?" Freya asks

"Pizza" I say and flip through the notes I took today when looking at other booths

"We got pizza yesterday" she says

"You pick then." I say back

"Fine we will get pizza, do you want the same thing?" She asks as i nod and she gets up to go call the place

My phone buzzes twice and pick it up, I was expecting it to be Christian asking me if I knew anything about the parole hearing but instead it was Charles

Charles
How is Boston
Learned anything fun

Magnolia
Nothing I didn't already know
Well that's a lie
I learned about different businesses strategies but that doesn't matter to me because I don't run a business and I don't intend to
Wait shouldn't you be asleep

Charles
I should
However I've reall had trouble sleeping since you stole my shirt

Magnolia
Goodbye man
What.

Charles
Yeah that was my favorite shirt
You took it
I want it back

Magnolia
I want to be Gigi hadid but we don't get what we want, do we?

Charles
Ok ouch
I'm not that sensitive though

Magnolia
To harsh?

Charles
Just a bit
But again
Not that sensitive
When are you going to be home?

Magnolia
Monday night
Maybe around 7

Charles
Okay great
Maybe I'll see you Monday night then 🤷‍♂️

Magnolia
Probably not
I don't really like you that much

Charles
Again ouch

Magnolia
You will be okay
But I'll text you when I get back and we can figure it out

Charles
Sounds like a plan
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