When it was Raining. I Remained Running.

Chapter Three

I think i am starting to like this whole writing thing. Its so much fun:)

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Chapter Three

“Get them now. We must get her. We need her. Faster, you worthless scum. She is getting away.” I suddenly had a pang in my stomach. They didn’t want Gabriel and me. They wanted me. Me and me alone. I was only slowing Gabriel down. He could make it out without being captured. I was going to be the death of him. After all the time we had spent together over the past couple of years, he was doomed because of me and me alone.

“Fire at will! I want her down, in cold blood if needs be.”

I began to lose the blast of hope that I had. I was scared I was going to die. People don’t say it in real life. They try to be heroic and push through things but I was sixteen, scared, and no idea what was going on. Nobody was telling me anything at all. All I had been doing for the past couple of hours is run for my life with no reason why.

Blast of fire were whizzing past me as I dove from side to side trying to zigzag my path away from them.

“Ooooowwwwww, Gabriel I think I have been shot.”

Gabriel pulled to a halt and reversed his self around. I crumpled to my knees.

“Laurel you have to be strong. Get up. We have to keep running. I know you can push through the pain. Please get up now.” He was frantic and scared like me but with his words ringing in my head I got up and ran slower than before but fast.

I felt tiny tingles along my back. Like needles being invaded in my skin. I rubbed it off as the wound on my back. But I diminished the thought so I could continue running faster and quicker. I had to do this for Gabriel. I had to run and I had to live. Or he would end up with the same fate as me.

I began to grow weary and my eyes began to shut. I had lost a lot of blood I know I had. I had been shot more times but I kept quiet because I had to keep running. Bullet after bullet hit me. Once in my leg, and once in my arm. And the most painful one was in between my shoulder blades. I kept running. Like an insane person but I still pushed on. How was I even alive? Was it because I wasn’t human?

“Gabriel….” I called up to him just ahead of me. We had run pretty far ahead of the gunmen maybe we could stop and rest a bit.

“Laurel you can do this. It is going to be ok. Just don’t give up on me now please.”

We had a few minutes to spare we had gotten farther away from the gun men that wanted me and thank god for the forest trees because the copper couldn’t see us.

I began to slow my pace and soon I was walking and dragging myself to keep moving. I was trudging. Then I felt arms around me pulling me along.

“Laurel if we don’t move. We are doomed. Remember what I told you. When it is raining I am running. Do you remember that? Laurel stay with me. Laurel can you hear me. When life seems to stop you, remember to just keep going. Laurel?”

“HMMM” he was a distant sound away from me. He was scared I know but I couldn’t remember why. My vision was blurry and my feet could no longer be felt. Even the fiery pain of my back was now just a dull ache.

“Laurel….” Gabriel sobbed.

Oh crap I was making him cry I couldn’t stand to make him cry even when we were kids he would always be strong. I had never seen him like this. With that I pulled myself out of my dream state and came back to the aching reality of mass chaos.

“Gabriel I know I can’t go on. I have been hit too much. I am losing too much blood. They want me. Not you. So run now leave me. They need me and won’t let me die. They have to have me alive or it is their neck. They will only punish you for the mistakes of being a traitor. I know you helped me. You got me this far,” I began to cough and to my horror it was filled with a sick gooey red liquid. “We at least went down with a fight.”

“I will not leave you.” His words held authority to its core. He wasn’t going to leave me and that was final.

“Gabriel if you escape you can come and save me. We have to hope that. But you must run now. Without me Gabriel. Please run they are here I can hear them. We have no other options. It was an unfair fight we were not prepared for.”

“I hate myself already.” He said them with a strict face like he was killing me.

“I am not dying Gabriel.” I tried to laugh

“Oh but you are Laurel.” He sounded grave and defeated I couldn’t imagine how my face looked right now but I am sure it look scared.

“I love….,” more blood was flowing from my coughing.

“Goodbye Laurel…” with that he got up and left me on the cold hard ground. He would never have done this but leaving me was the only way I would survive. They would make me better but I would also be captured by them. But I had the hope that Gabriel would escape and find me and save me. Hope was a big concept tonight. One I had never relied too heavily on before.

I watched the spot I had seen him leave in. hoping he would return but knowing only his return would cause him death. All I wanted was to be held in his arms. Knowing I was protected. But I wouldn’t see him for a while I know for a fact that I wouldn’t.

I lay on the ground unable to move. I was terrified to close my eyes, knowing that I might never open them again.  The pain was too much. I was on the stage of throwing up my insides if it were to continue. Then I heard something worse than the aching pain.

I heard them before I saw them. I heard the sickening sound of their boots on the fall autumn leaves. I hadn’t realized how cold it was because I was running. And now with them approaching and the stillness in the air I was suddenly enveloped by the ice blanket of air that taunted me.

“We have her.” It sounded like the guy from earlier but I couldn’t be sure. What I did know was he was talking to somebody who wasn’t here, like someone on a radio or phone.

“Yes ma’am we will bring her in. She is wounded and of need of care…… I understand the punishment. No ma’am, there’s not a sign of him here. Yes ma’am I will find him immediately.” Then the conversation ended.

“Smith, James, and Davis, go after Gabriel Clark, now. Do not let him get away.”

No, No, No. They cannot get him too. If they do then that means both of us are doomed. Please Gabriel get to safety and do not come back for me.

“She is barely breathing Sir.” Someone must have been examining me because I could only make out his shadowed outline. I was losing reality with every seconded that ticked. I was not capable of holding on any more.

“Get her treated now. Put her in the van now.”

“AAWWWAWAWAWA” I was screaming as they picked me up and put me on the stretcher or whatever it was. All I knew was that they were carrying me and I didn’t like it.

“Get me a tranquilizer.” What no not that please.

“IM FINE PLEeeeaaaaSE NO!”

“Shut up. You have no say. If you wouldn’t have ran you wouldn’t be hurt.”

“Stop it ow! That hurts.”

Then everything blurred around me and all I saw the highlight of the smirk on whoever’s face it was. It sent one last shrill through my body and then I became limp in his arms. Already forgetting where I was or how I got there.

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Now i am going back to the flash back stage. i am going back to the begiining of today and then when i hit the begining of the story of the chase it will be in Gabriels point of view. Do you like that idea?

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