Anything For Rachel

Chapter Thirty Nine.

I risked one more glance over to Calvin and I caught his awed smile. He looked proud of me as he turned back to Pedro where he was fighting with Demetri. Pedro had him on his knees, and he was about to deliver the kill move, but Calvin called to him. "He's mine!" He told him and Pedro held him still until Calvin could get there while Patrick coward in the corner behind them.

The girls and I took out the next two men, acting as one until, me taking the men down, then Octavia and Lexton finishing them off and throwing the pieces everywhere.

Cromley was finished with his half of the men, and he rushed around the room, taking the body parts and throwing them all out into the hall outside of the room and lighting it all on fire.

It was hard to tell how many were still left because with all of the things my mind was having to process the mirrors all around us kept throwing off my count, but there were definitely only a few of the rebels still alive including Patrick and Demetri.

I heard Demetri cry out and I saw Calvin had him on the floor, his hands around his neck and a gaping hole already in his chest. Behind them, Pedro was taking down the last man in front of Patrick, but when I looked at Patrick I thought it was weird that he had his back turned to them and he was doing something in the corner, and then when he spun around, right after Calvin had killed Demetri, he slapped Pedro and the other man aside, both of them screaming out in pain as the black elbow high gloves that Patrick now had on connected with their skin.

Calvin tried to turn around fast enough, but Patrick's juniper laced gloved hands were wrapping tightly around Calvin's neck and he screamed out.

"Calvin!" I shouted and Cromley rushed back into the room and Renard backed up after taking down the last rebel near him.

We were all frozen.

Octavia, Lexton, and me were near the back of the room on the side closest to the door, and Renard and Cromley were just a few feet ahead of us and to the right, while Pedro and the last rebel standing were in the far side of the room to the right of where Patrick was holding the love of my life.

"No one moves or I will kill him!" Patrick screamed angrily, his hair a mess and his eyes wild. "I'll snap his neck!" He yelled as he yanked Calvin up to his feet and his screamed out in gurgling pain. The way Patrick was holding Calvin made it impossible for any of us to rush him and take him down without endangering Calvin.

I couldn't believe where we were right now. Against so many odds we'd managed to have gotten the upper hand in the battle, yet still, here I stood with no Rose, and Calvin in front of me being tortured. We were out of options.

How the hell did Patrick even get those gloves? There wasn't anything in the corner, and he couldn't have just been keeping them on him or they would have hurt him. He tightened his grip on Calvin and his knees went weak, but Patrick kept yanking up on him, the sizzling sound of Calvin's skin mixed with his mangled cries tearing me apart inside.

"Just admit defeat." Patrick said coldly. "You've all failed. The girl isn't here, and you'll never find her!" He told us. "Leave now, and you'll have at least a chance of living until my new army hunts you down. I'm giving you a chance to go, hide if you want, but if any of you move on me now, I will force you to watch me kill the king."

I closed my eyes, unable to believe that we'd come this far just for things to come to this. Rose had to be here. She just had to.

The blueprint of this room popped into my mind and I remembered memorizing the exact size of this room, yet now that I was thinking about it, the room was actually much smaller than it should have been. I popped my eyes back open and everything became so clear.

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the first thing I should have seen the moment I walked into the room but with all of the craziness, it had escaped my notice. Now though...now the only thing I could see was the small fairy toy lying in the corner of the room opposite from the one that Patrick was holding Calvin on.

The mirrors.

The room is too small, and there's a toy, and Patrick had to get those gloves from somewhere. The panels of mirrors. Rose has to behind one, just like those gloves must have been. They'd built hidden compartments into the walls and hidden them behind the mirrors. Rose is here.

I took a step forward without thinking, and Octavia yanked my hand back.

"I said no one moves or I kill him!" Patrick screamed again.

I widened my eyes at Octavia and Lexton, then tilted my head ever so slightly to the direction of the toy and they both looked at it, keeping their faces relaxed.

I turned back to face Patrick, but Calvin was struggling against him.

"He's...He's going to kill me anyway!" Calvin choked out as Patrick squeezed tighter. "Kill him, its ok."

My body froze. "Calvin, no!" I yelled. "No!"

Calvin looked passed me to Renard and Cromley. "Find Rose, take care of them." He muttered breathlessly. "I love you, Rachel. Tell Rose too. Everyday." Patrick's eyes were wide, terror creeping in. "It's an order. I order you to kill him."

Everything happened so quickly, even my vampire senses felt overwhelmed. I began running as Patrick twisted his hands around Calvin's neck, the snapping sound piercing my ears, and Pedro jumped between them in the slightest of spaces. Cromley and Renard were rushing forward as Calvin's eyes went blank and his head slumped to one side, barely still attached. Renard caught Calvin's lifeless body as it slumped over and he pushed his head back upright with Cromley, while Pedro grabbed Patrick around the neck just as Patrick grabbed his. Pedro was screaming in pain, but he held firm to Patrick's neck until I grabbed Patrick by the shoulders and ripped him away from Pedro.

"I guess I'm always the one ruining your plans." I whispered menacingly into his ear as Pedro shoved his hand into Patrick's chest and ripped out his heart, then I snapped his neck a dropped his body to my feet.

Calvin's neck was fusing back together and his eyes were searching the room for me.

I froze in place, my heart almost feeling like it was swelling knowing that we'd finally won. Calvin and I were both ok and we were about to save our little girl. I smiled at him, and he sighed in relief, smiling too.

Then the man in the back of the room ran for it.

He stopped in the doorway, pulling something from his pocket and tossing it forward. "I'm not dying for this cause!" He screamed, then disappeared to the left corridor and Renard shot from the room after him.

I turned back to the center of the room where I saw the grenade he'd thrown hit the floor and roll towards the corner that the fairy toy was in.

I looked over at Calvin, then I ran as fast as I could towards the grenade.

"Rachel! No!" He screamed, trying to get to his feet.

I knew what I needed to do.