A/N
I apologize in advance.
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Daisy
Sitting in this damn safe room makes me feel sick to my stomach. My heart hurts and my mind feels like it's going to explode. I try to keep my breathing calm and my mind clear.
Sitting around and listening to the shots ringing through the house makes me feel nauseous. Memories from two years ago come back from when I was stuck in this exact same position. Knowing that my brothers and friends are out there right now and I am doing nothing makes me feel weak and useless. Truth is, I am weak. I can fight and I can kill but I just can't do it anymore.
I hope this is all over soon.
I grip my gun and set the safety off. I check the chamber seeing it fully loaded. Nodding my head I start humming a random tune I heard years ago. Hoping that it will help calm me down. But the thing is when the sound of gunshots and yelling are going on through the house it's next to impossible to relax.
Out of no where four knocks hit the door. Not three. My heart rate picks up and I ready my gun pointing it at the door.
"Daisy, doll let me in." Anthony's muffled voice orders from the other side. I start shaking my head trying to keep the tears at bay but miserably failing.
I've never felt so scared. He is the devil and he's outside my door. He's the reason I'm tainted, why I am a murderer. He's the reason why I missed out on two years of my life. He tortured me, made fun of me, and took me from the one good thing in my life. He would taunt me, belittle me, and make me feel worthless.
I hate him. He ruined everything.
He ruined me.
"Oh Daisy, when I unlock this door you will wish you followed my order at the beginning." He roars from the other side.
I look around the space in a panic. I need to escape. Seeing the door to Dante's flower garden I start playing around with the handle.
I hear something click from the door that Anthony is trying to get into. Pushing the door to the back open I run through the flower field.
"DAISY!" He screams coming out the door and setting off in my direction. Tears stream down my face as I run through the garden. Squishing the beautiful flowers and destroying the areas surrounding makes me sad. But I keep pushing on.
If I have to run until tomorrow I will. He can't have me again. He just can't.
He's still calling for me and he's getting closer and closer. I won't make it. I will never out run him. I am weak.
Yet here I am pushing through, and straining my muscles. My lungs are in desperate need for a break and my ankles start to burn. My legs feel like massive bricks and it takes all I have to move them across the field.
But when the all too familiar feeling of a burning sensation makes it's way through my right like I drop to the ground.
Too shocked at first I don't feel anything but I do hear a loud ringing through my ear. Looking around I try to make sense of what happened but when I look down to see the hole in my leg that is gushing blood through my pants, I finally realize what just happened.
I was shot in the leg.
Out of nowhere my right leg starts to burn and my head gets fuzzy. Everything is spinning and it feels like an incredibly hot peice of metal is stuck burning into my flesh. Crying out in pain I don't care that Anthony is coming.
I never had a chance anyways.
Let's just hope he kills me quickly. It's the least I deserve.
He's still making his way over to me which gives me a little more time to think before the inevitable.
I think about my brothers and dad. They were my everything and even though I haven't done much with them lately I always thought I would have more time to spend with them. I'm just glad I got to hug them all one last time.
I hope they know how much I loved them. I hope they don't hurt themselves like they did last time.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, oh hunny, you shouldn't have run." Anthony laughs at my weak body.
"Wouldn't- have mattered. They're going to... kill you." I say coughing in between my words. My leg is on fire and it is moving all over my body. I taste metal in my mouth but I try and ignore it.
"At least you're going first." He chuckles. "You ruined everything, my life, your mothers life, your brothers life, you are worthless, weak, and pathetic. You are not a King. Your brothers will be better off with out you."
"Just kill me already Anthony." I hiss. The pain is turning unimaginable and I don't know how much longer I can stay awake with the searing hot pain spreading through my right leg.
"Why would I do that doll?" He crouches down and starts moving my hair out of my face. "Well look at you. Bleeding out in a daisy field, did you know the flower daisy resembles innocence? Ha! There is nothing innocent about you my doll. Daisy the 'innocent' murderer. You are going to die a murderer, in a daisy field by yourself surrounded by 'innocence' It's classic!" He taunts me which makes me want to cry even more.
"I know." I whisper so quietly he had a hard time hearing.
"Sorry doll I couldn't quite catch that." He says with his sinister smirk. I make the motion of getting closer.
If I'm going to die so will he.
I grip my gun and wait until he put his ear right above my mouth. "Rot in hell." I grumble before pulling the trigger on my gun hitting the side of his neck. At the same time as I pull my trigger one more shot rings through the air.
After the second shot the pain that is still in my leg I also felt in my abdomen.
He shot me in the stomach.
In shock he grabs the side of his neck where blood is gushing. We look at each other as we both bleed out.
"DAISY!" I hear someone's voice scream across the field. I don't break eye contact with Anthony though.
Staring at him I watch as he finally drops to the ground and his body relaxes. He's dead.
I look up at the sun which is now setting in the distance. A soft pink and orange sky mixes in with the clouds. It's so beautiful I could almost paint it.
My throat feels clogged and the taste of metallic blood creeps up through my throat as I feel my own blood drip down my chin.
"Daisy!" The voice seems closer. Looking up I see my brother Xander. He looks shocked and indifferent to what he's seeing. He drops down to his knees as he puts pressure on my wound.
"X-an-der." I gurgle out. The blood not helping much with my English.
"HELP! HELP!" He screams towards the house. "Baby I need you to stay with me, everything is going to be okay. Daisy baby, stay awake!"
It's hard though. My body is so tired.
"You stay awake! Don't you dare close your eyes! Please don't leave me, open your eyes Daisy!" He yells crying.
I open my eyes looking at Xander's sobbing figure. "I-I, lo-love, you-guys." I manage to say.
"I love you baby, oh I love you so much, stay awake for me yeah? Keep your pretty eyes open baby." He begs me. I can't though it hurts too much.
My mind starts getting fuzzy and I turn my head looking at the extraordinary colours in the sky. I lose my surroundings. Xander's and other voices are muffled as I let a smile appear on my face.
Freedom.
With that thought my body feels comforted and I shut my eyes for good surrendering to the feeling of pure bliss. My last thoughts being how peaceful I felt.
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Xander
As the saviours attack Dante's home all of us start taking down his soldiers it doesn't look good for us for the first five minutes of fighting.
From the corner of my eyes I saw Henry in a bad situation but Lara easily took the man on top of him out.
James and Dante were fighting alongside each other, Noah and Roman were together, I was with Deja, and Matteo and Jade were fighting alongside each other.
Our soldiers are swiftly taking Anthony's men out.
But where the fuck is Anthony?
Shouting comes from my left as I kill another person. I watch as Matteo takes out someone attacking both Noah and Roman saving their lives. But as I'm looking at them I hear Deja yell 'look' but I didn't register it in time when three men attack the two of us. Two take me down and one gets her. I hear two shots before a third and that's when I see Matteo standing above myself. He helps me out under the bodies and gives me a nod. I give him back a small appreciative nod before helping Deja up.
"You alright?" I question her checking her for injuries. She grunts and turns around starting to fight more people.
Watching as she takes on more people I catch a strickenly familiar figure turning a corner to the left side of the house.
I have a terrible feeling about how the person is walking slowly and heading for the exact direction Daisy is.
But I can't go, not yet at least as I see four men charging for me. I bring my gun up shooting three out of the four before my guns runs out of amo. Just as he was about to reach me he drops to the ground from a single shot to his head.
Looking towards the direction of the shot I see Deja winking at me. I shake my head with a small smile before running towards James.
"Hey James!" I call out.
"Kind of busy here Xan." He grunts shooting another saviour.
"I saw someone going towards where Daisy is, I'm going to check it out alright?" I let him know.
He nods and shoots another person. Not wasting anytime I run towards the safe room like my life depended on it. My heart races faster than ever before and my legs pick up their pace.
Swerving through the long halls of Dante's home I make my way to his safe room. The only thought in my mind was getting to Daisy before it's too late.
When I reach the safe room my heart drops seeing the open door, the room is empty. Walking into the room I see the escape door ajar.
Fuck.
I run through the door stopping once I get onside. I hear a loud cry instantly knowing it as Daisy's. Searching through the massive fields I see a large brooding figure standing over something or someone at least half a mile a way.
Even from afar I know who the figure is and who he's standing over.
It's Anthony standing over Daisy.
I start sprinting towards them begging my legs to move faster, fuck how did they get this far? My legs are getting tired and my heart rate has skyrocketed as I push forward trying to get to my sister in time.
But as I am only half way there I hear the most devastating sound a brother could hear.
Two gunshots.
The figure drops to his knees and that's when I know he won't last much longer. So now I yell to her.
"DAISY!" I scream so loud my throat aches. Pushing my body faster and faster I start to approach her laying figure. "DAISY!"
When I reach her though I see the worst sight someone could ever see. Blood pools around my sister and in two spots on her clothes there are bullet holes and blood staining her attire.
I drop to my knees and put pressure on her most fatal wound. She was shot just bellow where her stomach is. The other gunshot wound is on her right leg. It didn't hit any major arteries I could tell but it is still bleeding like crazy.
Her face is white as a ghost. Blood is trickling down her chin as she looks at me with sadness and fear.
"X-an-der." She tries to speak. Oh no.
"HELP! HELP!" I scream in fear. Oh my poor baby. She can't die, she can't. She starts closing her eyes. No. "Baby I need you to stay with me, everything is going to be okay. Daisy baby, stay awake!"
She starts to close her eyes again.
"You stay awake! Don't you dare close your eyes! Please don't leave, open your eyes daisy!" I cry to her. She opens her eyes looking at me.
"I-I, lo-love you-guys." She speaks to me. This can't be happening. This can't be happening.
I can't believe this is happening. We failed to protect her again.
"I love you baby, oh I love you, stay awake for me Yeah? Keep your pretty eyes open baby." I beg her. She needs to know how loved she is. She needs to know she isn't alone.
Looking away I see all of our brothers making their way towards us.
Looking back at Daisy I can see her looking at the sky. A look of relief takes on her face.
No this isn't good this isn't happening.
They reach us and all fall down to Daisy. They all are crying as I watch her shut her eyes and not open them.
"NOOO." James screams. Henry pushes all of us out of the way and takes her unconscious body off the ground.
"DANTE CALL YOUR DOCTORS RIGHT NOW!" He screams at a shocked Dante. They both start sprinting towards the house.
Yet I can't bring myself to leave the field. Seeing her blood staining the once perfectly white daisies haunt my eyes and James cries haunt my ears.
Walking over to Anthony I start screaming and beating his dead body. "YOU FUCKING BASTARD! YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED THE BEST PERSON IN THIS WORLD. YOU KILLED HER!" I scream sobbing my heart out. I drop to the ground and cry so loud I can't hear anything around me.
"You killed her." I accused his dead body. I feel arms tug me to them and I smell James woodsy scent.
He hugs me so tight while we both cry. Looking up at Roman and Noah I see them crying together as well.
Daisy, I'm so sorry.
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Sorry! But there is a double update today!
I couldn't just leave you guys on such a massive cliff hanger. So, as my Christmas gift to you all I gifted you two chapters. Also, yesterday I had reached 200k reads and all I can say is wow! As the new year approaches this book has officially been out for three months or so and the amount of love I have gotten is astronomical. I want to thank you all for sticking around and reading my book.
I love you all so much.
Hope you like the next chapter!
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