PLS EXCUSE MY SHIT WRITING AND ERRORS!
I kinda almost cried while writing this chapter, idk I guess I just really visualised it as a sort of rlly intense action movie lmao.
READ THE A/N AT THE END ❤️
Happy Reading xx
t.m.
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H A R R Y 💀
"You must be Harry."
I halted in my tracks, spinning around quickly with my gun held up, only to find Viola and Hydra, along with a few other men who stood behind her. My jaw clenched at the sight of her smirk, fingers tightening around my gun as one of them lay on the trigger.
"Where's Scarlett?" I snarled, making her immediately chuckle deeply.
"That's none of your concern," she smirked, hands on her hips as she arched a brow at me challengingly. "Going somewhere?"
"Yeah, to find her," I snapped in an irritated tone. They were blocking the path to the exit of the warehouse. If Jade and I were to go back the way we came from and take another path, it would take way too long. This was the shortest route. "Get out of my way before I make you."
"Aggressive one, aren't you? Just like our Donovan, no wonder she was attracted to him so easily," Viola chuckled deeply when she noticed my vexed expression. My blood boiled in my veins as I tried my hardest not to let her words affect me. She loves me, not him, that's all that matters.
"Too bad she had him so whipped she used him as a spy for our benefit," I couldn't help but say, a smug expression etching upon my face when hers fell.
"So what? Clearly he was useless, because you're still here and Scarlett is somewhere you'll never find her," Hydra stepped up with a snarl, speaking in a harsh tone that made me lower my brows and narrow my eyes into slits.
"We will find her," Jade growled back, gripping her knife so tightly her knuckles turned white. "And you're not going to live to see another day."
Hydra's eyes narrowed at her response, immediately provoked by it, stepping forwards with his two knives in hands before Viola's arm jutted out to stop him. Behind Viola and Hydra, one of her men started talking into an earpiece, pressing his fingers against his ear and moving his lips.
"Ma'am, the helicopter will be here in fifteen more minutes," he reported to Viola, making her scowl as my eyebrows shot up. That meant if Scarlett were captured, she'd be on the roof right now. But I wasn't sure if it was the roof of the apartment building or the warehouse.
"The other two bombs will go off together a little after it comes," he added, as I clenched my jaw and got ready to drive my knife into anyone who dared come across me.
"That means we can have a little fun," Viola grinned maliciously. "I sure am up for a little bit of torturing. Get 'em boys."
Right at her command, the men behind her including Hydra bolted, charging towards us as Jade and I took our fighting stances after exchanging a look. Hydra came charging at me first, jumping in the air and bouncing off the wall in the narrow hallway, fist flying to strike me. I ducked down immediately, before springing back up with my fist driving up from below in an uppercut. It struck him powerfully under the jaw, causing his head to snap upwards. But he barely flinched, shrugging the pain off and charging at me again.
The man was incredible talented in martial arts, something I always needed practice in because I wasn't the most flexible person at all. The next few seconds were just of us throwing punches at each other, jabbing with our elbows with grunts leaving our lips as we fought. At some point, the building shook again, shifting as it was slowly breaking down from the bottom. When that happened, Hydra lost his balance a little, giving me the opportunity to pull my leg up quickly and deliver a sharp kick to his stomach. The impact sent him stumbling back, before crashing into the wall when the building moved again.
I pulled my knife out from my pocket, gripping it tightly as I sprinted towards him, grabbing his shoulders and pulling him down. I drove my knee up into his stomach a couple of times, before tugging my arm up to drive the knife into his skull quickly. I felt his tight grip on my body loosen immediately as it slumped and he fell to the ground. I pulled my knife out of his head, grimacing at the blood covering my precious blade before ducking down and quickly wiping it against his t-shirt.
When I looked up I found two other people sprinting towards me, one of them had a gun in his hands, holding it up with a finger on his trigger. Viola didn't want me dead right? She wanted to torture me so obviously they weren't going to kill me. But that didn't stop them from shooting at me, causing me to pull into a different hallway, pressing my back against the wall.
Panting heavily, I clutched my knife in hand and waited for a moment until the gunshots stopped. As soon as they did momentarily, I curved around the corner and chucked the knife at high speed, causing it to speed through the air and impale one of the man's throat. The other man was distracted by the way I killed this one, allowing me the perfect opportunity to come charging at him, knocking the gun out of his hands and grabbing his face. Effortlessly, I twisted his head with my hands and snapped his neck.
I smirked down at the dead man, before I felt a large blow against my head. My body doubled over as my vision blurred, feeling blood trickle down my temple as I felt myself lose consciousness quickly all of a sudden. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Jade lying on the floor. My heart dropped in my chest at the sight; unsure whether or not she was dead. I didn't have any more time to ponder as I quickly passed out due to the throbbing pain.
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Blood spurted from my mouth as a result from the fiftieth blow I received to my cheek. I was tied up and being tortured mercilessly. I had passed out earlier, due to someone hitting me behind the head with something extremely hard and powerful. I felt utterly useless right then, unsure about where Scarlett was and whether Jade was dead or not. I was unsure of where everyone was, were they still here in the building or have they already left. These thoughts occupied my mind only during the moments I had time to breathe after I was pummeled again.
"Where is the fucking helicopter, Dean?" Viola snapped at the man who spoke to her earlier.
"It's still coming, Ma'am," the man responded immediately, making her scowl.
It had been a few minutes after I was tied up and tortured, I tried my hardest to tug at the ropes, cursing when I still couldn't free myself. Viola approaching me brought me back to reality as I snapped my head upwards to gaze at her with cold fury-filled eyes while she chuckled, stroking my cheek. I jerked my head to the side in disgust.
She started speaking to me, muttering things about Scarlett and Donovan that honestly made my blood boil, but also motivated me further to get out of this mess and find Scarlett. I suddenly remembered that I had a lighter in my back pocket, so while she spoke to me in her manipulative voice I tried my hardest to pull that out. As I kept my face straight and emotionless, I managed to get the lighter out, using it to burn the ropes behind me. Luckily there wasn't anyone behind me, the others were just pacing around or watching from in front of me. I slowly devised a plan as to how to take everyone in this room down.
"You know I think many people walked in on them doing it in the most random places! They were always going at it like bunn-"
Viola's sentence was cut off when I suddenly broke free from the ropes, grabbing her face with lighter in hand as I had it on with the fire burning, shoving it into her open out. The scream she tried to emit came out strangled as she clutched my hands, trying to reach into her mouth, but I wouldn't let her. Just as this was happening, somebody had broken into the room and started firing shots. I was too busy to notice who it was as I was solely focused on burning this woman alive, before I noticed a streak of brown hair behind her.
"Harry!"
It was Scarlett. My heart soared in my chest as I threw Viola to the side and sprinted towards her. In the middle of all this chaos, we found each other, bodies slamming together as she jumped into my arms and wrapped her limbs around my neck. I hugged her back tightly, wounding my arms around her firmly and tangling my fingers into her hair. We pulled back just as quickly though, my eyes darting to both sides to take a quick glance to see if anyone was charging at us. But while I was trying to kill Viola, apparently Scarlett and Damien took out all the men here.
"You're okay!" I cried in relief, pressing my lips against her forehead in a short kiss.
However, her cries were momentarily paused when her gaze landed on Viola who was slowly dying behind us. Scarlett' arms unraveled from around my shoulders, pulling away and walking towards her with a knife in hand. I followed her, watching her crouch down in front of Viola who held her chin up and gazed at Scarlett with cold eyes.
"Do it, you've always wanted to," Viola managed to utter, her lips parted wide due to the searing pain in her mouth.
Scarlett gazed at her emotionlessly, her knuckles turning white from gripping the knife too tightly as she raised it up and pressed it against Viola's neck. Viola smirked in victory, before her smirk faltered when Scarlett pulled her knife back and gave her a cold smile.
"I'm not gonna kill you," Scarlett spoke, her tone deadly and cold, causing shivers to run down my spine at how uncharacteristically malicious she sounded. "I'm gonna leave you here, to burn alive so that you can suffer for what you did to me."
Scarlett then grabbed Viola's wrists, pulling her body up and sitting her down on the chair I was on previously. She grabbed the rope that was used to tie me to the chair, ignoring the burnt part, and using it to bound Viola tightly, preventing her from escaping. As soon as she was done, Damien called out from in front of the entrance of the room, saying that we haven't got time left. We approached him before Scarlett turned to speak to me.
"Harry, you have to get out of here, and I need to find Sami," she spoke desperately, her brown eyes wide as I inwardly groaned, completely forgetting about Sami.
Just then, the ground shook again, causing Scarlett and I to stumble and fall to the ground, a loud rumbling filling our ears. The walls around us started to shake as cracks formulated on the ground, causing my heart to drop in my chest. My mind was a mess as I tried to figure out what to do. I wanted to leave immediately with Scarlett, but I knew she wouldn't do so without Sami. I wouldn't either. I sucked a breath in and drew her close, kissing her lips firmly before I turned to Damien who was nearby.
"Damien, I want you to take Scarlett and get out of here-"
"Harry, fuck no! I'm not leaving you," Scarlett immediately began to protest, before the ground shook again, a crack appearing right beneath my feet.
I grabbed her hand pulling her further towards the entrance of the room with Damien following, ducking and swerving to the side when a piece of the ceiling collapsed to the floor. I grabbed Scarlett's tear-stained cheeks, staring at her deep in the eye and speaking again.
"Listen to me carefully baby, I need to find Sami, and I need to protect you. In order for me to protect you, you have to leave with Damien, that way I know you'll be safe," I tried not to choke on my words as she let out a small wail, full on crying now.
"I can't lose you, Harry," she shook her head, tears streaming down her cheeks as she held onto me when the building rumbled again. "Y-You said we can't be separated, and now that's all you want to do to us. We can find Sami together! H-Harry, please don't do this-"
"We have to leave! Now!" Damien yelled from the entrance. I turned back to Scarlett.
"Angel, I'm doing this for your safety and because I love you. You won't lose me," I smiled sadly, stroking her cheeks with my thumbs. "I'll be with you, always. Just go with Damien, be safe, please, for me."
"Harry," she cried again, shaking her head as she wound her arms around my waist and buried her face into my chest.
I held her there for a few seconds, knowing that she said yes to my request. My own tears fell into her chocolate locks as I pressed my lips against her hairline before pulling away. I grabbed her hand, tugging her over to Damien who stood by the doorway. I clamped a hand down on his shoulder, speaking to him quickly and firmly.
"Damien, I trust you. Please keep her safe," I told him firmly, watching his expression sadden and fall a little as he nodded.
"You have to come back, Harry," he said to me, making me nod in response.
"I will."
I tugged Scarlett towards me once again as we stood in the hallway that began to fall apart.
"I love you, Scarlett. Always."
"I love you Harry. Always," she whispered back before I pulled away, allowing her to follow him.
I watched them as they disappeared into a cloud of smoke. I turned in the opposite direction, sucking a breath in and making my way towards the hallway that lead to the staircase. Suddenly, the ground trembled violently, giving me the indication that the last bomb had gone off. I only had a few minutes to find Sami until this whole place goes down in ashes.
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S C A R L E T T 💣
"Damien! That was the last bomb!" I cried, hanging onto his arm pathetically as he guided us through the awful gulfing whirlpool of horror.
"We can't go back for him. I need to get you out of here first," Damien responded instead, gripping my hand tightly and tugging me along.
We neared the exit now. My lungs were screaming for a breath of fresh air, my legs aching terribly from the constant running as everything around me fell apart. I couldn't see much due to the tears blurring my eyes. Any sane person would know that Harry was as good as dead by the time I get out of the building, yet I somehow still had hope. I was somehow clinging onto his promise.
We broke out, staggering and falling to the ground as we both bent over sharply and began coughing loudly, due to the amount of time we spent in the smoke filled place. Pairs of hands grabbed us and pulled us further away from the building. I wasn't able to distinguish any of them as a loud cracking noise echoed throughout the distance. I spun around, watching in horror as the entire warehouse and apartment building began to collapse.
I felt as if my heart had exploded in my chest just as blasts of fires that erupted from different parts of the building, breaking out and soaring away to dissipate into the night sky. My knees buckled as a sob escaped my lips, falling to the gravelly ground while I watched the buildings crumble to pieces with gusts of smoke spouting upwards. Only one thought remained in my head as I watched it all fall.
Harry never came out.
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"Harry!" I cried out loud, my throat raw from all the crying I had done while I sauntered through the debris. "Sami!"
It had been three hours since the explosion. Small fires were dotted around the area, along with colossal pieces of concrete that filled up the entire place. I wasn't going to rest until I found Harry. I wasn't going to believe that he was dead until I physically see it for myself. My throat tightened at the thought, making me turn in the opposite direction as I called out his name again for the hundredth time this night.
My eyes started tearing up again when I thought about him and how he insisted on finding Sami and letting me go, knowing that I would've wanted to find Sami as well. But I never asked to be separated from him. I would've much rather been with him, looking for Sami and dying in this explosion than be here alive to live the rest of my life without him. Shut up, Scarlett. You still have to find him, you don't know if he's dead for sure.
"Harry," I whimpered, feeling utterly alone and hopeless as I stood in the middle of this catastrophic site.
"Scarlett," A soft but deep voice spoke up from behind me, making me sob again as I turned around slowly to come face to face with Damien. "My baby," I cried softly, bringing my hands up to my face as I began to cry again. I felt Damien's strong arms wrap around my trembling body as I began to weep again. "He's gone!" I cried out loud.
"Scarlett!" A loud voice echoed from the distance, causing me to pause my sobbing momentarily as I pulled away from Damien and squinted in the distance.
It was Vlad, waving hysterically as him and two other people tried to move a piece of debris. I immediately felt a gush of hope flood my body as I clumsily stumbled away from Damien, and began running towards them, jumping over large pieces of concrete. I arrived just as the other managed to move a large slab of concrete off someone I still had yet to recognize. My heart couldn't help but fall a little in chest when I realized the person wasn't Harry. But it was Sami.
"Sami!" I cried in relief, dropping to my knees and engulfing him in a hug. "Sami, oh my god you're alive!" I couldn't help but sob happily as he let out a tiny groan when I squeezed him too hard. "Oh shit, I'm so sorry," I cursed, pulling back and cupping his cheeks lightly, trying to examine him.
"Where does it hurt?" Jade crouched down next to me, trying to examine his body to see if he broke anything.
"I think I broke a couple of ribs," he whispered hoarsely, eyes still scrunched up. "And maybe my leg."
"Sami, where's Harry?" I couldn't help but whisper hesitantly, finally causing him to open his eyes.
"I don't know, Scarlett. He found me, but the building began to fall apart completely and I lost him," he told me softly, causing the tears to build up in my eyes. "Hey, hey, don't cry. If I'm alive, he must be alive too. We'll find him," he tried his best to reassure me, kissing my forehead as I nodded with the tears falling down my cheeks.
Once again, we began searching around the area we found Sami, keeping a close eye for Harry. The more I looked, the more I began to lose hope in finding him. But at some point, I spotted a body. When I approached it, I noticed the tattoos tainting the tanned skin. A wave of emotions hit me as I began sprinting towards it, noticing that there was a huge slab of concrete on it.
"Harry," I wept when I saw his face, his eyes completely shut with blood trickling down his right temple. "Damien! Vlad!" I yelled loudly, cupping the bottom of the slab and lifting it up and shoving it to the other side. "Oh my god," I whispered, crumbling down to the floor and pulling his fragile body up.
"My baby," I whimpered, feeling the tears burst from my eyes, spilling down my face as I cradled his head on my lap.
My fingers drifted down to feel his pulse, face paling and heart shattering into a million pieces when I couldn't find it. I scrambled for his wrist, pressing my fingers there as fell, again, finding nothing. I heard gasps and cries when the others came around, but I found myself blurring them out as I held him to my chest, pressing my palm to his face and leaning my forehead against his.
"Please, please, please don't die on me," I whispered hysterically, my salty tears dripping down onto his cheeks. "You promised. You promised me you'll always be with me, you promised, Harry!" I rocked myself back and forth with him in my arms, sobbing unceasingly.
"Scarlett." Someone mumbled from behind me, a hand touching my shoulder, quietly asking me to let go of his dead body but I refused, clutching him to my chest.
I mumbled hysterically, brushing his hair back and gazing down at his soft features, stroking his cheek as I took in every single detail. I still couldn't believe it, and I was refusing to believe it. I was about to wail his name out loud into the night's sky again until suddenly, his body jolted in my arms. My eyes widened with surprise when he gasped all of a sudden, inhaling deeply before coughing loudly.
"Harry!" I cried out in happiness, feeling the sobs choke my upcoming words as I immediately wrapped my arms around his shoulders tightly. "You're alive, oh god you're alive!" I wept heavily, feeling his arms slowly come around me.
"Scarlett," he murmured hoarsely in pain.
"Oh Harry," I held his head to my chest and stroked his hair, while he coughed lightly and groaned in pain, making me pull back instantly. "Where does it hurt, baby? What did you bre-"
"I love you," he managed to say, cupping my cheeks gently to gaze into my eyes while I stared back into his beautiful green ones that I was ever so happy to see.
"I love you too, Harry. Fuck, I love you so much, don't ever leave me like that again," I exclaimed glistening eyes as I sniffled and pressed my lips firmly against his forehead. "Don't leave me like that again, please, Harry," I hugged him tightly, clutching his curls while he nodded against me.
"I won't."
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💀 sorry if my descriptions of the explosions are shit because honestly I'm so bad with that kind of stuff. I promise I'll come and edit it once the book is over!! Also if people's reactions in the chapter seem exaggerated it's just cuz I was thinking up the scenario in my head and it makes sense ((((:
💀HOW WAS THAT CHAPTER YOU GUYS?
Did any of you predict HARRY would 'die' ??? Not Scarlett this time eh? ;)))
💀The next few chapters will lead up to the end of the book and I'm so sad it's ending fast :((((
But hey Scarlett and Harry will get the happy ending they deserve and so will you guys ❤️
Until we meet again...
t.m.