BEAUFORT'S TORMENT
Summary: Tragedy strikes when and where you least expect it. When McGee has to choose between love or family, what will be the consequences? Written for the NFA Little Sister Challenge. Part of the Buchanan series.
WARNING: This is a story inspired by one of the darkest days in late modern American history, and about a violent trend of actions that have shocked America. That is the reason for its rating. I will try to write with sensitivity towards all those involved, and please be aware that I respect all those who died and were wounded during the real incident that inspired this story.
In loving memory to all fallen Hokies. You are not forgotten.
Tornado Warning
Tuesday
6:14 am
The sun shyly rose above the campus, illuminating with a pale yellow light the three story buildings spread out on the vast expanse of green and trees that marked Waverly University. In the co-ed dormitories, the darkness retreated to its hiding corners, as some students were slowly waking up, getting ready for a new day of study, and some were just arriving, after a long night of beers and wild parties.
In a small room at the end of corridor of the second floor of Wilmington dormitory, he slowly rocked himself, moving his body in fetal position forward and back, preparing himself mentally for his final act in this world. He looked at his tools laid out before him, certifying that none were missing.
After being mocked, hurt, humiliated and bullied for his entire life, those who dared to cross his path would finally receive the fitting end for their miserable existences.
He would make his mark in this world, and in it his goodbye letter would be written and signed by blood.
None would receive mercy, as no one had ever granted him mercy.
They would all pay.
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Lazy hands slowly traced the graceful curve of a female back, bringing shivers of delight to the young woman laying on her belly just a couple of rooms down the corridor.
Loving eyes followed the movement of the hands, and he was fascinated by the perfection of form and color before him, and he never got tired of admiring it under the faint dawn light.
"You're staring again, Matt."
Matthew Buchanan smiles at the beautiful female who was before him, who shook his life like a storm and had only a faint idea of the power she held in her little soft hands.
"I'm an admirer of beauty," he leans down and kisses Sarah McGee's shoulder, "and I have a masterpiece before me."
Sarah smiles at his flattery, and rolls so she can look at his eyes. Since they started dating a couple of months ago, since the fatidic kidnapping of his sister - who by the way happened to be Sarah's brother's girlfriend - the youngsters were (not so secretly) meeting. Whenever his commitments with the Marine Corps allowed, he would fly over and stay with Sarah, romancing her in the most outrageous Buchanan way.
"Flattery will get you nowhere," he smiles at her, and leans down to kiss her on her lips. After a while, he looks into her eyes, and "I don't want to go anywhere but here, exactly where I am."
Sarah gives him a toothy grin, and pushes him away, leaving the bed. He observes her going around the dorm room, getting her clothes to start her day. He looks around the room, and it is a typical dorm room like any other in America, with books and clothes thrown around the place, in a messy way. Sarah's side was marginally more organized than her roommate's side, but the amount of clothes and books piled up one on top of each other on the floor was still staggering.
Sarah's roommate had slept somewhere else that evening, and had not returned yet. So Sarah had invited Matthew for a private gathering, and they had not left the whole night.
Ah, life is so good to me.
He is hit in the face by his trousers, and he fakes indignation, "Hey."
"Get ready fast, I want to leave for breakfast before Lisa arrives," she says smiling at him.
He stands up and starts putting his clothes on.
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6h20 am
He opens his eyes, after keeping them closed for some moments doing mental exercises, imagining the glory of this day, and stands up from his position on the unmade bed, and gets a backpack and starts putting the things he will need in it.
He had somewhere to go.
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6:41 am
Sarah and Matthew leave the dorm building, walking briskly towards the coffee shop just a couple of blocks down the road. They are still holding hands and have idiotic satisfied smiles on their faces.
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6:46 am
A door is kicked open, and a man enters the dorm room, startling its occupants out of their slumber. One of the girls looks at the invader, and she recognizes him, but does not recognize the angry look on his face nor the evil looking gun in his hand.
A shot is heard, and the girl, barely out of her teens, falls forward in a pool of blood. Her roommate, seeing the fate of her friend, opens her mouth to release a terrified scream, which is forever silenced by another shot.
One of the resident assistants hears the noise, and goes to investigate its source. He runs from his room towards the origin of the gunshots, and is caught by surprise by a gun turned towards his face as soon as he enters the two girls` room.
He never saw it coming.
And that was just the beginning.
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