NIGHT TERRORS
Eggsy tightened the shemahg around his head and sat in the corner of the room as another rocket struck the building.
"Merlin, How much longer are we supposed wait here?" Eggsy said into his radio.
"Until Lancelot gets back." Came Merlin's stiff response.
"Yeah, where da' fuck is Roxy anyway?" Eggsy replied.
"Still on recon." Merlin replied.
"Are you sure? She's been out of radio contact for to long." Eggsy said, hiding the worry from his voice.
"It's imperative that she maintains radio silence. Don't worry; Roxy's a big girl. She can take care of herself." Merlin replied.
"What?" Eggsy said.
"I said she can take care of herself. Are you listening to me Galahad?" Merlin responded.
"Yeah, I heard that it's just…I never heard you say her real name since training." Eggsy said.
"C'mon Galahad. Pull yourself together. This is just another mission. You and Lancelot have been on hundreds of them." Merlin reminded.
It was true. It's been three years since V-Day, and Eggsy had taken Harry's place as a Kingsman agent, and did his best to honor his mentor's memory.
In those three years, he and Roxy had managed to stop terrorists and fanatic alike from completing their twisted agendas. Together, they've exposed corruption, toppled regimes, and ended dictatorships.
Through all this, and more, Eggsy had grown fairly fond of Roxy. He might go as far as saying he was in love with her. But He could not tell if the feeling was mutual, and for this reason, he found himself unnaturally afraid of asking. The worst torture to ever experience, never knowing, but too afraid to find out.
Now here he was, waiting her return, worrying.
Fear was part of the job. They risked their lives almost daily, and tomorrow was all but an uncertainty. But his fear did not stem merely from the job at hand. They were in Syria, in a small town he could not pronounce the name of.
They were hunting an ISIS commander responsible for murdering dozens of British citizens being held hostage in Syria. They had been in country for several days, looking for the commander's hideout where their Intel said, three more hostages were being held.
This was not just fear for his partner's life that he was experiencing. For months, there have been nightmares. Not the average monsters in the dark type of nightmares normal people had.
Every time both Eggsy and Roxy are somewhere, in some unknown place on an unknown mission. Every single time, it's the same setting, and the same outcome. He tells Roxy how he feels, and Roxy dies.
It may be paranoia, but it just seems so real.
Is this the place? Is this where I lose her?
Eggsy thinks to himself. He immediately pushes the thought from his mind as another rocket strikes the building.
The village he was in was under siege from ISIS forces and was putting up stiff resistance of its own. There was gunfire off in the distance, where a large firefight was taking place. There had been several large explosions in the direction of the fighting, but it was all too familiar to Eggsy.
This was not the first warzone he and Roxy had been in, and it sure as hell would not be the last. The Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, They've seen it all. Hundreds of missions all around the world, he and Roxy had become two of the best Kingsman agents in the agency's history.
Harry would be proud.
Another bomb exploded in the distance. Eggsy decided he would get some sleep before Roxy returned.
She'll return. Right?
Eggsy pushed the thought from his mind and allowed his eyes to close as he drifted of into a deep slumber.
"I'm running low on ammo." Roxy said.
"Me to," Eggsy replied, "Never thought it would end like this."
"What are you talking about? We still have our training. We still have some ammo." Roxy replied.
"Yeah, but still. You don't expect we'll be able to do this forever, do ya'? Sooner or later, you're gonna by i', and all you're gonna have is yourself." Eggsy replied.
"Is everything alright Eggsy? I've never seen you like this."
"Yeah, it's just…" Eggsy paused, "I've been alone a lot of my life. Always had to look after me self. But ever since I joined the Kingsman, ever since I met you, everything's changed."
"Eggsy, what are you talking about?" Roxy replied feeling her heart beat quicken.
"It's just… no matter how this ends, I don't want to be alone anymore. I want someone I can spend the rest of my life with, not just some cheap one night stand."
"That's mighty talk coming from a man who got laid by a princess." Roxy mocked.
"I'm serious Roxy," Eggsy replied, "We've been through thick and thin together, and you've always been there for me since day one of training. What I'm trying to say is…I think I love you."
Roxy struggled for her words, any words. She didn't know what to say, or how to react. She was taken completely off guard. Her heart was beating out of her chest now. She was terrified, excited, petrified, and aroused all at once it was hard to contain herself.
"Roxy?" Eggsy asked.
Roxy quickly regained her focus, leveling her gaze with Eggsy's.
"Roxy, are you okay?" Eggsy asked once more.
"Yeah… I-I'm fine… it's just… I-"
*BOOM*
A massive explosion threw both of them to the floor as several dozen men armed with M-4 assault rifles and PDWs stormed the room.
The two agents exchanged a glance and nodded to each other as they sprang back up from the floor.
They both raised their pistols and took aim at the platoon of soldiers in front of them.
They quickly began unloading their last magazines into the crowd, making every shot count and dropping a man with almost every shot.
One of the men tackled Eggsy and slammed him into a wall. Eggsy quickly did a flip, and threw the man to the floor, pulling him into an arm bar. Eggsy regained his pistol and blew the man's brains out with his last bullet.
More men stormed the area, and Eggsy saw Roxy beat down the last of a group of four by delivering a stiff knee to the chest and pistol-whipping him.
"Here!" Eggsy said, tossing her another pistol as more men stormed the room.
A man charged towards Eggsy again, but Eggsy shot out his knee caps and pulled him into a one armed head lock, using him as a human shield killing three more men as they entered the room. Eggsy pushed the men away and shot him dead as well.
Roxy dodged several punches from one of the soldiers. She quickly deployed the knife hidden in her shoe. The man attempted to strike her again, but she knocked it to the side and kicked him in the gut.
Pulling the blade from the man, she quickly delivered a swift backwards hook kick to another man rushing her with a baton. She swept the mans legs out from under him and delivered another kick with her shoe knife.
A squad of men opened fire from the entrance and killed the rest of the soldiers in the room. One bullet struck Roxy in the chest, while another struck Eggsy in the back of the shoulder. Both of them took cover behind separate walls as the hail of gunfire continued, shattering tile and windows.
"Are you okay?" Eggsy shouted over the gunfire.
Roxy pulled the bullet from her suit. There would be some major bruising later on, but the suit had done its job.
"I'm fine," she shouted back, "There's to many of them.
Roxy saw Eggsy pull something out of his jacket, "Get down!" he shouted.
Roxy saw him flip open a golden lighter and press down on the igniter. She ducked behind the wall as Eggsy threw the lighter behind the firing squad. The grenade went off with a tremendous explosion, clearing out the rest of the soldiers.
"Are you okay?" Eggsy asked standing up from behind the desk he was hiding behind.
"Fine." Roxy said standing up.
"Now that could have been worse." Eggsy shrugged.
There was a brief pause before the two broke into laughter at the thought of anything being worse.
"Shall we call Merlin and get a ride out of here?" Roxy asked.
"Sounds good." Roxy replied as she began to walk over to Eggsy.
Just then, bullet tore through the window and struck Roxy in the stomach, spraying bits of cloth and blood everywhere. The bullet had torn clean through the suit and had left a sizeable exit wound, a second later, the report of the rifle could be heard. It did not sound like a regular rifle at all, in fact, the low belch of the rifle sounded more resemblent of the sound of distant thunder.
Two more bullets tore through Roxy's right leg and left shoulder. Roxy cried out in agony as the of somebody dragging barbed wire through the bullet holes.
"ROXY!" Eggsy said as he ran to her aid.
Just as he reached her, Eggsy felt something slam into him from the side followed by a thunderous roar. The blast wave was so powerful it lifted both of them off their feet and flung them across the room towards the large viewing windows with little effort. Eggsy managed to stop himself on part of the window frame, lodging a large piece of glass in his left shoulder. He looked down and saw that he had caught Roxy by her left hand with his right hand, and she was Dangling over the edge of a skyscraper, but she appeared to be unconscious.
"Roxy!" Eggsy shouted.
"ROXY!" Eggsy shouted, this time louder.
This time, he saw her head begin to stir as she regained consciousness.
"OH MY GOD!" She screamed as she looked down at the long drop.
"It's okay, it's okay! I got you!" Eggsy said, "Just look at me, only at me." Eggsy said.
Roxy shifted her gaze from the long drop up towards earth.
"Don't drop me!" Roxy shuddered. The fear in her voice was all to present.
"Don't worry, I'm going to pull you up. Give me your other hand!" Eggsy said, reaching for Roxy's injured arm with his left arm.
Another bullet tore threw Eggsy's right buttocks as he did. Eggsy let out a brief cry of pain.
"Are you okay?!" Roxy asked, seeing Eggsy's face contort.
"Fine!" Eggsy replied as he began to bull Roxy up.
Two more shots tore through Eggsy's lower back as the mysterious sniper tormented him. Eggsy let out another cry of pain.
Roxy looked on helplessly as her partner's cries of pain were lost in the wind.
"Eggsy!" Roxy shouted as another bullet tore through Eggsy's right shoulder.
Eggsy coughed up some blood as Roxy felt his grip on her hand loosen.
"Eggsy stay with me. You can do this. Stay alive!" She said.
"Don't worry, I've through worse scrapes than this." Eggsy wheezed. Roxy realized that a bullet must have also punctured one of his lungs, and she felt his grip loosen even further.
"Eggsy! I'm slipping!" She shouted.
Eggsy tightened his grip and fought to keep consciousness and pull Roxy up at the same time, but he couldn't. The pain was excruciating.
He had been shot five times, and one of the bullets had torn through his back and chest cavity, puncturing a lung and causing it to collapse. Although he was bleeding out, his first thought was to save Roxy. He had held on for as long as he could, fighting off the pain and blood loss. But his strength was waning. He was almost positive something had nicked his abdominal aortic artery, and was only doubtful do to the fact he was still alive.
"I got you!" Eggsy said attempting to pull Roxy up yet again. Two more bullets instantly struck Eggsy in the back, causing him to slump over. The last of his energy spent.
"Eggsy!" Roxy cried.
"Don't let go!" Eggsy said.
"I'm slipping!"
"I got you!"
"Eggsy," Roxy said, "If I don't make it through this-"
"Don't talk like that! You said yourself, we're making it out of here!" Eggsy shot back.
"I can't hold on much longer." Roxy said.
"I got you. I'm not letting go!" Eggsy said.
"Just listen," Roxy shouted, "I just want you to know, that I-"
A bullet hit the side of Eggsy's head and knocked him out for a moment. His grip loosened once more.
"Eggsy!" Roxy said as Eggsy quickly regained consciousness.
"Roxy!" Eggsy shouted as she slipped from his grasp.
"EGGSY!"