"I don't want to die, Hei!" She struggled in my arms, moaning and squealing, before finally she came to my chest and cried.
"You're not going to die. I'm going to cure you." I picked her up and laid her down on the bed, grabbing a blanket and placing it over her.
"Hei, I'm scared."
"Stay here, I'm going to come back as soon as I can." I rubbed her cheek with my thumb a few times before getting dressed and leaving the hotel room.
There are drug dealers all around the city gates who have random experimental cures for the disease. Some are legit, though the majority are just self-helping jerks looking for a buck. The legit guys will easily have your head if you don't pay the price they request, but even then they can't guarantee their cures to work. Everything is a game of chance, and I refuse to play that game when it comes to Yin. Whatever I get for her is going to work if I have to kill for it.
I know a man a few miles away from the hotel. He often helps me find supplies and keeps me updated on what's happening outside of the city. He doesn't stay in one area too long, but he comes back every now and then out of curiosity. Regardless of how much he's helped me, I'd never consider him my friend, I'm only going to him because I know he's legit.
Thoughts of life without Yin by my side soon clouded my thoughts and made my pace quicker. I soon found myself right by the man's alley where he ran his business.
"It's me." I said in a low tone, the man peeked his head out from the side and looked at me.
"Hehe, well, if it isn't my Black Reaper friend! What will it be today?" I still go by Black Reaper even today, considering the fact that I regained my powers finally.
"I need a cure."
"Well, you came to the right place. How far along is the victim?" He visibly saw that I wasn't bleeding from anywhere, so he knew it wasn't me who needed it.
"She's bleeding from the nose."
"Oh, so she's already got probably five days on her, right? Well, I've got one last vial, and I guarantee it to work." He pulled out a clear vial with a purple liquid inside. I reached for it but he pulled it away from me immediately.
"Uh Uh Uh… I want cash, lots of it, or your little sweetheart is going to suffer a bloody death."
"I don't have cash right now, I'll pay you later, I just need this right now."
"What is she to you?"
"What do you mean?"
"The girl, is she related to you? A daughter, a sister?"
"No, she's just…"
"Just what?"
"She's my wife." I lied, but everyone lies in this world.
"You're lying."
"What? No I'm not, she is my wife."
"She is not. She's merely a romantic interest that you have yet to make a move on. You love her, yet you keep your feelings for her under wraps. I don't respect a man who does that."
"Either way it's none of your business, I'm a customer who is promising to pay you, so I suggest you work with me."
"Sorry, buddy, but I know some places that are still virus free, and I'm heading to one of them tomorrow, and if I don't have my money now, I'm not going to give you your cure. Besides, I'm a mind reader, I know the moment you get your hands on this vial, you're going to take off and I'll never see you again. So either pay up, or have your darling girl die from something that could have been prevented."
A mind reader, it figures I'd end up facing him. I couldn't think, I had to act on impulse, I couldn't think about anything. I grabbed my knife and quickly went to jab it into his arm, but he moved and instead I caught his jacket.
"So, you wanna fight? I'm cool with that!" He placed the vial back into his pocket and took out a small knife in place of it. He swung it out and it transformed before my eyes into a sword.
"Ready, Reaper?" I came at him, and he swung the sword, but I ducked and held out my knife to slice his leg. He was surely hurt, but he didn't care, and he chased me down, not expecting me to fly right up above him, and then come crashing down behind him. He turned to face me and I grabbed his shirt, forcing him up against a wall.
"Give me the vial or I'll kill you." I held his neck, ready to send a thousand volts of electricity straight into his body, but all he did was laugh. I suddenly felt his blade slide right into my skin, just to the side of my ribcage, and he pulled down, leaving a huge slab of skin just hanging, blood drenching the snow below us. The pain was nothing compared to what I've had in the past, and I kept Yin in my mind. I had to get that vial, so while I was still holding him up, I shocked him, watching him squirm and scream until he lay dead and fried on the ice covered streets.
I reached down into his pocket and grabbed the vial, thankfully it was unharmed. I then searched his jacket and found a syringe needed for injecting the cure into her veins. I left the scene, with no guilt or pity for the man I just killed.
I walked back to the hotel, the vial in my hand, and a feeling of anxiety arose in my chest. What if this thing doesn't help her? What if it speeds up her illness? What if I have to spend the rest of my life without her?
No, I had to stay positive. This thing was going to cure her, she was going to be fine. Besides, she's early along anyways, even if it doesn't work I still have time to find her one that does.
I almost wished that my time spent walking would take forever, because as I reached the hotel room I knew it was either yes or no. Yin is cured, Yin isn't cured. Yin will live, Yin has a shorter chance of surviving.
I walked in to the cold room, and immediately I saw blood everywhere. The sheets were coated, the floor was spotted, the towel she was using was soaked. And when I looked for her, I found her by the window, naked, and sticking her hands into the snow outside.
There is a spolier for season 2 in this authors note, it's a tiny one though, just to warn you: Before anyone asks why Hei hasn't tended to his wound yet, let me just say this... That guy is one tough cookie, in season two he freaking had a stake driven through his back and he pulled it out and just kept walking like he flicked off a mosquito or something. He can handle a little slab of skin hanging from his body. For sure it hurts like hell and he's probably drenched with blood himself, but his entire focus right now is on Yin. So, that stubborn, sexy man is totally fine. :3 Hehe, well I hope you guys like it so far, it will get 10x better because I really stink at fight scenes and this one was no exception, but guess what! I'm studying fight scenes and this is part of my homework, so I'll definitely add some more action later on.
Later,
~*~*~MantaChick