Tom looked up first when she screamed for them to stop. And in reward he got sucker punched right in the jaw; the blow sent him sprawling on his back but Sarah was then pointing the gun directly at Axel so that ended the fight.
"Did you find the card? The box with our picture in it?"
Tom asked her as he cuffed the blood from his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt. He had told her that he had found proof of Axel's guilt in the cabin, evidence she needed to see to understand just what the man she knew as her husband was capable of.
"He wrote the same words in Megan's blood on the wall in the alley. You have got to believe me."
"Tom, how did you know that Megan is dead?"
"What do you mean how did I know, you told me Sarah...you must have told me."
But even as he spoke the words he didn't sound so sure of them himself. She had to have told him though, how else could he have known? His head...he pressed his hand to his head and fresh blood was coursing from the wound again.
"I didn't tell you anything. I didn't tell you she was dead and I never told you what was written. You killed her...I believed you and you killed her...you killed them all."
"Sarah, I didn't kill anyone. Please, Put the gun down I didn't do this, I swear I didn't do this."
"Shoot him. Just shoot him Sarah how much more proof do you need?"
Both men were making their way to their feet; Axel was a little faster, a bit less worse for the wear but Tom was both desperate and determined. So he made up in spirit for what his body was lacking in strength.
Sarah moved slowly toward Axel, but only a step before her eyes sought out Tom's and she saw the pure agony in his gaze; she could see his leg was buckled now; he couldn't put weight on it at all and the only thing keeping him on his feet was the gas tanks he was using to climb to his feet.
There had to be another explanation for this...it couldn't be Tom, but then how did he know about Megan...She turned the gun on Axel, and then back on Tom and stood there shaking and confused and near to sobbing.
"Listen to me, shoot us both. Shoot us both and get out of here. Take the gun and run, call the police...it's the only way for you to be sure. It's the only way Sarah."
Axel had his hands up and stood his ground. She looked at him disbelieving what he was saying. How could he think she would shoot either of them?
"No...please...please just let me think...give me a minute to think."
She lowered the barrel then and Axel was the one that lunged for it. He pushed her aside and stepped in front of her protectively, pointing the gun at Tom and firing.
At the same moment Tom's hand fell to the handle of the blood covered ax and he grabbed it and swung as Axel fired, planting it deep into the man's stomach before falling back.
Not thinking about the methane tanks behind the man as he aimed and put a bullet through his side and out his back. Tom barely had a second to react to the shot when the tanks exploded behind him in a fireball that sent him flying as the tunnel partially collapsed around the three of them.