AEAY II – Chapter Eight

Tawaya was hoping that she didn't have to do any more gods damn climbing. But here she was, climbing the side of another fucking building…

She mumbled under her breath and clicked her tusks in annoyance.

Her arms were sore and she hated this shit…

But she had a plan.

And hopefully it would work without a hitch.

'Think about meat… sizzling… bubbling up in a… in a greasy sauce.' She shivered and clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth.

"Oh sweetness… I can just see it…"

She remained silent but allowed herself a mute breathless chuckle.

"I'm going to lie down in the sun. Eat… drink…" she clicked her tusks "and that little human is going to rub me until his little hands come off."

She smiled under her mask.

Tawaya could just hear her little Jake complaining now. She was looking forward to hearing that voice…

-1-

"So… Tawaya? Do you like this?"

Jake ran his fingers along her legs as the odd couple sat in the shade on their private beach.

She cooed and looked upwards as his small fingers tried to massage her skin and tight calf muscles.

The female Yautja nodded.

"Keep at it Little Jake."

The young human smiled and giggled involuntarily.

He squeezed his hands around her left leg and lowered his mouth towards her skin.

Furrowing her brow Tawaya eyed him with suspicion.

"What are you…"

He pressed his lips against her and kissed a small line up towards her knee.

The taste of the salt water made Jake finish the action by licking his lips and wiping his mouth.

He looked up at Tawaya and she couldn't help but enjoy the strange practise.

His pink lips were so soft to the touch.

She growled and leaned forward.

Jake playfully stuck out his tongue and she eyed him sensually.

His voice became low and he began to put on a comical expression.

"Tawaya's so serious…"

He giggled again and leaned forwards to press his lips against her right leg but she moved her hand towards his face.

Jake stopped mid action as she poked his lips with her finger.

He stayed still and looked at her, his eyes watching hers as she traced one of her long nails along the edge of his lip. Expectantly he waited and he cooed as she clicked her black nail against one of his lip rings.

He parted his lips and slowly opened his mouth for her as she leaned closer towards him.

"What is this called?" she asked.

Bringing her hand away from Jake's face she pointed to her leg where he had been kissing.

She moved her hand up and down as she pointed.

Jake smirked and he couldn't help but enjoy the small bit of innocence Tawaya seemed to have.

"It's called kissing."

Tawaya watching him intensely before leaning back, and relaxing, Kessing…"

Jake shook his head and laughed.

"Ka, ii sing… Kissing." he corrected.

Tawaya nodded.

"If I were to let you…" she raised her right leg up and indicated he was to hold it.

Jake took hold of her calf and began rubbing it with his thumbs softly.

"… Keep kissing where would that, soft, mouth of yours end up?"

Jake smiled and his cheeks quickly grew red.

"well…" he giggled and rubbed his nose, "I don't know…"

He brought his lips towards her skin and kissed her again.

He laughed, and cringed at what he just thought of to say.

Taking a breath he kissed her again and then looked up, "I have a habit of getting lost…"

He tried to keep a straight face but immediately laughed and Tawaya couldn't help but click her tusks in amusement at the quip.

"Then just focus on the rubbing for now Little Jake."

Jake nodded but quickly snuck an extra kiss against the skin just below her knee.

"Got it." He said before pressing his thumbs against her, this time with a little more force than before.

Tawaya looked out over the water and sighed with satisfaction at the feeling.

"Could I get dressed maybe?"

Tawaya chuckled and looked him over.

"Ask again when you're done."

Jake raised an eyebrow, "Wait… what?"

She clicked her tusks and rumbled with a low laugh.

"You heard me Little Jake… Now keep going."

She cooed and purred.

-2-

When Tawaya finally reached the roof she nodded and paced around.

'Maybe this time around he'll be able to massage a little bit better.'

The back of her mind growled, 'Do you think he'll be in any condition to do that Tawaya? You fool…'

Shaking her head she looked at the roof below her feet and switched her vision mode.

Inside there were several humans grouped together, Tawaya could tell they were adult males, but what caught her attention was something that she hadn't counted on.

In a room away from the adult humans, was a smaller bio-signature.

'It couldn't be…'

She shook her head.

But below her the voices of the humans were getting louder.

'Jake?'

The same men who'd taken the bodies had captured her human…

'No… it makes sense…' she brought her hands to her sides as she knelt to a crouch.

'There must have been the same men I saw… they… the…'

Then she heard his voice.

It was muffled and the audio was distorted but she could tell that it was her Jake… He only said one word but she knew…

"I'm coming Jake…"

She stood back up and searched her belt.

"I'm coming Little Jake!"

Pulling a remote mine off her equipment belt she armed the device.

Under her breath she whispered while kneeling, "I'm coming."

She had adjusted the yield and the blast was going to be enough to get her in, but not take out the whole roof. When it was armed and ready she stood back up.

Stepping back from the explosive Tawaya took a deep breath.

"I'm coming right in on top of you, you…" she remembered a word Jake had used multiple times before. She clicked her tusks as the foreign human work formed in her mouth, "…fuckers."

Pressing the detonate button on her wrist gauntlet's screen she immediately overrode her instincts and leapt towards the fireball erupting in front of her.

Punctuating the action with a roar she descended through the hole the blast created and into the building below.

The familiar frightened voices of humans greeted her and she forgot all about her body's pain and its many injuries.

"What the fuck is that!"

"Get down!"

"It's the last one!"

The humans all began to yell and scream different things, and Tawaya drew her wrist blades.

"Shoot it! Shoot it!"

The humans started firing off their weapons and Tawaya skilfully dodged forwards while slashing at the man closest to her.

"Time to kill!" she growled in her native tongue.

To the humans they heard a terrifying growled sentence and venomous alien words.

-3-

Everett turned and jumped out of the way as Tawaya thundered down through the roof while Sherbrook stepped back from his men in frozen apprehension.

Agent Williams tried firing at Tawaya and in response was the first man to be attacked.

The uncoordinated movement of the men and their respective reactions to the sudden appearance of their quarry produced a chaotic flurry of motion.

Williams was closest to Tawaya and had his pistol leveled at her as soon as he saw the vaguely humanoid shape appear. Seeing the massive shining blades it was armed with made Williams empty his magazine as fast as he could.

The shots passed by Tawaya or embedded themselves into her chunks of armour she was wearing; a few pinged and ricochet off her helmet, lodging into the drywall.

Tawaya's wrist blades stabbed into William's chest cavity and she used her left arm to help raise his body in the air.

Sherbrook and agent Valdez raised their weapons and began firing. They tried aiming at the Yautja as best they could but on the other side of the hallway were Everett, Barry, and the doctor.

Several of their shots hit Williams while others soared past the creature and smashed the glass of the door behind Barry.

Finally snapping out of his stupor Barry dropped the food to his side and hit the deck. Simultaneously drawing his pistol.

Tawaya blocked Sherbrook and Valdez' view of her with Williams' corpse and as soon as they stopped shooting and she had a stable hold on it she responded by throwing Williams.

Valdez pushed himself to the side of the hallway but Sherbrook wasn't fast enough and Williams' body collided with him loudly.

Collapsing under the awkward projectile Sherbrook dropped his pistol and became pinned by his former subordinate.

Valdez yelled over the growling and screaming of Sherbrook. "Everett! Shoot it! Shoot it!"

Tawaya shook her head side to side and roared as loud as she could muster before looking to her side.

Everett stumbled along the wall as he tried to get distance between him and the alien.

Raising his pistol he tried aiming for centre of mass and as he pulled his trigger Tawaya easily lunged forwards and took hold of his throat.

Barry was hyperventilating and screaming nervously on the ground as his hands violently shook.

Valdez raised his pistol again and pulled the trigger.

His weapon clicked harmlessly and he ejected the empty magazine.

His hands shook as he ran them along his belt.

Reaching his holster he took hold of his second magazine and loaded it as fast as he could.

Everett struggled under Tawaya's grip and she roared again. Easily she squeezed her hand and broke Everett's throat.

Throwing Everett's body down the hall after Williams', Valdez tried firing his pistol.

Everett's body collided with Valdez and he stumbled backwards as he semi-caught Everett.

Tawaya sprinted after the body and drove her fist and her wrist blades through Everett's corpse and into Valdez.

Screaming Valdez tried to move his hand so that he'd be able to shoot the alien.

Pulling the blades out of Everett Tawaya placed a hand on Everett's shoulder and moved him off of Valdez.

The action twisted Valdez' shooting hand awkwardly between Everett's side and the corner of the wall, and as Everett fell away from in between them Agent Valdez came face to face, or rather face to mask, with an adult Yautja.

Shaking with rage Tawaya raised her right hand and drove her blades into Valdez' chest just below his throat, the metal cut through his muscles and broke his collar bone as it pierced through his lungs and heart.

When Valdez exhaled a sputtering last breath Tawaya stepped away and let him fall down the wall.

She rolled her shoulders and turned around. At the other end of the hall she saw two more humans; one on the floor cowering in fear, and another against the wall to her left, frozen and as still as a statue.

Barry still held his pistol but was now violently shaking as he lay on the ground.

To his right the female doctor's knees were bent slightly but had pushed her body against the wall as much as she could. Her hands were place against the wall with her fingers spread out, like she was going to be invisible if she made herself as thin as possible.

The Yautja let out a huff, finally breathing after her quick combination of attacks.

These two bore no threat to her at the moment.

Taking a step forwards Barry's finger slipped and he fired a single shot.

It flew past Tawaya and into the panelled roof of the hallway.

She growled and hastily took several steps towards the fat human cowering on the ground.

Barry began raising his voice in an involuntary scream as she got close. He started pulling his trigger again and again as she got closer. A few shots did actually hit her, but nine millimetre rounds were not nearly enough to critically wound a Yautja.

Barry's shots were actually the most accurate out of all the agents' and he scored several direct hits. One bullet hit her left arm, another went through the right side of her abdomen, and a third grazed her neck.

When she was within range Tawaya brought her foot upwards and it collided with Barry's hands.

The hit knocked the pistol out of his hands and actually broke several fingers in his left hand.

He tried to scoot backwards as he continued screaming.

Growling and letting out a small roar Tawaya leaned down and grabbed Barry by the back of his neck and shirt.

Easily she brought him upwards and she lifted him to his feet.

The sound of material ripping punctuated the action and she quickly let go of the shirt. With a swift action she brought her hand around and took hold of his neck.

Simultaneously she choked and lifted Barry off the ground.

His screaming stopped and was now muted. He gagged and continued to struggle under her grip.

Bringing her right hand up Tawaya was intent on gutting him open from groin to neck.

But she stopped.

"Tawaya?" a voice called out.

Barry's eyes were staring at the blades and he continued to kick and struggle without breath.

The Yautja turned her head to see over her shoulder and let go of Barry's neck.

The agent fell to the ground clutching at his throat and coughing loudly.

Tawaya looked down the hall and saw a small figure in a strange single piece of clothing.

"Tawaya, it's me…"

The Yautja felt her heart jump in her chest and she immediately began running towards the figure.

She clicked her tusks and choked on her words but finally exclaimed in English; "Little Jake?"

-4-

His Yautja thundered down the warzone of a hallway and Jake couldn't help but quiver with excitement.

"T-Tawaya!" he finally exclaimed.

He took a few barefoot strides before the two came together.

Tawaya lowered herself and extended her arms widely to either side of Jake and he in turn moved his arms upwards.

Without saying a word to each other and without having any additional communication Jake leapt upwards and towards Tawaya.

The Yautja in turn caught her human and brought him tightly towards her.

"Little Jake!" she growled.

Her large hands and arms wrapped themselves around his back and held him tightly.

Jake didn't even realise it but he had wrapped his legs around her abdomen and he had buried his face into her neck.

The boy's thoughts raced; 'I've got to smell her…'

The pressing of her body against his and the hands on his back made everything else fall away.

The world ceased to exist for a few seconds.

Jake couldn't feel anything except for what was going on inside his chest and her body against his.

She purred and cooed and made clicking noises as she ran one of her hands up and down his back rapidly.

It was as if she was inspecting him…

She couldn't believe he was here, she couldn't believe he was in one piece.

Her Little Jake was alive.

Right here,

In her arms…

"Little Jake…" she repeated, almost in disbelief.

He laughed and mutely giggled into her neck.

His arms were wrapped around her neck and he clung to her as close as he could.

But eventually his arms gave out and without any awkwardness Tawaya and Jake both knew to let go of the other. As if in a synchronised motion the two let go of one another, Jake descended back to the floor and Tawaya rose back up to her full height.

Jake then looked down at his body where he all of a sudden felt wet.

His arms and legs had bright green liquid smeared on them and he regarded it at first with confusion and then he looked up at Tawaya to see that where ever on him had green corresponded to a wound on her body.

"Tawaya! You're hurt!" he exclaimed.

She shook her head, "No… no, I'm not."

Raising her right hand she brought it close to Jake and touched the side of his jaw with it.

"I'm not…" she repeated.

Jake nodded and his eyes filled with an earnest expression of happiness.

His brow relaxed and he nodded with understanding.

"Don't f-fucking m-move!" They heard Barry yell.

Tawaya whipped back around to face the agent but she shielded Jake with her body. She kept her left hand on Jake's chest and she tensed her right while she brought it up to a fighting position.

As soon as she saw Barry Tawaya began a low rumbling growl in her chest.

"K-kid. You… you can talk with that thing?"

Jake tried to poke his head to the side of Tawaya to see around her as he responded.

"Yes, I can talk with her."

"H-her?" Barry spat out, in confusion.

"W-well tell her I d-dd-didn't do, f-f-fuck all!"

Tawaya lowered herself and Jake could tell she was readying her legs to move.

Touching her arm with both his hands Jake tried pulling her to turn back around and look at him.

"Tawaya, stop! You're not going to kill him are you?"

The young human's voice distracted her and she looked to her side.

"Tawaya?"

Barry was shaking and he held his pistol with his right hand, he seethed with pain and he leaned against the door behind him.

"Little Jake…" she responded.

Jake looked down the hall at Barry and at the doctor whose mouth was open in terrified interest.

Jake's heart beat loudly in his chest and he looked at Barry sadistically.

A strange sensation came over Jake.

He had an unbelievable power right now, and it dawned on him; he could get Tawaya to do anything…

A battle began in Jake's chest and his eyes looked up and down his Tawaya.

Her body was cut, bloody, and she shivered with strain.

He looked at her weapons, and his thoughts continued, 'she brought almost all her stuff to get me…'

Her wrists both had their gauntlets and her fists had blood on them. In fact she had red blood splattered across her chest and arms.

Looking back at his gown he saw that in addition to her bright green blood the bloody of Williams, Everett, and Valdez must have been on him as well.

'These fuckers… these fuckers who kidnapped me…'

He took a breath, 'these fuckers who… who took me in this fucking hospital gown… who hit me… who had me so fucking scared I nearly pissed myself…'

Jake shook his head.

'They had me so scared I was convinced I was going to die here in this… secret agent bullshit...'

'That fucking c-cunt Sherbrook who…' Jake's mind shot through with his fear driven thoughts, 'They would have like dissolved my body in acid and lied to my family…'

'These fuckers who… they were going to kill me… they lied. They all lied!'

Jake felt a strange desire come up the back of his neck.

A desire that his mind was telling him he was entirely justified in feeling.

'Most people want to get back at the people who fucked them… who hurt them…'

He remembered the strange feeling of satisfaction when he heard Williams, and Everett… and the third man who'd abducted him… he felt… glad.

Yeah…

Jake felt good that he heard them die…

He shook with a strange realisation.

He didn't actually feel guilty.

Jake remembered back to when he helped Tawaya kill the other Yautja… how he had felt physically sick…

Then Jake thought about how he'd felt since he woke up from the hospital; strange… kind of off… He thought he'd felt this way because of the drugs or something but, now in Tawaya's presence and with the choice he had in front of him.

He knew what he wanted to do…

He could… actually feel it in his skin, in his breath, and in the back of his head.

His heart pounded loudly and he could feel it throughout his extremities.

Then he finally spoke.

And for the first time in his life Jake felt powerful. It was the kind of power that transcended money, and the ability to pay a waiter or hotel person to do him a favour.

Jake's mind started to race… It was the kind of power that he imagined Tawaya felt…

He remembered how helpless and scared and how much of a bitch he must have looked like when he ran away from the Yautja in the hotel.

The one that wanted to get him and his sister…

He had thought at the time that if he could distract the Yautja he could have saved her from it… But he still knew that it was essentially sacrificing himself… It wasn't necessarily a powerful choice or a powerful way to deal with the situation.

He wasn't able to do anything else and so he still felt helpless.

But now?

Jake finally decided.

'I want to feel power…'

Clearing his throat he looked up at Tawaya and began to speak while pointing at Barry.

"He helped tie me up…"

Jake held his wrists up for Tawaya to see. She lowered herself and her left hand immediately grabbed and held Jake's right arm up closer to her face.

"They hit me Tawaya."

Tawaya looked Jake up and down slowly, and then she began to hiss.

As Jake continued talking, the truth became embellished by his fears and what he had thought was going to have happened, "They abducted me and were going to torture me until I told them about you…"

As soon as he said 'torture me' Tawaya whipped her head back to look at Barry. Her chest was heaving up and down in short rage filled breaths.

Behind them Sherbrook groaned as he struggled to move Williams' body off of him. The noise made Jake look down the messier side of the hallway.

When Sherbrook was clear he huffed and breathed loudly. Jake then pointed at him as his voice became low and tinged with disgust,

"Especially him… he hit me… and threatened me… and wanted to get you."

Tawaya looked away from Barry, down the bloody and messy hall at the four bodies on the ground.

Sherbrook's face became visible amongst the carnage and as soon as he saw Tawaya standing unobstructed his eyes widened and he froze in awe again.

Tawaya slowly looked away from second man and back to Jake.

Wordlessly Jake stared back into her expressionless mask.

Sherbrook coughed and raised his voice, "K-kid… look I know I might have been a bit… rough with you… but… look." He groaned and pushed himself up from the ground. "L-look…"

Tawaya turned and roared loudly at Sherbrook's movement making him instantly hold his breath.

Raising his empty hands up he stuttered and shook, "Look, y-you've just been an accessory t-to this moment… We don't need any-"

Jake's lip curled in a sneer and he interrupted Sherbrook. "You were never going to leave me alone…"

Sherbrook's brow furrowed and he looked up, "What?"

"You and all this bullshit was going to continue even if you let me go."

Jake looked away from Sherbrook and back at his Yautja.

"Tawaya… what will you do?"

She stood motionless.

Her mask gave away none of her intentions and her body remained still except for her quick breaths.

Jake cleared his throat and touched her right arm with his free hand.

"Would you do it for me?"

She nodded, letting go of her human's wrist, and stood back from Jake.

Stomping down the hallway towards Sherbrook the man began to stutter and yell as she got closer and closer.

Jake looked away and towards Barry and the doctor on the other end of the hall.

Jake bared his teeth and smiled, his shoulders shook and he exhaled loudly.

Tawaya roared and Sherbrook cried out in protest, there was loud shuffling of movement and then the man went silent.

Barry quietly watched in wide-eyed horror at what Tawaya was doing behind Jake to Sherbrook.

And the doctor finally made a noise and simply began yelling.

Jake took a step forwards. But he noticed that it really stung and hurt.

Looking down he saw that his feet were bloodied and cut from the debris blown down by the explosion; rather uncharacteristically Jake simply mumbled "Ow…"

Behind him he heard Tawaya walking back up beside him.

Her chest heaved and her hands were covered in red blood.

Barry raised his pistol, "I'll shoot the kid!"

Tawaya stopped mid stride and began to growl.

Jake smirked and he looked at Tawaya with excited eyes, then he looked back down at Barry.

"It understands E-English right?" Barry yelled.

Jake nodded wordlessly.

"Then it'll understand that if it takes another step I'll fucking blow the kids head off!"

Tawaya hissed and growled very loudly.

"Is that a particularly wise thing to be saying Barry?" Jake scoffed.

"Shut the fuck up!" he snapped. "If it understands me then it can respond!"

Jake looked at Tawaya, an eyebrow raised.

Despite the seriousness of the situation Jake didn't really seem all that phased by it…

In fact, the young man had entered into a bit of a trance like state sine the arrival of his alien companion Tawaya.

Jake was curious as to how she'd sound if she actually chose to speak to another human.

Thinking about what was to happen Jake watched her closely for several tense seconds before Tawaya finally spoke, in English, to Agent Barry.

"What… do you… want?" her voice was low. Each syllable echoed slowly down the hall.

When she actually spoke Barry stumbled and shook and the female doctor dropped to her knees mute and in complete terror.

Barry's lip quivered and he held his injured hand close to his chest as he looked around the hallway.

His voice came out stuttering and anxious, "W-well I wanna fucking live! T-that I think is fucking, fuckin, obvious?"

Tawaya stared him down and then looked at Jake.

She stepped to the side, shielding Jake again.

"Look… I l-leave, nothing happens… I don't even know your name kid. I don't have the files I don't have the reports… I didn't see s-shit."

The doctor looked away from Tawaya and Jake and directly at Barry.

"What are you doing!" she cried.

Barry looked away from the alien and at the doctor, "Fuck you! I don't want to die here!"

Looking back Barry's voice changed, he seemed kind of anxious and was thinking aloud; "She knows! Look you want to get rid of everything Right? The doc here is the one that wanted to cut you open!"

The doctor's face dropped, "You fucking fat idiot!"

"Take the bitch! I don't know fucking anything! Let me go out this door and you'll not worry about any of this shit. I don't even know the number for the rest of the task force! She does though!" he pointed at the doctor with his pistol.

"Don't you think she's innocent, she's worse than Sherbrook!"

"As soon as she can she'll contact all those weird special forces guys! Look I'm literally not a field agent."

Barry choked and continued his verbal defense, "L-look I was shifted around and I'm supposed to just b-be the CIA attaché in the E-embassy."

Tawaya stood motionless and Jake poked his head around her arm, "I really don't think she cares."

Barry's face twitched.

Tawaya rolled her shoulders and relaxed.

Jake tapped her shoulder and without turning her head off Barry she bent her knees. Lowering herself Jake stood against her back and got close to the side of her head.

He spoke quietly into her ear as she continued to mutely stare at Barry and the doctor.

"Is there any way you can hit him from a distance?" Jake spoke quizzically.

Tawaya rumbled in her chest and clicked her tusks in satisfaction.

'I like Little Jake's ferocity!' she thought.

Tawaya moved her head forwards slightly, nodding.

Jake made a small smile as he descended from his tip toes.

Tawaya grumbled and moved her right hand slowly.

Barry's eyes darted from Tawaya to Jake rapidly.

Finally Barry's panic got the better of him and he began to yell in madness. He finally pulled his trigger.

When Tawaya had kicked Barry's hand earlier, the force of the kick broke several of his fingers, but it also caused a small crack to form along the length of Barry's weapon.

The shot made the weapon explode in Barry's hand and the trajectory of the bullet soared once again into the roof above its intended target.

Tawaya's right hand descended to take hold of one of her knives and in a quick single action she threw the blade with expert precision across the hall and towards the screaming and injured Barry.

His cries of pain were silenced as the blade embedded itself into his forehead.

Jake watched the skillful display of Tawaya's accuracy with an excited expression of adoration.

'That… was… incredible!' he thought.

"Tawaya! You're amazing!" his voice cried.

He took hold of her left arm and brought his face against her triceps.

She felt the warmth of his soft skin against hers and she looked away from Barry's falling body.

"Little Jake…" she cooed.

"Did she hurt you?" Tawaya's voice asked.

Jake opened his eyes and looked over at the doctor shaking in fear.

"No…"

Tawaya nodded.

"Little Jake, are you okay to stay here?"

He moved his cheek away from her arm to be able to look up at her mask, "What? Where are you going?"

His voice was tinged with fear.

"I have to clean up… They took the bad bloods."

Jake immediately relaxed.

He nodded and spoke, "I think they're in the other room."

Tawaya wordlessly looked back up and took a few steps towards the door leading to the larger room of the building.

The doctor remained still and silent on the floor.

Jake watched Tawaya's strides with disbelief.

'There she is. I can't believe it… She had found me…'

Jake smiled and brought a hand to cover his face. He couldn't help but feel excited.

'Oh my god!' he thought, 'She really came back for me!'

His joy was too much and he raised his voice to call to Tawaya in the other room, "I thought I'd never see you again!"

All he heard was a loud purr and growl in reply.

He giggled at the noise and shook his arms in front of him giddily.

The doctor finally broke her silence.

"You… you really were able to meet and befriend the creature?"

Jake raised an eyebrow, "Ha… more than that. But yeah."

The doctor slowly moved her head from side to side, "You're crazy…"

The young man furrowed his brow and stepped forwards.

Cringing in pain he eventually made his way to the doorway Tawaya had walked through.

"Tawaya, are you going to burn the building down?"

He heard a few loud steps get closer before she appeared in the doorway.

"That's a good idea Little Jake."

Jake smiled.

"Also, what about her?"

He pointed at the doctor on the floor, and immediately the woman raised her hands.

"N-no…" she stuttered, "Hang on… she wants to get rid of everything here right?"

Jake pursed his lips and squinted in disbelief at her.

Tawaya simply stared through her mask silently.

"I'll help destroy all the shit… everything… but you let me live…"

Jake was now looking at the second person who was begging for their life today.

Literally,

She oozed fear.

It was a serious and tense situation… but Jake had watched Tawaya literally kill two people already, and he heard her easily tear apart three others.

It was…

It was deeply affecting to say the least.

Jake had seen first had the fragility of human beings, and the ease with which killing was really done… and by his Tawaya no less!

He didn't know how to feel about it but… in his head he regarded the woman before him with indifference…

He honestly didn't care about any of this shit. Or his mind had walled itself up so as to protect him from what had been happening around him so far…

But he didn't feel strongly about whatever it was that Tawaya chose to do next.

All he cared about was leaving this place, leaving this room, and being with his Yautja…

"Tawaya?" he asked.

She grunted in affirmation at her name.

"Up to you…"