"Oh! right on time!" Warren said as he spotted Brendan's presence. Warren grabbed Ste's hair with his hand and pulled him up to his head.
Brendan tried not to make it to obvious that he was scared while looking at Ste's face. His eyes made him cry the the most, he'd given up. He watched his jaw tighten, like he was crying silently to himself.
"As you can see," Warren said in a high voice, pointing Ste's head towards the gun, "I'm not here to play"
"Leave Stephen out of this, this is between me and you," Brendan said desperate.
Warren tightend his fingers around the gun and ran it down Ste's neck. Ste's eyes squeezed shut and Brendan took a step forward. He took an envelope of cash from the inside of his coat.
Warren opened it he laughed and threw it to the floor.
"Are you serious is that all I'm getting?"
"I didn't get enough time Foxy," Brendan said, his face wet with tears
"We can make another deal, I know where…."
"That isn't good enough Brendan." Warren gritted his teeth and looked at Ste who had tears rolling down his face.
" Please!" Brendan snapped, sliding his fingers down his face, "I'll get you the money, I'll get you anything. Just put the gun down and walk away."
"You broke your promises Brendan. But if I put this bullet through his head, I've a felling that might hurt a bit more than losing some money,"
"Kill me instead then. You can have anything and you won't have me in the way any more!" Brendan said, pushing out his shoulders ready to fight.
"No!" Ste said before he felt Warren's boot.
"Did I say you could speak Ste? " Warren said, lowering his face to Ste.
"Next time maybe you should get into bed with someone that isn't a murderer, might stop these sorts happening." Warren stood up and spat at him before turning to face Brendan. "Ready to say goodbye then ?"
Brendan knew he was crying, he leapt forward in an attempt to save Stephen. But Warren knew exactly his next move and a shot was fired before any one had a chance to breathe . The bullet soared straight to Brendan's chest and he fell backwards, losing his footing and crashing to the floor.
Ste's screamed with anger. Warren was shocked. Then he realised he would probably get life in prison for thit and without a second thought he put the pistol in his mouth and fired.
There was a moment of silence.
Wiping his face with his sleeve Ste ran to Brendan's bloody body. He crouched to the floor, picking up his head in his arms. And quickly phoned the ambulance.
15 minutes later...
"You're gonna be al-right," Ste said, holding Brendan's hand in the ambulance.
"I'm not," Brendan said
"You shouldn't talk," Ste said, "You should save your strength"
The ambulance arrived the hospital and the doctors wheeled Brendan straight to theatre not knowing if he would survive or not.