" Let me get this straight, Yumi was kidnaped?" William asked after Ulrich's short and fast ten second explanation. Ulrich nodded frantically, hoping William would understand that fact a little sooner. " And she has ten minutes before something happens?" Ulrich nodded again just as frantically. " Why do you need my help?"
" I need to get to the old factory before the dead line. I know you don't like me, and I don't like you. But Yumi is in danger, and even you can't ignore that."
" Your lying," William said, not fully grasping the idea.
" Why would I lie about that. You need to drive me there before she gets killed." William leaned against his door and thought again. " Yumi is in danger!" Ulrich shouted at him.
" Alright. We need to hurry." William ran into his room and grabbed the keys to a car that his parents left him. The two ran to the parking lot as Ulrich looked at his watch. Seven minutes.
" The old factory?" William asked, making sure.
" Yeah, and hurry." Before Ulrich could buckle himself in William slammed on the gas and the two turned into the street and toward the factory.
" Who has her?" William asked.
" I don't know... watch out!" William swerved around a car that he nearly rear ended.
" You wanna get there fast right."
" I wanna get there alive too." William swerved again and Ulrich hit his head on his window. Buckling up he held the handle above his window, and looked at his watch. " Hurry."
William turned onto the bridge connecting to the factory. Hitting the brakes hard Ulrich jumped out of the car and ran into the factory.
" Yumi!" No response. The elevator to the lab was out so he didn't bother looking there. Running down the hallway he checked the rooms as he ran by. " Yumi!"
" Yumi!" William shouted as well.
" We should split up."
" No. If the kidnaper is here, then we're safer together." Ulrich nodded and the two continued to check the rooms. William checked the rooms on the right, Ulrich on the left.
Trying the handle on a door, William found that it was locked and said, " Ulrich, this might be it. Give me a hand." Ulrich dashed to the door as they both tried to break it open. The door was a large metal door that wasn't going anywhere. Ulrich looked around and grabbed and fire extinguisher and slammed it against the door knob.
After five swings the knob broke of and the door swung open. " Yumi!" Ulrich shouted again, listening for her voice. It was a large room that was fairly empty, except for another room at the end of it ten feet away. Ulrich grabbed the extinguisher and began to try to beat down the door. William walked over and simply turned the knob, opening it.
" Thanks." Ulrich ran into the room and the first thing he saw made him drop his item. " Yumi."
Ulrich ran to Yumi who was unconscious and tied to a chair. Her wrists were bound by duct tape, her legs as well. Her body was tied to the chair by rope, that was starting to become loose. She looked unharmed, but with her being unconscious it was hard to tell her condition.
" Yumi wake up." Ulrich said to her, placing his palms on her checks. No reaction. " Yumi please wake up." Feeling for a pulse, he felt a very weak one. Her condition was worse than he thought.
" The poison was injected an hour ago," said William from behind Ulrich. Ulrich heard him but his focus was on Yumi. She was cold, and motionless.
" Come on Yumi, open your eyes," Ulrich begged her. He felt her body twitch slightly, but then go still again. " Please Yumi, stay with me." Ulrich said crying now. Very slowly, her eyes weakly opened and looked at Ulrich.
" Ulrich?" Yumi asked him.
" I'm here Yumi. Your going to be okay." Ulrich looked at her arm because Yumi did, and saw a syringe was stuck in it. The syringe was empty. " What did he do to you?"
" I don't know. I'm so cold." Ulrich took out his pocket knife and cut Yumi's wrists restraints, then her feet. Pulling the rope from over her head he pulled her off the chair and lay her on the ground over his jacket. Taking off his button shirt he lay it over Yumi.
"Stay warm," Ulrich said to her. " Who did this?" Yumi just looked at him, her eyes getting weaker, his pulse getting lower.
" Stay with me," Ulrich begged, crying. His tears were going past his face and falling on the ground next to Yumi. Ulrich examined the syringe then looked at Yumi. Poison.
" Ulrich... I lo...lo.." She stopped trying talk and froze. She wasn't making any motion in the slightest. Her chest wasn't rising from breathing. Her eyes remained open, but not looking.
" Yumi," Ulrich begged again. " YUMI!" Ulrich's tears fell uncontrollably as he looked at Yumi, who wasn't looking at him. She was dead. Ulrich closed her still open eyes and wrapped his arms around her close, crying.
" YUMI! Who did this to you?" Ulrich tears were falling on Yumi as she lay there lifelessly. " Who did this!" 'The poison was injected an hour ago.' Ulrich remembered Williams words. Standing up from Yumi's corpse he looked at William who didn't even looked effected by Yumi's body.
" How did you know she was injected with poison, and how long ago?"
William smiled and said, " Most don't know this about me, but I love Romeo and Juliet. The love, the passion, the tragic conclusion. So many avoidable consequences that weren't avoided." William walked to a shelf on the room and began to dig through a bag, " Even with the ending, it is the most romantic love story of history. You die for those you love. Sometimes kill for those you love."
" It was you."
" Is that your final answer?"
" You son of a bitch," Ulrich said looking at him.
" Congratulations, you've won a million dollars, check or cash?" William found the item in the bag and put on a pair of gloves, then pulled out a loaded pistol. " Now this love story's ending."
" Why?"
" If I can't have Yumi, no one can. Love makes me do crazy things, like kill the one I love just because she doesn't love me. After she picked me, she still loved you. I thought I'd convince her otherwise, but you had to go attempt to woo her."
" You're the one who hit me," Ulrich said, realizing what he was saying.
" Your slow aren't you. With you out of the picture, Yumi was mine. She'd pine and cry for awhile, but a big girl like her would move on to bigger and better things. Me. But it back fired. You lived, when should of died. Talk about a mood killer."
" Your crazy. You're a freaking lunatic," Ulrich said, watching his actions because of the gun gripped nicely in William's left hand.
" Perhaps."
" Why did you kill her if you claim to love her."
" She's loves you. I can't change that, life or death. If I can't have her, why should you. I tried hitting you with a car, which ironically enough poor Yumi thought was suicide for awhile. My entire plan back fired. Blew up right in my face."
" You killed her."
" Oh boo hoo. I wanted to kill her after I failed to kill you. I knew I couldn't try again with success, so just went with a different approach. I killed her yes, but after I had my fun."
" You didn't touch her," Ulrich threatened rather than asked.
William laughed loud and said, " You clueless idiot. Of course I did. I'm a raving lunatic, what does the word fun mean in my dictionary. I had a hell of a time too." Ulrich on any other case would have attacked him, but with the no weapon disadvantage he had to play this smart. " Are you mad? Angry? Do you want to kill me?"
" Is that a trick question," Ulrich said, wanting to kill him.
" No not really, more rhetorical than anything."
" How do you plan to get away with this?"
" Easy, frame you."
" I know you did it, I'll testify against you. Also the physical evidence of you raping her." Ulrich said, not going to let William get his way.
" You won't be alive, and it's amazing how much evidence a condom can hide. If anything they'll think it was you, or overlook it."
" How are you going to frame me if I'm dead?"
" I already have. Ulrich, your finger prints are all over her body. All over the syringe, and all over the gun that you used to shoot yourself." Before Ulrich could ask William shot Ulrich in the chest. Ulrich fell back and hit the ground next to Yumi. He felt a sudden shortness of breath as William walked over to him and looked down at him.
" You could of had any other girl. But you had to mess with mine." Blood began to soak Ulrich's shirt as he began to gasp for air. He spit up blood and looked at William who just smiled.
Kneeling next to Ulrich, William placed the gun in Ulrich's hand and said, " Give it a good squeeze, it's out too, one round only, makes suicide look more convincing." He squeezed Ulrich's hand on the gun, putting his finger prints on it. " Juliet by poison, and Romeo by weapon. Flipped from the original, but still a good ending."
" You're a fucking psycho," Ulrich managed to say, just unable to move.
" Love makes me do crazy things. Give her my love would you," William said as he stood up and walked away before the police arrived.
Note- Not the ending, just another of my cliffhangers.