A.N. Sorry it took a while, made it a big chapter so don't be afraid to make popcorn for it. Also I will be a tad busy with exams and an unfinished essay so the next chapter will take a while to be finished. Anyways, as always enjoy!
"I only killed thirteen people..." Alice had her hands on the sides of her head keeping it from falling into her food.
"That's okay! Listen that means ya just gotta kill twenty-three people tomorrow." Scout tried making it sound easy but they both knew it wouldn't.
"Twenty-two not twenty-three..." she corrected his math.
"Even betta! C'mon Alice I know ya can do it!" he forced a much needed smile at her.
Alice sighed then smiled at the 'try hard' Scout. She rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I do too... I just hope I can sleep tonight..."
Sadly Alice lay awake in her bed blaring classical music from her earphones. It was 12:00 pm and she knew what was ahead of her: endless hours of tossing and turning then going to battle and doing shitty again. Alice tightly gripped the bed sheets. She couldn't let this happen, not again. Next thing she knew she was putting her bra and shirt on. She took a deep breath, rubbed the sleep from her eyes and left her room. Alice crept though the halls. The cold air hitting her bare legs and giving her entire body goose bumps. After minutes of tiptoeing she made it to the cafeteria and went straight to the fridge searching it frantically. Her eyes began to sting as the hope for finding her cure for sleep wasn't there. She slammed the fridge and hit it with the bottom of her fist along with her forehead.
"Fuck..." she breathed.
There was no milk to be found. They were all out, and the trans bus was coming next week to deliver it. Alice was utterly screwed. Then a desperate thought popped into her mind. Maybe there was some, she just didn't know. Somehow maybe Scout would know where to find some. She scurried to Scout's room in a last effort to find milk. The door creaked a little as Alice opened it, she cringed as the floor made weird noises too.
"Scout!" she yelled in a quiet whisper.
"Scout!" she yelled again in the same quiet whisper but this time shook the boy huddled under the covers.
Scout came too but still looked as if he were asleep.
"Scout! Do we have any milk here!?" she whispered to the sleepy boy.
He blinked at her still half unconscious. "Go check... The... BLU... base..." he wafted her away and let his face fall back into his pillow.
Alice paused in thought. The other team might have milk and if so she'd just sneak in there and take some then come back and sleep. It didn't seem like a bad plan but then again the girl was sleep deprived and desperate.
Alice stepped outside into the cold night. She had jeans on this time because going to the enemy's base in underwear just didn't seem smart. She took a sharp inhale then started running to the BLU Base. After 5 minutes of running she stopped before the blue doors and opened them only slightly so she could fit. She was in. This reminded Alice of when she first entered the RED Base. Good times.
Alice had maneuvered though this building multiple times and it was exactly like her base so finding the cafeteria would be simple. As she followed her mind-set path she made sure to be extremely quiet. These guys were just like her team mates but something told her they wouldn't be as happy to see her wondering through their base. Finally after her paranoid walk she reached the cafeteria entrance and there she saw the white 60's fridge. She quickly tipped toed to it and opened slowly hearing that suction-pop sound. Alice's eyes searched the fridge; all it contained was sandwiches, cheese, beer and something moldy in the back. The grip on the fridge door handle was tightened when Alice refused to stop looking; she started moving the items around trying to find it.
"If itz milk you are looking for itz not in ze fridge." A soft quiet French voice came from a distance behind her.
Alice's entire body cringed then slowly turned around to face him. Spy was wearing stripped boxers, a white tank top and his mask, she was surprised to see him wearing anything other than his suit and was also curious if he ever took of his mask. The man started walking towards her, she froze completely. Spy stood to the side of her reaching into a cupboard. Milk? In a non-refrigerated cupboard? He pulled out a tin can which confused Alice even more.
Spy saw the confusion in her face as she furrowed at the can. "Powdered milk?" He opened it to reveal a white powder.
Alice was still silent she didn't know what to say or how to react, not to mention her side note of how unnatural powdered milk was. But it was still milk, it contained the substance that makes her pass out.
"Do you still want eet?" Spy raised his eyebrow looking at the girl.
She nodded in return and watched the Spy move to another cupboard pulling out a pot then walking over to the sink to fill it with water. The man walked as if he weren't even tired. He was still the same suave, nonchalant Spy. Alice watched as he walked back to her, only to put the pot of water on the stove that she was standing beside. Spy poured the white powder in, and grabbed a whisk from the drawer beside him. He turned the burner on and started stirring the white clumps into the water. Both of them were silent, not even their breathing could be heard. They both didn't know what to say, how to feel, what to do... So they kept their heads down.
Alice just couldn't stop thinking about how stabbing him without mercy was a bad social choice. Then finally those thoughts turned to words.
"I'm sorry I stabbed you." she quietly blurted out.
Spy quit stirring for a moment, then continued. "Don't zay sorry... zis is war...we are juzt doing our jobz..."
Alice felt kind of stupid then. She said sorry for killing him heartlessly and he didn't show any emotions toward it. That's when she knew this man didn't emotionally give a damn. She sighed. Oh well, at least the man was making her a midnight drink.
Spy stopped stirring and turned the burner off. He tapped the whisk against the pot getting rid of the white drops and then dropped it in the sink. At the cupboard beside the sink he pulled out two mugs and brought them over, impressively filling them without spilling or making milk drip down the pot to the bottom.
"Ere." he handed her a mug and she took it, unwilling touching his fingers in the process. It was weird that he didn't have gloves on although the texture of the gloves and his fingers were identical.
BLU SPY.
She never looked up at him, he could tell she felt nervous and awkward. And he knew she took notice of that small skin contact. He watched her quickly scurry to a chair in the room. Good she was staying, that meant she wanted something more.
Spy followed her short trail and sat in the chair across from her. He sat down leaning back studying the girl. She was leaned forward on the table looking down at the mug between her hands. Spy knew it was a moment to speak. He didn't know exactly what to say, the man had a couple questions, but they were questions needy people would say. So he asked the question that was faintly there but really important. He didn't want to ask but he did.
"Chaton... Why did you kizz me?" he looked up emotionless with a tint of curiosity.
Spy could see her flinch as her cheeks changed to a rosier shade. She paused for a long time, just staring at her milk. Spy decided to speak again to break the silence and make the girl feel a little more relaxed.
"It waz a nice kizz... I quite enjoyed it..." Spy's voice was calm and soothing, which he could see made the girl blush even more. "Juzt until you left... I never did get a chance to azk you, azk you why you left." He furrowed his eyebrows in a sympathetic way even though she couldn't see it.
The girl sipped her milk. Spy watched her. When was she going to answer, when was she even going to speak? He couldn't take it anymore he just wanted her to be on the same level as him so he could just pull her over the table and start feeling those soft lips again. All of these thoughts were processed, narrowed down and then composed to form his next words.
"Eet wazn't fair..." Spy put his mug on the table and returned to his original position.
Alice looked up. "So what... You want us to be 'even'?" the girl misunderstood. But Spy went along with it.
"Oui, I want uz to be...'even'." He stood up and walked behind Alice's chair, firmly holding the backing of it.
ALICE.
Alice froze. She knew for sure this man was going to slice her throat as she felt him bend over to her ear. The frozen girl sat in wait as the man kept his breath on her cheek.
"For uz to be even I muzt leave you..." he whispered softly in that sexy French accent that Alice was starting to like and fear. "But to do zat, mon petite chaton needz to be kizzed..." he purred in her ear and brought his lips to her cheek giving it a soft kiss. "Now we are 'even'." Spy stood up and walked out of the room.
Alice sat there, cheeks red with a big ol'smirk plastered on her face. He liked her, he had to. She ran over everything in her head as she finished her milk. She even continued to think about it as she ran to her base and when she was lying in bed. Alice felt that feeling in her chest again; it was a mixture of fluttering and wanting to let out a satisfying breath, one that emptied her lungs entirely. The girl hugged her pillow and closed her eyes. Tonight was and will continue to be a good night. And just like that Alice passed out.
BLU SPY.
As Spy guessed; the girl had been sleep deprived and was looking for an old easy solution, which was the warm milk trick. Silly as it sounded, it's an old remedy. Now he stood there assuming it worked considering Alice took down his Heavy, Pyro, Demoman, and Medic within the first 15 minutes of battle. This was the girls last day to fulfill her kill list. Spy knew this, he was almost certain that this was happening; the only thing he didn't know was how many people she had to kill.
"Have you eva seen a lil person like that, just tear through an army?" Sniper gawked at the bloody scene seen through his scope.
Spy cringed having been caught. He was trying to sneak around Sniper, purposely avoiding the conversation they were about to have.
"I'm mean, loke... Look at er go!" He gave a sigh in awe.
"Aren't you supposed to be killing ze enemy? Not admiring zem?" Spy decloaked and prepared for another useless conversation.
"She's not an enemy mate... Our enemy is red. Do you see any red on er?" Sniper kept his gaze through the scope as he asked the rhetorical question.
The girl dressed in green, yes but that doesn't mean she's not the enemy. Spy's enemy was anyone that was against him. "I do believe er shoelaces are red." Spy smirked having noticed that and many other tiny microscopic details when he met her. He was a man that knew absolutely everything.
Sniper shifted in his kneeling position. Spy knew the man was checking the girls shoes from the distance to see if he was telling the truth. There was a pause. "How in the hell did you know she ad red shoelaces?"
"I never miss a detail, 'mate'." He mocked the Snipers accent at the last word.
Sniper just let out a quiet chuckle. "Yea and I can tell you know every. Single. Detail about that girl." He looked over his shoulder and let his subtle dis sink in as the Spy behind him furrowed his eyebrows.
"What iz zat suppouse to mean?" His eyes narrowed through the Snipers tinted aviators.
Sniper smirked and opened his mouth to speak but the sudden splash of blood coming from his forehead stopped him.
Spy quickly cloaked as Sniper slumped backwards laying there in his own pool of blood. The still living man took cover not wanting to end up like his college.
ALICE.
"Thirteen." She spoke while lowering her guns just after shooting the enemy Sniper. Alice spun around facing the enemy base as the BLU Soldier and BLU Engineer were leaving it. She sprinted at her opportunity and went after the Solider first.
'BOOM!'
'BOOM!'
'KA-BOOM!'
Soldier rapidly fired his rocket launcher in a hopeful attempt one would hit her. Alice just did a quick side jump and avoided all three before she came mere feet away from the Soldier. Before he could shoot again Alice did her familiar surprise round house kick which send the Soldier to the ground. Once he was on the ground she quickly pulled out her pistol and shot him in the head making the kill absolute.
'BANG!'
Alice spun around to see the BLU Engineer shooting at her. She swiftly lifted her gun and fired. The hard hat man took a few more steps. Alice fired again forcing the man to just die.
"Fifteen..." Alice took in a deep breath and set out again to the BLU's Base. She knew there she would find the BLU Pyro and Medic that would be staying behind to protect sentrys and heal people.
The girl bursted through the doors and scanned the hallways looking for her foes. As she turned a corner the BLU Scout appeared. Before he could draw his shatter gun Alice shot him point blank. She bent down and picked up his gun not wanting to waste anymore of her ammo.
"Sixteen." She whispered then continued down the halls.
Next she came upon the room containing sentrys and the Pyro that guarded them. Alice knew if she set foot in there she'd have a lot of holes in her body so she figured a lure was needed. Using the shatter gun she aimed it at the wall across from her and fired. She listened as the sentrys twitched and quick footsteps of the Pyro that were made. Alice was glued to the wall and as soon as she saw him she pulled the trigger on the scatter gun sending multiple bullets into the rubber man.
"Seventeen." She sighed with relief. This goal might be possible.
BLU SCOUT.
That damn girl! She always killed him without even flinching. It was like he was the easiest target! Scout appeared in the respawn room along with Pyro minutes later.
"Did she kill ya too?" He looked at the Pyro behind him.
Pyro hung his head. "Mmhm." he mumbled.
Scout gritted his teeth and ran out the room. Why should he go easy on her if nobody else was? Better yet why should he go easy on her if she wasn't going easy on him? The blue boy was frustrated as he ran the halls looking for the Medic to 'ubor charge' him so he could take care of the girl.
Scout turned the corner and saw down at the very end of the hall the girl he hated standing above his probably dead Medic. This was his chance. He didn't need a Medic. He could kill her without help. His pace quickened and he drew his scatter gun. Scout didn't want to take any chances with his melee weapon knowing she was a better combat fighter than him.
As soon as he was in the room he fired his gun accidentally bringing him to her attention, putting the girl in attack mode. Before she spun around and pulled out her pistols like she always did. Scout pulled the trigger again. None of them seemed to hit her considering she finished her move and had her pistols aimed at him. He was screwed and this he knew but he didn't give up. Scout pulled the trigger again.
ALICE.
She pulled the trigger on each gun sending two bullets into his chest. The blue boy dropped his gun along with his body and did a small roll as his speed sent his dead body sliding to her feet.
"Nineteen." Alice smiled and let out a sigh that seemed to get caught on her throat.
As she put her pistols back in their holsters she felt the sharp pain in her right arm. The girl instinctively looked to where the pain was coming from.
"Shit..." she whispered as she looked at the bullet hole in her arm. It went right through the bicep and out through the back. There was a knot caught in her throat but she quickly swallowed it and took a deep breath. This deep breath didn't feel right. It felt like she only got half of what a deep breath provided. Alice closed her eyes fearing the worst. She looked down at the rest of her body to reveal two round growing blood stains on her shirt.
"No..." She winced in disbelieve as she pulled her tank top up to reveal the bullet holes. One was on the right side of her stomach, just above the entire hip bone. The second was right above the first.
"Fuck!" Alice growled and delicately felt the back of her body looking for the exit holes of the bullets. Good news: there were no exit holes making it less of a problem to bleed out. Bad news: the two bullets were still inside her making movement very very painful.
"Fuck..." Alice lets out a slow breath as she closed her eyes. *I have to stop the bleeding or I'll die for sure...* She looked down at the dead Scout and quickly pulled his shirt off before he disappeared like the Medic. His shirt was a little bloodily but that didn't matter, except for the fact it was not disinfected.
"Fuck!" Alice repeated as she began to jog to a less active room. She held her stomach tightly with her good arm, keeping pressure on the bullet holes.
Once in a suitable room she shut the door and leaned on it sinking to the floor in a slump. Alice quickly pulled out her knife and started slicing up the Scouts blue shirt. She took off her tank top as fast and gently as she could and applied a long strip around her waist covering up the holes. She did that again with three other strips, wincing and gasping in pain the whole time. Finally she wrapped two strips around her arm, tying it tight with the help of her teeth.
"Fuck..." She repeated the word once again. *That'll have to do for now...* She hesitantly stood up and slowly put her tank top back on. Her stomach did a flip from the combined shock and realization that she had been shot. Alice quickly threw herself into a hunched over position as she threw up on the floor. After she was done she started taking in calming breaths then spit out whatever taste was left.
"Three more to go..." The pale girl stated to herself as she left the room in a slow jog.
If she were to kill three more people they had to be people that wouldn't physically fight with her and were easy to shoot. She came up with a small list of who was more easy to kill without a fight: Heavy, Sniper, and Medic for sure. Soldier, Demoman, Pyro, and Engineer were a maybe. Spy and Scout were a big no no. So her plans were final: go for the top three and avoid the last two.
BLU SPY.
Spy had been subtly searching the wooden buildings in hope that he would accidentally bump into Alice. He wasn't going to lie to himself anymore so he decided to just accept the fact he wanted to have a little fight with the girl.
"Ooof!" Spy bumped into someone as he turned the corner. His heart skipped a beat for once in his life as he believed this might be Alice.
"Oi! Bloody hell!" The BLU Sniper stepped back pulling out his machete. A smirk covered his face as he saw blue smoke. "Oh well look who stuck around."
Spy sneered. "And here I thought I got rid of you." He side stepped allowing the Sniper to pass him and move to his window.
Sniper just chuckled and readied his stance at the window looking out through his scope and into the battlefield. "I'm guessing you were looking for the girl?" The smirk fresh across his face.
Spy made no movement. "Non. I waz looking for ze Sniper and I found ze wrong one sadly." He could admit to himself that he somewhat fancied Alice but he dare not admit it to anyone else.
"The other Sniper's in the otha building." He boldly stated.
"Well zen I will be on my way." With that Spy cloaked himself and quickly left escaping anymore accusations from Sniper.
BLU SNIPER.
He knew for a fact Spy was looking for the girl, it was just too obvious. Poor fool, too caught up in his own pride to admit his feelings.
Sniper shifted his weight on his other foot as he gazed through his scope. The RED Soldier was hiding from the BLU Heavy's bullets. Sniper aimed his crosshairs at the Soldier's helmet and pulled the trigger. Fine red mist appeared from where the Soldier's head used to be and he dropped to the ground, blood gushing from his neck. He let out a breath he held in during the shot and looked to where the Heavy was. The massive man was still firing his gun at the dead man. Sniper sighed and peeled his eye from the scope to rub the bridge of his nose. Some men were just down right idiots, he was glad he wasn't one. He looked back into the scope to see the BLU Heavy stopped in his track and falling face first to the ground. Sniper took his gaze off the man and searched the area for the source of his death. It was the girl. Sniper smirked. She had a good shot. He watched as she stepped over the lump of a man and jogged toward the wooden buildings entrance. There was something odd about the way she ran, she was slow and looked like she hesitated every step. She pulled out both her pistols and checked the entrance. That's when he could see the large blood stain on her side. Sniper's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that the bullet proof girl had been shot. Not only was she shot but it looked like a serious injury not to mention she was still alive and running.
Sniper stood there and lowered his gun. She could actually die, a girl, not far off from the age of his niece. She would die for real, and somewhere out there her parents would cry for real. Sniper was an assassin but that didn't mean he didn't have morals, let alone feelings. He lifted his rifle back up and looked through the scope again. The girl was gone in the building; he looked towards the field to see a Demoman following her trail. Sniper figured she didn't need any more people shooting at her and decided to help with that.
ALICE.
The pain was unbearable. Alice didn't think getting shot would hurt so much, but the gashes in her stomach and arm told her otherwise.
'BANG!'
The echo of a rifle shot followed Alice as she ran up a set of stairs. She paid no attention to it and kept going, looking for the easy kill Sniper. Her running started to develop a limp as the girl tried easing the pain off her waist. Alice searched the rooms frantically then came to the end of the building.
"Fuck!" The word crossed her lips yet again as she slammed her fist into the frame of the window she was staring out of.
The BLU Sniper was nowhere to be found and she still had two kills left. By now there had to be only 20 minutes left of battle, and that wasn't enough time for her to ditch this plan and limp back to the BLU Base to find 2 kills and actually kill them. Alice punched the frame again, she knew her odds and they were beyond impossible.
'BANG!'
The noise of a rifle cut into her thoughts. Alice looked out the window at the neighboring building and stared beyond the window that was in front of her. Sniper had to be in there, not in the room but somewhere in the building. As soon as Alice released this she didn't stop to think logical, all she thought was that getting in that building was her last shot. She looked down at the ground judging how far apart the buildings were. About 2 meters. She could jump that.
Without hesitation Alice stood on the window ledge and jumped, spreading out her arm to grab at the other building's window ledge. Her hand successfully got a grip on the ledge and now her feet were flailing about trying to find support. There was none and she couldn't pull herself up with just one arm. Immediately the girl threw her right arm up to hold on. The pain grew as Alice stretched all her wounds tearing them back open. She winced and started pulling herself up. Once she was in she looked at her right arm, the wound was definitely opened again because the blood started seeping through the cloth down her arm, saturating the fabric turning it into a darker red. By now she felt light headed, knowing that she was losing a lot of blood and actually feeling the effects of losing a lot of blood. But after straightening herself up she limped her way down the hall peering into every room in search for the Sniper.
'BANG!'
Alice's attention was brought to the noise that came from down the hall. She ignored all the other rooms and sprinted to the room. The girl quickly turned into the room and pulled out her gun with her good arm and aimed it at the standing man. He stood there still aiming his gun out the window as Alice stood behind him quiet as a mouse.
"Just shoot me." The BLU Sniper spoke up breaking the silence.
Alice was slightly taken back by this but did what the Australian man demanded and pulled the trigger.
'BANG!'
This time it's was the sound of her pistol that echoed around her. Killing the Sniper wasn't an 'easy kill' after all.
Alice picked up the Sniper's gun and gazed out the window looking over the field for any enemy's. There were none sadly, most of them had already been shot.
"Dammit!" a new word crossed her lips before her teeth could sink into them as she though. *Just wait here for a BLU to show up on the field then everything will be alright...* She looked thought the scope trying to focus on the field but her vision became blurry. Alice looked back down at her stomach, the blood stains appeared again and continued to grow, the blood was just dripping off her shirt now. The blood was escaping but Alice gave a last attempt to find an enemy. And there he was the boy that caused this. The BLU Scout was on a dash to the RED Base. The bleeding girl pulled her shit together and aimed at the hard to hit target.
'BANG!'
The familiar rifle shot rang in her ear. The boy was still running. She did this again and missed.
"The battle ends in 60 seconds."
Words Alice didn't want to hear we're blared over the intercom. She really had to pull her shit together. Instinctively she looked back down at her injured abdomen. The red stains stretched out to the top of her rib cage and to the other side of her stomach. It was a lot of blood. Alice torn her eyes of the red scene and forced them to look out the scope. The Scout was coming out of the RED Base carrying the case. The girl growled. No way was she going to let this fucker win the battle after shooting her.
BLU SPY.
Sniper was pushing the Spy into the wooden building while the suited man was baffled at the Sniper's odd approach.
"What are you doing!?" Spy shouted slapping the Australian man's hands away.
'BANG!'
A rifle shot could be heard from above but both men ignore it.
"It's the girl!" Sniper kept attempting to pull him up the wooden stairs.
Spy sneered and pulled away. "I told you I em not looking for er."
"She's bleedin you wanka! She's been shot and she's fucking bleedan!" Sniper final got the words to come out.
Spy felt his heart skip a beat again. But it didn't feel as good. He froze until the Sniper took this as his opportunity to pull the man up the stairs and down the hall. Sniper stopped at a room and he shut his eyes after looking in.
Spy quickly looked at what the Sniper regretted to see. It was Alice lying by the window with a small pool of blood surrounding her abdomen. Sniper was wincing not able to look at the scene but Spy quickly sprang into action kneeling at the limp girl's side. His gloved hand found her chin and turned it so he could see her face. Her eyes were closed and her lips were slightly parted. Spy quickly checked her pulse and let out shaky sigh. She was still alive.
"YOU'VE FAILED!" The announcer broke the painful silence.
"Is she alive?" Sniper stood in the doorway.
Spy picked the girl up oh so delicately. "Oui, we need to bring er back to ze RED Base before she bleeds out." He walked past the Sniper and down the stairs. This was odd for him, no team mate nor enemy had to be carried to their Base for survival. They would just die there and respawn back. But this was definitely not Alice's case and both him and Sniper knew that.
A.N. And the plot thickens... not really :P Oh and if i spelt 'Soldier' wrong in any chapter i am truly sorry my computer has an addiction to correcting 'Soldier' to 'Soilder'. Just want to say thanks to the people that support and motivate me to keep writing this, it really really helps. More to come! :D
