I wake up and my head is hurting a bit, but I can feel my body it's getting better. I'm still in Quinn's bed, it feels I'm here since forever, what it is? Four days maybe? I don't even know, God I need a shower, I still haven't showered since that day. I get up and go to the kitchen, is someone here? I can't be alone, none of them let me stay here alone, someone must be here, as I get to the door I here them talk.
Quinn, Brianna and my dad are in the kitchen talking, I stay quiet and listen to them, my dad is concerned about Ethan he has been asking about Quinn and he doesn't know what to tell him. He doesn't know how to handle all of this, he asks Brianna to help him but she can't because it seems Ethan kinda blames her for the break up, as Brianna must have convinced or influenced Quinn to break up with him. As if someone can make Quinn do something she doesn't want to!
I don't wanna be a martir but I blame myself for all of this. I know I didn't do it on purpose, I can't decide who I fall into, but why the hell did she have to be my brother's girfriend?! I just feel so good when I'm with her and I don't wanna ignore it, then Bri and my dad seems to be on my side on this so maybe it's not so bad. I just can't stop thinking about what's gonna happen from now on, how am I gonna be with her? I must "come back to life", then talk to Ethan, maybe he's gonna be kinda fine with it but then we'll have to tell him about us and he's gonna be definetely not fine and eventually he's gonna find out about me being the masked girl..
Yeah, it's so damn complicated and I'm not ready to front all of that. I open the door and join them, they all get up and try to help me but I stop them, I can walk fine, I sit on the chair and they all look at me waiting for something.
"Do you really think we're gonna be fine?" My dad was going to say something, but I stop him "Ethan too?" He doesn't say anything.
"San I know that Ethan and I don't get along, but he's kinda family, even if I don't like him I don't want to hurt him, but things happen and he has to learn how to handle them, this goes beyond you" Bri says taking my hand.
"You have your past and this is gonna hit him really hard since your history, but our relationship wasn't perfect even before you arrived" Quinn says.
"Sanny, baby, I know that in the past I took his side and still kinda protect you for all the consequences, but there're some moments in life when you just have to front your own problems even if you know it's gonna be hard and bad and eventually you could hurt someone else, but more you go on and more the problem gets bigger so, before or later you must do it" My dad says "You're both my children and there's no way to get out of this without hurting one of you, but I think that you being alive is more important, everything else comes after that, you're fucking alive baby, we thought you were dead for almost six years, he must accept everything, because I won't let you go, not again" He says crying, I get up and hug him.
"Thank you dad"
"I'm gonna be with you baby girl" I lean back and smile to him.
"Okay, we're gonna do this, but first we have to think how to and before that, I really need to take a shower, I sting"
"Come on lets go" Brinna says taking my hand.
She gets in the shower with me and helps me, the wound hurts and I can't really move my body so she has to most of the work. When I get out she helps me with my clothes and then she does my hair, I look in the mirror and I see for the first time the damages. I could feel it, I have stitches on my face, mostly on my cheeks and lips, Paul did a number on me, whoever took care of me did a good job, they're healing great and my face isn't swollen anymore.
Brianna tells me she's happy I'm gonna come back, 'cause she really wants to hang out with me as before, she's just concerned how her parents are gonna take it. I didn't think about them, I liked them before, now not really since how they're acting with Brianna but I don't want them to hurt more.
Another week of completely healing and I'm ready to come back on my feet, they all forbid me to go out as the masked girl still, but I can finally go to the bathroom alone! Now we're on war 'cause I feel better and I can get out of Quinn's house and they're all offering a home to me, Quinn wants me to stay she must be still scared of me to get hurt or that I'll run away again, my dad want me to go home with him, to our home, he misses me but I think he's scared I'll be gone again and Bri, well we're partners in crime.
I choose Bri, I'm already staying there and I feel great to be there, I won't feel comfortable living with my dad and then with Ethan in this story, home isn't the right place to be, then Quinn, well I think that since we're becoming a couple it's too soon to live together, we're still getting to know each other. So in the end they drive me back to Bri's but it's not like it changed something, Quinn and my dad are always here.
"Ehy wake up" Someone shooks me.
"What the hell? Bri what do you want, it's.. Fuck Bri it's 7 am!" I hide my face in the pillow.
"Ehy wake up I have all these ideas in my head" I turn to her.
"What about?"
"Your come back"
"And you woke me up for that? I should have stayed with Quinn"
"Yes of course, she would have woke you up at 6, who do you think I talk on the phone constantly? We're planning everything"
"You two.. Come on, tell me everything" I sit up on the bed and listen to her, I have to surrender!
She explains to me that we could do two good things at once, she think I should come back from that horrible island maybe stealing some of their boats and then I'm gonna bring the police there and destroy everything Paul did, the only problem is that those people could tell them what I've done, but I tell her that they're probably all dead. Paul always said that if he wasn't gonna come back or call after a day they must have kill everyone and dissappear, destroying his researches.
I really don't want to go back there, I promised my self I would never, but it seems I have to do it, what I'm gonna say people in the city once I'm back? This way they would know where I was and what happened, I tell Bri to go on with the plan, but to be really carefull, she tells me I should talk to Quinn 'cause she's confused as shit about this plan, she keeps asking her what's the matter with the island.
Tell Quinn the truth goes beyond our "relationship", even if we weren't romantically involved I would tell her, she believed in me even if I proved her wrong, she was loyal to me and Bri, she helped us, she saved my life, she killed Paul. I want to tell her, it's not like I feel I have to, maybe a bit, but mostly I want to 'cause I want to share it with her even if I'm scared she's gonna judge me or it's gonna scare her away from me.
I drive to her house and get into her apartment, she gave me the keys, I would have entered anyway so she just gave them to me so I don't have to climb the building. I send her a text and wait for her to come back from the police station, while here I look around, the board with my informations is gone and so did the photos with Ethan, I sit back and put the bottle of tequila I brought on the table, we're gonna need it.
When she arrives she pecks my lips and sits in front of me, she looks curiously at the bottle and the glasses but I tell her to not worry and sit down. I start telling her why the island is so important, it's not just a location we picked, I tell her everything, from the start, even if Ethan must have already told her.
I tell her about Brittany, the storm and how Paul found me in the ocean. This time I tell her everything and I go deep, I tell her evertything they did to me and everything I've done to them and to the others. She's crying and she keeps saying she can't believe it, that's so horrible that it seems an horror story someone made up. She throws her self on me and hugs me hard sobbing in my arms, I caress her hair trying to reassure her, it's in the past now and thanks to her too. After awhile she gots up from my lap and starts to walk back and forth thinking .
"You can't go back there San, I don't want you to put a feet on that island"
"I don't want to Quinn, but I have to, Bri is right, if I come back from no where it's gonna be harder and people would get suspicious"
"I don't care what people would think, it's awfull and what if someone recognize you? Have you thought about that? It would be worse that just suspicious"
"Paul made a plan in case he wouldn't come back, to kill everyone who were inprisoned and to burn all the papers so no one could arrive to the people who were involved"
"And they would have? What if someone is taking the charge of everything? Paul isn't there anymore, someone else could have took his place"
"That's why I agreed to do it, once the police would find me I'm gonna bring them there to stop everything"
"But what if someone recognize you?"
"Well, when I go there I'm gonna see what's left"
"WHAT? Absolutely not! Are you crazy?"
"Quinn please, you need to trust me, I know that island really well, I explored every inch of that infernal place so I could get out of it. I know how to move on it and most of the people are gonna be dead or gone already so believe me when I say that I'm gonna come back and no one is gonna hurt me anymone. We already took care of the ones who were really dangerous"
"I still don't like it" I stand up and take her hands in mine.
"You were talking with Brianna about this from days"
"Yes but I didn't know all of this"
"Are you gonna be fine?"
"It's not like I have a choice right?"
"Nope, everything's gonna be fine okay?"
I kiss her and she puts her hands on my cheeks, we kiss passionaly and I press her body on mine, we keep going until we need air, I lean my forehead on hers and then kiss her again, things are getting hot but she stops me.
"No, we're not doing this, we're not doing this after you told you're going back there and I'm scared something's gonna happen to you"
"Sorry, I'll see you tomorrow?"
"What? No, you have to tell me every single detail about this sick plan"
"Fine, let's go home with me, I don't even know the details, Brianna is settling everything"
We go back and eat lunch all together before Brinna shakes our head with her insane plan!
She does things big, I don't even want to know how her mind works because she's insane, apparentely we're gonna fly above the island and I'm gonna skydive on it because no one has to find any suspicious movement around it or they could discover something. Yeah anyway skydive, Quinn is already freaking out, Bri is gonna keep going to an airport not too far as in she's on vacation, she can afford it, then I'm gonna take a look at the island see if someone is there and if there's still some trace of me on it.
I'm gonna steal a boat and escape to find the first port around and call my dad, they're gonna come and bring me home, we're gonna call Brianna and her parents and then I'm gonna tell them about the island making them go there and destroy every criminal trace. Brianna already has her little plane booked and the pilot is someone who owns her a favor, she asked him to let her throw outside her sister ashes so she has an excuse to open the tailgate to make me go down, now we have to just put me inside without no one noticing me. If what happened to me didn't happened I would think this plan is really insane, as action movie insane.
Two week after
I have to say I'm a bit scared, I'm finally into the little plane, it wasn't really easy especially with the huge bag on my back, but here I'm, hidden in a little compartment. What's scaring me is the skydiving, I never did it and watching on youtube how to do it, it didn't really help, I never jumped off a plane! I hear noises, they're here, I hear Brianna says the pilot she's gonna stay back here because she wants to pray and to talk to her sister, I roll my eyes, once he gets away she lets me out.
"How're you doing?" She asks smiling.
"Funny.. I don't know if I'm ready to jump off"
"I can't believe skydiving scares you"
"Why the hell would someone jump off a plane? Willingly!"
She checks on her ipad our route, once we're almost in the right position she tells me to get ready, as if I have to do something, I just shrug my shoulder and wait. She hits two times the plane wall and the pilot opens the tailgate, I look down and I sit back down.
"Come on Santana it's time to go down"
"What if it doesn't open?"
"Well Quinn would be really pisses!" Oh my God, I'm so gonna die! "Come on San you can do it, you survived to horrible things, this is just a little walk for you, have you looked down? It's awesome" She says nodding her head enthusiastically.
I get up and take a look down and she pushes me down, I shout out of lungs, what the hell, I'm so gonna kill her, I start turning on myself, getting faster and faster, I slowly manage to open my arms and legs so I go down without rolling. If it weren't so scary and I weren't shitting in my pants, it could me beautiful, if you like this kind of things! I check the watch Brianna gave me, it says when I have to pull the parachute, but still nothing, it seems forever, fucking tell me to open it! Finally I can pull it and everything goes fine, shit, I pretend to know what I'm doing until finally I can see the island better, I can't believe I said finally.
I'm still in the air, I look down and it doesn't look like I'm gonna land on the ground, I pray to not end up drowning in the ocean, it's getting closer and closer and I just wanna close my eyes, but I can't. Once almost in the water I hold my breath until I collide in the ocean, it isn't soft, fuck, thankfully I'm not a man! I swim to the surface and breathe again, I look around and then up, I can still see the little plan, it's still going so he didn't see me.
I swim to the beach taking with me the parachute and it weighs a lot, I finally can put my feet on the sand and I let my self fall on the ground, I lay on my back for some minute, just breathing and try to recover some strenght. Once I feel better I get up and hide the parachute near a tree and then I start walking, I remember every single tree, every single inch of this ground. I arrive near the labs and I climb a tree, I need more visual in case someone is still here, but nothing moves, no sounds, no.. Nothing.
I climb down and walk there, but still carefully, I go towards the dormitories, there was always someone in there, I look inside from the little window, there's someone, but they don't move, are they sleeping? I look around and then I enter, I get near them, they seems dead, I put my fingers on their neck and no pulse, they're dead, I get up and I see their wounds, someone killed them. I walk around and watch for every single thing, personal effects, papers, stuff, nothing brings to me, so I just leave them there, it could help the police to identifiy them.
I get out and go to the cells, it stinks so bad, the stink of death, as I open the door I cover my nose, it's awfully, bodies everywhere, they killed everyone, I checked them all in case, no one survived. I get out and go to the labs, I destroyed all my researches so I know I won't find them there, I enter and stay low, I check every little office, I see some notebook and they almost got the formula I did, Paul must have memorizied most of it, he always checked my work. I leave everything as it was, I exit and go to my dormitory, I open the door and it's a mess, they must have searched for my notes, I checked everything, every little piece of paper, nothing can incrime here, I leave everything there, my clothes and some drawing I did just to not go crazy, they left everything in there.
I go into Paul's, someone must have searched for something here too, but it's not a mess as mine, clothes, some stuff he liked and then I find a book, it was hidden under the floor, there's a list, a list of all the people who worked for him or was imprisoned by him, my name is writter there too, is one of the latest. He put a cross near every one he killed or who died because there's one near mine too.
There're like five pages, he was a monster, I keep looking and he wrote about the plants and the drug, his researchs, the original formula and how he changed it with time. Then he wrote about his traffic, the cities and the people who he sell mostly, obviously New City is there and there's the name of the dealer the police caught. I go to the last pages and I see my name on it, there's a scheme, an hierarchical one, his name is the first one, then there's Marcus and Greg with written 'second in command', then some other written 'selling' and some other written 'connections' and the last is mine.
SANTANA LOPEZ drug.
Shit, I rip the page off and put it in my pocked, people names are already in the book, I put the book where was hidden and I leave. I walk around the camp and nothing else is found, now there's only a place I have to check, the other side of the island, where the main boat docks and all the other little ones are hidden, there's also some car and bikes, let's say it's the mechanic side, I learned there my mechanic skills.
Getting closer I hear noises, someone is still here, once there I climb a tree again and watch them, there're four men, I already saw them, but I don't know them, I didn't know everyone, but I tried to memorize every face. They're getting ready to leave and I can't let them, for what I've seen and even thanks to Paul's book they're the only ones left, if I take them we can all close this drug crap.
I jump down and run toward the beach, but hidding myself into the forest so they can't see me, I get in the water from another side and swim there, trying to stay underwater as much as I can, once I reach the hull they're gonna use I hold on that. One of them is on it already and the other three are on the beach packing, I climb in and jump on him covering his mouth and with my other hand I slaughter him, I stay down and look at the other tree, they didn't hear anything.
I take his gun and go back into the water, I slowly swim toward the shore, I get out of the water and I shoot one of them in the head, the other two take their gun and look into my direction, I have the time to shoot one of them too but the other one starts shooting on me. He gets my leg and I almost fall, I get his arm, he starts to run toward the forest and if he gets there I'm gonna be an easy target, I get back in place and shoot him again, this time right in the head making him fall dead immediately. I walk out the water, I hear someone groining, one is still alive, but he lost his gun, I go to him and I kick his gun away just in case.
"I know you" He says in pain "Yo-you're the girl, the lab girl"
"Is someone else here?" He shakes his head no "Is someone else alive? Did someone else left?"
"N-no, you're the only one w-who managed to eacape, we killed everybody else a-as Paul said if he-"
"He's dead"
"Are you gonna kill me?" I say nothing "Just do it, put an end to this hell" I just shoot him in the head and fall next to him.
This island wasn't hell just for me, is it so bad that I feel good? I've just killed four more people. If it weren't for Bri, Quinn and my dad I would burn everything, I would let this whole island burn, everything burns in hell right? I open their bag and I see there's drug, they were going to sell what was left, it's dark now, it can wait tomorrow, I bandage my leg and I lay down again, falling asleep.
I wake up as the sun starts rising, this is the only good thing about the island, the sight. I have some work to do, Quinn and Bri gave me three days to call my dad or they're gonna come here to find me, I start a fire near the beach, I put in there the bags with drugs and the paper I had in my pocket then I take a car and go back on the other side of the island and take the parachute and bring it to the fire, I need no trace, I destroy Brianna's watch too then I put the gun I used to kill those men in the hand of one of them, but not before I've cleaned it from my fingerprints, I place them close to each other as they all fought and killed eachother, I take the one I slaughtered down the boat and put it on the beach too. I just wash away the blood with water, the cops are gonna find everybody's blood everywhere here so.
I check the boats and the cars, nothing is in it, just weapons, once the fire destroys the parachute, and it takes hours, I take the ashes and throw them into the sea. I finish my check on the island, I go even where's only forest and no one ever went just in case, all clear, I go to my "secret place", there was this little cave hidden from trees, I ended up there by mistake, I was looking around and I slipped, I fell and I tried to hold on this tree but when I touched it it feel, making me end up inside of the cave, it was my nest, I went there when I wanted to cry, after I killed somebody and when I really was on the edge.
I enter and I see the write I did on the stone wall RIP BRITTANY & SANTANA, at the beginning my name wasn't on it, but after my first experiment I added mine too. Then I did the classis days mark, there're lots, too many, I came here when I wanted to kill my self because it was too much and then again when I planned my escape instead. I kiss my fingers and touch the cold stone where Brittany's name is written and leave.
I go back to the beach and start driving the hull to the nearest port, I try to get my inner actress out, I have to be shaken and scared and tired, when I see the port I get ready, I start crying and when I arrive I don't stop, I let the boat crash on the pier because I don't know how to drive it, obvioulsy! I see people run to me, I get up and try to get down the boat, some men get me out of it and start asking questions, I keep saying I'm free, they brought me inside the port and put a blanket around my shoulders, then they called the police.
When they arrive I tell them I just want my parents, my dad, I tell them he's a cop in New City, I beg them to call him, they asked my name and I tell them, I know my dad is expecting my call, but my mom and my brother are not. They then bring me to the hspital to check me and fix the wound on my leg.
Three hours later my dad arrives with an helicopter, but I didn't expect to see Quinn with him, I can understand my mom isn't here yet, she needs more time to arrive, but where's Ethan? They enter and my dad runs to me, we hug and we cry, I look up and see Quinn, I can see she's relieved, they leave us alone, to give us time and space.
"Everything went well?" He asks.
"Yes, Ethan isn't here"
"He's trying to elaborate, I just told him you're alive, just you, he's gonna wait home for you"
"And mom?"
"I think she fainted, she'll be here as soon as she can"
"Why Quinn is here?"
"I tried to leave her home, but she's so stubborn, if someone says anything she's here to help me with the investigations, I'm your father my judgment could be not fair"
The police insists to talk to me now, they let my dad stay and he asks if Quinn could stay, I tell them the story, I just don't say about me being involved with the drug, directly,when they ask me why Paul would help me I tell them he pitied me and that he never touched girls so he didn't want his men to do it also, I say them he used me to feed the prisoners, his men were too aggressive and other little things like transportations, or go take the plants.
I tell them that last week was weird, Paul left and some of his men wanted to take his place, then yesterday I woke up and caos was around, I hear the shouts and the gunshots, they were all dead, the ones left alive were fighting eachother so I run and run until I got to the boat, that's how I got here. They ask me how I was able to drive a boat and I tell them I'm not, but when I was there I studied lots of things, how to read maps so I could arrive to this port and how you could drive a boat, I just followed the theory, the boat got crashed on the pier after all right?! They want me to bring them there so they could go futher with the investigations and find this drug island, I say yes, but my dad insists for me to rest at least for today, tomorrow I could bring them there.
They brought us to an hotel and give us a double room so we can stay connect, as soon as my dad closes the door Quinn jumps on me hugging me tight.
"I could barely hold it, I was just a tiny step away to bring you back Santana" She says in my neck.
"I'm fine Quinn, you shouldn't have come"
"Are you crazy?" My dad clears his throat and she immediately lets me go "I'm sorry Captain"
"I really think you should stop calling me that by now"
"That's the excatly reason why I keep calling you captain, Captain" He rolls his eyes.
"I don't know if I'm ready to see mom, or Ethan or Brittany's parents"
"You weren't ready to see your dad too, but then you did it, you'll be fine, don't worry, they're just gonna be happy"
"Only my mom, the Pierces are gonna be so hurt that it's just me and Ethan, well we know"
"Well then just take me, your dad and mom and Brianna okay? Now take a shower and sleep" I roll my eyes and do what she said, Quinn and I sleep in the same bed while dad stays in the other room.
Loud, really loud knocks on the door wake us, I sit up from the bed and Quinn gets up just in case, my dad go to open the door and Brianna runs to me, jumping on the bed making me lay down again with her body. She says my mom and her parents are down with the police, she told them she couldn't wait so she run up here.
Once all ready we go down, Quinn and Brianna are holding my hands, but when the elevator stops Quinn leaves mine and takes a step back. I walk out and I see them, they're talking with the cops, my mom still hasn't see me, the Pierces look at me, but they stay there, they just make mom turn, she's crying, she comes to me, she touches my face and I hold my breath. She hugs me and I start crying in her arms, I missed my mom so much, Brianna lets me go and she sits with her parents while my dad goes talking to the cops with Quinn.
She keeps saying she missed me so much that she knew I was alive, that I was somewhere, that I would have come back to them, that's probably why they divorced. We sit alone and she asks me what happened and I tell her making her cry evem more, we stay there for some time and then the Pierces come to me, I stand up, I can't even look at them. Before they could say anything I say I'm sorry and I cry, this time I can't stop, they should be in front of Brittany not me, but they hug me, I didn't expect that, maybe a hand on my shoulder, but not an hug. They hug me and tell me that it's okay, it wasn't my fault, they're happy I'm alive, I don't know if they're telling the truth or if Brianna talked to them before, but I need to believe in this. We all sit together and talk, they have the right to know how their daughter died, as I can see it seems Brianna isn't still talking to them, but I don't say anything.
After hours, exhausting hours, the Pierces say goodbye to me, Brianna stays, the cops come to me asking for the island, my mom wants them to leave me alone, they just found me, but I tell her it's okay, I want them to go there. They give me some map and I try to seem a bit confused and in the end I give them the location, they want to leave now and I agree, Bri and my mom want to come too, but thankfully the cops stop them immediately, but I couldn't stop Quinn from coming.
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