Chapter 21: savior.
This is a song based chapter please listen to savior by skillet. Attempted suicide warning.
Skye's pov
Hunter isn't acting normal and it's worrying me. His friend didn't come back with him. I finally asked him "Hunter will you tell me what happened after you made me leave?" He looked up at me and said "Christian asked me to kill him because your goddamn father was going to use him to kill you. So I shot him in the head. He asked me to bury him by his brother at the ruins of the thunder ninja academy." He burst into sobs. I left the room to get Sensei and when we came back there was blood all over the bed and I found Hunter huddled on the floor with his wrists slashed. I was shocked and angry but even more worried.
A few days after Hunter's attempted suicide I went to see him in the infirmary when I walked into the room Hunter tried faking sleep. I sat down by his bed and I said "how could you be so selfish? I know you killed your best friend but still I cannot raise the twins by myself. Hunter I can't believe you would try and do something so stupid." Hunter said "do you know what it's like to have to kill your fucking best friend? Well do you?" I said "no but I also know that I wouldn't try to kill myself because I have a family and I know what's more important." Hunter said "Skye, you don't understand and you never will." I stormed out of the room and ran to mine and Hunter's room and flung myself onto the new sheets and started sobbing.
I couldn't believe that Hunter had tried killing himself. When Sensei cleared him and he came back to our room I wouldn't speak to him because I was still so upset. As much as I loved Hunter I didn't know how much more I could take. Being a ranger was really destroying our marriage. I thought that if we weren't rangers our marriage would be as strong as it was when we first got married and throughout my pregnancy.
Hunter seemed so distant from me and I didn't know how to help him. I felt awful for screaming at him the way I did a few days earlier. 2 nights later Hunter was having a nightmare and when I tried comforting him when he woke up I got slapped across the face. I was so shocked I couldn't believe he had just hit me. Tears were running down my face and I grabbed the twins and ran out of the room. I laid out a pallet in the control room and grabbed a pop up crib and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning and I knew that my face was bruised. I left a note on the crib saying
To anyone that reads this
Hunter slapped me last night I desperately need time to myself
I don't know what to do
I'm taking his dirtbike
Skye
I ran out to the shed and put on Hunter's gear and pulled his dirtbike out and started it. I didn't even care anymore. I felt my phone vibrating and I ignored it I went to the motocross track and shut off the bike and sat on the berm and yanked the helmet off and grabbed my phone out. I looked at my messages and saw one from Hunter saying
Babe I'm so sorry for what happened last night I don't know what happened. If you want to divorce me that's fine. But I do want you to know that I do love you and I always will.
After a few hours I rode back to ninja ops and found Hunter waiting in the shed for me I took off the gear and when he saw the bruise on my face he said "did you get my text?" I said "yeah." He said "you know the only reason I didn't end up killing myself was because you found me. It's like your my savior."