Okay, Maybe I'm a day late ... hehe sorry:L Well after the very long wait, here is chapter 25 for you :D Enjoy and REVIEW! ;D xox
Chapter 25 - Resistance
I ran out into the corridors with Hal and was met by Maggie and Jimmy too.
"What's going on?" I asked as I followed.
"Jimmy?" Hal said.
"Weaver's imprisoned Tom" Jim explained.
"What? Why?" I almost came to a stop before my pace picked up again.
"My dad was supposed to go on sentry duty tonight with me, but sent margaret with me instead. I think after my dad confronted Weaver about what happened with us that was the tipping point for him. Jimmy says he's being held in the electrics room by Danner" Hal explained.
I nodded. How could I not have noticed this? "Why do you need me then?"
"Kristen, let's be honest here, you are a pretty good soldier, even for you" he smirked.
I elbowed him gently "I'm a great soldier considering" I laughed "You okay Jim?"
"Fine. Why wouln't I be?" he shrugged.
I gave him 'the 'you know why' look before we came to electronics.
"Kristen, Maggie, you guys stay on guard out here, only come in when Jimmy opens the door" Hal gave us orders. In all fairness, Hal was actually probably the best soldier I've ever met. I'd be glad to have him watching my back anyday. Or I suppose, as his brother's girlfriend he was always watching over me, since they were all convinced they count me as family. I'd never really tell them but I didn't count them as family, not really. They, however, were my family.
I nodded.
"Wait, hold up here, me?" Jimmy said.
"Yeah, you're going in there since none of us can. Go take this in and tell Danner Weaver's ordered you to bring my dad food. He'll open the door and then you create a distraction to give my dad a chance to fight back. He'll know something's up, he always does" Hal rolled his eyes, obviously picturing a memory.
"How am I supposed to create a distraction?"
"I don't know, drop the tray or something"
"What are you gonna do?" Maggie asked Hal.
"I'm staying with you guys until Jimmy opens the door. Then I'll go in and help my dad, simple enough plan" he looked pretty confident.
"Let's hope this works" I looked at him.
"It will" Hal's confidence showed a few cracks but he still looked confident enough.
We all nodded and Hal and Maggie stood back as I knocked on the door for Jimmy since he had the tray in his hands. I practically ran over to stand behind Hal.
Jimmy went in and we all listened on closely. Maggie was keeping check on the corridors. We all heard the tray drop and got ready to go in, there were sounds of a struggle between Danner and Tom and Jimmy eventually opened the door. Hal was the first in and I helped Jimmy up off the stairs to keep watch with Maggie. Checking if anyone had heard anything.
"Dad?"
"Hal! Quick, help me tie him up" Tom looked relieved.
Hal passed his dad a few pieces of wire and Tom tied both Danner's hand and feet together. I walked in and took off my headband to put around his mouth. It would make it obvious that I was here, but Weaver was going to find out anyways.
"Sorry, Lieutenant" I patted his head before we ran into the corridors and towards Anne.
We stopped by a classroom.
"Wait here a minute" Tom ordered and walked in.
"What's he doing?" I whispered.
"Talking to Pope" Maggie replied.
I didn't get why, but I've been missing out on a lot lately caught up with Ben and all that, of course, I didn't exactly mind...
Tom was back out soon enough. He was on complete gurard holding the gun tightly against his side. We reached Anne's and I sat on the counter.
"Someone care to fill me in on everything?" I asked.
Tom turned to me "basically, I accused Weaver of abusing these drugs he'd been taking that he got from Lourdes. He ended up ordering Pope to seperate the bomb into four seperate charges which is basically just a suicude mission. We can't risk losing anyone else so I told him it was a bad idea but he just didn't listen. I later found out, when Dai woke up that the 4th and 5th mass have gone. There was an attack, that's how he got hurt. Porter's ... probably dead" I felt a bit sick when he said that "Then I went against his orders to go with Hal on sentry duty and he had Jimmy and Danner take away my weapons and imprison me"
"Wow, sounds like everything's falling apart" I swallowed hard.
"It is" Jimmy implied.
"Weaver's coming!" Maggie whispered loudly.
We each ran in seperate directions; Hal, Maggie and me behind counters, Jimmy into the med room and Tom hid behind a curtain waiting for Weaver to walk in with a hand gun.
"Anne" I heard Weaver's voice "Tom has escaped from custody, apparently he was seen here earlier today, have you seen him?"
"N-No, I haven't seen him since this morning" Anne replied sheepishly.
"I-" Weaver started but was inrerupted when Hal, Maggie and me stood up.
"Drop it" Tom ordered holding the pistol to Weaver's head when he held up his gun at us.
Weaver sighed and Tom took it from him. We all kept our guns on him until Hal took away all his weapons.
"What are you playing at?" Weaver looked a bit pissed off to be honest...
"Trying to make you see sense" Tom replied "Don't you remember what you told me? To be a good leader you have to have the civilian's faith, well it goes both ways, Weaver! You need to have faith in your soldiers and civilians or you're not a good leader at all"
We all heard a gun being cocked up and turned to find Pope holding a gun at Tom. Margaret went to hold hers up at him.
"Hold up, you're fast Maggie but not that fast" he turned back to Pope when Margaret dropped her gun "Sorry, Cambridge. But ... I couldn't bring myself to defuse those charges. If I had to choose between following orders, and killing cooties ... well, cooties win everytime"
"Dad, I thought you talked to him?" Hal whispered loudly.
"I did"
"Well done, Pope. Now drop your gun before you hurt somebody. You have nothing anymore" Weaver said to Tom.
"That's where you're wrong" Tom refused to back down "When I went to see Pope, I knew I couldn't trust him, so I defused the charges myself"
"Where are those charges?" Weaver seemed beyond pissed now.
"Hidden, safely. Now listen to me for once in your life!" Tom threw his gun to the floor as Hal looked even more cautious "To do this attack you're going to need to have faith in your civilians, we can't do it alone!"
Jimmy finally showed himself "Captain?"
"Jimmy?" Weaver looked as if he was calming down "Lower your weapon"
"What?" Pope looked confused at him.
"Lower your weapon" Weaver repeated.
Pope did as he was ordered to and Weaver sighed "You'd better be right about this"
We all finally chilled out and went out into the corridors. I got back to breathing normally, I started drifting off not paying any attention to what Tom and Weaver were saying. After Weaver had ordered us to round everyone together in the hall I really kinda blanked out. My mind drifted to what would happen if all this went wrong. What would happen to Tom, Hal, Weaver, Ben. Not to sound selfish but what would happen to me?
"Hey" Ben made me jump when he touched my arm. He looked worried as he read my facial expression "Are you okay, babe?"
I nodded "I'm fine, just worried s'all"
"About what?"
"This attack, and if it goes wrong" I pursed my lips.
He hugged me tight and I hugged him back even tighter "Everything's going to be fine. I trust everyone here to never back down, so I'm positive everything will go to plan"
"Hope you're right" I half smiled.
Ben kissed my forehead "I'm always right" he winked.
I laughed "You know how to make me laugh"
"What I'm good for" he pecked me on the lips and grabbed my hand "So, what do you have to do?"
I sighed "Round everyone up into the hall, basically"
"Any chance I can help?" he looked kinda pleading.
"Of course!" I smiled "Like you'd even have to ask"
Ben smiled right back and we round everyone we cold find up into the Hall where Tom stood on the benches besides Weaver, taking his place in second in command.
"Well, to explain everything, Dai has returned and it is now believed that we may have lost the 4th and 5th mass. Now, Colonel Porter's orders were to abort the mission if we cannot confirm the excistance of the other masses, and now it looks like we may have lost the Colonel himeslf ... however I believe that if they are still out there, well god damn it they will not back down. So we need to be there to back them up. Now I know this is a lot to ask ... but I'm going to need 50 fighters for this mission, those who will volunteer, meet me out front" Weaver looked a bit ... I don't know, hard to explain, not gutted, but not happy ...
Ben clutched onto be tighter. He was hugging me from behind my waist both hands on the opposite waist. It was kind of his silent way of telling me not to even think about it.
People left, some I knew and was close to ... Anthony, Alice-Jane's dad, and Pope but I wasn't close to him anyway.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to leave you" I smirked whispering to Ben.
I saw the corners of his lips twitch in an effort not to smile in such a serious matter. Ha! "Good" he whispered back.
Weaver walked out leading them to the trucks that were already ready to leave. We all went out and Hal pulled up in a bike. No, of all people that could go, at least not him!
"Hal, you don't have to do this" Tom said to him.
"I do, Dad, if not for Ben, then for Karen"
I felt as if I was about to have another break down. I've lost too much to lose anymore.
I hugged Hal tightly "You swear to me that you'll come back!" I ordered.
He laughed and hugged me back "I swear" I let go and he hugged Tom "See you when we get back"
Tom nodded "I'm proud of you, Son"
"Thanks Dad" Hal smiled and we watched them all drive away.
"Fancy taking Matt for a walk in the forest?" Ben asked me "If that's okay, Dad"
"Course it is" Tom nodded looking to Matt.
"Yeah, sure" I smiled showing my teeth.
Matt looked actually pretty happy about it.
"Kristen!" Cass jumped on me again.
"You have to stop doing that" I laughed as Tom looked at us weird "I know, we're so normal"
"Yeah, course you are..." he chuckled and Ben burst out laughing along with Ben and Lily.
"Hey!" Cassidy and I both said at once.
"I'll see you later, Ben. Be careful"
"Always" Ben replied to his father.
"What do you want?" I raised my eyebrows to Cass.
"Logan wants to take me out on a date, but mom wants me to look after Lily, so ... do you mind?" She practically begged.
"How can you go out on a date?" I chuckled.
"Think of it as a youthamism"
"Oh, right" I laughed "Yeah sure, we're taking Matt for a walk anyway. I'm sure Matt would love Lily to come"
I could actually feel Matt giving me evils.
"Great! Thanks, love ya!" she kissed my cheek and helped me up.
"You weren't gonna get off me if I said no, were you?"
"That was my plan, yes"
I laughed "Go see Logan, you got about two hours"
Cass almost jogged off and I shook my head at her. Cecilia was with Jimmy no doubt. I'd go see her and Tori later. Started to miss Tori actually...
Ben and me just took the kids to the big patch of trees behind the school. It was full of tree swings and things like that from before when this place was still a school. We were there for about an hour playing about with them before finally sitting down on a patch of grass. We both watched as Lily and Matt played tag hide and seek. Matt was hiding behind a tree trunk as Lily tip toed around the grass being careful to not give away her position by crunching any leaves or snapping any twigs. I had to laugh.
"I wish I was that age again"
"Why?" Ben turned to me.
"Things were a hell of a lot simpler" I looked to the grass. It swayed ever so gently with the breeze and a few strands of my hair blew in front of me.
He shrugged "I suppose, I still prefer this age, though"
"Why?" I repeated his previous question.
"I've never been this ... happy in a way" Ben touched my arm, his cold skin against my warm skin sent a cold shiver through me but I didn't mind "If my mom was still here I really wouldn't care about this invasion"
"Ben, it was an invasion seven months ago. Now this is just another war"
He looked at me obviously deep in thought.
"What are you thinking about?" I asked.
"The future, basically, in general" Ben turned back to check on Lily and Matt. She found him and they were now chasing eachother around the thick and thinner trees.
"What do you see?"
"Us ... in a house ... blue, for god knows what reason" he chuckled.
"Well, blue isn't bad for a house" I shrugged smiling.
He smiled back "It is my favourite colour"
"What else do you see?" I was actually really intruged.
"Two kids. One boy and one girl. This is actually really detailed ..."
"How so?"
"Well, the girl, she's the spitting image of you now but with my kind of hair. She's sat on the porch next to us on her phone. She's about 14 or 15. The boy looks more like Hal with dad's eyes, he's in the yard playing catch with Hal and his kid"
I laughed "sounds too perfect"
"I know, can't blame a guy for dreaming" Ben smirked, shrugging and taking my hand. He pushed me down to the grass and leaned over me. He kissed me, tangling his fingers in my hair.
"Ewwww" Lily and Matt chorused.
Ben and I both laughed.
"You'll be like this soon enough" I sat back up.
Lily and Matt widened the gap between them "No"
"Yeap. I give you till you hit about, what would you say, babe? 11?" Ben looked to me.
I nodded "Around about there"
Lily and Matt both looked eachother up and down "Blech"
Ben and I were laughing so hard.
"Fair play, you two are so cute" I smiled.
"Can we go home now, please?" Lily looked at me, her arms folded. Just like her sister sometimes...
"Yeah sure" I replied and Ben helped me up.
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