Ceaser was strung up in the middle of the camp on a large X shaped post, tied by his hands and feet and shivered from the cold. Blue Eyes began to fight with the soldiers, risking a bullet to the head to see Mina, who was banned from being near him and the others. but that didnt stop her.
As she fed the apes, the black furred female came up to her. the two females shared a still look before Lake held out her hands.
'please.' she says. Mina smiles softly and handed her some.
'forgive me.'
'what do you mean?'
'i thought you hated me. because i was with Blue Eyes, but you are still kind to me.'
This made Mina stop. she did hate the fact that she was with him, but ahe couldnt do much until she could get them out of here.
'i love blue eyes. i always will. but if he is happy, i will have to accept it.'
Lake stared at the human woman in wonder. she was willing to leave her love to keep him happy?
Mina nodded a goodbye to her and walked away, leaving Lake to watch her. Blue Eyes, who was sitting beside his mother, also watched them as they spoke and sighed. he missed her warmth, her arms around him and her lips on his. he turned back to see her make her way to his father.
Mina walked up to Caesar's shivering from the cold and stepped up onto the small wooden platform, bucket of water in one hand with a ladle and the other. she felt his cold forehead before putting water to his lips. he drank greedily as she held it to his lips. smiling, she got off the platform and rushed to the supply shed. quickly finding a blanket, she went back out to him. but then she froze when she saw Rex going up to his with some water in a bucket. he looked like he was about to give him some, but instead hr tipped the whole bucket over his head. ceaser gasped as the cols water covered him. Rex looked pleased with himself, until he saw Mina. she shoved past him and up the platform, quickly covering Ceaser up and rubbing his body from the cold. she sent a glare Rex's way, earning a guilty shamed look from the gorilla. he bowed his head in shame as Mina dried Ceaser as best she could before getting down, leaving the blanket over him. she stood up beside Rex before shoving past him, a light dust of pink across her cheeks. as she did so, he grabbed her wrist stopping her.
Blue Eyes watched as Rex took her hand, trying to pull her closer, but she ripped her hand from his, glaring at him and walking away. Blue Eyes felt a surge of pride go through him as Mina rejected the gorilla. Mina looked back at him before going inside. his heart stuttered as he saw tears in her eyes.
that is when he decided;he had to get out of here. and he would take her with him.
suddenly, the ground began to sink underneath him. jumping up, he looked down in time to see an old hairless ape digging a hole. blue eyes smiled st his own friend and nodded to him.
"we're here to save you." he whispers and blue eyes nodded.
"wair for my signal. then we move out. " blue eyes says. the ape nodded and got back down, hiding.
blue eyes quickly covered the hole with a large torn up sheet and nodded to the others signing to them they would be getting out. now to tell Mina the plan.
Mina stood watching as the soldiers dragged the apes back to the work. She couldn't take it anymore, all the pain and hatred for her fellow man made her go nearly insane. She hated the thought of her fellow ape friends being chained up and locked away like beasts. She had to do something. She had to get them out but how?
When they put Ceaser in a cell she stood watching behind the cages, silently waiting for the soldiers to fall asleep that night. she had part of a plan and was hoping to set it in motion as soon as they were all out.
that night when the soldiers slept, she pulled a pin from her hair and began working on the locks of the cage she was in. Rex lay sleeping inside the cage, awoken from the sound of the door being opened. he turned to find Mina slowly walking out od the cage.
"Mina..." he called. she whipped around and shushed him.
"what are you doing?"
'I'm getting my family out of here. you want to help me or tell on me?' she says crossing her arms. rex got up and reached ouy to her, but she pulled away slightly. he sighed and nodded.
"i will help." he says. she smiles softly at him and nods, taking his hand in hers and walking out with him.
Meanwhile, some of the apes began slowly making their way through the tunnels below, quietly and quickly as possible. Blue Eyes looked over his father and nodded at him. Ceaswr sat up weakly and nodded in response before he laying back down.
Mina left the compound with Rex, and stopped, motioning him to the cages and the soldiers watching, rather poorly.
'Help the apes and i will hide the weapons.' she instructs. She knew that the soldiers put their weapons in a closet by the builsing door where they slept. she slowly crept inside the door and looked for the key surprisingly it was right on the hook she unlocked it and grab as many weapons as she could, looking around to make sure no one was awake. After grabbing a good armful she raced across the camp and slipped it in the crack of the fence allowing the Apes to take them and put them in the hole. Blue eyes grabs her elbow before she could walk away and stood at his full height peering down at her.
"come with us." he says rubbing her cold hands in his.
'I can't. if the colonel found out he would kill you all. i will join you when he is dead.' she signs. he sighs through his nose and nodded to her.
"Be careful Mina." he says reaching through the fence to touch her cheek.
she closed her eyes leaning against his touch, smiling softly at the familiar feeling before kissing his palm and nodding to him, moving away.
she then ran back to tbe building and continued to put the guns through the fence before freezing. there, walking straight through the unfinished part of the wall, was a little girl walking calmly towards them, a doll in hand and a look of determination on her face. she walked up to Ceaser and handed him the doll. Mina felt herself smile at this; the girl seemed so sweet. thr little girl turned to her and ran to her, taking her hand with a smile. Blue Eyes saw her and moved back to the cage, patting the girls head before telling her to go back. it wad getting late and morning was coming.
with half the chimps gone, they covered the hole again and fell asleep, waitinf for morning to come. Mina was about to leave when Blue Eyes grabbed her again. he reached through the bars and took her hips, kissing her hands and trying his best to put his forehead to hers.
"Lake told me what you said. why would you do that?"
'She loves you. i wont get in the way of your happiness.'
"you are my happiness. my heart still belongs to you." he whispers. her eyes watered as she kissed his knuckles, smiling.
'what about Lake?'
"I'll talk to her. she will understand."
she nods and backs away, letting go of his hand letting it rest in the air as she walked away. it suddenly felt colder.
While the soldiers woke up for the morning, Mina made her way to her father's office, knocking on the door and opening it to his answer. She saw him shaving his head once more in front of the small handheld mirror in the middle of the room. His guns lay beside his cot and his uniform set on the top of the blankets.
"You wanted to talk to me?" He asked turning to her with a questioning gaze.
'I want you to set them free.' she says.
"why should I do that?" he asks.
"They are threat to mankind; they could wipe us all out. do you not care about that? do you hate humanity so much? are you that far gone?"
'It's not too late, we can bring them peace. we can live in peace, but you're afraid of them because you don't know what they're like. they are good, kind and smart but you won't give them a chance.'
"I gave them a chance before your brother died. That disease, that virus is what killed him and your mother. You and I are the only ones who are strong enough to sustain it and I will not let that virus spread until the whole of humanity is gone!"
'So is that it? work them until death? then when it is done, kill the rest?'
"yes. and if you try to stop me i will havr no choice but to lock you up again." he says turning to the mirror.
her blood boiled. Before she even realize what she was doing, she stormed over to his cot, grab the gun, cocked it and aimed it at him. He slowly turned around confused on an all at the site of his daughter with the gun at his back.
"So, you want to kill me? That wont save your precious apes. the soldiers have orders to carry out. Besides I don't know if you want to kill me yet. there are still more to come. they'll be coming after all of us, even your apes, even me. do go ahead, pull the trigger. kill me, but it will not help you." he says.
dhe began to cry silently, gun still aimed at her father as tears flowed down her cheeks.
"Mina...I dont want you as an enemy."
'let them go.'
"i just want to make sure humanity has a chance at survival."
'let them go.'
"you have to understand, i want to protect you and the orhers. even if that means killing off those damned-"
"No!" she shouted.
her small voice echoed through the building, down the halls and even out the window. this made the soldiers still and Blue Eyes stand tall in amazement.
Mina spoke.