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Missy let out a blood curdling scream as she plummeted off the edge of the ravine.
She scrambled to try and get a grip on something...anything...as she hurtled past branches and rocks, tearing both her clothes and skin to shreds.
She tumbled down the steep slope, faster and faster...nothing could stop her.
Until...BAM.
She hit the ground.
Missy felt nothing but a sharp pain in her side, as all around her faded into blackness.
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Richard blinked his eyes open.
His whole body ached and a faint voice echoed somewhere around him.
What had happened?
"I found Alpert," came the voice, from somewhere a few feet away from him.
Richard raised his head and peered around a little groggily.
"Missy?" he asked as the person's face swam into focus.
"No its not," came the voice a little sarcastically. "You okay?"
Richard blinked several times until the face of Miles became clearer.
"What happened?" Richard asked, wincing in pain as Miles offered him a hand and helped him to his feet. "W-Where's Missy?"
Miles shook his head as Richard swayed on the spot a little. "I'm sorry," he said quietly, avoiding Richard's gaze. "After Locke decided to give you flying lessons...Missy...she went looking for you...and well..."
Richard gazed at Miles wide-eyed. "Well what?" he yelled. "What did he do to her?"
Miles glanced up at Richard's angry face a little uneasily. "I'm sorry man. He dragged her away...and when he came back... I saw him walk off with Linus holding Missy's knife in his hands."
Richard gasped and stepped back, his eyes widening in shock.
"N-No!" he said desperately. "You must be wrong!"
But Miles merely shook his head. "I know what I saw man...Missy was gone."
Richard was frozen with shock.
No.
This had to have been a mistake.
Missy couldn't be dead.
She just couldn't be.
He lifted his hands to his face as tears welled in his eyes.
"I'm sorry man," said Miles patting Richard on the back as tears rolled down his cheeks.
First Isabella, then the baby...now Missy.
Richard prayed that it wasn't true. That the one person he had left in this world wasn't gone. Wasn't dead.
But something in his gut told him that Miles was probably right.
That if Locke truly had dragged her off into the jungle there would be little chance of her surviving.
Grief washed over him.
The loss of the person he had given his heart to.
The person who had given him hope in this world.
Given him a second chance.
Richard gazed up at Miles, wiping away tears with the sleeve of his shirt.
"Is there anymore C4 left?" he asked, balling his fists tightly.
Miles looked up at Richard a little uncomfortably. "Yeah I guess so..."
"Well we need to get moving," said Richard firmly, turning away and striding into the undergrowth.
"Hey! Where are we going?" asked Miles running to catch up with him.
Richard quickly turned around to face Miles, an angry fire blazing in his eyes.
"I'm going to stop that thing from ever leaving this place. I'm gonna' finish what Missy and I started," he said.
And with that, Richard swept off into the jungle, his heart torn to pieces.
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