Rebecca's Heart
~*~I still don't own RE or Billy and Rebecca =(. But hey we can all dream. As I type this story it comes to me. Still sorry Carlos fans. This story will continue to be in Rebecca's POV. On with the story! Please no flames.~*~
~*~Special Thanks~*~
~Chiren_Decimal- Thank you! I hope you enjoy the ending when you beat the game. It's something new writing about how someone feel in their P.O.V. its cool.
~BlizzardAngel- I won't abandon this story just to put you're mind at ease. I hate it too when they leave Characters like that when its getting good.
~*~End of Special Thanks~*~
~*~Chapter 3- Nothing Will Stop My Happiness~*~
( I slowly open my eyes wondering how long I slept. I noticed that the room was dimly lit I watch as Billy, my love, slowly wake from his slumber. I glace at my clock it read 7:04 A.M. in its bright red numbers. I slept all night! Thats something new. I sit up slowly as Billy helps me )
"Thanks" I say
"Welcome" Billy said
( I stand with Billy's help feeling sore but a hot bath will cure that. I walk in my bathroom as Billy walks downstairs to the kitchen to get coffee I suppose. I lay down in the now steaming hot bathtub feeling the soreness disappear. My mind cannot help but wonder about yesterday's events. I can't believe that Carlos would stoop that low telling Officers that I was his....urgh....girlfriend. I hate controling men like that...In my mother's words "Controling Pigs!" and thats one thing I agree with my mom. I sigh as I climb out the tub wrapping a dark green towel around me before draining the water. I figure I shouldn't keep them waiting if they are waiting for me to eat. I laugh softly as I walk out of my bathroom to my dresser and closet taking out the clothes and shoes I need. Now I don't have a lot of clothes like Claire and Jill but I do go shopping for myself every once in a while I'll admit that. I quickly dry off and dress fast then my shoes are on. I'm wearing a baby blue shirt, black jeans and white nikes. I know I mostly dress in green but this is the outfit Claire and Jill picked out for me on my 20th Birthday. I must say they do shop well. I brush my short hair before leaving my room. I walk slowly downstairs careful not to fall I quietly walk in the kitchen seeing Billy, Claire, Chris, Jill and Sherry sitting down. )
"Morning Becca!" Claire said happily
"Morning everyone" I say softly as I sit at my seat looking down at my breakfast as a chrous of morning is exchanged.
( I smile softly to them as I slowly begin to eat my thoughts are still dwelling on the past events. I hope and pray that nothing will happen. I don't wish to see my comrades and family to get hurt because of this. This will plaque my mind so much. I refuse to relive another nightmare and I won't let some creep scare me to death. As I finish breakfast Billy took our plates to the sink before sitting back down sipping coffee. I smile softly in thanks to him which he gives me back a little smile. I look towards Jill. )
"Umm......Can I talk to you Jill outside?" I ask
"Sure Becca" Jill said
"Be careful Jill....Becca. I don't want anything to happen to either of you." Chris said in a worried tone.
( Claire agrees as she sips her coffee. Sherry long since ran upstairs to beat Final Fantasy 7 I believe. Jill and myself nod as I look in Billy's eyes knowing what he wanted to say that to be careful as well I gave him a small smile before standing and walking with Jill outside for a little walk. )
"Whats on you're mind Becca?" Jill said
( I tell Jill what I told Claire and Sherry at the Mall (See chapter one) and filled her in on what actually happened. Jill nodded throughout the whole story. )
"Jill I'm afraid that I might lose Billy to this." I say with a glint of tears in my eyes
"From what you told me and what I've seen...He seems to be a strong person to put up with anything and will stay by your side no matter what." Jill said softly to me
"I know Jill and thank you for listening to me." I said with a small smile
"You're Welcome" Jill said smiling
( I don't know what happened the next moment we was walking back when we saw this black van with no windows come at us. Jill and I gasp as we started to run as fast as we can back to the house. I cried out as someone tackled me from behind. I saw Jill stop and try to run back to me but a shot was fired at her from her attempts she cursed a bit as she dodged another bullet and called out to me that she will come after me before I saw nothing but darkness. )
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( I slowly open my blue eyes not knowing where I was. I saw the last person I would want to see...Carlos. )
"Why?" I whisper
"If I can't have you NO one will" Carlos told me
( I winch slightly from the rawhide tied around my small wrists. I wish I never left home and I wish that I never left the safty of Billy's arms. I spit in Carlos' face and kick him right between his legs when he came near me and end up getting backhanded hard.)
"Never do that again!" Carlos said to me angry
"I hope Billy and Chris comes to tear you apart!" I said through clinched teeth feeling blood roll down the side of my right chin.
"That will never happen my love" Carlos said
"You will wish you never started this when Chris and Billy gets through with you, you jerk! I will NEVER ever love someone like you!" I said looking brave
"We shall see and then you'll be mine" Carlos said
( I watch as Carlos leave slamming the door. I let out a sigh happy that he's gone. I wanted to vomit, and somehow controlled myself. I knew I had to stay calm, think clearly. I will be ready for a chance to escape and get home....somehow. Fear bit into the very marrow of my bones, I was almost afraid of being left alone in the dark, with the rodents and spiders. But as I thought about it I would rather be alone than with that creep. I could barely breathe, as the sensation felt like being buried alive.I passed the next five minutes to scream my throat raw. )
"Billy" I whispered inthe darkness
( I had barely mastered that ordeal when something skittered nearby, and fresh hysteria washed throughout me. Sure I battled countless Zombies and such but I never liked little rodents...plus sad to say at least I had a gun to defend myself against those monsters. I failed widly, in an effort to break free, but the bounds on my hands and ankles only tightened, chewing more deeply, more cruelly, into my flesh. I finally persuaded myself to lie stil, to breathe deeply, despite the moldering stink of this place, to think. )
"Man this stinks..." I whisper to myself
~*~Switches over to Billy's POV for the moment~*~
( I left the horse far back into the woods, reins dangling, and picked my way back to the edge of the clearling. I had used every bit of strength to hold Chris Redfield back. I will admit that I was ticked off too and I'm sure I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes. There was a light burning inside the tent, and I could see the shadows of three men insid, playing cards. Two more stood guard outside the shack, arguing between themselves, and there was another with Carlos, near the cook fire. They had Rebecca, I had no doubt about that, and it was no great mental leap to figure out that she was inside the cabin. I also knew that she was relatively safe, for the moment at least. As long as he stayed alive, she would too. If, on the other hand, he was killed, then Chris Redfield and his gang will finish this. )
'Moron' I thought bitterly towards the man called Carlos.
( I closed my eyes briefly. I'd delt with other situations like one many times, but there had never been quite so much at stake before. Somewhere in the distance, a wolf howled. Carlos raised his head at the sound, and a spark spiraled into the fire as he tossed down a cheroot. I sigh to myself; I suppose this man feared wolves, feared some other things as well. I moved back into the shelter of the trees. The horses were in a ramuda well back of the tent; he would start a small stampede, I decided, and proceed from there. )
'This should be fun' I thought
( The horses were easy to spook; he found a piece of dried wood on the ground, plunged it into a spill of pitch of oozingout of a big pine, and struck a match to it. I flung the flaming brand into the middle of the improvised corral, Indian-style, and widespread consternation ensued. The animals tore down the ropes and scattered in every direction, terrified, but unhurt. Carlos broke into a run, though he moved with peculiar limping hop, and the card players in the tent scrambled for the flap, but they were too slow, too frantic. Several of the escaping horses passed too close, and brought the canvas roof down onto the men's heads. While they failed and bellowed curses, prayers and imprecations, the latern must have tiped over, spilling kerosene and flame, because the tent went up in a memorable whoosh. After that, the boys inside grew more enterprising, and erupted through the burning sides, howling and rolling in the dirt to extinguish the scattered tounges of fire on their clothing. Carlos and Vance (the other guy) were busy trying to catch the horses, and the other two had abandoned their latern on an outcropping of rock next to the cabinto bolt into the heart of chaos. I made for the door of the shack, the Military Police Handgun with a scope attached I still have from our last battle, is at home in my left hand as any of my fingers. I waited in the shadows, my back pressed against the wall of the shed. )
"Damnit, you idots," Carlos roared, "He's here-he's someplace looking for the woman!"
( I smiled grimly, cocked my Military Handgun. )
'You're move, moron' I thought
"Find him, damnit!" Shouted Carlos running in six directions at once. "He'll head for the cabin!"
( Nobody seemed to be paying much mind to their leader's commands; bullets flew in all direstions, and I wasn't particularly worried about out- thinking this tribe of idiots. Hell, left to themselves, they'd kill each other. No, it was the steep slope looming above the shack that troubled him; stones, dislodged by all the shootin, were already tumbling down like hail, pounding at the flimsy roof. Sweat broke out on my upper lip as I made my way quickly along the cabin wall toward the door. )
'Hold on, Rebecca,' he thought 'Hold on.'
~*~End of Billy's P.O.V.~*~
( I didn't waste a moment wondering about the thunderous downpour battering the roof over my head; I believe I knew what was happening. All that gunplay out there had loosened stones and dirt already undermined by years of digging and blasting. I was about to be buried alive, and with my hands and feet still bound, so I was helpless to escape. All the same, I was going to try. I rolled off the stinking mattress onto the splintery, debris- strewn floor, sat up, and tried to inch my way in the direction of the door. The problem was, I didn't know exactly where the door was, since the cabin was dark as the inside of a tyrant's belly. Billy was out there somewhere; I knew that much, and he was most likely alone. Carlos and the others could easily kill him, but I highly doubt that, from what we been through. Hope and dismay did battle in my mind, equally weighted. It was just happening as I said it would. Billy, the predator until now, had deliberatly made himself the prey. For me. I bent double on that filth- strewn floor, eyes squeezed shut. The pain spawned by the mere prospect of Billy's capture or death death was a thousand times what I felt in my wrists and ankles, where the rawhide strips were digging deeper with ever passing moment. Stones continued to hammer at the roof, and several fell through, chattering on the wooden floor. I screamed, and in the same moment, the door sprang open, spilling thin light and a stumbling Billy over the threshold. )
'Oww' I thought
( Without another word, Billy leaned down,closed his right arm around my waist, and hauled me to mt feet. When I tripped, Billy realized that my ankles were bound, as well as her wrists, and hoisted me against his side like an armload of books. Under any other circumstances, I would have protested volubly, for the position was most uncomfortable, and it didn't help that Billy's Handgun was in his free hand, mere inches from my head. It spat bullets even as the hillside rolled down behind them with a deafening roar. The air was so full of dust and dirt that I choked on every breath. Some twenty feet from the shack--I didn't need to look back to know the place was crushed to splinters by then--Billy set me on the ground softly before kneeling down to cut the ties from my hands and feet with a pocket knife. Then, talking my elbow softly as he pulled me to my feet again he told me to run which I did. )
"The others..." I said as I ran, heedless of the bands of pain left on my flesh by the rawhide tides.
"Damn the others," Billy retorted "Keep running."
( Thunder rolled beneath the land, as if pursuing us, raising a fog of dirt all around, and we kept going, long past the point of collapse. Through the noise, I could hear, just faintly, the confused cries of the men we left behind. I felt as through my heart would burst from the exertion when Billy finally lunged to the ground taking me with him, covering me with his body. The worst of it camethen, the terrible tremors beneath the grass and topsoil, beneath the layers of rock and clay, seemed to crack the surface like an eggshell. I lay there beneath Billy, certainwe were about to die after all. Maybe it was a minute later, maybe it was an hour, but the blessed silence came at last. Billy rolled over onto his back and stared up at the star-strewn sky, I alternately choked and sobbed. )
"You could have been killed" I cried
( Billy sat up, drew me into his arms, kissed the top of my head. )
"But I wasn't, and neither were you. Come on." Billy said as he got to his feet and pulled me after him. "We'd better find that blasted horse and get you out of here before Carlos figures out that we aren't under that pile of dirt."
"How did you know?" I coughed, as Billy gave a low whistle through his teeth.
"When Jill got back , she told us you was gone Me, Jill, Chris, Claire and Leon we followed them since they didn't get far and several Police Officers followed us and the Vanfrom a safe distance." Billy said pointing to the S.W.A.T. Officers and S.T.A.R.S. Memembers going towards the site.
( The spotted horse came out of the brush just then, reins dangling, saddle slightly askew. Billy securing the saddle and helping me up into it before swinging behind me. His arms were strong around me as he gripped the reins. Billy spurred the pinto into a lope, and his embrace tightened a little. He never cease to amaze me, first the Piano and now able to ride a horse...wow. I turned to look up in his dusty face. )
"I was scared" I confessed, in a small voice.
( Billy smiled softly at me and kissed the tip of my nose )
"You are brave Rebecca. Just goes to show you that you're a smart female." Billy replied
"Do you think Carlos is alive?" I ventured even though I didn't really care for the man but at one point of time he was my friend.
"I couldn't be that lucky," Billy answered dryly. Then he leaned a little kiss on my left ear. "Right now, I've got to get you home."
( I rested the back of my head against his shoulder then, too worn out to talk or even think beyond the simplest things, like keeping my seat on the horse. We rode for who know how long until we stopped and saw Jill dressed in her S.T.A.R.S. Uniform she smiled happy to know I was safe as Billy dismounted before softly pulling me down in his arms as I wrap my arms around his neck happy to be with him once more. Jill walked to us stpping close.)
"I'm sorry Becca....that I wasn't able to stop them from taking you." Jill said sadly
"Jill its ok. I'm glad you did what you done to get me back safely. Thank you both." I said to her and Billy
( Still in Billy's arms I hug Jill softly as she hugs me back softly. I wouldn't trade anything in the world for this. I'm happy that I know the people I know and learned the things that I went through. I wrap my arms back around Billy's neck letting the sleepiness overcomes me. )
~*~Ok I'm gonna stop right there so its not really a cliffy lol. I hope that you enjoyed Chapter 3 as Chapter 4 is soon coming out. I must say that this chapter is good. So tell me what y'all think. I will let you know what happens to Carlos and the other 'idiots' heh. Thank you for reveiwing!~*~
~*~I still don't own RE or Billy and Rebecca =(. But hey we can all dream. As I type this story it comes to me. Still sorry Carlos fans. This story will continue to be in Rebecca's POV. On with the story! Please no flames.~*~
~*~Special Thanks~*~
~Chiren_Decimal- Thank you! I hope you enjoy the ending when you beat the game. It's something new writing about how someone feel in their P.O.V. its cool.
~BlizzardAngel- I won't abandon this story just to put you're mind at ease. I hate it too when they leave Characters like that when its getting good.
~*~End of Special Thanks~*~
~*~Chapter 3- Nothing Will Stop My Happiness~*~
( I slowly open my eyes wondering how long I slept. I noticed that the room was dimly lit I watch as Billy, my love, slowly wake from his slumber. I glace at my clock it read 7:04 A.M. in its bright red numbers. I slept all night! Thats something new. I sit up slowly as Billy helps me )
"Thanks" I say
"Welcome" Billy said
( I stand with Billy's help feeling sore but a hot bath will cure that. I walk in my bathroom as Billy walks downstairs to the kitchen to get coffee I suppose. I lay down in the now steaming hot bathtub feeling the soreness disappear. My mind cannot help but wonder about yesterday's events. I can't believe that Carlos would stoop that low telling Officers that I was his....urgh....girlfriend. I hate controling men like that...In my mother's words "Controling Pigs!" and thats one thing I agree with my mom. I sigh as I climb out the tub wrapping a dark green towel around me before draining the water. I figure I shouldn't keep them waiting if they are waiting for me to eat. I laugh softly as I walk out of my bathroom to my dresser and closet taking out the clothes and shoes I need. Now I don't have a lot of clothes like Claire and Jill but I do go shopping for myself every once in a while I'll admit that. I quickly dry off and dress fast then my shoes are on. I'm wearing a baby blue shirt, black jeans and white nikes. I know I mostly dress in green but this is the outfit Claire and Jill picked out for me on my 20th Birthday. I must say they do shop well. I brush my short hair before leaving my room. I walk slowly downstairs careful not to fall I quietly walk in the kitchen seeing Billy, Claire, Chris, Jill and Sherry sitting down. )
"Morning Becca!" Claire said happily
"Morning everyone" I say softly as I sit at my seat looking down at my breakfast as a chrous of morning is exchanged.
( I smile softly to them as I slowly begin to eat my thoughts are still dwelling on the past events. I hope and pray that nothing will happen. I don't wish to see my comrades and family to get hurt because of this. This will plaque my mind so much. I refuse to relive another nightmare and I won't let some creep scare me to death. As I finish breakfast Billy took our plates to the sink before sitting back down sipping coffee. I smile softly in thanks to him which he gives me back a little smile. I look towards Jill. )
"Umm......Can I talk to you Jill outside?" I ask
"Sure Becca" Jill said
"Be careful Jill....Becca. I don't want anything to happen to either of you." Chris said in a worried tone.
( Claire agrees as she sips her coffee. Sherry long since ran upstairs to beat Final Fantasy 7 I believe. Jill and myself nod as I look in Billy's eyes knowing what he wanted to say that to be careful as well I gave him a small smile before standing and walking with Jill outside for a little walk. )
"Whats on you're mind Becca?" Jill said
( I tell Jill what I told Claire and Sherry at the Mall (See chapter one) and filled her in on what actually happened. Jill nodded throughout the whole story. )
"Jill I'm afraid that I might lose Billy to this." I say with a glint of tears in my eyes
"From what you told me and what I've seen...He seems to be a strong person to put up with anything and will stay by your side no matter what." Jill said softly to me
"I know Jill and thank you for listening to me." I said with a small smile
"You're Welcome" Jill said smiling
( I don't know what happened the next moment we was walking back when we saw this black van with no windows come at us. Jill and I gasp as we started to run as fast as we can back to the house. I cried out as someone tackled me from behind. I saw Jill stop and try to run back to me but a shot was fired at her from her attempts she cursed a bit as she dodged another bullet and called out to me that she will come after me before I saw nothing but darkness. )
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( I slowly open my blue eyes not knowing where I was. I saw the last person I would want to see...Carlos. )
"Why?" I whisper
"If I can't have you NO one will" Carlos told me
( I winch slightly from the rawhide tied around my small wrists. I wish I never left home and I wish that I never left the safty of Billy's arms. I spit in Carlos' face and kick him right between his legs when he came near me and end up getting backhanded hard.)
"Never do that again!" Carlos said to me angry
"I hope Billy and Chris comes to tear you apart!" I said through clinched teeth feeling blood roll down the side of my right chin.
"That will never happen my love" Carlos said
"You will wish you never started this when Chris and Billy gets through with you, you jerk! I will NEVER ever love someone like you!" I said looking brave
"We shall see and then you'll be mine" Carlos said
( I watch as Carlos leave slamming the door. I let out a sigh happy that he's gone. I wanted to vomit, and somehow controlled myself. I knew I had to stay calm, think clearly. I will be ready for a chance to escape and get home....somehow. Fear bit into the very marrow of my bones, I was almost afraid of being left alone in the dark, with the rodents and spiders. But as I thought about it I would rather be alone than with that creep. I could barely breathe, as the sensation felt like being buried alive.I passed the next five minutes to scream my throat raw. )
"Billy" I whispered inthe darkness
( I had barely mastered that ordeal when something skittered nearby, and fresh hysteria washed throughout me. Sure I battled countless Zombies and such but I never liked little rodents...plus sad to say at least I had a gun to defend myself against those monsters. I failed widly, in an effort to break free, but the bounds on my hands and ankles only tightened, chewing more deeply, more cruelly, into my flesh. I finally persuaded myself to lie stil, to breathe deeply, despite the moldering stink of this place, to think. )
"Man this stinks..." I whisper to myself
~*~Switches over to Billy's POV for the moment~*~
( I left the horse far back into the woods, reins dangling, and picked my way back to the edge of the clearling. I had used every bit of strength to hold Chris Redfield back. I will admit that I was ticked off too and I'm sure I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes. There was a light burning inside the tent, and I could see the shadows of three men insid, playing cards. Two more stood guard outside the shack, arguing between themselves, and there was another with Carlos, near the cook fire. They had Rebecca, I had no doubt about that, and it was no great mental leap to figure out that she was inside the cabin. I also knew that she was relatively safe, for the moment at least. As long as he stayed alive, she would too. If, on the other hand, he was killed, then Chris Redfield and his gang will finish this. )
'Moron' I thought bitterly towards the man called Carlos.
( I closed my eyes briefly. I'd delt with other situations like one many times, but there had never been quite so much at stake before. Somewhere in the distance, a wolf howled. Carlos raised his head at the sound, and a spark spiraled into the fire as he tossed down a cheroot. I sigh to myself; I suppose this man feared wolves, feared some other things as well. I moved back into the shelter of the trees. The horses were in a ramuda well back of the tent; he would start a small stampede, I decided, and proceed from there. )
'This should be fun' I thought
( The horses were easy to spook; he found a piece of dried wood on the ground, plunged it into a spill of pitch of oozingout of a big pine, and struck a match to it. I flung the flaming brand into the middle of the improvised corral, Indian-style, and widespread consternation ensued. The animals tore down the ropes and scattered in every direction, terrified, but unhurt. Carlos broke into a run, though he moved with peculiar limping hop, and the card players in the tent scrambled for the flap, but they were too slow, too frantic. Several of the escaping horses passed too close, and brought the canvas roof down onto the men's heads. While they failed and bellowed curses, prayers and imprecations, the latern must have tiped over, spilling kerosene and flame, because the tent went up in a memorable whoosh. After that, the boys inside grew more enterprising, and erupted through the burning sides, howling and rolling in the dirt to extinguish the scattered tounges of fire on their clothing. Carlos and Vance (the other guy) were busy trying to catch the horses, and the other two had abandoned their latern on an outcropping of rock next to the cabinto bolt into the heart of chaos. I made for the door of the shack, the Military Police Handgun with a scope attached I still have from our last battle, is at home in my left hand as any of my fingers. I waited in the shadows, my back pressed against the wall of the shed. )
"Damnit, you idots," Carlos roared, "He's here-he's someplace looking for the woman!"
( I smiled grimly, cocked my Military Handgun. )
'You're move, moron' I thought
"Find him, damnit!" Shouted Carlos running in six directions at once. "He'll head for the cabin!"
( Nobody seemed to be paying much mind to their leader's commands; bullets flew in all direstions, and I wasn't particularly worried about out- thinking this tribe of idiots. Hell, left to themselves, they'd kill each other. No, it was the steep slope looming above the shack that troubled him; stones, dislodged by all the shootin, were already tumbling down like hail, pounding at the flimsy roof. Sweat broke out on my upper lip as I made my way quickly along the cabin wall toward the door. )
'Hold on, Rebecca,' he thought 'Hold on.'
~*~End of Billy's P.O.V.~*~
( I didn't waste a moment wondering about the thunderous downpour battering the roof over my head; I believe I knew what was happening. All that gunplay out there had loosened stones and dirt already undermined by years of digging and blasting. I was about to be buried alive, and with my hands and feet still bound, so I was helpless to escape. All the same, I was going to try. I rolled off the stinking mattress onto the splintery, debris- strewn floor, sat up, and tried to inch my way in the direction of the door. The problem was, I didn't know exactly where the door was, since the cabin was dark as the inside of a tyrant's belly. Billy was out there somewhere; I knew that much, and he was most likely alone. Carlos and the others could easily kill him, but I highly doubt that, from what we been through. Hope and dismay did battle in my mind, equally weighted. It was just happening as I said it would. Billy, the predator until now, had deliberatly made himself the prey. For me. I bent double on that filth- strewn floor, eyes squeezed shut. The pain spawned by the mere prospect of Billy's capture or death death was a thousand times what I felt in my wrists and ankles, where the rawhide strips were digging deeper with ever passing moment. Stones continued to hammer at the roof, and several fell through, chattering on the wooden floor. I screamed, and in the same moment, the door sprang open, spilling thin light and a stumbling Billy over the threshold. )
'Oww' I thought
( Without another word, Billy leaned down,closed his right arm around my waist, and hauled me to mt feet. When I tripped, Billy realized that my ankles were bound, as well as her wrists, and hoisted me against his side like an armload of books. Under any other circumstances, I would have protested volubly, for the position was most uncomfortable, and it didn't help that Billy's Handgun was in his free hand, mere inches from my head. It spat bullets even as the hillside rolled down behind them with a deafening roar. The air was so full of dust and dirt that I choked on every breath. Some twenty feet from the shack--I didn't need to look back to know the place was crushed to splinters by then--Billy set me on the ground softly before kneeling down to cut the ties from my hands and feet with a pocket knife. Then, talking my elbow softly as he pulled me to my feet again he told me to run which I did. )
"The others..." I said as I ran, heedless of the bands of pain left on my flesh by the rawhide tides.
"Damn the others," Billy retorted "Keep running."
( Thunder rolled beneath the land, as if pursuing us, raising a fog of dirt all around, and we kept going, long past the point of collapse. Through the noise, I could hear, just faintly, the confused cries of the men we left behind. I felt as through my heart would burst from the exertion when Billy finally lunged to the ground taking me with him, covering me with his body. The worst of it camethen, the terrible tremors beneath the grass and topsoil, beneath the layers of rock and clay, seemed to crack the surface like an eggshell. I lay there beneath Billy, certainwe were about to die after all. Maybe it was a minute later, maybe it was an hour, but the blessed silence came at last. Billy rolled over onto his back and stared up at the star-strewn sky, I alternately choked and sobbed. )
"You could have been killed" I cried
( Billy sat up, drew me into his arms, kissed the top of my head. )
"But I wasn't, and neither were you. Come on." Billy said as he got to his feet and pulled me after him. "We'd better find that blasted horse and get you out of here before Carlos figures out that we aren't under that pile of dirt."
"How did you know?" I coughed, as Billy gave a low whistle through his teeth.
"When Jill got back , she told us you was gone Me, Jill, Chris, Claire and Leon we followed them since they didn't get far and several Police Officers followed us and the Vanfrom a safe distance." Billy said pointing to the S.W.A.T. Officers and S.T.A.R.S. Memembers going towards the site.
( The spotted horse came out of the brush just then, reins dangling, saddle slightly askew. Billy securing the saddle and helping me up into it before swinging behind me. His arms were strong around me as he gripped the reins. Billy spurred the pinto into a lope, and his embrace tightened a little. He never cease to amaze me, first the Piano and now able to ride a horse...wow. I turned to look up in his dusty face. )
"I was scared" I confessed, in a small voice.
( Billy smiled softly at me and kissed the tip of my nose )
"You are brave Rebecca. Just goes to show you that you're a smart female." Billy replied
"Do you think Carlos is alive?" I ventured even though I didn't really care for the man but at one point of time he was my friend.
"I couldn't be that lucky," Billy answered dryly. Then he leaned a little kiss on my left ear. "Right now, I've got to get you home."
( I rested the back of my head against his shoulder then, too worn out to talk or even think beyond the simplest things, like keeping my seat on the horse. We rode for who know how long until we stopped and saw Jill dressed in her S.T.A.R.S. Uniform she smiled happy to know I was safe as Billy dismounted before softly pulling me down in his arms as I wrap my arms around his neck happy to be with him once more. Jill walked to us stpping close.)
"I'm sorry Becca....that I wasn't able to stop them from taking you." Jill said sadly
"Jill its ok. I'm glad you did what you done to get me back safely. Thank you both." I said to her and Billy
( Still in Billy's arms I hug Jill softly as she hugs me back softly. I wouldn't trade anything in the world for this. I'm happy that I know the people I know and learned the things that I went through. I wrap my arms back around Billy's neck letting the sleepiness overcomes me. )
~*~Ok I'm gonna stop right there so its not really a cliffy lol. I hope that you enjoyed Chapter 3 as Chapter 4 is soon coming out. I must say that this chapter is good. So tell me what y'all think. I will let you know what happens to Carlos and the other 'idiots' heh. Thank you for reveiwing!~*~