A/N: IIIIII'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!!! lol, didja miss me??? =^-^= Hahaha, of course not...it wuzn't even that good of a cliff-hanger. . Besides, I've been losing my reviewers, but that's perfectly understandable since it seemz that this fic SHOULD b over, which I believe will happen in about 2 chapters, lol. This 1's kinda sad/corny, lol. Welp, please, please, PLEASE R&R!!! ^,~ Enjoy!!!
"What?! You're insane!!!"
"Look, Spike, I know that it sounds crazy, but just do it! This plan could save our lives!," Faye insisted, briefly adjusting her cell phone as she looked outside of the Taxi cab window with severe apprehension. "Just try to trust Arexu on this one, ok?"
Spike snorted. "Trust her?! How can I, Faye?! She's working for Randall!"
"Only because she was blackmailed into doing so!," Faye defended irately, her inner frustration with her lover rapidly ascending the more and more she thought about how unfair he was currently being. "Just come with us, dammit!!!"
Frowning, Spike let out an irritated snort of vexation, then nodded in agreement, acceding gruffly, "Fine, but if anything happens to you because of this I will never forgive myself!"
Faye smiled warmly, teasing, "I'll never forgive you, either."
Sending her an agitated look, Arexu suddenly urged, "Hurry it up, already! He needs to be at the airport by no later than 45 minutes!"
Nodding vigorously to indicate that she understood, Faye instantly returned to her phone call, announcing apprehensively, "I've got to go, Spike....make sure that you're at the airport by no later than 8PM, ok?"
"Got it," he acknowledged, letting out a heavy sigh full of severe trepidation. "See you soon."
"Bye," Faye returned, immediately cutting off her cell phone before returning her attention back to her friend, who, at the moment, seemed to be fighting inner battles within herself as she continued to grip the steering wheel taughtly within her longer, slender fingers.
Swallowing with severe anxiety, Faye managed to ask rather meekly, "W-what do you think will come of this plan, exactly?"
Keeping her gaze fixed firmly ahead of them on the road, Arexu returned softly, "Whatever happens, happens."
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"Aw, hell," Arexu cursed softly under her breath, instantly pulling her Taxi cab over towards the side of the surprisingly vacant road as the flashing blue and red lights of the police car behind them continued to palpitate like several large, multi-colored fire flies.
"What's wrong?," Faye demanded, wiping the sleep from her eyes as she groggily sat up and looked about them with dazed interest. "Are we in trouble?"
"Go back to sleep!," Arexu snapped, far too anxious to give her friend any comforting remarks as she watched a policeman approach their vehicle through the rearview mirror. "I think that it'd be in your best interest to pretend that you're sleeping so that I can do all of the talking, alright?"
Faye raised an eyebrow, slightly frightened. "A-alright."
Glancing briefly behind her to make sure that Faye was doing as she had been told, Arexu then quickly whirled back around and unrolled the window, only to find herself face-to-face with a policeman who's face was completely concealed by the darkness.
"License and registration, please," he commanded gruffly, thus causing Faye to squeeze her eyes shut in consternation as she tried her best to pretend that she was asleep.
Her eyes widening, Arexu cursed under her breath as she meekly turned around in her seat to search for the stolen cab's paperwork, her fingers trembling as she finally managed to open up the glove compartment so that she could peer inside.
Just as she began to feel about for the documents within the small storage cabinet, however, a cool, hard object was pressed firmly up against the back of her head.
Click.
She didn't move.
"I'll take it from here," the cop announced, smirking as he glanced over towards the backseat where the trembling Faye continued to lay hunkered over in fear. "Just go home, Arexu......it's been a rough night for you. I can tell."
She blanched, absolutely refusing to turn around due to the fear of the officer getting a bit too trigger-happy, demanding fretfully, "Who are you?! How the hell do you know my name?!!"
"Man, you really are stupid," the officer commented, smirking as he viciously spun her around so that they were finally face-to-face. "Look into my eyes, Arexu.........what do you see?"
She gasped. "Randall! You bastard! I TOLD you that I'd bring her to you, didn't I?! Don't you trust me?!!"
"But you didn't," he contradicted, his eyes narrowing as he bestowed her with a cold, and icy glare. "Thank God I listened to Jazz and decided to put a tracking device on the bottom of your boot. After all, I didn't expect to find you out here in the middle of nowhere with the intention of betraying me."
Swallowing, Arexu lifted her foot up and examined the sole of her left boot, remarking softly, "Well I'll be damned."
"Yeah," Randall agreed, smirking, "you will."
BANG!
Faye screamed as the gunshot rang throughout the vicinity like thousands of bells in discord, the angel of death mercilessly guiding the copper bullet towards Arexu's fair being before bearing into her with the force of 1,000 hailstones, her breath leaving her and escaping through her crimson lips as she slumped down over the seat and whimpered piteously.
"I'm leaving you to die, Arexu," Randall announced, his voice dripping over with mock empathy as he vaingloriously blew the curling smoke from his gun before twirling it about expertly upon his finger. "Not only that, but I'm taking the girl with me, as well. Tah."
"No," Arexu wheezed, squeezing her eyes shut as she listened to Faye's screams and frantic cries for help. "Please, God.........no......"
Reaching out a shaking hand, she grasped her cell phone within her pocket, her head pounding as her vision grew blurry due to her massive blood loss as Faye's screams were now vastly reduced as Randall threw her into his cop car and gave her a stalwart uppercut with the hopes of silencing her.
Her bottom lip trembling due to overhearing this, Arexu finally managed to unearth her cell phone from within her trench coat's depths and tremulously dialed a number, her heart pounding with great celerity within her bosom as she brought it up to her ear and waited briefly.
"Hello?"
Arexu choked at hearing her sister's sweet voice of innocence, whimpering in answer, "It's me, Nami.......it's Arexu. I called to warn you that-"
"What's wrong?! You sound hurt!," Nami cut in, her almond-brown eyes widening in alarm as she gripped the telephone cord in fear. "Where are you, Arexu?! I'm going to come get you RIGHT now!!!"
"No," Arexu argued breathlessly, shaking her head violently back and forth, "don't you worry about me.....you're the one in danger. Just get out of....your....apartment."
"But why?!," Nami demanded, bursting into tears. "My God, Arexu.....what have you done?!"
"I tried to save Spike and Faye from harm, but I.....I failed. Randall has Faye right now, as we speak, and he's going to use her as bait, no doubt, to capture and kill Spike," Arexu explained, pausing briefly in order to cough up thick globules of scarlet that frothed heavily upon her crimson lips. "And as for you, Nami, I fear that, in retalliation against my betrayal, he will come for you."
"I don't care!," Nami wailed, a sob violently racking throughout her body as she desperately sought to calm down. "If you are to die because of that bastard, I must wait for him to come to me so that I can kill him with my bare hands!!!"
Arexu cringed at hearing this plan of violence, automatically shaking her head. "No.....promise me that you will leave NOW, Nami!"
"But I-"
"Promise me!," she pleaded, tears forming gently along her ebony lashes. "If not for me, than for yourself and the long, wonderful life that you have yet to live!"
Tears streaming down her cheeks like hot candle wax, Nami agreed bitterly, "A-alright......if that's what you want."
"I do," Arexu assured her, nodding. "It's very important to me that you get out of this mess alive and well."
Nami nodded stiffly, by now sobbing uncontrollably as she blurted mournfully, "Don't leave me all alone, Arexy.....I love you!!!"
Arexu's heart wrenched due to the sudden memory that played on within her mind at hearing this.
'Arexy' had been the nickname that Nami had called her whenever they were both little girls of no older than three and four. Arexu, herself, had called her little sister 'Nam-Nam'. The very memory left her weeping dejectedly upon the car mat with more resolve to live within her than ever before, her embittered voice returning hoarsely, "I love you, too, Nam-Nam."
Laughing bitterly, Nami acknowledged softly, "You remembered.......I-I didn't think that you would, but........you did."
No answer.
Nami's heart stopped. "Arexy?"
Nothing but silence.
"AREXU!!!," she screamed, a harrowed wail escaping her crimson lips as she collapsed down onto her knees and dropped the phone by her side before cupping her face into her hands, her agonized sobs echoing throughout the apartment complex like a low, mournful ballad of a tormented soul.
A/N: ~sniff sniff~ Wut happened 2 Arexu??? Iz she alive??? Wut will become of Spike and Faye??? R&R 2 find out, cuz I won't post it unless if I get sum feedback! Luv ya bunches! ^,~
3 Kendra Luehr