Final act
I feel my right hand connect hastily with Vicious' ankle as his plummeting body is flung against the side of the building and with a wet thud. His back hit the wall with such force I almost let go of his quite unconscious body. The blood from his numerous wounds are running down his neck and pooling and streaming down his jaw line. Some blood even drips off only to plop on the ground below. I feel my left arm pound with burning pain as I pull him up slowly, Julia laughing as I do so. I turn to Julia as I put Vicious' bloody body on the building. Man! he has like three bullets in his chest. We are even Vicious, we are equal.
"Spike... you absolute fool! You would turn your back on your opponent, risk getting shot in the back, to help someone you claim to hate. You are a idiot!" Her eyes try to pierce through me, her smile tries to break me, but she doesn't understand that she cant break me any more.
"Julia you know, you can be a pain in the ass." I said it, and it felt good, it made me smile on the inside. I quickly collect myself and take out my Jericho with a single bullet. I am ready to end this, I'm ready to move on.
"How dare you Spiegel! And to think I even thought of giving you a choice." Julia's oceanic eyes filled with hatred and fire as her lips frowned creating a menacing appearance. She threw her glock off the side of the building and took out her fully automatic Ak-47. Her blonde hair billowing from the wind swirling from the oncoming thunder storm. The sky darkens as the heavens cry out in multitudes of low rumbling thunder.
"What options are you talking about?"I spat venomously as I felt my mismatched garnet eyes look at her though bloody glass. What could she be talking about options, what is going through her head now? I prepared my self to do some acrobatics because my jericho against her Ak. is not exactly a match I was anticipating.
"Well, I did always like you better than Vicious..." She did not lower her gun, but she appeared less ready to fight and more ready to do something else. "Why not end the dream with me? C'mon all you have to do is finish off pathetic Vicious, and that annoying little whore. I can be yours." Julia smiled a happy smile, a forced one. My jaw nearly dropped, what... do I do? I cannot deny that I did want Julia to be mine, but finishing off Vicious like a cold blooded killer?
Faye, I could never kill Faye, I could never even touch Faye wrongly and live with myself. Faye is my innocent angel. Well, ok, so she isn't that innocent, but she hasn't tried to kill me, or Vicious or Shin. I cant abandon Faye now, not because I feel obligated to be with her, but because she means more the me than Julia.
"Sorry Julia, but I woke up from that dream long ago. Faye isn't a whore, and Vicious is really anything but pathetic if he shot you back at the alley before you even knew he was there." I frown even more now, Julia just raised the stakes.
I cock the hammer on my Jericho and aim it at her heart, I better get this done quickly. Even though I do not love Julia anymore, a part of me really doesn't want to kill her, but I will if she threatened Faye. Thunder booms across the ebony sky as fingers of lightning split down around Julia and I trying to grasp our bodies. Rain comes down in sheets making my clothes stick to me and Vicious' blood trickle down the side of the building.
"I love you Spike." She smiles her sad smile and takes out the rose I handed her that day, it's wilted and lost its most of its lustrous color. I lower my gun. What did she just say? Did she just say she loves me? Faye where are you? I need you I am so fucking lost. I grit my teeth as I try to come up with a comeback, but I am left speechless. Does she really or is this some trick?
"Julia..." Is all my brain can come up with. Lightning strikes down on a nearby building resulting in sparks as thunder rolls through my body. What do I do now? I feel my head reeling with snips of memories of the past days, the days that changed my life to the point the magnetic poles have switched from north to south.
'How can she be your true love if she didn't love you?'
'Love is living for the person you love, Love is doing anything for that person. When you are in love, you would give your life for that person.'
'I love you lunkhead.'
'Watch out for red roses, some only bring about sorrow.'
Phrases of people's voices ricochet through my head like bullets as I try to make sense of each one. Snips of the past few days fly through my head as I recollect the dreams I had, each one so vivid in my mind, dreams that almost seem real, like an alternate ending to a story book gone bad.
"What is the matter Spike do you not love me anymore? Say it, say you love me! I know you do, deep down I know you cant forget me." She walks towards me until she is only ten feet from where I stand. Her wet blonde hair is heavy around her fragile face, her eyes oceanic and piercing, her thin lips poised in a melancholy smile. Thunder rolls behind her as if the storm was her slave, lightning zigzags and strikes the sky in a blind rage, illuminating the sky for moments.
I feel my hand around my gun tighten and my knuckles are white with blind frustration. Was the whole past two weeks a dream? Was Julia just playing with me and now she actually wants to start a life with me? I cant...I wont Faye, I love Faye...don't I! Don't I love her?! I need Faye right now more than anything, I need to make sure I love her. If I don't love Faye then I used her unknowingly...I cant live with that.
But I know I did at one point in my life love Julia, because I meant it when I said it to her. I mean, what I felt for her was love right? Right when my lips were about to give her an answer I heard the door behind me creak open. I turned to see who it was, I saw a ivory silk arm and a few wisps of violet hair from the edge of the door, in the finely manicured hand of the arm was an old glock. The door when opened, faced Julia and I creating a crude shield that Faye was using to her advantage.
"Faye!" I said in such rapture I thought I was going to burst. I swear the rain lightened and the thunder quieted and the lightning was dimmed when I saw the slightest glimpse of emerald iris.
"Spike...are you ok?"She spoke from the door, her voice filled with worry and concern filled my ears with unending melody. I knew that only Faye can make me feel this content and this peaceful in the most dire and hectic of situations. I knew that whatever I felt towards Julia was gone. Faye is my love.
"Spike answer me!" My attention was drawn to the other woman on the roof, now filled with malice and impatience. Her piecing arrow eyes were inflamed and her blonde hair encircled her upper body in a demonic halo.
"That rose that you hold Julia is wilted, as my love for you is now. I don't love you Julia...I love Faye–" Before I had a chance to say more she took her Ak-47 and shot through the door that shielded Faye. I felt my heart shatter as my stomach convulsed I felt like I was going to vomit up everything inside of me. I then saw Julia turn the gun on me and press the trigger, but I still had my one shot and I will kill Julia, she will die for what she has done! I take my Jericho and pull the trigger as multiple bullets pierce my chest like cannon fire. I see my bullet hit it's mark right between the eyes and she falls heavy like some slayed demon.
I feel all the rest of my blood flow from me as I crawl towards Faye, she is lying on the ground, bleeding from multiple bullet wounds, but still conscious. I wrap my arms around her weakening body as I pull myself closer, I am crying, I feel two tears fall down my face. These tears are more tragic than any angel tears can be, I am losing the one I love, before I could even show her my love, prove to her I love her.
"Faye please speak to me." I look down into her slowly glassing over eyes, her ruby lips have a ruby stream of blood coming out of them. Her hair was splayed out around her like a oriental fan I see her chest move up and down. She smiles ever so faintly at me, masking her pain.
"I love you too lunkhead." She smiles as she kisses my lips gently, I kiss her back praying to whatever God there is that this wont be the end, I don't want Faye to die here. Please take me, but don't take her.
'Love is living for the person you love, Love is doing anything for that person. When you are in love you would give your life for that person.'
"Shrew...you just keep coming back don't you?" I laugh slightly as I spit blood on the roof of departure, If I am dying I might as well go down with a little humor, right?
"Lunkhead. You can do anything right can you?" She laughs back as I run my bloody fingers through her lush hair. I feel her hand cup my cheek and I take my hand and hold it there, our hands throbbing with our last heartbeats.
"Faye I love ya, and I am sorry I couldn't...see that before." I cockeye grin at her as She looks at me with pain in her eyes as our blood intertwines on the roof, becoming one.
I feel myself growing sleepy, very very sleepy. My weighted eyelids are closing fast. I have to hold on though I have to tell her something, She has to live even though I wont. The pain inside me has taken over every sense, sight, hearing feeling smell and taste all read blood. I see her, like a fallen angel without her wings or halo. Her sides are bleeding profusely and so is her right leg and arm. Her eyes are still sparkling though, hiding everything away like a curtain over a stage.
"Spike don't worry we will pull through this, I wont let Julia win you I– " she coughs, but not blood "She wont win." her tone serious but I can tell that she doesn't know how to do what she just said to do. I love her I do but I cant stay awake any longer. This feeling of sleepy anguish is something I have never felt before, I guess it death, because I have never died before. I don't want faye to feel this I have to tell her before I go.
"Faye–" I weeze and cough more blood What is up with all this blood? "I want you to know that Julia has nothing on you." I smirk my trade mark grin and her eyes widen and soften as she tries to hold back small laughter.
"Spike I'll get you out of here I will." Faye frowns and looks at me with tears in her eyes as they stream down like liquid diamonds.
"Smile for me." I grin slightly, as the corners of her ruby lips turn upward, her spherical emerald eyes shine and a bight light fills the area. She smiling like the archangel that she is; I want to remember her just like that.
"Thank you Faye." My eyes close and my body falls limp on the roof of departure. The clouds are still raining as I see myself fall into a vortex of darkness, everything swirling, everything moving so fast I cant keep up. I cant feel pain, I cant move I cant breathe I cant see, all I feel is lost. The vortex gets darker and darker still as I see people swirl about me too, lost and afraid.
Mao
Lin
Vicious
Julia
Faye
All of them just drifting some still bleeding, others not. I see them swirling about me, I am unable to reach out to them, I cant move I am so hurt, so lost, so angry that I am dying. I don't want to die I don't. I want to live for once in my life Godammit! I want to live. Then as if things couldn't get any worse, one by one they left me.
First Mao, then Lin, then Julia all vanished. Then Vicious dissipated slowly....and god no Faye don't leave me too! Faye cant die, she just cant, Julia cant win!!! I feel myself reach out to her to try to grab her back to me, but I cant move. My body is stiff and cold. I see her dissipate away slowly just like all the others, they left me I left them. I am alone, left alone to drift here in the spinning void, neither dead or alive. Why cant I just live or die, please either choice is better than this.
Then I saw something at the far corner of my vision, a light, a small white light. I have to get to it, whether It is heaven or hell, I will.
The real folks blues...
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