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This is the second chapter to The Bullet of Fate. I like to give my thanks all those who reviewed the first chapter. As I said before this story is a two-shot so this is the final chapter, also to mention a lot of my own ideas have been placed in here. I know my grammar might not be up to people's level, but is it not true the old saying you learn from your mistakes? Also I'm very sorry for this late update due to the fact of school which is killing off my free time to write.

The Bullet of Fate

Elsa's POV

When I woke up this morning, a drip of water slid down my face, if people saw it, they would see it as a tear drop, but in my eyes, it was drop of blood that fell.

The same nightmare had haunted me ever since that day, it was almost real, like the past repeating itself, and Lauro saying "Useless" in the end which devastated my mind and body the most.

As I looked out the window, gray clouds were what I saw, forming together before it released its load of life giving water. Then I started to look around my empty room, only to have my eyes focus on the only picture of him that I had kept after my last mission.

It has been 3 days since that incident and yet I'm still not allowed to participate in missions anymore like the other cyborgs.

"Am I really that useless?" I asked myself, cringing at the thought that I would become nothing better than trash itself.

Even though I'm not allowed to fight anymore, I can still access the shooting range; to me it kills the boredom and time I have while I'm stuck at the agency.

However I couldn't stand the fact that I'm still on standby. I know this when I ask Lauro when I would be able to work again, and he replies everytime, "soon".

"Was it my fault? Was it because I let my mask of emotions get the best of me and now I'm worthless?" I asked myself. Just thinking about it makes my heart quiver with regret and remorse.

With my mind swarmed with countless questions, I couldn't even focus properly, and just to test out the fateful possibility, I fire two shots and what I saw didn't give me comfort whatsoever. Two shots, both completely missed their marks, not one even grazed the wooden structure.

Disgusted with my results, I threw the firearm in frustration but in doing so caused it to recoil and fire a bullet which grazed my arm. Despite the pain, I slowly head back my dorm and take out a spare roll of bandages.

As I wrap my arm, hoping it will be enough or otherwise I would be punished for injuring myself. I noticed my perfectly ironed blue shirt was ruined, soaking in blood, my blood no less. However my eyes traveled to Lauro's picture again, I just couldn't stop thinking about him.

By daybreak, I remembered I had to attend language classes with the other cyborgs. Boring. That's what my opinion is on this 'waste of time' subject, I mean who wants to speak 3 languages when really, what we do is kill and be silent like mouse.

However, this time my attention was grabbed by one of the cyborys, she wore glasses but I didn't know her name. I don't like to socialize with these kinds of 'people'. All I know is she once had a handler but he died due to an incident which the Agency declared as treason.

I sometimes envy her; she looks at life normally and doesn't go crying the fact she's all alone in this world. Sometimes I wonder, will I die lonely in this world? The simple thought makes my spine shiver.

When night broke out, I made sure my blue shirt was removed from the red blood stains, so it won't attract too much attention. Slowly crawling into my bed, I encounted a new vision, but this time it was much darker than the ones I usually had before my missions.

Nightmare

The first thing I noticed was it was night, and I was in a park of some sort, the lamp posts were emitting a purple light, or was it my imagination?

Suddenly, a rustle of leaves was heard, and I noticed two dark figures, one tall and the other small. They seem to be walking in no particular direction.

Then they stopped and walked back. There was another rustling of leaves behind me and when I looked, a gunshot was heard. Looking back, I noticed the tall person was no where to be seen and the shadow of the small figure was just standing there.

Unable to control the urge, I walked closer to the scene, only to find a horrible sight of blood gushing out of the mans head.

I tried my best to act calm and I looked towards this 'killer', but when I came here across their eyes…………bang

Nightmare End

Quickly my eyes opened, my head was sweating, and my breathes were ragged, though the nightmare was constantly replayed when I tried to sleep again, but what did it mean I pondered day after day until that fateful day came.

I waited till it was night, for I wanted it to me and Lauro's time, for this day was very important for me. When he agreed to come with me, my heart jumped, I thought it was a sign that he had feelings for me.

Though the drive to the park I requested was awfully silent like back when we went to Tuscany, only to have the radio to break it.

When we reached our destination, Lauro was still silent and began to walk towards the park, I requested. Even though I remember the event that happened on this day, it was strange that he didn't make any comments of actions to say something about it.

After five minutes of silence, Lauro broke it again and asked what I was going to show him. More or less, my mind just froze, how could he, out of all the days, how could he forget what happened today.

Snapping out of my trance, I replied telling him where he named me Elsa De Sica. However it didn't faze him one bit, like he was off the planet and drifting away into another world.

My heart was breaking up, bit by bit, now I know it, Lauro never cared for me, he never liked me, he never saw me as his sister and he never cared for the feelings I cared for him. It was making sense now, I really am useless, and there's nothing that will change that.

All of a sudden, my body felt something new, like it had a mind of its own, hatred, anger, angst, enemy, whatever emotions went through me, was like a disease.

The next few actions were so fast, my mind had already shutdown. Pulling out my SIG, I aimed it at the back of his head, and then I pulled the trigger.

Seeing the smoking gun in my hand, I knew I had no more reason to live, my fate was already decided for me when I pulled the trigger. That bullet decided his fate and now this one will decide mine as I put my firearm in front of my face, aiming at my eye, well at least I'll die with him, and then I pulled the trigger.

FIN

Well there you have it, the end, I am very sorry again for this late update, but school is killing off my free time so I'm trying to balance it somehow. But yeah I might write another Gunslinger Girl fic when I get the chance again. But until then, give me a review ok!

SacredBlade