Love Struck Delusion

Chapter 267 - As personal as it gets.

Hecan's POV, Pakistan capital.

I couldn't feel my feet. They had gone numb from the ropes that had bound me together these past few hours. Currently I had a room to myself and I was giving it already too much credit. This was nothing more than a jail cell for two. Linnen was next door to me and as expected the rebels beat him a lot more than they did me. Thankfully we were holding ourselves together. Archer wanted to use us as leverage, but I knew very well what the people below me in G.U.N were already thinking. If they knew I was captured like this, then they were getting to work on some sort of plan for a breakout. My hopes were that they would invade the city by storm. Killing Archer and his friends along with him. But that was of course not for me to know about right now. My concern had to remain survival.

"You awake Mr. President?" Looking up, I frowned as Archer himself came walking into the room. Two of the men who captured us remained at his sides as he waited for me to say anything back to him. I wasn't going to give him the pleasure. I'd die before saying a word. Archer chuckled seeing my face and asked.

"Still playing the silent game huh? You know I'm not going to kill you. So just say something. How are you feeling in there? Quite the turn of events right? G.U.N's president? Locked in my house. I couldn't ask for anything sweeter."

Despite the best of my ability, I had to open my mouth and respond.

"You're finished. The rebellion is finished. What is it you plan to do with us huh? My people don't negotiate with terrorists. You can't escape your fate. None of you. Might as well just kill us now and be done with it. My army is going to come sooner or later, and when they do your rule as this tyrant will be done. I hope you enjoyed playing the bad guy Archer. Because your time has come. Your end is near and you know it. You can even see it I bet. What's that looking like for you?"

Archer lost his grin and now stared at me with a slight bit of anger to his appearance. Slowly he looked over to one of his men to urge him.

"Open the door John."

"Keep your fucking hands away from him you deranged animal!" Drake barked out from his cell. Archer looked right at him to order.

"Shut your fucking mouth Drake. This doesn't concern you. If I had it my way I'd just shoot you now and make it easy. But till G.U.N responds to my demands your staying right where you are. Keep on talking and my boys will be in that cell in a second to shut you up. Try me. Now open it John."

The man named John did just that to my cell. From there I began to back up. Archer came charging in to punch me directly in the side of my face. I dropped to the floor instantly and coughed up blood as he got on top of me to grab me by the back of my skull. Before slamming me into the concrete floor he ordered me.

"Don't pretend like you know who I am. I'm not finished till I'm dead and right now your the same as Drake. Your my bitch Hecan. Now answer my questions. Where's Raptor? What do you know about him? You two are buddies right? He contacted you right? Why!?"

Archer punched me again as I didn't respond. After which he asked.

"Why!?"

My focus was on no one other then Archer at this moment. Yet I was still not about to answer him; which made him even more mad as he reached for his sidearm.

"How about we do this instead?"

Putting the gun at his side, he ordered John who stood beside us.

"Hold his hand down. I don't care which. Just do it."

I struggled but was quickly overpowered. John pinned my hand flat to the ground and Archer at the same time pressed the barrel down onto my pinky. Undoing the safety he asked again.

"What do you know about Raptor? Tell me something I don't know and you might not lose a finger tonight Hecan. Did he call you first?"

I knew I was in a very bad spot so I broke through my silence to reply.

"Yes. He did. Yet that doesn't matter. Raptor was always the best choice for the middle east and it's future as it's leader. If he didn't reach out to me first, I would have called him sooner or later."

Archer calmly nodded his head and asked me next seeing my cooperation had begun to break through.

"What did he want? Why did he call you?"

I kept my mouth shut this time, but I quickly lost all will to remain that way when he pulled the hammer back on his M9. Jumping to answer I replied.

"He came to me with a problem!"

"What problem?!" Archer asked as I quickly had to come up with something. Drake was still in the dark with my past dealings with him. He was already confused by the fact that I already admitted to speaking with him before our first meeting; which was suppose to be today. Thinking about anything caused too much time to pass for the hedgehog on top of me. All I felt was pain when he pulled the trigger blowing my left pinky right off the bone.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHH! FUCK! AHHHHH!"

"You fucking son of a bitch!" Drake screamed over me as Archer stood up and kicked what remained of my finger away from me and into the corner of the cell. I curled up into a ball and began to grasp the stub with all I had in hopes of holding back the blood. Yet that didn't do a damn thing. Blood was all over my hand and continued to flow as Archer himself shouted.

"I asked you a question! We were doing so good a minute ago Mr. President! What happened!?"

I couldn't do anythig but cry as he asked me again from where he stood.

"You think that hurts? Wait till I blow off your ring finger! What problem did he come to you with!?"

"Gorgon!" I screamed back as Drake widened his eyes to question.

"What?"

Archer seemed surprised for a second then asked the wolf.

"Ohh? You don't know what we're talking about do you Drake? My old buddy Raptor Voltz came to your boss! The president of G.U.N! He came to you Hecan and asked for what?!"

"He wanted to kill them for what they did to his family you stuipd motherfucker!" I replied as he laughed and looked back at Drake to inform him.

"See? That's what you don't quite understand Drake. Hecan and Raptor are buds. Friends even. Only reason I know is because I heard a rumor from Commander Mason before I killed him; that you two had business dealings with one another. From a treaty you had him sign, to helping him get into Pakistan, to helping him kill each and every one of those ruthless user freaks you had working under your thumb Drake. Hecan knows what he's doing. Isn't that right Hecan? What was the plan?"

"Plan was to just get rid of Gorgon and those under him!"

"What are you talking about?" Drake questioned me as I quickly shouted back.

"Don't pretend like you fucking don't know a thing Drake! I know everything there is to know about you and that squad! Ash Lore?! Need I remind you what happened to him!? Seeing as your the one who shot him!"

Archer lost track of where we were at as Drake himself asked in a loss for words.

"You knew the whole time?"

Nodding my head as I was beginning to feel lightheaded, I replied to him.

"Of course I did! How couldn't I!? You think so low of me!? Just because I don't get my hands dirty doing what you do, doesn't mean I'm stuipd!"

Archer quickly came back in the middle of this to state.

"All that shit I don't care about Hecan. Refocus back here. Hey?"

The man slapped me a few times in the face to get my attention. I was pissed and losing the will to stay awake as he asked me.

"Tell me something I don't know. What does Raptor have to gain from working for you? You helped him avenge his family, which I have no probem with mind you. There was just a conflict of interest between him and I at the time. The war comes first. It always does. Raptor couldn't get that. So he went behind our backs to get what he wanted. If he was always something, that something would be selfish."

"Oh go fuck yourself Archer. Nothing comes before family. Esspecially in his sitituion. You would have done the same thing." I told him bluntly as he nodded and replied.

"Maybe. But all that help he probably begged you for had to have come with a price. What was it?"

"I just asked for him to work with me. To see some sense, unlike you! G.U.N was never your enemy! Shadow understood that and so does he! That's why he's where he is now and your stuck on the edge!"

Archer widned his eyes slightly as I told him directly.

"All I want from the world is peace and cooperation. Something the middle east has lacked for years. The first treaty Shadow signed himself turned this wasteland of a hellhole into a thriving community to want to live in. Only problem was that Shadow died and the contract was up for renewal. The peace went well for those years that passed, but as always there are people in the world who figured if there was no one around to take Shadow's place after his passing, then eventually everything would turn back into shit! Shit like this!"

"And let me guess…..Raptor was the guy to fill those shoes? In your mind you think he can amount to anything Shadow was? Your mistaken. That man is a vicious killer with no respect for his upbringing! The rebellion took him in! It was in his blood! From the very beginning he was part of this! We all were!"

"You don't know shit." I replied to Archer as he shot me this confused glare to question.

"I don't know what?"

Beginning to laugh under my breathe, I replied to the poor man.

"Raptor always had ambition. The ability to see everything for what it was. He may have had ties to the rebellion from the very start, but that doesn't mean he took it as the bible's good word. No. Not at all."

"What are you talking about?" He asked me in anger as I pushed myself backwards into the wall. Archer approached me very slowly as I asked him.

"Do you know about his father? About his early life growing up? I bet you don't. He claims you were his best friend. Yet I know you don't know shit about him. If you did things would be different."

Archer knelt down to face me directly as I explianed the hard truth.

"His father was the first real leader the rebellion had when this war started. Issue with his dad though was he hated G.U.N. He was blinded by his hate and he passed that on to the people around him. Do that enough and you can drive an army to do whatever you want. Raptor on the other hand grew up hating his dad for what he was. Never being there for him. Never being a father. He hated him. Believe me about that. I know. You know what happened that first time around?"

Archer calmly replied.

"Bishop died in a housefire. Along with the rest of his family."

Shaking my head I muttered back.

"That's what we wanted you all to believe. Clearly it worked."

Archer proceeded to grab me by the neck of my shirt to shout out into my face.

"What are you taking about!?"

Laughing a bit I replied.

"Bishop didn't die in a house fire you stuipd fucking animal! Raptor killed him!"

Instantly Archer's face went blank. Along with the men standing behind him. His hand kept itself wrapped around my neck as I went on to say.

"You never knew him. Never saw what was behind the scenes. When he turned eighteen he hated his dad so much he turned his back on his family and joined the one group you dispise."

"You're lying." Archer whimpered back as I calmly told him.

"I'm not. Raptor joined G.U.N at a young age. An age before the rebellion even had it's feet in the sand. Back then G.U.N was working to handle the rebellion before it got out of hand. A man you're familiar with was in charge of the operation. A Commander Lehigh."

Archer was a mix of shocked and confused as he loosened his grip on my neck. Keeping things blunt I told him next.

"Raptor was made an offical solider by my army. My nation took him in. In a matter of weeks he showed all that hatred and focused it on training. He was ruthless and only cared about fighting his father who he hated with a burning passion. Lehigh saw that potential and made him an officer. Which he excelled at being. It was only a matter of time when we found out about his affliation to Bishop."

"You didn't know when he joined?" Archer questioned as I shook my head and replied.

"How were we to know? Back then no one kept records or even I.D's. We knew his first name and a last name he clearly came up with on the fly to hide his relation. But it was simple enough once we found out."

"Then what happened?" Archer asked as I took a moment to look at my finger. Archer quickly slapped me back up to his eyes so I replied.

"Lehigh put the screws to him. Quickest way to end a war is to stop it before it even begins. So Lehigh told him…..put an end to your father or we'll kill you. Raptor cared more about himself back then and I can't desribe to you anymore how much he hated him. So what happened next was simple. Raptor put an end to him. Ended all that hate. Once that was done he killed his mom and sister. Then sent the home up in flames to make it seem like a freak accident. And guess what Archer? All of you believed it. Heheheheheh."

My laughter was a mute point as Archer and his goons were in complete shock for what to believe.

"You stuipd motherfuckers took him in and felt horrible for him. What a freak accident right!?"

Archer found his grip again and began to choke me. I held my breathe as he shouted into my face.

"I don't believe that for a second! Raptor was always a selfish prick and he was slowly but surely losing his way in life after losing Julie, but he would never willingly hurt his own family."

"Ask him!" I urged him as he kept on squeezing.

Sensing I was about to pass out, I told Archer before seeing nothing but welcoming darkness.

"He'll be here at some point to see you off! Ask him….ask him and see….ask…?"

Linnen's POV.

Hecan passed out in Archer's grip, getting me to shout.

"Stop! Let him go! He's gone!"

Archer was slow to answer, but released the old fox leaving me to be his next target.

"Shut the cell." He ordered his men as they walked over to where I was. Once there Archer stood right in front of me to state.

"Enjoy the fact that I didn't kill you here today. I'll have a medic here to treat him while he's out. You should get some sleep. Come tomorrow you and I are going to settle some things personally."

I watched as the man turned and began to leave with his men. Once they had left, I let out a deep breathe and shouted.

"Fuck!"

I didn't know what to do. What could I do now? I had no idea and knowing that Hecan knew about Ash made me question everything. For how long? Why didn't he say something till now? And Raptor? I didn't know any of that. I didn't know he was a G.U.N officer before this. I didn't know about Gorgon, but that explains a lot. The only question I wanted to ask was how Hecan got Raptor that close back then. I wasn't mad about it. Gorgon was an issue for me. Him and his friends. They would have sold me out at the drop of a hat. My only concern was finding a way out of here before morning. Hecan was still the prioity and right now I was his only hope until someone overseas decides to act.

mT Shadow.