Hi and welcome to the third chapter of Wipe Away The Blood. I hoping to work on this story and my other story in another category at the same time. I will probably either update this or that story more often. Possibly more of this one. Now, let's first explain the dialogue structure since some guest reviewers here don't get the structure I have in place. The dialogue takes place between two characters. That is until a third person comes in and interrupts. Then, the first character talking to the second character talks to the third person. When the second character interrupts, the first character talks back to the second character again. Sorry if I have to explain this. I don't want to keep getting reviews with confused readers confused of the dialogue. Now, why not put Booker said or Elizabeth said after every phrase? I don't want to do that. When I type that in, I feel like it keeps getting repetitive. I feel like this belongs more in a book than a fanfic. I hope you new readers to Fanfiction get this. Okay, now let's move on to the story.
After receiving their apartment from Fink, the two moved from Booker's old apartment to a new one in New York. Of course, they had to take the things that belonged to them. It took them a while, but they moved everything into the new apartment. It was beautiful, according to Elizabeth. The walls were painted with clean white. The floor seemed to be knew as it had a glow to it and was not old and withering way. The windows actually had glass instead of wooden boards covering them up. The smell of the room was fresh, not filled with stank, alcohol, and smoke from cigars. The two had already found the bedroom set up. There was a bed for two, a dresser with a mirror, couple of paintings that are of New York and Paris, and finally a wine as a gift with a note left by Fink.
To the new arrivals. I gladly welcome you to your new home. Have fun with this gift I have sent you. -Fink
"Looks like a nice piece of wine. Want some?"
"Booker, you know I don't drink."
"Come on, try some."
"Booker, stop saying that."
"Fine, just teasing you a little. Seriously though, may I have a drink?"
"Booker, it's still morning. Not the best way to go."
"Come on Elizabeth. I promise, a couple cups." Elizabeth groaned, but she decides to let him. Getting out the glass that were already in the new apartment, he poured the wine into the cup. He engulf the cup of mine in one gulp. After, he continues to do the loop. Every time he did it, the more he became more dizzy. After the previous cup he had drunk, he had finally began to lose his vision. As a result, he got up only to fall to the floor.
"Booker!" Elizabeth shouted. She got him up from the floor. Now it looks like he had too many again and once again had to be drag off to the bed, but this time comfortable. She throws him onto the bed, but carefully since he was numb. When she tries to go put the wine away, she felt a touch. The touch was not soft, but hard. She had looked back to see Booker, who had grabbed her.
"Elizabeth, come to bed. Besides, I want to make this day last forever."
"What are you even-?" She is brought into him. She does not realize what is about to happen when he had brought his lips onto her's. The young girl tried to make him stop since she is not interested and is not going to be persuaded, but his lips were so warm and it just felt great. It bought great rush she could not ignore. She kissed him back. The lovers, now in their own world where there is no worries for problems and troubles. They both rolled and Elizabeth ended up at the bottom. Just as predicted by Fink, Booker gazed at Elizabeth's beauty. The man was right, and Booker didn't like that, but what the hell. In order to make it even more interesting for them both, Booker, under the alcohol's influence, untied her blue tie and started unbuttoning her blouse. Elizabeth didn't know it at first until she had realized what was going to happen.
"Booker, no." She said pushing the man off of her. "Elizabeth, what are you doing?"
"Booker, I'm not ready for... that. We're not even marry." Booker then started to overcome the influence and thought what he was about to do. He was going to have sex with her and they were not even married. The worst of it is that he was going to do that to her without her permission.
"Elizabeth, my god, I'm sorry. I'm so stupid."
"No you're not."
"I try to do it with you when you're not even marry. This is what I'm worry about. One day, my alcohol is going to bring bad situations and I might end up doing it to you."
"It's fine, just stop saying that. Look, you know what, why don't we start off simple, like a hug. Can you do that for me?"
"It does sound simple. I'll do it, just for you." Booker and Elizabeth embraced. "Perfect, Mr. Dewitt."
"Is the next part involving looking at each others eyes?"
"You got it right, Mr. Dewitt. That is when we also-" The two gazed into each others eyes. Booker had seen those eyes and they were lovely. One thing that he really loved her beside her innocence and her adorable traits is looking at those innocent beautiful blue eyes. You could tell that she was innocent and you wanted to be gentle with her, like she was almost an object, like a vase. She was no object though. The Columbians saw a girl who was nothing more than a lab rat who was to be used until her needs no longer served its purpose. She was to be an object to be dispose off. To him, all he see is a young, lovable, girl. The two's lips met and they both ended up falling onto the bed to daze off into slumber for a while with each of their arms still locked with each other. When they have woken up again, it was already the afternoon.
"So, miss Elizabeth, how do you feel like spending more time with your dear lover?"
"Oh, Mr. Dewitt, you're an awful man, are you?"
"Yep, I am." When they try to brings their lips together, they are stopped by a disturbance at the door.
"Booker, who is it?"
"Probably the guys or Fink. Stay here."
"But-"
"Don't worry Elizabeth. I'll be fine." Booker walk down the stairs, leaving only a concerned face on Elizabeth. Booker thought it was either Fink or his friends. He's got to be right about one of them.
"Hello?" Opening the door, he sees that his predictions were wrong. A man dressed in a crow suit knocks him out with a wrench. He could only feel the darkness he was trapped in, surrounded only by the wooden floor. For some strange reason, it didn't feel like he was laying. Now all he feel is being dragged, but to where? Eventually, it stops. Everything seemed to be in normal for now when he felt something. It wasn't dry. It felt wet. He suddenly felt a shortness a breath. If only he could figure it what was happening right now. He opens his eyes, finally, to find out what has happened. It turns out that he was in water, but where? He didn't feel it all over his body, meaning this was a tank. Another thing that makes it a tank is the fish that circled around the diver and a city underwater. He gets out of the tank, getting on the floor. The diver in the tank also fell out along with him. He needed to get out of wherever he is and find Elizabeth. He is suddenly stopped by a giant man in a suit who steps on the miniature diver. He had big hands, a heart that shows, and a head.
"No, not you. You're suppose to be gone along with the others!" Booker exclaimed. He is picked up by the Handyman and is quickly thrown out of the window. To his discovery, somehow, he had finally came back to the place he wishes he had forgotten. Columbia. He descends from the window screaming and began falling to the streets. He quickly grabs the Zeppelin, only for the the piece he was hanging onto ripped. Luckily, it stopped almost half way before it would make him fall. He looks around to see things have change since he last came to the floating city. At one point, he sees a man dressed in a nice suit, possibly a politician, listening to a phonograph record version of 'Everyone Wants to Rule the World'. He also sees a sign depicting a patriotic woman denying a foreign baby and accepting her own. A building ahead of the man raises itself higher. The piece of the Zeppelin starts to rip and Booker tries to hang on, but the piece let's go and begins falling to his possible death when a tear opens up, another Zeppelin appearing and he lands on it then grabbing the rope of it.
"Booker! Are you alright?! I'm down here." The Pinkerton looked down to see Elizabeth waving her arms around.
"Booker, jump down. I'll try and catch you."
"Elizabeth, that's not a good idea. I'm more broader and your so... well... skinny."
"Just jump down already."
"If you insist." Booker drops down onto Elizabeth. As she try to catch him, it caused Booker to fall on her and she found herself lying on the ground with Booker lying on her. She felt a sharp pain when he had dropped down, letting out a yelp.
"I warned you didn't I?"
"Get off of me." Booker gets off, allowing Elizabeth to stand up. "Elizabeth, what the hell is going on?"
"I don't know."
"Elizabeth, you go to know something. How did we get here?"
"I said, I don't know. Could we forgot about that for a second?"
"Okay, fine. Let's look around. Maybe we can find what on earth is happening." The two continue to explore what has happened since their last adventure in Columbia. As it turned out, the uprising turned into something more. It had basically turn into a city wide civil war. The Founders vs The Vox Populi. Who were leading the two factions? Daisy and Comstock were dead. The citizens of Columbia seemed to be in hiding as they find no one else on the streets. Think about it, a married couple struggling to survive or a family trying to hide out in a shelter. It must be terrible for the people up here. All they needed to find out is how they ended up back in Columbia and why. Maybe they used a machine to bring them back, a rocket from the lighthouse, or maybe they even used Elizabeth's tear. Booker didn't know which one, but he didn't care. All he wants is to get out of the city with Elizabeth and forget the memories that have been left in the city.
"Booker, look. A shop ahead." Elizabeth points out to a shop that had some damage done to it, but not enough to destroy it. Booker read the sign to see what it said.
"Columbian Gift Shop, home of the true patriots of our fair land. Yeah right. Elizabeth, my getting the doors open?"
"Sure." Elizabeth goes and pick the lock. The lock falls and the entrance opens. Booker and Elizabeth enter to see lots of things in the gift shop. There were masks and puppets of the presidents. Gold statues are put for display. There was also things like vases, toy horses, and fireworks. One thing they noticed in particular is a mattress, meaning someone lived here.
"Looks like some desperate fella call this home." Booker stated "What does that make us?"
"Don't know, Elizabeth. Come on." Booker comes across a Bucking Bronco. After drinking it, the vision came back and all he could see is his hand breaking into pieces and vibrating out of control. After that, the vision comes to a stop. Next thing he comes across are the gold statues. He knew that they were just fake gold.
"Booker, Booker." He turns around to see what she wanted. It turns out she wanted to show him the gold statue. "Gold!" She shouted.
"Yeah, and I'm like the king of England." Elizabeth sighed from what he said. Booker comes across a pistol lying on the table. Good. Just in case there is trouble about to happen.
"Hey Booker." He turns around again to see Elizabeth wearing an Abe Lincoln helmet. "Four scores and seven years ago-"
"Keep looking Lincoln." Elizabeth removed the helmet, putting it back. It pains to see her like this. Booker knows she trying to cheer him up, but they were on a new mission. Here she was trying to act like a child since she never had a life outside before and here he was just looking down on her innocence. He felt a little terrible, but they have to keep moving. Booker opened the cash register to find silver eagles worth about 10.
"Nice."
"Found something?" Booker placed the money in his pocket then turned to Elizabeth. "Oh, just some money."
"Do you really need to take the money? What if the person living here is the store owner?"
"Don't worry about it. I need it anyway."
"Booker, you don't even have a reason to take it."
"What about a debt I have to pay?"
"That is what I am for."
"Money for ammo, health, and salt?"
"I guess that reason seems reasonable."
"Look, let's get out of here before-" A shot is fired at Booker, but he dodged it. The two looked to see a man holding a China Broom Shotgun.
"Get out of here! Out! Out!" The man shouted. "I'm sorry to bother you, but we were just looking around."
"I said get out of here! I don't care about what you say, mister or that girl."
"We were just leaving anyway. We will leave you alone, okay?"
"Good. Don't need robbers taking the stuff. Get a move on already." The two left the store to continue to discover what has happened in the city. Elizabeth really judged that crazy cook. She called him an angry old man. That was admittedly cute according to Booker's standards. That was a cute nickname. She is so his type. One thing they see is a burning store as they continued their quest. A woman was even seen cleaning the place up even though it was burning. Elizabeth questioned how come she didn't notice the fire. Booker said that when people lose hope, they lose their sanity. The pair continued and another thing they saw was a statue that had a flag in the hands of Elizabeth. It made Elizabeth uncomfortable to be worship like an idol considering what happened in their journey before. They then came across a politician, whose name seems to be Saltonstall according to the signs he had in place, speaking to chairs, thinking there was people there and there was a man feeding crows just sitting down on the bench.
"The needs of our great city of Columbia must come before the desires of any foreigner, whether they be enemy or friend. For I have looked into the future and one path is filled with amity and gold, and the other is fraught with the perils of a hostile and alien world." Both passed the talking man and chairs and walked to where the weapons were located. Booker immediately picked up a Bird's Eye.
"Who are you?!" Booker turned to see Saltonstall, but something seemed off. Its like he had died and remembered it cause he saw his body flickered like when Elizabeth opened a tear to another reality and the people that he killed flickered too.
"An assassin! Charles, attend!" The man who had the crows sent the crows at Booker and as a result, he started firing the sniper rifle, but he kept missing. He charged at Charles, screaming, and knocked the man to his death, screaming. Charles died when he landed on a cargo. Booker fired his sniper rifle at Saltonstall, but he got away on the skylines.
"What was that? Booker, what was that?"
"I don't know. I don't want to know." Booker saw the Murder of Crows vigor. He goes and picks up the item then takes a drink. After drinking it, he coughs and the vigor falls out of his hand. A crow lands on his hand with flesh coming out of it's mouth. The effect soon ends.
"Ready? Fire!" Saltonstall commanded. A cannon shell is launched and levels the building where he gave a speech. Booker, aiming down his sight, shoots the man loading the shells into the cannon. He tries to get Saltonstall, but he evades.
"Elizabeth? Found anything to get us out of this situation?"
"Booker, catch." Booker follows the order and receives a skyhook. "Come on Elizabeth."
"Booker, I need one too."
"Ready? Fire!" Saltonstall fires the cannon again. Booker grabs Elizabeth and jumps, latching onto the skylines. Just in time as the shell from the cannon hits the position they were both at. The cannon fired again, but misses the two. The sky hook gets loose and they began falling. The two scream as Booker latches the skyhook onto another skyline. After reaching some ground which was near the cannon, the two jumped off.
"Ready? Fire!" Booker and Elizabeth quickly ran into a building before they could get shot by the shell. They made it immediately into a bar. It seemed decent enough like a standard bar. There was a piano, guys drinking, a painting, and a phonograph record of 'Everyone Wants to Rule the World'.
"Let me go! Get your hands off of me!" Booker noticed Elizabeth's voice. He tried to see what was wrong, but two man held him to the wall. Booker then took a good look at Elizabeth. She was being held to the ground.
"Hey fellas, which should I go for first? The skirt or the blouse?" The man asked. "I say just go for the skirt and get it over easy and done." The man's friend said.
"Hey, let her go! She wants to be left alone!"
"Fuck you. I always wanted to feel the touch of a woman and the moans." The three who had Elizabeth captive took a laugh. Booker kicked one of the guy's knee who was holding him and grabbed a shotgun from the table. The men in the bar took a step back and the three men holding Elizabeth proceeds to do the same thing.
"Hey, that's my gun! Give it back!" As the man ran for it, Booker fires at the man, instantly killing him. Angry over the death, the men charged at Booker, only to be swarm by the crows.
"Come on, Elizabeth. Let's get out of here." The two ran out the door while Booker kept shooting at them. They came across once again Saltonstall in a cannon.
"Ready? Fire!" Before they knew it, a rocket came out of nowhere and destroy the cannon. "Is he dead?" Elizabeth asked. Booker and Elizabeth try to see the corpse, but the men from the bar interrupted them so they had to run away. The two ran through the smoke from the now destroyed cannon while Booker kept on firing. They ran up a metal structure only to be met by another man from a bar who Booker also shoots. Elizabeth jumped down while Booker rode the skyline. He lands on the ground later and ran to find a way to escape the men only to find out there was more of them. Booker fires at them too, but is struck by the men following them from the bar. Elizabeth gets behind Booker while he continues firing continuously, but are being cornered. Knowing this is their fate, Booker decides that they should go out fighting. All of hope seemed lost until several rockets is fired into the angry crowd. A man comes out of the locked building dressed in a fancy suit. Black jacket and pants, white shirt and black tie.
"Quickly! Come with me." The duo follows the man into the building and leads them to a hatch. Inside the hatch seems to be a well dug tunnel system that leads somewhere. Not that deep.
"Jump in!" Elizabeth was the first to go then Booker. The man that had saved them chose to stay behind which was noble of him. Now all that is left is getting through the tunnel, but where would it lead them? Hopefully it would be a safe shelter or a place where they would be held captive by the Vox Populi or Founders. Booker hopes it was only the first one and not a little bit of both.
"Why do you think that guy helped us?" Elizabeth asked. "I don't know, but I hope this doesn't lead us into trouble."
"You sure that guy doesn't just want to help us?"
"Elizabeth, you really need to understand things more."
"I'm trying. You don't have to be rude by saying it."
"I won't. Now we have to find the exit." The two walked for a while in the well lit tunnel. The tunnel had walls surrounding them and light bulbs hanged from the ceiling. It didn't take a while until they have a found a ladder leading to another hatch.
"There's our exit. Stay here, Elizabeth. I got this." Booker climbed up the ladder and opened the hatch. Let's just hope a trap is not set in motion for the two.
That is basically it for this chapter. So, the action finally appears. The drama will be planned for the other chapters. Did you also notice how I added the original Major's Notions, Sundries, and Novelties and Saltonstall? I have Saltonstall set for the later chapters. Although, since we don't know much about the character since he was cut from the final game, I'm not sure what kind of personality he should have. Maybe if you guys could, you can maybe give some ideas while I think of my own.