There he stood, right in front of us, smirking evilly at the two of us. I took a side step, shielding Alice just in case he tried something, and I was sure he will.
"Jasper, my dear boy. You look well, I'll have to do something about that wont I." He said in a tone that sent shivers down my spine.
"And Alice, my, my you are pretty. I'd love a little bit of you." his words set a fire off inside my gut.
"Shut up, don't even talk to her. What do you want?" I demanded from him.
"I want you both dead, that's all." he spoke, I slowly guided Alice towards the back door into the building.
"Don't even think about it." he yelled and he lunged forward, grabbing my throat and pulling me towards him and throwing me to the ground, I landed with a thud as pain ran through my saw body.
"Jasper!" Alice screamed, I turned my head to find my step dad have his hands around Alice, he pulled her away from the building, probably to make sure we weren't heard by anyone.
"Let her go, James!" I yelled at my step dad, he turned at me with a horrified and angered expression upon his face.
"How dare you address me by my real name, Jasper. It seems you need putting in your place again, in the ground." he yelled through his teeth and he chucked Alice to the ground and ran towards me. I rolled out of his way and got up, James turned on his heel and reached out and grabbed my tie, forcing me towards him. I stumbled forwards and my face soon met his fist, his fist kept pounding into my face, he finally let go of my tie and I was able to take a few steps back away from him. But I wasn't happy when he swung his leg round and kicked me painfully in my stomach, James then went for another swing with his fist, I managed to grab his hand just before it collided with my face again.
I took advantage of this situation and kneed him in the stomach and then used my spare hand to punch him in the face, hoping to wipe away that fucking smirk. I let go of his wrist and swung my leg and took his feet out from under him, James hit the floor hard and I quickly leaned over him and started laying into him, punching him again and again and again.
Blood started flooding from his nose and the corner of his mouth, seeing him in pain made something inside me spark, I felt as if I'd lost my mind and I was going crazy, all I wanted was to cause him pain and hurt. But letting my hatred and anger get the better of me didn't help me for long, James suddenly grabbed my wrists and brought his leg up, kneeing me in my back, I fell to the floor but quickly got up, but so did he.
We stood there for a moment, my chest heaving, my fists ready and my face burning. James smirked wickedly and then laughed, but his expression quickly changed and then pulled out a knife from his coat pocket, as soon as I saw the blade my body froze.
"Jasper watch out!" I heard Alice scream, I soon made my body move, but not fast enough. I felt the blade slice through the skin of my arm as if it was made of butter, I grabbed my arm as the blood started to flow down my arm. But the blade soon came back round, this time slashing the side of my face, I moved away from him, doing my best to dodge every blow of his knife, not always being successful. The next hit from the blade was as large gash being created down my chest, I fell to the floor, expecting another attack, but when nothing happened I wondered why, the reason was soon discovered when Alice screamed. I turned on the damp floor and looked up to find Alice on her knees crying in pain, blood dripping down her face and her arm.
I scrambled to my feet and ran at James, I tackled him down to the ground, fists flying in all directions, I didn't really notice the pain, or where he hit me all I focused on was hitting him back.
I kicked James away from me and he rolled across the ground in pain, I quickly ran over to Alice.
"Alice, Alice are you ok?" I asked her kneeling down to her on the floor.
"I'm fine." she muttered to me.
"Alice, you need to get out of here." I told her, trying to get her up.
"No one's going anywhere." James yelled as he hit me round the back of the head, I put my hands out to catch myself I turned my head round quickly to see Alice stand up and punch James hard in the face. I heard his nose break with a crunch and the blood that poured from his face was thick and red. I got up but stumbled back down, I suddenly felt dizzy and light headed, everything was starting to spin, I shook my head violently as if to snap myself out of it and attempted to stand up again. I felt weak at the knees, my feet not feeling very sturdy at all.
My eyes didn't seemed focused much, but I did see Alice struggling against James's grip, I rushed over and forced them apart, pushing James away and I quickly swung my fist at him, but unfortunately his reflexes were good and he caught my fist. James smirked evilly down at me and then yanked my arm towards him, I heard my right shoulder click and then crack as he twisted my arm. I was on my knees before I knew it screaming in pain, James placed his foot on my chest and pushed my body back, but kept pulling my arm towards him as if he were trying to remove it from the socket. He lifted his free hand and punched me in my mouth, I fell back and used my free hand to support myself from hitting the floor again.
James then finally released my arm, but the pain was still there, burning away nicely, I couldn't move it, great.
James got his knife out again and then kneed me in the stomach, as I winced at the pain I felt his knife dig into my leg, I opened my eyes to see his knife sticking out of my thigh. He withdrew his blade and then kicked my hard in my chest, I landed on my back, he was soon on top of me, his hands around my throat chocking me.
But before he forced the last breath out of me he loosened his grip and started punching me. I could feel his rings dig into my skin as he did so, I could feel the warmth of my blood drip across my face.
My sight was starting to go fuzzy, I couldn't see James that well he was just a blur, but something happened, he was gone. I then felt a pair of arms lift me off the ground and help me to my feet.
"Jasper, are you alright?" I know that voice, if only I could make out their face, then I knew who it was, it was Keith. I used my hand to rub my eyes and I looked for James, I saw him and John, I then saw that Bill was by Alice's side making sure she was ok. John was doing his best to keep James to the ground, but James struggled and in the end broke free of his hold, that's when Keith intervened. Keith ran towards James but James was a step ahead and grabbed Keith by his neck and grabbed his gun from his jacket. James threw Keith aside towards the wall, which Keith collided with and then hit the floor unconscious, James then turned around to John, it happened so fast, James didn't even aim he just pulled the trigger, leaving a lifeless John in a heap on the ground.
James then turned to Keith.
"No!" I yelled and ran head on at James, tackling him down to the ground. I did my best to remove the gun from his grasp but he hand two hands and I could only use one, so the odds were against me.
"Get off me Jasper" James hissed at me through his teeth, and moved his hand and pulled the trigger again. The bullet was soon in me, I fell back from the pressure and looked down, blood poured from the small deep hole in collarbone on the left side of my body. My body felt as if it was on fire, the amount of pain caused by one small bullet was immense, I used my legs as leverage to get back up. I staggered towards James, who had made his way over to Alice and Bill. Bill was already prepared for James and was on his feet, James was held in Bill's tight grasp and Bill managed to do what I had attempted and got the gun to fall out of James's hand.
I hobbled over to Alice and helped her up, I looked back at Bill and James, but Bill looked to be struggling and James managed to turn round and move his arms around Bill, pushing him back then grabbing a hold of his neck and quickly twisted it round 180 degrees. There was a loud crack and then another dead body on the ground, Alice gasped and then covered her mouth with her blood stained hand.
"I am getting sick and fucking tired of people interfering!" James yelled and turned back to me, he picked the gun back up and walked over to us. I instantly stood in front of Alice to try and protect her, but James had other ideas, he grabbed my left shoulder and pulled me forward and smacked me round the back of my head with the handle of the gun. I stumbled forward and turned round, James had his hand round Alice's throat chocking her, Alice kicked him repeatedly but having no luck of getting him off.
I wrapped my left arm around James's neck and pulled him backwards forcing him away from Alice, he fell back against my damaged chest with his hand around my arm trying to prize me off of him. Then the worst happened, he lifted his other arm and fired the gun, Alice fell back hitting her head hard against the brick wall behind her and then fell to the floor.
"Alice!" that was it, I lost my mind, rage filled my body and I grabbed James's other arm with my right one, I couldn't feel the pain of the broken shoulder and hand through all my anger, I could feel the broken bones in my hand move and grind, but I didn't care. I grabbed both his arms and pulled them behind him, I then pressed my knee against his back and kept adding pressure. He was on his knees screaming in pain, soon he was on his stomach with me stood on his back pulling at his arms. I lifted one of my feet and stamped on the back of his head.
James soon rolled over, throwing me to the ground, I rolled as I hit the floor and was on my knees, I watched as James got up and came towards me with tears in my eyes. He pointed the gun at me and pulled the trigger.
Nothing, empty, James frowned and chucked the gun to the side and then ran towards me, before I could get on my feet I was on my back as his knee collided with my face. I gripped his throat with my hands and did my best to chock the life out of him as he stood in reach above me, but he didn't care about what I was doing to him, all he did was continuingly punching me in my chest. He then placed his knee on my stomach and pushed all his body weight on me, the blows to my chest stung as I coughed, I could taste the blood rising from the back of my throat. He then grabbed me by my hair, lifted my head and forced it to the ground, which was solid concrete, it was too painful and hard to be grass. It kept doing this, my grip loosening around his throat, my vision was going again everything seemed foggy and distorted. I could feel almost like a pulse at the back of my head, it throbbed with pain, I my eyes wondered to my left and there it was. The answer to ending everything, the knife.
I glanced back up at James, as far as I could tell he hadn't noticed it just lying there, I moved my damaged hand towards the knife, it was only just in reach as I grasped the handle. I looked back up at James.
"Its light out Jasper" he muttered through his teeth and lifted up his left fist ready to hit me, I used that last amount of strength I had in my body to strike. James's eyes went wide as he sat up, his head slowly looked down at his chest once he saw the knife stuck in his heart he looked back down at me. Then his body went limp and he fell off of me, his body stretched out across the pavement, his eyes blank.
I closed my eyes and coughed violently, I could still taste the blood that was in my mouth, I slowly tried to lift myself up but I couldn't stand. I was on my hands and knees crawling towards Alice, my eyes watering as I saw her lying there, at that point I knew, I knew everything was gone, Alice was gone, and it was all my fault. Its my fault that the woman I love is dead, my heart was breaking, shattering even. The pain that filled my body from the fight hurt, but this, this was worse I'd rather die from blood loss than a broken heart, but over all I'd rather it had been me, not Alice, anyone but Alice. But its too late now and I knew it, I hate myself so much, all that went through my mind was how, how could I have let this happen, why didn't I stop this from happening sooner.
Everything here, all this destruction, all this blood, all this pain, it's all my fault. And now I have to go through with the punishment, the punishment of living in a world with out Alice, but without Alice there is no world, no life. Nothing, that was the end, the ending of it all.
I kept crawling with every movement I could feel my energy drain. I collapsed, I lifted my head to look at Alice, but I couldn't see anything, everything was too blurry from the tears in my eyes and my eyelids growing heavy, but I couldn't do anything my body just gave up on me and my head hit the floor, my eyes shut.