One Mistake & No Survivors
This story only has a few more chapters left. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's probably going to end at thirty chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything or anyone from Big Time Rush. The girls belong to their creators. I only own the plot.
Chapter Twenty Three
Breakdown
Erika's POV
Everybody is frozen in place. For Elena, Amanda, and I, I think it is over the shock that Kameryn is alive. For Ciri, Janessa, and Astoria, I think they are just waiting to see what we are going to do. Kameryn didn't move from Ciri's grasp. She let out a wince every now and then, and every time she did it just reminded us she was alive.
I took a step forward. Ciri's grip around Kameryn tightened. "Please, let her go." I pleaded. I was doing something spies are only supposed to die when in they have no other options left. "Kameryn needs medical attention. Just give us her and you can go free. Escape to some other part of the world. I promise no one will come after you. Just give us Kameryn, and you can walk free."
"You would just let us walk like that?" Ciri asks. "No strings or anything? Do you not realize what we have done over the past year? We have kidnapped, beaten, tortured. We have done the unspeakable, and the while spy world wants us punished, and your willing to let us go?"
"We just want Kameryn back." Amanda pipes up from behind me.
"Why she would trust you?" Janessa asks. "You murdered two of our friends!"
"Samantha was an accident." I say. "She and I were struggling and then she was just gone. We never had the intention to kill. We just want this to end once and for all."
"And Amanda shooting Vivian was supposed to end it?" Janessa hisses.
"Vivian was begging for it." Amanda says. "She looked at me with eyes that just said 'end it now'. Vivian wanted to end it all, and she used me to do it."
"We don't need any more deaths." I say. "Please, just give us Kameryn."
Janessa and Astoria were both at Ciri's side now. Amanda and Elena were slightly behind me as I stood with my hand outstretched; my brown eyes pleading for Ciri to just give us back Kameryn. By the looks of Kameryn, she was in desperate need of medical attention. A few agents working on the case were only a few miles away and could be over here in a snap to get Kameryn to a nearby hospital…
"No."
Ciri's voice calls me out of my thoughts. I look at her, and see the hard, dead serious look on her face. A small gust blows through, lifting up the ends of all our hair. "What did you say?" I ask.
"I said no." Ciri says. "Even if you just let us walk, agents all over the world will never stop looking for us. Don't you get it yet? It never ends. The three of us will be hunted down like wild animals."
"Where's Jackson?" Elena blurts out from behind me.
"Turned himself him." Astoria reports. "Big baby couldn't handle the guilt of committing a felony."
A silence falls over us. The only noise is the occasional whimper from Kameryn. She looks at me, her eyes pleading. "We're not leaving till we have Kameryn back." I declare.
"You think I haven't figured that out princess?" Ciri sneers. "And hate to break it to you, but we can't give you Kameryn back. We give you her back, and everything we have worked so hard to achieve over the past year goes right down the drain. This girl right here," Ciri squeezes her arm around Kameryn's neck, causing her to scream in agonizing pain. "Is our last shot of getting out of here."
"We gave the option to walk away." Elena says, coming up on my right. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Amanda has come up on my left. "You didn't take it. Now, give us Kameryn, and get ready to go back to prison."
"When will you three learn that we aren't afraid of you?" Astoria questions, cracking her knuckles. "We never have been. Why would we anyways? Amanda is afraid of water, Elena is afraid of the dark, and Erika, well I think we made your biggest fear come true this week by taking Kameryn."
"I'm taking the offer." Janessa says. We all look at her. "I'm not going back to prison. I can't. I'm heading halfway around the world. My family has relocated there, and I just want to be with them again. See ya."
Janessa starts to walk away. "You think you can just leave?" Astoria screams. Janessa looks over her shoulder. "I am." She replies. "I'm down with all this spy stuff. I'm tired with running and hiding. I just want to be with my family again." And with that, Janessa disappears into the dark of the forest.
"Who's next?" Amanda teases. "You just lost Janessa, and back-up is on the way. Its over. Why can't you two just accept it?"
"I. Never. Lose!" Ciri roars. "Not once have I lost. I succeed in getting away from my family. I succeed in finding a home. I succeed into making everybody think I was some sweet innocence girl who doesn't have the most messed up family in history!"
Flashlights shining through the trees could be seen. Murmurs of voices reached my ears, telling me backup had arrived. "Its over." I say. "Accept defeat."
Agents come bursting through the tears. They are quick to slap handcuffs on Astoria. I recognize Agent Mason as the man guiding Astoria away. A helicopter floats above us, and the latter drops. Agent Mason grabs the latter, and with his grip on Astoria, the two are lifted into the helicopter, disappearing from my sight. Elena's brother, Caleb, gently removes Kameryn from Ciri's grasp. He guides Kameryn over to us, and she collapses in our arms. We hold her up as she cries into our arms. I look at Ciri, who is being handcuffed by Agent Gomez. Tears stream down her face, and I'm rather shocked by this. I didn't think she had any emotion in her at all.
I barely hear the helicopter fly away as Elena, Amanda, and I hold Kameryn in our arms. "We have to get her to a hospital." Caleb says. I look up to see another helicopter flying above us.
"We're coming with her." I say. Caleb only nods his head as we all grab hold of the latter. I feel Kameryn grab my arm, and I look at her. Elena tells her brother to get the boys and to meet us at the hospital with them.
As our latter is pulled up into the helicopter, only one though is on my mind: It's finally over.