Hey, so, here's Chapter Eight:) I was meant to be doing work instead of this, so be grateful that it's here, haha:) Now, i've finally decided on how long my story is going to be, and I think it should be finished in two more chapters. Yay! :) I tried really hard on this chapter, so reviews would be greatly appreciated. Well, I'll leave you to read in peace, thanks x
The crowd in front of me quickly ducked to the floor, dodging the bullets and frantically reaching for their own guns, whilst hoards of men continued to spill through the door and into the big room.
Azar seemed to be in a state of shock, staring wide-eyed at the sudden chaos in front of him, and I took the opportunity to pull my arm forwards, and then thrust my elbow hard into his stomach, causing him to let out a very satisfying groan, and release me, dropping the knife to the floor.
I did the only thing I could think to do. Which was, to run. I sprinted off, blindly racing forwards, not knowing where I was headed. I had almost made it to the corner of the room, when I felt a large pair of hands hit my shoulders and spin me round, pressing me up against the cold wall behind me. Azar had recovered from my blow quicker than I expected. He had retrieved his knife, and was now holding it out to me, the blade glistening in the light of the bright overhead bulbs. My breath caught in my throat, as I stared down at the large knife, which was now inches from my chest.
Azar had a menacing smile planted on his face, and let out a low chuckle. "Thought you could get away that easy, did you?"
He took a small step closer to me, still holding the knife out towards me, and stared into my eyes. I blinked, unable to speak, my mouth hanging open in shock.
"It's a shame that now the rest won't get to watch," he said in a low voice, "but at least they'll know you're dead, you stupid bi-"
His voice cut off, and he crumbled to the floor, one of the wooden chairs broken in pieces over his head. Somebody had hit him with it.
I looked up frantically, to see who had saved me, and I found to my surprise, that standing in front of me, was none other than Dr. Krantz.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" I screamed at him over the shouts of the fighting.
But before he had time to reply, another screech of bullets flew across the room, and I quickly pulled him down to the floor. To say he look startled would be an understatement – the guy looked white with terror.
"Krantz!" I shouted at him, still ducking down towards the floor, "What are you doing here?"
"Jessica," he started, as if it were obvious, "I ordered all these police officers and FBI agents here to look for you. Obviously I'm going to be with them."
I was shocked. Krantz had ordered them here? I felt a sudden wave of affection for the guy. He had saved my – and Rob's - life. Well, if we actually got out of here alive, that is. Which seemed less likely by the second, if the constant noise of gunshots and shouts was any indication.
"Y-you brought all these people here?" I asked, pressing myself closer to the floor as more bullets shot across the room.
"Of course I did, Jessica," he said, fiddling with his glasses, "You saved my life three years ago. I thought it were about time I returned the favour."
A small smile found its way onto my lips, as I remembered. It really touched me that he had brought all these people here to save me. And Rob of course.
Rob. I had completely forgotten about him. Where was he?
My eyes scanned the room, searching frantically amongst the fighting for any sign of him. I couldn't find him anywhere.
My heartbeat thrummed loudly in my chest, and I felt a lump rise in my throat. I scanned the room again. No sign of him.
But then I heard it. The sound of his voice shouting my name.
"Mastriani," he called loudly, "Mastriani? Where are you?"
I swirled round towards the direction that his voice was coming from, and spotted him, standing near the side of the room, looking around just as frantically as I had been.
What was he doing standing up and shouting? Was he trying to get himself shot?!
"Krantz, follow me."
I crawled around the side of the room, pressing up against the wall, trying to stay unspotted by the fighting men that filled the room - which wasn't particularly hard. I mean, they were a little pre-occupied.
I reached Rob quickly, and crawled right up to him, next to his leg.
He was unaware of my presence, still scanning the fighting, so I reached up with my arm that wasn't dripping blood everywhere, wrapped my hand around the hem of his shirt, and pulled him to the floor with one quick tug.
"Hey, get off me!" he struggled. Then noticing that it was me who had pulled him down, his face relaxed out of his panicked expression, and he smiled.
"There you are," he breathed, "I was looking everywhere for you. What are you doing on the floor?"
"Trying not to get shot." Like you should be too, idiot, I wanted to add, but I suppressed the urge. "What the hell did you think you were doing, standing up and shouting like that? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" I yelled.
"Well what was I meant to do Mastriani?" he yelled back over the shouting, ducking closer to the floor, "I couldn't exactly leave you. I didn't know where you were."
I exhaled a large breath. This was the not the time to argue over this. "Let's just get out of here, okay?"
"Fine by me."
Krantz silently lead us towards the exit, still crawling on our hands and knees, trying to avoid the fighting and deafening sound of gunshots.
We reached the large door, and crawled through it, leaving the sound of chaos behind us, and looked towards the dimly lit hallways in front of us. The shouts from the fighting slowly became fainter as we made our way through the hallway, and we stood from our crawl, and walked more naturally and calmly. Krantz led the way out, seeing as I had no idea where the exit to this damned place was. I was glad that I hadn't tried to escape on my own – there was no way I would have been able to find the way out unnoticed.
We kept walking at a fast pace, but we didn't run – I doubted anyone would be in the hallways when such a huge fight was taking place.
Too bad I was wrong.
"Hold it right there," a voice boomed from behind us. We all spun round together, to discover Zemar, standing tensed, holding another of the huge black guns. Crap. Maybe we should have run after all.
We all stood in silence, staring ahead of us at the large man. We didn't know what to do.
"Jessica," he ordered. "Get back over here, now, and I'll let your little friends go."
I gulped. I stood, unable to make my mouth form anything that sounded even vaguely like a word, still staring at the man in front of me.
"If you try to run," he stated, his voice hard, "I'll just shoot you all."
That got me moving. I didn't even have to think about it. No way was he shooting Rob. Or Krantz.
I walked over to his side, and he grabbed me by the arm, aiming the gun ahead of us at Rob and Krantz. They were standing, staring at me incredulously. He slowly began to back away, dragging me with him, still facing Rob and Dr. Krantz. As we became further away from them, he stopped aiming the gun at them, and instead pointed it at me.
I stopped dead in my tracks, causing Zemar to halt too, unable to drag me any further by my arm.
"Wait," I hesitated. "Zemar?"
He just looked at me cautiously, and nodded.
Which was the exact moment I decided to yank my arm away from him, curl it into a tight fist, and slam it into his face as hard as I could. He fell to the floor, groaning in pain. But not before he pulled the trigger on the gun. The bullet shot out of it, quick as lightening, and pierced through my leg, sending me flying backwards, and I crumpled against the wall next to him, screaming in pain.
My leg burned in agony, and waves of pain echoed and surged throughout my whole body.
"Run," I screamed to Rob, trying to distract myself from the pain by focusing on getting him safe. "Get out of here, quickly!"
But he so wasn't buying it. Instead, he ran over to me, and lifted me up into his arms. Then, kicking Zemar back onto the floor that he was trying to get up from, he shouted to Kranzt, "Let's go!"
Krantz didn't need any persuading. Him and Rob ran swiftly down the cold hallway, turning around corners and sprinting in and out of doors. I couldn't pay much attention to where we were going. The pain still burned throughout my whole body, my head feeling light, and my muscles going limp and weak. I carried on screaming as we ran, feeling my warm blood pour from my leg, soaking my jeans, and running down towards my foot, dripping across the floor as we fled.
"Mastriani," Rob mumbled to me as he ran, "Shh. It's going to be okay, we're almost out."
His gentle voice was comforting, although he sounded faint and distant. I struggled to keep my eyes open, feeling an invisible force push down hard on my eyelids.
Suddenly, Krantz swung open a large metal door, and he and Rob sprinted out into the darkness, the cold air whipping at my face, as I struggled to make sense of my surroundings. There were trees all around us, muddy dirt paths weaving their way through them. We were headed down one of them, but I could no longer pay attention to where we were going – everything around me suddenly seemed to go into slow motion, and the burning was becoming more and more unbearable. My eyelids felt heavy, and I could barely keep them from closing over my eyes anymore.
Rob, sensing my body going limp in his arms, stopped, and bent down, placing me gently onto the ground. I stared up at the sky above me - it was a pretty night. Cloudless blue sky, stars twinkling peacefully. I fought against my eyelids, desperately trying to fight my tiredness and weakness from taking over. I could barely remember where I was anymore. Or why I was here.
Robs face suddenly appeared in my view, shortly followed by Dr. Krantz. "Mastriani," Rob whispered frantically, "Mastriani, hold on, okay? We'll get you help. Just hold on."
I mumbled incoherently in response, and Rob looked up at Krantz. "Go get help," he ordered.
Krantz just stared at him, looking frightened and confused. "I-I'm not s-sure..." he stuttered, looking down at me with a panicked look on his face.
"Krantz!" Rob exploded, "Go get her help! Now!"
Dr Krantz hesitated for a split second, and then got to his feet, and ran off until he was hidden from my view by the trees.
"Mastriani," Rob said again, reaching out and stroking my face, "It's okay. Just hold on. We'll have help here soon."
Each breath was becoming agonizingly painful and short, the burning in my body blazing hotter. My sight was becoming blurry and dark, and I found it difficult to focus on Rob's face. My eyelids were dropping even lower over my eyes, and I could only see by the tiniest crack of light that appeared through them. I couldn't understand, couldn't make sense of what was happening.
"Jess!" Rob was now shouting. He was using my first name. Boy, was I in trouble. "Jess, don't you dare let go! Do you hear me? You're going to be fine, Kranzt will have help back here before you know it. Just hold on!"
My vision was almost completely failing me, but I could just about make out the tears running down Rob's face. I wanted to reach out and wipe them away, but I couldn't. I couldn't feel my arms. I couldn't feel me. The blackness rushed over my eyes, like a thick blindfold, crushing my body with its weight.
"Jess!" Rob roared, "No! Stay with me, Jess!"
His voice was becoming fainter with every word.
"Stay with me Jess. Stay with me..."
And then the blackness sucked me in, abruptly cutting out the agony, and all sense of anything around me.
Sorry, you're probably getting annoyed at all my cliffys! :L I'll get up Chapter Nine soon as possible for you all:) And also, before you all start having a hissy fit at me (only kidding:)), as I stated in Chapter Two (i think), I do not plan on killing Jess off. I seriously just do not have it in me. Not when her and Rob only just got together. I know I shouldnt tell you that she's not going to die, but I know how irritating it is and even how upsetting it can be when you read something and think someones dead, and you cant even read on to know if they are or not. But nevertheless, review please!, and I'll get Chapter Nine up as soon as possible. Thanks! x