Rourke's Kid
Chapter 4
Lily was nervous as her father handed her a gun. Did they have any right to be doing this? After all, these were living and breathing people. People who had been kind to them. Were they really going to attack these people as thanks for their kindness? Lily didn't know what was right or wrong anymore, she just knew that this didn't feel right.
She looked away from Milo's eyes as he glared at them all after surfacing from the water with the Chief's daughter. They all walked into the chief's throne room and Lily couldn't help feeling ashamed. If her father hadn't hit the chief and tried to shoot him, she might have stayed silent. "dad, this isn't right. You're killing innocent people." She said quietly and Rourke looked over her, fury knotting his face. "Shut up." He growled and the rest of the group watched as she straightened up and looked him full in the eye and said "no. What you are doing is wrong and I want no part of it. You can't keep doing this." "Shut up, you brat!" He yelled and swung at her. "No!" Someone yelled and she blocked it with her forearm, her body jarring. "Stop hitting me. Stop hurting me!" She gritted out and he growled and hit her with the other fist. "Weak and pathetic, just like your mother. Fine, go ahead and die with these people too for all I care." He said and walked away onto the circle, pulling Milo with Helga pulling the Chief's daughter. Helga glanced back at Lily before she left. A look of sorrow passed between them before Helga passed out of view down the hole.
Lily held still as Sweet examined her stomach again. It had only just begun to heal, but Rourke punching it might have made it worse. "You need rest." He said after he finished dressing the wound. "I need to take down dad. He can't do this to any more people, I won't let him. Besides, I'm his kid. I figure I at least deserve the first shot at him." Lily grabbed her bag and pulled out her gun and opened it to put bullets in it. She stood up and started swaying and Sweet forced her back down in her seat. "I know you want to take him down but you're not strong enough. You can barely even stand." Lily screw her face up in determination and slowly stood up. "Watch me." She said and limped outside, the gun tight in her hand. Sweet sighed and held his head in his hands. "And I thought Rourke was stubborn." He got up and went to check on the Chief.
Lily watched Milo as he talked with the Chief, one arm wrapped around her ribs. He turned to look at her and Sweet and she looked down, unable to meet his eyes. "That child who was hurt when you arrived, is she also here?" The chief said weakly and Lily looked up in surprise and fear. "yes, that's me." He looked up at her as much as he could. "Your leader did this." It wasn't a question. "yes. He's my dad. And I helped him." She looked down again. "Parents can shape a child, teach them wrong and right. It is the child's job to learn whether to follow the parent's path or not. Will you follow his?" At his question, her head shot up. "No. I'm gonna take him down." Her voice was full of fierceness as she said this and he nodded, satisfied. Sweet and Milo watched her proudly.
Lily glared at Sweet as he folded his arms over his chest. "I AM going, and I WILL be assisting in this mission!" She snapped and he set his jaw. "You need to heal and rest. That cannot be achieved with you going on a mission to take down your father." "I don't care! I can rest later!" She snapped and he raised an eyebrow. "If you don't take me, I swear to God, I will hijack one of those machines and follow you anyway or hell, I'll run after you guys." Milo walked over to us. "Hey, is everything OK?" he asked nervously. "SHE wants to go with us but SHE needs to rest!" I glared at Sweet. "If you don't let me go, do you honestly think I will just sit here and relax? Come on, you know me better that that." He sighed and Milo furrowed his eyebrows. "If you come with us, will you stay on the ground? Sweet and Audrey can deposit you on the ground. That way, you'll be able to see what's going on and you'll be out of harm's way." I wouldn't be able to take down dad, but it looked like this was the only way I could go so I nodded. Sweet sighed, not happy with the idea but nodded too.
I was on the bottom of the volcano looking up and watching when I saw something that resembled a human falling toward the ground and I heard the person screaming. As they came closer to the ground, I realized who it was. Helga! I scrambled toward her falling destination but wasn't able to catch her. "Helga! Oh no, Helga!" I yelled as I ran closer to her and she rolled her head toward me, eyes full of pain and surprise. "Lily, what are you doing here? I should be asking if you're OK." I dropped to the ground next to her. I was strong enough to carry her, but she was hurt badly. "It's no use, just leave me and get yourself to safety. I'm practically dead already." She said and I glared through my suddenly blurry vision. "I'm not leaving unless you're coming with me! You were more like a mom to me than my own! I won't leave you!" I screamed, looped her arm around my shoulders, and hoisted her up. "You're hurt." She muttered and I nodded, fighting off a wave of dizziness. I looked up to see a bunch of machinery falling down towards us. I quickly transferred Helga to piggyback style and started running for the exit. "Lily, you won't make it, I'm too heavy! Just drop me and save yourself!" She said in my ear as I ran. "Like hell!" I snapped.
The others came down on their vehicles and I grinned at them but then realized that dad was dead. I had no love for him but for some reason, I still felt sad about it. And what was I going to do now? Even if I went back up to the surface, where would I go? I could worry about that later though. The volcano was erupting! "We only have room for one passenger though." One of the Atlanteans said to me and I glanced at Helga. "Take her, she's hurt and maybe with your crystals, you'll be able to help her." I said and slung Helga off my shoulders, ignoring her shouts of rage. "Helga, I'll be following on the ground. I'll see you soon, ok?"