Hi everyone it's me again with your promised chapter despite all the holiday and NaNoWriMo craziness I manage to squeeze out this chapter. Now you can consider this the last chapter because I will be posting an epilogue next Sunday to tie up the story neatly. Also I recommend that you listen to all the music I have posted for each chapter, I think it sets the mood of this story. Best wishes to all you guys this holiday season. As always read and review, please. P.S. Daredevil belongs to Marvel and 'i hate you, i love you' belongs to gnash.
"Feeling used/And I can't/ See the end of this/I hate you I love you…"- 'I hate you, I love you' by gnash
The thought of Matt in the same room with that woman made all the pain of my injuries fade fast into the background. I didn't know what Elecktra would do to Matt. After all just a few hours ago she had confessed to being an assassin. I don't know what relationship they had but I couldn't expect Elecktra to be sentimental and not kill Matt.
She doesn't seem like an assassin who would hold back just because once they were lovers or whatever back in the day.
By the time I made it Matt's apartment the sun had set completely and darkness shadowed Hell's Kitchen once again. The street lamps buzzed above me as I slowly rounded the corner to Matt's place. My injuries had rebelled against me sprinting here and started to either pound my body with pain or bleed down my clothes. Sweat and blood mixed in my vision as I slowed my pace and walked carefully up the steps in Matt's building. As much as I wanted to run my body just couldn't take it anymore. After today no more messing around I needed to stop acting like I was some sort of vigilante. Adrenaline had longed past through in my body now only a slow, deep beat of pain rang inside my veins.
I grimaced as I climbed up each step to the stairs in Matt's building. I had to drag myself to Matt's door. Never in my life had a walk been so long and felt so painful. Not even the run I ran to get here. I was so close to Mat I practically feel myself in his arms, smothering myself in his rough yet loving embrace. Just a few more steps and this day would get so much better.
Just as I was a few inches from the door knob I felt a steel grip on my bruised shoulder. I hissed in pain trying to think who would pull so hard on an injured girl and the only answer pumped fear in my veins. Lester.
I turned slowly expecting to see those mad blue eyes again instead seeing some equally mad hazel eyes. Liv.
"What are you doing here? Let go of me Liv you're hurting me." I gasped through the pressure she was putting on my shoulder. While her eyes gave me a loud 'hell no' she let go of me.
Her body shook but she didn't say a word to me. I turned myself back to the door turning the knob not caring if Liv was coming with me or not. If she wasn't then good but if she was then I guess I'll have to block whatever ninja stars Elecktra was going to shoot at the both of us.
I expected to see her and Matt. I expected to see him tied up with her holding a gun to his head. I expected to see them arguing and maybe Matt throwing her out the window. I expected violence, screaming and maybe her dead body but I didn't expect to see them humping each other like some horny animals.
I stood there in the doorway with Liv gawking at the man I loved tangled in a heated kiss with the woman who left me to die. This day was just horrible. Compared to my sixteenth birthday, this day was hell. This day takes the cake.
I was too stunned and in physical agony to speak up but lucky for me I had a best friend to scream on my behalf.
"What the hell are you doing Matt?!" Liv's voice pulsed through my ears yet she didn't sound as mad at him as she was with me just a few minutes ago. Well that's just biased.
Finally the love birds pulled apart but there was something wrong though. When they heard Liv they didn't look shocked or mad they just appeared to be calm. Too calm. I didn't want to believe what I think I just saw. Even as Elecktra spoke up, I was too caught up in the trauma of the day to pay attention, I heard some of what she was saying.
"Sorry Emma…something…we just couldn't keep away from each other…blah blah something." I heard her talk but I was waiting for Matt to speak up. He didn't he just stood against the wall not even trying to look in my direction. Something wasn't right this whole day just proved to me I couldn't trust what I saw or heard.
As Elecktra went on about how she and Matt were meant to be together Liv walked across the room to either hear Elecktra better or knock all her teeth out. The later seemed like the obvious outcome. That's when I saw it. A flash of light.
It was a small, round flash of light like a compact reflection and it appeared to jump from Matt's chest, to Elecktra, to the floor and finally on…
"Liv!" I screamed with all the air in my lungs and ran to her but it was too late. Time slowed down to a snail's speed.
Everyone turned to look at me just as the first couple bullets shoot out from the window and hit Liv again and again. I saw her body shake as the bullets pierced through her and finally she went down. I fell down to ground as more bullets shoot out. Each popping through the air. I looked up seeing another body fall. Elecktra fell down unlike Liv she wasn't hit in her chest instead she was shoot in her head. She collapsed only inches from Liv.
I crawled to Liv letting the pools of her blood turn what little of white in my clothes I had left to pink. I reached her body and she looked so small. I reached to feel a pulse in her neck but felt nothing I feel myself turn cold. I stayed down as the bullets kept shooting but I raised myself high enough to cradle Liv.
My hands shook as I tried desperately to find a vein pulsing in her body with no luck.
In the background amidst all the pops of the bullets I heard someone calling out my name. I looked up to see Matt reaching out to me. He had crawled over Elecktra's body to reach me. I didn't know what to do, expect what felt right. I grabbed Matt's hand and pulled him with me out of this bloody hell.
We kept ducking down as the bullets shoot through trying to get their shoot at us. I pushed Matt out the door in front me to give him some direction. I turned just for a brief second to see Liv. She was still laying there, still bleeding out and still dead. I could feel the burn of tears in my eyes but I turned back to the door. I ran out to Matt just in time to see the Devil of Hell's Kitchen pointing a gun at us.
Only it wasn't just Daredevil standing there in front us but Lester too.
"Well, well look who made it out there. Barely alive I see." He chuckled at the two people who stood in front of him dripping in blood. Finally I noticed the bullets stopped shooting.
"I can't say I am disappointed after all I had a good day so far." He inched closer to us and I gripped Matt's arm to pull him back as Lester tried to get closer.
Lester narrowed his eyes at us but kept on rabbling. "After all I just killed one of the best assassin in the world and I am about to finish one of my best pay days. All in all this has been one great day."
Assassin? Elecktra. So she was an assassin along. Well I felt vindicated that I was right but was still afraid. Lester had killed her and Liv and now he was going to kill me and Matt.
"Why Lester? For Fisk? Is that why you're doing all of this?" I could feel Matt tense at the mention of Fisk and his hand reached out to grip mine. I tighten my hand around his.
"Well Fisk and you Emma." He grinned at me sending shivers to run my body at the sight of another maniac smiling at me.
"Me? What do I have to do with-" I started to ask but he cut me off.
"You did something to me. Something that I didn't even know was possible. You made want more. More than I ever wanted in this world. You gave me feelings that I've only felt when I killed. All this blood that I'm spilling today think of it, as a love letter to you." He picked up his rifle and aimed at me and Matt. I pushed Matt away from the line of fire just in time for Lester to shoot his bullets at us.
I pushed Matt upstairs trying to put some distance between us and Lester. We couldn't go down stairs to the safety of a crowded street since Lester was blocking the path.
As I kept climbing upstairs with Matt I couldn't hear Lester but I could hear his gun. We dodged bullets as we made way closer up the stairs. The only place up from Matt's place is the roof. Just as we reached the door I heard pops and felt myself go down.
This wasn't my first time being shoot but this one shoot through the bone. The bullet hit my shoulder I could feel the hole where bone used to be. I reached over to touch my bullet when I finally opened my eyes to see Matt down too. His bullet hit him through his leg not the best place to be injured when running from a serial killer.
Finally I heard footsteps coming up I couldn't tell if it was Lester or not but I wasn't taking any chances. I pulled my sore body despite it screaming in agony to stay down. I grimaced as I made my way to Matt seeing him wither pain was the worst feeling in the world. Scratch that seeing my best friend lying dead bleeding out in the same day I find out one of my friends is a serial killer who wants to kill my cheating boyfriend.
I pulled Matt up hearing him groan in pain as I tried to get him off his ass.
"Matt!" I hissed through my teeth. "Get up we need to keep moving." I didn't wait for a response I just yanked him up and moved us past the door. The night air burned through all the scratches, bullet holes, and cuts on my body.
Matt was slumped on my shoulders trying his best to man up but to no avail. Every time he tried to take the lead he withered in pain and retreated to my side instead. Men always trying to be the hero in the worst moments.
"Matt take it easy." I whispered into his ear hoping he take the hint and calm down. Putting this much stress on an injured body was the worst thing to do in this situation. Look who's talking.
I dragged us to the opposite end of the stairway and decided to hide us behind the heater or vent on the roof. I slide Matt of my body slowly not wanting to exaggerate any wounds he had.
As Matt slid off, I finally let everything that happen today hit me like a train. Liv is dead, Matt cheated on me and Lester was a serial killer hell bent on killing every friend I had. The bullet holes on my body added with my internal pain made me completely numb.
Not numb enough to stifle the feeling of horror when she heard footsteps get closer to them. She tried to pick up Matt again but he couldn't support his own weight and ended up dragging them both down.
I've never been more afraid in my life.
Here I am holding the hand of who was supposed to be my soulmate but who is instead a liar and a cheater.
"I'm so sorry Emma. You've made the wrong choice." He finally spoke. The blood from his mouth was blocking his voice but I heard enough.
Suddenly though it was not just the two of us anymore. The sound of another's footsteps walked closer to us and I knew who it was. I knew I was going to be given one more chance but I didn't want it. All I wanted was to be with him. Even though he lied to my face so many times. Even though the man I fell in love was just a mirage. This hand that I am holding is attached to the very real man I loved. Then again this is the same man I found in a tangled, sweat with another woman.
"Emma, I'm so sorry." He keeps saying with his bloodied mouth. "I'm so sorry. I love you."
"I love you too." I say back and know it was true. I do love him no matter how hard he shattered my heart. Finally the steps pause.
'Oh god please be gone, please god be gone' I repeat in my head.
But the steps reach behind us and then suddenly they just stop. A loud slam is heard above us and we look up to see who it is. But we both already know who is standing above. The Devil holding a gun to our heads. My body beaten harder than I thought it handle has lost all movement. I don't know what do except hold his hand tighter.
I manage to say my last words "Please no more. Please don't kill anyone else tonight." As I say that my mind flashes back to Liv. Oh god Reid can't handle losing both of us. I cry harder so sure that the gun will soon fall on my head but it doesn't, the gun aims straight at him. I try so hard to make out some more words but it doesn't work they just fall down like we will tonight.
I say a pray for us and Liv hoping that God will grant us at least the mercy of all us being brought together in peace.
"He's right Emma. You choose wrong." I look up at the man who was to be my executioner. The red devil costume on him was a good fit. "You should have picked me." And with that shots fired not for the first time this night.
But Matt dodges them, he shouldn't be able to. But he does and as Lester fires more bullets Matt flips backwards to avoid them. Then he runs straight to Lester and jumps on the furnace with him.
"How can you?" Lester started to talk but he seemed just as stunned like I was to continue his sentence.
"Trust me. If I told you how, you wouldn't believe me." Matt kicked the gun out Lester's clutches. The look on Lester's face was priceless until it turned to rage then moved furiously to Matt.
Matt was untouchable. Every punch and kick Lester throw was precise but Matt was just as formidable. The appeared equally matched, equally capable of taking each other down. That's what made their fight so heart racing.
I just sat there on the ground watching my blind boyfriend go toe to toe with an assassin in a devil costume. As days go this one takes the whole enchilada.
I stayed where I was, unsure of my next movement, when Matt's voice broke through my shock.
"Emma run!" He screamed as he tried to put his fist through Lester's chest.
"No Emma stay. Stay here and watch what I'm going to do with your precious Matt." Lester argued as he tried to his foot through Matt's skull.
"Shut up Lester." I yelled out which only made the mad man laugh at me. God wasn't there something else a girl could do but stand by and scream at the killer? I feel so helpless.
I can't leave Matt here I need to do something anything. I looked around for the answer when I saw it.
Lester's gun.
I looked back at the men to make sure Lester was distracted when I ran for his gun. It was knocked over to the corner of the building when I reached out for it. It was heavy and long and unfamiliar. While I have used a gun before many times I only handled a rifle once. That was on a hunting trip with my Dad and the end result was me being ban from using a rifle ever again.
I tried to think about that day. I remembered what my Dad said about calculating wind velocity and steadying my aim. I try to steady my arms under the weight of the rifle trying to concentrate at the target, Lester. My arms shook under the enormous with and I could feel the burn of the bullet wound intensify.
'Work through it. Concentrate, concentrate Emma.' I told myself finally getting my grip on the rifle. Lucky for me the boys are too occupied with their fighting to pay any attention to me. They don't even notice me take my first shoot until it's too late.
My shoot isn't perfect I wanted to get Lester's leg to bring him down but his stomach is good shot either way. He goes down on his knee to look at his shoot then me. He looks more surprised at me shooting him than of blind man kicking his ass. Which Matt does now that Lester's injured. Matt kicks him and he flies off the furnace.
Lester struggles to get up. I can't help but marvel on how one bullet wound can bring such a powerful monster. Especially considering I feel like I have at least burning through my body.
He coughs up blood then looks up to me. "How could you? How could ruin this, this was for you." He gurgles out as blood fills up his mouth.
"It started with you and it will end with us." His eyes darken and he runs straight to me.
Lester slams me into the corner trying to use his weight to push us both of the edge. Matt screams out and runs to us.
I struggle trying to not look down or at Lester's crazy beady eyes which seem to get blacker by the minute. I can hear Matt run to us but he sounds miles away so I decided to end this battle once and for all.
I manage to wiggle the rifle at just the right spot and fire. Lester looks stunned and in his shock I turn the tables and pin him in the corner.
"Nothing of what you did tonight was for me. It was for you and your sick obsession." I tell Lester hearing Matt stand right behind.
Lester looked at me then Matt, "This night… no… you're right. But the next nights will be." And with that he pushed me back and himself over the edge. I was forced into Matt's chest and we stumbled back. We recovered from the impact and I ran to the edge of the building. I was looking at the ground for Lester's body. But I saw nothing, no body, no Lester. He was gone.
I walked away and turned to Matt. His eyes glazed over but I knew he saw me, somehow.
"It's over." I whispered to Matt. He nodded and I placed my head on his chest. Wanting to lean on some else today besides myself. This endless nightmare was finally over I hoped.
'Please let it be over.' I prayed before falling into darkness.
Seriously why do I always keep fainting after traumatic events?