Chapter 15

Beau jerked awake and away from Angel. He fell to the floor and throw up violently into a waste bin near him. Everyone in the room all stared at him. E, Rider and the rest of the crew and the still image of Major Benjamin on the projected screen.

Holy shit. Beau felt like he had been thrown back in time to before everything in his world had gone to shit a second time. How the fuck was he going to deal with living through the shit storm twice again.

E stared at him. “Who died with you?” She asked.

Beau took Rider’s face in his hands. Rider frowned at him and stared to pull away and noticed Beau crying.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” Beau kept repeating. He couldn’t shake the image of Rider’s dead body or the guilt that still stabbed at his heart.

Rider sighed and gentle removed Beau’s hands from him. “I’m alive. It was just a nightmare. Everything is fine.”

Beau shook his head looking back at Angel to see her dropping off asleep. She was alive but for how long? “No it isn’t. Nothing is fine. It’s all fucked up. I was wrong. They were all soldiers and mercenaries. They had one of our own with them. Fucker burned me with fire and lightning from his mouth.”

Rider shook his head. “That’s makes no fucking sense. They just gave us fucking all they asked us to do is take out one last monster in the city and the blockade is over and they would give us all positions.”

E shook her head. “You and the others were offered those positions. Not me or Techno. They want us dead for some reason.”

“What the fuck do we do?”

E stared at him. “There is no “we” here John. The government has picked you and the others to run the face of whatever political game their running. I wasn’t invited. I’m running. Beau what are you going to do?”

“He said there were to many lose ends to clear up before things could get back to normal. He also said we didn’t live up to our end on the deal.” Beau said.

E frowned at him. “You need to be thinking about your fucking life instead-“

“We have five days until they end the block aid.” Beau said. “It’s the one opportunity for us to get our people out of this city. We promised the government we would have the city cleared of any dangerous violent threats. It’s the promise we made for our people to get a chance for them to get out and for things to return to normal.” Beau said.

“What fuck does….shit. Shit.” E cursed violent. She glared at Rider. “What fucking monster did you leave alive?”

Rider shook his head. “I didn’t leave any monsters alive. We took out the last monsters two months. The fucking city is cleared.”

“We missed one then.” Beau said. “Between all of us there had to be someone we let go or some moment we…ah shit.” Beau said. “Who cleared out the subway?”

No one answered. E closed her eyes. “None of you cleared out the tunnels. If there are any monsters down there we’re all screwed and I’m dead.” She said.

Rider shook his head. “We still have time. We’ll head down the subway tunnels and start clearing them out and Beau can take the crew and take out Vlad and his crew.”

“In five fucking days. It won’t be possible to clear out the subways in time to do both.” E said. “I need to think.” She said.

Beau shook his head. Everything was clear to him now. “I know what to do. Rider you and the others take out the others. The military will back you up. I’m taking a small unit down to the subways and hunting for whatever else is down there. No. Don’t fight me on it. You lead them in and handle Vlad.” He said.

E studied him silently. She said nothing. Beau knew if anyone had an idea what he had planned today she did but she was also smart enough no say anything about it. “Beau. Whatever you’re planning on doing you need to do it fast. We’re already running low on time as is to keep alive.” She said.

Beau smiled and nodded. “Tomorrow. I’m going to give the people holding us here a reason to finally let us out and then I’ll done. Just watch me.” He said and walked out of the room.