"Episode 51 -  Fight for our lives."  

"Elena." I repeated but too loud.

Her voice smashed through the ice I had built in order to keep myself together. To keep me sane while I tried to find her. Now that I've heard desperate her plea, I couldn't contain it. Fuck strategy, fuck safety. I could feel her and she was close, there was no way she was slipping away from my finger again.

So, I ran.

The air rushed out of my lungs at her second scream. "LET ME OUT." And then banging against a steel door.

I ran down the similar littered hall way, my feet kicking at empty beer bottles, can and probably dead mice on the way. My night vision goggles lightened and started to hurt my eyes. With zealous, I threw the thing over my shoulder and tucking it into the little pouch in my belt. I could see clearly due to the light from underneath.

The stair case was filled with dark shadows and dim lighting. I jumped down the last couple of stairs, feeling a pressure on my shin. Turning, I did same with the other stair, grateful that the light became much more prominent.

I followed the lit dirty hallway when I heard frantic footsteps. Quickly entering an open room, I hid behind the wall, waiting for the guy to emerge. Even though I had a silencer, I didn't want to waste my bullets, therefore I pulled out the army knife form my back, ready to pounce.

I watched the shadow emerge and suddenly he was there, his back towards me. With lightning speed, I used my forearm to put him on a choke hold and then used the other to slit his throat.

He gargled obscene noises, unable to form an articulated sentence. I wiped the blood on his shirt, laid him down in to the room while he bled out with start white eyes. I took his gun and ammos, stacking up just in case.

I suddenly heard a loud clang from my right before I emerged from the hall way. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I held the knife up, ready to pounce when one of the men who took Elena came to view. I stuck him in his neck and he acted immediately, trying to make a grab for his gun but I quickly made a grab for it and threw it behind me.

I needed to get the knife out so he could bleed out but he was a damn big guy with long bushy facial hair and blue bandanna.

"Son of a bitch." He had a death grip on my arm that was hold the knife. "Fuck." I took out my gun with the silencer and shot him in his head. Smoothly, he slid out of the knife and fell backwards with a loud thud. I holstered my gun, wiped the blood again on his shirt.

"Baylord." I heard a voice from down stairs. A loud deep grunt that sounded like it belonged to someone with a similar size of this man lying before me. I could have dragged him inside but then I would have left a bloody train.

Instead I crouched down, making sure nobody was behind me, I aimed for the figure to emerge from the stair way. The second the top of his head bobbed up, I took my shoot. Standing, I jumped over the railing, landed right on top of the body.

I carried on, down another flight of stairs to realise that the second floor was highly Illuminated but something made me pause. If the third floor was supposed to be empty, why were these bulky guys, the name ones that kidnaped Elena, going up to the third floor?

Something inside me, made me turn around. My damaged soul felt whole when she was around and I suddenly felt that. The tingling at the back of my neck.

"LET. ME. OUT. You fuck turds." I stomped up the stairs, back to the third floor and followed Elena's voice and her banging. I heard lout shouts outside but I ignored it.

It came from the corridor right opposite form where I was standing. I ran to the towards the half caved in hall away and started opening every single door.

"ELENA." I whispered, trying to not draw in any attention. Suddenly, I came upon a steel door right at the end of the hall way. The handle jerked under my hand. "ELENA." I whispered again.

The silence that followed, choked me from inside. My heart hammered in my ears.

"Gabriel?"

"Yes!" I dropped. I fucking dropped to the ground with relief.

"Baby, it's me. Stand against the wall, away from the door." I instructed as my head started to pound, vision lightening at the same time. Instead of picking the lock, I shot at the locked and with a forceful shove form my shoulder, it opened with a tang.

"Elena?" I frowned, not seeing her.

"Gabe?" She was hiding behind the door. Her tiny frame looked even smaller in her black dress. She stared up at me with wide red rimmed eyes. Her soft busted lips trembled.

"FUCK." I engulfed her in my arms, squeezed her so tight that it might have cut off her air supply for a while. Her arms immediately wrapped themselves around me.

"Elena, I... Oh, Elena." I caressed her shamelessly, making sure she wasn't harmed in any other way.

"Thank you." She kept repeating like I wasn't going to come and it shattered my heart. Like a hand grabbing my throat form inside and dragged it down to the pits of my belly. "Thank you."

"Are you okay?" I moved back to but didn't let her go. Taking her face in my palms, I brushed her hair back quickly. "Are you hurt? Are you okay? Hmm?" I didn't give a shit when my voice quivered, I didn't give a shit when my eyes teared up.

"Jude didn't hurt me. One of the bulky dudes who kidnapped me slapped for stabbing one of their friends."

"I know, I saw. I'm so proud of you." I dropped my head to kiss her bloody lips. "We have to go." I whispered. "We have to go."

"Okay, move. Move." She turned me around and pushed me out of the half-closed door. My iron grip on her soft hand calmed my soul. Even though I didn't get the time to show her the gravity of my relief but I would once we were out, I shower her with everything she fucking deserves.

Suddenly, I caught a moving shadow stretch across the stairwell.

"TOM." The man shouted.

"We have to RUN!" I whispered while I dragged her with me towards the stairwell I used on the other side. We heard frantic footsteps climbing the stairs while we ran back through the hall way where I killed and stashed the first body.

Loud shouts came from behind us just when we turned the corner. Bullets whizzed past but luckily, I had a bulletproof vest on unlike her.

"Stay down." I instructed her. Taking out my gun and the one I took from the dead guy, I shot back in the dark. When they stopped I quickly turned, made my aim and waited until one of them moved. The guy hiding behind the right corner moved first and I shot out two rounds before I pulled back while the other one kept firing.

"Let's go." I picked her up by her arm and carried on down the hall way, weaving through the narrow places until we reached the stairwell.

"Behind me." The bullets flew past us and hit the damn stairs. We couldn't run up the stairs with them shooting at us. Taking out my semi-automatic, I aimed for the little group that had gathered. The bullets crashed into some of them. Some of them screamed others took covers. "LETS, GO."

Keeping my finger pressed on the trigger, I moved up the stairs with her behind me.

Once we were up I made her hide behind one of the room before I went back to the stairwell. There were five of them making their way towards me but couldn't see me yet. I opened fired on them, allowing the thin bullets to pierce through their skulls and enter their body or pierce their lungs and heart from above.

One pulled back and took a blind shot at me but the bastard got lucky. The bullet swiped my upper up arm, searing fire along its path across my skin.

"MH!" I grunted, trying to not to freak Elena out. Moving back, I calculated my options, wait for him to run out of ammo and then shoot him which will give the people who were outside of join him or I could just keep running and fire every time they caught up.

Thinking back to the amount of people that poured out of the building after I sent the picture, I decided to take the later route.

"Elena, let's go," 

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