I took a deep breath holding the gun and walking out of the trees.
  "Daniel, She is dangerous!" Lilian yelled.
  "Lilian, Daniel!" I felt tears falling down my face as Jull yelled and Sammy stepped out from behind Daniel staring at me with shock. Her red hair fell in her face her blue eyes filled with disbelief as I held up the empty gun pointing it at her.
  "Skylar!" I looked at Daniel taking deep breaths.
  "Daniel, please I don't have a choice." I glanced behind me seeing Tony his gun ready as my hand shook and Daniel stepped in front of Sammy his black eyes met my green ones his black hair messy like always making want to brake down right there.
  "You're the one holding the gun and pulling the trigger! You have a choice!" He said as my hands shook.
  "I don't have a choice, please Daniel move." I held in the tears as he shook his head.
  "Why are you doing this Skyler!?" He was angry and I could tell very disappointed.
  "T-To protect you Daniel." He scuffed and took a step forward.
  "I thought you were a good person, Skyler, what happened to you?" I felt tears on my face.
  "Please Daniel move." I said making him even more angry.
  "If you want her dead! You have to go through me!" He yelled making my eyes widened as Tony shot Daniel in the gut making me drop the gun in shock.
  "Daniel!" Lilian yelled as I walked back shaking with shock and anger. I saw Sammy looking at me not scared but considered as if she knew I didn't shoot him. I turned and quickly ran through the woods up through the mountain to Tony.
  "You said you wouldn't hurt him!" I yelled as Tony stood his large frame facing me.
  "He got in the way." Anger ran through me as I pulled my hand gun from my belt cocking it and aiming it right between his eyes. "Haha, you don't have the guts." Without a thought I shot him. He fell to the ground as the sound cracked through the forest.
  "S-Skyler?" I jumped at Sammy's voice as my blonde hair fell in my face.
  "S-Sammy.." My voice broke as I looked down too ashamed to look at her.
  "I knew you didn't kill those people! I knew it!" Sammy ran and hugged me tightly. "I knew you would never do something like that." She whispered as I sighed.
  "I'm so sorry Sammy." I hugged her close. After a moment she pulled back hearing Lillian yell her name as a helicopter flew of us.
  "Get out of here! More than likely he'll be at the closet hospital I'm sure he'll be alive and fine!" Sammy yelled then ran off as ran the opposite way.

Lillian was talking to Jack with anger.
  "I hate her! She said she loved him and then she shoots him!" Tears were falling down her face as she tried to stay calm.
  "Sammy you okay?" Max asked quietly holding her hand. Sammy shook her head angry at Lillian's words.
  "She deserves to hang for all the people she murdered!" Lillian was over the line of anger and sadness, the fear of losing him was too much.
  "Shut up Lil please!?" Sammy asked in anger making Lillian sigh. Skyler ran into the hospital heading for Daniel's room hoping they'd ignored her, but that was asking for a lot. Lillian got up and pushed her away from the door.
  "What the Hell are you doing here!?" Skyler had tears in her eyes.
  "I'm here to see him, I want to make su-" "See him! You don't have the right to see him, you're the one who put him here!" A nurse quickly grabbed a phone dialing up the nearest district.
  "Please let me see him." Skyler's voice cracked.
  "If you think-" Lillian was cut off as Sammy stepped in front of Skyler pushing Lillian back.
  "SHE DIDNT SHOOT HIM!" Sammy yelled the rest of their group going quiet.
  "Sammy! Sh-" "She was trying to protect someone she loved! It went wrong! So let her see him now!" Sammy turned and hugged Skyler. "She's a good person!" Lillian looked at her in shock.
  "How in the Hell can you say that she tried to-" "She was doing as told! She didn't pull the trigger!" Sammy let go of Skyler and turned to Lillian tears in her eyes. "Lil let her see him." Lillian sighed and shook her head.
  "Whatever Sammy!" Lillian sat down in anger as Sammy turned to Skyler.
  "Go see him quickly, the Goods district will be here soon." Skyler nodded and went into his room seeing him barely alive knocked out. She was crying now, she knew he couldn't hear her as she fell next to his bed holding his hand.
  "I'm sorry D-Daniel..." she ran off and put her head on the edge of the bed. "He said if I didn't he'd kill you, I didn't think he would shoot you..." She cried a moment, but it didn't last long as she heard the long siren fading out across the hospital. She quickly got up and ran out of his room. Lillian got up about to run after her outside but Sammy stopped her by hugging her tightly.
  "Don't dare go after her Daniel needs you." Lillian sighed in anger

A few weeks later

I stood from behind a tree watching Daniel as he got back into his pattern of shooting. He was moving much, much better now, like that shot was nothing but a scratch even though it still hurts and he's a little slower.
  "Daniel?" Lillian asked him putting her hand on his shoulder as I watched.
  "What?" Daniel sounded angry and pissed.
  "Do you need us to do anything?" She asked calmly.
  "Not yet." He mumbled.
  "Daniel, She almost killed you we need to do something-" "Not yet!" He turned to her in anger holding his gun toward her.
  "I know she broke your h-" "It has nothing to do with that." I felt tears on my face as I took a deep breath and looked down at my gun.
  "Please believe me." I said taking a breath and walking out into the open as the rest of the group was coming out of their cabin.
   "Daniel, Lillian!" Jack, Mace, and Max yelled making Daniel turn around and aim the gun at me.
  "You're one Hell of an idiot coming here!" Lillian yelled as I stop from across the small stream looking at Daniel.
  "Why are you here, Skyler?" Daniel's voice was cold and heavy making my heart sink as I stood straight the gun at my side, locked and loaded.
  "I know you guys want me dead, I know." I paused looking down. "But please you need to believe me when I say I didn't do it." I sighed.
  "You didn't do it!? Do you really think we would believe that shit!?" Lillian as I looked up meeting Daniel's eyes trying not to cry.
  "No, I don't, but if I'm gonna die anyways I might well die telling the truth." Daniel was mad at me he hated me I could tell. "My name is Skyler Osason. Daughter of Michael Osason." I felt the air shift.
"That explains so much! You're, your a father's daughter." Lillian said as I sighed.
"I didn't kill anyone! Neither did my father!" I looked to Lillian as she shook her head.
"Now that's bullshit." I stood up straighter.
"I was forced to stand in front of those people who were scared to death with and empty gun! While a killer behind me was framing me for every single death! I was scared to kill him because he had friends that could hurt me!" Lillian didn't believe a word, I didn't expect her to. I wasn't sure about the others but I knew that Sammy believed me. All I really needed was for Daniel to believe me. I turned to him tears falling down my face as our eyes met again. "He said if I didn't do as told he'd kill you Daniel! And if I killed him his friends would kill you! I didn't know he was going to shoot you!" Daniel sighed his gun down making Lillian look at him.
"Skyler." His voice was stone. "Leave here, leave us, and don't come back." I took a step forward.
"Please Daniel-" "You can make up all the stories you want Skyler! And if that was the truth I would have been fine! Skyler please just go." I shook my head and backed up my hands shaking.
"Please Daniel I don't care what anyone else here believes, I-I just need you to believe me please?" He shook his head.
"Why should anyone believe you!?" Lillian asked. I looked at all of them and saw Sammy staring at me afraid to say anything as I took a deep breath.
"Because" I ran off and pulled the gun in my hand to the side of my head. "I'll shoot myself... not for your attention or your happiness. I shoot myself because all I want is for you to believe me." Lillian shook her head.
"You're bluffing!" Max yelled as I stared to pull the trigger. "Bang!" It wasn't my gun that went off it was Daniel's. His bullet scraped my wrist making me drop the gun. I was holding my wrist in pain as he turned to them
"Stay here don't do anything till I'm back!" He yelled anger at them.
"Dan-" "Lillian!" I looked up grinding my teeth in pain as I saw her nod.
"Yes sir." She sounded annoyed. Daniel walked to me and picked me up without warning.

We walked for what seemed like hours through a forest of silence. I didn't say a word too ashamed to and he was just silent. We stopped and he sat me on a log. He pulled a bag from behind it and pulled out a lighter. After making a fire he sat down next to me and sighed grabbing the bag pulling out alcohol and bandages. I didn't even look at my arm until now. It was more than scrap, the bullet had pierced right in my wrist. He grabbed my arm gently and grabbed some tweezers.
"This is gonna sting." He warned using the tweezers to pull out the bullet.
"Ah!" I yelped a little in pain as he pulled it out. He then gently pour some alcohol over it making me grind my teeth again.
"What the Hell is wrong with you?" It took me a moment to realize what he said as I watched him wrap my wrist.
"I-I j-just, I hate t-that you hate me." I couldn't hold the tears back as he quickly wrapped my wrist and taped it.
"Hate you?" I looked up to see his black eye staring at me saddened. "I may be disappointed and mad at you Skyler" He paused and pulled me closer to him, his skin dark in the dim light. "But I can never hate you." I opened my mouth to speak but he stopped me kissing me deeply. I closed my eyes in surprise and kissed back slowly. He pulled back his forehead on mine. "I'll die before I ever hate you." I fell into his arm my head on his chest as I started to cry.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." I shook my head, my sobs muffled my his shirt as he pulled me close.
"I forgive you Skyler." He whispered gently

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