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Days. I had been kept in the same room for days. Maybe even weeks. And the only thing that kept me sane, was knowing Calvin is at least safe.

I would sacrifice myself a million times if it meant Calvin's safety, because in this screwed up world, that guy's been the only one keeping me grounded. Convincing me I'm maybe not damned to hell for the life I'm living.

Except for that first night here, when they threw me around for a bit and gave me other clothes, the North didn't really touch me, never mind torture me as I was expecting. In a way it was worse. To be completely deprived from human contact - something I need in great quantities, I felt more alone than ever.

I knew help wasn't coming, because it would be stupid to try and save me. But other than having food brought to me, I didn't get to see people.

Sometimes I would scream to try and see if something, anything, would happen, but nothing ever did. Either because Xavier couldn't be bothered with a low-life like me or nobody could actually hear my shouts coming from the basement.

And then, all of the sudden, I hear it.

Gun shots.

The East and West are here. I know it. I can feel it in my bones just like I can feel Calvin is close. With everything we've been through, all the times we had to defy our gangs to see each other, we've formed a bond I know I'll never have with anyone else. I can feel is life line all knotted up with mine.

"I'm coming for you, Strawberry Tallcake," I whisper because it's been his nickname for a while now.

I walk up to the stairs an peer at the door at the end of it. I've tried countless times to run that thing down, but never could I do it. Now, with my strawberry Tallcake close by, I unlock renewed strength to get this bitch down.

I walk over to the steal cot the North set up for me and pull out one of the legs off the bed. Determined to get back to my fucking boyfriend, I walk up the stairs and take a quick breath before ramming the steel leg hard against one of the hinges of the door. It moves a little - only adding fuel to my determination and I ram it down hard again. It breaks and I send a powerful kick against the door.

The old door falls down and I step over the rich wood - swinging the steel leg in my hand. "Someone's going to get it if my Strawberry Tallcake is hurt," I sing and then run out of there.

I find a Northerner running to another room, but he stops when he sees me.

"Have you seen a strawberry blond? He's tall, pretty?" I ask.

The Northerner doesn't answer.

"C'mon, the strawberry blonde?" I insist.

"You mean the ginger that's running around wild?" the guy finally asks.

My anger immediately boils up inside me. "He's. A. Fucking. Strawberry. Blond!" I yell and charge. Before the guy even knows what's happening, I whack the steal leg across his head and he goes down cold.

"Fucking colorblind prick," I mumble and take his automatic from him. "Should've maybe asked which way my Strawberry Tallcake was running, though," I mumble to myself.

Getting more desperate and anxious to find Calvin before he gets hurt, I run to the dining room. I spot my favorite strawberry blond run out of there and my leader follow him soon after. A smile makes its way to my lips, but when I aim to run after my Strawberry Tallcake, two Northerners block my way.

"Seriously?" I growl before aiming my automatic at them. The first is quick to raise his gun and shoots at me just as I take the second guy down. I feel the bullet graze my side and I drop my gun out of pain.

The Northerner raises his gun again and I quickly swing my steal leg before he can shoot me in my pretty face. I wack the gun from out of his grip and swing again to hit him across the jaw. The guy stumbles and I hit him a final time - which has him falling for the floor.

"You're going to need some aspirin when you wake up," I mumble before walking off. I do a double take and add: "Matt three, North zero!"

I sprint down the hallway and practically follow my instincts to find Calvin. We've never gone more than a few days without seeing each other, so being over the week limit, has me anxious as hell. I need to see him. I need to touch him.

Running into the entertainment room, I spot Calvin leave through the other door. Blake is quick on his heels. I was right. The East and West are finally working together. Maybe... maybe that means Calvin and I can be together now... I've always begged my Strawberry Tallcake to leave this town with me. To run away, but... But his father was a second in command and so was his father's father and, and Calvin just can't leave the gang life.

Three Northerners come running into the room and I let out a sigh. "Why the hell are there so many of you guys?" I grumble before they attack.

I duck whenever a gun is aimed at me and wack it out of their hands whenever I get close enough. Soon, all three guns are on the floor and I'm busting out some ninja moves I never knew I had with a fucking bed leg. Who knew?

One of the guys slips through and manages to punch my face. I stumble back - suddenly furious because I swear if I get a black eye, I will torture these guys. I need to look good for my man.

"This is an expensive fucking face. Do you know how many creams I had to buy to look this good? Hmm? Do you know how much shaving cream costs?" I ask.

The three thugs don't really listen to me and I only spare a moment to roll my eyes before I go full ninja again. I block their strikes and slip in shots one for one. When I actually feel my muscles start to strain and the graze wound at my side becoming more of a nuisance now, I pull through some strength for Calvin and hit the first guy hard. He goes down and I use the surprise to take the second guy down as well. The third holds up his hands and I wack is fingers before knocking him out.

"Babe, I'm on my way!" I sing and run out of the door Calvin went through.

When I get to the foyer, I spot a bunch of Northerners run up the stairs. I make sure to stay close to the wall so they can't see me.

And then, there, under the stairs I spot my Strawberry Tallcake.

He looks sad, conflicted, hurt and tired - and really it's also his hungry face.

I just need to wait for those thugs to disappear up the stairs and then I can have my man in my arms again. Then I can take Calvin, feed him some food, and make sure he's safe. Just a few more seconds...

And then Calvin does the stupidest thing ever.

He runs out from where he was hiding and fires at the Northerner. Within split seconds, I watch my Strawberry Tallcake get ripped open by countless bullets before all the Northern thugs are down as well.

I stumble out from where I was pressed against the wall.

I don't un d e r st a n d.

Wh y a r e

th e r e so... s o... s o....

mu c h b l o o d ?

"Cal..." I mumble as I stumble closer to the one thing that really matters to me in this cruel world. The one person who makes everyday worth living.

Slowly, his head falls to the side. Blood is trickling from out of his mouth and I gag at the sight. When Calvin and I make eye contact, there's shock, but also for some reason joy on his face as a single tear makes it's way down his beautiful cheek.

I can't even move as the blood pools around Calvin so quickly. It's scary.

"Want a cookie?" Calvin asks and my world shatters at our first words.

"No, NO, NOOOOOO!" I yell and run over to Calvin when he's eyes roll back and he lets out a final kind of breath and I feel his life line that's always connected to mine, disappear. "No, you're fine!" I yell and fall to my knees before holding him up. "You're not leaving me, Cal!"

But I feel it. How cold and limp he is.

"No, you can't fucking leave me! We had plans, you and I. We were going to leave this shit-hole," I protest.

Tears march out of my eyes and my body is shaking so bad. Already, my simple clothes are stained a dark red. Already, I feel my knees getting warm with his blood gushing out slower and slower without a heartbeat.

"Don't fucking go to the light," I whisper with my tears falling down onto his face. I'm really hoping for some magical Tangled shit to happen. I need a golden fucking flower to sprout from his chest and bring my true love back.

"You can't go to heaven," I whisper, "I don't think they have any food up there..."

I can't control the earthquake-like shakes rumbling through my whole existence. I don't even care about the sound of Northerners coming, because the only thing that matters in this world is the limp, cold thing in my arms.

"You're not going to like it up there. Stay here and I'll give you all the food you want," I whisper.

But already, I know. I know with how cold and heavy my Strawberry Tallcake is, that he's not coming back. Not even for pizza day.

"This is fucking bullshit," I cry.

I hear people running up behind me and all I can think about is how I wish they'd just shoot me now. I was so close... A split second faster and I could've saved the only thing that matters to me.

But alas, it's not Northerners that run up from behind me.

"Oh no, not Calvin. Not fucking Calvin," I hear Liam mumble.

"This is not suppose to happen..." Jack says when he crouches down to Calvin's cold figure.

"The North are coming," one of the twins, I think Bryan, say through struggled breaths. "At least a dozen of them," the other twin, Ryan, adds.

"We can't go..." I comment.

"We'll die if we stay," I hear Sean say when he joins the pity party as well.

But all I know is how warm the tears against my cheeks are compared to how cold the body in my arms are. The corpse...

"It's now or never. The fight ends today. We either run around like cowards or die like hero's," I breathe and get up, letting Calvin's limp body slide back to the floor. I look at the direction the Northerners should be running from.

"I got Lynch back safe before coming back here. I've got nothing else to do now. My job is complete," Liam says. There's so much hopelessness in his voice that I can relate to.

"So, it's till the last bullet then. Until the end," Sean mumbles.

"This is all wrong, but... but I stand with you guys," Jack says.

"So many unsolved questions," Bryan remarks. "They'll all be answered when this is over," Ryan says and the twins share a look so heartbreaking, it only makes me more determined to have my last stand.

For Calvin.

We all raise our guns when the Northerners come running in, but we don't fire. They're even more than I thought...

"Surrender and you might live," one of the Northerners says. "Fight, and you'll all die within seconds," he adds just as everyone raises their guns at us.

But Calvin is dead and I need to show him the way to heaven. All the food here on Earth might distract him...

My grip on my gun only tightens, but before I can open fire, someone speaks up from the grand front doors.

"How about a third option? You Northern scum can go to hell," Jessica says - dressed in a tight leather outfit and a smirk that would send any normal guy running. The West's badass Jessica seems to be back.

"This is for threatening my boyfriend," Jessica adds before winking at Liam and sending a grenade-looking thing flying for the North.

The North only has a second to register the metal object at their feat before Jessica tackles all of us to the floor and the bomb goes off - taking out most of the Northerners.

When the smoke and debris clears enough for us to actually see what's going on, Jessica jumps up and helps Liam to his feet. "We need to go. The North has recruits at Isabella's gates. We have to find Amber and get the hell out of here. The North can't seem to run out of people," Jessica says.

"Then let's go," Sean insists and they all make for the stairs.

I don't move.

"C'mon Matt," Ryan says. "We need to go," Bryan adds.

"I'll hold the door while you guys get everyone out of here..." I say.

I really don't see a point in fighting if I don't have Calvin to share cookies with. I made a promise a year ago to him to never leave him. And I intend to keep that promise.

Somehow they know. With Calvin's still figure and my stained cheeks, the West and East knows what needs to happen.

"Until we meet again," Sean mumbles - his own eyes forming tears.

"You were the best second in command a gang could ever have," Ryan whispers and his twin nods.

I solute my men and they return the mocking jay symbol like the nerds they all really are before running up the stairs. More tears line my eyes, but somehow a smile as well, because I know I'll see Calvin again soon with the sound of more Northerners running for the front doors.

I walk back to Calvin's cold body and kiss his forehead before looking back at my death coming for me. At all the automatics the North carries.

"Then I'll be brief..." I whisper, "O, happy dagger. This is thy sheath..." My voice cracks at the words when I get back up - my gun raised at the coming onslaught. "There rust, and let me die," I finish.

When I start firing at the North, their bullets happily find their target in return - sending me on my way to help Calvin find heaven before he strays to go get food.

And in that knowledge, we have our happy ending. No more secrets. No more hiding.

Hello Goldies...

Don't we just love Shakespear? (Please don't kill me.) At least Badass Jessy is finally back and saved most of the guys! Understand that I need death for this story to be realistic.

Do you think anybody else is going to die?

And what's up the the growing Xamber ships lol? Let me check on ships while we're here.

Blamber

Amwen

Xamber

Mysterious Amber

Remember that I love y'all!!! No matter how much you hate me for killing Matt and Calvin.....

~ Holly Shmit