Kate’s
Revenge
When I
first became a Holder, it was to escape someone. Someone who raped me, abused
me, tormented me, used me, and tortured me. She treated me as though I was her
toy, as though I was her pet, as though I were nothing more than her slave, and
did whatever she wanted to me. But one day, about a week after my sixteenth
birthday, a Holder Item called to me.
After the Onagan Invasion, most
of the Holders lived on an estate called “The Mansion”. It looked like a
high-class university, but was the size of a small city. Only Holders and staff
were allowed access to the estate, mainly because the government used it as a
rehabilitation facility for those who fought during the war. I began working
there as a common maid when I was twelve, after my parents died. When I turned
fourteen, I was chosen to be a personal servant to Cameron Balfeur, the Holder
of the Mind, meaning she could basically use telekinesis. She was a powerful
Holder who was ranked second in the 13 Gods of Holding, the basic ranking of
the most powerful Holders.
One day, when I was hanging her
clothes out to dry, I heard a voice call out to me.
“Come to
me my child”, the voice said in a hushed whisper. The voice sounded as
though it was from a woman in her early twenties.
“Who’s
there?” I asked, while looking at my surroundings.
“Over here,” the voice said.
I looked in the direction it was
coming from, and saw a large, dense forest shrouded in darkness which I had
never seen before. I began to walk towards it, but stopped at the edge of the
brush.
“Come, come”, the voice said to me,” do not be afraid. I will not harm you.”
Compelled by my extreme
curiosity, I willed myself to enter the forest. I continued walking amongst the
trees for quite some time, until I came across a large clearing. In the center
of the clearing was a tall Totem pole that had all the animals of the zodiac on
it. In front of the totem pole was a wooden carving of a hand reaching from out
of the ground. On one of the fingers was a beautiful and ornately designed
ring.
I absent mindedly reached out to
grab the ring, but was ‘snapped back to reality’ by the voice I heard earlier
saying,” You must first pay the toll,
else my power cannot be used.”
I jumped back in surprise. “Hello?
Who’s there?” I said, scanning my surroundings.
But I was all alone.
“If you pay the toll to release me, then I might be inclined to assist
with your ‘problem’”, the voice said.
It was at that moment when I
finally realized that this was no ordinary ring, but a Holder’s Item. I’ve been
around Holders since I first started working at The Mansion when I was eleven
years old, and they all said that in order to become a Holder, you must first
sacrifice something very important to you, something that is with you no matter
what, and that the more precious the thing sacrificed, the more powerful you
become. But even then, the Item might not accept your sacrifice. It really just
depends what the original Holder of that item was like, because that’s why they’re
all rings – A long time ago, they all died in something called the Rochester
Massacre -- except for Alex, his brother Aidan, Aidan’s friend Eddy, and
Cameron -- so Alex turned all the dead bodies’ spirits into rings and let the
originals of those items choose their own successor. I thought for awhile on
what my sacrifice might be.
“Um, excuse, Mr. Holder
Item-thingy,” I said warily,” I’ve made up my mind. I would like to give up my
sub consciousness to become the Holder of… whatever you are.”
The voice chuckled. “You know so little of what I am, yet you are
willing to forfeit so much?” The voice said.
“Honestly,” I said,” I’m willing
to do just about anything at this point.”
Then, the animal at the top of
the totem pole, the tiger, began moving, and looked down upon me. The voice
chuckled again. “Very well,” the
voice said while the tiger’s mouth moved in sync,” if you really want it, then it’s yours. Congratulations, you are now
the Holder of Animals.”
Suddenly, the hand that was in
the ground grabbed my waist, and the whole Totem pole leaned over me. The Tiger
snarled an evil grin as I struggled to break free of the hands grasp, before
opening its mouth wide, and swallowing me whole. Then, everything went black.
I awoke with a start, only to
find myself exactly where I was before, back by the clothes line where I had
been hanging the laundry to dry, as if nothing had ever happened.
‘Was I daydreaming all of that?’, I thought to myself. I looked down
to see that the ring I had seen earlier on the wooden hand in the forest was
now on my right ring finger.
‘So it wasn’t a dream. It really happened!....But then that means-‘
“Kate?” a voice said from behind
me.
I jumped up, composed myself, and
spun around in surprise to face the source of the voice, only to find it was
the love of my life, Alex Maynord. Or at least, I think he is the love of my
life. I’ve never really been able to gather up the courage to confess my true
feelings to him. And it doesn’t help that Cameron won’t let me go anywhere near
him.
Alex originally didn’t have a
last name, but for the sake of the governments’ archives, he took up the last
name of Maynord. He is the Holder of two things, both Imagination and Creation,
a feat limited only to him. It only makes sense that it’s because of this he is
ranked number one among the 13 Gods of Holding.
“Oh, Alex! Uh, Hi!” I stammered.
“Kate,
are you okay?” he said with the most caring voice I’ve ever heard.
“Uh, yeah, I’m perfectly fine,
why do you ask?” I said as casually as I could.
“Um, well, it’s just I was
looking out the window in my room,” he said pointing to a window on a nearby
building,” when I saw you collapse, so I came out here to make sure you were
alright.”
“Oh, uh, yeah! I’m fine, I
just….got dizzy that’s all!” I said, completely failing to act nonchalant.
He sighed and gripped his
forehead in a frustrated manner. “Listen, Kate, you don’t have to lie to me.“
“B-but I’m not lying”, I mumbled
quietly.
“I’m not done.” He said, giving
me a stern look, but using a kind and caring voice. “Now Kate, I see the ring
on your finger. I know you just became a Holder, alright? So just cut the
bullshit, and tell me what Holder you are, and what you gave up to get it.”
As I stood there holding my right
arm with my left and looking down at my feet, I could feel my face starting to
boil as it turned bright red from embarrassment. As we stood there in a long
awkward silence, I began rocking slightly from side to side.
“Please Kate,” he said with a
worried look on his face. “ This is for your own protection, so just let me
help you.”
Finally, I gave up. “I gave up my
sub conscious to be the Holder of Animals.”
“God dammit,” he sighed as he put
his hands over his face in frustration. “Kate”, he said after removing his
hands from his face, “What the Hell were you thinking?! The original Holder of
Animals was a total psycho, and you just let her have partial control of your
actions?!”
“I’m sorry”, I said trying to
hold back my tears, “I- I didn’t know.”
“No, don’t apologize to me, Kate.
Apologize to yourself.”
“Why?” I said still holding back
my tears, “ It’s not that bad….is it?”
“You have no idea,” Alex said, “The
original Holder of Animals always acted very rashly and selfishly. She only
cared about herself, and was also the biggest pervert there has ever been.”
My tears began slipping out of my
shut eyelids.
“Kate,” Alex said,” Why did you
do this anyways?”
“I-I just wanted to be able to
defend myself.”
“Wha- defend yourself from
what!?”
“Cameron!” I answered.
“Cameron?! Why the fuck would you
need to defend yourself from her!?” he asked, completely confused.
“BECAUSE SHE’S BEEN RAPING ME!” I
cried, my tears completely escaping me. “She’s been abusing me, using me,
torturing me, and tormenting me, and I just want it to stop! The reason I never
said anything to anyone before was because she said she would kill anyone who
found out! She said I couldn’t even go anywhere near you because you would be
able to figure it out without me even saying anything. Do you have any idea
what that’s like?! To be forced to stay away from the person you love?! It’s
agonizing! It’s insanity! I felt like I was going insane!”
He looked at me with a blank
stare.
“I know this is a lot to take in
at once, but please, I need you! Help me! Please!” I said, breaking down in
tears, and falling to my knees. I buried my face in my hands as I wept.
After a few moments passed by, he
knelt down to embrace me, which made me shutter with both joy and fear.
“Kate”, he whispered softly with
into my ear, “I am so sorry. I could’ve done something sooner – I should’ve done something sooner. I first
thought something was wrong when you first started avoiding because it was just
so sudden. But I just shrugged it off and ignored it. This is all my fault. I
just hope you can forgive me.”
“Yes!” I exclaimed,” Of course I
forgive you! It’s not even your fault. It’s mine! I should’ve told you sooner.”
“The truth is,” he said, “We’ve technically
gotten married already, over a thousand years ago, back in 1520, two years
after I first met you. Well, the other you that is.”
“Huh?” I said, confused, “What
are you talking about?” I asked, swallowing my tears and tilting my head up to
see his face.
“I guess now’s as good a time as
ever to explain. In 1518, my brothers and sisters and I, the first Holders who were
left by my father, decided to try picking a side in the world. So, we chose
England, and served under King Henry VIII. And there, we were all dukes and
duchesses, and I made the decision to create more Holders. People were brought
before me, and I gave them power. But as a duke, I was given a personal maid.
That maid’s name,” he said, pushing me back from the hug and holding me by my
shoulders, and looking into my eyes, “Was Kate Rosaleen.”
“I was your servant?” I said in
awe.
“Yeah,” he said with a
bittersweet smile, “And we fell in love with each other. Eventually, we got married.
But twelve years later,” he said, his smile quickly fading, “In 1532, Cameron
made a deal with King Henry VIII, and led his five most elite knights on a hunt
for all of the other Holders. She managed to kill all of them except for Aidan,
Eddy, and I. We were camped near Rochester when she eventually found us. I was
already aware of her plans which was why I brought you with me so we could make
an escape. But she, along with the five knights, surrounded us and challenged
us to a fight to the death. I managed to defeat my opponent, but I had left
Eddy in charge of protecting you, and he was badly beaten when Cameron assisted
the knight fighting him. Then, Cameron murdered you before my very eyes. I lost
all control, and fought all the remaining four knights and Cameron at once. I
defeated them, but it didn’t bring you back. And when I turned the dead Holders
into Items, your body disappeared along with the others. It was then that I
knew I would see you again. So I waited. I waited for a thousand years, and
finally I saw you again. But it was obvious you didn’t remember me, so I kept
my distance, thinking you probably also didn’t have the same feelings as before.
In fact, I guess that’s why I
ignored the obvious truth staring me right in the face. I just thought you
started avoiding me because you could knew my feelings, and thought it was kind
of creepy for an eighteen year old guy to be hitting on a twelve year old girl.”
I giggled at the irony. “It’s
funny how I kept my distance because I thought it was weird for a twelve year
old girl to have a crush on a guy who’s six years older than her. But I guess I
was wrong there, seeing as how you’re over a thousand years old.”
“Actually Kate, Holders are made
immortal when they become a Holder,” he explained,” I’m still eighteen. Holders
can’t physically grow anymore after they become a Holder.”
“Wait, so I’m-“ I began to say.
“Yep, you’re going to be sixteen
forever. Now, I want you to go back to your room and pack up all of your
stuff.”
“But why?” I asked.
“Because I’m going to take you
far, far away from here. Somewhere Cameron will never find you. And I will
protect you,” he explained,” We’ll leave at six o’clock on my ship. It’s
called, ‘The Valkyrie’, and with it, we’ll be impossible to catch. Okay?”
“Okay,” I said, mustering up the
strength to stand up.
“Alright, I’ll see you then,” he
said.
After that, I went back to my
room, or rather, Cameron’s room, and
began to pack what little things I had into a bag Alex had given to me.
“What the fuck are you doing?”
Cameron asked while chewing on an apple and standing in the doorway.
I turned to look at her, threw
the bag over my shoulders, then walked towards her but stopped before I got
close enough for her to touch me. “I’m leaving,” I stated as plainly as I
could, trying to hide the fear in my voice.
She cackled and then spit the
apple chewings in her mouth at my face. “Leaving?” she said, tossing the
unfinished apple on the floor. She then started slowly walking towards me, and
I backed up one step for every step she took towards me, until she had my back
against the wall, my fear beginning to show on my face. “And where exactly do
you plan on going, hmm?” she said as she pressed herself against me, her face
mere millimeters from mine,” You are an outcast, an orphan with no family and
no one to call ‘friend’ or a place to call ‘home’. And besides, even if you
were to find someplace to stay, I would just come and get you, and then bring
you back here. And yet despite all of this, you say that you’re ‘leaving’.”
“I’m going with Alex,” I said as
I pushed her away from me.
The fury immediately showed on
her face before she slapped me so hard, that I fell to the floor on my hands
and knees.
“GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!” she yelled
while pulling me up by my collar,” YOU LITTLE FUCKING SHIT! DO YOU HAVE ANY
IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?! WELL?! DO YOU BITCH?!” she then threw me back on the
ground and paced around while running her fingers through her hair,” GOD
DAMMIT! I TOLD YOU NOT TO EVEN GO NEAR HIM, AND NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE
DONE!”
Finally, Kat took over.
I rose to my feet and stood
before her as Kat laughed in her face. “Well, well, well. We finally meet at
last. I am Kat, The Holder Item of Animals.
Because Kate gave up her sub consciousness to get this,” Kat said as I
rose my hand to show Cameron the ring on my finger,” I am able to take control
of her body whenever I want, making it now belong to me. And I don’t appreciate you harming my new body,” she said as
the finger nails on my hands turned into claws,” So now, I’m going to fuck you
up,” she said.
Then, she made me lunge at
Cameron, and she scratched Cameron across her face with my claws. The strike
was so powerful, it sent her to floor. “Oh,” she said,” and if you ever try to
harm my new body ever again, I will not hesitate to kill you, because you were
right about one thing: I am a total bitch. Toodaloo!” she said as I got up and
walked over to the door.
I picked up my bag off the floor
on the way to the door and walked out into the hallway, after which, I was
given back control of body, and my finger nails returned to normal, and I
walked towards the exit.
Not a minute after I started
walking towards the exit, Cameron had crawled out into the hallway, and with
her hand covering her scarred face, she began screaming my name at the top of
her lungs.
But I ignored her, and just kept
walking towards my new life, a better life.
MANY YEARS LATER
I woke up with a start. I looked
at my surroundings and confirmed that I was, in fact, still in my bed, in my
room, on the Valkyrie, Aidan’s ship which he got from the war, but eventually
gave to Alex.
It
was just a dream,
I told myself, trying to calm down.
But not just any dream, the same dream you’ve been having every night for
the past month, Kat’s voice said inside my head, Kate, this has to stop.
I realized she was right. This
has been haunting me ever since it first happened. Ever since I escaped her
with Alex, and she started chasing us no matter where we went, or what we did.
She also kept her promise of killing anyone who found out the truth, and has
been harming anyone who even so much as thinks of helping us. One month ago,
she burned down an entire city that we had made a stop in, and nearly captured
me and got away. But thanks to everyone’s help, we got away.
For the past two hundred years,
Alex and I have been exploring the universe, along with all of his former
comrades from his company during the war, and also a peculiar child named
Alice, who appears to have the same powers as Alex, but isn’t a Holder. We
adopted her and her “brother”, as she calls it, but really it’s just a stuffed
rabbit that she carries with her and thinks is alive. We also adopted the son
and daughter of a former comrade of Alex. The only reason we adopted Rikku and
Hikaru was because that was their father Dallas’ last wish before he died.
Wait, Alex! I thought with a sudden realization. But when I looked
to the spot on the bed next to me where he usually slept, he wasn’t there.
“Alex?” I said, beginning to
panic.
Silence.
“Alex?!” I repeated, panic
settling in.
“Watchuwant?” he said as he poked
his head through the cracked door.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
“Nothing, I just had a bad dream,” I explained with a relieved smile.
“Do you… wanna talk about it?” he
pondered.
“No, I’m fine.”
“Good. Now get up and get dressed
already so we can have some breakfast,” he said before going back to the
kitchen.
I hopped out of bed, threw on
some clothes, and walked out into the hallway and into the kitchen. “Good
morning,” I said to everyone sitting at the table. “Wait, where’s everyone
else?” I asked when I noticed that nearly all the seats were empty.
“They’re out doing a contract,” Rikku
said as she got up to hug me.
“Good morning, Miss Katie!”
Sierra and Alice said in perfect unison. Sierra is a ten year old girl who was
turned into a cyborg as an experiment by her father. We didn’t adopt her, she just
came with Blake, one of Alex’s comrades, who decided to take care of her after
he rescued her.
“How many times do I have to tell
you,” I said grabbing Alice’s cheeks,” to call me ‘Mom’?”
She giggled and said,” Sorry Mom!”
“And Sierra, call me Auntie,” I
said grabbing her cheeks.
“Well what if I called you
grandma instead?” She proclaimed with a blank stare and emotionless tone.
This was followed by a long,
awkward silence.
“So,” I said walking behind the
kitchen counter, trying to change the conversation topic,” what do you all want
for breakfast.”
“CHEESE!” Alex yelled comically,”
FOR EVERYONE!!”
I gave him a look that told him
that I was not amused.
“How about pancakes and bacon?”
Rikku suggested.
“Yeah! Yeah! Pancakes and bacon!”
Sierra and Alice said, once again, in perfect unison.
“Well then it’s settled. Pancakes
and bacon it is. But first I need to talk to Alex about something,” I said
before I walked into the hallway, out of earshot from the kids.
“What is it?” he pondered as he
stood, smiling, next to me.
“It’s about Cameron,” I said.
At the mention of Cameron, his
smile immediately disappeared.
“She has been hunting us relentlessly ever
since I ran away. We’ve caused the deaths of so many people just by accepting
their hospitality. We have had to struggle and scrounge up the dirt just for
supplies. We’ve had to even accept contracts that we would have never accepted
otherwise. And this has been causing stress on all of us, not just me. Now,
sure you, Joy, Blake, Jack, Tony, Eddy, and Aidan are all used to this kind of
stress because of what you went through during the war, but the rest of us are
not.”
“Well what about Hikaru? He seems
to be doing just fine,” Alex interjected,” In fact, if anything, he’s been
excelling in these new kinds of jobs we’ve been taking.”
“Yeah, but the only reason he’s
able to handle that is because he’s used to it. When he and Rikku first lost
their parents, he had to take care of both himself and Rikku. He accepted jobs
from the Mafia, for God’s sake! But Alice, Rikku, and I are just not used to
this kind of pressure and are not able to deal with it,” I said.
“Wait, you just listed everyone
except Sierra,” Alex pointed out.
“Well, I mean, with Sierra, it’s
just,” I paused to poke my head around the corner to confirm that the kids were
still sitting at the table,” Sierra is just a cyborg! She hasn’t had many
emotions since we first rescued her!” I replied.
“What’s your point?!” Alex
demanded.
“My point is that it’s time we
stop running and hiding, and face her. Alex, I want to fight her so that I can
kill her,” I said as seriously as I could.
“Kate-“ Alex began to say.
“No! Alex, I can do this! You
know I can, you said yourself that I’m powerful enough for me to have been a
part of the 13 Gods of Holding!” I said.
“Look,” Alex interjected,” When I
said that, I was talking about Kat, not you. Speaking of which, did you even
talk to Kat about this? What does she have to say about all this?”
“Well, who the hell do you think
came up with the idea, hmm?” Kat said, my eyes turning a dark purple.
“Kat, I am trying to talk to Kate,
so could you please go?” Alex requested, annoyed.
“Ha ha ha ha, no. You see, I’ll
tell you the REAL reason Kate wants to do this: Revenge. Revenge for all that
she has done to us, revenge for all the innocent lives lost, revenge for the
suffering of the people Kate loves, revenge for what she did to Kate that has
been causing her to have all of these nightmares,” Kat explained.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, nightmares?
What nightmares?” Alex asked, curious.
“She didn’t tell you?” Kat said
as my cheeks turned red from embarrassment,” She has been having nightmares for
months now. Which is exactly why, after some time of me trying and failing to
counsel her on it, we have decided that the best course of action is to end
this.”
Alex sighed and thought about it
for a minute.
“Alright, fine,” he finally
said,” but under one condition.”
He leaned in to whisper into my
ear.
“Fair enough,” Kat said after he
finished telling us the ‘terms and conditions’.
“Good,” he replied,” now how’s
about we go eat some breakfast?”
I nodded in agreement before
following back into the kitchen, all while my eyes reverted back to their
normal color and I was given back control of my body.
“I’m ready. I can do this. I will
defeat her,” I repeated to myself to stay motivated.
I stood alone in the middle of a
barren and rocky wasteland on an uninhabited planet, exactly where I had agreed
to meet up with Cameron for our fight. The ground and giant boulders that shot
up into the sky like skyscrapers all looked exactly the same, being a very
light lavender color.
“Did you come alone?” Cameron
asked, appearing out of nowhere a few yards from me.
“Yes,” I answered,” did you?”
Cameron cackled insidiously. “Did
you really think I would be so dim-witted as to come without help to carry you
back with me?” she said as dozens of figures began to creep out of their hiding
places.
I gave her a sympathetic smile
and giggled. “Did you really think that my over-protective husband would let me
do something like this alone?” I retorted.
Behind me I heard them slink out
of the shadows: Aidan, being the Holder of Fire, lit flames in his hands; Joy
moved her hair out of the way of her left eye so that she could use her powers
as the Holder of Deception; Blake, the Holder of Devotion, drew out his katana;
Jack, the Holder of Strength, grew immensely in size and looked like a body
builder made of steroids; Tony, the Holder of Accuracy, cocking his guns;
Hikaru, the Holder of Water, covering his hands with water as though he had on
gloves with tentacles for fingers made of water; Eddy, the Holder of Speed,
getting into a pre-running position; and Alex, the Holder of Imagination and
Creation, walked up to stand beside me while materializing his scythe.
“I told you so,” Alex whispered
in my ear.
“Wait,” I said, confused,” what
do you mean? They’re just a bunch of scrubs.”
“No, they’re not,” Alex rebuttled,”
They’re Holders and SCP Users. Outcasts, deserters, and traitors from the war.”
“Well then,” I said as my eyes
turned purple and Kat took over,” Let’s get started.”
”Ready whenever you are, sweet
cheeks,” Cameron teased.
The
battle started with one of Cameron’s thugs, the Holder of Shadows, sprinting
towards us, then turning into a shadow on the ground, but not before Tony was
able to shoot him in the shoulder. From there, chaos ensued.
As Alex and the others kept
Cameron’s men distracted, Cameron and I fought away from their skirmish, and I
made the first move.
I morphed into a cheetah, and
began charging at Cameron.
She used her powers of
telekinesis to bring a massive boulder toppling to the ground, trying to block
my path, but I changed to a kangaroo just as I came to the boulder, leapt over
it, then changed back into a cheetah and continued my charge. But just as I was
about to reach her, she used another rock to smack me aside, and I fell to the
ground, back in my human form.
“Did you really think that that
was going to work?!” Cameron taunted,” I am the Holder of the Mind! I have
telekinesis! I can do anything!” She then threw up her arms, as if lifting
something, and behind her, rocks rose from the ground and floated in
midair.”Now, prepare to take your punishment!” she said before throwing her
arms, and the boulders followed.
I morphed into a mole, and
burrowed into the ground for cover. I dug around until I was right underneath
her, and I shot out of the ground at her while morphing into a lion, and with
my powerful jaw, I grabbed her left arm and tore it off.
She yelled in pain and agony,
then she used her right arm to lift up the piece of rock I was standing on, and
threw against a skyscraper boulder.
I barely managed to avoid being
crushed by turning into a rabbit and jumping off the rock as soon as she lifted
it up. When I hit the ground, I was a human again, only I now had cat ears, a
tail, and cat paws, and I used my claws to stop myself from moving. Then I turned
into a rhino and charged at her.
She tried to counter my charge by
throwing more boulders at me, but I smashed every one of them with my horn.
Then, I landed a hit on her, my horn now stabbing her in the stomach. She
pushed me away by flipping over the rock I was on, but as she did so, I turned
into an anaconda and slithered around her, constricting her. I tightened myself
around her as hard as I could, trying to make her guts spill out of her stomach
wound. When that didn’t work, I let go and turned into a gorilla. I knocked her
to the ground, stood on top of her, and raised my fist, poised to strike. The
look of absolute fear on her face was tremendously satisfying. Then, I let my
fist down upon her, pummeling her face in. After that I just couldn’t stop
punching. I lost all control and blacked out.
Suddenly I felt a hand resting on
my shoulder, and I spun around prepared to kill whoever or whatever was trying
to stop me.
But it was Alex.
The sight of his caring eyes
calmed me down, and I reverted back to my human form as my eyes changed back to
their normal cerulean blue. I looked at my now bruised fists, stained black red
with blood. Then I looked at where Cameron’s head used to be, and almost threw
up. The remains of her head were gruesome and horrendous. I felt a sharp
pinging sensation in my knuckles and inspected them, only to see that there
were pieces of Cameron’s skull lodged in my knuckles. But despite all of this,
I knew this did not make me a monster, it made me stronger.
I fell into Alex’s loving arms
from exhaustion.
“I told you so,” I retorted. I
then smiled and began crying tears of joy.
‘I finally did it,’ I thought to myself,’ I won.’
“Let’s go home,” Alex suggested.
“Okay,” I said.
“What
are we gonna do about that, sir?” Blake asked Alex as he approached the two,
not the least bit disgusted by the scene.
“Well,”
Alex said,” I guess we’ll just live it there for the vultures.”
“But
what about the Holder Item?” Tony asked, his Bostonian accent thicker than
ever,” I mean, we’re not just gonna leave it here for some poor guy to find it,
are we?”
As
Hikaru strolled over, he caught a glimpse of Cameron’s remains, the sight of
which made him vomit profusely.
“Alright everybody,” Alex said as he stood up
and carried Kate in his arms,” Let’s go home.”
“I’m
so tired,” I said faintly as I rested in his arms while carrying me back to the
ship.
“I
know Kate,” he said with regret in his eyes,” I know.”
“What’s
wrong?” I asked.
“I
haven’t seen anything that gruesome since the war,” he said, looking straight
ahead.
“Oh,
I’m sorry.”
“It’s
okay, Kate. It’s okay.”
And
then we went home.
