Monday, April 12th, 50XX
Elliot's thrown into solitary, still handcuffed. His been here before, but the circumstances far different. Last time he was here, Kiera and Maxis was with him.
They all confessed their love for eachother and agreed to all date. That's when he learnt what the term Polyamarous meant. His heart thumps.
He misses them, they don't know Elliot loves them. He loves Nadine to, but if he had to pick, he wants Maxis and Kiera more.
Nadine's a pretty and intelligent girl. She deserves the world, she deserves everything, she deserves better than the cards the world dealt her and needs more than what Elliot can actually give her.
He can love her, but it will never be enough. Not while his stuck bouncing around in time. They could never settle down, get married, have kids.
All things Nadine wants at the end of the day. He couldn't give Maxis and Kiera that either. Then he hears a sound interrupting him from his thoughts.
It's Bobby coming in, carrying a tray of food.
"Hey, Elliot. Thought you might be hungry."
"Bobby."
"Er, yes?"
"Why do you ignore your co-workers? You rarely talk to them."
When Elliot was here with Maxis, Bobby was so open and spent alot of time talking with them and others held prisoner here.
"Because we have nothing in common. They're just here for the money. Yes, I want the money. But there is also experience to be gained from this.
I know, I know. It's messed up."
Well, his eager to chat it up with Elliot now, but holds back his studying nursing. That's the most his gotten out of Bobby since himself and Kaylee have been here.
"What's going to happen to me?"
"Uh, I think you're going to be sedated and moved out of here soon. We're evacuating essential personal and the most pricy individuals from The Collection."
"And after that? What is RING going to do to me?"
"I don't know, sorry. That lies with Dion and Gavin. Your fate will be their decision. Now, eat up. I have to go, I'm sorry."
And Bobby turns and leaves, the door locking.
Elliot lies there not touching his food when something catches his eye just. Peering closer at his food is a small tool.
This could be used to force the door. Thank you, Bobby... But first, the handcuffs. He gets to work, unlocking them and then moves onto the door.
It slides open an inch. This always happens... Elliot has to squeeze through, this bruising his ribs slightly when he hears arguing.
Kaylee and her dick ex-boyfriend. He follows the noise and comes to a room off the main hall, labelled PRIVATE. He peers in just enough to see what is going on.
Kaylee's handcuffed down to a gurney, a tube in her nose. Johnathan is nearby in a chair, typing away on a laptop.
"You don't have to do this, Johnthan."
"Kaylee, stop it, please. I am trying to concentrate. If you keep this up, I'll fetch a doctor again and they can give you a sedative. You've already injured your wrists and ankles straining against the handcuffs."
"Because you bought me and let them put a fucking NG tube down my throat!"
"You are underweight though. The whole time you've been here, according to Dion, you've barely eaten."
"I hate you."
Johnathan gets fed up and doesn't respond anymore, ignoring Kaylee as he furiously types away when his eyes light up.
"Well, would you look at that. Your boy toy is a member of the U.S Military. Some covert special op's team."
"You cannot tell, Dion. And Elliot is not my boy toy! His just my friend, that is it! Johnathan, please. Delete what you just found out, you don't have to tell Dion."
"I have to."
"No, you don't."
"Kaylee, you're in no position to bargin-"
"I'll marry you. We can have a 3rd baby, I'll keep this one. We can keep this one. You can pick their name!"
Johnathan is silent.
"Please. Just don't tell RING what you learnt, they'll have him chopped up for spare parts. Alive, he'll be considered too dangerous. The Military won't stop pursuing RING till they find Elliot.
And me? You and me, we can just dissapear. To somewhere tropical. You create whole new identity's all the time."
Johnathan bites his lip.
He places his laptop down, hands on his hips, thinking hard. Now his guard is down and his back is facing Elliot. He can take him down from behind and does so with ease, Johnathan being knocked out unconsciouss.
Kaylee looks to Elliot. "You took your sweet time."
"Sorry."
"Just uncuff me. Johnathan has the key."
Elliot finds it with ease and unlocks Kaylee. "Uh, what do we do about-"
"I'm a Doctor, it will be easy to remove this tube."
"But it will hurt."
"Not alot of choice here right now, Elliot."
And she pulls it out, gagging. Once it's out, she swings her feet to the floor. Walking to Johnathan's body, she finds his mobile phone easily.
"Kaylee. What are you doing?"
But it's too late, she's already dialed a number.
"911 Ontario. Proceed, please."
"My name is Kaylee Vaughn. I've just been kidnapped by a international human trafficking company called RING. They're planning to sell me and they have hundreds, if not thousands of others here who have been kidnapped off the streets all over the world.
And some of us who aren't lucky enough to be sold as slaves, their organs are harvested."
And she reads off their exact address, telling the operater where RING is located in the mountains.
"Help will be sent to you, Kaylee. Is their a safe place you can get to? A door that locks?"
"I'll try." Kaylee tells the operator and then ends the call. "We're not waiting around for the Police." She tells Elliot, taking the handcuffs and locking Johnathan to the base of the gurney.
She then steps on his phone, breaking in and kicks it to the other side of the room when they hear a scream, two screams.
"That sounds like Nadine!" Elliot panics. "She sounds scared."
"And the other is Bonnie." Kaylee adds on, taking a gun from Johnathan's back pocket. "Come on."
He runs after her, the two going down another hallway, rather isolated. They make it to the medical room where Nadine made out with Elliot in the previous timeline.
And the sight of what is happening is horrible. Bonnie's handcuffed to a gurney, half naked, gagged and opposite to her is Gavin, pants down having his way with Nadine, hands handcuffed behind her back.
Kaylee holds the gun out to Elliot, his hands shake and he can't take it. Kaylee shrugs and decides it's up to her to do what Elliot can't.
She aims the gun and pulls the trigger. Blowing Gavin's brains out. "Pervert." She says.
"Kaylee-"
"Elliot, shut up!" She says coldly. He panics a little. She's changing, sounding alot like her evil self. Are some things going to revert back now that Elliot changed the timeline?
Wait, does that mean he will get Hanahaki? That the people who died will end up dying again. Allie, Derrick, Kade, Maxis and Kaylee.
Kiera will end up pregnant, and alone while mentally unwell. Then he gulps. And he'll die too, he only starved Hanahaki off for so long.
"I have some lines I draw, Elliot."
He doesn't know if he should believe her. "Excuse me!" Nadine calls out.
"Mmph!" Bonnie manages through her gag. "Uh, what do we do with them?" Kaylee asks. Elliot looks between both of them.
"Look, I don't care what's going on between us, but the Police will soon be on our door. We are evacuating soon and Gavin just..." Nadine starts to tear up.
"Elliot, get us out of here, please."
He needs more time to figure out what to do, and he loves her, but also he isn't going to let RING get away from this. She's personally cut up so many people. Something Nadine hasn't done.
He breaks Nadine's handcuffs and helps her down, giving her his shirt. Walking over to Bonnie, he removes her gag.
"Thank you." She says.
But then he takes a step back. "Elliot?" Bonnie says worried.
"I'm sorry. But you'll be saved soon, I promise." He says, taking a coat from a chair and wraps it around her.
Kaylee takes the additional gun that is also on Dion's body, handing it to Nadine as Elliot's to scared to touch one.126Please respect copyright.PENANAdfxGQCWBKl
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And our three head out the room "Elliot! Nadine!" Bonnie screams in fear, watching them leave. During escaping, they run into someone unexpected. Elliot falls to the ground having run head first into Levi.126Please respect copyright.PENANAWRsgMnxLH1
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Vincent's old friend and co-worker from before Vincent enlisted. He was a parcel driver before. In the previous timelime he met Levi, but it was only briefly.126Please respect copyright.PENANA8JuVYeFVCN
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Levi looks worried like his going to be killed. On his arm is a handcuff hanging off, one side broken open and his arm bloody.
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He looks at Nadine worried. "You're the least of my problems right now. Do what you want." Nadine says, unhappy, walking away from Levi, Kaylee following.126Please respect copyright.PENANA1S4OvbxOgD
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"Wait! I know Vincent, I can't leave you here. I owe him one and what kind of person am I if I leave you here? Not a hero that's for sure. Come with us, we're escaping.126Please respect copyright.PENANAnMTJA4FasK
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Police and the Military, FBI are going to be all over this place soon." Elliot tells Levi, taking his injured hand. Levi looks at him sad, but smiles a little.126Please respect copyright.PENANAHLxuXnp6ub
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Elliot pushes him to walk with them. "So, who do you work for?" Nadine asks. 126Please respect copyright.PENANADkwQwREuVX
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"U.S Military..." Elliot responds, trailing off. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAEl1WNWcPW0
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"Kaylee. How did this happen?" Nadine adds on. "It's a long story." Kaylee responds, face showing minor confusion, but also fear.126Please respect copyright.PENANACo4zK9FVXX
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"So, where are we headed?" Levi speaks up.126Please respect copyright.PENANAGYjpCeaOk3
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"Carpark. Escaping I guess? Look, I'm tired all right and helping every one of you right now should against my better judgement.126Please respect copyright.PENANAzc781Bx0cg
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I'm turning my back on RING. Some of my best friends are here. I just left Bonnie, Bobby and others behind." Nadine responds, leading them there to a underground one so they can snag a car.126Please respect copyright.PENANAcJxXckEgX6
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They chose the truck closest to the entrance and Elliot breaks the window, a rag over his hand so it doesn't get to injured. Once they're in, he breaks open the area under the steering wheel, hotwiring it.126Please respect copyright.PENANACX6F7QFjGg
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"That is not something the Military teaches." Nadine says.126Please respect copyright.PENANAGQpWJS7oKR
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"Yeah. Cause I and two others who we're really young still went to jail for Dion and Gavin. My parents left me, I had no one. I've learnt and done alot of things I'm not proud of.126Please respect copyright.PENANAle4Hjt1SRu
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And now? There will never will be the words or enough opportunities to tell my General how sorry I am. His more than just a General, our General, my Genereal.126Please respect copyright.PENANAoCDkDpOCD9
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He is a Leader, a Dad."126Please respect copyright.PENANALDmK556rfH
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"Our?"126Please respect copyright.PENANApZjM6FmYVq
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"My friends I left behind. Maybe one day you can meet them. Though, technically you already have met one of them and you harmed her. She will never be alright ever again."126Please respect copyright.PENANAeZKmw3vOLz
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"Who?"126Please respect copyright.PENANAtLzm8YbHEp
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"Kiera Bailey."126Please respect copyright.PENANABWfAxSKXQR
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Nadine looks to Kaylee. "Shit."126Please respect copyright.PENANAs9fs2REHSI
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"Yeah. Kiera when she escaped from here ended up running into the U.S Military. Some Special Op's Covert Taskforce. It's how she met Elliot." Kaylee says.126Please respect copyright.PENANAwfZCmZtXyO
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When the truck turns on, our group close the doors, and Elliot hits the gas. Nadine hitting a button on the dash which remotly opens the door.
I speed out, eyes widening immediatly on everyone when they see the Military and Police are already here and they are heading right for Derrick, Adam's twin. There is no time to swerve and Elliot prays he survives. They crash into him, the screams of his friends as they drive off in the snowstorm. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAykRbS8yjl8
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No one follows them, unprepared to chase after them. Adam clutches his brothers body, screaming as Vincent, Thea and Allie run up to him, General Peterson in tow.126Please respect copyright.PENANAJvKQ8jQrBS
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"Was that Elliot and Kaylee?!" Vincent asks.126Please respect copyright.PENANAFwnwTxO88D
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"Fuck!" General Peterson says watching the van drive off into the distance. He then looks at Derrick who is good as dead. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAuKMeltPtqe
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"Someone get a damn body bag." General Person says annoyed, then Officer Clara Green walks up to him. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAgyJRO7hAjm
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"....We're ready to go in. Are you guys? Also, there was a 911 call from inside. Kaylee Vaughn, but I see she's gone now. I-I promise you we'll track them down. But for now, let's bust open this human trafficking company." 126Please respect copyright.PENANA5oswoQS4Yu
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And they start their raid. Hundreds, thousands are escorted outside. Staff and victims, plenty of dead bodies found as well. Vincent with Allie heads down the corridors of RING's complex when they hear screaming. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAHLXvEKXbE5
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"Someone! Help me, please!"126Please respect copyright.PENANAw9MCTaDelo
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They enter a small room off the main corridor and Vincent almost chokes, turning around. Allie approaches a young woman handcuffed to a gurney, jacket over her chest. "Are you okay? What happened to you? What's your name?" She asks, fiddling with the handcuffs.126Please respect copyright.PENANArO38DohnQd
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"Hey, Vincent!" She calls out "What ya need?" He calls back, not daring to turn around. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAsUEgbwzBVn
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"Something to break these handcuffs with. Also, some clothes." 126Please respect copyright.PENANA6vAhzs9u7O
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Allie then turns back to the women. "What's your name? You're safe now. The Police are here. What happened to you?"126Please respect copyright.PENANAOeku0mWDon
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The women doesn't say anything, shaking when Thea enters the room with a tool. Vincent called her. "Hey, was told you needed to cut cuffs?" She approaches Allie, handing it to her who cuts the handcuffs.126Please respect copyright.PENANAobwnrmEKrf
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"Can you go find some clothes? They're has to be some spares around here. The coat she has isn't enough." Allie asks Thea who starts poking around while the young woman shivers, now standing, to scared to move. 126Please respect copyright.PENANARdetQPW7Wp
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"Found some!" Thea calls, but then is silent. She comes back holding some, ID clipped to the shirt with a photo.126Please respect copyright.PENANA4I3o9Jmjoj
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"Allie, she isn't a victim. She's Staff." Thea says, holding up the ID - Bonnie Desmond, Surgical.126Please respect copyright.PENANAamfjd6Qfpw
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"What?!" Vincent says annoyed, turning around no longer caring. "But if she's Staff, why was she handcuffed to the bed?"126Please respect copyright.PENANAoKsLj9u66c
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"Did it to herself? You shoulda thrown your ID out the window into the snow. Then we'd never find it, Bonnie." Allie lectures.126Please respect copyright.PENANA6wvNiApWXS
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"He wanted to play with us, he was bored." Bonnie finally speaks. "What? Us? Was someone else here?" Vincent adds on. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAxioiGrLS0n
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Bonnie nods despretly. "Who? And where did they go?" Vincent demands. 126Please respect copyright.PENANAtn39x8pLgW
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"Ah, no! Be more gentle. If she's a rape victim, Vincent-" Allie starts.126Please respect copyright.PENANAjV157eQu4o
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"Spare me the dramatics, Allie! I get it, you're EX abused you which is why you tried to walk into traffic infront of us-"126Please respect copyright.PENANALCbRvVvAjY
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"Not now, both of you!" Thea shouts, shutting both of them up.126Please respect copyright.PENANAUBdGnnmA1N
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"T-they left me. Also, Johnthan is in the room. He moved Gavin's body." Bonnie speaks up.126Please respect copyright.PENANAkGwGHiyOXe
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"You bitch!" Comes a voice from a cupboard. Thea and Vincent pull it open to find an older man in there, handcuffs hanging off one hand and Gavin's dead body falls to the floor in front of them.126Please respect copyright.PENANAgkIiyvT3dM
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They don't look amused, they barely react.126Please respect copyright.PENANADsdvEMtqvW
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"Did you kill this man?" Thea asks.126Please respect copyright.PENANAFsYB8kp6kp
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"No. And I was freaking knocked out and handcuffed. I escaped, but it was to late by then so cut your crap, U.S Military.126Please respect copyright.PENANAyEcC3vyt4Z
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I know you're here for Elliot and my ex-girlfriend. They're long gone."126Please respect copyright.PENANAd2VBblBlgX
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"We know, they ran one of us over. His now dead." Vincent says pissed. "So, who killed this man? What his name?"126Please respect copyright.PENANANTXpKKhYhj
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"My ex. And this dead fucker is Gavin."126Please respect copyright.PENANAhlf1YhIU1q
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"Kaylee Vaughn?"126Please respect copyright.PENANA1rJg8xvOEw
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"And what is your full name? You got ID on you?"126Please respect copyright.PENANAz0JIaMik33
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Johnathan has no choice, but to hand over his real ID as Bonnie spilled his first name.126Please respect copyright.PENANANjYPcXekWd
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"Jonthan Bail- Oh, shit." Vincent says, pocketing Johnathan's ID. I'm taking you to my Genereal. Turn the fuck around." And he handcuffs Johnthan forcing him to walk.126Please respect copyright.PENANAO0MEcGyT1J
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"Come on, Bonnie. I'm sorry to do this, but it will be temporary. I promise." Allie handcuffs Bonnie and Thea helps Allie lead Bonnie out of the room, following Vincent with Johnthan. They'll send someone else in fetch this Gavin's dead body.126Please respect copyright.PENANArGpqtwIis3
They exit out into the snow together with Johnthan and Bonnie. Bonnie is shivering from the lack of clothing. There wasn't the time to have her get dressed.
When they see Clara facing their direction, gun drawn. They panic for a minute, but realize it's not aimed at them, rather than the person standing in front of them.
"You monster!" Clara screams. She's shaking with rage. "Clara." Says General Peterson coming over to her. "Give me the gun."
"No."
Her boyfriend, her fiance is standing in-front of her, hands raised. "Bobby..." Bonnie calls out.
Be looks briefly over his shoulder. "Miss, please don't kill him." Bonnie manages to ask.
"Who is she?" Clara asks. "Other than working for a human trafficking company, what else don't I know?! Are you cheating on me?! I'm never going to forgive you for this!"
"Miss, please-"
"That's Officer Johnson to you!" Clara shouts, changing from the name she was using, Green back to her maiden name.
"Clara, please-" Bobby starts.
"I don't want to hear it!"
"Clara, listen to me. Shit is stressful right now, if you give me your gun, we can arrest him alongside everyone else and you can get some sleep and food. You've been pulling double shifts." General Peterson tells her.
She lowers her gun and Adam handcuffs Bobby. "Are you cheating on me?" She asks.
"No, I'm not. I sware that's the truth." Bobby tells her.
"Clara..." Bonnie begins. Clara doesn't respond, just glaring.
"I must prefer older men. Much older."
General Peterson looks at hinself. "Yeah, I'm out. Goanna bounce now." He laughs causing Clara to burst out laughing. She wipes a tear.
"I wasn't fucking expecting that."
"I know, so let's go. Get everyone out of here and we can begin to process this mess when someone comes running out of the building, Dion, alive and unharmed.
Immediatly there is guns trained on him. "Leader!" Bonnie cries out. He looks in her direction, than back ahead, scared to move. Someone goes behind him, handcuffing him.
General Peterson walks straight up to Dion. "Are you the one in charge of this whole operation?"
Dion bites his lip, struggling to find the words. He gulps. "Fine. Let's see what your staff have to say about it then." General motions, and Bobby and Bonnie and pushed in his direction.
"You called him Leader, Bonnie. Why?"
"Because he is..." She trails off. "And Bobby? Who is he?"
"Dion Cohen. His the one in charge, Sir."
"Well, would you look at that! They both are saying you're in charge."
"Shut your mouths, or I will ruin your lives!" Dion hisses annoyed.
"It's too late for that!" Bonnie and Bobby both yell at him together, but then Bonnie coughs, blood coming out of her nose and spilling all over the snow, staining it blood red and Bobby coughs blood and white roses.
They look at each other shocked. "What just happened to them?" Vincent asks confused.
"I feel sick..." Bobby says, trailing off. "Uh, we'll get you both a doctor when we get back to Canada's base of operations." General Peterson says, looking worried.
Everyone is pushed into vans and evacuated. Clara walks over to General Peterson. "Did my boyfriend, well- Ex-boyfriend just vomit white roses?"
"I take it you are calling off the wedding now?"
"Uh- maybe? This sort of thing, I love him, but I love being a Police Officer and when I was a kid, becoming one was all I dreamed of. And getting married. Bobby's becoming a nurse, Mr Peterson.
How can I be with someone who broke the law, really hurt innocent people. He can't become a Nurse if he has the darkness in his heart to do the things he has proably done.
We have financial troubles, but surely that is not the reason he did this. I hope, weddings are expensive... But I took an oath to help people, I help people every day.
How can I find it in my heart to forgive him for this?"
"You don't. If it truly goes against what you believe in."
"This feels like to much to deal with right now."
"You should get some sleep, Clara. Go home, we'll still be here when you awaken." He says, putting his hand on her shoulder. She looks at him closely.
"You remind me of my Sergeant. You both have the same personality. If you ever don't want to be a General no more, you could always try a hand at being a Sergeant. Maybe make that your semi-retirement plan."
"You're funny. Go to bed, Clara. That's an order." He laughs.
"Yes, Sir!" She laughs.
She turns to leave, then stops short. "But Bobby vomited rose petals."
"I think I know why. Because he just lost you. White roses are often used in weddings. We can get him medical treatment for this. It's an illness he now has."
"And the girl he was close with? You don't think he is cheating, right?"
"I don't think he is. You heard yourself, she said she prefers men my age." He laughs. "But that blood that came out of her nose. If you observed closer, the redness around her eyes and the acne all over her face and many other symptoms.
She's taken something a few times, or on something repeatedly. I think I know what, she will need her stomach pumped. It's called Merge. A black market drug for the most part.
It does have it's uses in the healthcare industry, but it requires a judge to agree as it's extremely controlled, small doses only.
You're just a police officer and not working for any kind of special division is why you don't recognize the symptoms."
"What kind of division?"
"A detective. The drug industry."
She thinks for a second. "The most I have ever done is write speeding tickets. Being here is shocking, you just blew open a human trafficking scheme."
"Maybe you should expand your horizons, Clara. See the world for what it really is, the good, the bad and the ugly. Take off the rose tinted glasses if you couldn't imagine people like your fiance doing something so horrible.
Because life has taught me that even your closest friends will deceive you and in a crowd of people there will always be some either robbed a house, nearly killed their sister, committed insurance fraud, committed manslaughter, lied to the U.S Military about their real identity or was truant and disrespecting their father and others who funneled drugs."
She looks at him. "Well, that was oddly specific..."
"Get some sleep, Clara."
And he walks away to go debrief his team.
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