So Long and Goodnight

Gerard’s POV
When I hear the words leave her mouth I almost pass out. Lily hadn’t spoken for 12 years, and in within an hour Mr Holmon had managed to break her. Shatter her commitment with abuse.
She isn’t even looking up at us, she’s looking straight forwards, hugging her knees. Her arms and shoulders were bruised and blood flew from the gashes made in her skin. There were long red marks from where a whip had previously been. One her eyes was blackened and a laceration was underneath the other one that badly needed a stitching.
“Shxt, Lily, come here!” says Max, walking over and untying the binds. She shakes her head lightly and winces. “Fxcking hell.”
“It’s okay, come on, you’re away from him, now.”
He helps her up and she stumbles, nearly fainting. “Fxck, Gee, we have to take her to the nurse’s”
“The nurse’s? Really? We can’t do that, Max. Take her to the closet and clean up the wounds.”
“Gee, really,”
“Can you?”
He hesitates. It’s risky, but it’s a definite defeat if we take her to the nurses and we can’t come up with a reasonable explanation. Or, even worse, if they were to take her to the hospital. Fatal.
“I…I guess I could.”
“Thank you. I’ll make an excuse for why you’re not in school.”
He nods and sighs before lifting Lily’s arm carefully over his shoulders, and helping her to the art closet. I guess that’s our new hiding spot or something.
I check my watch. 10 past 8. Time for me to head to class. I start thinking hard as I begin walking towards my room. I have to act like nothing is going off. Not like the rest of the robots will notice.
But before I can think of anything else, I feel a sharp pain in my head, and everything goes black.
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Zepplin’s POV
Ridley and I are in class like nothing strange happened. I’ve had no sight of Max, Lily, Katie or Gerard since the beginning of this lesson. Katie was called out by a teacher from another class, and Gerard disappeared. We’ve got a substitute today.
I sigh and look back down at my work.
“Miss Brannigan, are we allowed to use charcoal?”
The teacher looks up from her monitor. “Yes, you can go get some from the storage closet.”
I stand up from my seat and go to the door. What’s the first thing I see when I open it? Max lying unconscious on the ground.
“Shxt.” I whisper to myself. I look over at Ridley and beckon her over. She comes over and sees what I’m currently looking at. I take a moment to compose my thoughts and whisper to Ridley.
“Meet me outside the door precisely two minutes from now.” I say. She looks at me questionably. “Miss Brannigan, can I go to the bathroom?”
“Sure.” She says, not even looking up again. I give Rid a quick nod before walking outside and waiting. Eventually, like I told her too, Ridley comes outside and shuts the door behind her.
“So what do you think’s going on?” she says.
“I have no fxcking idea.” I say. I’m not gonna lie, I’m scared shxtless. The halls are completely empty, and the silence is louder than a deafening roar.
“No sign of Mr Holmon.” I say. “I think we’re good. Come on, let’s go look for them.” I turn to go continue down the halls.
Each classroom’s either empty, or carrying on with their classes as normal. But suddenly, Ridley stops walking.
“Zepplin,” she says. “Do you smell something?”
I sniff the air, and try to focus on the scent. Smoke. At first I think that maybe he lit something on fire. “Come on.” I say, turning the opposite direction and following the scent. That’s when I see it. Smoke’s drifting out from the abandoned part of the hallway. They were supposed to be building extra rooms, but the whole thing just got abandoned, as well as the whole left side.
We both start following the trail of smoke and eventually come across the door it’s coming from. One of the abandoned rooms, not surprisingly. The smoke is coming from the inside, peeking out from under the bottom of the door.
“What the hell’s going on in there?!” says Ridley. I hear coughing.
“Anybody?” I hear a weak voice on the other side, coughing and breathing quickly.
“Fxck!” says Ridley.
It’s Katie’s voice. Shxt. My instincts hit me, I instantly ran up and kicked the door down as hard as I could.
Smoke floods out of the room. I run in and go over to the machine causing the smoke. It’s a padlock. I hit the hash key and hold the 1 button until it turns off. Simple hacking trick.
Ridley’s sitting near Katie, reading some papers.
“Where’s you get those?” I say, walking over to Katie on the ground.
“On the desk over there. She’s asthmatic.”
Shxt. I check her pulse. It’s rapid along with her breathing. But her breathing’s shallow too. She was practically whimpering. But all of a sudden, I hear a scream next door. Everything is happening now at the same moment.
“Ridley, go get who’s in the room next door, I’ll stay here with Katie.” I say.
She nods and goes next door. I tuck a piece of Katie’s hair away from her face and search in her pockets for an inhaler.
Then I hear it. A gunshot. Loud and clear. “Hold on, Katie.” I say, running out of the room and following the echo of the noise. Too many things happening. Lily’s lying beaten nearly to death on the ground, and Ridley’s lying on the ground with a bullet wound straight in her heart. And the gun’s in the hand of no other than Mr Steven Holmon.

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