Second Nature

“Blake you need to wake up, otherwise you’re going to miss all the fun baby.” I heard a familiar voice say softly from the side of me. I tried to open my eyes slowly until I realised that only one would. I tried to raise my hand to rub my face but quickly realised that wasn’t an option as I felt the rope around my wrists. I used my sense to figure out what was wrong with my eye and I realised I’d received a fair beating causing my eye to swell. I tried to sit back up but was instantly pushed back down by what I assumed by a foot.
“Nope only when I tell you can you sit up.” I boot on my shoulder pushed down harder as I groaned in pain. “Now I want you to try and focus your attention to the figure in front of you.” Zachary’s voice rang out as I tried to focus and that’s when I saw him. A slumped Frank tied against the same chair he was before. We were back in that god forsaken room. Back where it all started. “I thought we had a deal Blake. I thought we had an understanding. You were, no no scratch that, you are my best girl.” Zach spoke stroking my hair softly, “you still are my girl. And my girls don’t defy me. Now we’ve made this easier for you. He’s tied to a chair, unconscious so he won’t know or feel it all you have to do is aim and fire.” Zach spoke dragging me to my feet by my hair before a loaded gun was handed to him.
“Fuck you.” I croaked out as Ryan smacked me across the face, Zach still holding on to my hair as I spat out blood.
“Respect Blake.” Ryan spat at me.
“Sorry.” I mumbled looking back up at him. “Fuck you” I paused before adding “sir.” Which earned a punch in the stomach, Zach holding me up by hair once again.
“Blake. You will kill him.” Zach finally spoke once I’d recovered. He stood me up straight, cutting the rope that tied my hands together and placing the gun in them. His arms were lining the outside of mine, his hands holding mine on the gun, aiming at Frank’s head. “Whenever your ready baby.” He whispered in my ear nuzzling my neck. I barely had any strength, realising I had very little fight in me I considered my options. Anna had gone, Frank was sure to be killed what was I supposed to do?
“Blake please.” I heard the soft voice come from the slumped body belonging to Frank. I quickly looked over to him to see his dark eyes pleading with mine.
“You won’t win Zach. The wars already over.” I mumbled to him as he bit my neck causing me to cry out.
“I am going to win. You’re going to kill lover boy over there, then we’re going to make out connection official and then you will be locked in the house for betraying me. All the while thinking how you killed your one.” He whispered in my ear again as he continued to drink from me. “So stop his pain and shoot him already!” Zach screamed right next to my ear. I knew what he was doing, he was trying to scare me into shooting him.

I waited until he healed my neck for attacking. I wasn’t about to go down without a fight and if they wanted Frank dead, they would have to be the ones to do it. I struggled against his grip on the gun before pointing it above Frank’s shoulder shooting the masked man behind him. Ryan quickly pulled his gun out and Zach lost his grip on me, knowing he had never fired a gun then the shock would send him backwards, I kicked him down before running over to Frank and grabbing the liquid from his inside pocket, gun still in hand. “Now let me make this clear. This will kill me within 30 seconds of me taking it.” I spoke out, gun pointing at Zach, Ryan’s pointing at me as I popped the cork off the bottle with a pop. “You kill him I drink it.” I glared at them both as I held the bottle up. Zach looked at Ryan and nodded, him dropping his gun as I smirked.
“Blake you’re outnumbered. He can’t fight and you’re weak.” Zach spoke out as I continued to aim the gun at his head as I backed up to the guy who I’d just shot. Using my senses I realised he was vampire, bending I took in his wound before drinking the blood that was pouring from his shoulder. I cracked my neck and arms as my body started to quickly heal taking on the healing agents from the vampire as I smirked at Zach.
“You forget Zach you can’t fight either, so it seems it’s down to Ryan and I.” I smirked as I stood back up walking in front of Frank, adding a barrier between him and Ryan’s gun.
“How about it Ryan? You and me the old fashioned way. No guns, no knives, no other weapons. Just strength?” I spoke out staring at him as I heard Frank protest from behind me. He responded by dropping his gun on the floor and kicking it towards the door as I did the same. I made my way to the middle of the room, him following suit as we stared at each other. I stood there waiting for him to make his move, which he did with a nifty leg swing in my direction. As I’ve already said you can tell a lot by a person’s first move when it comes to a fight and I knew this was not Ryan’s strongest move. I quickly grabbed his ankle twisting it hard until I heard the satisfying crack of bone. I watched him fall the floor as I jumped on top of him, straddling his waist as I grabbed his right hand and giving his wrist the same treatment. I noticed Zach flinch at the sounds of breaking bones as well as Frank looking away, but I didn’t care. I was getting out of here alive. I was going to kill these two then the next on my agenda was Way himself.
“You bitch!” Ryan screamed out reaching for my hair quickly with his left hand and dragging my head down in order for him to flip us over so he was pinning me down. “Think you’re so smart don’t you Blake! Just remember who trained you!” He screamed in my face, hitting my wrists into the concreate as I watched him unravel in front of me. “I’d like to say I’m going to hate this but you don’t deserve a lie when you’re about to die.” He spoke smirking as I looked up at him.
“You did train me, you also taught me never to go on top of someone who’s stronger then you.” I smirked as I flicked my legs back so my calves wrapped around his neck, locking my uncles under his chin where his windpipe is as he struggled to unlock them as I pulled him back down so he was lying down, allowing me to stand up. I stood on either side of him as my foot pressed into his neck. “Kill or be killed right?” I looked down at him before kicking him across the room, head first to Zach’s feet.


“Check mate.” I smirked over to a worried looking Zachary. He quickly went for the guns that Ryan and I kicked across the room, as I to dove for them. He grabbed one backing up away for the door as he held the gun in my direction, me doing the same with my back to the door. I was about to pull the trigger when someone beat me too it. I saw him fall before I felt the pain as I looked down seeing the blood pouring from my stomach as a scream came out from behind me. I fell to the floor on my knees in proper movie style, my hands covering the wounds as I flopped down, lay on my left still staring at Zachary, who was struggling for breath. Just then a pair of feet and legs came into my view as the legs owner bent down I heard her cry “Zach baby I’m so sorry I didn’t realise it would go through her. I did this for you.” She whimpered holding his head in her lap stroking his hair. I could feel myself losing consciousness but not before getting a look at the girls face.
“Edith.” I breathed out before it all went black.

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