AIDAN
I hide behind a tree watching Agent Rebecca London walk in Sergeant Chase’s cabin with one of her guys. 10 minutes pass by but she is not out yet. I move closer, my heart slamming against its cage.
I didn’t know what I would find but I kept going. I picked my head through the door to see Agent Rebecca talking on the phone while she was knelt down over a bruised body that belonged to Sergeant Chase. She was not moving
“No…” I whispered budging inside the cabin running towards Sergeant Chase. Someone tried to grab me but I pushed them off so hard their body slammed against the wall.
I knelt down in front of Sergeant Chase’s body, there were so many bruises on her body. Her nose appeared broken and her face had gashes.
“I’m here” I pushed my arms under her body and brought half her body on my lap.
She opened her swollen eyes and looked down where her hand was holding. I followed her eyes to notice an object used to stab her a bit above the stomach.
“Ch-Chase…” I cuddled her face in my palm. Her hair that was always in a bun was sticking to her neck.
“B..baby…” She struggled to let out the simple word.
Her breath was heavy. She raised her bloody hand but she was too weak. I grabbed it and held it against my face. Tears ran down my cheeks as we looked at each other.
I could have screamed for Agent Rebecca to call an ambulance but I would be losing the final minutes with the only person who i loved deeply. In moments like these it hurts to love.
“Don’t talk. Listen to me” I stroked bloody lips shut. She coughed still looking in my eyes.
“I love you. I know you love me. Too much I must admit you love me too much. We had a very short time together, how could I possibly know you love me?.” I smiled through my tears as she struggled to keep her eyes open.
“I know you love me because you would do anything for me. Your actions were a thousand words better than 70 date nights and all the cliche romantic stories. I am only hurt that…” My throat was strained with so much pain, I had to breath in.
“I wish we had more time so I could show you how much I love you the way you have done for me” I pushed her neck closer to me and brought our lips together.
The mixture of my tears and hers brought a bitter metallic taste but I didn’t care.
“So if after life is real. We will start by getting married and making more memories than.. than we did now” I tried smiling through my pain.
I want her to see me smile before she close her eyes.
“We will have a home, we will have kids and you will keep our family safe because you are really good at that…”
Her eyes started to close and I memorized every part of them. Every part of her.
“You did it Sergeant Chase. You kept me safe” I sobbed as she took her last breath.
My face in her bruised neck as I held on as much as I could. Her body lost its warmth in my arms. I could feel my soul leave with her. I lost her. I held her tightly as the orange glow of a setting sun shined through the small window of her bedroom.
And that was the last time I felt safe.
I cried because she was there. I was in her arms but soon Dawn showed up and I was too out of it to hear anything. Her last word to me was Baby.
Her Baby.
Everywhere I looked at the camp, I saw images of her start to fade. From the barracks I first saw Sergeant Chase and she commanded us to wake up way too early.
The Training grounds where she had us doing insane exercises with no mercy. Her hands behind her back in set of dominance, control.
The forest where Sergeant Chase challenged me for a race and I lost because I didn’t know the short cut. The Lake, where we sat down and talked one on one for the first time. Where she saved me from those boys.
The mountain, behind it where I gave myself to her for the first time. The shooting range, the gym, the simulation ground.
I found myself in a car looking out the window seeing the building where she gave us a challenge. We almost kissed then. The marching ground we covered around town.
My eyes blurred as the car drove out away. I didn’t even know whose car or where I was being taken. I felt so much pain, my heart hurt so much. I felt fear all around me.
And when I looked down at my hands, I noticed I was holding something. My hands still had her blood on them. I felt my body moving, out of the car. It was like I was not in my own body.
My body moved to a room where It laid down. I stared down at the bloody key Sergeant Chase left in my hands. I gripped on it as I laid wherever I was. I had no idea. I just laid there not seeing anything.
I wanted to scream and cry.
It wasn’t fair.
How can the first person to ever love me be taken away from me when I had just got her. I just got her and she was gone. For the first time, I had forgotten how shitty life was. I saw a future that made me nervous and excited.
An apartment with Sergeant Chase. Just the two of us like she promised me the night we talked about it. I told her I was messy and she told me she would take care of me.
Of everything.
Sergeant Chase just wanted to take care of me. To love me the way she knew how to love. She treated me like I was…like the most important person to ever exist. She kept me safe.
I started thinking that it was my fault.
One of those people, those Generals. One of them was responsible for her death if not all of them. I felt rage numb the pain. My world completely dark.
She was gone.
Sergeant Chase was gone.
I felt my eyes get so tired and I start to fall asleep. I felt more tears leave my eyes as I closed them.
It’s so noisy. Where am I?.
“Ch..chase?”
“Shh, focus on me baby”
I feel her hands around me. I feel dizzy. But I was never drinking.
“Y..yes” I feel my mouth move.
“Good girl”
Then i giggled.
“There is a library in Melbourne, Australia. It’s called Fantasy Palace. Are you listening baby?”
I feel my body being pushed against a tree. We are in the forest. I have been here before.
“Yes, Fantasy Palace. Melbourne, Aus…Australia” I repeat after Sergeant Chase.
“Good. When you get there tell the librarian what I told you about heros. She will give you something important.”
“But..but won’t you come with me?. We are moving in together?”
I feel my mouth moving. I don’t understand what is going on. It seems real.
“I am not sure if I will survive the night babygirl. You just keep yourself alive with your team members”
I remember Chase is gone.
“No, no you are going to be okay. No!” I move to grab her but my hands meet with air and I feel like I’m falling down
“Chase!” I jumped my heart beating like crazy. I lay back down curling myself in a ball when I remember Chase is gone.
“Aidan…” Someone calls my name. A woman’s voice.
“I understand you must be in so much pain. Losing someone you must have loved only for a short time. To have all your plans shuttered by something so unexpected.”
I raised my head and tried to open my swollen burning eyes. I saw a woman sitting on a chair facing me. Her hair was black running down her shoulders. There was no sympathy or warmth in her.
She appeared cold.
“I’m sorry for your loss”
My throat hurt. The pain inside me consumed me to the point it felt physical. I couldn’t speak. I tried to check where I was. I was on a bed, in a room with green walls.
“I asked Agent Rebecca London to bring you here because you have something I want. The hard drive your Sergeant transferred all the information of your fellow trainees. I need you to give it to me”
What hard drive?.
The woman must have seen my surprised expression.
“Look, Sergeant Chase died because of that hard drive. The people who killed her, they were looking for the last copy and something tells me you know where the drive is”
I close my eyes remembering the dream. A faint memory that felt like Deja vu. Sergeant Chase, music and noise. She was telling me something. A location. When did Sergeant Chase tell me about Australia and a library?.
Tell the story I told you about heroes.
“If you tell me where the drive is. I will give you the name of the man who ordered the execution of Sergeant Chase” The woman proposed.
Why did she want the drive so bad?.
“W.who are you?”
I blinked sitting up.
“My name is Lauren Hope. I run an assassin organization. I am the reason the vice president is looking for protection. He killed my daughter” She pushed a picture of a young girl around the age of 12.
They looked so alike.
“Why do you need the hard drive?”
“It contains locations of more illegal military bases and the location of where he is hiding. I can’t keep killing kids. I have to stop the recruites so I can get to him.”
I sat there looking in the cold eyes of a stranger. She lost her daughter and I lost my future. Maybe I could find a way to move forward. This is an opportunity.
“I will tell you where the drive is on 3 conditions”
“Sure, name your price” The woman didn’t even hesitate.
“First, I want you to send the drive to the military system after you get your information. All recruites must be registered in the army except my name. I want my name off the list”
“That can be arranged”
“Second I want the people who were physically present in the cabin. The people who hurt her. I want them all to myself”
“Fair enough”
“Lastly, I want to join your organization. I have nothing to lose anymore”
“Weren’t you trying to be a soldier?”
“Nobody is worth saving. I would burn the whole nation myself if it brought Chase back. What does that say about me as a soldier?”
“You got yourself a deal Aidan.”
â—â—â—
I went to Brazil with my new boss and I collected the hard drive and a message Chase left for me in a separate file. I didn’t have the courage to open it. All 244 trainees were recorded in the system and their lives as soldiers went on.
I became an assassin. Most would say I was ruthless. Heartless but Lauren found me as the perfect weapon. I didn’t care. I had nothing to lose.
She gave me the names of the generals who managed to twist the system and got themselves out of jail. I paid them all a visit including Senior Shepherd. I gave them all a slow painful death.
All my love for Sergeant Chase kept my wound fresh. I could not move on. I had tried everything but I was still in love with her. I found the door of the key Chase gave me. It was her apartment .
That became my permanent home.
All 6 of my friends were still alive though Sureya and Maddie were bound to wheelchairs after a bombing during a mission. We all had scars after 7 years in our line of work.
“I still don’t understand how you are an assassin. That was my dream job” Dawn glared at me.
“Well my dream was getting married and death by a bullet in my guts during risky sex with Chase but you know life doesn’t give a fuck about your dreams” I spat with a blank face.
“You are a firefighter and an assassin Aidan. All you have to do is let go of Sergeant Chase and love back the woman who is crazy about you” Alice reasoned but I ignored her words.
“It’s been seven years since her death. Seven years of Lauren being in love with you without receiving anything back. She does everything to show you her love. Why can’t you let go of Chase?”
Lola softly spoke as she always did when trying to convince me of something.
“Sergeant Chase would want you to move…” Maddie began but I cut her off from saying that bullshit.
“Shut up! It’s my life and my heart. I can never love anyone else as long as I’m alive. I’m hers and that’s that. Chase was beyond possessive, no she would not want me to move on. Now if you are done being in my business, you can leave and go to your husbands, wives and partners.”
I slam my cup down the counter and storm out of the room.
I get that they care about me but I am satisfied with where I am. I know a lot of people move on years later but I gave away my heart to Chase. And she gave me hers to keep. I could still feel her all over me seven years later.
I opened a real training base at the same location I trained with Sergeant Chase. It is a camp where people who want to be strong, be able to fight for themselves come to. I do the picking. I choose abused wives or abused kids above 16 or those facing bullying.
Then my people approach them and we train them for 60 days. When they leave, they are strong enough to fight their demons. I named the program, Camp Chase because she transformed me into who I am now.
My phone rings and I know who it is.
“Boss”
“I told you to call me by my name Aidan. Please” Lauren complained.
“No”
I hear her sigh. I know she is in love with me but I will never do anything to lead her on or play with her feelings. I make sure to keep things between us strictly professional. Though she does things for me that are not professional. I don’t even know how the cold heartless woman fell in love.
“Oh okay. I was just calling to give you a job. I sent you the profile. Must be done in broad day light during a press. Our client want to set an example” Lauren informed.
“Got it” I state down at my next target’s picture.
“Are you coming for dinner?” She suddenly asked already aware I will say no. I hate that no matter how many times I have told her no, she keeps trying.
Lauren is relentless.
“No” I hang up before she begs me into going over for dinner.
I go everyday hoping that it will be my last then I will finally be together with Chase. Maybe if we spend time together for longer I would have accepted her death and moved on. But I didn’t want to move on. I could never stop loving Chase.
And besides, I preferred guns in my pussy over store bought sex toys. Chase knew how to fuck me right.
Fuck I miss you Sergeant Chase.
The End
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