chapter nine (part two)

Annabelle

The baby was crying and trapped under Rosas body, a bullet had grazed my leg and screams were filling my ears along with the shouts coming from Reaper and a few others but my eyes were fixed on my sister, i had managed to jump over Ronaldo when the bullets started flying. My hands searching his body knowing full well that he would have weapons on him because he never went anywhere unarmed.

I pulled out the .38 revolver from behind him and cocked it quickly as i turned around and shot the man coming our way right in the left leg, a scream passing his lips but the second bullet i fired hit him square in the head. I crawled to Rosa and over the woman who lay dead next to her, the baby's screaming was slightly muffled as i pushed Rose to her side, her face was slack but her breathing was faint as she held onto the baby's body weakly, her chest rising and falling as she lay still. Leaving Rose there i grabbed the baby and pressed the crying infant to my chest and ran towards the woods, my ears ringing as the firing of bullets were heard behind me along with voices.

"Get the bitch!"

I ran past the pain in my leg and further into the woods, I ran so much my side was starting to hurt from breathing heavy and held firmly onto baby, the bullets making the baby cry louder as i ran, hiding behind a near by tree i held the baby searching him for any gunshots and saw that only his onesie was covered in my sisters blood. Trying to hush his screams it was impossible for me, the baby's cries were leading them right to us. Slowing down my breathing i looked behind me and watched as the man approached, cocking the revolver i fired hitting him directly in the chest the force sending him flying backwards, I ran ahead jumping over logs and through bushes my chest burning from the panting the baby pressed to me for dear life as i shielded him from any harm. Only four more bullets and i would be out and i had about six more guys on me and a baby in my arms, I needed help. God i needed a fucking miracle.

The baby screamed ad screamed to the point where his face was red, it made me worried not just for him but us, climbing into a near by tree carefully, i straddled the branch and ripped the bottom of my dress off tying him to the branch. I secured his legs and torso onto the branch making sure he would not fall or squirm off, i could hear footsteps as the man below us looked for where the noise was coming from. Perching myself on the branch carefully i looked to the man and jumped on him, my arms wrapped around his neck as i pulled him back, he growled and tried shoving me into the tree my back hit the bark and the dress provided no comfort or cushion. Ignoring the scrap and burn on my back i held on tighter and bit into his neck suddenly my teeth ripping into his skin, the metallic coppery taste filling my mouth as i bit with so much force my body felt like it was shaking. He screamed and dropped his gun as he tried pulling me off, but i latched on ignoring the pain and pulling of my hair the taste of blood filling my mouth, he screamed and tossed me over his shoulder, rolling onto the ground my hands quickly grabbed onto the gun and as i aimed i fired the gun directly in his chest the impact pressing him into the tree.

Holding his gun on the ground I felt the sudden burning sting of the bullet in my leg, the trees offering no cover from the men that walked towards me screaming i aimed and fired the gun, the butt of the gun ricocheted in my shoulder as i took out the last four. Breathing heavy i looked to my leg and breathed through the pain, my hands shaking as i gave a small groan.

I looked to the crying baby as a body suddenly collided with me sending me into the ground. I yelled as i rolled onto the ground with whoever it was on top of me, i tossed my elbow back and hit him directly on the side of his head the blow enough to throw him off of me, i crawled on all fours forward and felt his hand dig into the bullet wound on my leg and screamed once again.

"Don't make me hurt you sister:"

"Fransisco!" i yelled in pain and realization.

He laughed and began to squeeze his finger further into the bullet wound, the pain was more excruciating then the actual gunshot, it tore a scream from me, turning i kicked my feet as i aimed for his chest and shoved him backwards as i crawled forward trying to grab onto the gun in front of me, his hands gripped onto my ankles and pulled me back my dress and chest dragging on the ground, it burned like hell.

Grunting he flipped me over, my legs to his sides as he suddenly punched me directly in the jaw, the force made my eyes water and slightly daze as i felt his hands wrap around my throat, the contact of his fist made my nose bleed.

Looking to him i kicked my feet at the sides slightly panicking, every breath i tried to take made my insides and throat ache, my eyes watering and slightly blurring. My hands clawed and pulled at his hands as i tried to fight to breathe, the pressure on my throat hurting and making me wish i could just exhale.

"Look at dads little prodigy..."

He laughed and squeezed tighter on my neck.

*****FLASHBACK 5 years ago*****

"There will be a moment in the field where the adrenaline, the fear, the anxiety and will to live will take over. You will panic, you will be afraid, and that is the moment you will die."

"Well that's a pep talk." Jose said sarcastically.

"Jose!" Ronaldo yelled.

Jose walked to the mat and nodded as suddenly Ronaldo struck him square in the throat, Jose coughed and leaned over when Ronaldo lifted his foot and kneed him directly in the stomach making him fall forward.

"Let me show you one of those moments."

Ronaldo kicked Jose onto his back and kneeled over him his hands gripping onto his throat and squeezed, my eyes widened as i took a step forward, Joses face was red and his hands tried pulling at his hands as he kicked and squirmed, but Ronaldo would not let go no matter how red Jose turned.

"Ronaldo stop!" I yelled going towards the mat as i felt Edward suddenly pull me back.

Ronaldo let go of him as he stood and kicked Jose side, he took a giant breath as he coughed and spit on the ground.

"This is the moment you will die. If you panic, if you fight more for your life and act rather then think. Your life will be snuffed out. Being a assassin means you need to think even when put in situations where you might or will die and one of them is in these moments."

He said walking towards my line of people as he looked at me and tilted his head.

"Blind your attacker or scratch his eyes out when they grab you by the throat the sick bastardo takes pleasure in watching the life leave your very eyes. He will taunt you, he will laugh at you, he will even feel powerful. Make him or them remember that the last thing they will see is not your death make them see and feel how your fingers claw there eyes out."

*****END OF FLASHBACK*****

Looking to Fransisco i lifted my hand and gripped onto his head my thumbs pushing into his eyes as i heard him scream, my right thumb having squished into the slimy wet pocket, he howled and screeched with agony and rolled onto his side pulling my hands back, i rolled onto my side and screamed loudly as i kicked him in the face. His hand covered his face as he backed away, this was one of my brothers but they may have been blood but he was not my fucking family.

Rosa.

My rose who i raised, who's diapers i changed, who struggled to say my name, who annoyed the living hell out of me and who i cared for and she gave me headaches and was a snob she was my family, she was my sister and it was her blood on the baby, she saved that baby who was tied to the tree branch above me.

He screamed and cursed as he crawled away from me but i acted quickly and grabbed the first thing i could, a hard rock was in my hand as i crawled to him, i straddled his waist and brought the rock down first. It split the skin below his left eye it dazed him for his head lay slack slightly, raising my fist i hit him and continued hitting him. Tears poured down my eyes as i cried, not just because of the sheer anger i felt and stupidity for letting my guard down but because i was angry and heart broken. My sister, she was probably dead lying on the ground with Ronaldo, Jose and many more. There was woman and children there and they could probably all be dead and it was my fault and the Dons but mainly mine. And this sick son of a bitch thought he could laugh at me? ME?

I should of stayed away, i should of gone to Italy. It was all my fault. MY fault.

My fist made a wet heavy sound and when i looked to Fransiscos face i could see he looked more like ground bloody hamburger meat, small rasps were heard as he breathed. I grabbed the revolver and looked down at him the one eye he had barley able to see me.

"Ciao hermano."

More blood splattered my dress, my chest and face, my hands shaking as i let the gun go to my side the baby was crying and screaming. I dropped the gun and climbed up the tree, i sat against the bark of the tree and cried softly as i rocked the baby in my arms trying to calm him. My face and hands and chest were covered in blood and chunks of brain matter but i didn't care, we had made it and the realization that we could of been the only ones who did made me cry harder.

My sobs were quiet but my arms were automatic as i rocked and soothed the baby quietly with my hiccuping voice. I didn't realize that after a short amount of time the small black haired baby fell asleep in my arms, i looked to his small round face and cried softly, my hands shaking as i lifted him onto my shoulder and raised my knees up against the small opening of the tree, my body curled around him as i held him protectively, the adrenaline leaving my body as i for a moment closed my eyes. Breathing steadily i focused on the babies small pants as i drifted off to sleep, it could of been exhaustion or the bleeding but for once i wanted to escape this hell i was in.

Reaper

Emily had managed to kill the last one using nothing but kitchen knives when they followed her into the house , cops and ambulance had showed up and honestly asked so many questions that it hurt my head but when they identified the men as Don Costas lackeys they said nothing and began to help. Edward, Jose, Rose and Ronaldo were taken away in ambulances to the hospitals. Sammy and Rex and even a few other of my club members had minor things that they didn't want treated and just stayed behind.

My heart went out to my club members one in particular being Ink. He had been crying so loud it broke my fucking heart, we had to pull him away from his old lady's body, his head was bowed as he looked to the small blanket that belonged to his son. He cried but no one could see his face only his tears, it wasn't until we hear the scream coming from the woods that everyone even the cops and paramedics stopped talking.

I listened my heart racing as i heard the distant scream fade away, Belle was that Belle?

Everyone stood even i did and ignored the paramedic who was bandaging up my arm.

"Poison!"

"Reaper...that bloody sounded like Bells." Emily said softly, who was sitting next to Poison with her little girl in her lap. The little girl had cried herself to sleep once everything had died down and Poison for the first time in a long time had a look of hate and worry.

This entire time i had been looking for Belle in the bodies that had been zipped up and the ambulances that had been loaded it didn't occur to me that she had ran into the woods.

"That lady ran in there with Nicky." Issac said softly as he whispered next to Rex.

Belle. I didn't even hesitate i grabbed the gun from the table in front of me and ran towards the trees, when i heard the gunshot. From the far away distance, my heart racing in fear.

Belle. Please don't you fucking die on me Belle! Don't you dare fucking leave me when i just found you.

I ran and next to me was Ink he was keeping a steady pace as he breathed heavy. I didn't realize that i wasn't alone, a few officers and club members that had arrived to help end the shooting were following close behind me there guns in hand.

"There is a body up ahead Reaper." Ink said lowly

Looking onto the ground i watched as ink kneeled down and felt for a pulse but shock his head in no.

"It must of been her. Men scan out my old lady is out here i want every fucking one on guard and with your fucking eyes peeled."

The men nodded and yelled in response it was almost two hours when we finally found the body's and there was just no way to fucking describe it other then pure fucking violence. His face couldn't even be made out and there was so much fucking blood everywhere.

Half of his head was fucking gone and the brains and blood that were splattered everywhere were fucking gruesome, the guns were on the ground.

"ANNABELLE!" i yelled my voice in a panic.

The bodies were laid out around and it was fucking driving me crazy. Why didn't she come back? Wa she fucking dead? I wanted to cry the tears stinging my eyes but i stopped and shock my head, no i couldn't and wouldn't fucking cry.

"BELLE!"

I quieted when i heard a small whimper and the beginning of cries, i looked around my gun held up when i felt the drops of blood on my right forearm, they fell from above and as i looked i saw her there huddled in the tree her hair covering her face and the babies as he squirmed under her hold.

"INK! REX!"

Holstering the gun i made sure the safety was on as i tucked it ito the back of my pants, Rex walked towards the clearing, his eyes taking in the sight as he looked around before his eyes settled on where i was looking and swallowed.

"Is that-"

"Nicky!" Ink said softly his voice in a whisper.

The baby squirmed in Belles hold and it looked like she was either sleeping or passed out, i didn't know all i could see was the fucking blood that covered her body, her dress was ripped and from what i could see her legs were scraped and her hands were just covered in blood, but the blood that was falling i couldn't see from where or in what part she had it coming from but it was dripping onto the floor steadily.

"Ink go to the other side of the tree, i will hand you the baby. Rex think you can handle holding onto Belle when i pass her to you."

"Just get your ass up there prez:"

I pulled myself up on the branch, my legs using the trunk as a wall and hauled my ass onto the branch.

She was breathing heavy as she held onto the babys small body, his head lifting slightly as he saw me. I moved towards him and carefully pried her fingers off his body, and lifted him seeing how much blood was on him it was instinct to just check him. There was no wounds or anything on him his small suit was simply covered in blood, i bent down and handed him to Ink, he took him in his arms and his eyes widened as he saw his son.

"Its not his Brother, he is alright."

Ink nodded and held on his son as he looked up at Belle.

"Prez...your old lady...is she-"

"She is breathing. Move so i can pass her to Rex!"

"Belle." Moving her hair from her face my eyes widen, she was covered in blood.

It had dried on her neck and on her mouth, she had splatters of blood all over the front of her dress and pieces of meat clinging to her chest and upper neck. Her nose was bleeding and so was her lip but i could not see where else she had blood coming from, i lifted her carefully and she did not even budge.

"Belle you need to wake up."

Nothing. Not even a small flinch, i pulled her closer once i was sitting on the branch and looked to her leg that was bleeding, it was not deep but enough.

I lowered her to Rex and watched as he would pull her closer to his body before looking to the two men on the ground.

"Prez. Your lady fucked them both up both these assholes up."

Jumping down from the tree i looked to him and took Belle.

"Run ahead and flag down another ambulance. Ink you need to get your son checked too."

Ink nodded and ran ahead with his son, my own arms held onto Belle as i ran back as quick as i could towards the house.

The fucking Don was going to pay for all this, for my brothers, for the blood that was spilled on my home and for the girl that lay unconscious in my arms.