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More would come.
I limped out of my cell, attacking the guard at hers, twisting his neck, and grabbing his gun. I fired behind me, taking out the other two guards, and rushed to her side and started chest compressions as fast as I could.
I glanced at the clock briefly.
We had two minutes left.
“Come on, come on!” I pounded her chest hard and gave her my air. It had been under five minutes. She’d just passed out, but she still hadn’t been breathing. She could be brain dead, she could be a lot of things, but I was the best, and I knew how to do a non-lethal strangulation, or so I thought. And she’d trusted me. “Damn it!” I pushed harder on her chest. We were running out of time. Guards would be there; she needed to wake up. “Wake up, sweetheart, wake up. I need you to open your eyes. I need you to breathe. Fuck, breathe!”
I exhaled into her mouth again.
She gasped against me with trembling hands and opened her eyes. “Are we dead?”
“Does this look like Home Depot?” I asked.
Her teeth chattered, and she threw herself into my arms.
“Time for that later, we have to go.” I pulled her to her feet just as two guards walked in, guns aimed at us. I shot the first in the chest as the other ran toward us.
My world turned bright then, it slowed, and in my line of vision was Katya, alive, breathing. My only thought was I could die now because she could live. I was taken to the ground.
There was no time left.
I had finally run out of it.
I fought back, but I was too weak, I shot him in the side, but he kept hitting me. I finally slid the gun toward Katya.
“Run as fast as you can, Katya,” I yelled. “Don’t look back. Run!”
“I won’t leave you!”
“I’ll see you soon!” I lied.
I told her I would one day, that I would be the liar, that I would lie and walk away. I never imagined the one lie I told would be so she would be the one to run in the opposite direction.
If this was how I kept my promise about lying to her, then I would take it. “Katya, I swear, I’ll see you soon.”
She picked up the gun and ran.
I slumped back against the ground as the guard’s fist came down onto my chest; my heart burned, and my lungs ached.
Another fist came up. I didn’t block it. It came down and then went limp as a gunshot rang out. He slumped on top of me; I shoved him off and tried to get to my knees.
Katya stood there, face white, hands shaking, tears streaming down her dirty face. “I lied.”
I stumbled toward her, barely able to keep my legs under me. “I did too.”
I pulled her against me as she sobbed into my neck and dropped the gun to the ground. We were free, but we were probably fucked. So I wanted to hold her during that moment.
“Warriors,” she whispered against my neck. “Let’s go out like warriors.”
I nodded, picked up the gun, limped over to the fallen guard, and took his gun. I handed her the Glock and kept the pistol. “Ready?”
“Always.” She smiled up at me.
I would keep that smile even in death.
We walked out of the room. I didn’t shove her behind me, no she walked next to me as several figures in dark clothing rounded the corner ahead of us. We shot, and we didn’t stop.
