I
It was a cold day in the desert today as we made our way west.
“If this gets too hard…your not just gonna leave me are you?” Mariah asked me out of nowhere.
I took her hand into mine and looked into her icy blues, I said to her in the most reassuring voice I could muster.
“There is nothing on this earth that could ever make me leave you.”
Her eyes twinkled with doubt. After the moment had passed I turned back to the map spread out between the two front seats in the car and I said.
“If we take to the highway and stay off the back roads we could get to Vegas in about 3 days, but well need to travel fast and almost non-stop.”
“But what if they see us?” she asked.
“With this trunk of ammunition too, id end my days with you in a hail of bullets.” I replied “If they catch us there is hardly a chance of us shooting our way out this time, there’s just too many now.”
“You’re not very uplifting today…” she said
“I just want you to know what were in for if we get caught.”
After a long pause I continued “you know how bad I am with words but you have to understand that im trying.”
“Trying to what?” She asked
“Trying to let you know how much you mean to me, I mean after all the things we put each other through we are still together.”
“I know you love me” she whispered
“I told you I would drive on to the end with you. It used to be that a liquor store or two kept the gas tank full, but now everything is just so hard. I feel like there’s nothing left to do but prove myself to you, and too keep this car running. But this time, I mean it ill let you know just how much you mean to me.”
“Why are you saying this?” she asked hoarsely
“I think our numbers up.”
As we drove along that long stretch of desert highway, the snow started to fall from the desert sky, not a good omen.
“Im sorry if im scaring you, but you have to feel the ends near too.” I said at last
After a long pause she finally said “I do…I just don’t want to say it out loud so it doesn’t seem so real.”
“I’ll love you ‘till the end of everything Mariah.”
“I’ll love you for just as long.”
I was trying to let her know just how much she means to me, but I don’t think she quite gets it.
The day was starting to fade, and the night was starting to grow, and inside the car we grew cold.
“Right until the end, in that pool of blood.” I mumbled to myself
Mariah seemed not to hear me. But until that pool of blood I mean this.
The day continued to fade, and the night continued to grow, and still we grew cold.
When they catch us well show them, well show them all how much we mean. The snow continued to fall from the desert sky.
The longer I drove the closer we got to our end, if only I could turn around and just go back.
The daylight was now gone and the darkness enveloped us.
This was no longer our ballpark.This is almost the end of every…
II
As we rolled to a stop in front of a recently abandoned dinner, the last glimmer of daylight left the skies.
“This isn’t good, grab the ammo and run inside quick!” I yelled to Mariah as she was already out the door. As I got out and went to the trunk to help her, I saw the distant glow of the vampires’ car headlights.
“Just grab what you can and run inside!” I yelled to her again
She looked behind her and saw the headlights and without another word ran inside with a few handfuls of bullet cases. I grabbed a few as well and followed her in. the doors were unlocked thanks to the haste the previous owners had left in.
When we got inside we checked the lights and luckily enough they worked and the whole dinner was cast in an eerie fluorescent glow. We had just found the keys and had locked all the doors when the first cars skidded to a stop out front.
The cars were all police cruisers, and the vampires decided instead of raising there voices the built in microphone would work just as good to talk to us.
“Come out without any weapons drawn, and well let you live as one of us.” A voice demanded.
The only response they got was the sound of gunfire, the shatter of glass and the thunk of a bullet lodging itself in the windshield of the car that had just spoken.
“We can wait, there are more of us coming” the same voice told us.
I just started to laugh.
“What is so damn funny?” Mariah asked me angrily
“All we are…all we are too them are bullets.” I replied
“What?” she asked
“I mean it, the treat us like bullets, were deadly, but were also finite. There just gonna wait until were overwhelmed, without a hope of shooting our way out.”
Just then 3 more cruisers all pulled up, the occupants quickly emptied out and set up spot lights behind the cars so all we could see are their silhouettes
“You’re right, there’s…there is no way out this time, but we’ve come so far!” she cried out her voice full of sorrow and dread. “What can we even do, just wait for our deaths?” she continued
“We will just take as many of them with us as possible.” I told her, my voice filled with icy determination.
“As long as I die by your side that’s fine by me.” She said as she walked to my side
The hours rolled by until dawn threatened to show itself.
“There not going to wait for much longer, lets do it now, lets make our last act of defiance against this new world order our last stand for humanity.” I said to her
We got up off of the floor, and stood between the windows and the counter. We could hear a commotion coming from outside as they all got out of their cars and stood in front of the cruisers all armed.
I heard a clack of metal and looked over to see Mariah’s left hand empty with a gun on the floor.
When I saw the gun and her shaking hand, I dropped my gun in my right hand. Our hands son found each other.
So here we stood on the 21st of December 2012, a pistol in my left hand, her hand in my right.
We both lifted our guns in unison when a shout echoed from the crowd out front.
We both started to shoot, and seconds later they all shot back.
Here we stand amidst the raining lead that pierced glass, shattered mirrors, sunk into wooden fixtures, and passed through flesh. We were both struck again and again, but our strength never wavered. We kept firing until we were out of ammo. They kept on firing, we looked at each other and smiled when a shot came in and entered and exited Mariah’s chest. She started to fall but before I could react two shots passed through my body and I started to fall backwards too.
As we were falling down into that pool of blood, we were touching hands, and time seemed to have slowed to a crawl as we fell into the pool of blood that had collectively coursed through our body’s moments before. I still had time to get lost in those icy blue eyes of hers, and kept contact with them until we hit the floor.
And there we lay, bloody and on the edge of death still staring into each others eyes. There ended the life of us, the demolition lovers.
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