Other Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets from a war time comming to life ❯ Hunting in the night, surprises in the shadows ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Hunting in the night, surprises on the shadows

The next morning, the Section III unit began the search for the mysterious girl. They searched the entire village, but somehow all the villagers seemed to ignore them or just tell them that the girl helped them from their ruthless feudal lord, but none of them gave them important information. Alice decided that they should go to the feudal lord's castle and try to get some information from him. She was surprised to see the Corporal so interest in the search of the smuggler. They were walking towards the castle, where they were received by one of the man's servants. They were taken to the solarium of the castle, where the feudal lord was taking care of his plants. He was around his mid-forties, almost bold and with some extra pounds. He turned to see the group that was on his garden.

“Are you here to stop that little whore? She had stolen all my goods and given them to the commoners. How a respectable noble could live like that?” he began complaining to the military.

Alice sighed, exasperated with the man

“The villagers claim that you steal the goods from them. We need to see your storing facilities so we can deduce who is telling the truth.”

The little man shook his head.

“No! I am not letting you trespass my warehouses!”

Alice turned to her subordinates.

“Search the ground for illegal stored goods!” then she turned to the feudal lord, “we don't need your permission to do so, we have a warrant that allows us to search the grounds if we have to”, with that she left the stunned man and went with her men to do the search.

After the search they found out that there were lots of boxes with the military insignia on them piled on a back warehouse. Alice decided that they should take them to the villagers and arrest the lord for stealing the goods.

“LT.”

She turned around and saw Randel standing behind her.

“What do you want Corporal?” she said to him.

“What are we gonna do about the smuggler?” Randel decided to call Helena like that, trying to hide the fact that he knew her.

“The feudal lord received a cargo two days ago, so he was expecting another intrusion from the smuggler. We will stay here tonight and watch for her to come. Then we will stop her and interrogate her”

Randel nodded and went back to the warehouse. Tonight, he thought, I will see you tonight.

……

The night soon fell and Helena was standing on the outsides of the castle. Her men were waiting for her signal to get inside and steal the goods.

She walked to the little door meant to be the servant's entrance to the castle, located on the south part of the castle. She cracked the door open and slid inside, letting the shadows of the night hid her. She walked until the gate of the warehouses and began cracking the locks. That stupid lord tried to change them after every robbery, but she always knew how to open them. All the years of training and experimentation on the Kaplan laboratories did left something worthy on her. The lock clicked open and she took it out. She slid the doors open and walked inside. She walked to the place where the boxes usually stood, but she found nothing.

Lights went on and Helena froze at the sight in front of her eyes. Four people stood in front of her, two young men pointing rifles at her and a blonde woman with a sword in her hand. But what caught Helena's attention was the man that stood behind the three of them.

“Stop! We, the Section III unit, the Pumpkin Scissors Section declare that you are under arrest!” The blond said, pointing the sword at her.

Helena snapped back in reality and smiled at the girl in front of her.

“Do you think that you can get me so easily? Besides, I have been doing YOUR job here! This bastard of a feudal lord let the village starve to death while he got fatter everyday!” she said, and then turned her attention back to the tall man behind them, he face getting serious again, “so, you found me. Are you gonna shoot me, Randel?”

The tall man's expression got shocked, then hurt.

“That's why you ran away from me Helena? You thought I was going to kill you?”

Alice turned to face him.

“You know her?”

Randel ignored the question, his whole attention focused on the girl in front of him.

“If you thought that I was gonna kill you, why did you kept the ring?”

Helena's hand wandered to the ring that hung from her neck and looked down, while she felt the tears beginning to run down her cheeks.

“I ran because Kaplan told me she programmed you to kill me if you lit the lantern. She said that she knew about us and that if I tried to find you, you would kill me yourself. I already lost too much to be killed from all people by you. I kept the ring because it was the only thing that I could have to remember you by,” She dried her tears and clenched her fists, staring at all the group, “Now get out of my way!”

Alice walked forward and raised the sword again.

“I can't let you walk away”

Helena recovered her cold demeanour and stared at Alice.

“Get out of my way”

“You are coming with us, and that's the end of the discussion” then she tried to grab Helena by the wrist, but she easily dodged her and jumped towards Oreld and Machs. Hitting them and avoiding their futile attempts to stop her, she disarmed them and knocked them out the way. She ran past Randel and began running towards the door. She made it out the castle, but before she could ran far, she felt like she had hit a wall. She fell down and looked up, finding Randel in front of her. She quickly got up and tried to run away, but he held her by the wrist.

“Let me go!” She cried to him while she tried to pull away from his hand. He easily pulled her in an embrace.

“I am not gonna hurt you” He said as he held her close to him. She stopped fighting and began to cry.

“You are not sure of that” She said in midst her tears, “you don't know what they did to you”

“Just come with me. I won't use the lantern tonight. I just need to know” He said as he pushed her away to see her, “I need to know the whole story and you are the only one that can tell me. Please”

Helena stepped back from him and nodded.

“Just you and me. You know that they can't hear anything from our past.”

Randel nodded and they walked away from the castle.

……

Alice came outside the castle looking for the Corporal, but he was nowhere to be seen. She was worried about him. What if the girl took him down? But soon she denied that thought. Come on, the guy could take a tank by himself, it was impossible that the girl could have killed him!

“LT!” She turned around and saw the two injured Machs and Oreld walking out the castle, each one of them holding the other.

“Where is the Corporal?” Machs asked her.

“He went after the smuggler by himself” she lied to her men, not wanting to accept that she had no idea where he was, “let's go back to the village so you two can rest”

……

Helena opened the door of her house and two cats walked to greet her: one black and the other dark blue (AN: There is a raze of cats named Blue Russian and believe it or not, they are BLUE! Google it, I swear its true!) She kneeled to caress them.

“I see that you still like cats” She heard Randel saying behind her.

She got up and turned to face him.

“Old habits die hard, you know” she said, as she took her trench coat off and tossed it on a couch, “how about you, do you still have the tendency of getting shot by tanks?”

“As you used to say, it seems that tanks like to target me,” his face smiling at her soon turning serious again, “what did Kaplan did to you?”

Helena sat on the couch and he sat next to her.

“I had a medical check-out right after the war ended. I was supposed to do it and then they would let me go. I was expecting to find you after that, but the results of the blood tests came back. Kaplan called me to her office, saying that I had an anomaly on my blood tests. Once I got there she told me that there was no anomaly. She said that I was pregnant.”

Randel's eyes turned to her in awe

“You were pregnant? What happened to the baby?”

Helena looked down and fought the tears that threatened to fall down her face.

“Kaplan told me that I wasn't allowed to be pregnant, so I realized that she was trying to terminate the pregnancy. I tried to run, but she pulled out a tranquilizer gun and shot me on the back. When I woke up, I was in the infirmary and I had this,” she lifted her shirt over her stomach. A large scar crossed her belly, on its low part, “after that she came to see me and told me that she took you to the sci-ops and that if you lit the lantern when I was next to you, you would kill me. She said that the same chemicals that helped you take down the tanks without second thoughts would make you shoot me without hesitation. That's the reason I ran away. I already lost my baby, I wanted to die, but not by your hands.”

Randel stood there, shocked by the words she had just spoken. He lifted his arm and placed it around her shoulders.

“Why didn't you tell me this sooner?”

Helena looked at him, the tears flowing down freely.

“I am sorry.”

Randel placed his hand on her cheek, caressing gently her face. His hand was so big that it covered all her side, so he held her closer and kissed her gently. Helena kissed him back and soon she leaned on him, making him fall on the couch, while she was still kissing him. He left her lips and began kissing her down her neck, while she began taking his clothes off. Soon they left themselves forget all the pain of the past three years, while they rediscovered themselves one more time, trying to make up the absence of the past three years.

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If you had read my stories, you know that I never ever write lemons the whole way through. I am not very comfortable on that, and this is as far as I let myself go, so sorry if you guys are disappointed on that!! Leave your reviews and let me know what cha think!