Agent for a Cause

Gasping for breath to say what needed to be said I rasped out, "If you think shooting that kid is an option let me tell you right now it isn't! You hurt him and I swear I'll drag you out of here and feed you to a shark face first! Don't think I won't!"

The man's face blanched white and in that moment Kevin started screaming and flailing. The man wasn't ready for it and Kevin slipped away and I filled the man full of lead, but Kevin went screaming down the hall.

"No Kevin! Come back!" I started after him, but fell as a stabbing pain radiated throughout me.

"Oh God something's not right inside!" I moaned out against the floor.

I started dragging myself down the hall after Kevin. My head sank toward the floor, "No!"

I slammed my fist down and picked my head back up as I inched down the hall some more. The pain in my body was a living thing, but I shook it off as best as I could.

"Must get Kevin!" I gritted out feeling shaken inside by how slurred and far away my words sounded to me.

"No! God no! Must find Kevin!"

I brought one elbow forward, "Anna!" I brought the other elbow forward pulling myself along, "Kevin!"

I repeated the one two mantra over, but it only got me another couple of feet before I felt myself slipping from my hard won control. This was as far as I went.

I sank my head onto my clasped together hands and on a sob I begged, "God please no! I don't care if I die, but Anna and Kevin need to be together! Please!"

My head sank forward onto the floor and I felt unconsciousness start to close in on me.

I heard something!

My head came up. The noise was coming from the room beside me on my right. It had to be Kevin!

New strength surged up in me from I'm not sure where and I grasped the base of the door lintel and half pulled myself into the room still on my belly.

"Kevin?"

I didn't hear anything, but then I caught a brief glimpse of him. He was in the room.

I laboriously pulled myself in far enough to swing the door closed with my left foot. I kept going forward to a counter which I pulled myself up against to sit.

I bit my lip savagely more than anything to keep from crying out in pain, because I didn't want to scare Kevin any more than he already was. Something was definitely wrong with my back!