Chapter 245: Let's get out of here brother
Finn POV
His out. He passed out from the pain.
I reach down and yank the lower tourniquet as tight as I can with one hand. There's no way to save the lower part of his leg, it was just a distraction to keep him from seeing what I was doing. If I can get this bleeding to slow down, we'll have a good chance of getting him home alive.
"Mumford, pull this some more for me" I tell him.
He pulls it tighter as I move out of the way. "Thanks" I say pulling myself up to him.
"Do you think we can get him out now? The longer we're here the more danger we're in. We need to get back down the road some more to find the other convoy" he says.
"Yeah but your going to have to carry him" I reach over and kiss Tokash's head on top of his helmet "I'll get Tokash." he nods to me. I crawl back down to get him unbuckled.
I can't shoot my arm is busted he can carry Nunzio and he can carry the gun too. "I'm sorry brother" I whisper as I cut his seat belt off and make sure I can get him out. I pull Tokash up and take the gun as Mumford pulls his body up the rest of the way. He kisses his head and whispers something in his ear and he lowers his body as gently as he can out of the window to the ground.
I look at Nunzio and he's already looking better. His eyes are open and he's looking around.
I snap at him "Nunzio are you ready. You got one leg and I've got one arm and Mumford has to shoot. He's going to carry you so don't bitch about it and I've got Tokash"
He nods looking at us both.
"Okay let's get out of here brother" I say as I reach down and grab his hand pulling him up as careful as I can. Mumford jumps down as I lower Nunzio out the window to him. He helps get Tokash on my shoulder, I keep lookout as he gets Nunzio situated on his own shoulder.
Denalii POV
I open my eyes blinking trying to focus. I hear gun fire. I look around trying to get a grip on what's happening. We're in some kind of old post shack. I look to my right and see Tokash's lifeless body laying next to me.
"I'm sorry brother." I say quietly. I sit myself up noticing two more bodies on the other side of me.
Spencer sees me moving and runs to my side "Hold as still as possible, I don't want you to bleed out brother." He says checking my tourniquets and pulling them tighter.
"How many?" I ask looking at the fear on his face.
"Too many brother." He says checking my leg. It looks really bad, it's torn to sheds and I can see my bone sticking through the skin. From my knee down it looks pale almost white like it has no life left to it.
"Spencer give me a gun and help me stand." He shakes his head "It's out now, we found that one on our way here it only had a half clip left." He says pointing over to Mumford who's stopped firing his gun now.
"Spencer it's almost empty, I'll take the ones out I can but we need to hide Nunzio under the dead. If they take us with them he won't survive.They might just kill us all if we get lucky. We need a new plan we're so fucked right now." Mumford says never moving his eyes from the small window.
"We got who we could before they found us. He's right though brother, we need to hide you under the fallen. Give me your tags." I lean up as he pulls my tags from my neck, he takes the other two mens as well. Mumford throws his to Finn as he removes his own. They teach us early on to get rid of your tags to
prevent the enemy from gaining intelligence from us or using us against the military.
He grabs a piece of the floorboard and pulls it up enough for him to dig the sand back a bit before dropping them in, covering them with sand and stomping the board back down.
He kisses my forehead before he puts my helmet back on smearing blood all over my face and neck.
"No matter what you hear stay quiet and don't move brother." He squeezes my hand as he moves a body on top of me trying to cover my body with theirs.
"Fuck I'm out!" Mumford says moving from the window.
"We love you brother, don't look back." Mumford says tapping my helmet.
"She's yours now, love her for both of us. Tell her I've never been as happy as I was in the small amount of time we had together. Tell her I'll love her forever and I'll always be with her." He squeezes my hand before tucking it under the body over me. I try not to move as tears run from my eyes.
I just lay there listening as they fight for their life's. I can hear punches landing and several guns cocking all at once. I hold my breath as they yell for them to get on their knees.
"Their all dead." I hear a voice yell out in Arabic.
A shot fires out and I can feel something hard hit my helmet before everything goes black.
I can hear my father sobbing in my head after I hear my sister taunting me by calling me baby brother. In this moment it brings me peace instead of anger. It's the next voice I hear that makes my heart beat quicker as I can feel my mind becoming sharper.
"Denalii I need you." It's River's voice, I can feel the warmth and peace she radiates coming through my hand. I try to squeeze her hand. I think it's her hand in mine. I know that was her talking, I would know that sweet voice anywhere.
Suddenly I feel cold and empty, I try to squeeze her hand but I can't feel it anymore. Did I die? Nothing feels real, My body feels heavy and weak, I lift my heavy hand and reach for her. I feel her warmth pulling me to her. I feel her hand so I grab it back to me. I try to pry my heavy eyes open but they are so heavy it takes me a few times before they open.
She looks so small, her face is red and her eyes are puffy. I just look at her while she looks surprisingly to my hand. She lifts her head looking me in the eyes now, darkness pulls me back as I see the shock and fear in her eyes.