Zera

I was falling. Just like in my dreams. Except this time I could feel the tears streaming down my face as I fell. My heart seemed to shatter. For once I wanted this to be the way I ended. Cassian was gone and no one else was left.

Then everything in my world shattered.

"Mommy? What's going on?" I asked looking at my tiny hand that was held by mother's bigger hand looking up at her face I saw tears streaked her face.

"Why didn't you tell me!?" She yelled. Z wasn't wrong she looked like me except her hair was blonde instead of black. I looked to the man she was yelling at, I recognized him as my father as a small infant, but he looked familiar now. Looking closer I realized it was Z.

Z grabbed my mother's arm and yanked her to him, pulling her away from me and I started crying. "Don't make this hard, Safrina." He said harshly and put a knife to her throat.

"They will hear about this!" She yelled trying to pull away from him. Without a second thought I saw him slit her throat. She fell to the ground choking on her blood.

I didn't cry at that moment. I wailed. Z came over wrapping his arms around me trying to soothe me, but nothing could stop the tears that kept coming. He picked me up and walked near the ledge, "Zera, I'm sorry." He whispered and dropped me.

I remember falling. That's all there was to it, falling. The sound of wind couldn't be heard and the sky was midnight. I don't remember how I ended up there., to this day I can't understand what happened. I was so afraid. Death was around the corner. I had been falling for sometime.

I gasped for air as strong arms caught me. Looking up at the man I saw was Adrian. He looked grim almost angry. "You're better than this Zera." He looked up scowling at whoever was looking down.

I rolled out his arm standing up on my own. Still shaken up over my memories.

"Are you alright?" He asked looking at me concerned. I shook my head silently letting these memories and past events start to consume.

"We need to leave." I said my jaw clenched. My anger started to peek, but for now we were short handed and couldn't do much without being shot or worse killed.

Me and Adrian took off to our motorcycles. Guards met us on the way, but luckily they weren't trained like the others, so we were able to knock them. Without another thought we left.

Cassian

 "Cassian, we need to talk. You don't ever, hesitate again, you understand me! You almost compromised the mission entirely! Had she grabbed her knife, she could've killed you, or worse! You ever hesitate again I will not hesitate in punishment." Z was furious, no doubt about it.

" Why do you even care? Aren't the 3LA everywhere? Plus its one assassin, you act like she was a god or something." I didn't care about doing anything anymore. I didn't care about either side, the 3LA or the Legions. They were both flawed.

I left that room before he could speak again. I left the building before anyone saw me. I left the legion before I could get killed. I had just probably pushed Z to his limits, so I was probably a high priority target. But what did it matter?

The only thing I cared about I had just killed, so death was no longer a fear. In fact I would almost welcome it as an atonement for my sins. But I had to do that here. Z was the reason I'm not dead yet, but he's also the reason so many others are dead and I'm probably about to be.

I walked into The Lonely Friend and grabbed a Crapps, almost chugging it. Then he walked up, Adrian. But he wasn't a happy, jolly dude anymore. He was enflared and his aura was one of a beast. "Hey Adrian, you okay bud? What's got you pissed?"

He just stared at me, no response. I went to walk to him, so maybe I could talk but as I did he swung his arm around my neck, and with a cloth, subdued me before I could even pull out my knife.

I normally dream, never really have, but I did this time. At first I saw Z's head, no body just laying there, on the ground, which was now soaked red. Above it, I saw something I refuse to describe. But not far behind I saw Zera, mourning over a motionless body. After that I saw a child, brown hair with a white haired spot. He had turquoise eyes, and was something I didn't understand. Why this, why now? What did this mean, or was it my mind prying at me, driving me truly insane.

I woke up, arms and legs chained to a wall. In front of me a man, brown hair, and hazel eyes "It's going to be a long night, and I'm out of drinks to share." He said with a smile more twisted than I could ever imagine. And he wasn't lying when he said it would be a long night.