Archer's POV

Chaos.

Chaos everywhere.

More smoke filling up, more people running around frantically, more ringing in my ears...

More blood.

I've seen people laying in their hospital beds, dead. Some have blood covering their entire body, screaming in pain. A nurse grabbed me and asked if I was okay. I nodded, and she immediately pushed me out the door. I trip over myself and fall over. I look back at the hospital building behind me. Only the corner where I was next to was bombed.

Minutes ago, a bomb went off, once again right next to me.

As I look at everyone screaming, some crying, some hurt badly, and others lost and confused, I can't help but think of something.

My fault.

"Archer!" I look up and see Mia and Casper. Casper helps me to my feet.

"I think-"

"Archer, you have to get out of here," Mia interrupts me.

All of a sudden Dave and Adam are next to me, and Dave grabs my arm and walks me away from the building. Anxiety consumes me. Everyone is running around, and the voices enter my head and never leave.

"Please let me go-"

"Archer, you have to stand away for a minute." Dave says. "Away from the buildings and the crowds of people."

"My fault." I whisper, and suddenly Dave has pushed me to the ground. I slam my head on the ground so hard I lose vision for a second.

"You did this?!" He yells, and Adam and Casper have to push Dave off me.

"N-no." I stutter, "I didn't do this, I swear!" I say, but Dave keeps his glare on me.

"We know you didn't do it." Mia reassures me. "But maybe the mayors did."

The mayors. Evelyn.

I get chills, even in this hot fire and smoke all around us.

"Did they do something to you to, make you-do this?" Adam asks tentatively.

I shake my head. "I-I don't think so-"

"When will you be able to test and let us know," Evelyn asks a doctor. He shrugs. "A day, at least."

I remember that. They took my blood, for some tests. What tests? I didn't know.

"They took my blood. That's it." I say.

"Why did they do that?" Casper asks, and I shrug.

"She said for some tests. She didn't tell me."

"They took his blood out, not put anything else in. How could he have done this?" Mia turns to Dave, who is deep in thought.

"I don't know. But what are the odds wherever he is, the bombs goes off." He says.

It all clicks then. This is why Evelyn never killed me. She captured me for a while, maybe to have a little fun and put suspense to things, but she knew she was going to give me back. She's using me to kill her enemy. How she's doing this? I don't know. But I do know that this isn't a coincidence. This was my fault. This is what Evelyn wanted. She wanted me to go back, so I could do the killing for her.

And it worked.

"I can't stay here." I say, and Mia shakes her head at me. "Yes you can."

"I have to leave, or-maybe you could kill me-"

"No Archer. That's not an option." Adam says sternly, but I know everyone's thinking it. If I'm killed, this problem would be solved.

Then they wouldn't have to worry about me anymore either.

"Just stray away from the large crowd. Try not to go in the buildings for today." Dave says.

"It's all going to be fine," Mia says, "we'll figure it out."

Mia. She saved my life after the first bomb, but I'm the one who caused it.

Evelyn wants me dead after all.

"It was him, wasn't it?!" People are pointing at me with angry faces.

"He's doing this to us!" Someone yells.

"Get rid of him!" More shouting.

"It's not his fault!" Mia yells, so loud it shocks all of us.

"It's not his fault he was captured! It's not his fault that Evelyn and the other mayors tortured him, or that they did something to him to erase the real Archer." She looks at me, some sort of sadness on her face.

"It's not his fault that he doesn't remember me."

And with that, tears fall from her eyes and she walks off.

***

I've been sitting by myself all day.

I'm by the fence, away from everyone else. Occasionally people will start to curse at me, and blame me for all of this, but I can't help but agree.

I'm tempted to leave. To open that fence and walk as far as I can. I don't care if I die of hydration, or a mayor finds me. Kill me, I'll tell them. I dare you. I want you to.

But I don't. Mia seemed like she didn't want me to leave, and Adam has occasionally checked up on me to make sure I'm still here.

To be honest, I'm afraid to go near large groups of people. If what we were all thinking is true, I'm deadly. How could the mayors have done this? I don't know. I try to think back, which is fucking hard to think back to my nightmare, but I do. I can't remember them doing anything, besides putting me in pain and having me watch my sister die. There was nothing besides them taking my blood for some unknown test.

I couldn't have set the bomb. I don't remember doing it, and I've been on high watch ever since I came back. Whatever Evelyn did was certainly planned well.

Now I'm pissed that she didn't kill me.

She had me think it all along, about me dying. I knew I was, and she knew that's what I was thinking.

"He's not the same anymore. Never will be." Evelyn said when she handed me off back to the Alliance. She had some sort of plan all along.

But for me to trigger bombs? It doesn't make sense. They had to have at least planted them. Who knows how they snuck in, really.

Who knows how I'm the one that's causing this disaster.

I think back to what Mia said.

It's not his fault that he doesn't remember me.

I do remember Mia. When I was captured I remembered her. But my thoughts changed. I was certain she didn't want me anymore. I was certain she would rather have me dead. But after she saved my life and said those words, I don't know what to think. Adam says she truly does care for me, and that she always did.

Can I believe it?

Maybe.

It's a weird feeling that's inside me, but it gnaws on my insides. I kind of do want to believe it.

Badly.

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