--= Mark's + POV =--

The hallway was dead silent and it only caused the bad feeling in the pit of my stomach to stretch further through the rest of my body. My heart was pounding quickly, anticipating and awaiting for Jack to come through those doors wounded, or not come out at all. 

It's been scaring me, it's almost been two hours from when the door shut as he was walking in and still nothing. The lady went to go get a coffee for the both of us at a little cafe, but that was fifteen minutes ago and I haven't moved ever since I slumped down into a seated position.

 She'll be back eventually, I'm just not sure how long. My mind continued to race will all sorts of possible awful things, like his expiration date just happened to be today and he died while taking the tests. 

Or they killed him. 

My throat tightened at the thought of that one. I just couldn't lose someone like him, he's been through so much and only shown violence and harshness yet he's so kind, and he's so sweet. He makes my heart melt whenever I see him and I just love him so much. He's the most precious person to me right now.

These thoughts continued up until I heard the sound of a door knob turning and snapped my head upwards to see Jack pushing the door open, a small smile on his face. There was something stirring behind his eyes, I noticed it right away and when he went to reach out a hand his eyes widened with surprise to see his fingernails were green.

Trying to bring them back to his sides, I latched onto one of his hands and pulled him towards me engulfing Jack in a hug. Squeezing him tightly, I buried my face into his shoulder, trying to even my breaths so I wouldn't cry at a god damned asylum.

Jack's body relaxing, he slung his arms around my shoulder and rubbed my back, trying to soothe me and calm me down.

"It's okay baby, it's okay I'm right here. I'm sorry I scared you, I'm fine I promise." A sniffle escaping from me, my face burned when I realised a tear was falling down my face. Opening up my mouth to say something, he put a finger to my lips and smiled at me, his eyes filled with sympathy.

"Shh shh shh love, it's okay I promise, we're gonna go home and you can cuddle with Chica and I, and we'll have a movie marathon and I'll make you some hot chocolate okay?"

"Pulling away to look at him and his charming smile, the weight in my chest lifted a bit when I heard our day plans and I nodded, a small grin making it's way on my wet face. Wiping away the tears, I continued to nod.

"Okay."

Jack lead me back to the front desk where they explained things about what to do when he sets off, to be armed and to call the asylum or the police department right away and do not attempt to settle him down once he's triggered on my own since he can easily kill a man while in that phase.

It was, very unsettling. Jack kept looking around nervous, and shifted from foot to foot but seemed like he was trying to look calm. Even though he was not. A man walked into the asylum, a smile on his face as he walked over to the desk and looked over the substitute who was replacing the lady.

There was mumbled chatter between them, the secretary asking what he needed and if she could be of any assistance and he just said something under his breath I couldn't hear. But for some reason Jack just grew more and more nervous. 

Casting a worried glance at me then at the man, he went back to concentrating on the guards who were talking through the steps that never seemed to end. The asylum was filled with chatter today, I guess that's what was making Jack unsettled since this place was usually dead silent.

It didn't matter, I liked it this way better.

 The people at the asylum kept talking, as did the guards with the instructions as they demonstrated how to hold a weapon against Jack, but it stopped mid way when a gun shot rang through the area. My blood running cold, it all seemed to happen in a split second.

The bullet had pierced through the guard holding the gun, a hole grew through the middle of his forehead and a cry came out from the other guard who was helping with the demonstration, the guard went limp and sprawled across the floor dead.

His eyes blank, staring up at the ceiling, a look of shock slowly drooping down into one of a bare expression. Another gun shot rang and this time it was from behind me, I whipped around to see the substitute secretary falling onto her knees, screeching as she held her side.

The nice pastel pink shirt she was wearing grew red around the middle and started to spread until it dripped onto the floor. The guard moving beside us pulled out a gun and tried to shoot at the man, but he had already aimed at the guard and pulled the trigger, gashing right through his eye and pierced his skull.

Another guard had fallen. My legs locked and my eyes spread open wide in shock as I watched this go down, the man looked around the room, and a grin spread across his face as he looked at me.

It all flew by so slowly, and I couldn't even move a muscle. As he raised his gun once more, beginning to point it at me, the door to the entrance swung open as the secretary looked at the scene her eyes wide, cupping a hand over her mouth, she dropped the coffees and let out a shriek of complete and utter horror.

The man, surprised, whipped around pulling the trigger, and the shriek turned into a wail as she staggered forward, stumbling onto the floor. Her arm outstretched, she looked at me with a look of shock, and curled into herself, trying to stop the pain.

Her blood gushed out from the wound, but it was in such a confusing spot I couldn't tell where she had been hit. The cells were locked by this point, and the guards were on their way to try and stop the man who had started the shooting.

My stomach had flipped completely over by then, and it knotted itself up once the man locked eye contact with me once more. Raising his gun and pointing to it, showing it off, he slammed the rim of it onto his hand and aimed towards me.

His eyes narrowed and the grin on his face grew as I watched his thumb slowly press down on the trigger. I couldn't move, of all the times to freeze this was the one where shock had gotten the best of me.

I closed my eyes, my breathing ragged, and I heard the sound of the gunshot, tears fell down my eyes and my life flashed before them too. It was all a blur, yet all of the memories were absolutely beautiful. 

The wind the bullet was pushing rushed around me, and though people said it was painful getting shot it wasn't, I felt no pain, relief flooded through me as I opened my eyes once more, only to see the bullet rush past me and embed into something else. 

Eyes widening and heart stopping, I whipped around as everything sped up a million times more and I saw Jack's eyes and his relaxed expression as he looked down to see a bullet in his chest right beside his heart. A small smile rising on his face, he gave out a little laugh as he tried to walk towards me. 

Placing his foot, he tried to put pressure on it but it collapsed and caused him to fall on the floor. Heart shattering, I rushed over to his side and cries came out of my mouth, whines that sounded like they came from dogs escaped my lips, and my throat so tight only pressed air could come out of it.

The blood spread across the floor, the bodies being connected to each other by the blood leaking from their dead or half alive corpses, yet Jack was alone on the other side of the room, his head in my lap.

Opening his mouth, trying to form words, I shook my head and closed his mouth, putting a finger on his lips.

"Shh-hh-hh baby, i-i-it's gonn-nn-na be o-ok-k-kay, just sa-save y-y-your breath, o-okay b-baby?" Sobs raking my body as I lurched forward with everyone, his eyebrows fell and his mouth frowned as he lifted a shaky hand weakly placing it on my cheek and rubbing my face before it limply fell back on the ground not being able to support itself.

"You don't need to worry about me." He croaked. Staring at him, chest weighing a ton, I merely kneeled over him as I rested my head on his arm, shifting himself and letting out a yelp of pain, he flopped back to the position he was in, his breathing heavy.

"I've been through worse." A smile growing on his lips, he winced from the pain before drawing the smile back up again as he looked at me. Staring into his eyes, he suddenly realised something and tried to push me away.

"What are you doing?" My voice coming back a small bit, it still had a raspy tone to it and I looked at him, pain in my heart as he continued to try to push me away.

"You need to hide, Mark, what if h-he shoots you." Flinching mid sentence as the blood continued to seep out, I noticed his face had begun to grow more pale.

"What if he doesn't"

"I need you to be safe."

"I need you to be alive."

"Mark..." Jack breathed out, his eyes filled with worry and pain, my heart twisted as I looked at him, knowing I was running out of options. 

"I can't leave you..." Tears now pouring down my face, Jack smiled as he pulled me closer so our foreheads were pressing together

"I'll catch up with you soon, I'll see you on the flipside okay?"

".......Okay." Jack smiling at this, he rested his head on the floor and shut his eyes, listening to the shooting going on around him, trying to keep himself alive. Pain contorting my face as grief struck over me, I stood up and bolted out towards the nearest exit.

Slamming my body into the door, I rushed past the entrance, my feet hammering into the pavement as I took myself farther and farther away until I was a couple of blocks away. Knees giving in, I fell onto the grass beside the sidewalk and put my head between my knees, crying until I couldn't cry anymore.

The wails of ambulances and the screeches of police sirens tore through the silent air, and when I looked up the sky was night and ambulances rushed by me in a hurry. Worry taking over me, I hurriedly dialed a taxi and told it to get here as fast as possible.

He better be alright.

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Here we go now we're getting somewhere, as you might've guessed, this is growing to be the end of the book, there will probably be only one chapter left after this one, and I'll also probably say something else at the end of the book but I don't exactly know what it is yet. But stick with me folks! We're almost at the end of the ride, and I assure you you're going to be entranced. I'll see you in the next update <3 Love you all!