Everyone
is completely still. No one is
breathing. Rev just shot Charles. I am standing here looking at her. No one is
shooting at us, I don’t think they know what to do. Charles coughs and stands
back up. “Aww Revolution you must still love me. You shot the vest. Now is that
any way to say hi to your husband?” HUSBAND?! Charles is Richard? How is that possible?
“I didn’t think you would have bullet proof vests here. Trust me, if I would have
known I would of shot you in the head.”
Charles smiles. “I did always love your spirit.” Rev points her gun at
Charles. “Shut up Richard! You don’t know how to love anyone other than your
big headed self.” I don’t think anyone
in the room has started breathing yet. We are all still frozen. “Is that what you have convinced yourself?
You knew I loved you Rev but you didn’t want to help me and I was going to
die.” Rev puts her gun down. “You didn’t have to kill her! You did that because
you were a monster. Look at this place of oppression you created. You have no
soul!” Charles or Richard I’m not even sure what to call him is laughing. “Rev
I created a world with no foster homes or druggie parents. I created
utopia.” I hear metal hit the floor. There
is a bunch of little metal balls rolling toward us. OH NO here comes the smoke.
The vent above us drops out. Someone has put something on my face. I can’t
breath and everyone is falling asleep. I turn around and its James, he has a
weird thing on his face too. He waves for us to follow him. Rev doesn’t follow
James, instead she walks over to Charles. She puts the gun to his head, he
isn’t fully asleep yet, and he hands her the paper he had in his hand. “Burn in
Hell Richard.” She says to him, James grabs her and starts pulling her to the
stairs so we can make it out. She is fighting James. The smoke will make her go
to sleep like everyone else. So I pull her mask off. She turns and looks at me,
she looks mad. She starts to fall asleep like everyone else. James throws her
over his shoulder and we head out. We
walk up the stair case and it seems like James put everyone in the building to
sleep. There is a van outside and James points for me to get in.
Rev
finally wakes up. We are almost to the next city. “What the hell did you do?! I
had my chance!” She is screaming at me. “I don’t think you really wanted to
kill him. Plus we needed to get out of there Rev.” Rev looks furious at me.
“Pull the van over!” she screams at James. “No we need to keep moving.” James
tells her. All I hear is a pop and glass shatter. She just shot out the
windshield. “I said pull over!” James pulls over and Rev gets out of the van. I run after her. “Stop!” I yell. “NO AVA! This
was what I came for! I came here to kill him! You stopped that. You can’t
understand how I feel.” Rev is still yelling but I don’t think its anger. “Rev,
he is your husband. I don’t think killing him is the answer. Please tell me
what happened, the whole story. Not just pieces so I can understand what you
feel.” She hands me the paper, it’s a photo of them together. After handing it
to me she just screams into the air. “Fine you want to know the whole detailed
story?” I sit on the floor and look at the photo of a happy Rev. She looks in
love. “Yes.” She starts pacing back and forth. “Where do I begin? Okay let’s
start with me. I was born a drug baby.
Which means my mom did drugs when she was pregnant with me. But I wasn’t sick
like other drug baby’s, the doctors said it was like my body fought the drugs.
Like I was stronger or something. Not that it mattered because my loser junkie
mom sold me I think. I still don’t really know because I was found on a city
bus. I was just a baby and someone left me for hours on a bus. No one noticed
me, all tucked under a seat until I started crying. So they took me to the
hospital. The closest one just happens to be run by a church, so they gave me
to that church where the nuns raised me. One nun, my mom, adopted me. She took
me in and she named me Revolution. She said that I had fought the drugs and
fought to stay alive, and that I was so strong that one day I would change
things. She said that I would ignite a revolution. Richard on the other hand wasn’t as lucky as
me. He was born into a good loving family until his dad passed away and his mom
got hooked on drugs. She overdosed. He found her after school when he was 6
years old. That’s when he went into the foster care system. We met when we were
teens. Both lost and confused, we didn’t really have anyone but each other. What
my mom did was unheard of and I grew up in a church with nuns. It’s not easy
being a kid like me. I was always in trouble for being curious. I thought no
one in the world was like me. That was until I met Richard. Once we found each
other, nothing could tear us apart. My mom didn’t like him but I didn’t care. I
loved him. We got married at 16 and lived on our own. We had many happily
married years when he found out he had cancer.” She stops to take a breath. But
if Richard and Charles are the same person… I know this part of the story from
the history books. “He was cryogenically frozen in your time and woken up when
they found a cure for cancer. That’s how he ended up in the future where the
rest of The Five were.” She laughs at me finishing her story. “Yes he was and
that’s correct. But what you don’t know is what he had to do to get on
cryogenically frozen. He had to sell our country secrets that I had been
collecting. I stole the secrets just in case the higher power decided I knew
too much and wanted to kill me. It was like an insurance plan. I hid them in
the church where I grew up. Richard knew
that and so he went to the church and killed the nuns… my mom included. Just to
get the secrets. When he sold them, the CIA found out it was me the secrets had
come from. And well you know the rest.” Although I don’t understand most of Rev’s
story. I understand that Richard/Charles killed her mom to save himself.
Oh wow!!!
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