I don't trust her.

“I don’t trust you,” you say, getting up. Scarlet pushes you as her eyes flare.

Your mouth is covered, and you’re soon strangely fighting with her in a silent battle that’s both hands-on and aggressive. The tired is forced out of your body. But it is already it’s too late for you to do a good just on defense. Scarlet was well attuned to fighting with her hands and already had you on the drop.

Scarlet has your mouth covered and your arms pinned. The flare you saw in her eyes has cooled into a stream of red puff. Her resistance falters, and questions begin filling your head.

You manage to break out of her grip. But, unfortunately, something has snapped in Scarlet’s head, and you foolishly lead not just yourself into this crack house of a building but also Alexandra.

Finally, after all of your rolling and muffled cursing, Alexandra wakes up and asks what’s happening—moving as swift as a fox getting caught in the henhouse. Scarlet produces a pistol from her hip and shoots Alexandra in the leg, who crumbles to the floor, wailing in complete agony. Before you can react, Scarlet has her pistol pointing at you, center mass.

“Fuckin’ move, and I’ll blow a hole in your lungs,” she warns.

“What are you doing!?” You shout.

“Keep your voice down–” Scarlet makes a face before she shoots a hateful glance at Alexandra. “Shut the hell up!”

Alexandra reduces her sobbing into muffled cries of pain. “What are you doing, Scarlet?!”

“Cutting loose ends,” she says, now looking back at you. “You both are terrible fucking people. You know that? You both claimed to care about me, but let’s face it. After that night we all fucked each other’s brains out- none of you gave a damn! You knew DAMN WELL WHAT YOU DID TO ME!”

Your mind spins. What can you say? Everything you thought you needed to say was already offered to her earlier. You trusted Scarlet. You didn’t expect her to snap…lead alone shoot Alexandra. She inches back towards the exit, her eyes bouncing to both of her ex-companions.

“Last chance, Warren. I’m getting out here one way or another.”

“What about Alexandra?” you ask.

Scarlet laughs. “What the fuck about Alexandra? I’m leaving her like I’m about to leave you.”

“Are you going to shoot me if I don’t follow you?”

Scarlet pauses and then answers. “Yes. And if you try to attack me, I’ll blow your kneecaps off and leave you screaming in the snow too.”

Alexandra works herself to her hands. “Amara will kill you for this!”

Scarlet doesn’t say anything about that, but she does blink and briefly gives that a thought. She’s in too far to do anything else now, though. Whatever is on her agenda has to be completed.

“Tick tock,” Scarlet concludes. “Make up your mind!”