Starless Dusk Ch. 4 Part 3

                    "Carol sent you, didn't she?" I growled through my tears and uneven breathing. The room was completely black, except for the continuos flash of light that bounced of the metal barrel of the gun. The man chuckled silently.
                    "Bingo!" He said as he laughed. It made me insane that he was actually enjoying it.
                    "I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. Dylan, I..." was all I could manage to get out. My breath was strained and my head was pounding, I just wanted to go to sleep, wake up and find out that it was all just a dream, but the adrenaline being poured into my body kept my eyes wide open.
                   "No, Gianna! This is not your fault! Please don't blame yourself!" Dylan snarled, almost the same way Bella and Edward do.
                  "Okay, I'm getting bored!" The man growled. I cringed at the frustration in his voice. He cocked the gun and pointed it at Dylan. I felt him take a breath and push me back against the wall even harder than he already was. I cried harder as I felt my own heart rate accelerate.
          The man straightened his arm and pulled the trigger.
          I screamed at the top of my lungs until my breath was cut off by the impact of the bullet in Dylan's chest knocked the breath out of me. I tried with every bit of energy in my body to push Dylan out of the way and take the bullets, but he pinned me to the wall.
          Another 2 shots.
          Scream.
                  "NO! NO! Please! Stop!" I screamed, but it was pointless, my voice was drowned out by the sound of another 3 shots.
          BANG!
          BANG!
          BANG!
     The silent sound of laughter resonated in the air as the shooter ran out of the room and down the stairs. Each of his steps made a loud pound on the hollow stairs. I head the front door slam and a car start and speed away.
     Dylan collapsed on me the second the cars muffled roar dies out. We were completely drenched in his blood I hesitantly turned on my bed lamp.
     There was dark red liquid everywhere. I stared in fear at the six holes in Dylan's chest. His beautiful chest. I cried out loudly. I couldn't loose him.
     Dylan weakly took my hand and brought it to his mouth. He kissed it softly.
                    "I'l..... I'll.... be..... okay." he whispered unconvincingly.
                    "No.... I'm so sorry Dill.... but you .... you have to hold on... for me.... you just gotta..... I...." I wanted to say so many things, but I feared he would just die in my arms while I was rambling on. I kept gasping for air as the irony scent of blood filled my lungs. "Bella!" I gasped.
     Dylan laid shaking on my lap as I grabbed my phone from the charger and dialed my sister with my bloody fingers.
                    "Hey!" Bella answered joyfully.
                    "Bella, I..... I need you.... Dy.... Bella..... oh my god."
                    "What happened?!" she asked frantically. I got kind of annoyed.
                    "Bella! He's DYING!" I yelled into the small silver phone.
                    "We're coming!" She said as I heard a loud thud. She has dropped the phone. I threw mine at the wall.
     I was enraged, horrified and tired. My mind was slowly shutting down.  
     I grabbed on of the sheets on my bed and tried to tourniquet Dylan's wounds. He hissed and winced in agony.
     The bullet holes were all over his chest, but I could tell where most of them were. One was right in his stomach, one directly on a lung, two, about a inch apart, by where his hear is, and two more in the enter of his chest.  I kept crying.
     The Cullens burt into our room about 3 minuets after I'd hung up with Bella. Jasper instantly tensed and covered his mouth, as did Alice. Rosalie's eyes went black as Emmett's complete expression went blank, and then turned to anger.
                    "I'm going to find the son-of-a-bitch!" Emmet growled. "Jasper!"
     Jasper followed him. "My little sister. That bastard hurt my little sister!" Emmet kept repeating as he ran out of the house. If warmed me slightly to know that he felt like that about me.
                    "Check on Carol too, this was her doing." Edward called, reading my mind.
     Bella ran to my side and wiped a tear from my cheek. She wasn't breathing. Esme cringed into Edward's side and held her nose to his chest, not breathing either.
     Carlisle looked at Dylan and shook his head. He slightly tapped Dylan's knee.
                    "Can you felt that?" He asked quietly.
                    "No," Dylan said, with a hint of surprise in his voice.
                    "His spine is shattered. Judging from the bullet holes, I'd guess in two places. This isn't good" he sighed. I wanted to lay down and die with him.
                    "Bella,.... you gotta... help him.... I.... I need him with me. Please." I cried. Bella nodded.
                    "O.... kay."
                    "Bella, if you are going to do this, do it now, his heart his failing. There's a bullet in it. He was minuets." Carlisle said quietly.
                    "NO! Dylan! You hold on fro me love! You have to! You just, have to!" I cried. I felt his hand tighten on mine. His eyes sparkled with tears.
                    "I'm trying G, I promise." He whispered. I took a breath.
                    "Bella, please, this is all my fault, just, please make him like you." I said calmer. I heard Renesmee crying. Jake shushed her.
                    "Bella, you can, he'll make it. I see him." Alice said with the slight sign of a smile on her face. Bella nodded.
                    "Get me morphine. I think it helped me."
     Carlisle ran out of the room and was aback in about 10 seconds. Carlisle took  the syringe and injected Dylan with what seemed like the legal limit of morphine. I felt him loosen in my harm as the drug too affect. I gently stoked his warm face and looked deeply into his warm hazel eyes. I knew it was the last time I'd ever see them that color again. I smiled slightly, to lighten his burden. I knew he was in more pain from seeing me so distraught than having six massive metal abominations in his chest.
     He smiled back at me.
                     "I love you." I whispered. He closed his eyes, like it was healing him to hear that.
                     "I love you too." he whimpered.
                     "Now Bella." Carlisle said. She nodded. Bella took him from my arms and bit him on the neck, and waited a second. She continued to bite him and wait until the were bite marks all up him arms and lets. She licked of her the marks, closing them up with her venom. I half wanted to tell her to change me too, but I knew it would be a lost battle.
     Dylan began to shake and scream. He looked at me and switched out his screams for loud pain ridden grunts.
          'Goodbye, hazel eyes, warm skin, soft touch. I'll miss you all.' I sand in my head as I felt Bella place him back on my lap. I looked at her.
     Bella's eyes were black and wide. Dylan's hazel eyes closed and his breathing quickened. I just wanted to lay there with him and sleep next to his side until he woke up. I kissed his cheek and Carlisle took him from my arms.
     Bella pulled me into a tight hug and rocked me back and forth.
                      "It's okay. He's going to be fine." She whispered. I began to cry into her blue sweater. I'd never felt to safe in someone's arms, besides Dylan's. I felt my yes fighting me to sleep, but I wouldn't let myself.
     She kissed my hair and continued to rock me, as a mother would. I cringed at the thought of a mother.
     How Carol could do such an evil, sadistic, horrible thing, I'll never know. What she was thinking when she decided when she payed a man to kill Dylan, I'll never know. And if she really thought that I'd come crawling back to her after Dylan died, she was wrong.

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