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“I wouldn’t call who’s left over on my side family… but that’s complicated.”

“Oh… th-then c-can I be your family?” she presses, and I swerve, nearly hitting a tree at her question.

“What?”

“I… I’m sorry to overstep, Daddy but… you’ve done everything for me… and I just want to do something… anything. So, if it’ll make you happy I’ll be your family. Th-that way, even when you do leave, you know you’re not alone,” she smiles and I hate it…

At nine years old, with the whole world gunning for them, any kid would think death was a welcome dream, but to me… I didn’t give a fuck whether I live or died. I only fought because my retainers told me to… but lately, staying alive has grown mundane and boring. I held no loyalty my family because I could barely even remember my mama’s face, or my daddy… or my baby brother. My retainers say I look like them, but all I see is amonster. A bastard that had a date with death twenty-five years overdue.

I gave a fuck about nothing, and was just biding my time, unsure why the fuck I kept fighting to stay alive…but I see now it was to claim Birdie.

“Let’s go together.” The moment she says those words I skirt to a stop right in front of a cliff.Fuck…I glance at her.

Birdie

HOLY SHIT! I take his hand smiling nervous than a son of a bitch, heart knocking in my chest and stomach doing back flips.Well, this isn’t the ending I imagined, but…

“I’m ready,” I bite my lip, shrugging. It is what it is. I discreetly clutch my aching stomach, feeling nauseous. I don’t like heights that much, but if Saw wants to drive over a cliff, then I’m going with him.

I can’t imagine what life would be like without him. He’s my Owner, my everything… my smile.I don’t want to be without him.

My heart thumps in my chest as I give him my unwavering support. I don’t care if I die here. For some reason, I do hold a tinge of regret, but I know if I live without him, I’ll be as good as a walking zombie…I need Saw.

“Inmate 0976371,” I hear over a megaphone outside, making me jump. “We have you surrounded. Release the woman and come out with your hands on top of your head.” I turn to see they really do have us surrounded and have guns pointed at us.Damn… thissome real Bonnie and Clyde shit… or even Joker and Harley Quinn type stuff…only this isn’t a cartoon and once we go over this cliff there is no silly tricks to keep us alive until the next episode.

Next to me Saw begins to hyperventilate and it’s the first time I’ve seen Saw show vulnerability. I open my mouth to tell him everything is going to be okay but before I can he reaches over and unlocks my door while unbuckling my seatbelt. He pushes my door open, and to my horror, he shoves me out of the car.

“SAW!” I reach and try to grab for him, wanting to beg him not to leave me, but I can’t get the sentence out because my heart sinks in my chest, and I scream when I see him speed up and drive toward the cliff. “DADDY, DON’T LEAVE! ME!” I run after the car, but I’m tackled to the ground when… Horror… and pain unlike anything I thought I could experience in my life cause me to freeze over. The car goes over the ledge and I lay frozen. Suddenly, there’s a loud screaming in my ear, and it’s only when I feel my vision go black that I realize the screaming was me.

Chapter 14

Ownerless

BIRDIE

“SAW!” I jump up, panting, looking around frantically, hyperventilating, clutching my chest. I hear a blaring and continuous beep, feeling completely out of it, seeing white walls.

“SAWWWWW DAAAADDDDDY SAAAWWWWW DAAAAAADDDDYYY! I shout and someone slams into the room as I try to tear at the tube in my arm. Suddenly, a bunch of nurses dash in and hold me down.

“MA’AM CALM DOWN! PLEASE, YOU ARE SAFE. RELAX! ER, ROOM 406, WE HAVE A CODE GREY! I REPEAT ER, ROOM 406, CODE GREY! MA’AM, PLEASE CALM DOWN!” I hear, but I can’t comprehend shit! “SAW!”

The nurse tries to hold me down, but I don’t want her touching me. I just want Saw. I know he’s here because I just fucking know he didn’t go off that cliff.I know he didn’t… he isn?—

“SAAAAAWWWWWWW!” I shout, fighting them and knocking them back. I pick up a scalpel and hold it up. “WHERE IS SAW?! W-WH-WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?!” I blink back tears, and they hold up their hands as one speaks into her walkie-talkie.

“ER ROOM 406! CODE GOLD! ER ROOM 406! CODE GOLD!” she speaks with urgency, watching me as while I tremble, blinking several times, feeling like I’m high as fuck. My mind keeps going back to him pushing me out of the car and going over the cliff…that must have been a dream…

“WHERE IS SAW?! WHAT DID YOU SONS OF BITCHES DO WITH MY DADDY?!” I pant and their eyes go wide, looking at me as if I’m crazy.

“Ma’am please… put the scalpel down… you are safe now… that bad man won’t hurt y?—”

“BITCH, FUCK YOU! WHERE IS SAW?!” My outburst must have taken her by surprise because she clutches her chest, reeling back, offended as another nurse steps up.

“Ms. Grey… we are aware of the precarious situation you have been in over the past week and a half … and we want to help.”Week and a half… i… is that all I had with him? Shit, it felt like a lifetime I’d happily relive…“But in order to get you the help you need, we need for you to calm down and listen,” she states and I pant, twitching, missing Daddy.

Where is he… why isn’t he here… he said… he said if I let go, he’d give me everything and I did, so why isn’t he here?

“Wh-where’s my Daddy?”

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