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Autumn and Ben headed out to the warehouse early as Alec was telling everyone goodbye. Ben held her hand the whole way through the sewer, up until the steps, when he went up first. She waited at the bottom for him to give the all clear but it never came. Curiously, she crept up the steps and found Ben held between two men with a third pounding his fist into him. She could see the gun on the ground to the left of where the men were holding him. She just needed to get to it and then let White get distracted, but first pulling out her cell phone, she called Alec, and when he answered she cut him off, “Don’t talk. People were waiting for us in the warehouse. They have Ben.”
“Autumn don’t you dare,” Alec yelled only to hear the dial tone.
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“So 494, I didn’t think you’d get stupid enough to come back to Seattle,” White tells the transgenic as he slams his fist into his face again.
All Ben did was smile. He didn’t want to do anything that would put Autumn in danger and they didn’t know she was in the sewer. He wanted to keep it that way.
“What’s so funny 494? I am going to kill you personally this time,” White says, pulling out his gun and aiming it at Ben’s head.
“I’m not 494,” Ben tells him.
Grabbing Ben by the hair, White pulls his head forward until he can see his barcode, but there isn’t one.
“Good one, 494. You had me going there for a minute. But we followed you back from that piece of shit messenger service yesterday,” Ames says taking aim at Ben’s head again.
“He’s telling the truth,” Autumn says coming out of the sewer.
“Autumn, what the fuck are you doing?” Ben yells at her.
“I’m not going to watch him blow your brains all over this warehouse 493.”
“Dammit Autumn, the kids,” Ben yells at her, at White slams his foot into his stomach, before turning to the female.
“Who are you?” White asks, pointing his gun at her.
“I’m his wife,” Autumn tells him putting her hands up. She knew he had every intention of shooting Ben, and she wasn’t going to just let him. She had a feeling this was Ames White and two of his cult buddies. “I have been for almost 4 years. We met in Miami after he moved there. I was a VP of Public Relations in a big company. He was a cute bouncer at a club.”
“You know what this freak is and let him touch you?” White asked her.
Autumn realized that he thought she was an ordinary. “Please don’t hurt him,” Autumn said, slowly circling so White’s back was to the open manhole.
“Autumn, get out of here,” Ben tries to tell her. “Please let her go. She doesn’t have anything to do with this.”
“She’s a part of this if she’s bringing freak kids into the world,” White yells at Ben turning to glance down at him.
That was all the break Autumn needed as she ran for the gun and rolling into a dive, she grabbed the gun and aiming it on the way up and without a second thought put a bullet between White’s eyes. Aiming at the men still holding her husband, Autumn went into assassin mode and rapidly put a bullet in their hearts. All of this was over in a matter of seconds.
Alec, Max and Mole arrived just as the first bullet went off. Alec watched Autumn go from the loving wife and mother, into the perfect assassin and Alpha Female protecting her mate. Alec watched as she never wavered after killing White and immediately killed his associates as well.
Glancing at Alec, Autumn lowered the gun and walked over to Ben. Alec ran over to help her get him onto his feet.
“What did you do?” Max asked her looking at the bodies lying at her feet.
“You know there might be a whole lot more of these assholes out there, but I made damn sure this bastard,” Autumn says indicating to White, “Will never hurt another transgenic. I did exactly what I was trained to do, kill. And I’ll do it again if someone cocks a gun at a member of my family with the intention of blowing their brains out. That worthless piece of shit threatened one of my mates, one of the fathers of my children. I put a fucking bullet in his head.”
Helping Alec get Ben over to Mole, she asked if he could get him back to Terminal City so Doc could look at his injuries.
“What are you and the princess gonna do?” Mole asked chewing on his cigar.
“I’m going to go get a car, load the carcasses in the trunk, drive them out of the city and dispose of them like the garbage they were. I’m going to clean up my mess,” Autumn tells Mole without a single twinge of regret or guilt for her actions.
“You know,” Mole says, picking Ben up, “It’s a nice change to take orders from a female who knows what the hell she’s doing, and doing what needs done.” Giving Autumn a wink, Mole turns to leave to get Ben the medical help he needed.
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Autumn stood with Alec as the car sank beneath the lake waters, at the base of the mountain they’d driven it off. It was going to take a hell of an effort to find the car, let alone getting it back up the mountain side. Ames White was truly dead and gone. Alec pulled her back against him and wrapped his arms around her waist.
“I can’t believe how close I came to losing both you and Ben today.”
“You weren’t going to lose us, 494. Manticore might have been hell on earth, but I was a great solider for the devils we served. I might have changed my name, but I will always be X5-499, Autumn didn’t exist when I pulled that trigger. Life might change the story we’re playing, but you and I will always be the Elite of Manticore’s supersoldiers. Nothing, no amount of children or happily ever after will change that. I would have done the exact same thing if had been you out there today.”
“I know, I’m just glad the kids went home yesterday,” Alec whispers stepping back from Autumn and straddling his bike.
“It wouldn’t have ended so quickly if he’d had my children. I would have made him suffer before he died,” Autumn tells Alec climbing on behind him and holding tightly to his waist.
“They don’t feel pain,” Alec tells her starting the bike.
“There are other ways to suffer without feeling pain,” Autumn whispers as Alec takes off into the night for the long drive back to Seattle.
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Ben was sitting up in his hospital bed when Autumn and Alec arrived back. Doc had set his shoulder back into socket and stitched his forehead. Everything else would heal in a few days, including his reinjured knee which he was thankful was just hyper-extended and not broken. When he saw Autumn, he slid off the bed and using the chair, hopped over to her, wrapping her in his arms. “What the hell were you thinking today?” he growls against her neck.
“I wasn’t thinking beyond saving your ass and putting a bullet in White,” she tells him, as Alec takes a seat in the chair.
“Dude, you had to have your ass saved by our woman,” Alec says trying to lighten the mood. He knows how Ben’s feeling right now, but he cannot fault Autumn for what she’d done.
“Dammit Alec,” Ben says pulling back from Autumn and forgetting about his knee tries to step back. Quickly he finds himself in Alec’s arms looking up at Autumn. “Well that didn’t go as I had planned.” Smirking, Alec helps him back over to the edge of the bed.
“So what happened?” Alec asks, once he’s back sitting in the chair.
Autumn walks over to sit beside Ben, she takes his hand in hers.
“Fucker was waiting for me when I came out of the tunnel. Kicked me in the fucking knee so I couldn’t fight back and then for good measure dislocated my shoulder. After that it was just repeated blows to the face. I was fine til he pulled the gun on me, and then Autumn popped out of the sewer. Then a few gun shots later and Mole is carrying me like lil bitch back to Medical.”
“So I guess it will be a few days til we’re headed back to Portland,” Autumn says, looking from Ben to Alec, as Logan walked in.
“Actually, I’m willing to drive Ben home. I can’t imagine you’d want to be away from your children that long.”
“What’s the matter Logie? You tryin to get rid of us, or is Max pissed because everyone’s happy Autumn finally did what Max couldn’t?” Alec asks.
“No, I’m not trying to get rid of you, and yes, Max is having problems with the way today went down, but everyone else is calling Autumn a hero. Even I’m pleased with White no longer going to be a threat.”
“Yes, but the problem with White dying is he was the threat you knew, the next guy could be worse,” Autumn tells the three men. “The only reason White died was because he was going to kill Ben who he thought was Alec. So in all honesty he was gunning for both my mates today. I couldn’t let that go unchallenged. I didn’t do it to be a hero, and I sure as hell don’t want Max’s job here in Terminal City. I’d very much like to go home.”
“I’ll get my car and someone to drive Ben’s bike,” Logan says turning to leave. “Um, Autumn, why did you take off last night?” he asks, looking over his shoulder.
“She realized Alec and I were going to be fathers again,” Ben says, leaning over to give his brother a high-five.
“You took White and his men on knowing you were pregnant?” Logan asks shocked.
“What can I say, Logan? I love the two idiots. No way was I letting Ben out of diaper duty that easily,” Autumn smiles, as Ben leans toward her and wrapping his hand in her hair, brings her lips to his.