THĒ JÃILBĪRD
Thē Jãilbīrd - Episode 17&18
(Female•In•Disguise)
★★★★★★★★★★★★★
#UNEDITED
Then... boom!
A bomb exploded.
Adeline's mind went down on a thick mash of fear and got muddled as she continued rolling down the grass with Madden whose arms are around her waist.
The force of the bomb explosion shook the place to it's roots, and the other six mobsters on the grass rolled down with them.
Luckily for them, the bomb didn't get any of them, but it made a mess of the snow, boring different huge holes in it.
One of the trees around caught fire, and it began burning brightly, sharing it's fire around the place.
Madden let go of Adeline when they got to the downside part of the grass, and he stood, his arm bleeding from the shot and the right part of his face stained with black from the bomb fumes.
Adeline stood, slinging her gun on her shoulder with shaky hands before facing him.
"You're... wounded!" Her eyes widened when she saw his bleeding arm, but when she tried to touch it, he literally slapped her hand away, and she stepped back before looking at his face again.
"This ain't the right time to play pathetic, get your head straight in the game! If you get yourself killed, I'll happily have you buried!" He harshly said, and she swallowed her own spit as the harshness hit her all in the face.
Adeline badly wants to ask how he knew her real name, or when he found out, but obviously, this ain't the right time too.
She almost died, and that same mistake shouldn't happen again.
The other six guys stood to their feet too.
"Shield yourselves with the trees and follow the strength of your capacity. The real hunt starts now" Madden ordered, and the guys split themselves in twos, going in different directions.
Madden went straight, covering himself with a leafless tree, and Adeline followed, staying at the other side of him.
She hid behind a tree too before peeping out to the cabins.
She could clearly see the bastards who threw the bomb.
They're already coming into the forest, probably to check if the bomb got them.
There are like dozens of them.
Before Adeline could think, Madden already opened fire on them.
Adeline followed his lead, opening fire too together with the other mobsters around.
Within two minutes, they brought down over thirty of the bastards, and the rest of them ran into hiding, shooting back from there.
One of them targeted Adeline's spot, and she had to gum herself to the tree cos any slight movement from her, she'd be shot down.
Madden saw it and tried taking the bastard down, but it's impossible from his angle.
Adeline is the only one who can bring him down.
Adeline held her breath, deciding to risk it and come out from behind the tree...
"Stay where you are" Madden told her.
"But I can't freeze for life" she replied.
"Then you'll come out and get yourself killed?" He said.
"Didn't you say you'd happily bury me if i die?" She replied.
"This little shit" Madden muttered, and before he could address her again, she came out from behind the tree with her sniper intact.
The target shot immediately, and she shot at the same time, hitting him in the head.
The target went down, and then several other shots started coming from his colleagues, aimed directly at Adeline.
"Shit!" She spat, climbing the tree as bullets flew around the leaves.
Madden had to face them under the tree while she shot back from a tree branch.
Together, they brought down another round of thirty, thanks to their stellar shooting skills.
Suddenly, one of them targeted the branch Adeline is standing on, shooting it three times consecutively.
The branch tore, and Adeline fell from it, landing on the ground.
Madden doubled up his efforts immediately, and within that short period, he brought down twenty on his own.
Adeline got back to her feet as fast as possible, but her gun fell already and is covered by the fallen branch.
She went on her knees and began trying to remove it, but while at it, one of the men successfully shot at her.
The bullet hit her back, on her right arm.
She was already holding her gun before she got hit, but all the energy to shoot left her immediately.
Still, she stood with bloody shaky arm...
"Get back on the ground f+çking idiot!" Madden shouted at her, still shooting relentlessly as he shouted.
Adeline tried lifting her gun nevertheless, but her eyes turned heavy and drowsy as more blood rushed out of her wound, soaking her black jacket.
She went on her knees before falling flat on her face, passing out.
Madden pretended not to see her and just focused on his shots, bringing them down alone.
His other men and the other two teams are probably bringing them down on the other side of the forest cos he could hear the gunshot sounds.
A bullet nearly hit him again on the same arm, but thanks to instinct, he targeted the shooter back, blowing off his head.
While doing that, his eyes caught Adeline's body which is still lying on the ground.
Blood is still pouring out of her shot back in handfuls, and if the blood doesn't stop within a given time, she'd die for real.
She's losing too much blood, and it's understandable since that's her first gunshot wound.
Leaving the others to face the battle alone while taking care of her won't make any sense, and at the same time, he can't let her die yet.
He hid behind a tree again and tapped his bud, contacting the other two teams.
"Cease fire and return to the cars! Mission failed!" He ordered.
"Yes master!" Jinx's voice came.
"Y...y..es... master" Loud's voice came shakily, and Madden just knew immediately that something went wrong with his team.
This will be the first time his mission went awry like this, and he could already imagine the number of losses that's on ground.
He cancelled the thought and covered himself with the grasses before going for Adeline.
He pulled her up, and despite the fact that she's unconscious, she's still holding her sniper gun so tightly to her chest.
Her face is becoming pale with her lips, and her blood is mixing with the snow already.
He took the gun from her before lifting her to his back, then he took their guns together, going down the forest as fast as possible.
The gunshots were still coming from the cabins, and he could still feel bullets raining on the trees as he ran out of the greenery.
He never runs.
All his life, he has never been chased.
He's always the one doing the chase, but the reverse is the case now.
The amount of anger and rage inside him right now could destroy any living and nonliving, and thats how he knew that this ain't over.
This is far from over.
He arrived at their cars after twenty minutes run through the forest, and he placed Adeline inside the black wagon, waiting for the others.
He only had to wait for a minute before Jinx and Poe arrived with their team.
They lost two mobsters, and they're carrying their bodies on their shoulders.
They placed the bodies at the back of the truck, then Loud appeared with his team.
They lost just one person, and that one person is on Loud's shoulder.
Jinx gasped immediately, but Madden kept his face straight despite the fact that he already knows who that body belongs to.
Loud has hot tears in his eyes as he dropped the body in the truck too.
It's Nikolai!
He was shot on the chest, directly in the heart.
"Niko!!" Jinx cried out, covering her mouth.
That only made Loud's tears go louder , and he sat on the ground, letting it all out.
Poe kept her face frozen, seeming uninterested in the ongoing sorrow.
Her eyes are on Madden's shot arm, and she hates Micheal more for it.
How could he allow Madden to get hurt when he could have protected him?
She saw Adeline's unconscious body in the car, and she scoffed, wishing he died instead of his unconscious state.
"Over" Madden finally spoke, entering the car.
The others started entering the other cars too, and Jinx had to pull Loud up.
She entered the truck with him, and they stayed with the dead bodies throughout the drive back to the clan.
Loud didn't stop crying, and when they drove into the clan one hour later, the other mobsters were already waiting to hear the good news.
Trixie and Sin are waiting with them, but immediately Madden came out of the car, they knew things didn't go well.
They could feel the dead energy around him, and when the others began coming out too, they lost hope completely.
The truck was opened, and the two bodies were dragged out together with Nikolai's.
"What the f+ck!" Trixie gasped.
"Shit" Sin muttered, his eyes wide.
Madden himself took Adeline's body out of the car, and their eyes widened more.
"Michael too? No!!" Trixie cried.
Kimberly rushed into the crowd, and when she saw Adeline's body in Madden's arms, she went crazy.
She almost lost her senses and ran to take the body from him, but Sin's words stopped her...
"I don't think he's dead" Sin said.
The nurses at the clinic appeared with stretchers, and they made to take Adeline from Madden...
"Will take care of him myself" he told them off, and they stepped back.
"Bury the bodies" he ordered the other mobsters before leaving the circle, heading for the manor.
Poe was dishing him malicious looks as he walked, folding her fists.
Kimberly wouldn't stop staring too, praying with everything in her for her sister's safety.
Loud sat beside Nikolai's body, crying bitterly as he called his name repeatedly.
Sin squatted beside him, placing an hand on his shoulder.
Trixie joined him too, placing an hand on his second shoulder.
Andrei is part of the onlookers too, but immediately the dead bodies were carried away, he left for Igor's suite.
He didn't even bother to knock before barging in.
Igor is fingering a naked bî+ch in the living room, and the girl is crying loudly.
"What did you do, Igor?" He demanded.
"Get out I'm not in the mood to talk!" Igor replied, his three fingers going into the bi+ch's pu+$y again.
"F+ck! F+ck yes!" She female moaned, widening her legs farther from each other.
"What did you do to the mission? Three people died!" Andrei shouted, and that made Igor face him.
He withdrew his wet fingers slowly from the pu$$y, and the female complained with a whine as Igor walked to Andrei.
"Repeat that" he said.
"The mission...it failed. Three people died and Micheal got injured badly!" Andrei said.
"Really?" Igor's eyes shone with excitement, and his laughter filled the house immediately.
He walked away from Igor, still laughing mockingly, then he laughed back to him.
"What did you do?" Andrei asked.
"What do you mean by that? I did nothing, I guess it's time for Madden to taste failure too. It wasn't made for only me" Igor replied.
"Is this a joke?" Andrei said unbelievably, and Igor went closer to him.
"Hey have I ever done anything without involving you? I know nothing about the attack!" He yelled at Andrei's face.
Andrei sighed.
*
HOUSE OF ORLOVS*
Maya is currently sitting on a chair, staring defiantly at Erik and Klara who're in front of her.
They're in Erik's office, and her knife is with her as it always is.
She's sliding the sharp end across her wrist, and a satisfactory look is in her eyes as a small trail of blood came out.
"Pretty" she muttered, smiling.
"Stop that nonsense!" Klara suddenly shouted, and Maya looked up
"What? Is this not allowed too? Just the way I wasn't allowed to come out of my room when I was young" she said.
"Listen, Maya. Hurting yourself will only deepen your wounds, and that's why you need to visit a psychotherapist. You need your brains back" Erik gently said.
"My brains are with me" Maya shrugged.
"No. You won't find pleasure in hurting yourself if it is, and you won't call your blood pretty everytime you see it" Klara glared, and Maya slammed her palms on the table.
"I'm not going to see a psychotherapist, and it's my choice"
"Maya...
"I said no! And when are you gonna tell Igor the real identity of Corey?" Maya interrupted.
"Not now" Klara rested back on her chair, and Maya chuckled.
"Not now? Igor is ignorant about everything and that is why he's being a bî+ch to Madden! He's grown enough to understand so if you don't tell him, I'll do the honor" she said blankly.
"No. Maya, you will not!" Erik hoarsely said.
"What? You'll lock me in my room to stop me from speaking out again?" Maya laughed, but the laughter is infused with pains.
Before either of the parents could reply, a guard rushed in.
"There was an attack, boss. Three casualties and one injured" he reported.
Erik and Klara spranged up at once.
"What!"
Maya stood, rushing out of the house.
*
MANOR*
Madden took Adeline straight to his bedroom and placed her in bed before grabbing his first-aid box.
It's a long wide metal one.
He learnt how to take care of himself with the kit since Igor would rather watch him die than treat him, and he'd rather die of bleeding than allow Igor touch him too.
He opened the kit wide, pouring everything out to the bed foot before going back to Adeline.
He lifted her back from the bed and supported it with a pillow before taking off her jacket, throwing it off.
He went for her shirt next, undoing the buttons as fast as possible.
Every part of the shirt is already soaked with her blood.
He pulled it off, and as expected, he met her chest bandage which has been soaked with redness too.
He got scissors and tore through the bandage, ripping it away from her chest.
Her small breasts fell free, and he didn't even give them another look before turning her, making her sleep on her chest.
He loaded a painkiller injection and injected the surrounding of the wound before cleaning it up, then he got to work.
Removing the bullet didn't take much time, and when he was done doing that, he patched and plastered it.
She lost a lot of blood, so she obviously needs transfusion.
Going to the clinic for her blood type is a no-no, so he resorted to his own blood since their blood match according to his research.
The past two weeks he spent behaving like she doesn't exist were exhausted on finding out everything about her.
Her real name, real family, and her history, but he knowingly didn't find out her full story.
He only knew her parents died, and she spent five years in jail for it.
He didn't bother knowing weather she really killed them or maybe she was framed, and he doesn't even care.
It's not his cup of tea anyways.
He connected the tubes to their arms and started the blood transfusion.
Despite the fact that he got shot and lost blood too, he doesn't give a shit.
As his blood ran to her body, he shut his eyes, thinking about the failed mission again.
Only one person could have done this.
He's the only one capable of orchestrating this, and he's already planning different ways to kill him in his head.
No one messes with him and goes scot free. He won't give him that taste.
He'll make his death more painful than the attack.
He stopped the transfusion after an hour, then he drank some tonic before leaving the manor at exactly 5pm.
As he walked down the mountain, Kimberly came out of her hiding place behind the forest.
She climbed up the mountain, but there's no way to enter.
She started going around the windows in circles maybe she'd get lucky and see Adeline, but she caught no glimpse.
From the base of the mountain, Madden could clearly see her, watching her every move as she went around the manor.
When she lost all hope, she sat on the ground, backing the building.
Madden left eventually, going back to the compound.
The burial of the lost three is already ongoing.
The first two has been buried, and Nikolai's body has just been lowered into the grave.
Loud hasn't stopped crying... Sin and Trixie didn't leave his side too.
He nearly entered the grave with him, they had to hold him back as Nikolai's body was covered with sand.
Erik is present, but Klara is not.
Maya is present, too.
Andrei is there but Igor is nowhere to be found.
Immediately Poe sighted Madden, he came to him.
"I'll escort you to the clinic, master. I don't care if I have to kill the nurses but your arm needs treatment" she said.
"I don't need it" he replied and turned, walking out of the burial.
He made his way to the house of Orlovs, meeting Klara in her office.
She spranged up immediately she sighted him, and her eyes dilated when she saw his arm.
"How come you're wounded? What was Michael doing?" She said, walking fast to him.
"He got wounded too like you might have heard" he replied plainly.
"He has no right to get wounded same time as you!" She seethed.
"What the f+ck are you blabbing!" He gnarled, and she gave him a look before going back to her desk.
"Who do you suspect?" She asked.
"Don't we all have only one person in mind?" He replied, and she looked up with arched brows.
"Who?"
*
10PM, MANOR*
Adeline felt less weight in her body, and at the same time, the urge to open her eyes.
She tried to open the eyes, but it stings, so she sniffled and tried again.
When the stinging still persisted, she decided to keep it closed, but then she remembered.
The mission!
The attack!
Her real name from Madden!
The bomb!
Her eyes flew open, and she sat up in bed quickly.
The first thing she noticed was her bouncing breasts.
Her chest bandage is gone!
She's wearing a black shirt, and judging by the snowy scent, it's Madden's.
Even the whole room smells like him too, and the coldness...
She looked around, and the shock deepened when she saw she's in his bedroom!
She was about to jump down from the bed when Madden came in, his face pale, and the bullet still intact in his shot arm.
She quickly got down from the bed and blocked him.
"Since when did you find out?" She asked, and his burning eyes settled on hers.
"Since the first time i saw you, when I threw the blade at you. I knew you were a woman immediately I set my eyes on you" he replied flatly.
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"Why the fûck would I? I don't give a damn about what you came here to do, and if you wanna continue being a part of my team, you might wanna make what happened at the mission the first and last time you'd ever space out" he replied coldly.
"You don't wanna know the reason why I risked my life to disguise here as a man?" She replied, her throat clogged with uncertainty.
"I don't give a fûck, how many fuçking times do you want to hear that!" He snapped, and she shifted back.
"Right. Yeah" she nodded slowly, staring at his wounded arm, and he left the room.
Adeline quickly got a new bandage from the first-aid kit and then took off the shirt.
She bandaged her b👀bs before wearing back the shirt, then Madden came back in.
He stayed by the door though, and she stopped moving, their eyes locking.
"You might wanna go back to the compound and cry" he said emotionlessly, and her eyes widened.
*
Adeline was already in tears as she ran down the mountain, Madden's words banging in her head.
"Nikolai died"
The tears were blinding her, and she could feel herself getting weaker and weaker since she's not strong enough to walk yet, talk more of running.
Her eyes were already turning, and she fell multiple times before she even got halfway.
Nikolai can't be dead.
It'll shatter Loud to pieces.
No it can't be... It can't...
Her race was interrupted when someone suddenly grabbed her by the arm, spinning her around
She came face-to-face with Poe who punched her in the face immediately.
Adeline fell on the dried leaves on the ground, and Poe kicked her in the tummy too, making her tumble.
Adeline held her stomach tightly as she stood, facing her weakly.
Her back wound reopened, and it's already bleeding again.
"What were you doing? Why would you allow master to get hurt at your watch! Your team members said he got shot while trying to call you back when you zoned out!" Poe snarled.
"You think I'm happy he got hurt? I'm hurt too and I know how it feels! I'm guilty as fûck!" Adeline fired back.
"Then die and let's bury you with Nikolai and the others!" Poe replied, coming for her again.
Adeline moved away.
If she should fight back with her bleeding back, then Poe will kill her within a second.
She whipped around swiftly, running fast down the forest.
Poe went after her.
*
BACK IN THE MANOR*
Madden is currently in front of the mirrors of his bedroom wall, a small combat knife in his right hand.
His face is closed off as he brought the knife to his wounded arm, digging it in at once.
His blood followed the dip, and he twisted the knife, making him growl out as more blood poured down his arm to the ground.
He removed the knife after a second twist, and the bullet fell out to the ground, still bloody.
He dropped the knife and squatted, his orbs shinning with mad fury as he picked up the bloody bullet.
He stood straight and took his handgun. He lodged the bullet into the gun barrel and rolled his eyes in the mirror.
He didn't bother to clean the blood on his arm cos in the next minute, he was already walking out of the red manor, gun in hand and eyes bloodshot.
His steps aren't calculated this time as he can't wait to get to the main compound.
He stepped out of the manor, and his veiny hand tightened around the gun, the cold night air blowing his dark hair to his icy-as-f+ck face.
He has just one target in mind...
Igor Orlov.
TBC.
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