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Something Snapped

He had never seen Hugo cry as much as he had that night at his place. Ed had gone over to show some support, but wished that he never had. They may have been like brothers at the time, but knowing that Hugo would never be seeing Annarie again due to a supposed murder was just heart breaking, even for Ed, and that had probably been the point of no return for their steady decline in kinship. As Ed sat in his room, staring at old photos he had framed and hung on the wall opposite his huge mirror, he thought of how their brotherly relationship had now turned professional, and nothing more.             "I was wondering where you went off to," Liz said as she entered his room and sat down next to him.             Ed smiled up at her and beckoned her to scooch over. He then laid his head down on her lap. "Had a fun day?"             Liz smiled brightly and nodded in quick succession. "I hadn't had a decent day out with a fellow girl in so long! You shou

Something Attacked

            Gunfire filled the air as the Others fired on Ed’s car. He was a few hundred meters ahead of Ian when they rammed him and nearly drove him off the highway.             There were three black vans and a Humvee with a mounted gun raining heavy suppressing fire down on Ed. Ian got within a few meters before he turned his car sideways, got out and retrieved a Scar L assault rifle from the trunk with an attached grenade launcher. He lauded a grenade, took aim and fired at the Humvee.             The grenade found its target and the Humvee exploded, sending the body a few meters into the air before it came crashing down on a group of Others. Ian started shooting at the few he could outflank while Ed managed to fire at the other agents that had broken cover after the explosion.             Ian fired a single shot at a time, picking his targets carefully and making sure his shots counted. There were only thirty rounds in the magazine and he had no intention of trying to re