Together We'll Set The World On Fire

~Ashley’s POV~
We were at the restaurant eating our dinner, which I could barely manage because I was thinking of Harper and my baby.
The word hospital caught my attention coming from the television boarded on the wall.
I looked up and saw a news reporter in front of Mercy hospital…
Harper,
That was my first thought.
“Shots were heard coming from inside the hospital. People are being evacuated as we speak. There has been a fatality in room 436.” The reporter said looking completely undeterred by the screams and shouts coming from inside the hospital.
I turned to Jinxx who was making fun of Sammi’s hat, Sammi was not amused. “Jinxx what room is Harper in?” I dreaded the answer.
“Room 436… why?” Jinxx said confused.
Oh my God.
I leapt up from the table and bolted out the door.
I literally sprinted for the hospital only a few blocks away. My thoughts were only of Harper as images of her cold lifeless body flashed in my mind.
Harper bloody and lifeless as blood trickles out of her mouth, her beautiful gray eyes blank of emotion staring aimlessly.
“Out of my way!” I screamed elbowing my way through the crowd.
A police officer caught me by the arm and pulled me away from my course.
“What are you doing!?” I screamed at him as I struggled to break from his grip.
“Sir you can’t go in there! There’s a shooter on the loose!” The officer shouts at me.
“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE LOVE OF MY LIFE IS IN THERE!” I screamed starting to sob.
“Sir, what room was she in?” He asked. “I can get her out for you. But I cannot allow you to go in there yourself.”
“R-room 436.” I said losing all the strength in my body I went limp against the officer because I knew that the fatality happened in that room. I prayed that they were wrong. That Harper was alive.
“Sir, there was a fatality in that room. That’s where the killer went first.” The officer said sadly as he supported my worthless body.
“H-Harper” I started to sob.
“Ashley,” I heard her soft musical voice whisper in my mind.
She was gone.
My baby, my Harper.
Gone.
Torn away from me just like everything else was.
What did I do to deserve this? I thought.
I saw a police officer announce that the gunman had been caught with only one fatality.
I saw a black body bag being wheeled out of the hospital on a gurney. That was Harper.
I struggled to walk towards the body being carelessly laid down on the pavement. Ambulances had arrived at the scene, and other transportation vehicles to distribute the vast amount of patients to different hospitals.
“Sir what are you doing?” A nurse demanded.
“I need to see the person in that bag. They’re very important to me.” I said as clearly as I could.
The nurse frowned and said “I’m sorry sir but you’ll have to wait until the morgue is finished patching up the face. A bloody shot right to the head.”
How could she be so insensitive.
“How dare you!” I snarled at her. “That’s the love of my li—“
I was cut off by a voice.
“Ashley!?” It sounded like Harper.
I turned around to see Harper, in a hospital gown, on the arm of a male nurse who was helping her out of the building.
She was covered in blood. Splattered on her face and dried in her hair and painted her plain gown a nightmarish red.
“Harper?!” I said, perhaps I was hallucinating.
“Ashley!” She cried stumbling towards me.
I ran to her like my life depended on it. I swept her off her feet and into my arms spinning her around despite her being covered in blood.
“Ash-ashley I love you.” She stuttered through her tears as she wrapped her arms around my neck.
Those were words I never thought I’d hear.
And then she fainted.
“Sir, we need to get her to a hospital pronto.” The male nurse said.
“Yes of course.” I never wanted to let go of her again.
She was the very center of my life.
And I would never let anyone take her from me again.

Notes

Harper has lived.
But what happened who was the fatality?
New chapter and new story!
Thank you everyone!