My Dad Turns Out to be Eyes

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People in the room screamed and ducked as the gunfire echoed in their ears. 

Jessica turned to look back at the panic in the back carriage shortly after her father had done just that. People were seen running into the back car.

"May it keep them away from the effects of the explosion!" robert muttered as he turned back towards the technician.

Robert opened the engineering door and looked inside. The man sitting at the back looked puzzled as Robert pushed him from his seat.

"What the hell is going on?" he snaps at Robert. "You who? What are you doing?"

"You have to stop this train. Can you do it?"

"Of course I can stop the train" the man growled back at Robert. "But why should I do that? Are you an *******?"

"Do I look like *******?" Robert wondered about her. Raised his gun and fired another shot out the window to make the man carry out his orders. "Now, stop the train."

The man began to sweat when then he tried to slow down the carriage. Jessica looked at her father from behind, still wondering what exactly happened.

Robert shook his head as the driver turned to look at him. 

"What's going on?" ask the man.

"This train has been hijacked" said Robert, "you need to open the door and tell people to jump out."

"Why should I do that?"

"Because there's a bomb with about a minute between us." Robert snaps.

Robert stepped back, fired his gun back at the door, trying to break the key he had seen to escape. 

"We have to go now!" robert said sliding the door open wide.

The wind blew fiercely as the man looked at Robert with wide eyes and he knew that there was no joke in Robert's voice.

"You're serious?"

"For God's sake" cried Jessica, looking down at the water on the side of the railroad tracks. 

He lowered his head as Robert held onto his arm. Robert knew very well that they could not save many people. Robert just didn't have a chance to do that. And now he has to save Jessica.

He had told the driver what needed to happen. The main concern is getting Jessica out of here alive.

"We must jump," Robert said to her, his voice shrill over the roar of the wind. Jessica gulped, shaking her head as she left her bag on the floor. He looked up to his father, doing the best he could to not look so scared.

"It's okay" Robert said to her as if understanding the girl's fear. "Take a big jump and you'll be in the water. Kick and push your body to the surface."

"Did you do this often?" Jessica wondered at her father.

"Frequently enough," said Robert. "Compared to passing the waterfall you once did, this is nothing, Jessie. You have to trust Dad. Everything's gonna be okay."

"Jeez," complained Jessica.

"You have to do it now, Jessica," urged Robert on his daughter. "You'll be safe. You can hold my word."

"Oh my God" Jessica complained to him. "It's not normal. It's scary. I can't..."

Robert felt a second of guilt overwhelm him before he made a move. He hugged his daughter's waist. He lifted up and threw his body forward, watching with his own eyes as his daughter fell into the water. The girl floated with a loud shout before the technician looked at her in confusion.

"You go to another carriage, try to stay away from the effects of the explosion, if you can. And put as many people as you can into that great river," demanded Robert turn around to look under the bridge of the chariot.

A moment of guilt filled him when he realized that he should be there to help them all. He should have helped those people. But he knew it wouldn't do him any good. There was not enough time or enough doors to save them all...

'I'm sorry!' his inner.

Robert then jumped into the water.

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