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"Let her go," Peter cohed "It’s just so ," Peter put his foot on the first step of the altar "You still think that you’re going to get out of here alive, but you don’t really care if you do You only care about winning, and winning for you is destroying me"

"Very true," Gunnar ad hihtened on o"

"She’s theme" Peter took another step up, and Gunnar pressed his nail into h to draw a little blood, and Peter froze "You want toher is your way of torturing ," Gunnar smiled, but there was an unease behind it

"If I die, you lose" Peter bent down, picking up a titanium arrow off the top step of the altar Olivia had been shooting them all over, and a stray one had landed a few feet from us I felt Gunnar’s confidence falter for the first time "I want to die If I die before she does, I don’t see anything I don’t suffer at all"

"I’ll still kill her," Gunnar insisted nervously

"You’re gonna kill her either way, according to you" Peter pointed the arroards his own heart, pressing the tip against his chest "But this way, I’otten exactly what I’ve wanted, and you haven’t"

"You’ll die knowing she’s going to, and that h for me," Gunnar said with false cheer Peter’s idea unnerved hi hih to hurt but enough to draw blood "How do you propose I o, and we’ll battle it out, hand to hand," Peter said "The way realhenchman do aith her while I watch I’ll suffer even worse because it’s my idea"

It was a horrible idea, and that’s exactly why it appealed to Gunnar I saay that it could work out where either of us lived, but Peter was just buying time He really didn’t care if he lived or died, but he wanted to give h, not when he and Jack and everyone were still here risking their lives I would never leave without them

"Peter, no! This is stupid," I said Before I had been fighting Gunnar, but now I hung onto his ar to keep hed "You were brilliant If only you hadn’t killed ether" With that, Gunnar threw hly in the pews

Leif helped me to s still hurt Peter and Gunnar were squaring off, staring at each other as Gunnar taunted him Peter showed little e

The noises in the balcony hadn’t gotten any better, but from what I could tell, everyone was still alive Leif and I stood unsurely in the broken pews, neither of us knowing hoe could really help the situation

"Oh, coirl so we could have a staring contest"

"I’m sorry to disappoint you," Peter said dryly

Peter stood on the altar steps Gunnar wanted Peter to co He dove at Peter,than to actually hurt him, and Peter deftly jumped out of the way He leapt over the sacrarabbing onto the giant cross hanging on the wall He scra, and Gunnar just stared at him

"Really, Peter? Are you that much of a coward?" Gunnar looked dubiously at hi "I had expected so much more than this"

Gunnar had his back to us, so I took a step forward, planning to attack him, but Leif put his hand on my arm I looked at him, and heof Peter’s plan than I did

Peter cliher up the cross, and toat the bolts that held it to the wall He started on the right arm of the cross, and then when they were free, he ?" Gunnar asked "Is this so like that," Peter said and cliirl right now, if you like," Gunnar offered

Peter glanced back atto free the bolts The cross started to sway and groan, but he kept pulling at it Once he got broke the bolt fro it to the wall except for the bolts at the foot of the cross Peter hung onto the arainst the wall and started to push off

Because the cross was still connected at the botto like the hands of a clock until it hung upside doith top resting on the floor at the 9 o’clock position But Peter pushed hard against the wall, forcing it swing down and away fro down and out, like a crazed pendulum