[ WP ] It was either my life or hers . Unfortunately she chose mine .

I hope the decision was n't as fast as it looked. There were a lot of things going on when it happened and she moved so quickly it was hard to tell if she even hesitated to weigh all the options. 
 
 Well, I guess there really were n't any options. Her or me. Rational logic dictates self above all else, so I suppose there's really no faulting her. 
 
 We'd come to this country to help, too. Humanitarian goals. That seems funny now as I bounce around in the back of a van with a black bag over my head. We'd been approached by the company to go and disrupt human trafficking elements around the mountains. Apparently it was such a massive source of revenue for the bad guys that operations were finally being conducted to curtail it. 
 
 She spoke so fluently too, of course she was going to get selected for the op. I was just here because I'm a good shot and handy with an aid bag. We came in under the guise of a medical mission. It took months to finally track all the routes and shore up all of the potential contacts into reliable marks. All that effort, even a few dozen girls and boys freed, some even returned to their parents. 
 
 This last meeting was supposed to be *the last meeting*. We were heading to link up with one of the guides that led the vans carrying human cargo into the darkness and the ether of whatever awful place those folks end up. It had all sounded fishy from the start. What war lord was going to just let outsiders medically inspect his cargo when he could just as easily sell the sick kids to a creepy customer as double the price. 
 
 When those first guys pulled their rifles up from under their coats I was swearing under my breath that I'd hidden my pistol so far around my back. But then she just threw me under the bus like that. Pushed me forward and told them I was a traitor, sold me out in a second. 
 
 On the plus side, I think they let her go, so there's always the chance she could get help to me in time. But so many people vanish in these mountains in so many awful ways... 
 
 She was better suited to finish the mission anyways. I hope I'm a life spent and not wasted.
