Trustworthy help

74. Freezing.

I make my way to the lake, only knowing that that's a gather point for Eve's group. It's hard to go alone, having to watch out. When I finally hear people talking I notice the lake. There's a small fire so I can see what's going on. Eve obviously thinks she's better if she makes it that obvious. I see two people. Smithy and corpse. Eve and Maddison stand behind them as she has them on their knees. Some others of the group wait for them. Eve points at the lake and Maddison gets corpse on his feet. I take a step forward, but I stop. I can't do anything. It's cold at night and they plan on setting him in the lake? 'Fucking bitch.' I grumble as Maddison actually pushes him in and makes him walk in waist deep. 'No...'

I see people at the other side of the lake, making me step more into the open. Who are they? A light flashes. Morse for M J. Jonson. His initials. I quickly make my way around the lake to them. 'Where the hell is everyone?' Brooks asks. 'We got ambushed at the building in 6B.' I say. 'Jesus.' Jonson says. 'All gone?' Brooks asks. I nod 'they also got Eversman's group. Smithy and C are over there.' I say, pointing at the fire. 'Damn who's in the water?' 'C.' I answer.

We plan to head over, not to take them down, but to get smithy and corpse. When they are not paying attention, Brooks runs in and snatches smithy from his spot. They do it quietly, which will be hard with corpse, seeing how he's in water. 'Flash bang?' Jonson asks. 'No! That's a bit too much.' I say. 'Go distract them with noise so I can get him out.' I say. He nods and hurries away. I sneak closer to the lake. Even though I said no to the flash bang. One goes off close to the group, making them get up. I hear round fire, which is my time to get corpse. I run into the water. 'It's me, get moving.' I say as I pull him along by his arm. He follows me out and we head in any direction that would get us away from others.

'Stop.' Corpse says out of breath. I take the cloth bag off of his head. 'Hi.' I say. He seems cold, making me pull him in for a hug. He shivers and moves more into me, having his hands still tied on his back. 'You're not cut out for the army.' I say as I let him go. He chuckles as i move to cut off the plastic thing again. Now we're both soaked and I notice how cold it is. 'Where's your bag?' I ask. 'They took it.' He says. I turn to where we came from with a mad expression. They know how cold it is. Why take his extra clothes and leave him freezing like this. 'Maddison?' I ask. He nods, folding his arms to try and stay warmer. I move is arms so the lay over his stomach 'that helps more, your arms will keep themselves warm.' I say.

We start on our way to where we said we'd meet Brooks group. When we get there they're there with smithy. 'Are you okay? It's really cold.' Smithy says as he gets up and walks to corpse. 'Was Jackson with Eversman?' I ask. Jonson shakes his head. 'Good, you know where he is?' He turns around 'Yeah follow me.'

We head to them and I immediately walk up to Jackson. He and corpse are about the same height. 'Hey.' I say as I stop in front of him. 'What happened to you?' He asks. 'We got caught, I had to get C out of the water. Do you happen to have a spare shirt and jacket for him, they took his bag.' I say. 'That's rude, we're just playing pretend.' Jackson says as he takes his backpack off and starts to go through it before pulling out a shirt and jacket. 'Thank you.' I say. 'No worries.' I smile before heading to corpse.

Here.' I say as I hand it to him. He takes the clothes form me. 'Go ahead and change, but stay a little close.' I say as I go and do the same. When I'm done I walk back over.

'We have a plan.'