traitor | Ziggy x Nick

17: nicotine

She like nicotine and gettin' geeked
She just wanna cover up her memories
Found a message in a bottle now she focused on the Hennessy
And I wish she was sober so she'd see how much she meant to me
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gun boi kaz

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- Ziggy's POV -

"COME AND GET ME YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!"

I rev the engine as I grab the attention of Ruby, Tommy and the Grifter. I grin at them before collapsing back into my seat and turning the car around. Casting my eyes to the mirror I see them starting to walk after me and then see Nick making a run for the forest. Stay safe Nick.

As I turn around I watch Tommy start to run and drive toward the main office. Taking a deep breath, I decide for some reason out of my goddamn mind, I pull my torso off the seat whilst keeping my foot on the pedal, I grab the gun and lean my hand out the window. Then I click the trigger and see it penetrate Tommy right in the chest, keeping him at bay.

Hurriedly I collapse back into the seat, muscles burning. Under Nick's pestering he'd gotten my leg checked out and bandaged to stop infection. Dr Lee was surprised to see me again but Nick and I have little to no explanation of how I had such a battered leg which was showing signs of infection. My companion had also paid for the visit and Dr Lee gave me a small sample of some salve to stop it from getting too bad.

I glance down to it on the console before swerving back up to cabin 5. Swerving to avoid a dump of fallen wood from the roof, I smash my left shoulder into the car door and my head hangs out the window. Just as I realise, The Grifter grabs at my hair and pulls a small bunch clean straight out of my left temple and I howl in pain. That goddamn shitbag. Somehow, I manage to keep driving even with the stinging of my possible bald spot poking at me.

As I turn, Ruby shows up with her razor and I struggle to turn the car fast enough and I end up whirling the hood of Nick's car into her, however she isn't dazed. As I keep my foot on the pedal, I lean out the window again and try to shoot her but miss.

Gritting my teeth, I check the mirrors for any sign of the killers, and seeing them at least ten seconds away nearby the lake, I stop the car and open the door to shoot Ruby twice.

BANG BANG!

Once in the head, once in her stomach. As she lays dazed over the hood, I hop back in the car, reversing and letting her flop onto the ground as I head toward cabin 4. Revving forward, I keep an eye on the killers and Nick, who thankfully has disappeared into the forest. God I hope this is over quick.

As I continue to turn in circles around the camp, I then spot another figure - Harry Rooker. But that to me was good - he was away from my mom and that was one less that could find her. Annoyingly, they couldn't move her to another hospital after her wounds so she's still in the same general vicinity, but in a different room. Turning east again toward the river, I press the pedal to keep ahead of the killers who were chasing after me. As I count them, I only see three, and I realise Ruby's singing hasn't been wafting through the air toward me, rather she was sashaying toward the forest.

Shit. So to get her attention, I look around for a knife but there were none as Nick took the only one we had left. I then spot the vial of vodka and seize it, smashing it on the console and taking a shard to slice my thigh. As I turn to look again in the side mirror, I see Ruby walking out of the woods and back to join her pack and I give a sigh of relief.

Then as soon as I turn the car, it suddenly stops and I'm thrown back by the surprise.

"What the fuck?" I mutter as I go to change gears and press anything that seemed like it could start up the car. Then I realise the gas - it's run out. That's what we fucking forgot to do in the heat of things. We bloody forgot to fill up the gas tank.