Under the moonlight's soft embrace.

Chapter 2.

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Heavy breaths. That's all I heard coming from his body, the bullet seemed to have hit his liver, but I trust he'll be fine. The crunching behind me faded slowly, and I hid behind a tree to catch my breath. Alone she told me, to show up alone, and I did.
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Knock knock. I heard some shufflin before Mexico opened the door,"Ah, you showed, I trust you didn't snitch you little fag?", I shook my head, lying with a poker face,"Good, come inside I'll bring him out, and let him go home." I walked in with the pocket knife clutched In my pocket. Local police had already surrounded the forest and I told them to keep the situation on the low. Told them the 'Getting out the forest' part was for me until further instruction. "You got a hair cut? You look more gross." She held up a shotgun towards me,"You lied." I said plainly,"So did you. We're even." She chuckled before firing one bullet towards me, I dodged and quickly swept her off her feet, piercing her with the knife on what I guess was her lung in self defense. I hurried down the hall way and saw a metal rusty door, I opened it and looked down,"Ame.." I muttered,"Ame?... Ame.. America!" I almost felt myself break into a sob before rushing to him and helping him stand steadily"My love I'm so so sorry I should have never left please forgive me." The amount of guilt I felt was insufferable, I can't believe I let this happen,"Russia..." His sweet voice was so hoarse, I saw shock in his eyes,"Russia!" He barely pushed me out the way, taking a bullet, fuck ,"America!" I caught him,"I thought I killed you, bitch!" She suddenly shot my shoulder and knee with a chuckle and some incoherent words,"shit it's jammed." I pushed past her with America in my arms and ran out the house, I had memorized my way and knew exactly where to go.
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I took off my coat and wrapped it around America, then I tore some of my wrist bandages and tightened them around my shot limbs to prevent further bleeding. He was breathing, he was okay, I picked him up bridal style and looked around before a bullet shot right past me,"Where are you?!" She yelled out and I sprinted, towards the forest edge,"YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE ALIVE!" She chuckled loudly before chasing behind me, fuck she knew the exact same path I did, to ditch her I'd have to get lost in the forest. I reflected before taking a hard left, hoping I remember the way back. I looked down at him,"We'll be okay, we both will be." I said, unsure, I heard Ame mumble while I kept running with my strength until we reached a river with a small cave on the side, I went inside the cave and took a break.

I searched my pocket for my phone, nothing, I must have dropped it while running, I reached for the spare radio tape to my leg but realized she shot it, that smart little bitch. I took deep breaths, with no sense of direction, I reached into the map In my pocket warily, and of course, there were multiple rivers, I could be anywhere. Of course I could go straight in one direction but she could be stalking me quietly, and there's a waterfall that's hidden by the trees, wouldn't wanna fall in there. I've got to play it safe, I reach for my pocket knife but the remember I stabbed her, how did she survive that. She's tougher than expected I guess.

So I lost almost everything but America and some stupid confusing map I didn't get, so it's game over unless I somehow figure out this map, which was very confusing and damp. I looked over at America and began treating his wound, applying pressure and wiping away remaining blood,"America, america wake up." i touched his face and his eyes barely fluttered open,"thank the gods." i took a deep breath before the crunching of leafs was heard above us, we stayed quiet,"Where did you go? i thought we were having fun!~" i saw my phone drop in the water, good thing its water proof, but the footsteps didnt go away, it's almost as if she knew we were here, teasing me. "Whatever." the foot steps crunched away, and i reached for my phone, great, the screen broke. "Siri, call Belarus.","Calling Bel" the phone rung for a second or two..,"Russia? where are you what happened?" "She got me, she's walking with a shotgun, America got shot in the liver i got shot in the shoulder and leg, send a team in." "alright, describe your surroundings." i looked around,"I dont know it's like a nice little river stream, and there's like a cave here." "does the cave go on?" "Yes, i think so." "Alright stay on the lin-" my phone died.

12/7/23 2:01PM EST 800+ words
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