Outcasts in Paradise

Chapter III: Oh no..

⊱TW⊰ blood, mention of violence, mention of abandonment, mention of explosions, mention of guns, needles, drugs, explanation of burns

⊱CW⊰ angst, flower husbands, social confrontation

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"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunflower,

Please return to our garden.
Not bewitched, simply as the you I love.

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  Scott's purple tinted ears twitched and he blinked his eyes open. There was a rustle nearby him, and Scott heard some footsteps.

  Was Ren back already? He only left an hour ago, didn't he? Or did more time pass? Or...

  Scott sat up from his laying position on the smooth rock—he found himself there quite often nowadays—and turned around. Is he finally back?

  Scott froze, unsure if he was hallucinating or not. He slowly slid off of the smooth stone and stared at the blonde who stood at the end of his flower field.

  "Jimmy?" Scott asked softly, walking towards him.

  Jim didn't respond, he just stood there. Something's wrong.. Scott thought and stopped a few steps away from Jimmy.

  "Jim? Jimmy, what's wrong? Ren.. Ren came and said BDubs made a poppy for us." Scott spoke.

  He took the poppy out of his pocket and put it behind Jim's ear, brushing some of Jim's blonde hair behind his ear as well.

  Jimmy's eyes softened and filled with tears, but they refused to fall. "Run, Scott. Run."

  "What.? Jimmy—" Scott cut himself off when a horrible pain was sent through his shoulder.

  He cried out and brought himself to his knees, Scott brought his hand to his shoulder and pulled out an arrow. It dripped with Scott's dark blood and something else.

  Scott dropped it in horror as nausea made his head spin—what is in those arrows?—and pain trickled around his nerves.

  "Scott..." Jimmy said, he sounded so guilty. So afraid, horrified. It broke Scott's heart to hear him like that.

  Scott didn't look up at the blonde, instead focusing on staying conscious. He saw heavily booted feet approach Jimmy, though.

  The poppy fell, and a boot stomped on it. The flower didn't wilt or anything, only flattened a bit. Such is the power of BDubs' "everlasting" flowers.

  Scott heard a scoff and there was a loud bang, and the flower withered. The magic was too far away from BDubs, so it just went into the surrounding nature.

  The boots turned towards Scott, but before they could do anything to him he scooted away and put his fingers in his mouth. Scott hooked them and let out a shrill whistle.

  The whistle was a signal to Ren, more specifically a warning or a panic signal. The sound should alert Ren of the danger—as long as he was within earshot. X made all of his guiders have one, for just in case something happened.

  After he whistled, Scott saw a confused—and a bit afraid face before him. After came a pain in the back of his neck, and, after a confused moment, everything went black.