Bird Box (Oc x reader)

Chapter 3

"Dad? What's that thing outside?"
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"I'm sorry. It's my house." Greg tells Douglas and walks to the door, unlocking and opening it for you. "Get in. Hurry!"

"Come on." Ethan leans down to lift you up, carrying you inside the house.

"Are you okay?" The girl then asks you as she helps.

Ethan sits you down on the nearest couch, then he checks your head wound. You hiss in pain and move to clutch your head, he stops your hand and turn to the man who let you in, asking for a medical kit.

"She went to help you." You then hear someone say and looking up you see a bald man staring at you, apparently the husband of the woman that came to help you. Everyone looks at him. "Now she's gone."

"Come on. Now, everybody's obviously a little freaked out. I'm gonna get a med kit, I'll be right back." Greg then says looking at the girl in a police outfit.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." You mumble, breathing heavily as you look up at Douglas, who just stare at you in hatred.

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"Is anybody else hurt?" Greg asks coming back with the med kit, giving it to Ethan.

"Is anyone getting service in here? You don't have any WiFi?" The police girl asks him, she had introduced herself as Lucy just before she left your side to try to make a call.

"It's not working."

"I gotta get a hold of my kids."

"Nothing."

"Honey?"

"Nothing. I have nothing."

"They're at home?"

"Excuse me."

The people all chatter in the kitchen, it was right by the couch you're sitting on. The room is like big living room and kitchen combined area. You then dig for your own phone and pull it out of your pocket, dialling and taking it up to your ear. Waiting for her to answer but instead just get a beep.

"Hello? Mom? Mom, call me. Call me right now. Something.." You say and sniffle.

"That thing mess with your nervous system. I've seen it in my clients for weeks." A boy says taking out a pill box from his bag, and Lucy turns to him.

"Hey, did I mention I'm a cop?" She tells him and he spits out the pills he took, then look at her outfit.

"You're in the academy. Doesn't make you a cop."

"Whatever it is. I'm sure they'll send someone soon." An elderly woman says.

"No, the only thing that will happen soon is we're all gonna die soon. This has a classic bio-warfare signature. North-Korea or Iran."

"Douglas, that's it." Greg tells him. "They don't know what it is yet, okay? We all just gotta try to stay calm. Please."

"Yeah." Lucy says, all of you just staring at the Tv screen and the footage being shown.

"I think I heard one." The older woman then says. "We were running up the street and I swear, I.. I felt something. I heard something."

"Did you see it? What was it?"

"I, I don't know. It was just there."

"The presence?"

You try calling again. Then you all hear distorted growling and you look around in confusion.

"Gotta be an image out there. They must have released some video."

"I haven't seen anything."

"My crew saw one." One of the men then says, seeming to be the husband of another woman in the room.

"What?" They turn to him.

"One minute, we were digging a foundation.. and then my contractor just lies down in front of the bulldozer. And then my operator tips the rig into the ditch and snaps his own neck."

"Oh.."

"It seems like if you look at it, it makes you crazy or it makes you wanna hurt yourself." Greg says.

"No, it makes you kill yourself." Douglas corrects.

"And you just.. you just look at it.." The old woman says.

"And you commit suicide."

"How can that be?"

"Windows." You then hear a mumble look at Ethan, he was sitting in front of you getting the med kit ready but turn to the others from his spot. "Close the windows. Get the windows!" He then says standing up, leaving you and the med kit for a moment, heading for the window closest by you. "Close all the windows. Everybody, get the windows."

Everyone goes to close the windows and you move to stand up and help.

"No, no, no. You stay down." He then says taking a hold of you and pulling you back down on the couch, before heading for more windows to close them with the others. You keep trying to call your mom, but never get an answer, someone's phone start ringing.

"Oh, thank you!" He says and picks it up. "Andy, Bailey, can you hear me?" Him and his wife stand close and put it on speaker.

"Dad? What's that thing outside?" You hear someone through the static. "Dad!" The boy screams before they lose connection.

"Bailey? Bailey!"

The mother start heading for the door.

"If you go outside, you'll die." Douglas tells her.

"My children are out there!" She says.

"Move!" Her husband says and push him out of their way.

"You won't make it to your children!" He says but they leave.

"It's back on. Turn it up." The boy in the kitchen then says looking at the tv.

"The President has declared a state of emergency and has closed all borders. Do not, do not go outside. Avoid media. Use radio-" You hear a gunshot and the screen glitches, then the signal goes out.

"What? What in the shit is happening?"

Struggling a bit, you manage to stand up and walk, even be quiet when you sneak off to the hallway.

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