7 Survivors (Darius x oc)

The Long Run

"Sammy!" Yaz yells as Sammy's body hits the ground. "Somebody get the bandages!" Darius yells. "That won't help!" I yell back. "Is there something we can do? Some supplies we can get?" Ben yells in a panic. "Ok ok yeah, the quills are positioned. We need to take them out of her." I reply calming myself down. "I got the bandages." Brooklyn yells while running back over to the group. "Ok ready?" I ask while looking at Yaz and Brooklyn. "This is gonna hurt. I'm sorry." Yas says grabbing a hold of the quills. "Ready? 3...2..1!" I says and pull the quills out of her side.

Sammy screams out in pain while we quickly bandage her to stop the bleeding. Yas hold onto Sammy while her eyes start to flutter. I can tell her vision is going in and out. "Sammy...sammy!" Yas yells as Sammy slumps in her arms. "Guys we're losing her!" I yell to the others. While we were taking care of Sammy, they were focused on make a space for her to lay. Kenji and Darius carefully move head body over to the empty space. They place her head on the pillow and try to make her as comfortable as possible.

"Taking out the quills wasn't enough. The poison is already in her system, we need an antidote." Darius says. "Oh sure, an antidote will be easy to find. Especially when no one even knew this thing existed." Kenji says sarcastically. "Not quite true. I knew." I speak up. "Then you must know a cure or something!" Ben says hopeful. "There is an antidote-" I start to speak. "What where? Where is the lab, or facility or whatever?!" Yas says holding onto my shirt tighter than I liked, but I understand why. "It's by the raptor pen. The same lab we got bumpy from, but the Scorpius went that way!" I say trying to warn her, but it doesn't work. "I don't care what's out there. I'm saving her!" She yells and runs off.

"Is she crazy? There's no way she can outrun that thing!" Ben says worried. "We have to find a way to help her." Brooklyn adds. "Ok think, what do we know about it." Darius says aloud. "It's creepy, can climb trees and has a really freaky roar." Kenji says listing the most useless things. "It's afraid of fire." I say causing them to look at me. "I mean, I'm not sure if it's afraid or interested in it, but when the tree caught of fire he just... stopped. The minute the fire went out he started back on his rampage." I say explaining myself. "Ok so fire. We can work with that." Darius says.

"Thats our distraction. We create an explosion only bigger, louder and more firerier." Darius says. "I'm in, I know the jungle better than anyone here." Ben says causing me to cough letting him know I was still there. "Plus bigger, louder, fireier. Those are all my favorite words." He says walking off. "You do realize this plan is a complete long shot right?" Kenji says. "Yeah." Darius says looking down. "If we fail Yas can die, but if we don't do anything Yas will die. I'm not letting that happen." I say determined. "Good luck." Brooklyn says before I turn to run and catch up with Ben with Darius right behind me.

"Ok so am I the distraction, while yall blow something up or are yall the distraction while I blow something up." Ben asks while running. "Doesn't really matter who does what as long as it's big enough for the Scorpius to see." I reply. "Do you know where we're going?" Darius chimes in. "I told you, I spend a lot of time here with bumpy." Ben says as he continues to run. "Plus if I thought he was lost I would've taken the lead by now." I add.

Ben starts to slow down and look around. "You looking for something?" I question and get my answer quickly when he pulls out a bottle of gasoline. "What the- why the hell did you hide gas?" Darius asks. "I figured we had enough to get back so I stashed some away, you know, for a rainy day." Ben responds. "Ben you crazy, disturbed, genius." I say and we start running again.

After what feels like hours, we finally reach the top of the gondolas. We put the gas inside of a cart and attach a match to it. As the cart pulls away we cover our ears expecting something big. Man were we disappointed when the explosion turn out to be bite size. However that dissatisfaction was short lived. The cart crashed into the other side of the line, creating a massive explosion. "Boom baby!" Ben yells. But like everything, that excitement was short lived once we realized the burning debris were headed for us. "We should probably run." I say backing away. "Already ahead of you!" Darius yells while taking off running.

We make it back to camp only to see Yas on her knees next to a way to still Sammy. "Is she...?" Ben asks. "No, no, no." I say moving closer to Darius. "No, not again." I mumble. I feel a pair of arms wrapped around and embrace me. Without a second thought I cuddle into Darius's chest for comfort, hoping for the best. "Please Sammy, you're my best friend. Come back to me." I hear yaz say, but only silence fills the air.

That is until coughing cuts through the silence. "Sammy?!" Yas says excitedly as Sammy coughs her way back to life. "Yas?" Sammy says weakly. "It's me, I'm here." Yas says teary eyed and hugs Sammy. We all rush over to join the hug. "Thank God you're ok. Both of you." I say. "Glad to have you back." Brooklyn adds. "Yeah now I can stop acting like a cow." Kenji says causing us to chuckle. I didn't quite get what he meant but I also didn't care. All I know is that my friends are safe.

"Hey." Darius says walking out into the main room in the tree house. Everyone had already went to bed to crash after the long day, but me? I couldn't sleep, not after everything that's happened. Apparently Darius couldn't either. "Hey." I say looking at him then back at the trees in the distance. "Today was... eventful." He says breaking the silence. "That's one way to put it." I say with a slight chuckle. "Man that scared me." Darius says. "Yeah, I'm just glad Sammy's ok now." I reply.

"I'm not talking about Sammy." He says causing me to look at him confused. "I talking about when you ran after Ben today. Or the fact that we were five seconds away from that being you. It scares the hell outta me." He continues. "What if I hadn't followed yall today and the Scorpius showed up? I wouldn't have been there to protect you. And you stepping I front of the group like that. What if you would've got hit by the spikes. Then what?" He says raising his voice a bit.

"It's fine, everyone's ok now. Plus it wouldn't have mattered if I got hit, it's not like the group listens to me anyway." I say looking down a little. "The hell it wouldn't. It matters Makayla, you matter!" He says looking me in my eyes. "Yeah, and why is that?" I say slightly getting flustered. "I- that's because. Oh fuck it." Darius says before crashing his lips onto mine. I flinch slightly at the sudden movement but quickly embrace it.

Darius pulls away and backs up. "I'm so sorry. I should've asked first and-" he starts but I cut him off by letting my lips meet his again. I pull away to see a smirk on his face. "Something tells me I shouldn't be apologizing right now." He says causing me to laugh. "Not this time." I reply.
"Ok so let's be real. I like you, and it would've killed me if that was you today. I realize that now, and I refuse to waste anymore time with beating around the bush. Not when our time together isn't guaranteed." He says hold my hands in his.

"Well it's kinda obvious on how I feel about you now" I say with a small smile. "I like you too." "So you gonna become my girlfriend or??" Darius says with a smile. "You have to ask first idiot." I say hitting him playfully. "Ok ok, Makayla Grady, will you be my girlfriend?" He asks. "Hmm let me think about it." I say looking up like I'm thinking, leaving him in shock. "I'm joking I'm joking! Yes I'll be your girlfriend! Why else would I take a bullet for you." I say laughing. "Because I'm special." He says with a smirk. "You can say that." I counter causing his smile to drop and me to laugh.

"Oh you got jokes huh? Come here." Darius says and picks me up. "Boy put me down!" I yell at him. "Nope" I replies shaking me around. Suddenly, his hand slips and hits the wound on my shoulder causing me to wince in pain. Darius quickly catches on and puts me down. "What was that?" He ask but I stay quiet. "Makayla." He says in a serious tone, all I can do it's look away. "M, show me your shoulder." He says tilting my head to look him in the eye. Giving in, I roll up my sleeve revealing the red stained bandages turning black. "Makayla!" He yells at me, but stops himself from continuing. I'm definitely gonna get an earful about this later.

He leads me over to the med kit and rewraps the cut. "Thank you." I say to him breaking the silence. "You are such an idiot you know that?" He says slightly irritated. "Yess, but now I'm your idiot." I say hoping to get a smile out of him, and it does. "Whatever, it's late you should head to bed. I'll take over watch." Darius says. "You sure?" I respond. In all honesty I'm exhausted, but I don't want to dump my responsibilities on Darius. "If I wasn't sure I wouldn't have offered, now go." He says. "Yeah but still, I'll stay up with you." I say going to sit on the couch, Darius joining me soon after.

"So are we gonna tell the others about us?" Darius asks. "Nah, I wanna see how long it takes them to figure it out." I say causing him to laugh. "Sound like a plan. I got Brooklyn figuring it out first." He says. "No way it'll definitely be Sammy." I counter. "I guess we'll just have to see." He says. " I guess we will." I say looking over at him before leaning on his shoulder.
Best worst day ever.