Often Hushed

Chapter Four

YAY GUYS!!! WE finally got here! OH MY GOD I AM JUST DYING ON THE INSIDE THERE IS SOOOOO MUCH THAT I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO WITH MY CHARACTERS THAT..... RRRRRGH!!!!!!!!! Ok, rant mostly over. This chapter is dedicated to @MeghanLuvs 'cuz we will be study buddies for those nasty finals, haha ;). I might do some more dedications in the next few chapters... it'll be too hard to pick between some of my amazing newer readers :).

Alrighty, so as we all remember... dat tragedy of the last chapter D:. Poor Jared and even more poor Ness! This part begins after her evil recalling dream. We are back on the train, going to places of awesome. The plot really begins to form around these chapters.

Please enjoy and comment your thoughts! If you like it, I'd love it if you spread this around, too ;)

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CHAPTER FOUR

~:December 14th, 2013:~

I woke to a jolt that heaved me forward, careening into the back of the seat in front of me. I screamed as I slid to the ground, splayed on the dirty, thin carpet. My arms were laid out in front of me, and I could feel the floor groaning. Rug burns took form on my palms and a cut sliced across my cheek. I winced and ignored it, and probed my body with my right hand fingertips.

I couldn't see anything, but I could feel the stickiness of tears covering my cheeks from the dream- or, I guess, the recalling.

I tasted the copper of blood, and my lips were salty. 

My throat ached, but my mouth was a moist enough cavern. My left arm cringed when I tried to move it, and my legs felt reluctant. The boots were caught on something by their toes. I wiggled, tugging at them, and tried not to cry out when pain jolted up from my legs. 

The train lunged along the tracks again, accompanied by a piercing screech. I screamed, clasping my right palm to my ear and pressing the other side of my face to the floor.

I whimpered. I couldn't feel my legs at all anymore. There was a loud boom, and I was flung to the side, half dangling in the aisle. The majority of my bags knocked me in the face as the steel groaned and shifted, and I let out a wail as a suitcase nearly knocked loose a tooth. 

There was another monsterous moan as the metal behemoth began tilting to the left.

I panicked, tugging at my legs with my one good arm in desperation to get myself out. I tugged with all of my implausible strength, clawing at the floor, my seat, anything. Fangs Shifted in my mouth and I released a bawling howl from my half human throat.

The Shift paused dangerously and I strained to complete it, but I was drained enough from my mental ordeal about Jared. My body slipped back into its usual human state, but it was rapidly becoming numb. 

The train screeched and howled one last time... and I felt us tipping. I yelled as loudly as I could and struggled to see in the darkness.

"Is anyone else here!!?" I screeched, sobbing.

A noise that sounded like the earth's maw was being forced open tore through the air surrounding me, and I felt the dangerous tilt of the train car. 

"Shit." I growled through gritted teeth. My heaviest bag had been resting flat against my leg but was now balancing threateningly on my hip. "Shit, shit, shit!" 

It swayed, and the bag bashed against my skull, leaving me dazed and spitting my own scarlet blood from my mouth. There was one more booming blast, followed by a frightening crash, and my body moved but I couldn't feel where I was anymore.