This Friendship Will Never Die *Falling Skies (Ben Mason) Fanfic*

Chapter 3- Moving On

*Ben's P.O.V*

-1 week later-

I still kind of feel like I'm just wandering now. I know where Im going but, for some reason I went a different route then I had planned. I just had a strange feeling. Maybe it was just another harness effect, probably a good thing though. Most likely it was my spikes sensing nearby skitters. Either way Im heading towards whats supposed to be "Rebel Skitter Camp." From what Red-eye told me its a safe place where all of the Rebel Skitters are. I just hope its not a trap. I really need this, it would be like a sense of closure you could say.

I remember the day I left just as I was getting deeper into the forest I heard someone screaming. I couldn't quite make out what they were saying. The only thing I could tell is that it was a girl. From my guess she was probably harnessed by now. Under their control. Unwillingly having to do all of the hard work for them. I will never understand their cause for taking innocent children. I suddenly felt my hand clench into a fist. It's hard for it not to when thinking about those harnesses.

That's the only emotion I still feel. HATE. I hate what they did to me. I hate it, I hate them, with all my heart and soul. I will not stop until every skitter *not including the rebels* is dead. Now that I think about it, I wish I could have saved that girl. No one deserves to go through that torture, or that unbelievable sense of fear as the harness is just about to collapse onto your back and dig its little, tenticle, things into your neck. Then everything goes black. And you are only lucky if you actually ever wake up.

I am awoken from my thoughts when I hear a twig break in the distance. Even though its a lot closer then I would like it to be. I move closer towards the sound. Not the smartest thing to do I know. But, it's not quite the dumbest. I walk with my gun pointed ahead of me ready to fire if need be. I then hear a similar sound as I move closer. It wasn't the sound of a twig breaking that I heard. It was the crackle of a healthy fire.

I hide behind a nearby tree so I am able to see the scenery from a safe distance. I spot the location of the fire and see a girl about my age sitting near it. The first thing my eyes went to was her back. No harness, no spikes, good. Maybe if I play my cards right I can convince her to come travel with me. She isn't safe out here all alone. She has a gun so I would have to be carefull. I toss my gun over my shoulder so that its behind my back. Then as I walk towards her I keep both my hands in the air. "Here goes nothing" I say to myself.

When she finally sees me she quickly stands up. "Stay right where you are!" She shouts authoritatively. She begins to walk up to me and sees my gun behind my back."Hand it over" she smirks at my sneaky effort. Damn she's good. I do as she says. I don't want any trouble and I don't feel like she is willing to kill me. I sense she has recently been through a lot from the scared/ serious and fiery look in her brown eyes. Wow.. I have a possibility of getting shot and the first thing I notice are the color of her eyes. Nice going Ben. Guess this is where the normal, and hormonial, teenage boy comes back into play.

*Alex's P.O.V*

Its hard to believe its already been 1 week since I lost Jake. My mind takes on situations like this pretty easily. It always falls towards the worst case scenario. So as of now I assume he is dead or captured by the aliens. I don't know much about what happens when you're captured but I have seen kids my age, sometimes older or younger, traveling in groups along side the aliens. They have these strange worm- like things attatched to their backs. What scares me most is that their faces are completely emotionless. They must have no idea what they're doing, where they are, or what's even going on.

I basically know that if Jake is with them.. I'm not getting him back. Even if I would try to get that thing off his back. I've seen how it happens before. I have seen children dead with one of those worm things beside them. It's not hard to realize how it happened. Someone tried to take it off and, they did. Only not quite as successfully as they'd hoped. I didn't want that to happen to Jake. Atleast when he is under the Aliens control he's still alive.

As for how I got here, its a wierd story. After I was knocked unconscious by the red-eyed alien I just kept replaying Jake's reaction to how I yelled at him. He was so scared and shocked. I didn't often yell. Only when I was extremely serious or angry. So it was something Jake never liked me to do. Thats why I constantly tried to keep my cool. I guess in that one moment everything building up inside since the invasion came out all at once.

When I woke up I was still in the forest just a different area. I was under the shelter of a cave. The entry was hidden by a series of bushes and plant life. I looked behind me to see if I had one of those things on my back. Nothing. Was it all just a dream. I got up and looked around. Jake wasn't anywhere to be seen and neither were his bags or gun. So it wasn't a dream. Then what could of possibly happened. There is no way in hell that 6 legged, red-eyed, alien bich put me through all that shit just to bring me to a safe place and leave. Even if this was the case I wouldn't believe it if I became two people and explained the situation to myself. The only question left to ask was.. Why?

I get to deep in thought sometimes. Luckily, something always snaps me out of my daydreams. This time it was a boy who looked about my age slowly walking towards me. Shit! What do I do? Umm I'll just show my tough girl.. Yah this isn't gonna end well. "Stay right where you are" I say trying to attempt to be serious/ tough. He looks pretty calm so I'm guessing he is either a cockey jackass or actually nice. I'm hoping nice. I take a few steps closer to him. I see a gun from behind his back and smirk at his failure. "Hand it over" I say gesturing with my hand. He gives the gun to me with no debate. For a split second our eyes meet. His were a gorgeous green that looked as if they had an entire novel written behind them. Alrighty Alex! Snap out out of it! I quickly turn away from him to regain stability.

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HEYO!

Sorry it took awhile! I had my grad party Saturday, Sunday I had A livestream and new youtube videos to watch *AND OF COURSE FALLING SKIES*, and Monday was the mark of 2 months since my dad passed away so I didn't really have the strength to do anything.., and yesterday I WROTE IT ALL!!

My kindle is dieing so I gotta go so I can publish!

Remember. KEEP THE RESISTANCE STRONG!

see ya soon! ;D

Love Ya, <3

Alyssa L.