I have been sitting here for hours trying to get my body to sleep. I look up at the dark ceiling with my eyes wide open. I thought Shilo might take the bait but I guess I was wrong. Just as I was thinking this she walks in. I look over at her and try to sit up. Shilo puts a finger to her lips and pushes me back down with her hand. I raise one eyebrow at her. She lays down next to me. I open my mouth to say something but she puts her finger over my mouth. "Bion this isn't real, you are dreaming," she says. My heart thumps down to regular speed. I slump back down on the cold floor and sigh. "So I am dreaming huh," I say and dream Shilo nods. I hold her in my arms. Everything feels so vivid for a dream. "I miss you Shilo," I say to the fake her. Shilo turns over and I hold her closer. She doesn't push away like the real Shilo. "Bion I miss you too, it is just hard to get over the fact that you killed Mia." I kiss her softly. She lets me. "How can I make it better?" Shilo looks into my eyes and shakes her head. "You can't, only time can," she says and kisses me back but harder. I kiss a line down her neck. "You know it wasn't the fact that you were an alien or that you deceived me. It was that you knew Mia and you knew what she meant to me but you killed her even though you love me," Shilo says sadly and a single tear rolls down her cheek. I wipe it away with my finger. "I love you Shilo Milton and I will save us before we fall, I swear it," I say and I cross my heart. She takes my hand and puts it over her heart. My heart burns and my body aches. Shilo places her hands over my big ones and looks at me with her glistening brown eyes. "I love you Bion Birton, and I will try as hard as I can to forgive," Shilo says. She falls asleep in my arms and after awhile of holding her I let the night take me away too.
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When I awake Shilo is gone. Not in my arms anymore, just standing in the doorway with hatred written in red ink on her face. I miss the old Shilo, the one who didn't hate me. That dream was so vivid it could have been real. I look back up at Shilo. "Did you come here last night?" I ask, already knowing the answer. "No I was in my own tent sleeping like a survivalist. You were sleeping so sound, I don't even know if I could do that if I tried," she says. Her face turns a little pink and I could have sworn she hesitated before saying no. I probably am just seeing things. This Shilo may not be like the past one but it is still her and I made a promise to her. "Come on, it is breakfast time," Shilo says with a grin. I shake my head and give her a goofy smile. I get up and hug her. She hugs me back a little but it is like reality smacked her and she pushes me away. "I missed that smile and our hugs," I say and kiss her on the cheek. Her mouth falls open and her cheeks turn as red as a tomato. I laugh and walk to the mess hall. Shilo catches up quickly. She has long legs and can keep up with my stride. "Don't touch me like that," she says quite weakly. "Come on you liked that," I say. Something weird flashes over her face and she shake her head. Shilo starts coughing again. Blood falls out her mouth. "Shilo, Shilo," I say worriedly. She crumples to the ground and coughs up blood. Other people come over at the sight of the commotion. I dip my fingers in her blood and smell it. "Oh God," I whisper into the morning air. I pick Shilo up and run towards her tent. People follow me yelling things like put her down, what are you doing, is she ok? I lay Shilo on her side. She coughs up more blood on the cot. The disease, but how it isn't supposed to be where I am. She will infect the camp, it is air born. "Everybody step back," I say and they all laugh or scream at me. Amar pushes his way to the front. "What are you doing with Shilo?" He demands. I look down at him. "She is sick with the third wave virus. But this one is different this is a new one that the Others whipped up to kill the immune," I inform him. "Did you do this to her?!" He screams. I stay silent. "Did you?!" I shake my head. "I did not do this and the disease wasn't supposed to be planted where I am, where the silencers are," I tell him. "The commander must have made a mistake," I say. Amar's face glows bright red. "Or you are here because he sent you to infect us," Amar screams. The crowd is wild with questions. I pick up Shilo and run towards the cabin. I lock us in from the inside. People bang on the door trying to get in. "Hold on Shilo I will get you help," I say. I pick up my earpiece and call the commander. "Sir?" The commander yells what and that he is busy. "The humans took me prisoner and they have an infected with them," I say. "There must be a mistake, you shouldn't have dropped the bombs when I am in proximity," I say worriedly. Shilo stops coughing and has started to sleep. "Oh Bion, you are the bomb," the commander says with a laugh. "What sir?" The commander cackles in the earpiece. "I gave you the disease to spread to the survivors. All the silencers you killed, we knew about them. We know about your lies and we know about you precious Shilo. She is dying on the floor right know isn't she?" He says. My face pales. How could he know. Not Shilo, anything but her. "You infected her through saliva, meaning you kissed her." I shake my head. "I didn't, not on the mouth anyway," I frantically say. "Oh but you did remember your dream last night well it wasn't a dream it was real. Shilo really did come to your cabin last night," he says. I look down at Shilo. She has awoken and she nods and looks away. "No, no!" I scream and hold Shilo to me. "And soon everyone will be infected, even you," he says. "Bion you are the last silencer. Once you are dead they are all dead," he says and laughs again. I scream and stomp on the earpiece I don't want to hear anymore. Shilo cries into my chest. "Bion," she says. "Shh, stay quiet," I say and rock her back and forth. She stops me and looks at my eyes. "I meant what I said last night, every word and I am trying to forgive," she says. "It is ok Shilo you will be fine." Shilo shakes her head. "This is it for us, and since it is over. I forgive you, you did what you had to. I know it was all for me. I love you Bion Birton and my one dream was to become Shilo Birton," she says and cries into my chest more. "Oh Shilo I love you too. I want that so much, you have no idea." The crowd had stopped yelling when they saw Shilo with me. I hold Shilo tight to my chest. I pull her onto my lap and I kiss her. I tuck her stray strands of hair behind her ears. Then it dawns on me, the commander infected me first how am I not experiencing any symptoms? Maybe I am immune. It might be false hope but I have to try. "Shilo I am going to fix you," I say. I hold her arms and shut my eyes. I repeat the process that I did when she got stabbed. My being courses through her body. The disease is everywhere. I try so hard to heal her. And like heaven is listening, it starts to work. I heal us. I look through our thoughts and her heart beats hard when I see what she dreams of. Bion get out of my personal thoughts! Shilo yells in our head. I want that so much Shilo. I finish healing her and return to my body. When I am back to my body I look at her. She has red cheeks from the fever, I wipe the blood from her lips. "Better," I whisper in her ear. "As good as I was before," she says. "How can I make it the best?" I ask flirtatiously. "Bion you know, you have seen my thoughts remember," Shilo says with playful eyes. Together we walk to the door. We push everyone away. Amar walks up to us, "Alright explanation, now!" Shilo and I exchange glances. She nods for me to tell the story. "The commander he knew about me and my lies, he knew about Shilo, and he knows about you. He sent me to infect you all. He knew I would kiss Shilo and she would get the virus. And he thought she would spread it air born to all of you. But I am immune to the virus that kills immunes. I saved Shilo and we are all safe for now." I know that soon the commander will come to see his handiwork and be disappointed or he already knows and is modifying the virus again. We are safe for today but he will come for us tonight I am sure of it. "The commander will take awhile to enhance the virus, but he will be here tonight. We have to get out of here." Shilo puts a hand on my shoulder. "Alright everyone you heard him. Ok Amar, Talia, and Byron are my seconds." I almost forgot Athan was alive again. He could run but not very fast. "Amar you take a quarter of the group towards the north end of the woods. Keep out of sight and if you can find cover beside the trees go for it," Shilo says. Then she tells Byron to take a quarter to the south. And then she looks over at Talia. Talia is tall, strong, and best of all a fighter. Shilo tells her to go to the east. Then she walks back to me. "We are going west," she says. "Ok everyone split up and go with the other seconds and me. Pack up fast," Shilo yells. They all scramble back to their tents. I have nothing but my weapons. We run to Shilo's tent and I gather my weapons that she stashed in the corner. She starts to stuff things in her backpack. When she is done we fold up the tent and I put it in my empty pack. Then we walk to the mess hall and take as much food that we can carry. She hands out the bags of food to the other seconds. We have enough food for about a week counting everyone in our group. Most tents can't be carried, so we leave behind a lot of stuff. "Ok everyone, before you head out some inspiration. I know you are all scared, I am too. But if he gets to you don't lie down and accept death, I want you to go down swinging. Even if you look pitiful I don't want anyone under my charge to give up." Shilo is a great leader. "Fight hard and I hope to see you again. Now move out!" Everyone marches off except for our group. Each group has about 15 people in it. Shilo and I lead our group. We trudge along through the elegant forest. I look over at Shilo. She has a strong look of determination plastered on her face. Shilo has a if you look at me the wrong way I will snap your neck look. If I was the commander I would be scared of her, but somewhere deep down I feel fear. Fear is in her eyes, she is scared. "Why don't we take a break," I say and give her a weary glance. She looks up and the wall she puts up to hide her emotions crumbles. Everyone stops and sits down or guzzles water. I pull Shilo away from the others. I pull her close to me. "Are you ok?" I ask with concern. "Bion I don't know what to do. He is going to kill us, you know that, I know that. I can't protect everyone. He will go after all the groups and he will kill us," she says. "Shilo you can't protect everyone, no one can. But I can protect us and our group. The other groups rely on their leaders. You can still feel for them but you aren't in charge of them anymore," I say. "This is on me, I should have just done what I was told and never have gone after you," I say and lower my head. Suddenly out of nowhere she slams her fist in my face. "Damn right it is!" Shilo screams as I wipe the blood from my mouth. "Why didn't you just kill me like you were told?! God knows I have been begging for it since Dad died. Why do you even love me? I am a wreck and you could kill me in one move, I am weak," Shilo yells and fear flames in her eyes. The tears start to fall off her face. "I can't kill you, I am the weak one. I would rather let everyone die then kill you. I can't kill you, I love you. I don't know why you just, you saved me. I was falling deeper and deeper and you pulled me back." She looks up at me. Then Shilo flings her arms around me and kisses me harder than ever before. I grab her waist and press her to me. Our lips entangle with one another. I lift her up and hold her legs up. She slides her hands through my hair and makes her way down my back. Shilo pulls off my shirt and I press her to a tree. I kiss down her neck and rub my hands over her. She pulls her shirt off too. Her lips are like a drug they are very addicting. She is drugging me and it feels so good. She starts to unbutton my pants. Shilo smiles playfully. I look back at her knowing I am going to get what I crave so badly.
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This is not meant for younger viewers and I am not experienced in this aspect so just deal with the no details. XD!
