Chapter 7
The letter
"Fuck." Sam said while grunting
"What's wrong? Is everything okay?" Sapp looked over at him with a concerned expression
"Low on gas and the next station is several miles away" Sam shakes his head and sighs
"What are we gonna do?"
"Most likely find a new vehicle with gas in it and either syphon it out or just use that one."
"Okay Yogi!" She giggles and snuggles Night Rider's arm as she sleeps peacefully in what looks like in a while. Sam looks around cautiously for any signs of gas stations or broken down cars. But the back roads they were taking had little promises for either. He pats Sapp's head as a sign for a motel could be seen over the clearing of trees. He contemplates going or not as the needle on the gas crept slowly towards Empty. He turns into a small dirt road that greeted them with the motel parking lot. With the truck off, you heard nothing but the sounds of woodpeckers drilling through trees, beavers gnawing at wood, birds singing their songs and deer trampling through the woods. One by one, Sam, Sapp, and Night Rider whom is half asleep get out of the truck and examine the surrounding area. Sam stands in front of them both and rubs his temples
"Soooo. We're nearly out of gas, the Jerry cans are completely empty and it looks like we have to rest here until we get the truck filled up again."
Night rider nods half heartedly, her eyes welded shut with tiredness "Should we get separate rooms? Because well..."
Sapp shakes her head while attempting to grab a bag from the bed of the truck "I think we should sleep together!" She giggles and whines, flopping backwards as her overweight bag flops over the tailgate. Sam chuckles and helps her up, setting the bag beside her
"Sapp it's inappropriate to sleep together, but you're so cute" She pats Sapp's head as she pouts
"Nuu Mommy I'm not cute. We should sleep together so if we get ambrushed we can attack!" She giggles and makes a karate chop in the air
"It's Ambushed sweetheart" Night Rider chuckles and shakes her head "I guess she's right. What do you say Yogi-?"
Sam looks over at her with a slight shocked expression on his face, he looks away and faces the building
"I'm sorry I didn't rea-"
"It's fine, you didn't know" he said with a smile on his face "Room 26C. Center room top floor. That's ours. We rip the west wall into 27C and use that as a storage room. The east wall or 25C is the barracks and the middle room is the main gather room" Sam motions to the second floor and opens the driver side door, pulling out a cigarette and lights it up. Once the two were gone, he unfolds his wings and looks at them in awe. He flicks his cigarette out his hands as he walks into the middle of the parking lot and looks up into the sky. He shakes his wings, his feathers softly flapping In the air as he moves. As his wings move faster, dust underneath his flys away. Inch by inch his feet pick up off the ground, sending dirt and debris across the lot. He tilts his body towards the roof of the motel, sending his body straight towards the ground. A loud fleshy thud radiates from his body as he comes into contact with the pavement. Groans of agony escapes his lips as he picks himself off the ground and sighs, grabbing a few bags and bringing them up into the motel room.
He opens up the door to see drywall all over the floor on both ends with only 2x4s exposed through the wall. Sam drops the bags and looks at the progress that they've done
"Just make enough of a hole for a door to fit through, we don't need massive gateways" he smiles as he turns to walk out the door.
She nods and makes sure that Sapp is doing what Sam wanted
"Mommy? Are we living here?" Sapp asked Night Rider whom was cleaning
Up the drywall on the floor
"I don't know Sweetheart, why do you ask?" She looks up at Sapp while throwing it out the window into the woods
"Well, because I like the trees mommy" she looks up at her with a soft smile
"I like the trees too baby, but we go wherever we have to, like we've been doing" she hugs Sapp and smiles "now let's got back to work, I want to sleep in a finished room, and I know you do too"
Sapp nods happily and continues carving the wall out with her knife "mommy? Could we use he wire in the wall for something?" She asks softly
"That's a good idea sweetie, you're so smart!" She finishes up cleaning the floor and motions Sapp to follow her "Wanna go on an adventure with mommy?"
"Yea!" She hops up and rushes out the door, past Sam which is carrying more bags
"Where are you going?" He said as he set the bags inside
"On an adventure!" She giggles while Night Rider walks past him
"We'll be back soon, we're just looting the motel" Sam nods and Examines one of the two rooms. He sees a note on one of the beds and picks it up.
His eyes widen as he reads what it says, he rushes to check the date on his phone, realizing the note was true.
"Happy anniversary Samuel xoxo"
