Remi-niscent

Chapter 10:

Jase's P.O.V
With the decision being made for us, all we can really do is watch them go. Just as the two of them leave I make eye contact with Remi, her watery smile and small two fingered salute not doing much to help reassure my conscience.

Backs turned to us as they paddle further and further away not once do they turn around to look back at us and while I know it's to solidify to Denyt's men that we've all taken the right fork, it hurts knowing that we may potentially never see their faces again.

Beside me Em lets out a strangled sob, not being able to contain the tears welling up in her eyes.

The rest of us just sit there quietly in complete shock and I rub my traitorous burning eyes more than once. Who would have thought that our current situation could possibly get any worse, at least before we were all facing it together. But obedient to a 'T' even now that Remi is gone, not stirring from our place in the rushes we sit and wait.

A few minutes later we hear the shouts of Denyt's men coming around the bend and not long after we count three canoes gliding past. Each one filled to the capacity with Denyt's men all armed to the teeth. So it definitely isn't just a friendly little search party that he's sent out after us and come to think of it what exactly will he tell our family's? 'Oh yeah, hi I just tried killing your kids but they got away so now I'm trying to find them again?' Hmm nope, I don't think that would go down so well. It's then that I realise with a sinking feeling in my gut that our families aren't expecting us back for a couple of weeks at least, which there's no one who knows what's happened. So if we don't make it back to safety soon we're screwed.

Next to me Logan leans over his whisper barely carrying over the sound of the swaying rushes, "Since when does Denyt have that many men? There were definitely a whole lot less back at the campsite, the only thing that I can think of is that he must have had them called out as reinforcements."

I look at him and shrug, I'm not necessarily denying that there's no truth in his statement, but reinforcement for what exactly? We're only a bunch of teenagers, how much damage can we do?

Anxiously just biding our time we wait for the twenty minutes to pass, straining our eyes and ears for any indication that Remi and Ty have gotten away safely. But nothing happens, no more shouts, no gunfire, no nothing, just the ever continuous lapping of water against the sides of the canoe.

When the twenty minutes are up and enough time has passed that we're sure no one is waiting for us anymore, we cautiously push our canoe out of the shallows and with heavy hearts take the left fork.

End of Jason's P.O.V

Angrily I swipe roughly at the tears welling up in my eyes with the back of my hand, stifling any quiet sobs that threaten to break free if I can't hold myself together and alternatively focus on the new task at hand.

Now that the others are on their way to safety, my new main priority is to make sure that Ty is safe at any cost. There is no way I can let him get hurt. Not under my watch. Not now.

Even if the idiot had be a stubborn pain in the ass. So I know what I have to do. Plan A may not have worked so it's on to Plan B and while it's going to kill me on the inside to carry it out it's for his own good.

"You alright?" Asks Ty softly, his voice barely audible over the splashing of the river.

I don't turn around but nod silently not trusting myself to speak just yet, instead using my paddle to pull deep strokes through the deep bluey green water.

He sighs, "Look, I get it if you're pissed at me right now and that's understandable but please just talk to me, let me into that head of yours so I know what you're thinking and if you're okay. Remember Remi you can let me in. I won't hurt you."