The Missing

Who Are You?

Authors note:
Underlined is Alex

Bold is Nathan

I may add more later on just be aware of that.

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I watch the child's back, heave up and down, racked with sobs. I feel my heart clench and Nathan's voice growls, "Don't you dare do anything stupid Carlie," I roll my eyes at him, shut up Nathan. He lets out a huff of annoyance in my head and I snort aloud, then realizing my mistake. The child's head shoots up, I can see their facial features now, a young girl, with light brown skin, her hair at her shoulders, dark brown and thick. She has wide ocean blue eyes, that look as if they used to be full of energy, but are now dull and tired. Her eyes are red and puffy, I bite my bottom lip as she surveys her surroundings, praying that she won't see me.

"She's gonna see us!" Alex whimpers in my head, I make a mental note to find my medicine soon, I just need peace and quiet.

The child stands up and begins walking in my direction, I panic and try to blend in the the neon green slide, which to be honest, isn't helping. She's closer now I can hear her footsteps, I hold my breath.

She pauses right next to my hiding spot, and I can see her body tense up. Her hand is resting on her gun, I swallow back a whine, my heart pounding in my chest. I gulp, and suddenly she looks right at me. A shocked look crosses her face but its gone so quickly I barely had time to realize that I remembered her face from somewhere. She holds the gun to my temple, her face dark, and lip curled.

"Why were you watching me?" She growls, her voice is familiar to my ears, I can't place it though...

I stay silent, and try to make myself look as least threatening as possible. I keep eye contact though, and I can tell it makes her uneasy, as she shifts uncontrollably. She sighs after five minutes of holding the gun to my head. She flops to the ground, removing the gun from by head, and sits in a crumpled heap.

"It wasn't even loaded" she mutters, putting her head in her hands. I can see tears rolling down her dirt stained cheeks.

I blink slowly, and move closer to her, wanting to comfort her, she flinches but doesn't move away. I wrap my arms around her, and pull her into an embrace. She freezes, and I feel her heartbeat pick up,

"C-Carlie?"she stutters, I can feel her trembling.

I remove myself from her, eyeing her warily, "How did you know my name?"

Tears flood her eyes, she lets out a choked cry and clings to me like her life depended on it.

"Don't you remember me?"

I shake my head, confused, as she looks at me with this look that is so familiar that it makes my heart clench at the sight of her tear stained childlike face. She tightens her grip around me,

"Carlie it's me, Marky."

I freeze as memories flood back over me,

(Flashback)

It's thundering outside, I'm hiding in a pillow fort with her. She grins as I make shadow puppets on the wall. A crack of lighting illuminates the entire room and I scramble under the blanket, she snuggles next to me. I fall asleep to the sound of her breathing.

(End of flashback)

I feel tears flood my eyes, as I hug her so tight I hear her utter a tiny squeak, and I release her a bit. She buries her face into my hair, as we embrace.

"I'm so sorry, I tried to find you after everything started, but-" she cuts me off,

"It's ok, I'm here now. That's all that matters." She gives me a smile that makes me cry harder,

"I just want everything to go back to normal" I whimper. She sighs and nods, "me too".

I flinch and let out a yelp of pain as she accidentally brushes against my leg, she looks down at my mangled leg and her eyes grow wide.

"Oh my gosh, Carlie what happened?!"

Quickly I tell her about the explosion, the glitches, and losing Lil and Satan.

She shakes her head, "you always have to be the hero don't you?"she pauses when I don't respond and then continues, "You're lucky I'm a medic and I can help you, but it's going to be very painful."

I nod, "as long as I'm able to walk again, I'm up for anything."

She gives me a pained smile, "I'm going to have to saw your leg off, and replace it with a prosthetic leg."

I grit my teeth, and nod, knowing how painful it will be. She removes her medical kit and opens her satchel, inside are a few weapons, but she pulls out a small saw. I gulp, she wasn't kidding when she said that.

She asks if I'm ok with being tied down, I nod, knowing that it's human nature to scream and kick while in pain. She ties me to the end of the fireman pole on the playground, I take a deep breath, and give her a nod.

(Warning gore)
She takes the saw and begins sliding it back and forth against my leg, I scream in agony, blood paints the ground red. I try to kick my legs but to no avail, after being tied down. Alex suddenly takes control.

"STOP MISS THAT HURTS!" I wail, my voice childlike, she looks at me, a pained look in her eyes as she recognizes me, but she doesn't stop, and I am forced back into Carlie's mind.

I hear the bone crunch and the saw cuts through my bone, my voice is hoarse from screaming and I just want this to be over.

"I'm almost done " she says to me with a forced smile. And she suddenly grabs the leg with both hands, and rips the rest off. The last thing I hear before blacking out is a bloodcurdling scream that sounds like multiple different voices.

And then everything fades to black...