I wake up with fresh and dried blood coating my arm.
I never bandaged my bullet wound, and I'll bleed out for sure if I don't do something soon. I tear off some of the bottom of my jacket and tightly wrap it around my arm. That should work for now.
I can still hear the infected below from my good ear. My right ear's hearing is coming back slowly but surely. I fell asleep asleep at some point, and I judge it to be around two in the afternoon from the positon of the sun. I quickly wake the others up. "We have five hours of daylight. We need to head out, now," I inform them. I walk to the edge of the roof and look straight ahead at the woods. There's a tree ahead of us with a branch extending to be about five feet away from the edge of the roof where I stand. It looks sturdy enough, and it's pretty thick and wide. (A/N That's what she said.) No problem. I back up to get a running start, then sprint straight forward and leap. (A/N A LEAAAAP OF FAAAAAITH! References!) The brief moment in which I'm standing on absolutely nothing is terrifying. Several infected crowd the little yard of our ex-camp, reaching up to pull me down.
I land safely on the branch.
Ellie jumps over next, landing like she's done this hundreds of times before, which she very well may have. I redirect her to a different branch, which she climbs up to, and she waits impatiently.
Ella's eyes are wide and she looks more terrified than ever. I can tell she doesn't think she'll make it. "C'mon," I whisper.
She swallows nervously and takes a running start like I did, and goes for it.
She's about five inches short of the branch.
She screams as I grab her hands before she falls. She's just out of the reach of the infected, who are now riled up in hopes of a meal.
Not today.
I pull her up with both arms, ignoring the pain in the left. Once up, she hugs me tightly. A little too tightly. I can't breathe. I awkwardly pat her back, and she lets me go. I take a deep breath to get air back in my lungs.
"Ow," I say once being released.
"Sorry," she smiles slightly, "near-death experiences kinda make you need to hold on to something so you can regain your balance and not fall. Off a tree.. Again."
I laugh. "True."
"Oh, and thanks for saving my life...... again," she says, with a larger smile.
"Any time," I reply. "And I'll probably end up doing it again."
"Again?" she asks.
"Again." I nod in agreement.
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Ello my lovelies!
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Haunted
FanfictionKira Everdeen and her step-sister, Ellie Williams, have been on their own since the apocalypse began. They're so used to living alone, with no drama. In this life, it's either kill or be killed, and will they be willing to do just that? Follow Kira...
