The Mom

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        Jessica lowered the gun as Josiah was talking. She had a stunned expression on her face as she looked to the ground.

        "You passed out in here?" she asked, still looking at the ground intently.

       "Yes," was all Josiah said, as he fixed his eyes on Jessica. "Is something the matter?" Jessica turned and walked away gripping the gun with force. She walked up to Ethan.

        "Take this," she whispered to him while looking at the gun. But Ethan's eyes were still fixed on Kaitlyn. It was like he didn't even hear her. As Jessica looked up, Chloe tapped his arm.

        "What's wrong with you?" Chloe asked him with a worried look on her face, "Youre acting weird."

        "Okay, you two can work out whatever is going on in a minute," Jessica said firmly. "Take this and move the other guns up where my dad is." Jessica stared firmly into Ethan's eyes. With that, Ethan took the gun and Jessica turned away immediately after. Chloe watched her walk away with a confused expression on her face. Ethan and Chloe walked over by Josiah, took the cart of guns and wheeled it up the cave floor. Jessica had sat down next to Kaitlyn.

        "Are you okay honey?" Jessica asked wiping some blood off of Kaitlyn's cheek.

        "I guess so....." she replied, never looking up from the rock she was kicking lightly from foot to foot.

        "If you need anything, you know I'm here right?" Jessica said putting her hand on Kaitlyn's shoulder. "I know it was hard being away from home when everything went down. "

        "I know you're there Jess, I'm just not bothered I guess," she replied

        "Everyone is bothered, it's just the mess that we're in now," Jessica said glancing over at Josiah who was staring at her. "See the new guy over there?" Jessica asked Kaitlyn, never taking her eyes off him.

        "Yeah.... Is something wrong?" she replied.

        "I don't want you going anywhere near him, okay? We're running low on food and I think I'll take him with me to town for more supplies, get him away from everyone," Jessica said as she stood up, looking down at Kaitlyn.

        "What's wrong with him?" Kaitlyn asked.

        "Hes just....." there was a long pause and then Jessica let out a sigh, "dangerous," she finished.

        "Dangerous? That's all? Everything is dangerous now," Kaitlyn replied as she looked up at Jessica.

        "Will you just promise me that you'll stay away from him?!" Jessica said as she fixed her knife that she always kept in her shoe.

        "Ugh whatever I promise." she replied, "Anything else?"

        "Yeah why don't you take your gun up to The Point?" Jessica added

        "You have such weird code names for the different areas of the cave. You're not a secret agent I hope you know that," Kaitlyn smirked,  "but yeah I'll take it up now." Kaitlyn stood up and the two girls smiled at each other as Kaitlyn walked away. Jessica continued smiling until she was out of sight, then she turned to Josiah.

        "You're coming on a supply run with me." Jessica stated as she grabbed a dirty rag and whiped some sweat off her forehead.

        "You really think I'm up for that?" he replied with a scared, confused look on his face.

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