Dauntles Black Heart

Ch4

DBH ch4
When I wake up I look around, I'm not in the dormitory, I'm in Thromas' apartment. He walks out of the bathroom in black jeans and no shirt, he runs his hands through his hair slinging water. "Good morning," he says as I sit up in bed. "You fell asleep last night so I let you stay." Oh god, did I... sleep with him? He must have seen what I was thinking because he said, "I slept on the floor, so you could have the bed." I like him, but I'm not ready for intimacy...yet.

I look at the clock, "I've got to go." I have ten minutes until training. "Will I see you later?"
"Yes," I say leaving his apartment. I run through the pit, get clean clothes, and run to the training room.

When I walk in Payton, the girl that cut me last night, starts to laugh then she whispers in my ear, "if you tell anyone, I will make you regret it for the rest of your life." Then with a smile on her face she says louder, "Emerald, what happened to your face?" Six and Four turn around. "Emerald, what happened? Are you okay? Who did this?" Six asks concerned. "Um..." I looked at Payton, "it was an accident, and I'm okay."
"Today we learn to fight. Emerald, if you can't fight we can get someone else to fight instead." Four says.
"No, I'm fine."

Six and Four demonstrate, and tell us to start kicking and punching the bags. I'm hitting as hard as I can when Six notices, she tells me that I'm stronger with my elbows and knees. I start to hit the punching bag harder. Payton is hitting the bag next to mine. She looks at me then turns to the bag and punches it hard, turns back to me and smirks. I know that she is just trying to scare me, but it's not working.

I wonder what would happen if I did tell someone that she was the one that cut me? Would she attack me again? Would she attack Thomas?

When Four and Six let us out for lunch, Six pulls me to the side, "I know what happened to you wasn't an accident. So, please tell me what happened." I take a deep breath, "the truth is..." Payton's words start to echo in my head, "I can't tell you..." She nods, "when you can, please tell me." I nod and leave.

When I walk out the door, Payton shoves me to the wall. "If you tell anyone I will kill Thomas, and you will live to feel the guilt of knowing that you're the reason he's dead. And tell him that if he tells anyone, I will kill you," she hisses in my face, then spins around and walks away. I lean against the cool stone wall, then I hear Six and Four walking towards me, I run, I don't want Payton to think I told Six.

When I get to the last turn before I get to the pit I slow to a walk. When I walk into the pit I see Thomas sitting at a table with two plates. He waves to me, I sit in front of him, "So how was training?" I force a smile. "If you want to talk, we can go to my apartment." I nod, we pick up our plates and bring them to his apartment.

When he shut the door he says, "Emerald, please tell me what happened." I start by telling him that we started to learn how to fight, then I tell him what Payton told me. "I won't let her lay a finger on you, and she can't kill a person with as much awesomeness, as I have." I laugh, he knows just what to say. We finish eating and he says that he has the rest of the day off, to help with the fights, we walk to the training room. I look at the clock, I'm five minutes late. When we walk in Eric is talking with Four and Six, he turns around with a smirk and says, "the stiff is five minutes late. Should she hang over the side of the chasm for each minute she was late?" Four speaks up, "come on Eric, have a heart, just let it slide one time." Eric then without braking eye contact with me hisses, "shut up Four! She will ether hang over the chasm or be factionless."

Eric grabs my arm and pulls me to the chasm. Thomas then jumps in between me and the chasm, "stop, it's my fault she is late, if your going to punish someone, punish me." "Thomas I-" I was cut off when Eric slapped me on my wounded check. I cry out in pain. "That's so sweet, and I hate sweet. But I can't stand you even more so, Thomas, you may take her place." Eric lets go of me and Thomas goes over the bars and hangs there. Six is now standing behind me, she almost looks like she's going to cry. He makes it through the five minutes, Four goes to grab Thomas' hand, but Eric stops Four's hand. "No, he will hang over the side until I say to stop."

At seven minutes his hands start to slip. Six grabs my hand where no one else can see. I hold her hand tight, if I'm hurting her she doesn't show it. Then at nine minutes minutes his hands start to slip more, he readjusts his hands. Then he falls, I turn toward Six, she wraps her arms around me, I don't want to let anyone see me cry, but I just cry into Six. "Why are you crying?" The most beautiful voice says. I turn around to see Thomas sitting on the floor. I run up to him, and kneel down next to him. He wraps his arms around me, surrounding me with warmth. He whispers into my ear, "I promised that I would never leave you, and I always keep my promises." He then looks up to Four and thanks him. Four grabbed Thomas, Four saved his life, Four saved my life.

We get back to the training room, then Four goes over to the blackboard to reveal who is fighting who, him and Six decided the pairings yesterday after training. Four flips the board over:
Liz vs Bea
Tyler vs Harry
Chelsea vs Courtner
Dalton vs Brett
Emerald vs Payton
Cam
Cam won't be fighting today, I have to fight Payton, I already know she is stronger than me but I'm faster. Liz and Bea step into the ring. The fight lasted five minutes, Liz wins. Six circles the winners name, the names circled are Liz, Harry, Courtney, and Dalton. Now it's my turn to fight.
Payton and I walk to the ring, I think she's holding something. Then she lunges at me, I jump out of the way. She gets back up and throws a punch, landing on my wounded cheek. I can feel the stitches being ripped off. She grabs my hair, I elbow her in the gut, not letting go of my hair as she falls. She gets on top of me and punches me, I can see my blood on her hands and on the floor. She pins me down and whispers, "this is what you get, stiff." She grabs my stitches and yanks them out, I cry out in pain. I hear Six, Four, and Thomas yelling at her to get off me. Then I see Thromas throwing her off. He picks me up and starts to run to the infirmary.