Mist Falls

Chapter 15 :Jet POV

I groan as I wake up to an alarm going off in my phone, I look at the bright red letter on the clock three am, I rub a hand down my tired face I only got in bed an hour ago after hours of trying to figure out where that bloody power surge came from, I still have no clue.

I gab the phone and stare down at the screen: Outer Door Opened 2:59pm alert, alert Doorway opened from inside.

"Shit," I quickly pull up the camera feed to see Winter running though the house looking like she holding someone's hand her eyes are shut, is she sleep walking, she running as though someone is pulling her along before she reaches the outdoor and despairs into the night.

I pull up the outside feed but all I get is a black screen and a massage : Outdoor Cameras Offline.

"Magic why are the outdoor cameras offline," I say to the system on my phone that I designed she runs the house well all the systems I tell her to.

"Camera, outdoor, offline due to power surge reboot recommended," her mechanical voice fires back, as I run a had though my brown hair pulling at the ends.

" Reboot, track Winter Rose, password Ice Queen," I say as I wait for the system to track her disk.

"Winter Rose, her room, time until reboot forty five minutes," the robot says as I almost throw my phone at the wall fuck, she doesn't have her tracking disk and the camera outside are all down great.

I wake out in the dark hallway, wait way are the lights off we always leave the lights on out here, I click the swich as I pull my shirt over my head.

"Everyone up, Winter is outside somewhere!" I shout as I here muffled moment coming from the rooms.

"Mikes not here, he went home with some blonde bimbo," Fox says with a yawn as he opens his door, "Wait what do you mean Winters outside."

The others appear and crowd around me waiting for an answer I tell them what happened and what I saw as quickly as I can.

"Shit ok, get out there and look for her Zeek, Jax take the front and the rest of us go at the back, Phoenix say as we all run down the stairs the three of us run to the open back door.

The days here are very warm but the nights tend to be cold, and I shiver as I run into the darkness, toward the maze, I hate the maze I always feel like the walls are closing in on me.

I sigh as I set off into a run I know this maze like the back of my hand, I am close to the middle when I hear it, crying, whimpering, I slow trying to tell where the voice is coming from.

"Winter?" I say looking toward a dead end seeing now one, but still I hear the cries.

"Please don't please," I hear her beg as I start to jog, "Please don't I don't want to, please."

There is so much pain and fear lased within her words I almost fall over at the sound, good I just want to hold her and never let her go.

"Please no more," she whimpers as I turn the corner and see Winter standing next to the fountain, her eyes closed tight as she sways on her feet, tears pour down her pale face the moonlight casting an eray glow around her.

She bends and writes something on the stone around the fountain, that's when I see it blood dripping down her hand as she writes in blood some of it slides into the water, this snaps me out of it as I walk toward her and grab her arm she screams before clasping into my chest.

"Its ok Winter, I've got you now," I whisper as I grab her under the legs this tiny girl ways nothing in my arms she to thin.

Her head falls back as closed as she mumbles not making any sense at all talking about Rose and the dark man as I run toward the house, I see Phoenix waiting by the back door.

"I heard her scream, what happened?" he says ever the mother hen, as he holds open door until where in the living room where I wrap a blanket around Winters frozen arms.

"I found her by the fountain she has a cut on her hand it looked like she was writing in blood, but it was to dark to see, she screamed when I touch her and she's been limp like this since," I say in a rush as I rub her arms.

Phoenix sends a text to the others we need Mike or Fox to look at this wound on her hand, they are both training to be doctors but Fox is now a year ahead of Mike.

"Ok I'm here, let me see her hand," Fox says puffing as he walks in to the room, the others follow him in, "God she frozen how long was she out there."

"Not that long twenty minutes at the most," I say as I look down at the girl in my arms she sleeping softy, "I think she was sleep walking."

"She shouldn't be this cold after twenty minutes, Jax will you grab the emergency kit?" Fox says its not often he is serious he is the comedian of our little group but when someone's hurt its like a switch flips.

After Zeek caught his hand in a motor bike he was trying to fix, Fox and Mike instead we keep medical bags everywhere at the time I thought it was over kill now I'm glad, town is quite far and this is a big house we know have six or seven medical bags, stashed around the house.

"How is hand?" Zeek says looking over the wound, I can't tell how deep it is, I'm not nor I'm I every going to be a doctor I like hiding behind my laptop.

"I don't think it will need stitches did you see anything she could have cut it on?" Fox says looking up at me for the first time, his face filled with worry.

"No, what do you think caused it?" I ask and his eyes darken.

"A sharp rock by the looks of it there is bits of dirt in there to it will need cleaning," he says as he looks back to the palm of her tiny hand.

Jet hands Fox the bag and he gets to work on cleaning the wound and putting a thermometer under her arm.

"Hmmm, she warming up slowly but still to cold I don't understand how she got this cold," Fox sighs as he finishes wrapping a bandage around her hand., "Ok Zeek could you get the heat blanket and put it on her bed."

"Da, but someone needs to stay with her tonight," he states before walking out of the room.

"I will stay tonight, I can sleep in the big ugly chair, and we will take turns if we have to," he says as he lifts her out of my arms as he heads for the stairs.

We all go to her room, we make sure she is settled for the night before closing the door and going to our own rooms I mummer goodnight to the others as I wake back to my room, I want to know why the outside cameras where down and what the hell was Winter writing in blood.

I pick up my phone, I am so glad I brought the best case I could as I turn it back on to see ten or so minutes left on the reboot, I grab one of the many cameras of the self and a touch before slipping quietly out of my room and down the stairs closing the hall door as softy as I can before heading to the kitchen.

I grab a bucket of water and a cloth I may as well clean up he blood why I'm there, I turn off the backdoor alarm and walk outside shutting and locking the door behind me before making my way though the maze.

The early morning mist makes it seem strange as, I can hear bird calls just starting to brake though the silence of the night, when I reach the middle fountain I flick on the touch, seeing the first drops of blood on the other side I walk over there.

A rock with a jagged edge lays on the floor blood stained I pick it up, Winter cut herself with this or did she fall, I don't think we will ever know the answer, I throw the rock as hard as I can before shinning the light on the edge of the pond off the way around bloody writing is on the edge.

Get out, leave, run, get out, leave, run, over and over again repeated what the hell does this mean, is she losing her mind, I would after everything she has been though I would, I'm worried about what this means for her, can we bring her back from this or are we even to late to try, my head says she needs more help than we can give, but my heart says she is meant to be here.

I snap a couple of pictures of the bloody writing before I start to clean up and then I head back to the house just as the sun appears behind the bottom of the trees, I rub my tired eyes as I get into bed and fall into a fit full sleep, worried about the girl with the ice eyes.