DO YOU KNOW THIS PLACE?

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"How many more times are you going to scare me? Hmmmm?" Newt said, squinting his eyes to form a suspicious face towards Rue. She just chuckled and playfully punched him in the arm.
"You know, neither of us have turned the lights on yet," Rue stated after a minute of silence.
"Oh yeah,"
Newt swung round on the ball of his foot and switched the lights on. A quiet drone sounded before the lights flickered on.

"I'm bored......you wanna go raid another store?" Rue asked.

"Not particularly, no." Newt sighed and walked towards the shelves in front of him, before he lowered his voice. "I don't think we should leave just yet, I think I just saw a shadow move across the wall, it could be a survivor!" Rue groaned "And it could ALSO be a zombie," she placed her hands on his shoulders and guided him towards the door.
"Hey! What if I want to go have a look?" Newt whisper-yelled.

"Yeah, and what if you die because you can't use a gun, dumbass" Rue hissed "I almost lost you once, don't make it twice," She continued to pull the brunette out of the store whilst he pouted. "Great, it's dark out," Newt sighed as he looked up to a dark indigo sky, highlighted with stars and blazing fires in the distance.

"At least it's not raining?" Rue offered.
"Yeah, like that would be a singularity," Newt replied sarcastically. Rue didn't reply, she looked around the street like she knew it. The way the pavement would twist round the corner of the store and everything form the potholes to the street lamps felt familiar. Brushing it off, she continued to pull Newt along with her, cautiously looking around each corner and making sure that there were no obstructions in their path back to the warehouse. Newt had noticed that Rue seemed to know this place like the back of her hand and called her out "Do you know this place?" (WHEEZE, see what I did there?)
" I.......yeah, yeah, I do. I used to live on this road," Rue winced remembering the painful memories held in that house.
"Did you used to live here with your family? Was your mum's name Claire? My mum was called Claire, did you have like a sibling? I had a little sister called Eliza-"
"BE QUIET, SALAMANDER! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU, GOT IT?"
Rue yelled, her anger and sadness mixing into an outburst that shocked Newt and made him flinch and yank his hand out of her grip. He gave her a pitiful expression with a hint of anger and frustration mixing and hiding in his eyes.
"You don't have to yell! I didn't do anything, smartass! Maybe listen to yourself in your head before telling me want to do!" Newt shouted back.

Rue grunted and turned to look at him, her eyes ablaze with anger. "I told you to be quiet," she hissed, venom coating her words.
"Maybe I don't wanna be quiet! Maybe you're not the only one with a quote on quote 'tragic' backstory!" Newt continued. He was pacing backwards, towards the store again.

"If you can't let me say things without controling me then, guess what? I don't need it! Fuck you!" He yelled and stopped walking and leant against a wall before continuing, "Maybe instead of trying to hide what's been tormenting you, tell me and I can help instead of blaming me for asking questions on a subject that I know nothing about, and so, don't know what not to ask!" He screamed and slid slowly down the wall until he was sat on the curb.

Rue finally realised the weight of her actions and slowly walked towards him before sitting down. She ran her fingers through her hair and said "I lived with my family, my mum was called Amy and I had two siblings, my older brother, Finlay, and my younger sister, Olive. I loved all of them so much, but after the outbreak, I lost all of them one by one, the hardest thing was my little sister" She inhaled a shaky breath and kept going
"She was 8, and we had just run away from this group of zombies it was just Olive and I, we had lost Finlay earlier that day, she started crying and when I asked her what was wrong she said that her leg hurt, I pulled up her leggings and I saw that she had been bitten, I told her she could sleep it off, so I let her sleep and while she was sleeping I knew I couldn't bare seeing her turn into one of those things.........so I reaching into my bag and got my gun, I walked up to where she was sleeping and whispered that I loved her before holding the gun to her head...
...and then I pulled the trigger,"

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