Nomads: The Ghost + The Darkness//Sequel(TheWattys2019)

Chapter Four: Silhouette Truth

Leo POV
I was on duty while Michelle and Angel were a couple blocks down searching houses, Dylan was passed out and Blaire, well she hasn’t been sleeping, it’s got me worried, Fynn and Marilyn have no bites and neither does Missy surprisingly, she’s been by Blaire’s side since the raid, we barricaded a house that was on Southwest, surprisingly big,we had all of our own rooms, there were still some Christmas decorations up, even the tree was up, presents remained unopened. Blaire came outside putting a sweatshirt on,”They’re everywhere out there”
“Michelle will thank you for lending her your bulletproof vest”
“I’ve had that with me since I was separated”
“Damn, that long?” She nodded,”How’s Fynn holding up?” She didn’t answer and I groaned,”Are you still mad at him for what he did?
“No, no he's doing alright, just holed up in his room, but he’s just a teenage boy, he’s no different with this happening” He agreed,”And what did you do when you were teenager?” We turned 20 in March, not how I wanted to end my teenage decade and start my adulthood,”I barely had a room of my own for a couple months, but I was sociable, I used to live here actually, I remembered this house and figured it’s up for the taking”
“You did?”
“Yeah, figured it’d be big enough for all of us, Missy seems to enjoy” I was still on lookout and waiting for Michelle and Angel to return,”After we found Missy, she sure hasn’t left your side since that raid” She nodded and took a huge sigh,”And is that bad?”
“No, I care about her, she is protective, loving and a companion to all of us”
“And what would you do if Missy got bit?” She didn’t answer the question,”Blaire, come on you know that question has to come up eventually”
“Except that question has been coming into my mind every single day,’What’s going to happen if she dies or gets bitten?’ I know what I have to do when it happens, I know she isn’t gonna live forever and I’m not gonna be ready when it happens, why do you think she’s by my side constantly? Because she knows, she’s not just a dog, she’s a living being that we found in a store that stood by us and chose to be loyal to us because we have never chose to harm her” I agreed with her and that she has a point,”But what about if you or Dylan, perhaps both of you get bit?” She looked at me like she was offended and we had eye contact then Angel and Michelle came back without a scratch and with supplies,”Anything happen here?”
“No, nothing at all”
“Where's Fynn?”
“One guess” Michelle had a dissapproving look on her face as she handed Blaire the bag,”You gotta give the boy something to do”
“He’s just a teenager-”
“A teenager that needs to learn how to survive besides leaving another person behind and expecting others to do the dirty work for him”

Blaire POV
We came back inside except Leo,”And Dylan?” We laid out the supplies on the dining table,”We couldn’t exactly get the things we needed, but we improvised as usual Blaire”
“It’s okay, whatever works, we can always improvise, thank you for going out there. Dylan is just a little under the weather and I need to make Tea for him” I onlt had a couple bags left for him and there was only 10 cans of Soup and some of them were not chicken noodle, but it’ll do,”How’s he doing anyway?”
“He’s getting better, but he needs to drink Tea and Soup to keep it down and speaking of that, did you get the Dayquil or Nyquil? Either is fine” They handed me one,”Thank you very much” Michelle came into the kitchen and shut the door quietly,”Why are you doing this?”
“What?”
“You know, you’re taking care of him, you care about him do you?” I scoffed,”If you were sick and I was doing the same thing, would you have said the same thing?”
“I know about your sexuality” I chuckled lightly,”We’ve been through a lot before we ran into you guys, we thought we would never trust each other in The Scavengers and now that dumbass, we have to look after Marilyn now, she doesn’t know what happened to her own father, but we know, I saw a bite mark”
“And does she know?”
“Not yet” She shut the door all the way,”How do you really feel about Dylan huh? That’s the answer I want to that question”
“Do you really want the honest truth?”
“Yes” Then a knock at the door, Angel walked in,”Blaire, it’s Marilyn” I nodded,”Later okay?” I walked out and went upstairs, her room was next to mine and I went in there,”Hey, Angel said that there was something wrong” She wasn’t answering,”What is it?”
“What happened to my Father? I’m old enough to know now” I suppose that eventually is now,”Hon he was bit by a zombie trying to save your mother, I saw the bite, but he was hiding it from you for a good reason, Dylan and I keep count of our weapons and we lost one pistol gun, we think that he shot himself to protect himself from him turning into one of them and kill you, he must’ve known that Dylan and I were gonna be capable enough to protect you”
“And you are” I nodded,”Hey, at least you know now, Dylan and I...we weren’t sure when we were gonna tell you, but with everything that has happened, I’m sure you would’ve wanted to know about your father by now” She nodded,”Now is there anything else that you want to know?” She shook her head,”That’s all I wanted to know” She hugged me and I did the same for her,”Whatcha drawing?”
“It’s a Pyramid of Giza, that’s Nefertiri with O’Connel, a Medjai” I chuckled in amusement,”So you’ve seen The Mummy Returns huh?”
“Uh huh, my mom used to watch this all the time, she loved the Mummies” I’m not so sure that she was so hot about Zombies and I’m sure she meant the Egyptians, but she’s 10, she’ll catch on.