Hope is Dead

Chapter sixty six

Marcel let his eyes slowly open and he looked up at a ceiling hearing a fan as there was the sun coming threw the window, he turned his head to the side seeing Lui doing something at a dresser, Marcel cleared his throat and Lui turned seeing him sit up, Lui then hurried to give him water. Once Marcel drank the water he looked around having a glimpse outside ''Where are we?'' Lui smiled and sat on the bed ''On an abandoned farm.'' Marcel looked at him a bit confused ''There's a backup generator out back.'' Marcel nodded and it took a minute for thing's to sink in ''Where's Luke?'' he asked and tried getting up but Lui stopped him ''He's fine, he actually woke up an hour ago.'' Marcel smiled and calmed down again looking around.

''When are we leaving?'' he asked looking to Lui, this made Lui smile ''We aren't.'' Marcel narrowed his eyes ''What do you mean?'' Lui lost his smile ''Evan said it would be best if we all stayed in one place without leaving to go somewhere else.'' Marcel shook his head ''But the safe zone isn't that far away?'' Lui tilted his head a bit ''Safe zone?'' Marcel sighed and moved his blanket forcing Lui to get up and he saw his leg remembering everything ''Where is everyone?'' he asked looking up at Lui. Lui nodded and helped him get up from the bed, he helped him outside the room and down the stairs into the living room, Luke got up and walked over hugging Marcel while he looked around.

Luke pulled away and Marcel noticed the sadness before he asked his question ''Where's Brian, Tyler and Craig?'' Evan sighed getting up ''Sit.'' Marcel looked at Luke before sitting on the couch, Brock got up and left the living room going out to the backyard, as he opened the door he herd Brian, he shut it behind him and walked down the step's going towards Brian as he swung down cutting more wood. He stood there silently for a bit before Brian stopped ''What?'' he snapped not knowing who it was till he turned around ''Oh, hi.'' he said trying to give a smile as he dropped the axe ''Marcel's up.'' Brian nodded and turned around ''How's he feeling?'' he asked picking the axe up again ''Can you stop?'' Brain dropped the axe and turned around facing him again ''What? Am I scaring you now?'' Brock stared at him as Brian walked over.

''I can assure you I'm the one trying to keep thing's together, not scare everyone away.'' Brian said and went back to chopping wood ''You're not scaring me off.'' Brian turned to him before swinging down chopping more wood ''I don't want you closing yourself off like Lui did.'' Brian stopped and looked back at him ''What if I do? Why can't I?" Brock felt like tearing up ''Because I... I don't think I can bring you back from that.'' Brian stared at him seeing the tears swelling up in his eye's ''I'm not strong Brian, I need you to be there when something happens and if your not... I...'' he stopped, choking up, Brian walked over ''I'm not strong enough.'' Brian hugged him, shushing him ''I won't.'' Brock pushed away looking at him '''Promise?'' Brian smiled ''Promise.'' Brock then hugged him more and Brian rubbed his back looking up seeing Evan in the doorway, he shut it and walked back to the living room.

Marcel was now crying with Luke comforting him and Evan saw the only person in there now was Lui ''Where's Jon?'' Lui looked at him and pointed up, Evan nodded and left the living room heading up the stairs, he looked around before going to Jon's room, he knocked lightly but he was still herd ''Come in.'' he opened the door and looked over at Jon on the bed looking down, he shut the door and walked over to him ''How you doing?'' he asked sitting beside him, Jonathan sighed ''I finally get to meet you guy's and it feel's like you're all getting picked off one by one.'' Evan shook his head looking away from him ''Don't speak like that.'' Jon looked to him ''How else would you say this feeling?'' he asked tuning his whole body to face Evan.

Evan shook his head holding his hand's together on his lap while he leaned forward ''I know you're scared Evan, ok, but I need to know that we aren't gonna fall apart because of this.'' Evan looked at him and nodded ''We won't.'' Jon looked down ''How can you be sure of that?'' Evan reached over grabbing his hand ''I'm not.'' Jon grabbed Evan's hand leaning over to rest his head on Evan's shoulder looking towards the door hearing footsteps, he pushed away as there was a knock on the door, Lui then pushed it open ''You need to come down stairs.'' Evan nodded and stood up ''Both of you.'' Jon looked over then up at Evan getting up.

The two followed him downstairs and saw Brock and Brian sitting in the living room, they joined them and sat down ''There's a safe zone in Arizona.'' Luke said putting it out there ''I have a feeling we're closer, I just need a map to be sure of it.'' Luke added looking to all of them ''Wouldn't it be full by now?'' Marcel shook his head ''We only got the frequency a while out here.'' Evan looked at them before hanging his head, Brian saw he was thinking about going ''What happened to staying safe here?'' Evan looked at him ''We don't even know if there's room Ev.'' Evan nodded to his concern ''It could be safer there then being in the middle of nowhere.'' Evan explained ''Still, you said staying away from places was best, Evan we've lost three friends, are you sure you wanna lose a forth!?'' Brian said getting up before storming out, Brock got up following him.