left for dead ♡ gabriel #Wattys2019

four

"Lines dead," Felicity explained, spamming the phone back down onto the reciever. She turned around to see Alex flick the light switch up and down, disappointed written clearly across his face.

"It's cause the power's out," He said walking towards the group,"You know what an EMP is?"

"Yeah, yeah, that's the music white people dance to." Dariush tried, shuffling around.

"That's an EDM," Felicity corrected him as she walked past and to the table Zhenzhen was shoveling supplies into her bag. Felicity copied her actions and chose food off the table to throw into her own backpack.

"An EMP is an electromagnetic pulse," Alex explained glancing between the faces of his new found friends,"A nuclear explosion in the upper atmosphere can cause one and it knocks out most electronics-" he held up his phone, "-over a really big area."

"That was in one of the scifi novels I read once,"Felicity voiced, standing up straight and slinging her bag over her shoulders.

Dariush glanced between the two nerds; one of them a bookworm and one of them a space nerd. "What does it mean?"

"It means nothing works."

"It means we're fucked," Felicity and Alex's voices overlapped each other, but it bothered neither of them. The three who hadn't been apart of the choir gazed between the two with worry.

"Not even cars?" Dariush inquired. Zhenzhen clicked a gun, Felicity hoped it was a flare gun or that Zhenzhen knew how to aim.

"Well, you guys have food and a roof over your head. You could do a lot worse than staying and waiting this out," Gabriel mentioned, gesturing around him at the supplies and walls that would allegedly protect the four if he were to leave.

"What makes you think you're not staying?" Felicity furrowed her brows at him as he moved his eyes to look into hers from across the room. She shuffled forward and explained herself, covering up her outburst, "Whatever this, we're in it together."

At the end of her motivational sentence, a loud explosion shook the building. The five kids ducked down like it would help and searched the premise wildly in case of danger.

"Shit!" Dariush hollered over the ruckus outside,"Come on, come on, come on!"

The four followed him outside, all of them scrambling out the doors and down to the lake once again.

Alex squinted at the jets flying in the sky,"Those are F-22 air superiority fighters."

"What the hell are those ships they're fighting?" Gabriel sounded pointing a shake finger into the distance.

"I've never seen anything like them."

"Well, they don't look too friendly. Let's go! Run!" Felicity shrieked, grabbing the hand closest to hers and tanking them with her. Gabriel didn't think twice to follow the girl pulling his hand, not wanting to get his arm ripped off or turned into swiss cheese from the fighter jets lasers.

As the ran, dodging blast and gunfire, they were sent soaring through the air and slammed into the ground. Felicity felt her body get pulled to who ever she had grabbed on to and as they landed on the ground, arms wrapped around her figure to soften the blow. She pried her eyes open from the previous fear and pain she'd felt to see Gabriel encasing her in his arms. Felicity unraveled herself from his lanky limbs and helped him up, staying close to his torso as they moved. Gabriel had his hand interlocked protectively with hers.

Alex knocked her bicep like Zhenzhen did his and pointed to the sky where a falling gizmo was headed directly to them. She turned around and started to pull Gabriel with her, but before they could get a decent distance away; they were sent flying through the air a second time that day. When the dust cleared and everything quieted down, Gabriel helped Felicity up and brushed her hair from her face.

"You okay?" Felicity nodded, a warm pit forming in her stomach. Butterflies. She just met this guy and she already felt sick with just a simple touch from him.

"Yeah, you?" Gabriel mimicked her nod and turned back to the group.

Dariush squawked,"What is that?" He fanned the dust out of his eyes and coughed it from his lungs. All the kids were coughing up their lungs from the amount of dust and debris.

"Its a dragon capsule,"Alex answered smartly, he was full of nerd facts.

Gabriel ran towards it, leaving Felicity and follow after him and the others. "How do you know all this stuff?"

"There's a reason my mom sent me to outdoor camp," Alex illustrated his answer. Felicity licked her lips and inspected the capsule.

Dariush swallowed,"Oh, god, that things huge." Felicity bit her cheek, giving him a backwards glance. He caught her eye,"Oh, come on, Felix. Really?"

She turned away from hin with a snort, stepping closer the the capsule. Gabriel grabbed her back pack and pulled her back. He steadied her in his arms before moving past her towards the shuttle door. He touched the door as Alex and Felicity shouted warnings at him, he bounced back in pain.

"Careful, it's hot." Felicity remarked, raising a brow at the boy in pain. He gripped his hand in the other, bending over his knees and glaring at her through his lashes. She pulled her water bottle from the side pocket of her backpack and grabbed his hand, pouring the iced water over the raw area.

"Thanks,"He smiled at her. It was a nice moment.

Dariush snatched the water from her hands and held it up like a prized gem. Alex nodded,"Good idea!" Dariush gave a proud smile before popping the top and pouring it into his mouth.

"Dude!" Felicity cried out, grabbing her bottle back,"Not the idea we had in mind." She hopped up to the door and doused it in the water, cringing away from the steam that nipped at her.

Dariush's eyes widened,"Wait, you're not seriously gonna open that thing, are you?"

Gabriel nodded,"There could be someone inside!"

"No, leave it be. Alright?" Felicity back away from the capsule as Dariush made his way over to it. He dipped his fingers into the goo splattered across the metal capsule. "We dont know what this shit is-"

"Then why the fuck are you touching it?" Felicity snapped, shoving her bottle back to her pocket and sneering at him. Gabriel pressed his fingers to her lower back, she straightened up and glanced over at him. Suddenly, his eyes were more captivating in this life or death scenario than whenever she first met him.

Dariush pointed at her, he swung his finger at all of them, "Alright, this is the animal kingdom out here, bitches. Alright? Survival. Of. The. Fit-" The door to the capsule launched from its pocket and knocked Dariush out of the way. Gabriel's hand quickly slung under Felicity's love handles and pulled her into his torso.

"Oh shit!"