Friends before Lovers {NUKE fanfic}_@Mintgal2

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Nick
I got up quietly, and it was still dark outside. I had heard a few people moving around across this thin walled house. Luke grabbed my arm.
"Nick...stay." Came his tired voice.
"I'll be right back. Just gonna take a walk." I said. I need to think about my thoughts more. And I wasn't concentrating while sleeping on Luke's chest.
"No. Don't." Luke said, his voice more alert. "You'll get lost, or--"
"Just around the house, don't worry, I'll be right back." I said. I leaned down and kissed Luke. He released me.
I grabbed my underwear, and slipped it on, and was just buttoning up my jeans when I heard a gunshot. I jumped.
"What the fuck?!" Luke jumped up. I slipped on my shoes, and grabbed my shirt, racing out into the cold.
I was torn. I didn't know where it came from!
I pulled my shirt over my head, and walked outside, AJ crying. My heart was racing.
"What the fuck did you do?!" I heard Kenny yell, and in the distance, I saw the red pickup truck disappearing into the trees. Kenny raced after it. Jane was knelt down beside Clementine, who was in the snow, limp, blood seeping into the ice.
"Fuck!" I yelled, and knelt down beside her too. "God, is she okay?!"
Jane nodded, and picked her up.
"She got shot in the shoulder! Help me!" She said, and I took Clementine from her. I raced inside, and pushed past Luke, who wore just his jeans. I put her down next to the burnt out fire, and unzipped her jacket.
Blood poured through her shirt, and I pulled that off too, revealing a bloody mess that depicted a bullet. I lifted her shoulder up, and looked to see that the bullet must've gone straight through.
"Luke, get a bandage, or something!" I demanded, and Kenny walked inside.
"Is she okay?!" He said, and pushed me to the side. He probed her impaled arm. "Those bastards!"
"What happened?!" Luke asked, and he handed Kenny bandages and perioxide.
"Bonnie, Mike and Arvo bailed, shot Clementine. She must've caught them." Kenny shook his head with anger. "That truck is all we fucking have!"
"They...Bonnie mentioned they were gonna leave." Luke said. Kenny took one look at him.
"And you didn't tell us?!" Kenny spat. "Oh, who did you fuck this time?" He asked, and Luke looked down and realised he had no shirt on. He blushed, and slipped his sweater on. "Jane?"
"I...no!" Jane exclaimed. "Maybe he just took it off to sleep!"
"It's fuckin' Winter; you don't need to." Kenny eyed me. I looked away. "Oh my god."
"Here." Jane said, pouring the peroxide into Clementine's wound. She was unconscious, and she didn't even flinch to the pain.
"Is she gonna be okay?" I asked.
"Why do you care?" Kenny asked.
"I just do, okay?" I snapped. Jane winced as she dabbed the wound with peroxide, before wrapping it up tightly.
"She'll be fine. Just, what do we do now?" Jane said. "We have no truck, cause those bastards took it."
"Which could've been prevented." Kenny glared at Luke and I.
"She said she wasn't gonna do it, okay?" I said. "So...don't be such a dick."
"You haven't changed." Kenny spat.
"We head to Howe's." Jane insisted.
"With what?" Kenny asked. "I don't know if you saw, but they took the car!"
"We find another one." Luke said.
"Where? You know a car dealership around here?!" Kenny asked.
"What if Clem won't wake up...?" I said, worried as I shook her gently.
No one responded. My lip quivered, and I sighed shakily.
"Then I can't do it." Kenny said. "I can't live."
"We take AJ, and we get outta here." Luke said.
My shoulders shook as I sobbed quietly, and I buried my head in my hands.
I couldn't take it anymore. I hadn't cried this much since Pete. And now everyone we knew was dead. Rebecca, Carlos, Alvin, Sarah. No one said anything.
"Come on." I say, and loft my head, tears draining my cheeks. "Let's leave."
Kenny looked at me with sympathy, his mad tone now relaxed. He too had a tear from his eye.
"Okay..." He said, and Luke picked up Clementine, her arm straying from her lap.
"Let's go." Luke said, his voice also threatening to cry. "Let's..let's find something."
Jane started looking for the supplies.
"They're gone..." She said, and then sighed angrily. "They took everything."
I walked behind them slowly as we left, nothing but a bulleted girl in our hands as the cold hit our faces.