Mᴜᴛᴀɴᴛ Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘsᴇ 5: Bʟᴀᴄᴋ Mᴀsᴋs ❪✓❫

01 || 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝗼𝐫'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕

In the morning, Donnie sat on the floor thinking to himself and how he'll be able to tell Osa who he is and that he never died. He's so stressed at the thought of her hating him and possibly rejecting him since he didn't come back.

Maybe he can tell her today? No, she's recovering and the last thing Donnie needs is Osa having a hard time coping and healing up. He thought of maybe telling her when he and the shifters arrive at Philadelphia-- that way she would have a place to run if she did get mad and infected and bandits wouldn't be around.

He isn't sure when the right time is or to even break the news to her. He itched his head through his hood and pounded it. "Think!" Don said.

"You okay?" Osa suddenly said.

Donnie turned to the couch. "Hey, good morning. Yeah, I'm--I'm fine."

"Get any sleep?" Osa asked.

"A few hours," Don replied. He looked at her face and saw the blood was coming back into her cheeks. He saved her in time yesterday. "Here, let me change your bandages."

Osa slowly sat up, taking her time and feeling the bones in her shoulder crack and move every few seconds. After a one-minute workout of sitting up on the couch, Osa caught her breath and moved her clothing away gently. Donnie opens the drapes on the slider to let natural light in and so it'll wake the twins up. Osa blocked her eyes from the sun's rays and looked around the lit-up house. It isn't too bad of a home. The wood floors are slightly out of place, a gorgeous matching maroon rug for the slider drapes and many windows in the living room. The living room could be the best place to have holiday gatherings and movie nights.

"Morning. Anything happen last night?" Kodi yawned, rubbing his eyes.

"No," Don replied, peeling off the bandages of Osa's gunshot. It's a good thing there's only blood. "It improved already."

Osa listened and also watched the twins get up and explore the house. Amber went up to a bookshelf where there were many novels and short stories. She liked to read before she and Kodi were set free from their home. Kodi went down the small hallway by the living room and found broken pictures on the walls. The house belonged to a four-person family. "They had two daughters," Kodi said coming out of the hall. "I wonder what happened."

"Probably the worst." Said Amber. She had a book in her hands and closed it once Kodi said that.

Donnie finished changing the bandages on Osa and gave her a homemade sling out of old clothes in the house bedrooms. "We leave in a few hours. Pack up what you can and bring it to the horses outside."

The twins nodded.

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𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝗼𝐫'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕

Vincent worried over Sam so much the past few hours. It began to settle that her life and Duke's and anyone else's in her groups could end in a matter of three weeks. She paced back and forth in her tent and bit her fingernails. Mikey and Shado left the tent with Harlow and that leaves Vv alone in the tent stressing out. "Hey." Duke walks in.

"Hey, hun." She doesn't look at him.

"You alright?" Asked Duke.

"To be honest with you, no." She says to him.

"Why? What happened?"

"This happened," Vv replied, gesturing to the outside of the tent. "All of us agreed to a war. What if we die?"

"Vincent, we won't die." He takes both her hands. "Not while I'm around." Duke kissed her forehead. Just when he was going to look for something in the tent, Vv gave him a look she hasn't given him in a long time. She had a feeling that a lot of people were gonna die and she thought she would, too. She felt like getting down and dirty at this hour... and Duke agreed with her facial expressions. "How much time do we have?"