listen closely

18

{Em}

"You both have to be willing to do it." Scott nods.
"We are."
"And you can only stay apart for a few hours," I say, "And if anything happens to one body, the same thing happens to the other."
"So if you die, both of you die." Jay says
"I still don't like that there's two of you," Liam says, "It makes me uncomfortable."
"One of us dies, we both die, got it." Scott says, "So how do we do this?"
"Just focus on the differences between you and pull yourself apart." His eyes glow. After a minute he stops, another Scott appears.
"Woah..." The one with purple eyes says. "This is weird."
"It's even weirder to look at two of you." Callum says
"Are we done?" Lizzie asks
"Yeah, let's go."

I groan and touch my shoulder, blood drips down my arm.
"Jay? What's up?"
"It's fine." Blood starts dripping down my arm faster.
"Jay, you better not kill us."
"Yeah, get as far out of the territory as you can."
"What? What's-"
"If you don't want both of us to die, get out now!"
"Ok jeez." I run past a group Chasers and duck under beans and flying orbs. I run past a building and fly through the air. I land on the ground and groan, my head pounds.
"Em? Are you ok?" I sit up and look around.
"Yeah..." I look around slowly. "Can anyone hear me?"
"Hello?" Will's voice breaks through the static.
"Will," I say, "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine," He says, "I'm trapped, but I'm fine."
"Where are you?"
"I don't know, I was on top of a building some-" He cuts out.
"Will? Will, are you there?" There's nothing but static. "Jay?"
"I'm here." She appears in front of me.
"Can anyone else hear me?" Someone says something quickly before cutting out.
"You find Will," Jay says, "I'll look for others."

I fly up the staircase onto the roof.
"Will?"
"Em? Em!" Banging echoes through the air. I run over to a pile of rubble.
"Will? Are you hurt?"
"I don't think so."
"Ok." I pull a piece of rubble off of the pile, then a few more until Will's hand pokes out.
"Ow, ow, that is poking me somewhere." Will says as I move another piece. I put the piece down slowly.
"Can you get yourself free?"
"No, I can't move."
"Ok, uh..." I start moving another piece.
"Ow, that's also something."
"Those are the only two things I can move."
"Ok, well I can't teleport."
"Ok... um... Callum? Pax? Jack? Kyle? Anyone?" There's no response. "Ok..." I slide out a piece from the bottom of the pile and the entire thing shifts. Will winces sharply. "What happened?"
"I don't know, but now I'm bleeding."
"Oh jeez... Can you move now?"
"A little." His arm reaches out of the hole, blood drips down his fingers.
"Ok, this is gonna hurt for a second." I pull his arm up. He groans and appears out of the rubble.
"Ow."
"Oh jeez." I look at a piece of metal in his shoulder.
"That's not good." I pull more pieces out and help him up. Blood drips down his side. "Ok, let's find everyone else."

"Em!" Jay waves us over. Will and I run over to her.
"One of the Scotts is under there." She nods at another pile rubble.
"Oh jeez... Scott? Are ok?" He doesn't respond.
"Help me get the pieces up." We all pull up small pieces as Will watches.
"We can get the bigger pieces up with our magic." We all hold out our hands and pull the bigger pieces off the pile until we can pull Scott out.
"Scott? Can you hear me?" He doesn't move.
"Shoot, this means that other Scott is our too," I say, "So we have to find the other one."
"Wait," Jay says, "We can force the other one back in if this is the main Scott." She opens his eye. "Which it's not." She picks him up and carries him over.
"He's still breathing, heart still going, he just hit his head hard."
"Leave him here with me, I'll make sure he stays alive while you find the others." Jay puts Scott down and looks at me.
"See you you can get him to react to a certain direction, that's where the other Scott is." She puts her hand on his forehead and points in a direction.
"Come on Scott, give us something." He moves as she points in a direction. "Got it. Let's go!"