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(Percy POV)

I kneel down quickly and examine Kyu; I can feel the tears starting to fall down my face. My head slowly falls ad I close my eyes. Everything feels numb, while I wasn't close to Kyu it still hurts to lose her. I feel something make its way past me, followed by screams. I lifted my head back up and looked over to the screaming. Two girls sat there, one younger, one about my age possibly. The older one looked scared out of her mind while the younger one was making a disgusted face at HC, who was yelling at the two. I walk over and put my hand on HC's shoulder and have her follow me out of the room. I bring her to the bathroom making sure no one else was in there. 
"Listen, HC, our friend just died. I know you're upset but now is not the time to hurt more people." I say, then leave the bathroom back to where the two girls still sat. I squatted down and looked them in the eyes, trying to be as expressionless as possible. 
"Listen we're so sorry really- it was a mistake-" The older one rushed out. 
"What do you mean a mistake?" I say cutting her off. She glances over at the younger girl then back at me. 
"We thought she might have been a zombie or something, I just want to protect my sister." She said standing up with what appears to be her sister. I stuck my hand out, ready for a handshake. She slowly shook my hand.
"Hello, my name is Rodi." The older one says with a slight french sounding accent. I glance over at the smaller one. She takes my hand quicker.
"The name is Teama, Tea for short. Don't call me Tee-muh and we'll be fine." She says, the same look of disgust apparent on her face. 
"The name is Percy, nice to meet you both." I respond, turning to leave. I make my way back down the stairs and into what looked like a destroyed living room. The outbreak must really be hitting hard.. I look over to a couch on it sit Meri, HC, and Imara. HC has her head in her hands, tugging at her hair while Meri and Imara look almost expressionless. Teama and Rodi make their way down the stairs and stand at the bottom looking over everyone. 
"Well everyone this i-" I start, but i'm cut off by HC running at Teama. HC topples her over and starts punching her. Both Rodi and I run over to her to try and claw her off but nothing is working. I glance nervously up at Rodi, who in return gives me a hopeless glance. HC slowly pulled herself off of Teama and looked at me in fear. I tilt my head slightly, and she she grabs me and brings be into a different room while everyone looks at us confused. HC looks me in the eyes then rolls up her sleeve. Her arm where it was bit was starting to turn green and rot. I glance nervously at her and then at the arm. 
"We have to cut it.." She whispers. I just stand there.
"Give me a moment please to understand what the- er- heck just happened. Less than a minute ago you were beating some kid senseless and now you're showing me your arm!" I rush, my head hurting. 
"I only noticed it from beating her up, all the emotions from.. what happened upstairs just fucked me up too much to even care.." She murmurs glancing at the floor shuffling away from me slightly. She played with the hem of her yellow hoodie sleeve before looking back up at me.
"It's not like I wanted to get bit by mindless freaks, but no one decided to help." HC looks at me in the eyes with a deadpan expression. 
"HC I'm sorry I didn'-" I start before getting cut off by HC.
"No. The damage has been done, forget I mentioned anything.." She mutters leaving the room once more. I stand there in shock- HC's never gotten mad at me like that before.. I slowly leave the room, stumbling slightly. Imara runs over to me and grabs my arm, her brown eyes looking concerned. 
"Poet? is everything alright?" she says looking back at where everyone else sat then at me. 
"Oh. Uhmyeah.." I rush out, pushing past her and toward the couch. 
"I'm gonna head to bed upstairs. Have fun." I murmur and start heading upstairs, a few people who were also tired followed me. I go into the room past the bathroom to find what looks like a guest room. I grab a sleeping bag out of my backpack and set up an area for both me and Imara to sleep. I turn over on my side and quickly doze off. 
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I wake up startled, most likely from a bad dream. I prop myself up to get a good look around, noticing the door is open. I get up and walk to close it when I hear a loud noise from downstairs. God dammit. I half run half walk down the stairs to where the noise is. It leads to an odd looking door, and when I open it, there lies HC. She's pale and bleeding out.