Where are you going?

Chapter 24

Julia's POV:

I was looking for Colby after that and found him at check up with the others, where a female nurse was cleaning his busted eyebrow and I guess checking him for anything. I walked away, knowing me and Colby wasn't going to see each other for a while until I had delivered the papers to whoever was in charge of this place. "Mam, I need to check that!". Once again I didn't notice I was in the front of the line and going to get checked by another nurse. She looked tired and kinda annoyed by my clumsiness, but I didn't say anything. She looked at the bruises on my arms, that I didn't even know were there and then kept on doing the routine. Checking my ears, mouth, eyes and reflexes but everything was fine. 20 nurses could check out my physical health and find nothing wrong, cause something was wrong but it wasn't physical. I felt my stomachache, my head spinning, my heard beat racing and my eyes starting to water as I walked away and going towards the giant shelter in the middle of the metal platform the rescue area was place upon. I had a bad feeling I wasn't going to find Violette here. The burning heat didn't make it easier to find my shelter or concentrating on finding Violette. People were everywhere, looking for their own little space or for a nurse that could help them, but most of them didn't know where to go or what to do and it was clear. It was uncomfortable being around so many bleeding people and not being able to help but I guess I could do that later. Yeah, ask where the head of this rescue shelter was and then hand over the papers and ask to become a nurse here. Right, brilliant idea Julia. I finally found the numbers written on the shelter that was mine and stepped inside. It was bigger than I thought, with about ten bunkbeds found in the room and half of them were filled up. I then chose one and sat down to catch my breath for a second. Why did I feel like someone was looking at me all the sudden? Why couldn't I just fall asleep and get some rest? Why did I also kiss Colby, and why was I mad at him again? I had to get out of here and fin Colby after the papers was dealt with.

I was looking for about an hour and asking nurses where to find the one who were running this place but I had no success and ended up walking further into the camp and going into the white shelters that didn't look like the others, stepped the line saying "staff only". I saw the blue suits and masks and grabbed one of each. I pulled the suit over me and put the gloves, mask and boots on before continuing down the path leading me to what seemed like a meeting room. Nurses, were there, talking, pointing at numbers and names. One woman wasn't wearing the suit but a mask only and was listening while looking at the numbers on the screen. When I stepped into the room, nothing changed, and I kept on going in with the papers. I guess my acting skills had to come in action now. "Mam. You would want to see this. A patient had this from being in captivity at one of the gangs.". every pair of eyes were on me after I said that and the young lady grabbed the papers I was holding and put her eyes on it. She read the first side before pointing at the others to take a look. Soon they looked at me again and she spoke. "Thank you. I'm gonna tell commander Abel, just stay here. I did what she said and figured I succeeded in my acting. My heart was beating faster than I could comprehend and looked around. Everyone was shocked and looking at me. I pretended to look at the numbers on the screen and saw the names afterwards. It was a small meeting shelter with every patient on the board and the numbers of counted sick. They were trying to keep the virus under control, but they knew it was unrealistic. Tubes of some green liquid was in boxes in one of the corners while another had boxed filed with bandages. I was looking through the papers when I finally was alone in the room, but I didn't find Violette's name anywhere. I saw Colby about four rows under mine and looked at his file before leaving. I couldn't do more here. The whole place was gonna blow up with dead people laying around, and me and Colby wasn't going to be one of those. Nobody was safe anywhere anymore, and Violette or Sam wasn't here.

It felt weird walking through the shelters looking for Colby. It still felt like someone was watching me, but I shook it off quickly when I noticed the dark blue streaks and a humped over body sitting in one of the medical shelters.

"One broken rib, a sprained wrist, about 10 bruises and one healing gun shot wound. How are you feeling?". He turned around quickly and that beautiful smile of his started to form. He looked at me for a second before looking down and speaking. "I'm fine. they said the rib already was healing faster than they predicted. And I'm sorry, for before.". I walked further into the small operation room after sipping up the zipper to the room. I walked slowly towards the hospital bed and sat next to him. I could see the tests they had done on him, but nothing was very curtain. I could smell his shampoo from where I was sitting and I enjoyed it for a moment, kinda sad about what was going on between us. I never really noticed how attractive this guy was, but now I did. I don't think I could leave him even if I wanted, not just because he could help me find Violette but because there constantly is this pull towards him if you ask me. I suppose that's what you call being attracted to someone, but I never understood it until now. "They're not here, Colby.". I just looked down to my lab as I was trying to understand how we were gonna find our friends if they would be out there. If they're even alive. I was scared that I was never going to see Violette again. "I know.". I started to take of the suit of that made me feel trapped at this point, and sat back down next to Colby, who was looking at me and trying to figure out what I was feeling. I looked down at my hands in my lab and noticed how they were shaking more than ever. They kept on shaking as my eyes started to water and my heart started to race. I guess I had a minor panic attack until I felt a pair of warm hands take my hands and pull them towards his mouth and felt Colby's warm lips hit my cold hands. He was standing in front of me, with his body so close and his lips on my hands as he became closer. Everything stood still in the small room we were in, as he suddenly stood between my legs with his hands cupping my face and looking into my watering eyes. "You're cold". He said as my hands wen over his face and grazing every inch of his neck and his hair. "You're warm". I said as I felt his thumb graze my jaw and chin before whipping of a tear under my eye. He smiled before closing the gap between us, letting me feel his soft lips on mine again. If I wasn't sitting on the bed, I would've crumbled onto the floor from the way he was kissing me at this point. He was in complete control of the kiss and started to move his warm hands down my neck, following my spine, making small circles on my lower back and then grabbing onto my hips as I let him take control. And oh boy, what he could do with his lips onto mine. I had my hands on the back of his head, trying to steady him with my fingers gripping into his thick hair, but he was so forceful that it didn't matter, but I didn't mind. The sweet kiss turned into something I didn't think would happen. I couldn't do that, after what had happened, so I pulled back and put my hands on his chest to make up a room for me to breath. "I can't.". I whispered while trying to catch my breath, which Colby was trying to do as well. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that.". Colby's hands let go of my thighs and Colby turned around with his face down, leaving my cold body by itself. "No. Wait.". I quickly grabbed his hand and, noticed the small bird tattoo which I studied for a while until Colby was close again. "You should have done that, it's just... It's confusing. I still don't know what happened to you since you've been acting this weird.". Colby's blue eyes were almost glowing in the room as I looked up into them. "I think I finally realized that I might never see Sam again. And I guess I was scared to do all of this because, I don't want to hurt you. And this morning, after last night everything changed. If I didn't bring you to Adam and Justin...". "If you didn't bring me to them, I would've ended up hurt and dead, Colby.". Colby shook his head and rinsed his hand through his hair as a distraction before putting each hand next to my thighs and looking down into my lab. "Julia, you have no idea what you have done to me.". "Maybe I do actually. What if you were doing the same things to me?". I put my hands up to his head and lifted so that I could see his eyes one more time. "You're not gonna hurt me, Colby.". The blue nuances were melting together, almost creating small waves in his iris and I guess I couldn't keep my own from them. "If you're not leaving me, then let's stick together and find Sam and Violette.". He said while leaning in. "Let's stick together". I said and closed the gap between us. Our lips colliding could never get boring to me. His touch. His eyes. His lips on mine.