Chix Flix

Shutter Three

|noncanon, rewritten, edited|

The breeze was cool, gliding over her skin, gently through the thin fabric of her clothes as she looked forward. A deep, vibrating hum shaking through the air. Quiet, like it wasn't there unless you had been listening for a long, long time. And that she had been. Hands gently brushing over the soft grass in the meadow she found herself sitting in. She felt calm. Relaxed without words. So much so that she hardly had the thought to wonder what brought her here.

"I love you." The words were soft as they came from behind her. She stilled, unable to turn around as she felt the warmth of his face against her back, arms creeping into her vision as they wrapped around her, an embrace. A familiar one. One she couldn't accept. "I love you a lot, Izz."

The humming felt louder, more solidified as she felt unable to move. Unable to turn around to look at the face she always found so comforting and safe. Someone she thought would always be beside her no matter what she did. No matter what she saw him do. No matter what they said.

The tears that welled up in her eyes felt hot. Burning almost as they rolled down her face and onto the hands gently clasped over her stomach, she watched them flinch as each drop fell onto the scarred skin there, holding tighter at each burning hit as she sobbed. Her tears burned hot and painfully, she could see it. The sound breaking from her throat as the arms around her trembled. They were terrified, weren't they?

"M-Maddox." Her voice broke as she tried to get an answer. A way to make him let go so she can see him as the hum seemed to shake her unmoving. Her skin like static as she tried to move, to do anything to see those wisps of blond hair and the sad eyes she needed to look into. To ask why. To ask how.

But her tears still fell, burning him as he held on tighter. Terrified of what might happen if he really let go.

The hum shook them both. The ground trembling beneath them as the sky quaked into a more hazy grey. "Please." They both begged.

"Don't leave me."

The hospital light was dimmer than the brightness one would expect from what they showed on TV. The linoleum floors ugly grey to match the unfamiliar and unwelcoming air that one could only describe as medical. The deep hum of the ventilator as it paced itself and worked diligently the only things keeping the two awake.

Sawyer could barely look at her. He's seen her before this all had happened. What the other fake jocks observed to be a member of one of the two biggest outcasts in school. Besides their own groups of course. The only conversation he remembers having with her running through his head at every glance he caught of her face. He had only tried to get Maddox closer to whatever Elias had intended then. Something... Less drastic than what it was now. Maybe even, less lethal.

"You better leave him the fuck out of whatever you have planned. You can't mess around with someone like him-" She found him trying to catch up to the blond boy as he obliviously wandered the halls. But she was there too, not someone he noticed at first since she was behind Sawyer, definitely making herself known only as she spun him around to look at her. The girl that had the scent of flowery perfume to mask the vodka cloaking her furious small frame.

"Look I just want to say-"

"What? That you want to be friends? That he's suddenly someone you and your crew want to hang out with? Do you think this is our first time dealing with dicks like you?"

Maddox had paused a few feet forward. Listening, but not looking at either of them.

"I don't want to do any of that-"