The Broken Loop

Chapter 31: Matches

Pov: Allison

We arrive at the safehouse, it took what felt like five or six hours, we're all exhausted(except for Norman.)

"Should we rest here for a bit?" I ask.

"I'm fine with that." Susie replies.

"I agree." Sammy says as he looks at the fishes.

"Wally wants to rest, I don't care what we do." Buddy replies.

"I don't care either." Norman says, he's standing right outside the door, he was having issues getting his head in the door so he decided to just give up.

I look over to Tom, he nods.

"Linda?" I ask, looking over to her, she's by the bed that Henry would normally have right now if the loop was still going.

She seems to be debating.

"It would be best if we stopped to rest." She says after a bit.

I look over to Tom again, he gestures to Linda with his head and then he looks at me, tilting his head.

I nod.

She's worried about Henry and wants to keep going, but she knows that we should rest.

"We should probably eat." Susie says as she searches the room for Bacon soup.

Sammy grabbed three cans out of his pocket.
"What would you like? Ink mixed with a small amount of soup, ink mixed with even less soup, or mostly ink with the side of soup?" He jokingly asks, which causes those who heard(Me, Susie, Wally(or Buddy, maybe both) and even Tom) to chuckle a bit. Norman probably heard but didn't care, while I don't think Linda was paying attention.

"We would like mostly ink with the side of soup." Buddy replies, Sammy holds up the can, Wally looks like he's going to try to catch it.

Tom and I step out of the way, Sammy tosses it over to them, Wally(almost dropping it) manages to catch it)

Wally nods to him as he opens the can and starts drinking it right out of the can.

Tom walks over to the desk and opens the draws, he tosses me a can of soup from the desk, I catch it and open it.

"Thanks."

He nods, grabbing out two more cans, he walks over to Linda, tapping her, causing her to snap out of her thoughts, he hands her a can.

While he's doing that, I look around the room, Susie and Sammy are talking, Buddy and Wally seem to be having a mental conversation -or argument judging by the wolf's face- with each other. I watch as Norman -who's still outside- picks up a glob of ink and watches it slowly fall to the floor.

I look to Tom when he comes back to me, holding a open can of soup, he glances at Linda and then back to me.

"I know, Tom. Besides, we plan on leaving after we rest a bit."

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Pov: Joey

The story continues to draw itself, leaving me nothing to do except watch.

I look over to the drawings of the Ink Demons fighting.

One is constantly attacking, out for blood, while the other is constantly dodging, trying his best to not harm the other.

The latter one seems to be losing, if he doesn't try to defend himself he will die, and he knows it.

My thoughts drift back to the time loop, back when it just begun, before Henry started to loose his memories. .