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xiii. radioactive [FINALE]

Tw // death, guns, and violence

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Julie Molina

The drive to Caleb's bunker must've taken at least five hours. He sure did have it in the most off-the-grid place possible.. This makes me wonder how that Carrie girl even managed to get back to the house. Did she have a car? Or did she have to walk the entire way? Maybe I'll ask her at some point.

Alex had been looking anxious the whole trip. I don't blame him, I'm anxious too, but his sister was taken, and Alex cares more about Angelica than anything else in the world. I'm just glad Willie and I didn't get taken, that way he has some sort of comfort.

I want to know more about what is happening between Alex and Willie, but now is not the time to ask.

We pull up a safe distance away from the bunker before all getting out. Another car filled with another group of survivors pulled up next to us. We all took a moment to look up at the mountain that had Caleb's bunker on top. It is definitely something that we shouldn't be referring to as a bunker, it was practically just a building on a mountain.

"Are we all ready?" My mom asked and I nodded and began to make my way up the mountain. Alex walked next to me in silence.

"Hey, we'll get her back," I said reassuringly to Alex.

"If Caleb is anything like Malachi, then we're doomed," Alex mumbled and I frowned.

"Don't talk like that, we will. Perhaps he's nicer."

"Caleb Covington is not nice," a random survivor from behind us said.

"Not the time!" I snapped at them.

I opened my mouth to start speaking to Alex again, but he didn't seem like he wanted to talk, so I said nothing.

"Why do you think they didn't take all of us? They had the chance, but they didn't," I overheard Willie saying to my mom.

"Don't know. I'm just hoping it's not what I'm thinking."

The trail up the mountain took a while. I almost fell over from my legs starting to give out, but we came across the sewer entrance. Smack in the middle of the ground. What an odd place for a sewer entrance.

With Alex's help, we lifted the plate off the ground that revealed a shallow river with a ladder to climb down into it. The sewer didn't seem very small yet, but it probably will be after a bit of walking down there.

My mom handed me a backpack and I threw it down there while Willie and Alex were wishing each other goodbye and good luck. I climbed down the ladder and the water splashed when I jumped down into it.

"I don't even want to know what's in this water," Alex stated when he jumped down behind me.

"Great, now I'm thinking about it," I made a disgusted look as I think about what all could be in this water. I attempt to push those thoughts aside and just focus on the mission.

"You guys good down there?" Willie yelled from the entrance and Alex gave him a thumbs up.

We both began to walk down the sewer as I opened the backpack Mom gave me. I pull out the blueprints from inside and stop so I can read them. "Okay... To get to the entrance they're going to, we need to go left up here," I instructed and started following the trail on the blueprint.