by J Peregrine
Jake turned and looked at her, too, staring at her and the others all standing near her, all looking our way, waiting and expectant.
I moved their direction, but Jake grabbed my hand. "You said when we met that you'd risk everything to find your family, right? Well you found them." He nodded toward the group below us. "That's as close to a real family as either one of us is going to get, but if you want to give them a chance at survival... we need to leave."
I stared at him and then looked down at them... and then I nodded as anguish flooded my heart.
"Come on," Jake said, turning away from them.
I looked down at them for a moment more. Dungadar was probably off with the other fighters trying to stop the bombing and the other groups had probably headed out in different directions. V and her group were waiting for us. She motioned again for us to come but I could hear Jake behind me...
Everything I wanted, everything I had always wanted was there before me. If we went with them, they would be in danger, but I wanted that so badly I could taste it.
Suddenly there was a flash of an explosion that knocked us backwards onto the ground. I gasped and coughed instantly and then rolled to my knees and right into Jake who was pulling me upwards. I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t see, my head hurt and I was still coughing but he pulled me with him as we stumbled up the hill.
“What about V?” I finally asked unable to hear an answer if there was one.
“They will be safer without you,” she said as we climbed into the trees.
Jake looked at me. "Which way?" he shouted.
"What?"
"We need to find Mo. Which way?"
I stopped, and was about to say how the hell should I know.
"I know," she said, “I know where he will go.”
I exhaled and then moved forward past him. “To the northwest,” I said as I climbed up into the rocks in front of us.
As we got to the top of the hill, a downpour of rain pelted down upon us, as if the blasts had burst a hole in a rain cloud. It was raining so hard it put up a curtain between us and the rest of the world.
"It's just us," I said looking back.
He leaned over pushing the hair off of my face. "Just you and me, kid," he said with a sad smile.
I nodded as I looked up at him. “Day one,” I said.
We looked at each other for a moment and then we took off at a jog, through the rain, and the trees, and forward on our own but together.
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