Okay so this is my first fan-fiction, so if you'll add it to your favorites and of course REVIEW! I'd love it! Here we go!

Missing the Mark

Wanda's POV:

I woke up feeling quite comfortable in Ian's open arms. I loved him so much. And he loved me. After lying there for a few minutes, I gently and carefully got up and stretched. Leaving Ian in our room, I hurried down the hall as fast as my little legs could take me.

"Wanda?" it was Jared's voice that surprised me and the sudden urgency to it.

"Hm?"

"We need to go on a raid..." That wasn't very surprising, it had been at least a month and a half since we went on the last on. "... I made a mistake...we need to leave now, today, if we're going to get enough food and supplies for everyone else."

"How much food is left?" That was the only really important question. We had water

from the streams, clothes lasted a while, and soap could be made- though it stung very bad.

"Not much. If we left now and had a long raid, we'd make it back just in time."

"Okay, so when do we leave?"

"I was hoping in a half hour at the latest." Wow. That was really, really quick. I can't believe that we didn't have anything to spare.

"Okay, so who's coming?"

"You, of course, me, Ian, if he wants to, Melanie, Aaron, and Jeb. We didn't want too many because we want this as quick and fast as possible."

"I'll go get Ian." And then, I walked back down the hall to our room.

"Ian?" I whispered as I stepped in. He was lying face down on the mattress. "Wake up."

Still he stayed sleeping, so I poked him in the side. That got his attention. He must be ticklish

"Wha-at?" he asked.

"Good morning to you, too."

"Good morning, Wanda" he sighed. "What do you need?"

"Well, apparently Jared made a mistake and we don't have very many supplies left, so we have to do a raid. And we have to leave like really quick, 20 minutes, maybe."

"So soon? I'm not even awake yet... Tell Jared I'm coming, though."

"Okay." and I gave him a quick kiss on his forehead and left.

Pretty quickly I saw Jared, walking out of the storage room, his head shaking in worry. He probably blamed himself for it, I thought.

"Jared?"

"Hmmhmm," and then I supposed he noticed it was me "Oh hi Wanda, so what did Ian say?"

"He said he's coming, so I guess we're leaving now?"

"Yeah, do you want to go tell everyone who's coming that we're leaving in like 5 minutes, so they should head down here right away."

It was pretty easy to find everyone. Both Aaron and Jeb were in the lunchroom having breakfast. Melanie was in Aaron, Brandt's, and Jamie's room talking to Jamie.

"Hi Wanda" Jamie greeted me. "Whatcha doing?"

"Hi Jamie," I said. "Mel, Jared says we're leaving in like 5 minutes, so to head down there."

"You guys are leaving again?" he pouted. "Why didn't I hear about this sooner?"

"Jamie, it was just planned this morning. Jared made a little mistake, so we have to leave now if we want to have enough supplies."

"That's not fair. I miss all the fun and excitement!" he stomped off, his feet echoing against the cave floors. I knew Mel agreed with me, she cared about Jamie and loved him maybe even more then I did. Their sister-brother bond was deep. Now, I just had to go find Ian. He was probably still in our room. I hurried down the corridor.

"Ian?" He was standing in the room with his back to me.

"Wanda?"

"Yeah, Jared says we're leaving like right now, so I guess you'd better come."

"Okay, let's go."

"Okay, so is everyone here and ready to go?" Jared asked the few people standing. Everyone was here- Jeb, Aaron, Ian, Melanie, Jared, and I. Everyone nodded.

"Let's go, then. Melanie, Wanda, Ian and I are taking the van. Aaron and Jeb, you're taking the car." I'd helped us get another vehicle, a small red car that blended in the society quite nicely. "We'll meet at the Frida Motel around 6 tonight? You guys just go right through. We're going to start gathering supplies as soon as we can."

Everyone agreed to it and then we headed out. We had to run first to get to the Jeep, but Pet's tiny body didn't take physical excursion very well and soon my legs were screaming with pain and I was breathing very hard.

"Wanda, do you want me to carry you?" Ian. He was always so protective. My body needed the exercise otherwise I'd always be weak and pathetic. I shook my head in response.

"Wanda..."

"No, I-" I stopped mid-sentence as he scooped me in his arms and continued running. It did feel better, but he didn't need to be doing that for me.

"Ian, really I can wal-"

"Yeah, but you barely weigh anything and we'll get to the Jeep faster if I run and you sit there comfortably." I couldn't argue to that, so I closed my eyes and relinquished in the wonderful feeling of being in Ian's arms.

How'd you like the first chapter? I promise it will get better. I just needed to introduce everything.