Call Me When You're Sober

~The Two Faulty Ones~

Jack's Pov

Chills zapped through my ear and down into my spine as I felt a swish zip just an inch or less away from my ear. I snap my eyes shut and duck away from the bullet. I opened my eyes and as if everything was in slow motion; I was actually able to see the bullet that was planned to take my life. It shot down the bright alleyway and my eyes widened in fear as I realized where it was headed.

"PULL BACK!" I screamed, voice sore and throbbing with pain. I jumped to my feet, still hidden behind the dumpster and ducked as I ran to the left; into deserted buildings. Out of the corner of my right eye, I saw three run towards the buildings that were neighboring the one I was escaping into. Then, before I could get out totally, the bullet collided into the gasoline tank that was being transported by the totaled truck that was being used as protection.

My body tensed reflexively and I felt the heated wave of the explosion press against my back and it picked me up, pushing me into the building. I closed my eyes as I saw the wall in front of me. Pain stabbed at my brain as I collided into the white, olden wall. I landed on the ground, arms immediately over my head, and waited for things to settle.

The ashes fell and I looked around. To my right, as if an outside porch, white oak wood was drilled as the hardwood floors and a greenish-blue painted wood was build for the railing. It curved up to the ceiling. I noticed that everything else was painted white, but most of it was peeled up and dirtiness was smeared across the planks. Then, I regained my composure and saw a teammate waving his had as if he were telling me to hurry up and follow him. He wore the same clothes that he's had since we had first escaped, he also had a riffle swung over his shoulder. I nodded and bounced up. I picked up my machine gun and raced passed him. No more bullets were triggered towards us so I assumed that the enemy had been killed by the gas explosion. I didn't want to assume, so before we left completely, I whirled around and spotted one man. He was struggling to get into the steel army car that had huge guns on it. I quickly brought my gun up and pulled the trigger; he was killed with four shots.

I turned back and lead the fellow fighter, Jerry, into the dead, deserted buildings. I saw two more teammates clash into the hallway from doors etched into the hallway walls. Collin and Leah.

Dirt, ashes, blood, sweat, anything you could think of was caked on us. We weren't tired though; we had to keep fighting.

"Get everyone together we're going on!" I shouted. They nodded and ran ahead of us. The two ran away to get the snipers.

Finally, we exited the hallway and emerged into an intersection of another alleyway. After examining the alleyway for enemies, I walked causiously into it. Seeing that the hallway that the door across from me was deserted, I ran in. I turned around and saw Jerry follow me.

Well, that plot did NOT go as planned, only because Kyle screwed everything up. I was ticked and I think Jerry could see the smoke flaming out of my ears; he dared to even make eye contact with me.

We then exited into a dumpster grounds that was built behind the buildings, weapons ready. I heard bullets fired and whipped around. Our enemies were shooting again. Seven were on the ground as one opposing army car was behind them. I shot two down but then, the big one on top of the car fired and it made Jerry and I duck for cover. We hid behind a dumpster and shot.

Once all were killed and stopped, we bolt to the bodies and car. Thankfully, we were able to pick up nine knives and four riffles. That car saved us. Then, we raced back towards the city. Finally reaching the cities' outer buildings, we looked at each other signaling to put on the 'normal covilian' look tucking away weapons.

"Hide." Jerry's voice the. whispered, deep and flat out petrified. We both fell against the wall and slipped out a weapon. More enemies were circling towards us in hearing the many bullets we had shot prior. Surprisingly, gun shots echoed through the thick tension in the air. I peeked around the corner ever so slightly and saw that snipers were firing at those enemies. I looked up and squinted to see inside the broken glass in the top story of the building across the street. A flash of blond hair caught my attention. I smirked then turned to Jerry.

I nodded my head towards the backside of the building. Jerry followed me, covering us from behind. We entered the darker alley and found a rusted, metallic ladder. I grabbed the bars and pulled myself up; Jerry following. We climbed the two stories rather quickly. Once at the top, I broke the door down with my gun and readied my weapon. No one was in sight. We entered the building. It was darker than outside but comfortable. What am I saying? Nothing's comfortable anymore... I don't even know what that means anymore. I walked strait and soon, broke into a sprint in realization of where I was. How could I forget? It was our snipers' hideout. It wasn't the best, but they moved every day from deserted building to deserted building. I burst into the room and I heard a gasp. I turned to the left and Leah stood there. I nodded and she relaxed. Collin, Heather, Jason, and Eddie were in the room behind her, quickly cleaning up the snipers' mess.

"Let's go on." I told them sounding too harsh but, I was serious about getting out of here and going on with the plan. They flinched then turned to follow me, weapons in hand.

We walked down the long hallway very fast to get out into the alleys.

After ten minutes and many twists and turns we've memorized prior to this trip, we entered the alleyways; out of the disastrous city.

As fast as we could, we all ran through the outskirts of the city. I lead them through a long feild where we could get caught but thankfully we were not spotted. I then lead everyone into a dark brown, peeled painted building that was small.

The deserted shack was built just on the perimeter of the wilderness woods. Running all the way to the back of the room, I was in search of the door. The hidden latch caught my eyes; you could only spot it if you were looking for it. I grabbed it and pulled up; a secret door opened. I let my crew run down to safety first before I walked down and closed it. After descending down a story of stairs, we entered our secret hideout.

Through the door, our base was fully equiped of weapons, food, suplies and things we need to survive. The room was about ten feet wide and forty feet long and it escalated up to the suface of the ground where an emergency escape was made. I threw the machine gun to the side making some people flinch and I walked right up behind Kyle; he tagged along right as we exited the city. When he turned around, I slapped his face as hard as I could. He groaned.

"HEY!" he screamed.

"You screwed the plan up. Great job." I told him, jaw clenched. A certain flame in my eyes apparently made his blood freeze the lively flow in his body. The room fell silent.

"Man, I'm sorry. But I needed-" I slapped him again. Once he looked back into my eyes, I yelled,

"No! That's all you say! I need, I need, I need. Well you can't have the things you want. No one can, not now, not ever. We need to stay on course to stop these sickos from killing and taking us back to their country. Get with it and be useful! Stop messing up!" I yelled. He rolled his eyes and walked passed me, shoulder clashing into mine. He walked out of the underground room. My tongue clench and I bit the inside of my lips so I wouldn't blow up on him. I turned back to everyone else. I counted. There were only six in the room making it seven since Kyle is outside. There should be eight. My heart stopped.

"Where's Kim?" I asked, voice lowering multiple octaves. Leah and Collin looked at each other. Collin, Leah, and Kim were snipers as Eddie, Jason, Heather, and Kyle were in the field preparing the acts. Jerry and I were the leaders.

I walked up to Collin and Leah who sat against the wall on the floor. They immediately stood up.

"Do you know where she is?" I asked again but much quieter.

"She was in the due east building, at 16:00's attack." Collin replied. I nodded. I looked at Leah.

"I saw her there. She killed the army guys who tried to kill me." I told them. Right before Leah was going to reply, the ground shook. Supplies and weapons fell off shelves and onto the ground. We all grabbed as many weapons as we could and darted towards the door, me in front. After I opened the door to the staircase, I looked up and saw ahead. From the brightness quickly growing brighter, I knew that the explosives and fire from bombs was coming right towards us.

"NO!" I screamed as I whipped around. We all dashed around and ran to the emergency escape. I knew that I had built the emergeny escape not as sufficient as I should have so I knew that we didn' have enough time to escape from the fire. Debris from the explosion closed the way out and let pressure and fire press through. It picked us up and threw us to the back wall. Once on our feet, I realized that bombs had broken down the backside of our hideout, giving us a way to escape. I looked through and saw Kim running to us, hands over head. My jaw clenched and a feeling unlike any one I have ever had stabbed at my chest.

"KIMBERLY!" I screamed sounding more like it was to myself... which it was. Anger built in my spirit from her actions; giving us away.

We then all raced out of the death trap. I collided into Kim and wrapped my arms around her waist literally dragging her with me into the forest forcefully.

The rustles of dead leaves almost gave our current place away. The overwhelming franticness of our spirits was surreal and it made us speechless in what we felt. I still had my arm around Kim as she ran alongside of me.

After at least ten minutes of running, we stopped to catch our breath. No more explosions or helicopter lights were heard or seen. We all relaxed catching our breath. The trees were thankfully tall and full so that we were hidden. I looked at Kim. She was a little further than anyone else. As her eyes met mine, she knew she messed up. I walked up to her and she looked away knowing I was very mad at her. Seconds passed and I knew that she knew to not talk.

"I'm sorry." she mumbled. I nodded then looked at the ground.

With a smirk, I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her to me, pressing my nose into her neck. She gasped and laughed as she tried to get away. Of course, I wouldn't let her press me away and just pulled her in tighter to me.

"It's hard to stay mad at you but then again, you do need to learn to stop screwing plans up." She then pressed away from me slapped my chest.

"Ow." I gasped grinning.

"What about Kyle? Everything's our fault, right?" She asked folding her arms. I hesitantly made a look that meant yes. After a few seconds, I smirked with the comback,

"You guys are perfect for each other." I replied, mimicking her folding my arms. I grinned as she pretended to throw up.

I then pulled her to me but more forcefully and pressed a rough kiss on her lips. She kissed back with a small moan. I pulled away and we walked back over to the rest of the group.

"What the heck Crawford?!" Kyle yelled walking up to her arms wide open. Fury flamed in her eyes and she stalked over to him. Without stopping, she implanted a quick punch square in his chest and then flipped him.

"I could say that about you Smith!" she yelled in his face wanting to shoot and kill him.

"At least I didn't lead the enemy to our base bombing it!" He screamed back jumping up sounding like a dying whale. She then walked up to him and punched him in the face. Blood poured from her nose. I bounced to her and held her back.

"Kim, just stop. He's not worth it." I told her making her stop struggling but notscreaming.

"I just don't see how we're all falling apart! Giving away our hideout and screwing up our plan to get more weapons, yah real smart!" She exclaimed at Kyle.

"Oh, so now it's all on me! I wouldn't be surprised if you're here to just find out our plans and take them back to the enemy to kill us all!" he yelled back, walking up quickly face to face with Kim. That made everyone silent and breathless. I then pulled Kim back before she could fight back and stood in front of her.

"Are you crazy? I think that's a testimony from someone here!" I yelled at him looking at him up and down making it obvious I was talking about him.

"Oh? At least I actually came back!"

"We had hundreds of weapons and some decent kills in our fingertips but you? You screwed it!" I yelled. He didn't say anything. He turned away from me and stalked off. I turned to Kim. Fire flamed in her eyes. I grabbed her hand and we sat down in the circle of our team.

"We need to get out of here." Collin mumbled. I nodded.

"But first, we need to make more explosives and get some weapons and food back." I told them. Everyone nodded.

"We have to start tonight." Jerry voiced. I stood up bringing Kim up with me.

"C'mon." before I finished that single word, everyone was on their feet. I smirked. I followed them inside the woods. It was only eight miles to the city but about twenty eight from a safe-house. The city was more appealing.

It was around 20:00 or 8:00pm and the sun has been gone for just a little while now. The city was near so we all had our weapons drawn and alert. Kim was very anxious to get to the city and get supplies; I could tell. But, something was not right. The eeriness in the wind was intense and I was getting paranoid of what we were walking into. I don't know what had happened or how it did, but Kim was now walking in front of me.

She was ahead of me by a few feet. I was about to run up to get by her when she gasped and fell back. I caught her and pulled her up. Her breathing was quick and she was scrambling to get behind me.

"Jack. Look what they did." her voice was deep and sounded like she was petrified. I looked ahead and what I saw even made my spirit troubled.

"Guys?" Jerry asked. I turned to the right and he was about twenty feet away staring at the same sight.

Bodies were everywhere leading to the city. I wanted to know how this had happened since no blood or wounds were apparent. I searched for anything in everything to find the reason of all these deaths. Then, I found something. The air was abnormally thick. Just then, Kim's grasp on me was gone and I heard gasps. I whipped around to her and saw her stumbling backwards. I fell to her and caught her from falling.

"Kim?" I asked. She opened her mouth to say something but it never did come out.

"Kim!" I yelled again. She cringed from pain and her hand pressed against her chest. As if she were trying to rip something off her temple, her fingers dug into her skin.

"No Kim! Stop!" I yelled and tried to pull her hand away. Then, I realized something; she wasn't breathing. I laid her down and looked up. Jason, Heather, and Collin were having the same effects with the others wondering what was going on. My head grew dizzy. All of a sudden, my lungs felt like they were drowning themselves. It was the air. It was a poisonous gas.

"We need to leave!" I yelled breathlessly. I gasped as I fell to my elbows trying to pick up Kim. I gasped yet again. My body wanted air; no needed it. I then used all the strength I could find and stood up; Kim in my arms. But, once I got to my feet, she slid to hers. She was holding onto my arm.

"We need to-" she stopped for a gasp, "Hurry." she then finished. I nodded. I just walked ahead making my footsteps heavy so everyone would hear and follow since I couldn't talk much less breath. I was feeling so much worse. Then, an intense pain zapped through my chest and I stopped.

"Jack?" Kim muttered breathlessly. I let go of her as my eyes clenched closed. The dizziness inside of me was to the upper most extremity and I couldn't catch my breath. I felt my right hand lean against a tree for support. My steps I made stopped and the loud rustles I made with the leaves turned into a ringing unlike any I've ever heard.

"JACK!" she yelled. That was the last thing I heard before everything went black and I entered a world full of emptiness.

My new sequel. I just watched Red Dawn (2012) and LOVED it sooo... this is similar to it but not the same story line.

Enjoy

R&R

~Lee:]