Title - Back On The Block
Chapter title - Back In The Weed Room
Author - OblivionsGarden
Genre - Romance/Sci-Fi
Disclaimer - I do not own Attack The Block in anyway shape or form. I only own my original characters. For this chapter, Ruby and Jasper.
A/n - Please read and review, I'd greatly appreciate it. Hope you enjoy, xx (:
Ruby Wilson pressed her cold finger to the doorbell of her long time friend Jasper's house. She stood, faintly amused at the white steam her breath against the air made, thinking of the beast she'd just delivered to Ron's flat. Stuck in her daydream, she was alarmed by the trembling hand that shot out of the doorway, grabbed a fistful of her blue hoodie and dragged her inside.
"Mate, what the fuck?" Ruby pushed Jasper away, shutting the front door behind her.
"There's another one. One of those fucking things in the garden and Rocky's dead, I just found his head by the patio doors and I can hear the thing fucking growling in the bushes. I don't know what to do, I can't call the police they'll find my stash upstairs and-"
Ruby ignored Jasper's ramblings and pushed her jaw length, ebony hair away from her face. She moved past the panicking man and headed into the darkened kitchen. She lifted a hand to turn the light on but Jasper slapped it away.
"Do you want it to fucking see us?"
Shaking her head Ruby continued on, leaning against the kitchen counter and peering out through the silver blinds in the window.
"There's nothing there man." She said, still peering through.
The garden was empty save for random patches of crimson blood. Some she knew was from where she's managed to plunge the kitchen knife into the beasts head. The other blood, she presumed was from Rocky. The only movement in the garden was the leaves being jostled by the heavy wind. Jasper joined Ruby at her side, taking one look through the blinds and stepping back.
"In the bushes. Why can't you see it."
Squinting now,as though it'd better her eyesight, Ruby looked into the bushes. Then she saw it. The glinting silver threads of light hitting the black of the teeth. She gulped, as the thing moved forward but found herself unable to move away from the blinds. Then it ran. Straight at her faster than she could comprehend. It smashed through the window, sending her toppling backward into the kitchen island. She jumped back up, took a millisecond to gather her bearings and grabbed Jasper.
"Run!" She shouted.
They both ran for the front door, pulling pieces of furniture out behind them to delay the creature. Ruby just remembered to grab her skateboard as they pelted out of the driveway. They ran flat out down the backstreets where Jasper had resided for the past year. Their feet hurt from pounding against the pavements but with the snarling from behind them they didn't slow. Ruby grimaced as the freezing winter air whipped around her face.
"Ruby!" Jasper's scream was anguished and she stopped, turning and spotting him on the floor. He was trying to climb to his feet but had seemingly twisted his ankle, leaving him unable to stand. Ruby ran forward but the creature got to him first. As she came within two steps of Jasper, his blood was sprayed across her face and chest. A soft gurgle remained in his throat as the life drained out of him. Knowing it was too later for him, Ruby once again mounted her skateboard and sped off down the street.
The creature was literally inches away as she approached the main road. She rode along side cars until a pick-up made it way past. She clutched tightly onto the bed of the truck, speeding up with it. The creature stayed at the backstreet for a second before dissapearing into the night. Ruby didn't dare slow down. A horn honked behind her and she heard someone call her name. Turning she found Brewis leaning out the window of his dad's car.
"Open the door!" She shouted. Brewis slowed his car, opening the passenger side door. Ruby let go of the truck, dodged out of the way and grabbed Brewis' door. She climbed inside, leaving her skateboard behind in the road. She slammed the door shut and stared ahead.
"I was going to Ron's...I-" Brewis noticed the blood covering the girl now.
"Yeah. Ron's."
She squoze her eyes shut trying to ignore the metallic smell of blood under her nose. Flashes of Jasper's anguished face flashed into her mind, torturing her. She darted her tongue out along her lips that had been dried by the wind only to taste the copper blood. Jasper's blood. Her best friends blood.
"I'm gonna be sick." She murmured.
"Uh...Oh shit. Hold on." Brewis made a speedy stop at the side of the road and Ruby ran out into an alleyway. She doubled over, emptying the contents of her stomach over the floor. When she felt safe enough to get back in the car without vomiting again she returned to Brewis.
Within ten minutes they were outside the block of flats. Brewis turned to Ruby unsure of what to say. He still didn't know what had happened unable to get the girl to talk to him.
"Do you want me to-"
"No." Ruby unbuckled her seat belt and climbed out of the car leaving Brewis to scramble around to follow her.
Ruby walked thoughtlessly into the building, climbing into the lift allowing just enough time for Brewis to slip in before she pushed the 19 button. When the lift landed she continued on to Ron's door and knocked.
"Alri-" Ron stopped mid word as he saw the blood. "What happened?" He asked opening the door. Ruby and Brewis went inside, Brewis still confused.
"Shit! Rubes, what's going on?" Pest jumped up from his place on the sofa moving forward.
Ruby stepped back. "Jasper's dead." She felt the bile rising in her throat again and sped into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
She could hear them talking between them in hushed panic voices. She turned the taps on full to block out the noise. Looking up she saw herself, the bright blood in stark contrast to her pale skin. Bits of her hair were stuck to her face from sweat. Her hoodie and tee shirt were soaked.
"Ruby?" Pest's voice drifted beneath the door, louder than the running water. "Do you need anything?"
She coughed to clear her throat, finding it difficult to talk. "Clothes. I need clean clothes."
"Right, Gimme a sec." She heard his footsteps fade.
She stripped off her hoodie and tee shirt and then her jeans when she found small red spots of blood on her thighs. Five minutes later there was a knock at the door.
"Ruby?" She grabbed a towel to cover herself and opened the door a crack. "I got some of my old stuff that doesn't fit anymore. It should fit you I think." Pest held up a bundle of clothes.
"Thanks." Ruby took the clothes and shut the door.
She found a flannel under the sink and covered it in warm water. She cleaned off the blood, sweat and dirt before turning to the clothes. A pair of dark grey jeans with a rip in the knee, they were baggy on her small frame but not so much to fall down. The tee shirt was blue and loose and the hoodie, black and large. She slipped her trainers back on, brushed her hair away from her face and left the bathroom, leaving her bloody clothes in the bathtub.
"Ruby...What happened?" Moses shifted on the sofa so she could sit between him and Pest.
"One of those things was in his garden." She nodded to the corpse that was still lay in the middle of the room. "It came through the window so we ran but Jasper twisted his ankle when he fell and I didn't get back to him in time." She stopped short, ignoring Jasper's face when it flashed in front of her eyes.
"Why are they back though, Fam?" Biggz asked.
"Back? What do you mean back?"Ruby frowned.
"You never told her?" Brewis looked between the boys.
"Told me what?"
"About two months ago, they block was attacked by aliens." Brewis answered for them. "Big fucking, hairy black aliens with glowing blue teeth and no eyes."
"Aliens?"
"They fell from the sky. On bonfire night." Jerome added.
"You've got to be kidding me."
"Where do you think Moses got those scars, fam. And Jerome's on his neck. Alien scratches, alien bites." Dennis clenched and unclenched his jaw. "The feds made us cover it up. Didn't want to cause no panic. It was either that or go to prison for everything that happened in the ends that night. Shit, one of 'em nearly killed me!"
Ruby stood from her seat of the sofa. "Your limp that just suddenly appeared?" She looked at Pest and he nodded. He pulled up the leg of his jeans, showing the still red scars of the bite. "But...You said they're big and black. This is huge and white." She tapped the corpse with the toe of her trainers.
"We've been talking." Said Jerome. "They look similar to the others, maybe the same species or somethin'. We think they're here cause we killed the others."
"Killed them? How?"
The boys went into telling the whole story of bonfire night including all the gritty details. Pest felt a pang of shame as he retold the mugging of Sam. Ruby didn't bat an eyelid.
"So now they're back...We can't just blow up a fucking flat again." Ruby dropped back onto the sofa beside Pest. "What do we do?"
"Well, they can't be that hard to kill. You killed this one, right." Biggz asked.
"By sheer luck. It was going for Jasper whilst he let Rocky out for a shit. It didn't see me coming. The one that killed Jasper was too fast. I had to hold onto a truck whilst on my skateboard to get away from it."
"We get tooled up and-"
"And what? Fight them? We don't even know how many there are Dennis."
The whole group jumped as a load thud sounded at the door.
"The fuck was that?" Ron moved to the door, looking through the spy hole in top. He gulped and stepped backwards. "Four of 'em."
"Weed room. Now!" Moses ushered everyone into the weed room and barricaded the door.
Once again the block was being attacked by aliens and once again the gang were locked in Ron's weed room without a plan.