A/N; Guys, guys seriously five reviews, 13 follows and 8 faves? wow i am honestly in awe, thank you so much, keep it up! It's what fuels me to keep writing tbh! I also dedicated this chapter to wilsonpercial67 for being my first reviewer ever, thank you!

If there was one word to describe Jayden at the moment was numb.

Jayden
Hospital
15:56

Every day and every night that she remained stuck to a hospital bed, IV needle in her arm as she stared at the yellow tinted wall unblinkingly. It was hard for her to do much, sometimes it was even difficult to lift her hand by an inch.

The extrusion that she had through in those past three days had weakened her significantly, losing a lot of her blood had taken it's toll on her. They'd had use many blood transplants to maintain what was lost. Most of the time, she was drinking out of straw to get her daily nutrients whenever Emily wasn't there to help her eat.

There were heavy black bags under her eyes, having received no sleep. Whenever she closed her eyes all she saw was the monster or the Washington twins morphing into one, coming to kill her for not being able to save them.

Apparently, the doctor's weren't allowing her to have sleeping drugs in fear that she could go into a coma or something along those lines, she wasn't really listening. Only picking up certain words someone was saying on the occasion, if she ever found herself bored with gazing at the wall.

All she wanted to do was block out all the noise. When it became too much she smashed her hands against her ears in a desperate attempt to stop it. She hated the constant beeping of the IV machine, the voices of her friends trying to comfort her and the click of the door opening or closing.

Silence was what she wanted, just nothingness. Noise reminded her of what happened. And she would give anything to be able to forget about it. Falling into a dreamless sleep forever definitely sounded appealing to her. Or maybe the monster coming to finish her off was better.

Two weeks ago, she could vaguely remembered how she had anguished she had been to be found and taken away from that god awful mountain. It was ridiculous how she drove herself to survival really.

Jayden tried to suppress the memories of the mountain to the back of her mind before she divulged deeper and experience the incident. Yet they were slowly beginning to leak back into her thoughts. Matters only went more downhill then as the door to her left clicked open gently. Jayden flinched, the heartbeat monitor beeping like crazy, clearly showing her edginess.

A woman with bleached blonde hair entered the room, a caring expression etched onto her face.

Jayden squinted, trying to figure out who this woman was. If she could barely recall she was someone who came into her room regularly and always had a needle or a bottle of pills in hand.

Penelope something? Or was it Polly? Jayden didn't know, she never really paid any attention.

"Hey, honey," The nurse strolled over, this time nothing medical in her hands instead they were hidden behind her back. This caused Jayden to clench her fists together, nails digging into her skin to hide her trembling hands. To which she didn't understand why they were at all.

Why was she so anxious all of a sudden? Surely whatever was behind her back could end her misery and senselessness, which was all she wanted. Right?

Something gentle pressing against her shoulder jolted her out of her stupor, eyes blinking in perplexment. Slowly they traveled to the unnamed woman, who had her seriously plucked eyebrows drawn up in concern.

"Jayden, are you okay?"

Define okay, a voice whispered at the back of her mind but it was gone before she had the chance to explore further.

"Why…" She began, her voice coming out hoarse and strained for being quite tight lipped for the past two weeks. She cleared her throat, licking her lips afterwards.

"Are you here to put me to sleep?" Jayden wondered, a hint of hope leaking into her tone. The nurse moved away from her, seemingly startled by Jayden speaking and by her words.

"N-no, sweetie, I thought I'd tell you that the police are here," Puzzlement filled her almost instantly. What did the police want to do with her? She hadn't done anything to cause serious harm to the country had she? Her eyebrows twitched together, projecting the bafflement that she felt.

"They're here about the incident," Jayden stiffened at the mention of the incident.

Her eyes fell back to the wall that she loved to intensely stare at as the numbness washed over her again. In her mind she tried suppress the images, certainly not wanting to relive it all again. There was a sigh that extended from beside her all the way to the door.

In her field of hearing she could hear the nurse's muffled speech to whoever was waiting at the door. The next voice that came sounded male, frustration clear in his tone. Whoever he was, he didn't seem to be a kind man at all, like he could snap at any moment.

A dangerous mix for a person who was meant to be a calm and respected police officer. She supposed that it was a stressful job, especially in the case of two missing girls who were well known for being the daughters of Bob Washington, one of the most famous horror movie directors in Hollywood.

Celebrities always pressured the police into solving their cases over the average people, not wanting legal issues to tarnish their perfect world. In passing, she could remember Chris informing her that Bob Washington's newest movie was being put through a lot of strain because of the disappearance of his two daughters.

It could even be cancelled all together if the girls weren't found within the next month. The Washingtons didn't need more stress than they already were being put through.

Unexpectedly, there was a loud protest followed by the slamming of the door.

While this all happened, Jayden had already pressed back to the headboard as squashed as she could manage with her broken ankle. Her back wounds throbbed in agony of the strain it was being put through, still not quite fully healed yet.

"Miss Weber," Her eyes snapped over to the owner of the voice, her skin crawling instantly.

His skin was tanned, with a crooked nose, much like hers. Hair littered the bottom half of his face, dark brown hair reaching down to the bottom of his chin. Yet really put her on edge was his icy blue eyes that seemed to pierce into her skin and could see everything that was plaguing her mind.

Not wanting to stare at his face any longer, her eyes fell down to his hand, where a set a cuffs were dangling. They jingled as he approached her, which only succeeded in making her anxiety rise.

"I'm only here to ask you a few question, Miss Weber," He came to sit down on the other end of her bed, the handcuffs being thrown onto the bed discarded beside him. Though it didn't calm her violent nerves. It was only when a hand moved in her direction did she find her voice again.

"D-don't touch me," She snapped, a little more ferocious than she meant and she certainly didn't want this man to become mad at her. Something gloomy flashed across his eyes briefly but it was gone before she had a chance to analyse further.

"Right. Sorry, forgot you went through such a traumatic experience," Her left eye twitched at the sarcastic edge to his tone, her dislike for the man only deepening. Not that she wanted any pity of course, he just seemed utterly insensitive about the incident at the mountain as a whole.

"So tell me," He began with a bored tone, pulling a pen and paper pad out of his pocket.

"Where were you before Hannah and Beth ran outside of the safety of the lodge?" He questioned, peering at her intently. One of the only real emotions she'd felt washed over her.

Guilt.

"I went out for a smoke,"

Guilt

"So you weren't involved in the prank?"

She could have done something more. She could have stopped it. She could have tried harder.

"N-no, I don't even know what happened," The last part was hushed, not wanting him to hear her last few words, to be able to see her vulnerability.

"Well, it was the prank the drove her out of the lodge," The shame that had been coursing through her veins boiled down into mild ire.

It wasn't as strong yet but if she saw anyone of the people involved, she was going to explode. In fact, it would only get worse if she saw Emily. Time and time again, she'd told her best friend that all this pranking on Hannah would end badly the moment she started a year and a half ago.

Now look at where they are. Jayden'd been stuck in this suffocating hospital for two weeks, her injuries still having not fully healed. Two sweet and innocent girls were still missing up in that creepy mountain. How awful everything had gone so swiftly.

"Miss Weber, where were you when Hannah ran out of the lodge?" Her fury was buried momentarily as her throat closed up, becoming dry. She didn't want to remember, he couldn't make her it wasn't fair. Jayden knew that if the memories broke through it's prison, she could only experience the incident all over again.

"Jayden I need you to answer me," His voice came out in a growl, vexation seeping into his tone as he leaned in her direction.

His hands came to rest on her sins, his facial expression growing more sinister. Jayden instantly recoiled, her reflexes making her kick his arms away using her good foot.

The glower he gave made her start to hyperventilate. All she knew that he was going to hurt her.

He had clearly been sent by the monster to tie up loose ends. The still unnamed man went to open his mouth but Jayden didn't want to hear the screech that would most likely escape past his lips

Instantaneously, she rammed the palm of her hands over her ears, eyelids squeezing shut. Jayden pressed her hands closer to her head, producing a high pitched ringing in her ears.

With a quaking form, she awaited the inevitable blow of nails slicing her to pieces.

Yet there wasn't anything. No agony. No shriek.

Only silence.

Even the ringing noise had vanished, leaving her perplexed. Carefully, Jayden opened her eyelid by an inch to take in what had happened.

What she saw only made both flutter fully wide. Before her was a freakingly familiar row of trees around her. Rotating her head to and fro, she found that they had circled around her, as if keeping her trapped and preventing her from going anywhere else.

As she breathed miniature puffs of icy air drifted past her lips, shortly evaporating away. What she found to be the most daunting part of this scenery was how... still it all was.

There was no swaying of the trees caused by the wind and the snowflakes were stuck in mid air. Tentatively, she reached out a gloved hand towards it, somewhat fearful of what would happen if she touched it.

Nonetheless, she ignored her doubts, tapping the snowflake with her pointed index finger.

Unexpectedly, a dark haired figure zoomed past her left arms clutched around their chest. Another similar person raced after the first one, a light grey beanie placed upon their head.

The two soon became lost into the murkiness that lay behind the prison bars of trees. Jayden felt her lips moving, yet no words came out, just silence.

Despite the fact there was the absence of words in the she could quite make out her lips saying 'Hannah!' and 'Beth!'

Then the wail came.

She jolted in her position, the hairs all over her body standing on ends. It came again, this time from behind her.

Her head snapped to the side, deep eyes searching for the creature wildly. However, she found no bony lanky form anywhere and that made her more on edge than anything.

For all she knew it was climbing up a tree, building up more power for the killing blow. When she turned her head back to the front, Jayden let out her own whimper.

It's sickly stretched face was almost touching her own. Sharp rotten teeth glinting in the moonlight with fresh blood dripping off the points. The milky white eyes were staring right into her brown ones. Tension was rising rapidly as the two only gawked at one another. Jayden was conflicted at this moment in time.

Did she stay still in hopes that it would leave? Or did she allow herself to run, potentially risking her life?

It answered her query for it squawked in her face, spit and blood splashing onto her face. So she chose to escape. Hastily, she went to move to the side, only to stumble, falling towards the ground.

A spike of pain shot through her side, the scorching feeling travelling across her body before settling deep into her shoulder and her back. The ire she had been experiencing earlier managed to worm it's way into her system, blocking out the suffering altogether. Quite frankly, she was sick and tired of having the go through all this bullshit.

Even though she understood why she was being put through this endless cycle of torment, it didn't mean that she wanted to have to endure it. Sooner or later she knew that it was going to led her to a bitter end.

Her only wish was that in death, she would no longer have to relive the memories in every waking moment. Peace was all she needed. She would just have to wait until then. Voices from behind her caused her to scramble up onto her ass.

The beast was still in her vision, this time further away from her yet those haunting eyes still followed her every movement. As it began to advance to her, she scurried backwards using the palms of her hands.

For the next few seconds she slid across the floor with ease, which was odd considering she was in the middle of the forest. Jayden's back hit something cold and tough, informing her that she'd reached a dead end.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no," She murmured, scrunching her eyes shut. Her knees came to be pushed up against her chest, burying her head in between before her arms criss-crossed over them in hopes to hide herself. Now, she just sat in a fetal position, hoping that someone could just save her.

Heels clanked on the stainless white tiles in a rhythmic pattern, its beat echoing in empty hallway.

Emily
Hospital
16:17

In her manicured hands, she held two steaming cups of hot chocolate. Emily made sure to put marshmallows and cream in Jayden's one, it was her favourite afterall. Plus she hoped that she would actually disgust something instead of just staring at her food blandly. It frightened her how much her best friend was slowly but surely wasting away.

Honestly, Emily wasn't sure how she'd handle someone who was pretty much her sister, the one constant in her life, leaving her. Even though she had been an extremely perfect actress when Jayden had gone missing, she was a mess inside.

On the first day her demeanor had begun fray and by the third day, she was barely hanging on by a thread. She'd received no sleep, only surviving on black coffee, staying up to hear any news. Sam had been the most supportive when concerning Jayden's lost state back on the Mountain.

Emily found it admirable, considering that Sam was also in quite a lot of stress over the situation. Her best friends and the girl that she was clearly in love with, (Emily knew it when she saw it), had vanished, unknown when they would be returning. If they hadn't had found her when they did, Emily would have lost it.

The moment she'd laid eyes upon Jayden's state, she'd been furious. It was safe to say that her crankiness didn't help either. She lashed out on Mike at first but her wrath soon fell to Jess, unfortunately.

This stupid prank was all her fault anyways, not hers. It was Jess' idea that had meant that two of their friends had gone missing, not hers. She'd only been a participant like Ashley and Matt had been. This time she wouldn't let herself be seen as the bitch in the situation. That all fell to Jess, who had gone home immediately after the fight, no one was in contact with her since.

Good riddance, she mused, a prideful smirk worming its way onto her face.

Another good thing that came out of Jess leaving was that she would hopefully have more time to spend with Jayden and help her get through the trauma she'd had to endure. Her inner thoughts were left buried back into her mind as she reached the hospital room Jayden was staying in.

Still finding it quite eerie that the hallways seemed practically abandoned, Emily hastily made her way into the room. However, she was very gentle in how she opened the door, knowing how horrified Jayden would get by the smallest of noises. So she pushed the door open using her shoulder.

"Hey honey, I got you..." She trailed off when she viewed the scene before her. Jayden was nowhere in sight, there was only a freaky, somewhat familiar appearing man glaring at her. Given any other circumstances, she would have found him extremely hot yet the cruelty that was embedded in his eyes made her vexation rise.

"Excuse me? But who the fuck are you and why are you in here? Where's Jay?" Emily wandered further into the room, not so gingerly placing the cups down on the bedside table.

While she awaited his response, she positioned herself so that her hands were on her cocked hips, eyebrows raised. She saw him glance over his shoulder briefly before his gaze returned.

"None of your business girl," His raspy baritone voice sent shivers down her spine and not in the appealing sort of way.

He hurriedly collected things off of the bed then ambled his way towards her. Emily prepared herself to kick him in the dick if need be. Yet that didn't happen for he brushed past her, barely even touching her. As she caught a waft of his cologne, the familiarity of who he was clicked.

"You could get sacked for this you know," Her words caused him to halt in his wake and she could see his back tensing by the crinkling of his suit jacket.

"It should be my nieces in this hospital, not some orphan," The latter word sent her blood boiling.

How dare he? Sure he may be the twin's uncle but that didn't excuse his behaviour. In all honesty, he didn't deserve them being found at all. However, there was no chance for her to send profanities his way because he was gone from the doorway.

"Whatever," She mumbled, rolling her eyes in irritation.

Emily hoped that she didn't have to see that asshole again or she'd really give him a piece of her mind, regardless of the consequences. For now, she saved that thought for another time, her main focus was to locate her missing friend.

A subdued snivel emitted from the door leading to the bathroom, causing Emily to rush over instantly. At this moment, she was reminded of those nights when Jayden's mom had vanished for good and she had gone to with Emily and her family, having nowhere else to go. That was the last time Jayden had ever cried over anything, a spill of water travelling down her cheek non-existent up until this moment.

Tenderly, Emily rapped her knuckles against the door to announce her presence.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no," The dread in Jayden's tone make her eyebrows furrow together.

She sure as hell was going to report this guy, if he was acting unprofessional like this he should be fired, regardless of who his family was. Realising that she was going to receive no reply, Emily clasped the door handle, swinging the door open.

"Oh, Jay," She mumbled as she observed the fetal position she had curled up into, rocking back and forth. Carefully, Emily lowered herself down to the floor so that she could rest onto her knees. Once she had done that, Emily extended a confident hand out, knowing full well that Jayden would be absolutely fine with her.

Only she couldn't be more wrong.

"Jay," She uttered, more forcefully this time, wanting her friend's attention. Jayden's head shot up at that, eyelid blinking rapidly, as if trying to clear her vision. For the next few seconds, the damaged girl only gaped at Emily with empty eyes, in turn creeping her out considerably.

"Jayden, stop it, it's not fucking cool," She removed her hand from Jayden's kneecap, coming to cross them against her chest. Whatever Jayden was trying to do, it was working well. One second her friend's face had been desolate and dull and within the next it contorted into pure wrath. Emily to gulped, never seeing Jayden so furious before. It was true that the girl would get quite frustrated at times but to this extent was brand new.

"What have I told you about those stupid fucking pranks on Hannah, Emily?" The biting to her words made Emily jump back to her feet with bafflement, fright and her own ire washing over her.

"Excuse me?" Truly lost as to where this had all come from. As the two weeks had passed, Jayden would only be able to say one or two words, now she was speaking a whole sentence.

"I've always told you time and time again," Jayden began, rising to her feet as well but the leisurely pace in which she was doing so made Emily worry. Briefly glancing away from her face, she noticed that fresh blood was travelling down her brunt scarred arm.

"Jay, you're bleed-"

"But you never fucking listen! You never have! Always wanting to do it Emily's perfect little way so that it can make princess Emily happy," Emily's vexation was taking over her system at the mocking tone etched into Jayden's voice. Right now, Emily didn't care if Jayden wasn't 'herself' she wasn't about to stand here and take this.

"Fuck you bitch! I only did it because you were always ignoring me. You were always busy making pathetic puppy dog eyes at Sam!" The pent up emotions Emily had been containing for a while were starting to spill out and she didn't think she was able to suck it all back in. Jayden let out a bark of sarcastic mirth, now standing over Emily, despite the latter even wearing high heels.

"Oh yes because all of this is my fault. Newsflash! Two people are missing because of what you did and I almost died trying to fix your mistake. It's all on you! Hannah and Beth are probably never going to return and-" The sound of skin meeting skin resonated across the pristine bathroom walls, everything falling into a tense silence soon afterwards.

The blinding rage that Emily had been feeling moments ago died, hands coming to cover the bottom half of her face as a gasp erupted from her. The majority of Jayden's face was covered by the swept hair and her hand hiding the reddening mark on her cheek. Regret took over strongly, knowing that she had let her feelings get the better of her. Before she even had a chance to apologize for what she had done, Jayden's head began to turn back towards Emily.

"Get out," Her voice was so hushed that Emily almost missed what she had muttered.

"Jay-"

"Get out!" Jayden all by bellowed in her face, causing Emily to reel back. Not wanting her friend to physically attack her, she stumbled backwards, twisting around to be able to rush in the direction of the door.

What she found was a nurse gawking at Emily, something akin to displeasure written on every line on her face. Emily didn't even say a word as she bumped past the woman, humiliation taking hold as she knew that the nurse had mostly heard every words.

There was no way she could face anyone now. In fact it would probably take her awhile to even show her face around here again. Besides, Jayden's words still stung, like needles pricking into her mind, it would take her time to recover. Without thinking about the argument much further, Emily hastily made her way out of the hospital.

The rumbling in her stomach caused her heavy eyelids to flutter open though it was extremely hard for her to do so.

Hannah
Mines
3:28

A peaceful sleep was all she wished for, even if it was only for a couple of hours. Yet the dream of her sister's last breath leaving her, once twinkling eyes gazing up at the bleak staggered rocks above, plagued her in every waking moment. Her gaze flickered towards the grave entitled 'BETH' in scrawled writing, a feet and an arm sticking out of the dirt sickenly.

A fresh tear falling past her eyelid, cleaning her dirted and bruised cheek as it journeyed downwards. Hannah missed her little sister with all her heart, she was barely hanging on without her. What she would do to reverse time and be able to go back to the lodge again, curled up in her brother's or her sister's arms by the fire.

God, she had been so foolish sprinting off into the middle of a storm on top of a mountain, where there would be no one to save her. She just wasn't thinking straight. Her friends had betrayed her by using her adoration for Mike against her. She couldn't be blamed for it, he was also so sweet towards to her.

The gut-wrenching realisation hit her, making another salty tear drip down. He'd - he'd just done that so it gave Emily an excuse to direct her harsh behaviour towards her and it led Hannah on. She was such an idiot, how could she have not seen this futhur?

In all fairness, Sam, Jayden and Beth had informed her many times that Mike didn't meant it, that it was all a childish joke. And she didn't listen. Look at where that got her. Hannah was stuck down in some horrifying caves with a dead sister and broken leg.

What must her friends think of her? Where they out searching for her? Or had they left her all alone because of her mistake? To her, it truly felt like latter. With every passing day, her hopes of being found dwindled and she grew increasingly more famished.

Her eyes would fall to the makeshift grave belonging to her sister, mouth salivating and stomach grumbling even more. She felt as though something was pushing into her to grasp the obvious food opportunity. It made her feel sick, yet she just couldn't quite help it. Rather unexpectedly, the sound of voices echoing off the wall momentarily distracted her from her starvation.

"Victor, we need to-" A bell like feminine voice came first but was cut off quite quickly.

"No, we don't. You still need to recover from your injuries, you shouldn't be walking around," This one, Victor, had a gruff edge to his voice, yet she could quite make an undertone of caring protectiveness underneath. Two silhouettes grew on a moonlight stained rock, both holding some kind of weapon.

"Yes we do, for all we know, one of these girls could turn to into a fucking Wendigo as we speak!" Victor snorted, clearly finding the woman's words hilarious despite their seriousness.

"Kanti, you should have seen how far they fell. There's no way they're both still alive," The reasoning he was giving the woman made Hannah want to call for help, to tell them that she was alive. Yet her throat was too dry and she just couldn't find the energy to do so.

There was a sigh of defeat from the woman, which crushed Hannah's ambition of being found completely. From that point onwards, Hannah blocked out any noise, her eyes finding their way back to the grave. If they weren't going to help her, she was going to have to find the strength to do so herself.

I'm so sorry Beth

A/N; I also feel like this chapter isn't my best chapter so far, my weeks been shit so idk ahhhh just mainly wanted to give some insight to Jayden and Emily's friendship and how the former's been coping thus far.

But any guesses to the last part ;))) i've got quite the few tricks up my sleeve for this story