Five
Christa
After three months of searching and travelling from the US to the UK, I had found my Elle… except that Elle wasn't my Elle, she was Ember. I had spent all this time, hoping to find my girlfriend safe that I tried to convince myself that she wasn't possessed by a disgusting Soul. It was my heart shattered into a million pieces when I saw that her beautiful brown eyes were now an eerie blue. She was gone, but she was still alive.
The only thing that had stopped Elle's Dad from killing Ember on the spot was revealing that Elle was still alive, her soul was still there except Ember was in the driver's seat of the body and Elle was trapped in the passenger.
There was one thing for it: we had to keep both Elle and Ember alive until we could separate them and away from the other Souls.
I sat beside Elle's dad Rob as he drove us out of Central London and towards the English countryside, Ember/Elle unconscious in the back seat - yeah, we'd had to tranquilise her.
This was all my fault and I knew it, if I hadn't left her she would still be here. I honestly thought that Elle was behind me when I ran from the office, I had no idea that they had grabbed her and when I knew it was too late and she was gone.
Now we were in England, planning to stay with the human resistance and keep out of sight while Rob goes back to America to help the resistance over there. The car slowly pulled up outside the large building of Whitmore Boarding House, the gates looking sealed shut and there was no way of getting in.
Ember stirred and I looked back to see her pulling usually at her tied hands as she sat up, glaring at me with pure hatred.
"You drugged me?!" Ember spat and I smirked as a response.
"Of course," Rob answered shortly, not looking at the soul who had possessed his daughter's body and looked instead at the older man walking over to the driver's window as he took off his glasses to reveal his human eyes "You Wally?"
"Yep," Wally responded, glancing at me with a small nod "what is it?"
"I need you to take in this girl and my daughter, she's been turned into a Host but she's still alive," Rob told him seriously "I know of a doctor in Texas who knows how to separate a Soul from the Host's body, so I need you to keep her safe until I can bring him to England."
Okay, this was kind of asking a lot. Would this Wally guy be able to keep the other humans calm when they realised a Soul would be living with them indifferently? Shit was going to hit the fan, but I'd be damned if I let anyone hurt Elle.
"You sure the girl's still alive in the Host?" Wally asked hesitantly.
"Unfortunately," Ember answered with a groaned, clearly feeling like crap after being drugged up.
Wally nodded, clearly still worried but at least he believed us and I sighed with relief as he opened the tall iron gates to allow us to drive up to the large door. I stepped out of the car and walked round to the backseat door, opening it to grab Ember and drag her out. Ember winced in pain, her wrists looking red and bruised - I hated seeing Elle in pain.
"I'm so sorry, Elle." I said softly, but Ember scoffed and I realised how much this bitch was nothing like the sweet girl I had fallen in love with.
"Sorry that she's my Host?" asked Ember her tone filled with sarcasm as I pulled her by the arm up the stone steps "or sorry that you abandoned her to save yourself, showing yourself to be the heartless and spiteful girl that you are!"
I gritted my teeth as we walked through to the beautifully decorated foyer, knowing that she was just trying to get a reaction from me and at the same time I felt like breaking down in tears because she voiced exactly what I feared. What if Elle hated me? I couldn't even ask Elle because I knew Ember would just lie to my face, but I needed to speak to Elle and beg for her forgiveness.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
I looked up to see a guy that had dark brown hair and holding a knife heading towards us and I automatically stood protectively in front of Ember, but Wally was there first and quickly disarmed him then pinned him against the wall.
"Calm down, Jesse!" Wally shouted, using his forearm to restrain Jesse as he glared at Ember "the girl is still alive! We're not killing anyone and if I were you, you better realise who is in charge here!"
Jesse reluctantly calmed down, eyeing Wally with resentful as a girl with long brunette hair rushed into the hall.
"They all deserve to die!" Jesse spat and Wally frowned at him.
"You don't get to decide that," Wally told him firmly and finally gave orders "Leah, take Jesse upstairs. Blondie, follow me to put our little guest in the basement."
I'm not a fan of that nickname, but I ignored the comment as I followed Wally down a side door and down a staircase while keeping a firm grip on Ember's arm.
"Despite his murderous behaviour, he's cute." Ember mused with a smug look on her face and I glared at her harshly, which only made her smirk even more.
Rob better find that Doc soon to save Elle.
Leah
"You're unbelievable!" I snapped at Jesse as I followed him into his bedroom, crossing my arms over my chest as I glared at the back of his head.
We've only been here a couple of weeks and he was already acting like a lunatic and wanting to start calling the shots. Not being funny or nothing, but I liked having food and shelter and I wasn't going to have Jesse put us in danger because of his stupidity! Wally ran things around here and even I knew you shouldn't be crossed, Jesse didn't it seemed.
"Those Souls are fucking up our world!" Jesse shouted, punching the wall and glaring at his bruised hand "They should all be killed."
"And like Wally said, you don't get to decide that!" I told him firmly and I walked closer to him, taking hold of his bruised hand "if you want to stay here, you need to start keeping your attitude in check."
Jesse took a deep breath and sat on his bed, pulling his hand from mine and nodding in agreement. Okay, everyone here hated the Souls, but there was some deep rooted hatred that seemed to pour out of Jesse at the very mention of Souls.
"Finally, Piss Off speaks some sense," Rat's voice said sternly as she stormed into the room and slapped Jesse across the head in frustration "seriously, don't pull shit like that again!"
Todd
I sat in the van as Ian and Hunter walked out of Tescos with the monthly shopping, sunglasses hiding their eyes from the Souls and I grinned confidently as I jumped out of the driver's seat as they pushed their trolley over to me.
"So what's up with you and Rose?" Hunter was asking as I reached them and we began packing the food in the back of the van "you two gone from first base yet?"
"Of course he hasn't." I smirked as Ian's pissed off glare turned Hunter to me "I'm the only getting action out of all of us."
"Fuck off!" Ian muttered as his face blushed with embarrassment "that's none of your business, dude. Rose and I only did it once."
"Our boy's popped his cheery!" Hunter boomed proudly and I wolf whistle, causing Hunter to angrily run his hand through his blonde hair.
He was so easy to annoy, I sniggered as I lifted the heavy boxes into the van and a voice from behind us made us stop dead.
"Gentlemen?"
We turned to see a Seeker standing behind us, his red hair shinning brightly in the sunlight as he glared at Ian and his hand reached for his gun. What happened next happed way too quickly - I leapt in front of Ian as the Seeker pulled the trigger, a blinding pain striking me in gut and I collapsed to the ground. Blood began staining my white shirt and my head began to feel fuzzy, but I saw the Seeker crumple to the ground as Hunter shot him in the head without hesitating.
My eyes filled with tears as the pain became worse, vaguely hearing panicked voices as I was lifted to my feet. I was dying… holy shit… I was dying.
Too many thoughts were going through my mind, but one rang loudly and clearly as I fell into unconsciousness.
Jake… I love you…
Author's Note: Thanks for reading guys and I hope you liked it, as always a review to give your thoughts and feedback on this story would be brilliant. Next chapter will feature Todd/Jake flashbacks as everyone tries to save Todd and Rose tells her friends her shocking secret...
Also it'll be great if you could check out my OC fics (Conflicted and East Side Story) and let me know what you think :)
The next stories I'll be updating is my two other SYOC stories (Glee - The Next Generation and Immortality), but I will come back to this story when I have some free time from college.
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