Disclamier-Do not own glee...
Till the Drum Beat Stops
"N-noah!" she breathes out, trying to keep up. "I'm sorry she gives up,stopping.
"I promise!" Is all he says back as the bus rolls off.
"Fuck!" Rachel cusses, out loud. Rachel curses herself for cussing, she blames the creature flying around.
After she catches her breath she regathers herself up and walks slowly back to where the others are. Each step she takes, her shoes make a tapping sound and a rock bounces back. The sounds are the only thing herd, except her breathing. Her heart beat is uneven, it slows once she thinks of Finn but it fastens up once her mind switches to Puck. She keeps her head down, even though she doesn't know whats in the air. Her eyes are not where her body is but where she hopes Puck is.
She imagines Noah being at his house, his home. With his mother and sister, sitting on the couch talking among each other, laughing. Their Chinese dinner placed in front of them half eaten, crumbs sprinkled around them. But than the little fantasy burns away like an old memory in a photo, and she knows that he's in that rolling bus, rolling away from her. Than she comes back to reality, seeing that she's on a deserted road in the middle of now where. Rachel comes to realize she has come to a stop, where the bus was originally.
The area contains no one, except the chirpy bugs acting like nothings wrong. She feels as if she's standing on a Merrill go round, and whats around her circles. After what seems like forever she inhales deeply causing her to exhale out her mouth. Her lip trembles when she feels someone, something behind her. Eyes shut, mouth closes tight, breathing stops and her heart stops, because those who had gotten out of the bus are now dead. The sound of a sharp object enters another.
Rachel spins around, her hair flairs out as she does so. Standing a couple feet away from her is the creature, the thing, it. It is face to face with Rachel, staring her down. Suddenly it flies upward into the dark sky. She follows it with her eyes, seeing it vanish as it gets higher in the sky. Eventually she looks back down, seeing Kurt standing in front of her with a fence post in hands. The post in his hand has blood smeared over the front.
Kurt's eyes are filled with tears, he drops what are in his hands. The post falls on the ground rolling to the side of the road. Kurt than runs over to Rachel hugging her with all his life.
Rachel takes a step back when Kurt flings himself at her. She feels Kurt's tears sinking into her clothes, she doesn't mind, she doesn't care.
"It took the rest, even Tina." Kurt mumbles against Rachel's shoulder. Kurt has to lean down when hugging Rachel.
Rachel doesn't know what else to say, but rub his back. His weeps quiet down and his tears let up once Rachel hugs Kurt.
"How did you..." she doesn't finish, she knows that he'll understand what she's talking about.
He sniffs a little before answering the question. "I was walking back when I herd a scream." he looks down, messing with his nose. "And I, I knew that cry was Tina's. I then ran to the longer grass, hiding from, you know what." his voice cracks. "I watched as Tina and the rest were killed." he wipes his eyes, with his fancy sweater jacket. "I saw you walk by, but I couldn't. I couldn't get up. I was so angry with myself because I didn't do anything to help Tina." he breaks down again, letting more tears fall down his pale cheeks. "But than I got up because I didn't do anything to help Tina, if I couldn't help Tina than I was going to help you." Kurt's words are hard to understand, and his vocabulary is low. But Rachel doesn't care, her own vocabulary is low at the moment too. "Mike." Kurt looks up, his eyes fill with tears again.
"Thank you." Rachel places her hand upon Kurt's shoulders, and takes him into another hug.
They stay like that for a couple minutes before disconnecting.
"What do we do now?" Kurt asks.
"I don't know." Rachel sighs. "Noah would know what to do."
"I have no idea what to fucking do!" Puck yells into the already scared bus.
Finn turns around, from chewing on his nails. "Dude were going to die one way or another." Finn gives up.
"Dude! Dude! Dude!" Puck hits Finn on the shoulders each time. " What about Rachel! Your girlfriend that is somewhere outside! Are you saying that Rachel's dead too or going to be!" Puck spits back into Finn's face.
The remaining students in the bus all but watch the two so called 'best friends'.
"Look! Noah!" Finn steps a inch closer to Puck. "Have you seen the size of her! She is fucking small and she can't run that fast. So yeah I'm saying she's dead or most likely going to be."
Puck feels his face get hot with anger, and deepen the shade of red. "Dead man." he says through his clenched teeth.
"What?" Finn says.
"Fucking Dead Man!" Puck yells.
Finn still doesn't know what he means until Puck lunges himself.
"Fucking asshole!" Puck manages to say. "Don't even deserve Rach!" he punches Finn everywhere you can manage.
Mike and Azmio manage to get Puck off of Finn. Puck still is wiggling to get out of the football players grips.
"The hells the matt- You like her don't you?" Finn says.
Puck glares at Finn, but doesn't say anything.
"How long has is been?" Finn takes another step at Puck. "Huh? How long have you been crushing on Rachel? Was it right after I got together with her?" Finn arches his eyebrow.
Puck snorts at his cockiness, "You shitting yourself, man." Puck keeps his head away from Finn.
"You know whats the funny part?"
"What?" Puck rolls his eyes in return.
"She likes you back."
Puck looks back to Finn, almost immediately after his sentence. Puck feels his hopes rise-
"But! What's better is she LOVES me." Puck's hopes? Plummets down. "She'll never leave me, for you."
"Guys!" Karofsky over yells both boys.
"What!" they both yell.
"The door's open."
"We should run, look for help."
"No. We need to stay here so if the others are looking for us." Rachel says.
"Run!"
"Stay!"
"Run!"
"Run!"
"Yes we should look for help!" Kurt says agreeing.
"No!" Rachel gasps. She runs past Kurt taking his hand. "Run!" she points to the sky, at a figure flying around.
"Oh! Run!" they run any direction, for their life. The fence blocks Kurt and Rachel, at first they just stare at each other not knowing what to do. Finally they crawl their way under the fence. Rachel can hear Kurt crying lightly as the mud and grass stain Kurt's outfit.
"I'm sorry Kurt." Rachel whispers.
They run until their legs can't take it anymore, but they keep going. The grass gets thicker and taller as they keep going, in the field.
"Stop!" Kurt whisper yells.
Rachel stops but doesn't know what to do.
"Get down!" Kurt yanks Rachel's right arm down to the ground. Rachel falls on her knee's as her head goes deeper in the dead grass.
"What?"
"Shh!" Kurt's voice cracks, her points ahead of him, as there's a sound making their way. Rachel keeps her head at the same position, afraid to make a noise.
