He opened his eyes and met the green light from the clock, 02.45. Why was he up at this hour? Right when he was about to turn around he heard her:
"Don't, please don't. Finn! No!" Kurt sat up in the bed and looked down at his friend twitching in her sleep. "No! No, you're lying!" He put his hand on her right shoulder and shook her lightly. "It's not true, it's not!"
"Rachel. Rach, wake up." Rachel's eyes opened up really fast and she started taking short breaths. "You okay?" She sat up and put her knees to her chest and shook her head. Kurt put an arm around her and hugged her.
"He was… he was dead!" Rachel sobbed and tears started pouring down.
"It was just a dream, Rach. Just a dream. He's fine, if he weren't we would know. I promise." Kurt hugged her harder and tried to comfort her while he also tried to convince himself that his stepbrother was alright. No one had heard from him in a while, what if something was wrong? There was a knock the door and Jesse walked in.
"Hey. Is everything okay in here?" Kurt could see the worry in his face. Rachel had been right, Jesse had been living with the two for two weeks now, and he wasn't that jerk he'd been ones.
All of a sudden there was a scream and Finn sat straight up in his bed and looked around. The three other men in the room was up as well, the forth man was still lying in his bed, sweating and twitching like crazy. Finn walked up to him and shook him awake.
"Hey! Hey! Tom! You okay?" Tom looked into Finn's eyes and nodded.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." The other men lay back down and Finn started walking back towards his bed. He never got the picture of Tom's empty eyes staring into his. He was about to pull the blanket over him when the alarm went off. The five men all jumped out of their beds and put on their boots and uniforms while they run outside to meet up. It was dark outside and people were screaming from every direction. Right when the commander was about to tell them what was going on a loud noise came and a strong white light filled up the sky. The building exploding could be heard from far away and the fire was growing. They all got assigned what to do and for long Finn and his group of men was suppose to prepare to back up if needed.
They'd been in the fields for just a few days. One morning during breakfast back in Fort Benning they'd been told that 15 of them would be sent to the fields. Both Finn and Tom had been among the 15 and here they were. Finn hadn't had any time to tell anyone back home what was going on. He did however manage to send away the letter to Kurt and all the men had been told that their families would be informed of what had happened. He couldn't stop thinking about his mom's reaction. She'd probably gotten the message about the same time she and Burt came home from the cruise, or what if they still didn't know. He knew that the moment his mom got the information it wouldn't take long before Kurt and Rachel would know too. What would Rachel do? At least he got the letter send.
Someone was screaming at them to hurry up and the five men hurried to a truck that stood nearby. They all jumped in and the moment Finn's feet left the ground the truck started and drove towards the burning building.
The truck arrived and the men stepped out and gathered.
"I'm sorry you all have to face this so soon." The commander started as he looked at the men in front of him. "You've practiced this. I know it. I've seen it. You go in your groups. Don't ever lose contact! Look after living civilians and bring them out. If you're ever unsure contact me, if I don't answer listen to your gut. GO!" All the men split up into their groups and took one entry per group. Finn, Tom and a guy named Hank were in the same group. They entered the building and you could barely see two feet in front of you. They started moving in walking fast but carefully. Finn felt the smoke in his nose and throat and slowly it was beginning to be hard to breath. Hank led the group, he walked across a room and came to a stop. He looked to his left and right and then waved to Tom to go left, and Tom in his turn did the same to Finn. Right when Finn was about to turn left parts of the roof fell down right in front of him. He jumped back and shock began to fill his body, cause not only did the freaking roof just collapse but it may very well have fallen right on top of his friend, and not only that but there had been a reason the roof fell. On top of what had been parts of the roof laid now two bodies, one of them the commander and the other a young man, probably not much younger than Finn. He wasn't sure whether the young man was a civilian or something else, but he wasn't one of them. In the middle of his shock and all his thoughts he heard a scream behind him. He quickly turned around and hurried down the hallway towards the scream. He turned left, then right and came into a small room. Finn looked around to find the source of the scream and finally saw the silhouettes in one of the corners. He silently and carefully moved towards the black figure, or figures. Then he saw the source, or perhaps sources. In the small corner laid a young woman and with her two children. A very young boy, not older than three laid on the woman's stomach crying and beside sat a girl who was around 10 tears streaming down her small face. Finn looked around once more before approaching them. He crouched down and reached out to try and find the woman's pulse, while he did he looked at the girl, right into her eyes. He doubted that she would understand him so he tried with all his heart to tell the little girl with his eyes that he was going to help them. He finally found her pulse and was now trying to figure out a way to get them all out of the building safe. That's when he remembered what the commander had said "don't ever lose contact" he'd lost it. He'd lost his group, his commander and possibly his friend. For a second he considered making a call to the whole patrol but decided it was more important to get these people out of here. He motioned for the girl to stand up and so she did, he then tried to lift up the little boy but he started to scream and cry even more. Finn tried and tried, all of a sudden a small hand was on top of his. He looked up and met the girl's eyes, he slowly took his hands away and the girl bent down over the boy and said something to him. The little boy stood up and the girl held him tight. Finn lifted the woman over his one shoulder and after reassuring himself that the girl understood that she had to hold on really tight to the boy and him he lifted the children up as well. Carrying three people was much easier than he thought it would have been. Maybe he was in one of those situations when you can do almost anything. He looked around to try and locate the nearest exit. The girl must have understood because she motioned with her head for Finn to go forward, and she'd been right they were right back in the hallway. Finn managed to make the kids close their eyes so they wouldn't have to see the roof as he walked past the site of the accident. One more time the girl helped him locate his way and when he saw the door that would lead them out of the building he heard the roof and walls around him crack. He was just a few feet away from the door. He hurried over to the door, opened it and threw the three people he'd been carrying out the door before the building collapsed.
Something wasn't right, they all knew it. After Rachel had woken up none of the three could fall back asleep. They started by just all cuddling up in bed and talking about Broadway shows that are must sees and the most amazing music, but something was wrong. After a while it was no use to go back to sleep so they all just decided to start their day, at 4.57 am. They ate breakfast and watched those bad reality shows that are always on at weird hours. Kurt was sick and tired of the feeling of knowing that something was wrong but not being able to figure out what. He'd had the feeling a few times before but this was indescribable, he couldn't get it out of his mind. It was crazy. Jesse had felt something too. Not only were Kurt and Rachel acting different but he had a feeling this day wouldn't be a good one. And Rachel. She had woken up after that nightmare and not being able to get the thoughts out of her head. The boys had asked her if she wanted to talk about it but she really didn't want to. There was no part what so ever of her that wanted to tell them, it had all been to horrible. She'd seen it all from the top. Seeing how her Finn was at some unknown place being sent out to save people. She'd seen his determination and then she saw herself standing in the Hudson-Hummel house. Kurt, Burt, Carole and an unknown man in uniform were sitting down in the living room and even though she was asked several times to sit down she refused. Then the man had told them a story about how Finn had been sent to the fields and how he'd been seriously injured in an accident and unfortunately had passed. The next scene was played out in front of her, she dropped to the floor and everything went black as she closed her eyes and tears streamed down her face, then Kurt's hand on her shoulder and there it all ended. Something was wrong and she need to find out what. Was something seriously wrong with Finn? Was he hurt? Had something happened? Was he no longer in Georiga? Did Carole know? If so, how come she hadn't said anything?
It was a really rainy day in New York, one of those days that only contained that sort of rain that only New York City could bring. If you walked outside you would be seriously drenched, just like in all movies when the characters are out for like a second and are suddenly just as wet as if they'd jumped into a swimming pool fully dressed. They had all just spent the morning inside. Watching reruns of shows and eating everything they had. Rachel must have drunken about five cups of tea by lunch time. They had lunch too and then went back to their beloved reruns, and that's when the trio fell asleep.
Rachel woke up about two hours later when a phone was ringing, and the signal was really loud. She stretched her back and looked around to try and find the phone. It was Jesse's, right when she was about to wake him up she realized she recognized the number. A bit scared she picked up the phone.
"Hello..?"
"Rachel?"
"Yeah, it's me…" she was seriously scared now. Her heart started beating really fast and hard. She looked to her right and left to see if any of the other two had woken up, they hadn't. "I'm sorry, what?" She had heard that she was being talked to but hadn't been able to listen.
"Rachel, honey, I… I don't know how to say this…" she was now seriously about to freak. "… Are you alone?" Rachel hesitated before answering.
"No, or well yes, but no… or well… no, but they're asleep." Tears were beginning to form in her eyes.
"Wake them up please…" she did as she was told and carefully tried to wake Kurt up. He slowly opened his eyes.
"Huh? Rachel? Are you okay?" she nodded and pointed to the phone as she turned around and woke Jesse up.
"Everyone's awake" she then updated the caller. Kurt looked at her confused.
"Will you put me on speaker?" Rachel did as she was asked and told the caller so when she had.
"Hey Kurt, hope you're alright. And the same to you Jesse." The callers voice was beginning to crack. Jesse looked confused and perhaps a bit scared, Kurt looked worried and kept looking back and forth from Rachel and the phone before he finally said:
"Carole?"
