Chapter 14
Chuckey's POV
5:59 am
The sound of the car parking woke me up. It must have woken everyone else up aswell. Phil and Lil ran out to see what was going on, I grabbed a half empty bottle of water and a handful of pain killers. I took them one at a time, 1 for my head, 1 for my arm, 5 for my hip and 10 for my leg. It didn't stop the pain but it made it barable to walk, I know having so much of one drug is very bad for me but I wanted to be helpful to the team not a liability.
Pushing against the wall I was able to get into a standing position, grabbing my stilts I made my way to the door.
My bandage around my hip was stained red but there was none to spare so I took it off a replaced it with napkins strung with string and using my belt to hold it in place. I knew I wouldn't last long out here till I got some medical attention because my hip that was ushaly just swollen had started to turn a unsighly shade of green but it was hard to notice cause my entire side was brused and cut so it will be a while before the guys start to get worried but that didn't stop me. Sitting in the bathroom I looked at my refelction in the cracked mirror.
What are doing here Chuckey, this is no place for you.
How did this happen to me.
How did my life go so out of control, a few days ago I was worried about getting a bad grade now I am afraid for my life every waking second.
How long can someone like me last out here, I know Tommy and the other will do fine but me.
I can't even stand without the help of a wall!
"Yo Chuckster!" Phil walked in with a pile of maps.
"I need your help trying to find us on these" He dropped them down
"Umm you ok Chuck?"
"Yeah, I'm fine Phil"
"You don't look it"
"Well getting your leg smashed by a tree and watching hundreds of people die can do that to a guy"
"I guess so"
"Phil…how are you so. Unconnected….. how are all of you just going on with all this?"
"What do you mean?"
"I wasn't the only one who watched all those people die. And the only one who seems to even care is Dill!"
Phil stopped for a second, he sat down and looked at me.
"Because there is no point in lying around feeling sorry for ourselves. Dill has a right to be the way he is, but we need to carry on"
"Why doesn't Tommy have a right!"
"Because we need him"
"But you can't just shake this stuff off, how is he so…...so unchanged!"
"Because we need him, we have put all our belief in Tommy, all our hope and all our respect on him and that's not fair. He has to shoulder all of that and that means he can't fall apart. Because we need him…and he needs us"
Tommy walks in holding some take a pipe
"Hey guys, ahh great you've got the maps already. Chuckey I think this will help with your leg."
"Oh cool, I will try anything at this stage" I reply as he sits down
He straps the pipes to me leg and binds them with electrical take then duct tape. He fills the pipes with water then seals them with caps.
"Ok so the way this works is when you walk the water will move and after a while the water will be doing all the work and keep that leg moving and because it is so tight it will help to heal your leg. Also I found this cane" He hands me a dark oak, polished cane that curves at the top.
"Cool thanks" I smile at him
His smile fades and his face because dead serious.
"What we are about to do is very dangerous. We are about to chase after people with an unbelievable amount of men and weapons. We don't know were they are, who they are or why there here. Things could go south at any second so I need you guys to keep these." Tommy hands both me and Phil hand guns.
"Wow were did you get these?" Phil asks
"That's no important, you can't tell the others ok. Kimi already thinks that I shouldn't be doing this plan in the first place but we need to keep the others save….also I don't have enough guns for everyone and you tell them they will all want one."
We smile at him, I look down at the gun, I put it in my pocket with the knowledge that one day soon, if I like it or not I will have to use it. To defend my sister. To save my friends. To protect myself.