Leo's POV
I break out into a clearing, thank the lucky stars that it was the 'camp'. Eve was sobbing by the fire, Arianna an Nick had their arms around her trying to get her to stop crying. Tigger looked at me wistfully. I try to come up behind eve but the crunch from the snow made it hard. She flipped around, her crazy curls were hanging down in front of her face. Her eyes were red and blood shot. She looked horrible.
"Listen, Eve, He's not doing so good. Here." I hand her tigger.
"Thank you Leo." She gasped.
She laid him down near the fire, but not so close that it could catch fire onto his fur. She curled up into a ball around her cat. I go to sit down across from her, but Nick grabbed my arm, he looked at Arianna with irritation, she swung her head side to side.
"Listen Leo, we-" He pointed to Arianna and himself. "- think that you should stay here with Eve and try to comfort her. You know cause she's got a crush on you and you've got a crush on her, so you could probably make her feel the most comfortable right now." He said. Arianna's face was red with rage. Nick go up and grabbed her by the arm, picked her off the ground and dragged her away. I plop down next to Eve's head. She looks up, her eyes were full of tears.
"Leo, I don't thinks he's going to make it." She stopped.
"No, don't say that, he's going to make it." I say, I reach out and stroke a strand of hair out of her face.
"Leo what am I going to do if…. If.." I stroke her head.
"He's a strong cat, he'll make it through." I whisper.
She kissed tigger on the head gently, and stroked his ears, he looked up with pain in his eyes, He let out one muffled cry and then closed his eyes. Eve shrieked, She was sobbing again, Eve stumbled to her feet and went over to the tree's.
This can't be happing. I look down at the cat, he's not moving. I pat him on the head. I get up and walk over to Eve. She was throwing up violently but nothing was coming up. I kneel beside her, I pull back her hair and hold it for her.
"Eve, I'm so sorry." I say in a hushed voice.
Eve turned her head to me, no longer dry heaving. She went to say something but she crumpled to the ground. I caught her before she smacked her head off a tree.
Eve's POV
Leo help carry-drag me back over to the fire, instead of putting me down by the fire he put me on the train cart and covered me up with one of the blanket's Arianna found that wasn't scorched. He goes back to where tigger's body lays, he goes to pick him up but jumps back instead.
"Eve! He's not dead, he's only asleep." He shouts.
I shot up, I throw the blanket around my shoulders. I slowly stagger over to them. There's a fresh cut on Leos left cheek. Blood slowly starts to trickle down his face. Tigger looks up with daggers in his eye's. with out thinking, I scoop up tigger and hold him tight. He starts purring. Leo wipes at his cheek. The snow had stopped. I trudged my feet threw the new thick layer of fallen snow. I crawl up onto the train cart and curl up. I have tigger curled in a ball, right up close to me. Leo came back over to me. Arianna and Nick had just gotten back from where ever they went.
"Hey, so I was thinking, when you were talking with me at capture the flag-" He paused. "- about your mom," he stopped again. I look up at him, his expression was clearly asking if he should go on.
"What about my mom?" I ask.
"Well, were you serious? Like, does she really want you dead? Cause that seems, like, a bit extreme for you mom to want you dead, and what would the reason be?" He asked, he sounded as if the thoughts had been so bottled up inside that he might explode if he didn't let them out.
"I was serious, No, I wasn't. I …. uh! I don't know. I don't know why she would want me dead. That's not clear, at least she's not making it clear." I turn over onto to me back in frustration. He laughed.
"What's so funny, you know this really isn't a funny topic." I ask.
"Your funny, You get so frustrated so easily, plus you can't make up your mind." He stopped laughing and his face went serious strait. "I bet your mom doesn't want you dead, she probably loves you very much. It's probably a mistake." He looked at her with a dreamy dazed look on his face.
Even though it's only afternoon. It's was so dark that you had to squint to see anything five feet from your feet. The smell of metal was really the only thing you could smell, not the smell of fresh snow fall, forest pines.
I know it's only around three at the most. We where on that train for awhile.
"OH my gods! I just realized Nicks mom must be worried sick, let alone the fact that everyone on the train was gone and it blew up." I say.
"Yeah, I'll try and send an iris message to Her saying that he's safe. Why don't you try and get some sleep." He brushed his fingers through my curly knotted hair. I didn't flinch backwards or move away from him. I felt like it was aright, that he'd done it a thousand times before. I knew for a fact that he didn't and before five day's ago I never meet him.
"Leo, it's only the afternoon. I can't fall asleep." I say.
"Just lay there then, we can't exactly keep going." He said while pushing back a curl from his face.
I sit up, "Yes we can. Who said we couldn't go any further today?" I ask.
"We all agreed your not really ok to go on." He sighed.