Hey guys, sorry for not posting in a while. Like i said before i was supeerrr busy with cheerleading, but now its over and i don't have competition cheerleading til the end of November so hopefully i will be updating more. Enjoy this short chapter. It answers your questions.
Ally's POV:
When I wake up, I feel a familiar aching pain in my head, and when I open my eyes I'm surrounded by darkness, with only a crack of light in the distance. The air is chilled and nothing about this seems right. It doesn't feel or sound like the plane, where am I?
I sit up, and tip toe towards the light. The ground is cold, and feels wooden. I stretch my hand towards where the lights coming from, it looks like a door. But right before I can touch it, it opens. I gasp at the movement and run back towards where I was laying.
The door slams shut then, and I hear footsteps coming towards me, "What do you think you were doing?"
I don't say anything. I just sit there, focusing on where I've heard this voice before. It doesn't take me long to realize exactly whose it is.
Austin's POV:
When I woke up, it was in the middle of the night, and like I figured, blood was going through my bandages. But I don't have enough strength to go find the first aid kit and change them. Before I know it, I fall back to sleep.
When I wake up again, I know that it must be morning. The plane is full of light and I feel something on my leg. When I look down, I see Tiffany is changing my bandages. She gives me a small smile and I just nod at her and then lay my head back down.
I don't pay much attention to her sudden interest in me, because all I can think about is Ally, and how I need to be out there right now, searching for her. But the loss of blood is causing me to slow down, and I can't let that happen.
I sit up, and Tiffany wraps up one last part of my wound, "Thanks." I say and then stand myself up. She looks at me and shakes her head.
"You should lie down." She says.
"I can't. I have to go find Ally." I tell her.
"You're hurt. You can't do that." She says.
I brush past her and limp my way out of the plane, to find the rest of the gang sitting around the burnt out fire. When Frank notices me, he jogs over and looks at my leg, "What are you doing?" He asks.
"I have to go find Ally." I say.
"Austin, get real here. You're hurt, and no matter how many circles you do in the woods, it's not going to bring Ally back to us. If she's okay out there, then she will find her way back, but there's just nothing we can do anymore." He says.
I look at him, and my mouth drops a little. I cannot believe he just said that. Frank hasn't let me down once since we've met, but now, I can't even stand the sight of him. I decide not to say anything to him. Like my mother always told me, 'if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.' I turn around and walk away, past the plane, past Tiffany's sad eyes and I go to the area where I found Ally right after the plane went down.
I sit down in the grass and hug my knees. It feels like everyone has given up, except me. I feel alone in this awful place we're at. Maybe we all died when the plane went down and this is hell, because it sure feels like it. I don't know what to do without Ally. I can't even bare to think about what I'll do if I never see her again. But I know I'll see her again. I know that she is okay, she must be okay.
I feel like I lost touch with reality, because I suddenly realize that it's now dark out, and I've been spacing out for quite a while. I hear noises behind me, so I turn my head fast and see Rick walking towards me. I turn my head back and stay seated. He walks over and sits in front of me.
"I was getting worried about you. You've been out here for a while." He says. I just shrug my shoulders at him as a response.
"You know, I was thinking of this whole Ally situation. And it's really weird… It's as weird as when Thomas disappeared." He says.
This gets my attention, and I look up at him, "What do you mean?" I ask.
"Well, Thomas disappeared randomly, all the sudden the wolves decided to take him when they never really threatened us before. And then after that our food goes missing, and then Ally suddenly disappears like that too? Something doesn't seem right." He says.
I suddenly get flash backs of Thomas, and how he felt about Ally. And that day I found the two of them in the woods, and how Thomas was going to try something. The more I think of it, Rick makes a lot of sense.
"You don't think..."I say.
"That Thomas is alive? I'm almost certain." He says.
"And he has Ally." I say, not as a question, but as a realization.
"But the question is, where?" Rick says.
I'm almost angry. I'm almost jealous of the fact that Rick realized this before I did. How could I have not thought of this? It all adds up now.
"There aren't many places to kidnap someone and hide them, I mean it's all open area. So why hasn't it been easy to find her?" Rick says.
Finally, I think of something before its too late, "When I was lost out there, I came across a small abandoned cabin, but I don't remember where it was. It was far from here though." I say.
"Well, that has to be it. Now we just have to find the place. First thing in the morning, I'll go, and I'll bring Daniel." He says.
"And me." I say.
He takes a look at my leg, and I follow his eyes. The blood is already going through my new bandages, "I don't care about that. There's nothing we can do about it, so I mind as well not just lay here and wait to bleed to death." I say.
He sighs, "There is no way I will be able to talk you out of this, is there?"
"Never." I say.