Protecting the Ones You Love
Something is going on in Hillwood and everyone is keeping a secret to protect their love ones. What would you do if you had to lie to the love of your life, just to protect them from danger?
Disclaimer: I own nothing from Hey Arnold. This is my first FanFiction story.
Chapter 25: It's Time to Fight Back!
Curly P.O.V
Rhonda was lying next to me in my shirt; I have my right arm wrapped around her waist. I looked down at her and moved a piece of hair out of her face. She is so gorgeous; I turn her over and kiss her lips. I pull away from her and see that she is smiling at me. "Morning," I start to remove my arm from around her waist and stand up.
"Where are you going?" She looks at me, not wanting to get up.
"We have to get everyone up; we need to know what's going on and to make a plan." I pick up her clothes and place them on the bed, before starting to get myself ready.
"I really don't want to get up right now." I grab her hand and pull her to her feet. "But I guess we have too." We finish getting dress, open the door and walk into the hallway. "You knock on Stinky and Gloria's room and I will knock on Arnold and Helga's room to wake them up. Tell them to meet us in the second building."
I walk over to Arnold and Helga's room and I hear laugher coming from behind the door. I knock on the door and a few seconds later Arnold opens the door with just his boxers on. "Hey man, what's up?" Arnold had a smile on his face when he opens the door.
"Meet us in the second building; it's time to start getting ready." His smile fades and he realize what I am talking about.
He nods his head and says, "We will be there in a few minutes."
"Good." I start walking away from the door and head over to Rhonda where she is standing by the stairs. "Did you tell Stinky and Gloria?"
"Yeah, something happened last night, when Stinky opened the door his eyes were puffy and red." We start walking up the stairs to wake the others.
"Well whatever it is we will find out shortly." We make it up the stairs and see Phoebe coming down the stairs from the roof. She looks flushed in the face, when we approach her on the stairs. "Hey Phoebe, we are going to be meeting in the second building to talk."
"Oh okay, I will tell Gerald." She starts walking past us to her room, when Wolfgang comes down the stairs after her and stops next to me and Rhonda. I look in Wolfgang's face and the only thing that came to my mind is 'Oh Shit'.
"Hey man, did you sleep well?" What the hell happened last night? He is acting guilty. He looks down the hallway to where Phoebe just walked into her room. He turns back to me and Rhonda and waits for a responds.
"Good, we are going to be meeting in the second building to talk with everyone." I am not getting into this mess. We don't need this right now.
"Okay, I am going to head over there now." He starts walking down the stairs.
I turn to Rhonda and her face reads what is on my mind. "Don't say a word. Let's go wake up Park and Sheena." We started walking to their door and knocked. Park opens the door, "We are meeting in the second building."
"Okay, Sheena and I are getting dress now. We will be there soon." He closes the door and we see Gerald and Phoebe walk out of their room together. They look like someone killed their cat or dog. What the hell is going on with them today? I know everything that happened last night, but it is more than that.
"Hey, are you guys okay?" Rhonda asked worried.
They approached us and Phoebe nods her head. "We are just tired from everything that happened last night. We will see you guys next door." Gerald responded for both of them. Gerald grabs Phoebe's hand and guides her down the stairs to the second building.
"Something is going on between those two and I don't like it." Rhonda said curiously. "For some reason, I have this bad feeling that something bad is going to happen."
"I know what you mean, I have that feeling too." I grab her hand and start walking down the stairs towards the second building. "Let's not say anything right now and see how it plays out." She just nods her head.
Wolfgang P.O.V
I am standing around the group, waiting for Arnold and Helga to finally walk into the building. I shake my head at them, can't they just walk across the street to this building instead of making everyone wait for them. It's like they are the golden couple. "I see you guys finally wanted to come over."
"We was getting dress, calm down, we are here now." Helga said it like it was not a big deal. What does she think that the sun raises and sets on her ass? I look over at Phoebe; she is looking everywhere but at me. I don't know why, but I feel angry right now. Gerald is holding her hand and looking anxious at his phone. He puts his phone away and starts looking around the room at everyone. What the hell is that about?
I look back at Helga and response, "this is not a game Helga; you of all people should know this. Just because you give football face some ass does not mean everything stops."
"Who the…" Arnold grabs Helga around the waist and pulls her back towards him before she can charge at me.
"Enough, we don't have time for this." Arnold said angrily. "You're the one starting an argument with us. We are here to make a plan and that is what we need to do."
"Okay," Curly comes over to me in pats me on the back, before whispering in my ear, "Are you okay?" I nod my head and he takes over the conversations. "We all was hurt some way or another by the Hillwood Mob, we can't go home to our families, so we are going to have to get revenge on them."
"We need to talk about what happened last night?" Brainy said tiredly. "What does everyone knows? A lot of us were effect emotionally and physically last night."
"Not just last night, but for months." Helga said, then she looks at Phoebe, walks over to her, grabs her other hand and said, "And years. We need to put an end to this all, before someone else gets hurt."
"Too late…" Stinky cried out. "They killed my Pa, and burned my house down." Gloria started rubbing his back. "They send me a slide show of my house and my Pa taped to a chair. I don't have a home anymore and no family." Arnold comes over to Stinky and hugs him.
"She needs to be stopped. We can't lose anyone else. It's time to fight back!" Phoebe said enraged. She drops Gerald's hand and crosses her arms over her chest. Gerald looks at her like, who is this girl staying next to me and all I can do is smile to myself.
Curly starts to speak again. "We have four buildings that we are going to be using. The main building is the one we are going to be sleeping in; you all know where your rooms are going to be. This building here is the gym; a lot of you are going to be learning how to fight in here and the basement is where they hold the guns. We are going to learn how to shoot. The third building across from here, that is the Café, where we can eat and across from that building is where they held a mini hospital."
"I don't feel comfortable shooting or fighting anyone." Gloria said nervously. "Is there something I could do that does not involve that?"
"You can make sure that everyone is feed and we have supplies. I already have been stocking up the food for the last two months." I said. "There is a supply store in this town with food and clothes that we can get everything we need."
"We are going to have to use everyone strength to come together." Curly turned to Sheena and said, "Sheena, your aunt is a nurse and I know that you been training to be one too, so I feel that it is best for you to be in charge of the mini hospital. Maybe you and Gloria can check out both buildings to see what supplies that we might need." Curly turned around to face Rhonda, "You should go with them."
"Why?" Rhonda said confused
"They might need your help. And someone to make a list of everything that we need." Curly said matter of fact. Rhonda nodded at him and left with the other girls to go check out the other buildings.
I turned to Park and Stinky and said, "You guys are going to teach everyone to shoot a gun. Without you guys last night, everyone in the house would have been dead. Why don't you guys check out the basement?" Park and Stinky walked down the stair to the basement. Curly and I are going to teach you guys how to fight. I think we should break up into groups." The only thing that I could think about is Phoebe's words, 'It is time to start fighting back.'