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Amy: OMG no I made a mistake last time! I meant: Of course I am NOT killing them all!!
Alex's POV
I spent the whole night crying, I couldn't sleep. I felt so lonely. Dougie's soft breathing wasn't enough to keep me from hearing all the scary noises of the woods. This was far worse than a nightmare. This was a nightmare. I tried to keep frightening imaganes off my mind, but sometimes I just couldn't control my imagination. I just could picture a werewolf appearing out of the blue so easily, you could almost believe that kind of stuff in a place like this, when you're on your own -right now, Dougie just doesn't count as company-. I was curled up in the branch, my back against the tree, trembling, a hand over Dougie's throat, always making sure his heart was still beating. That's another contributing factor for my lack of rest; I just could not go to sleep knowing that he would be left unprotected and that, if something were to happen to him, it'd be only my fault. I wouldn't be able to live with that. I need to be awake to be able to help him.
By the time the sun started to rise, the colors of the forest changing from deep dark to lighter shades of gray, the sky turning red slowly, my eyes and cheeks were so irritated that I barely dared moving my face; sometimes, when people cry, their eyes feel irritated afterwards. Add really cold weather to that, the frozen breeze slapping my face all the time, drying the tears against my skin in a non-pleasant way.
It was the worst night of my life. The scariest.
I couldn't stop looking towards the cliff -though it made me kinda dizzy, faith wanted me to be used to trees luckyly-, looking for any sign of Vicky, but neither she or one of the guys ever appeared.
Somewhere between, well, let's say 8 am and midday -I couldn't be sure, but after so many days here, I could kind of tell what time it was depending of the color of the sky, it was easier in the morning, and where the sun was too-, I heard a helicopter. I wanted to climb down and tried to follow its way; wherever it was going, there would be people, I wanted to have something to do, doing nothing was going to drive me nuts. But I knew perfectly well that that was out of the question; 1) I could not and would not by any circumstances leave Dougie alone, the separation would be too hard, not to mention insanely stupid 2) if I was stupid enough to leave Dougie, I would never be able to find my way back to this tree 3) if I left and the others ones came back, they would probably think the mean werewolf from my imagination had eaten me 4) no way in hell I'm walking alone in the woods, not a chance baby.
So I just sat there, feeling so miserably I wanted to go on crying, but my skin had already had too much. I just waited and waited, but Vicky never came...
But someone else came...
In just a few hours the sun would be completely gone, so I was surprised to see people. It was a big group, seven men with shutguns, boots and uniforms -for a moment I thought I was in a really bad movie about war and was so afraid of those people that I even held my breath-. I didn't know what to do, they coulnd't see me and were walking away, they were already several meters away, I would lose sight of them in any moment; 'scream for help!' a voice in my head told me, but damn I couldn't take my eyes off their shutguns.
"Christopher Trembley!" one of them shouted "Is any body there?"
'Oh, my God' I thought. They were looking for the pilot! They were looking for us!
"Those people must be already dead" one of them said "I mean, it's been like what, two weeks since the accident? No way the could have survived without food, water and clothes"
"We've been over this, Jake, we are not going to stop" the one in the front said.
As my heartbeat started speeding up, I looked at Dougie for a moment.
"I'll be right back, baby, you'll be alright" I said and started climbing down so fast I tripped and fell a couple of meters. I fell over the cold ground covered in snow and laid there for a moment, breathless.
'Shit, that hurt'
"There!" one of the men shouted like he'd seen a ghost and ran in my way. He knelt down by my side and lifted me up. I stared at him for a moment, a bit shock. Wow, I flew for a moment, jeez "Miss! Miss, are you alright? Miss?"
"The tree" I said anxiously, looking up. He followed my eyes and saw Dougie.
"Patrick, Adam and Ben, climb up. Bill, call the helicopter" he ordered in a very leader-tone. They asked no questions. The two other guys left just stood by our side.
"Miss, are you alright?" he asked me.
"Yes, I think" I said.
"She fell pretty bad" the one standing said, examining me with his eyes "She may have a concussion"
"I'm fine" I said annoyed "It's him you've got to worry about. He got bitten by a wolf some days ago"
"Damn, those wolves are out of control..." the other one mumbled angrily.
"Miss, will you tell me your name please?"
"Alex. I was in the plane. About time you found us..." ok, not the best way to be greatfull, but, come on! What took you so long!?
About an hour later, the helicopter arrived. Between the men there, there was a doctor. He examined Dougie's injury for a while and when we took out a needle, I had to look away.
"It's looks bad" he'd said "But you managed to keep it rather clean. If you hadn't, he could have probably died of an infection"
"Is he going to be ok?"
"The unconsciousness is not a good sign," no kidding, Sherlock "and it's too soon for a diagnostic, but I say he's got a chance of getting better soon"
They put Dougie in the helicopter, then carried me inside too. I grabbed Dougie's hand the whole time.
"Wait" I said alarmed when they helicopter started lifting up "We can't go. The others aren't back yet"
"The others?" one who I think was Bill asked.
"Yes, there are three more out there. The pilot of the plane, my friend Vicky and Tom. We can't leave without them"
"Look, your partner needs help, I promise you we'll come back for them"
"No, I'm not leaving without them!" I got up, as if I dared jumping off the helicopter. Yeah, right, like I would. Three of them quickly pulled me down to my seat again.
"Daniel, go down again" the one who'd helped me in the first place said to the pilot.
"Oh, come on, it's nearly completely dark" one of them complained.
"Which is why we should hurried even more."
I smiled at him, so gratefully I couldn't even speak.
"I want to go with you" I said.
"No, you stay, he needs you" he looked at Dougie, a bit worried.
I anxiously looked at him again; could I wait in a warm place, in civilization again, without Vicky?
"Don't worry, we won't come back without them, kiddo"
Kiddo. How old did he think I was? Anyway, I liked him. I smiled again, ignoring the other men who were giving me annoyed looks.
"You've got my word" he said and disappeared into the woods again with the others.