"Are you sure we went the right way Haley?" Rachel questioned
"Yes I'm sure, we'll be their any minute" Haley said to them trying to convince them all, she was starting to worry that they had made a wrong turn, she was afraid they were going to get lost.
For what seemed like hours Nathan and Skillz were rowing the boat and everyone was silent, nobody knew what to say. Nathan was just searching for the right words to try and comfort Haley, they were doing so good together . They were living together again, happy, and he didn't want anything to mess that up. He just looked at her in the night, with the moon shining on her worried face and he thought to himself how in even in a scary situation such as this, she looked more beautiful then ever.
"Is that it?" Bevin asked breaking Nathan's concentration.
"Yeah that's it" Haley said with a deep breath of relaxation, she couldn't explain how happy and relived she felt to see the ranger station, they are safe, they would be able to go back to the woods to get the rest of the group and head home, with everyone safe and okay.
As they docked the canoe they all went up to the house to go and get some help. Rachel knocked on the door and it squeaked open. Inside was dark, and quiet with only a little light coming from a fire in the back.
"Doesn't look like anyone's here" Bevin said with worry in her voice.
"Hello" Nathan yelled as he took a step in.
The group walked in closely together with Haley right by Nathan's side, and Skillz right near Rachel and Bevin. They walked through continuing to ask if anyone was their but still no answer.
"Just look for a phone or radio, anything" Haley spoke up and said.
"Wait, what's that noise?" Rachel whispered
"What noise?' Skillz replied nervously
"Shh" Nathan motioned them to be quiet as he stepped near the room with the noise.
It was a loud breathing, moaning type noise, as Nathan opened the door slowly he saw the one ranger laying face first in his own pile of cold blood.
"Oh my god!" Bevin screamed
"Oh shit man, he's dead!" Skillz yelled after her. " Nate we got to get the hell outtta here man"
"Help, h-help me" a voice whispered.
It was another ranger, in the corner of the room, he was too bleeding very badly but he was not dead yet. Nathan ran over to him and didn't know what to do. He was bleeding everywhere, their were two gunshots in his chest, and cuts all over his face.
"W-what do we do?" Rachel cried
The ranger tried to speak again, but all he did was take a deep breath, his very last breath, and his head tilted toward the left and he was dead. Haley turned her head and sobbed softly on Nathan's shoulder, and Rachel had to leave the room because she was getting sick from seeing all the blood. Skillz was holding Bevin close and they all just sat, in shock, no one knew comforting words to say, know one knew what to do.
" Get up slowly and follow me, if you try anything funny, I'll kill her." a dark scary voice had said from behind.
As they slowly turned around a big man was holding a gun to Rachel's head, with two other men behind them him pointing their guns towards Nathan, Haley, Skillz, and Bevin.
"They've been gone longer then a half an hour, should we start getting worried?" Mouth spoke up to everybody after minutes and minutes of silence.
"Haley has been their tons of times, I'm sure they'll be back with the rangers soon." Lucas replied.
Lucas looked around and could see the worry on everyone's face. Peyton had fallen asleep on Jake's shoulder and Mouth was very quiet, deep in thought. Lucas looked at Brooke, into her eyes and could see the fear behind them.
"Hey pretty girl," He spoke to her softly " How ya holding up?"
"I'm scared, Lucas" She whispered. " Not so much for me , but.. Haley and all of them a long time ago, and their still not back, what if something happened, what if something went wrong"
"Brooke everything is going to be okay" Lucas tried to calm her.
" But what if its not Lucas" She started to tear. " What if we don't end up okay, what if something were to happen to you" She was in a slight sob now. " Lucas I'm just so scared."
Lucas's heart dropped, he didn't know the words to comfort her, so instead he just held her close kissed her softly on her lips and whispered " I love you " in her ear and told her to get some rest. Shortly after Brooke was sound asleep on him.
