Ch 3
They pick Logan up and start walking. They walk til dark. Jimmy and Buck sit in silence as the night wears on not sure or certain of anything anymore. They lived their whole lives never fearing anything like this could be possible. They passed out eventually from exhaustion.
Logan shakes Jimmy. "Wake up,Jimmy. Buck, wake up."
They jump to their feet.
"Logan, we thought you were a goner." They said hugging him.
"Jimmy, where is Lou?" Logan asked.
"Lou is fine. She came home. She said she could not find you or the horses so she ran home."
"What do you remember man?" Buck asked.
"I'm not sure. We were in the barn and Lou fell through the floor. I went in to find her but it was dark. I couldn't see." Logan started crying. "Something grabbed me in the dark. They had me, man." he says sobbing. "They drug me forever. They were tall hideous creatures. One of them held me in the air. It let go of me but I did not fall. I was floating there unable to move or speak. I felt numb all over. I could hear this humming sound. Jimmy, I thought I was going to be eaten. It stripped me of my clothes. I was fucking naked and it looked at me with eyes like I never saw like it had no soul. It stood so close I could see myself in it's black eyes. I never seen anything like it before, even in my nightmares." Logan says crying uncontrollably.
"Easy, Logan, easy. We are out now. Just breathe brother."
"Jimmy, let's get a move on." Buck says and they stand up to get their bearings.
"Where are we?" Logan asked.
"Well I think we ain't far from home but I just don't know."
They start walking. They walk all day that night. They sit in silence watching the darkness as far as they could see in front of them. The silence is deafening.
"Jimmy, you awake?
"Yes, Buck. I can't sleep. I can't stop thinking about their faces."
Logan wakes up screaming in the dark at the top of his lungs. It scared Jimmy and Buck so bad that they jump and run.
"Logan! Wake up man!" Buck runs back over to Logan. Jimmy is screaming like he lost his mind.
"Wake up Logan! " Buck shakes him. Logan flies off the dirt grabbing buck around the neck.
"Logan, it's me!" Buck tries to say.
"I'll kill you!" Logan screams out.
"Logan! It's me!"
Buck punches Logan in the face knocking him over. Buck jumps up and runs to Jimmy. He shakes him by the arm.
"Jimmy! Stop it! Snap out of it man!"
Jimmy and Buck walk back over to Logan who is balled up crying on the dirt.
"Jimmy, they had me. He was in my mind, Jimmy. I saw him. I could hear that sound."
"Logan, it's ok." Buck says. "We got away."
The next day was the same. They walked from sun up til sun down.
"Let's walk until we can't walk any more. I really don't want to go to sleep." Logan says. "I don't want to close my eyes. I see them in my head."
"We do too." Jimmy says. "It's not just you. We saw them putting things in this woman."
Logan screams for Jimmy to stop talking. They walk until Logan falls out that night.
On the third day, they see a wagon rolling down a trail. They stop and sit in the dirt until it comes to a stop.
"Damn boy, y'all alright?" the man asked as he jumped down.
"Mister, we need water. You got water?" Jimmy repeats himself.
"Not on me."
"Get in the back. Town is about five miles down the trail here."
They get in and lay down from exhaustion.
"What y'all doing out here?" the man asked but he got no answer from the men in the back of his wagon. He rolled into town and went right to the doctor's house.
"Doc, I got three men out here. They look like hel. I think they are was wondering out in no man's land for a few days looks like." They drag Jimmy, Logan, and Buck in the house and put them on tables.
"See ya Doc." the man waves and walks out.
He looks at Logan first. His arm got the doctors attention. It looked red around the hole in his arm. He cleaned it and went to Buck then Jimmy. They slept all that afternoon and that night.