"KIM!"
Eve shouted as she barges through the front door at full speed, only to trip over a dead body in the process. Joey gasp at the headless corpse lying by the door. Eve stands to her feet, running to the kitchen to scan the area. Only to find another body, but not of Kim or Nick. Quickly, she runs upstairs the stairs to find a trail of blood leading to the nursery. Pulling her pistol from her hip holster and walks towards the door.
"The bathroom." She thought to herself as she presses her black glove covered hand to the door. Gently, she pushes the door open with one hand as she holds up her gun in the other. With a quick dash in her step, she slams the door open ready to fire. Only to gasp at the sight before her.
"Nick!?" Eve practically screamed before falling to her knee's. Crawling to the bullet wounded man on the ground bleeding to death. Eve's hand reach out to his neck, shockingly, she felt a pulse against his skin. Something that was small and weak, but still there.
"Joey! Staci!" Eve shouted. She then wraps her arms around Nicks' chest before hoisting him up from the ground. For a young woman, Eve was pretty strong! That's how she ended up on this team, to begin with.
Joey is the first on the room to find Eve helping her bleed friend out the door. Once in the hallway, Joey grabs him by the feet and helps Eve down the stairs. Once on the lower floor, Staci's help Eve and Joey get Nick into the back seat of the car before hopping into the back of the truck. Joey climbs into the passenger seat, this time with ease since Eve was settling in this time. Once the keys were in the engine, Eve waisted no time driving down the freeway like a mad woman.
The way Eve was driving, she made it to the hospital with ease. And soon after that, Nick was being treated by the best doctor they had in the Hope County. Much to Eve delight, but that feeling was short lived when she realized Kim nor their daughter was in the house. Plus, Nick was shot so bad that he had to be put on a machine to help him breathe.
By the end of the day, Eve's fingers were bleeding from the constant skin peeling around her nails. She did this went she was worried or stressed beyond words.
"Rook, you're going to have bloody fingers soon," Joey tells her friend before removing Eve's hand from her mouth. Eve looks down at her bleeding index finger, amazed on how much skin she was able to peel off. With a low growl, she turns her head to the side a bit before saying:
"Nick is in critical condition…the doctor says he may not make it…dammit." She mutters under her breath before pressing her hand to her forehead. "I was right there this morning. I was right there about to eat breakfast with them, and now they're gone."
"We don't know that," Joey tells her.
"Nick is halfway out the door, and I don't know where his family is…I failed…I…" Eve mutters before tears begin to form in her eyes. Her head leans down a bit before her eyes closed, allowing her tears to roll down her cheeks. "Oh god, I was right there. I should have stayed a bit longer, I shouldn't have left."
"We'll find them Rook, I promise you that," Earl informs the young woman. Eve lets out a low sniffle as she clears away her tears, she nods her head at the older male before looking up. Her eyes were a bit red at the bottom of her eyes while the tip of her nose became a dark pink color.
"Yea…" She muttered before walking out of the room, leaving her co-workers alone. Once out front in the hallway, Even leans against the hard concrete wall and begins to think. She knew in her heart Kim wasn't dead, but she knew too well that Kim wasn't safe either.
The ghost in our souls brings us to the answer we are looking for. Sometimes that answer is something we don't want.
Joseph's voice ranged in Eve's head. Making her snap from her thoughts. Scanning the room around her, checking if she was safe. TO her ease, she was. But Joseph's words did give her some sense of hope, a false and evil hope.
Scanning the area one last time, she sneaks her way past the chatting resistance fights and heads down into the holding cells. Slowly, she creeps her way towards where the two Seed family member prayed in silence for the death of their eldest brother. Jacob's body was removed from the cell, probably thrown over a river or something, but the mess of his bloodstained sheets remained.
"Yo! Holy angel and judger of stupidity! Stop your praying, you have questions to answer!" Eve shouted at the two. Faith, who was praying at the edge of her bed, bows her head a bit before standing up. She then walks over to the cage to give Eve her full attention.
John just muttered something cruel, which made Even roll her eyes at him. She had one of the Seed's attention, that all she needed.
"Where is Joseph?" She asked the blonde woman.
"Where it all began. Where the beginning and end starts and the world gather around."
"Fewer rhymes, more common sense?" Eve asked. A sudden click was heard from the left sight of Eve. Making her turn her head to see John standing by the cell door.
"It was a place we created when the end happened." John started. "My brother saw the world ending, he saw humanity fall to the sins of their free will. So God showed him this and gave him hope. Hope for a future where those chosen by us would be free of the sins of our predecessors."
"Oh my god, someone explained this in English! I don't speak religious crazy!" Eve growled at the man behind the cell. John sighed at her response before sticking his hand out through the bar.
"Your radio." He tells her. Grabbing her communicator from her hip, she walks over to John and hands him the device. The male in front of her toys with the device, making the signal he was trying to connect rise and low a bit before finally ending on a signal that made Eve's eyes widen. It was a signal that carried the heavenly tone that was always close to Joseph.
"Brother, come in Brother," John spoke through the radio. It took a while, but the horrible voice of Joseph Seed fills the room.
"Brother John, I pray you are well," Joseph spoke. His voice sent chills up Eve's spine.
"Well as the river flowing. I call to you with News. Jacob, our eldest brother, is dead."
John said. A weak sigh escaped through the device, before a light moaning whimpering sound was heard a second later. Eve looks around the room a bit, feeling more unease as the sounds of Joseph grief echoed against the walls of the room. It was so scary that Eve pressed her hand against her back pocket just to see if she had her keys to the front door on her.
"May he find his way home," Joseph spoke on the other line, making Eve sigh.
"Is Eve there? I heard her lips release noise." Joseph asked. Making the young woman blush a little at the thought of Joseph speaking her name, let alone behind near her.
"She's here, and she wants you," John responded. Faith chuckles lightly at this comment like a school girl. Even on the other hand did not like what was going on. Quickly, she snatches her device from John's hand. Holding it close to her mouth, she opens her mouth to ask for his location, only to be silenced when she heard a light baby cry and then the voice of someone she knew too well:
"FUCK YOU! GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER! FUCK!"
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