Chapter Ten
Blood, blood everywhere. Blood stained the concrete. Blood stained the walls. All she could see was blood.
Elizabeth stood completely still, her eyes wide and her breath stopped. Her mind turned inside and out as the realization came. She was standing in the dried blood of her beloved Zack.
"Zig-Zag, guess what I heard." X-ray shouted as he approached Zig-Zag lying on his cot. Zig-Zag said nothing, but X-ray continued anyway.
" Dude!!" X-ray waved his hand in front of Zig-Zag's dazed face. Zig-Zag pushed away his hand, muttering "What?"
"Elizabeth is coming back." X-ray said, a sly smile on his face. Zig-Zag sat up suddenly.
"What?!" He exclaimed.
"Ya, that's good news right?" X-ray asked, but then his smile faded. "Well…she MIGHT be coming back."
"What do you mean?"
"The cops gotta find her first."
Zig-Zag stood now, his height causing him to tower over X-ray. Zig-Zag snatched X-ray by the collar, and pulled him up to eye level.
"What…happened?" he hissed through gritted teeth.
"Chill man! She ran away, no big deal, they've got tons of cops trailing her."
Zig-Zag dropped X-ray and ran from the tent. X-ray yelled something after him, but to Zig-Zag it was not important. Nothing was more important right now than finding her.
"Zack" she whispered as her knees collapsed. She slowly touched the stained ground with her pale hand. Her body was shaking, finally recognizing the cold. The rain no longer felt pleasant, it felt like bullets. Each individual drop piercing not her skin, but her heart.
A strong gust of wind blew, carry the sound of the approaching sirens with it, but she could not move. Her heart seemed to have stopped beating and her breath wouldn't come. His blood, his blood was on her hands. It was her fault. It was all her fault.
Thunder rang through her ears, lightening spread light on the dark alley. Then came the tears. Elizabeth crumbled onto the ground, curled up on the death spot of her love, tears streaming from her eyes. She banged her fists on the cement, she felt the bang but she didn't care, she wanted him back.
Elizabeth paused, trying to catch her breath. She just curled up, trying to cuddle against the ground. It was then she noticed the silence.
The sirens were no longer blaring, the thunder was not rolling, and though she could see the rain hitting the ground, she could not hear it. Before she knew it, she couldn't' feel the rain or the ground. The cold was the only thing she could feel. Cold ice filtered through her body, soul, and heart. The ground was moving, blackness taking its place. The blackness was swallowing her whole.
Fright filled her mind, and she rose to her feet to run, but a hand reached out and grabbed her arm. She looked from the hand to its owner, and fright seemed to leave her as she stared unbelievably into the face of her beloved, her one and only Zack.
"Come Elizabeth, don't be afraid." He said smoothly, pulling her deeper into the blackness. She wanted to go, wanted to follow, but her feet refused to move.
"Zack, please, I'm stuck!" She cried, but he was leaving, he was leaving her, trapped in the darkness.
Zig-Zag lay on his cot for the second time that day. He was disappointed, disappointed in himself for not succeeding. The Warden wouldn't listen, neither would Dr. Pendanski, and there was no point in talking to Mr. Sir.
He wouldn't sleep, its not that he couldn't, but he was afraid. These dreams were getting more real and more frightening. What if he dreamt something horrible, and it happened!
His eyes wandered around tent, begging for something to keep him awake, searching for anything to keep him from his dreams. Though, even if he was not dreaming, he couldn't stop thinking about her, wondering through the streets of New York alone. And him, half way across the country, knowing he was useless.
Zig-Zag slowly turned over, facing the wall, trying to make himself extremely uncomfortable, but nothing worked. His body adapted to every position he tossed or turned into to. His eyes began to droop, his body would not move at his mind's command, and he drifted off into the world he'd been trying so hard to avoid.
The dream began strangely though. Most of these dreams began with him running through alleys, chasing something that turned out to be Elizabeth, or watching her run, but this time it began still, cold, and sudden. The moment he entered his dream, he found himself standing in a blood stained alley, standing over Elizabeth's pale body.
Zig-Zag woke suddenly, jumped out of bed, and ran from the tent. He ran to the Warden's house, not caring if she didn't listen before, he was going to try once more. Once he reached the house, he didn't bother knocking. He threw open the door, jumped over the threshold. The Warden must have heard the chaos, for before he reached where he suspected was he room, she appeared in the hallway, wrapping a robe around her nightgown.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU-"
"We have to get to New York, I have to find her!!" He said, calmer than he'd thought he would. The Warden looked at him strangely, and then realized what he meant.
"Calm down, the police are looking for her, she's going to be fine!"
"No she's NOT!" he said, his voice rising.
"And what makes you-"
"SHE'S DYING!!"
Author's Note: Next chapter already started, in my head. Hope this keeps you interested! I also want everyone to know, I'm not adding another chapter until I get some reveiws! So far I've only gotten one, if you want to find out what happens, REVEIW!! If I don't get reveiws, I'll think no one likes it and I won't update. Thanks!