I'm really sorry that this chapter is so short. I've been really busy.
CHAPTER FOUR: SHUT YOUR EYES
Kate climbed all the way out of her cage. Up the inside, out the top, down the outside and to Sawyer's cage. She stood there, listening to him snoring for a few moments, waiting for the others to jump out of nowhere and kill one or both of them. Nobody came. Sawyer kept snoring.
The air was warm and humid, causing her to perspire, the sweat clinging to the back of her neck. She climbed inside Sawyer's cage and stood beside his sleeping body, watching him twitch nervously from the nightmares she was sure haunted him the same way they haunted her. She touched his cheek carefully and he jerked awake, his limbs twitching and shaking as he attempted to orient himself.
"Freckles! What're you doin'? How're you in here?" He hissed at her quietly. She whispered an explanation, and he could tell that she was far from calm. Her face was blotchy, her eyes slightly swollen. The base of her nostrils shone in the moonlight. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Nothing's wrong. I just climbed through the top bars… I didn't want to be alone." She sounded afraid. More afraid than he'd ever heard her and in a completely different way. This time she seemed to have been pushed over the edge of reason. He put his hands on her shoulders, glancing out to make sure none of the others were coming. When he was quite sure that they were alone, he pulled her in towards him. She was sweating in the heat as was he. He thought hard about cold, snow-caked streets, trying to calm himself down, but it was no use; they were both sweating and their skin was touching and he couldn't help himself. The worrying was beginning to hurt. He could be killed at any minute. He closed his eyes and kissed her cheek, imagining that they were back in the hatch. She was caught by surprise momentarily before she recovered, responding.
Later, they came down off of their high feeling dizzy, light, and free. They hadn't been killed and felt a false sense of safety, as if they were cushioned in their cages, away from the worries and graves that awaited them. They both closed their eyes, wrapped up in one another and imagined they were in some other place.