I had to rewrite this chapter...Enjoy!

After a while in complete silence Alex carefully started to whisper. "Are you ok?"

Slowly she looked up from underneath the blanket. They could see each other because of some moonlight shining in and when their eyes met something happened inside each of them.

She nodded. All this time she had hidden her face halfway under the blanket, leaning against his chest, her arms tightly wrapped around her best mate. A tiny smile appeared on is face, while the angst on her face was far from gone. He gently touched her face with one hand and caressed her cold cheek.

He took a deep breath and whispered again. "I've never seen you this scared before."

She just kept staring at him, while he moved his hand from her cheek to her neck and there he gently played with her hair. "It's ok Stevie, I will get us home safely."

Stevie tried to sit up a bit more, while she kept eye contact. This situation remembered both of them of their first kiss, not long ago. She wanted him so much and nervously touched his face. Her hand trembled. She moved a little bit forward till there was no space left between them. Butterflies filled their body's when they got this close. Even Alex got a little shy, it surprised him when she moved so closely and it immediately remembered him what they'd agreed after their kiss.

If they weren't in this terrible situation he would've put his most charming smile on and said something like. "See? I was right, man and women can't be friends." And then he would have kissed her. But before he could dream of that, she pressed her lips onto his.

Their breathing got heavier, both of them felt warmer and butterflies were very busy...When the kiss ended, another silence followed. The look in their eyes gave away everything the deepest feelings for each other. Both of them felt it, but they didn't said a word about it. Stevie safely hid her face halfway under the blanket again, leaning against his chest. He automatically wrapped his arms around her and carefully tightened his grip as if he wanted to let her know he wouldn't regret this. As some kind of answer she gently stroked his back with her fingertips.

Stevie cleared her throat and said. "So you think 'it's' gone?" Completely ignoring the whole romantic atmosphere they were in. How did she do that?

He shrugged, he wasn't sure. But everything seemed calm outside.

"Dunno. Maybe I should check it out." He said a little nervous.

He was overwhelmed and actually needed to let her go for a moment, to create some space. Alex was ready to stand up, but Stevie couldn't believe what he just said and pulled him back.

"What, are you crazy? I thought you said you weren't going to gamble your life here." She shook her head.

He stared in to her eyes for a moment, he never was intended to go outside. "Maybe you're right."

"You bet I am." She carefully smiled, happy he changed his mind.

He started to walk around and checked the sleeping bags.

"Still wet." He said glancing at her. Stevie pulled up one eyebrow and watched him giving it another try to make a fire, but he had to give up quickly.

Alex stared out of the small window. They didn't talked much. Stevie felt a little insecure, what if this kiss was a mistake again? The way he made her feel made her even more insecure, he was so sweet. Alex thought about his feelings too, he got scared again, it made his heart ache. He clearly knew why he felt this way and why he couldn't admit his feelings for Stevie. She meant so much to him.

...

Alex noticed Stevie was shivering. He wanted to protect her from hypothermia and sat next to her again. He wrapped his arms around her. "Come here you." She looked in his eyes, he blinked his eyes and opened his arms. "Come on, your freezing..." She moved closer and answered his embrace.
"Wait." He suddenly let go of her and struggled a bit to get his coat off, so he could give it to her.

Stevie totally disagreed with that. "I can't wear your coat."

"I want you to wear it. I reckon you need it more then me, I'm bigger and stronger."

She didn't want to fight over this, but she also didn't want his coat. "I'm not going to wear it and that's all I'm going to say about it." She wanted to convince him to put it back on. But he pushed it even more.

"Stevie? Just wear it, ok? I'm fine like this." But he knew he was taking a big risk to get hypothermia. But Stevie was freezing cold and eventually accepted his offer.

He added. "Really. I'm fine, no worries." Then they fell asleep.

...

In less then an hour Stevie woke up again...

"Alex?" He didn't answer and it seemed like he was peacefully sleeping. But his breathing sounded slow and he was shivering now too.

Stevie tried to sit up a bit more and carefully got hold of his face. "Alex." She softly said his name a few times.

His eyelids moved and he shattered his teeth when he talked. "Hey cowgirl, how are you?"

Stevie started to feel really bad, she sighed and felt tears welling up when she realised Alex was showing signs of hypothermia.

"Oh, I knew I never should have taken your coat." Which she immediately put of.

"No. Keep it. It's either you or me...and like I said, I'm bigger and stronger."

She thought it was stupid and felt guilty for wearing his coat, she snapped. "Yeah? Then let's keep it that way. You're the one who suppose to get us home safe." She directly looked at him with tears in her eyes.

She added. "It's a stupid and reckless thing to do Aex and you know it. You're way to cold now and don'tyou talk to me about gambling your life." She roughly pushed his coat in front of him.

But he was being stubborn, even though he was freezing. "Listen, I can do this. This night never seems to end. If we make it, all we can do is hope we've got enough energy left to make it home." He said.

Stevie slapped her hand in front of her mouth, tears ran down her cheeks. "You knew exactly what risk you took when you gave me your coat, didn't you?"

He nodded "The biggest chance for us both to make it through this night." He felt good about it, but at the same time guilty. She didn't respond and wiped her tears, staring at the coat. He understood the message and realised she wasn't going to wear it any more.

"Even though you wear your coat again, your extreme low body-temperature will take all your energy." She stated.

He sighed and fought against the shivering. "Hey don't let this all out on me."

"I don't."

He smiled. "Yeah, you do."

She smiled back at him. Alex gently drew her into his arms again. "Come here. Fighting should be the last thing to do right now Stevie."

She looked into his eyes. "It might warm us up a bit."

He smiled. "You've learned about hypothermia? About the best way to warm up?"

Stevie chuckled. Right...You're allowed when I'm unconscious, ok?" He shook his head.

The night seemed to be longer then all the other nights. As if things couldn't get any worse they were both shivering and the cattle became restless again, it really got on their nerves. Unlike before, they both kept quiet this time. For a moment it looked like someone was yelling or screaming from a distance. They got spooked and sat up straight, looking in each other's eyes with fear. Then they heard someone cough.

Alex immediately stood up and yelled. "Ok, fun's over! Who's there!"

Stevie tried to stand up too, she grabbed his arm. But he pushed her away and gestured her to sit down again.

He grabbed the poker and held it up while he walked to the door. They couldn't believe what they heard next, it was a gunshot.

"Damn it, Alex?! What's happening!" She limped at the corner of the room, were she crumbled down.

"I have no idea. Probable someone who enjoys himself with this stupid joke! Come out! Or I'll meat you outside." It seemed like Alex couldn't take this serious, like Stevie did. He shook his head and really thought someone was pulling a stunt. Alex glanced at Stevie, who was still on the ground. Another gunshot!

"What the hell?!...I know one thing; ghosts don't shoot Alex."

Alex was more mad then scared. "Well then who is it?" He shrugged and shook his head again.

Then there was another gun shot, added by a men's voice. "Who's on my property!?" That someone knocked the door of the old place. Stevie and Alex were stunned and even Alex got seriously scared.

"Open up! Or hell is going to brake loose! I promise you, I will shoot!"

Every fibre of Alex' body disagreed when he got hold of the handle...Stevie felt like she wanted to scream...

There was no other option and Alex opened the door and took a few steps back. He couldn't see who it was because the man was wearing a big raincoat, with a scarf and had his hood up. Before Alex could respond the man felt threatened and walked up to him, pushing the rival in his chest, his heartbeat quickened.

"Move it!" He pushed him hard towards the corner were Stevie was sitting.

Stevie tried to make contact with the man. "I don't know who you are, but we had no evil plans...We're only here for the night."

Alex added. "What do you want from us?"

The man stood in the middle of the room, it was to dark to recognise anyone. He was wearing a big raincoat, dark clothes, or wet, they couldn't tell. But he was smelly, that was obvious. When Alex started to talk he immediately pointed his gun at them again.

"If someone's allowed to ask anything, it'll be me. Got it?!"

An hour went by and Alex and Stevie -both showing sighns of hypothermia- have embraced each other ever since. Stevie cried every now and then, he did everything to calm her down and comfort her. They were desperately waiting for the first light. The man constantly held them under fire, sitting across the other side of the room. The situation was nerve racking.

Alex felt Stevie became restless and he tried to make eye contact with her by touching her chin, forcing her to look at him. But Stevie couldn't shut up any longer.

"What are you going to do with us? You can't keep us here forever."

Alex thought it was foolish what she did. "Ssshh." Was all he said.

But Stevie was frustrated and worn out. "What Alex?! If no one says something, nothing will happen. And I don't like the idea of dying without trying to safe ourselves." Alex sighed.

The man stood up and walked over to them. He pointed his gun at Stevie. "You. Up!"

Alex and Stevie looked at each other, Stevie deeply inhaled, her foot hurt so bad.

"I said stand up!"

Stevie knew she was in big trouble. She slowly stood up, the pain pierced through her whole leg. "Move it!"

There she stood, staring in the old man's eyes. She now saw it was an old man. Stevie realised Alex could easily take him down...Alex had a better look at him too and thought he recognised him from somewhere, but he couldn't figure it out.

The man roughly forced Stevie to turn and walk to the door. Stevie looked behind her, Alex felt hopeless when he looked into her eyes. He felt weak and very sad seeing her leave, she was obviously scared to death and in pain.

"Look at him one more time and I'll make you watch how I shoot him first." He pushed her hard in her back, it made her cry. Alex his heart broke when he heard her burst into tears. She disappeared with the old man. Now she was alone outside, with him. Next thing Alex heard was a very restless cattle and then a gunshot, followed by a terrifying scream.

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