As always,
Raiderva: Well, we already talked about this through private message, so nothing more to say except for thank you very much for your support, sweetie! :) It's very appreciated!
Guest: I'm glad you are excited! Don't worry, Sam will find the way to make things right! :) Thank you very much!
THEMoDePo:Hahaha, poor Sam, nobody is being very understanding to him :) I know, Sebastian is adorable too, Blaine is lucky to have him as a friend! And let me tell you, if you thought that was a cliffhanger… :) Thank you so much!
Misz:Done again :) Thank you!
Darrinia:I know, poor little thing! Don't worry, Sam will find a way to make it all better again, he will see words are not enough anymore… Thank you so much, preciosa!
Me-me157:You're right about the fact that Sam is scared, but it's not about what you think… But don't worry, you'll find out about it soon enough ;) And yes, Blaine is a little on the wrong too because he was afraid to ask what it meant, you were the only one to see that! But yeah, the jealousy part is totally Sam's fault, he shouldn't be acting jealous if he is not willing to fight for Blaine. About the fact that no one gets hurts… I'm afraid I might disappoint you L Thank you so much, sweetie!
Midlifecrissis:Oh, don't worry, Blaine is feeling horrible but that won't affect him in his fighting, he is stronger than that! And yes, Sam will have to find his way out of the situation he threw on himself, Blaine won't listen to him anymore. Don't worry, we are not near the end yet, a lot has to happen first! I'm so glad you like it! Thank you so much, dear!
CHAPTER 16
"Blaine was right, that man was not alone" Puck said as he and some of the others rushed to grab their weapons, but they were paralyzed by a voice coming from outside.
"We're going to give you the chance to leave!" the voice they recognized as that of the man that had threatened Blaine and Sebastian yelled from outside –and it sounded way closer than expected. "We just want to take everything you're storing inside, but we won't hesitate to kill you if you resist"
"They don't even want the place, we could give them some of our things and no one would end up hurt" Marley suggested, desperate to avoid a confrontation.
"Do you really think they won't try to kill us?" Puck, disbelieving at Marley's naivety. "They won't let us go like that, they won't trust us not to come back, just as we didn't trust that man. They will kill us as soon as we set a foot outside"
"And even if they didn't, do you really think we can make it out there without any weapons?" Kitty tried to reason with her. "We can't just go. We have to fight"
"Someone will get killed" Marley insisted, even if she could see she was losing the battle.
"Yeah" Puck assured her without hesitation. "Let's make sure it's not us"
"Everybody take a place in a window and start shooting!" Mike ordered, and there was so much resolution in his voice that no one hesitated to obey.
"But…" Marley tried one last time, horrified at the idea of killing people like that.
"Do you want to live?" Jake told his girlfriend as he gently grabbed her upper arms and slightly shook her to make her react.
"They're not walkers" she whispered as her eyes filled with tears.
"They're not going to be so considerate to you if they make it inside, so start shooting!" Jake encouraged her as he pushed her to a window and put a gun on her hands.
Sam did as he had been told and went to take his place on one of the windows, which he hit with his gun to break the glass so he could comfortably shoot through it. Trent stood next to him, but Sam didn't even notice, as his eyes only kept moving to the corridor that led to the cells, waiting for Blaine to appear. There was no way the explosion hadn't woke him up –and that considering he had already been asleep, something highly improbable after the events of the previous day–, so why wasn't he coming to see what all the commotion was about? Or Sebastian? Would they be alright?
Blaine had just closed his eyes when the explosion took place. He sat up, completely disoriented at the sudden and brusque interruption of his sleep, and tried to prick up his ears to hear anything else. He didn't, but he was sure that the noise that had woken up couldn't be a good thing. If he didn't know it was impossible, he would have sworn that the floor had even trembled for a moment. Glad that in his exhaustion and low mood he hadn't bothered to undress before getting into bed, he jumped on his feet, took all the weapons he could carry with him and ran outside the room, lamenting there were no windows on that part of the prison to see if there was something going out outside.
He was reaching the last of the stairs when he saw Sebastian leaving his own cell, with the same confused expression he was sure he was carrying himself, and he hurried even farther to catch up with him.
"What the hell was that?" Sebastian asked as they reunited at the bottom of the stairs.
"I don't know, I was just going to the common area to see what the others knew" Blaine explained. "Do you have your weapons with you?"
"Yeah, every one of them" Sebastian answered as he showed him the gun he was carrying in his hands. "Do you think we're going to need them?"
"I only know we need to be ready" Blaine answered while starting to walk already and expecting Sebastian to follow him.
What they weren't expecting, though, was the gate that separated the cells from the corridor that lead to the common area, and that had been kept open until then, had closed with the force of the explosion.
"I can't open it" Blaine explained as he tried unsuccessfully to move the door.
"It's one of those doors that lock itself when they close" Sebastian guessed, also shaking it to prove his point. "We won't be able to open it again without the right key"
"Fuck" Blaine exclaimed as he gave a small kick at the gate, and Sebastian could see how frustrated he was by the fact that he didn't usually swear. "I've never seen that key, it's not in that set we found with the officer"
"I know, it probably was with the keys of all the cells, who knows where" Sebastian answered, calmly resting a comforting hand on Blaine's shoulder.
"Hello?" Blaine yelled in the corridor's direction, hoping one of the others would hear them and come to their rescue. "Can anyone hear us?"
"I don't think they can't hear us from the common room" Sebastian said with resignation on his voice.
But before Blaine could answer, the sound of a shot filled the silence of the corridor and made their hearts tremble with fear.
"That was just a warning!" Puck yelled through a window to the strangers outside after firing a deterrent shot. "Either you leave now or you'll pay for destroying our fence!"
It was almost a miracle that the bullet he got as an answer didn't impact directly on his face, as he was barely quick enough to duck for it to pass over his head.
"We are not going to surrender to a bunch of kids" A voice shouted from the outside. "If you want to fight, fine. This is our answer"
Before any of the people inside the jail block could say anything, what seemed like hundreds of shots filled the place at the same time. They weren't bluffing, they intended to fight for what they wanted, and the young people inside could only duck under the windows until the others would stop for a second and give them the chance to answer.
The sound of the bullets resounded all along the corridor, which made Blaine and Sebastian crouch in fear before they realized the bullets couldn't get them there.
"Are these shots?" Sebastian asked as he imitated Blaine and got back on his feet after the initial fright.
"Yes" Blaine answered without a shadow of a doubt when a different fear –not for them, but for the others– set itself in his heart at the thought that all his friends were being attacked –Sam amongst them–. "Please! Can anybody hear us?" he yelled again at the same time that he kicked the gate, hoping the combination of noises would bring attention to them.
"If they didn't hear us before it's impossible that they hear us now, with all that racket" Sebastian tried to make him see, even if Blaine's desperate gaze was breaking his heart.
"Sam!" Blaine yelled at the top of his lungs, ignoring Sebastian's words and getting more desperate as he grabbed the bars in front of him and shook them as strongly as he could. "Sam, can you hear me?"
Sebastian sighed with sadness and fear as he rested a hand on Blaine's shoulder again, but he didn't try to stop him this time. After all, he would be just as desperate if the person he loved was far from him and being shot as they spoke. Because obviously Blaine had forgotten about all the pain Sam had put him through as soon as Sam had been put at risk.
As soon as the people outside stopped shooting for a second to reload their guns, the youngsters inside took their chance and rested their guns and rifles on the windows sills to balance them and start shooting in their defense. Most of them were not great shooters, and the bullets were not hitting their targets –though at least they were keeping them at bay.
"This is not working!" Puck lamented as he reloaded his gun. "We're not hitting them!"
"Neither are they hitting us!" Sam tried to make him see, not wanting for the rest of the guys to get discouraged too soon. "And as long as we are inside and they are out there, we are bound to win. Don't forget about the walkers"
"So we just need to resist?" Sugar asked, sounding more confident than she had done until then –which made Sam see that Blaine's training sessions had bore fruit amongst the weakest members of their group, after all. As if he had had any doubt about it.
"Exactly" Sam agreed as he turned to his window and started shooting again.
"And what if we run out of ammunition before they do?" Jake asked.
"They wouldn't be so desperate if they had a lot of that, right?" Mike intervened, also wanting to avoid any panic spreading amongst the students. "And if there is something we have a lot of, that is ammunition"
"I hit one of them!" Puck announced triumphantly. "Come on, guys, we can do it!"
Encouraged by Puck's success, they started shooting again, knowing how important it was to keep their position. They were getting good at stopping the people outside of making any advances, because even if they were not hitting them most of the time, they were fast and persistent enough to not give them time to leave their hidden positions and make them come any closer.
They were only distracted by a horrible scream coming from outside, a terrifying yell that made their blood run cold because they knew it couldn't have been elicited by a bullet.
"A man was bitten by a walker" Joe explained while wincing in disgust as the image, as he had been a direct witness to the scene and it surely hadn't been nice.
"Oh my God" Marley lamented, horrified. Of course she wanted to defeat the other guys, but just imagining –and hearing– being devoured by those monsters…
"Ouch, shit!" Mike exclaimed after a second, and when Sam turned to look at him in confusion he was appalled to discover his arm was bleeding.
"Mike!" Tina yelled as she ran to his side and started inspecting the wound.
"It's okay, it only graced me" Mike answered, trying to calm everybody down, but he didn't protest when Tina stripped a piece of her undershirt to wrap it around his arm and stop the bleeding. "It was my fault, I let myself be distracted. Don't lose your concentration!"
Mike's injury only reinforced Sam's need to make sure Blaine was okay. He knew he was in the safest part of the block, but it was impossible that he hadn't heard all the noise they were making, and knowing Blaine there had to be something keeping him from running to help them and put himself in charge of everyone's safety. And Sebastian hadn't appeared either, so it was quite obvious that something must have happened to them.
"I need to know if Blaine and Sebastian are okay" Sam whispered, so only Trent would hear him –it would be easier to convince just him to let him go than everybody else.
"Sam, don't" Trent pleaded, grabbing Sam's arm strongly. "It's too dangerous, look what happened to Mike"
"I don't care, Trent" Sam answered as he shrugged his shoulders, and then, trying to take him by surprise, he turned around and ran without any further explanation.
"Sam!" Trent screamed after him, but he could only turn to the window and start shooting without pause to cover him and make sure no stray bullet would hit him as he ran.
Sam didn't turn back to see if anyone had seen him or was following him to stop him as he ran towards the corridor that would lead him to the cell area, his heart in his throat at the many possibilities in his head for Blaine to not having reached them yet. Was he hurt? But there were no windows on that part of the prison. Maybe some part of the ceiling had fallen on them with the explosion? Sam had often thought about how insecure and in a poor condition that ceiling looked.
What he was not expecting was to find his path blocked with that stupid gate that they had kept open until then and from which they didn't have the key.
"What the fuck…" Sam exclaimed as he tried to open it, even though he knew it was useless as it was one of those doors that locked when they closed. Maybe the gate at the other end of the corridor had closed too and that's what was keeping the two boys away? "Blaine!" he yelled, hoping against hope that his best friend was at the other end of the corridor and would hear him, even if they couldn't see each other. "Blaine, can you hear me?"
"Sam!" Blaine answered in what sounded almost like sob of relief –the poor guy must have been dead worried–. "Sam, you ok?"
"Yeah, yeah" he hurried to answer, not wanting for Blaine to worry more than necessary. "What about you? And Sebastian, is he with you?"
"Yes, I'm here too, we're both fine" Sebastian answered, and Sam was relieved that both his friends seemed to be in one piece.
"We are trapped here, we can't open this fucking door" Blaine explained, and if Sam hadn't been so scared at their current situation, he would have laughed at how out of place it felt to hear Blaine swearing.
"The one at this end of the corridor is stuck too" Sam lamented, almost breaking down in tears at the impossibility of seeing that his lover was alright with his own eyes. "Why are they closed?"
"I don't know, the ground kind of trembled and they closed on their own"
"I guess it was the explosion then"
"Explosion? What's happening out there?" Blaine asked, the leader of him desperately needing to take control of the situation. "Is it that guy again?"
"Yeah" Sam was forced to admit. "As always you were right, he came back and he brought a bunch of friends with him. They blew up the interior fence"
"Is everybody alright?" Blaine asked, his voice shaking with fear at the answer he was going to get.
"Yes, everybody is… Oh, fuck!" Sam exclaimed as a bullet entered by the window at his side and impacted only mere inches from his head. He guessed he could be seen from outside, and he hurried to crouch as far down as he could so he would not be hit.
"Sam! Sam!" Blaine desperately screamed, as he had obviously heard the closer shot and Sam's exclamation.
"I'm okay! Don't worry, I'm okay, it didn't hit me!" Sam hurried to explain, not wanting to hear that kind of terror on Blaine's voice ever again.
"Don't stay there, go and take cover" Blaine encouraged him, as always forgetting about his current situation to make sure Sam would be safe.
"What about you?" Sam asked, hating the idea of just leaving them there even if he knew there was little he could do to free them while trying to fight those guys.
"Don't worry about us, we're safe here, just go" Blaine answered, as obviously the only thing he wanted was to make sure Sam would be alright.
"Alright" Sam agreed, knowing there wasn't anything else he could do, but wishing he could at least get a glimpse of the boy that meant so much to him and make him understand how important he was to him and how sorry he was about hurting him. "Blaine, I…"
"I know, Sam" Blaine answered before he even got the chance to say anything, understanding as ever –or maybe it just wasn't the time for that–. "Just go. And be careful, please"
"I'll come get you as soon as I can" Sam promised, his voice trembling with emotion, praying that it wouldn't be the last time they spoke. "You just… take care of each other"
"Sam, go!" Blaine insisted, awfully worried for the blond, and at last Sam couldn't do anything else than obey and return to the common room.
When Sam returned and took his position next to Trent, he immediately noticed absolutely nothing had changed in his absence: everybody was standing next to the same window, still shooting outside, and it was almost as if time had frozen.
"Sam" Trent said in relief when he saw the blond was alright. "Don't do that again"
"I'm sorry, Trent, I needed to know" Sam apologized, starting to shoot his own weapon next to the other boy.
"Did you find them?" Trent asked, almost fearing the answer considering Sam had come back without them.
"Yeah, they're alright, just trapped in there by the gates on the corridor" Sam quickly reassured him, knowing how close the other boy was to Blaine and especially Sebastian. "We'll need to get them out once we take care of everything here, but at least they're safe for now"
"Right" Trent answered, immensely relieved that his friends were alright.
Sam continued shooting every time one of the people outside so much as moved, trying to hit any of them. Trent explained that they hadn't hit any more of them, but two of them had been bitten by walkers and were now out of the way. But in spite of how it seemed like they were wining, something was not sitting right with Sam: a good while had passed since the first shot, and the situation hadn't changed. At all. If their objective was to assault their prison, shouldn't they be making advances towards their goal?
"Doesn't anybody else find this strange?" Sam spoke, louder this time so everybody would hear him.
"What?" Santana asked, not understanding what he meant.
"They're just shooting, they're not trying to get any closer" Sam explained, quickly moving to the side as a bullet impacted on the still of his window.
"That's 'cause we are doing a great job at keeping them away" Puck answered, and Sam had to admit he had a point.
Maybe they were just doing a great job at defending what was theirs. But still…
Sebastian was sure he would be able to hear Blaine's heart if he pricked his ears hard enough, so worried the other boy seemed to be. He had convinced him to sit on the ground next to him, as there wasn't anything they could do for the moment, but Blaine's foot hadn't stopped patting the floor nervously. He kept sighing and hiding his face between his raised knees every few seconds, and Sebastian knew it was killing him to know everybody –and Sam especially– were in danger and there was nothing he could do about it.
"Calm down, Blaine" Sebastian said in a comforting voice, as he reassuringly patted his knee. "No good will come out of you giving yourself a heart attack"
"We should be there fighting with them" Blaine answered as he sighed again and let his head fall back, against the damned gate.
"I know" Sebastian agreed, even though both of them knew it had not been their decision.
"We were keeping watch all night, how did we miss them?" Blaine asked, turning to look intently at his friend, searching for answers he couldn't find himself.
"Because they didn't blow up the part of the fence we could see form our place" Sebastian patiently answered, because he had already known that Blaine would find the way to blame their situation on himself. "There was nothing we could do"
"But it doesn't make any sense!" Blaine protested. "Why would they blow up the fence in another section and then try and enter through the main door? They should have imagined we would be watching it"
"I don't know, Blaine" Sebastian answered, trying to remain calm even if he could see Blaine's reasoning made a lot of sense. "Maybe they're just that stupid"
"They have explosives and they just blow up a damned fence? If it was me I'd… Oh my God" Blaine interrupted himself as his face paled dramatically –so much that Sebastian feared he was going to faint and hurried to grab his arms in case he needed to hold him up.
"What?" he asked, desperate for answers.
"It's a trap!" Blaine answered, his eyes filling with fear and desperation as he implored for his friend to tell him he was wrong. "They're just creating a diversion!"
"Blaine, stop, let's take a moment to think…" Sebastian tried to calm him down, not wanting to believe for a second that he might be right.
"They're going to attack some other way while they have them shooting at just some of them!" Blaine yelled desperately as he disentangled himself from Sebastian's grip and jumped to his feet to turn to the corridor again and start shouting like a madman. "Sam! Sam!"
"They can't possibly hear you" Sebastian implored for him to stop, hating to see his friend in such a frantic state.
"Sam!" Blaine tried again, but this time his desperation got hold of him and he started kicking and punching the bars.
"Stop it, Blaine" Sebastian begged, putting his arms around Blaine from behind to try and hold him down. "You're going to hurt yourself!"
"Sam!" Blaine tried once again, so loud that his voice cracked in the end, even though he couldn't care less.
"Blaine, please" Sebastian insisted, holding onto him more strongly and trying to get him away from the door, but Blaine refused to surrender and they struggled until they fell on their knees.
"We need to get out of here, we need to help them" Blaine said, finally stopping to break into sobs, regaining his senses and realizing there was nothing they could do to help the others who were about to be in serious danger.
"We can't, Blaine" Sebastian lamented as he closed his arms more closely around Blaine and let him sob against his chest, his own eyes filling with tears at Blaine's state and at the very dark fate of their friends.
It was only a minute later, while they were still in the same position, that the ground trembled again and small chunks of the damaged ceiling started falling on them as a bigger explosion could be heard at the other end of the corridor.
A/N: I wasn't going to finish the chapter here, but there was still so many things to happen that it was getting to long so I divided all the action into two chapters :)