Fireā¦fire everywhere.
I don't understand, don't really want to because the fantasy seems so much better than the reality. I huff into the gravel, making dirt fly up and land in my eyes, but I blink through it. I raise my head a little, one fist pounding on the ground as I mentally forced myself to sit up and look for what I needed. The SUV is on fire, flames licking towards the hot New Mexico sun that's beating down on us relentlessly. I can see a few men jogging around, gathering what they could salvage from the carnage. I watch as Alt practically come tunneling up from the ground and latch onto one man's arm, his face swollen and bloody from his savage beating, but his crooked teeth latch onto the arm in his maw and don't let up, even when the man starts to beat on his head repeatedly with the broken handle of Pluto's axe.
I cough a little and look over at Lizard, see him face down in the dirt, gray hair stained with blood and a forming pool around his mangled body. I suppress a sob and look away, bottom lip trembling. Pluto is still staggering around, blind now because of the piece of wood lodged into his eye socket. He's mumbling in that way of his as he stalks around the desert, towards where I know the village is. Missy sobs into the dirt, a hand held over the hole in her waist, shattered pieces of her hip lying in the dirt around her. Amber is lying on her back, arms and legs spread with her shorts at her knees, blood leaking from her lips and eyes as she stares almost lifelessly up at the sky.
A shadow goes across me, I look up to that smirk and see that face staring down at me. I grit my teeth and growl at him as he lowers himself onto one knee, cradling my baby in his hands. "Cute kid Dizzy, now are you gonna come with us or not? Cus it won't hurt me one bit to kill another one of these freaks." his eyes flash to Lizard.
It feels like my heart has shattered into a million little pieces. I'm trying to keep it together, I am the strongest here, but I feel like I am the weakest. I look over at Lizard, jaw slack and don't even see him twitch, don't hear that labored breathing of his. I lay my face back into the dirt, body slack with defeat as I just sob into the gravel.
"Take that as a compromise. Yo Chris, come get this crazy bitch, we take her in, get the reward."
My eyes shoot towards the man above me and I grab a hold of his ankle, nails digging in through the fabric of his jeans. "You give me my fucking baby or I kill myself and you get no fucking reward."
"And then what about your baby lil girl? Gonna leave her to us? Pathetic."
I swallowed hard, a twisted smile coming onto my face. "Nah, I'll just kill her too."
His smirk fell and I just laughed, falling into the dirt again. Everything hurt so fucking bad I couldn't stand it. I wish they would just kill us and get this over with. I was fucking sick of it. I was sick of all of this bullshit. I rolled over onto my back, whimpering as the deep cuts on my back were now filled with sand. Tears sprang to my eyes again but they ran silently. The only noises were the groans of mutants, the roar of fire and the skitter of feet against sand. I heard the click of a gun and closed my eyes, a faint smile gracing my battered lips.
"Dumb bitch."
Last chapter in the Fester chapter, the sequel Kimber starts tonight or sometime this week so check up on my profile
