Until Dawn: A Sudden Change
Chapter 1 of my Until Dawn story, enjoy.
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Chapter 1
Sam wasn't sure what she expected when she woke up. To be captive in the Wendigo den, dying a slow agonizing death, to still be lying out in the snow outside the lodge, everybody else dead and the Wendigo now coming for her.
So many dark and frightening scenarios played through her mind. It was only as she began to regain consciousness that she realized none of them were true. Her first hint was the warmth; she was no longer in the freezing cold of Blackwood Mountain.
'I don't get it, I thought...where am I?' She wondered.
Slowly she opened her eyes; just enough to make out an all white room, and the fact she was lying in a bed, before she screwed her eyes shut against the harsh light.
"Ugh." She groaned.
"Sam?"
She started at that and tried to move.
"No, stay down, don't, move so much." The now familiar voice of Emily told her.
Finally able to open her eyes, Sam saw Emily sitting by her bed, biting her lip, looking worried.
"Em?" She burst out, her voice was hoarse. "What...how…?"
Emily shook her head. "Easy, easy, I'll go get the others, their just outside."
"The others?" Sam echoed, hopeful.
Emily nodded again, yet looked troubled, enough for Sam to worry. As she left Sam briefly noticed Emily's injuries had been treated, although she stilled walked with a slight limp and had a scar from the wound she had received above her left eye.
Emily returned shortly afterwards, accompanied by the others, again their injuries had been treated and Sam was relieved to see many of them had got off lightly. Only one person still sported any signs of their injuries.
"Jess!?" Sam gasped, having thought the poor girl was dead.
Smiling shakily Jess nodded. "Hey Sam."
What shocked Sam the most was the mass of scars covering Jess' face, mostly on the left hand side, there also appeared to be some on her arms, revealed by the short sleeves of her T-shirt.
"How are you even, I mean...we thought you?"
The others all nodded and Jess sighed. "I know, I almost did die...if Matt hadn't found me, I would have."
Matt nodded and shook his head. "It was close, one of those...things, Wendigos, began chasing us down there."
"They survived because Matt knows how to keep a cool head in a crisis, I guess." Emily admitted. "That and he wouldn't leave anyone behind to save himself, if he had the means to save them."
Matt looked over at her sadly, no doubt remembering the fire tower; he had tried to save her. Emily just nodded and they focused on Sam.
Still shocked at this she shook her head.
"I must've missed a lot, how did you even survive, what, what happened after I…?"
The others all chimed in, sharing their stories, telling her about how they survived; how finally all together again they were able to realize the full extent of everything that had happened. They had been interviewed by the police and forced to tell their stories.
The police hadn't believe them, until they went to the mountain themselves and went down the mines, finally finding the evidence with their own eyes.
"Jeez, so...now what's happening?" She asked.
Ashley explained. "We're waiting now, there's nothing we can offer the police, we've all recovered, we're just waiting for our families."
Sam noticed something that worried her however. "Wait, um...Where's Josh, do the police have him or…?"
"The police...found him." Chris remarked slowly, clearly struggling. "But, but he..."
Sam froze, eyes wide, something bad had happened to Josh; but was it what she feared. "He's dead?"
Mike was the one who answered. "If only he was that lucky, the police found him...eating that old guy's head, he...he was like Hannah, Sam."
"Oh my God..." She choked out, shocked.
Josh had been turned into a Wendigo; in a way she wasn't surprised, it made a sick kind of sense. The Wendigo that had attacked Josh was Hannah after all; she had been acting differently from the other ones. She probably took Josh to her lair, hoping he'd give in to hunger and turn, her way of ensuring she and her brother would be together again.
Yet Sam couldn't help but feel something was missing; that they weren't telling her something. They seemed to have difficulty even looking at her for prolonged periods of time. They also kept exchanging glances and worried looks.
"Guys?"
They turned to her and she shook her head.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"Sam, it's..." Matt began.
She sighed. "Guys, look, I really don't..."
She froze, shocked, she had been trying to sit up, when she realized.
"Wait, what the fuck?" She gasped in horror. "I can't...I can't feel my legs, I can't move them."
The others looked at her, anguished and then, a doctor entered.
"Samantha Giddings?"
She looked to him and saw his grim face and slowly, the horrible truth dawned on her as he revealed the extent of the damage the impact she had suffered with the railing had done to her, particularly her spine.
End of chapter, the truth revealed about what happened to Sam, read and review please.