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and now, here is chapter 6... THE RUN

"What was happening? Why did you tell him to move?"

"I said watch out not move…" I say

"Whatever, what happened next?"

"Well, I saw something in the woods so I yell at Adam and tell him to watch out but I was too late, he had been shot He cried out in pain as the soldier's shot him in the shoulder, very close to Z's head. I quickly pull out my gun and shoot the soldier in the head, killing him.

"Adam! Adam! Hang on!" I yelled seeing him laying with him slowly slipping away. Not wanting him to slip away I start talking to him about his daughter as I kneel next to him applying pressure to the wound to try and stop the bleeding.

"Adam, you have to stay awake for Z. She needs her father!" I yell.

"She has her uncle." He said quietly.

"Where is he? I'll go find him for you if you stay awake." I said.

"You said there's a Lucas at your place?"

"Yeah there is but, wait… are you Lucas's brother Adam?" I ask surprised.

"Yeah, I am, and you're his best friend Josh, he always talked about you." He said softly.

"We have to get you back to him" I said trying to help him get up.

"No, he doesn't need to be here and watch me die." Adam said as he began to cry. "Just please take Z to him."

I tried as hard as I could to stop the bleeding, but couldn't apply enough pressure to stop it. Over that time, I tried to get Adam to talk to me as much as possible and stay awake. He told me to tell Lucas that he is an uncle now and he's going to have to be there for Z as she grew up since he wouldn't. I felt my eyes begin to water as he finished and told me to take Z away before he died as he handed her to me and said,

"Be strong." He took his last breath and closed his eyes as they rolled back. I picked up Z and Adam's bag and started moving back to the motel.

Lucas

"So, you just trusted this person?"

"Not completely but enough to not kill me" I say

"so who was he?

"… Chase. My name is Chase. You probably went to school with my brother and sister, Adam and Maya."

"Maya? Maya is here with me, just down the road from here! We're staying at the motel." I said excitingly.

"She is? How is she? Who else is with y'all? Is Adam with y'all too?" He began shooting questions right and left. I look down about to answer him before he yelled,

"Watch out!"

I turn around to see a soldier running towards us, pulling out his gun then look back to see another behind Chase. Pulling out my knife I throw it at the one behind me miss and turn to throw my pipe at the one behind Chase. As the pipe leaves my hand the one behind me pulls the trigger and shoots me in the arm. I cry out falling to my knees as Chase grabs a gun off the ground and shoots the one who shot me and then turns around to shoot the one behind him. He then kneels beside me and asks,

"What do I do?"

"I don't know." I said as I look at the hole in my arm as more and more blood began to drip on the ground.

"Ok, lay down" He said.

I did what he asked as he studied the wound and found that it couldn't be treated without the proper equipment. Looking inside the clip of the gun, he took one out and handed it to me telling him to bite down on it when it becomes too painful. he told me he was going to wrap it up, then move him quickly to the motel to try and clean it up. he took off his shirt, tore it in half, and wrapped one piece around the wound to apply pressure and made the other into a sling. my eyes began to droop as he picked me up and we walked as quick as we could towards the motel. As we came up to the parking lot I saw Josh

"Josh?" I ask.

"Chase? Oh my gosh Lucas!" Josh yelled.

"Which room are you in?" He asked quickly.

"Room 16, what happened?" Josh replied with a concerned tone. I told him about the soldiers that had surrounded us and the one that shot me. When we got to the room I laid on a bed next Riley. She jumped up panicking as she saw Lucas's arm then ran into the bathroom and came back with a first aid kit, some towels, and a bucket of water. Chase moved away to give her room. I watch her take off the now blood-soaked shirt and I realize Chace was still shirtless. I look at Josh still standing in the doorway to find he was thinking the same thing I was as he throws a t shirt to Chace to put on. After that everything became blurry, but I remember Chace punching Josh for something then I took a medication before passing out….

Josh:

"So why did he punch you?"

"Because he thought I was a father" I said

"What? Explain more!" he said

"Ok, well we started yelling…

"What was that for?" I yelled at Chace acting so innocent and clueless.

"Are you really going to play that?" He yell back while putting space in between him and the baby.

"Chase she's not mine!" Maya yells suddenly, looking up from Lucas.

Chace stare at her and ask, "She's not?"

We both shake our heads.

"Then who's, is it?"

"We don't know. I found her alone and I brought her here." I said quickly.

Chace looked over at me, holding out a hand to help me up and say, "Sorry about that."

"Don't worry about that, I would have done the same for my sister." I say.

Riley

"Ms. Riley, tell me about your friend's gunshot wound at the motel…" the man said

"How do you…" I asked trying to figure him out.

"We've been talking to your people, but we just need to know what you saw." He said

"Well… As soon as I saw Chase walk through the door with Lucas in his arms, I felt my heart skip a beat. My mind immediately started thinking of what to do next and I remembered the first aid kit we had kept in the bathroom, so I run in there grab it, some towels, and fill a bucket with warm water from the sink. I moved as quickly as I could, trying not to waste any time. Maya ran over and told me to clean Lucas's arm. Since she is studying to be a doctor and I don't really have the stomach for this kinda thing, she would be the one to stitch up the wound. After unwrapping some blood-soaked cloth from his arm, I began to clean up the blood around the wound. When I moved closer to the wound I saw Lucas's eyes shoot open and he began to groan.

"Shh." I said to him, pausing what I was doing.

"I need to remove the bullet, clean the wound, and stitch it up to keep it from being infected." Maya said moving around some of the things I brought out.

"Have you ever done that before?" He quietly asks trying not to moan as I continue to clean his arm.

"No, but it can't be much harder than sewing a hem, can it?" She responds with a nervous chuckle. "Besides, from what I've heard cleaning is worse than stitching it up."

He looks at me with an unamused face and I chuckle slightly then turn my head around as Maya yells something at the other guys who were arguing about something.

"Will y'all be quite?!" I yell at them as Chase pulls Josh up off the floor. "Josh I need you to come help Maya and I with Lucas. Chase if you cannot find a way to be quiet I am asking you to leave because we really need to fully focus on this."

They both nod as Josh moves to the other side of Lucas. I hand Josh a small towel as Maya pulls out a bottle of something that I'm guessing should help numb the pain, I hope. After opening the bottle, she makes Lucas drink some before moving to take out the bullet. I tell Lucas to bite down on the towel if it became too painful. Josh shoved it in his mouth as Maya started the process

Lucas

"What else do you remember from that night? He asked

"I remember feeling pain like nothing I had ever experienced. Everything was on fire.

When I hear Riley say that the bullet was out it had already felt like years had gone by. Years spent in burning agony and constant screaming. I could feel Josh and Riley trying to hold me still as I moved violently, attempting to move away from everything around me. It really didn't feel like the medicine Maya had given me had been working until she said she told me she was almost done cleaning. My vision was blurry, my mind was going blank, and I couldn't feel much.

At some point I had been let go of because I stopped moving around and I think someone said something about stitches being done but I was fading away, it kind of felt like floating, on a really soft fluffy cloud. I remember feeling really exhausted, so I took a deep breath and then everything went black.

Josh

"What else happened that night?"

"Well, Minutes went by of me trying to hold Lucas in place so Maya could get done quickly. Riley helped her and helped me as much as she could while looking completely lost. Lucas's screams were hard to hear. I felt so bad, wishing he wasn't going through this. The time almost felt endless and I'm sure it was even more so for him. I figured the medicine had kicked in by the stitches because he passed out when she was about done. Either that or the pain had become too unbearable for him, which was scary to think about.

After helping Maya clean up, Riley stood up and found she was covered in Lucas's blood. Knowing she wouldn't be able to keep calm for very long I told her to go for a quick shower. Once she closed the door I turned back to Lucas who was looked like he was peacefully sleeping, which he needed. Scanning the room"

"What else?

"Come one man, she just…" I started before getting interrupted

"And who's fault is that? Keep going" He said

"I looked over to Maya and Chase who were having a quiet conversation. As I walked over to tell her she did good, she looked up at me said something to Chase and motioned for me to go outside with her. All I knew was that I was in trouble for something. Once she closed the door she turned to me and said"

"I know about Z."

"You know what?" I asked still thinking about Lucas.

"I know that she is related to Lucas." She said.

"Why would you think that?"

"I don't think I know. The way you looked at her and then at Lucas when you first walked in the room."

"Yeah. She's his niece. I was on my way back here with his brother, Adam, when he was shot by a soldier."

"Are you going to tell him? I mean when he wakes up." She said.

"Yes, I have a message for him from his brother." I replied.

"Then what are we going to do?" She asked.

"Whatever Lucas decides. He's in charge of her now and until he wakes up, we protect her with our lives." I said.

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