I in no way own falling skies or its characters, I only own the character Audrey. This is the third chapter of Cold.
Ben's POV
I was walking towards Jimmy's tent when I heard muffled sobs coming from it. I ran the rest of the way and when I entered I saw Jimmy curled up in a ball crying his eyes out. "Jimmy what's wrong?" I asked him. "Like you care at all. Why don't you just go back to Audrey and make out somewhere?" I spat the words at him. "Why would I do that? I don't even like Audrey in fact I like someone else." I told him. "Wait, you don't like Audrey, then what were you doing holding hands with her?" He questioned me. "She was telling me to go tell the person that I have a crush that I have a crush on them." I explained. "Who do you have a crush on?" He asked me. "Well they have medium length brown hair. He's average height, blue eyes, he's my best friend and I love him dearly." By the look on his face I knew he understood. "Me" he asked and I nodded my head yes. He just gave me a huge smile. I leaned down and kissed him with all the love I could possibly come up with. "Yes, I love you Jimmy Boland, you and only you." I said. "I love you too." He then reached up and pulled my lips to him again.
Jimmy's POV
I can't believe Ben loves me like I love him. I pulled away from the kiss to get air and he just grinned at me. I smile back and was about to kiss him again when Audrey came in and asked Ben to help her gather firewood for tonight. "Sure, I'll be out in a minute." He told her before turning back to me. "Well I better go. I'll see you later?" He asked before giving me a quick kiss on the cheek. I just nodded my head yes. He ducked out of the tent and the second he left I felt a dull throb begin in my chest and every minute it grew worse and worse until it was unbearable. The last thought I had before passing out was please let someone find me.
Ben's POV
I walked outside with Audrey, and the second I could no longer see Jimmy a dull throb started in my chest and with each step away from him my chest was engulfed with a new kind of pain. I whimpered when it became unbearable. Audrey took notice of this "Ben are you okay?" I just shook my head no. "What's wrong?" She asked. "I can't breathe, my chest hurts." I managed to choke out, before I collapsed into Audrey's arms.
Audrey's POV
What in the world is happening? "Ben! Ben can you hear me?" I slapped his face just to see if it would wake him up. Luckily it because I could not carry him back to base camp. "What happened?" Ben asked. "You passed out. We need to get back to camp, can you walk?" He nodded and stood up on shaky legs. We began are slow walk back to camp, Ben was mostly leaning of me, but we managed to get back without him passing out again.
Tom's POV
I was looking for Ben and people said they saw him going into Jimmy's tent so that's where I went and boy was I surprised with what I found. I entered Jimmy's tent and found a passed out Jimmy on the floor. I shook his shoulder to try and wake him up, but it wasn't working. So I checked for a pulse and found that it was very weak, so I picked him up and took him to Anne.
~Time Skip, Audrey and Ben are back at camp and Ben is in the "Hospital" with Jimmy~
Jimmy's POV
I woke up and found that I could breathe again and my chest wasn't hurting anymore. I looked around the room and noticed Ben was lying on the bed next to mine. I was trying to piece together what happened when I heard a groan form the bed next to me. "Ugg, what happened?" He asked rubbing his head. I reached over and grabbed his hand. "We both passed out. Can you tell me what you felt like right before you passed out?" I asked. "Um yeah, I felt like I couldn't breathe and my chest hurt really badly. Now I feel fine." He told me. "Interesting that's exactly how I felt and feel right now, how did your chest hurt? Did it feel like someone was setting you on fire?" He just nodded. "Are you okay? You didn't hurt anything when you passed out?" I questioned. "No I'm fine, but I'd be a lot better if you come and lay down in this bed with me." I smile and was about to go over there when Anne and Ben's dad walked into the room.
"Okay guys can you tell us what happened?" Anne asked we just nodded and told her what happened to both of us. "So basically it hurts Ben and Jimmy to be away from each other, both physically and mentally?" Tom asked Anne. "Yes, I have heard of this once, but it was mythology." Tom said. "What is it?" I asked curiosity at a peak. "Well it seems as if you and Ben are soul mates." I looked at him like he was joking. "Soul mates? Are you kidding? How can that even be possible?" I asked. "Well, it usually occurs when two people tell their love to each other and seal it with act of love. The only catch is they both have to be pure and their love for each other has to be untouched by nothing. It usually only happens every hundred years or so, kind of like a doppelganger." Tom explained to us. "So we are soul mates and can't be away from each other?" He just nodded. "Well what about we when sleep? Or what about when I go out on patrol?" I asked. "Well for sleeping Ben can just sleep in your tent and as for the patrol you don't go back till Tuesday and it's only Thursday so we will cross that bridge when we get there." I nodded my head in agreement and turned to Ben. "Are you ready to go?" He nodded yes. "Okay let's go." I hopped off my bed and grabbed his hand pulling him through the door.
When we got back to our tent I pulled him into a hug and kissed him. "I was so worried about you. How are you taking this? You kept quite back there." I asked him. "Well…"
Okay that's the end of chapter 3. I hope you enjoyed it. Bye for now.