Chapter 8 of Cold, I hope you enjoy it. During this chapter the 20 kids that they took are at the harness facility like in the episode where Weaver's daughter comes into the picture. Just so ya'll know to picture that while reading. Also there is like one f word in here and also some mild cussing.

Jimmy's POV

I listened to Weaver talking about how we should approach the factory where they were keeping them. "Okay so we will have two groups, one entering from the west side of the building and the other going through the east side. We take 2 guns each and make sure that we bring a medical kit that at least has some gauze and some band aids in it incase someone gets hurt. Are we clear?" We all nod and grab the supplies.

As we are driving the only thought in my head is please don't let us be too late. I can't loose him. We arrived around 20 minutes later at the factory and at this point I am ready to just run in and kill every single alien I see, but I guess Weaver sensed this and grabbed my arm. "Don't do anything stupid Jimmy or you could blow this whole operation." I just pulled my arm away and nodded.

When we actually got inside of the building I heard screams coming from one room in particular and I knew that is were they were keeping everyone. We busted in the room and what I saw made me sick. The walls were dirt and grimy, the floors had blood stains on them, and there were tables with kids strapped to them. The room had a large tank in the back that was illuminated a dark red and the air was layered heavily with the stench of the fucking aliens. I turned and saw a Skitter charging towards us.

The Skitter was headed straight for Tom, but I jumped in front of him and drove my knife straight through its mouth into its brains. It felt great to kill the bastard and I relished in the sound of its body hitting the ground. We heard a whimpering coming from the tables as a harness was sliding down what was basically like a conveyer belt and onto one of the kids that was on there. Tom quickly shot it and untied the kid. Weaver shot the tank holding the harnesses and total hell broke out.

Harnesses fell all over the floor and we shot them. Alien blood flew everywhere as the last harness was destroyed and we began untying the kids. Weaver was going over to let a kid go when a not so dead harness bit him in the leg. I quickly shot it and went on with untying people. I got worried when I couldn't find Ben and I started to go a little crazy.

"Where is he?" I flipped a table. "I can't find him." I flipped another table. Then I started to take my rage out on the Skitter in the room and I started to shoot its body.

After about a clip I lost feeling and sank to my knees. Tom came up and put his hands on my shoulders. "We will find him Jimmy, but you need to calm down first. You freaking out is not going to help the situation." I nodded and stood up.

I watched Tom walk over to Maggie and tell her something; I strained my ears and managed to catch the last part of their conversation. "Watch him please, and make sure he doesn't do something stupid like get himself killed. When we do find Ben I don't think he will be very happy if he finds out that we let his boyfriend get killed." She nodded and walked over to me. I turned towards her.

"I know you are here to keep an eye on me, but you don't have to." I told her and she smiled. "Whatever you say, but we both know that Ben would want me to so I am going to." She smiled again before walking away, but not too far, she still had to keep an eye on me. I just shake my head and an idea hit me.

I went up to one of the kids we saved and asked her if she knew where Ben was. She nodded. "Last time I saw him he was in the holding cell." I wanted to yell at the girl to give me more information, but I kept my anger in check. "Where is the holding cell?"

I asked and she explained. "It's about a forty minute walk from the holding cell to the harness room." I sighed. "Which direction?" she replied "East." I thanked her before going to Weaver.

"The girl over there said the last time she saw him was at the holding cell, which is about a 40 minute walk east from here." I told Weaver. "Okay, take Tom, Dai, and Hal with you and I will take the kids we found back to camp." I nodded and we parted ways. It took about 10 minutes and did a quick scope of the land.

We saw a Skitter come out of the building with about 5 of our kids and a Mech following behind. We quickly set in action and took out the Skitter, but the Mech took five clips to kill and when we checked the kids none of them were Ben. I felt myself loosing hope when a boy around the age of 15 came up to me; he told me his name is Justin. "You're looking for Ben right?" I nodded.

"I saw him and three other kids escape when a Skitter was gathering kids, they ran into the forest, but that's all I know." I felt like crying. "Thank you some much at least we know he is in the forest somewhere." I went to tell Tom what I had found out. We sent Dai back to camp with the kids and set out to find Ben.

We were walking and heard a twig snap behind us. We all quickly turn around and found Audrey standing there with a scared expression on her face. "Jimmy, Hal, Tom please come quick. It's Ben, he's hurt and bleeding." We followed her and came into a clearing.

I saw a bloody body on the ground covered in dirt. I sucked in a breath, but was relieved when I heard Audrey say something. "That's not him, it is someone named Noah, but he is dead already, Ben is over here." I followed her and was flabbergasted with what I saw. There lying by a tree was Ben.

He had a tree branch sticking out of his leg; his head had a cut on it. His arm was sticking out at an odd angle and his other arm had a gash on it. The only thought running through my head was oh God he's dead isn't he, I tried call out to him, but Audrey stopped me. "He is unconscious, I will explain what happened later, but right now we need to get him back to camp and have Anne fix him before he dies." Tom quickly ran over to Ben and gently picked him up and Hal grabbed Noah's body so he could take him back to camp and give him a proper burial.

Audrey, this kid named Dustin, and I walked over to the truck, Hal, Audrey, and Dustin rode in the cab. Tom, Ben, and I rode in the back of the truck. Ben was in Tom's lap and I sat across from them with my knees drawn to my chest and my eyes watering. Noah's body was next to me with a blanket draped over him, but that didn't matter. I buried my head in my hands and finally said what was on my mind.

"Please don't die Ben, please I need you, don't die." I looked up and saw Tom was crying and I lost it. He was the one holding me together and when he started cry something inside of me snapped and I start to cry. I moved to sit next to him and said the only thing I could think of "It will be okay." With that we cried together.

When we arrived at camp, Tom and I took Ben to Anne and Hal took Noah's body to his parents. "Put his body here and fast. Lourdes, go get the supplies. Look, I know you both care deeply about him, but I need you guys to leave so we can have room to work." Anne said. We step out of the room and Lourdes drew the current close.

Tom turned to me "I guess now all we can do is wait." I said nothing and just sat down in the chairs outside of the space they were working in. I leaned my head against the wall and closed my eyes, praying that he would be okay.

Okay that is the end chapter 8. I already have part of chapter 9 written so if someone asks nicely I will post it either tonight or tomorrow. Bye for now.