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Chapter Eight-Zane's Return

Zane POV

I had been here with Buck and Parsalece for a week now and they are nice and really cool. "So Zane when do you think your team will go on another ammo run?" Buck asks.

I look at him. "I don't know." I say. Then Buck stands up and goes to the door. "Well I'm gonna go and check for food. he says. I stand up too. "Can I come this time?" I ask.

Parsalece puts her hand son my shoulder and sits me down. "No Zane. We went over this last time too." She says. I look at her and give a grunt. She laughs.

"I'll be back later." Buck says leaving. As I watch him leave I hang my head. I lay back down and nod off.

Buck POV

I was walking along the streets when I heard footsteps. I look around and see a human. I am wondering what she is doing out here alone. So I walk up to her and look at her. "Hello miss." I say.

She looks at me and smiles. "Hey." she says. I look at her and notice that she is that girl Zane has been talking about. "Um...Would you like to come back to our hide out?" I ask.

She looks at me. "Sure." she says. I motion for her to follow me as I head back to the hide out. After about 5 minutes of walking we get there. I walk in first and see Zane looking at me. Then when Yasmin walks in his eyes widen. When she sees him she looks at me. "Who is that?" she asks. I wasn't surprised. He has a pretty nasty scar going across his face from a crawler that hot into our hideout.

I was about to tell her when I looked at Zane to see him shaking his head no. So I look a Yasmin and say the first name I can think of. "That's Blake." I say. Parsalece grabs me to the side. "What are you doing?" she asks.

"Did you see him? He doesn't want her to know." I say. She looks at him than at me. "Alright." she sighs. We go back to Yasmin. "So do you have others?" I ask. She nods. "There's 8 of us." Yasmin says.

"Would you like to join our group?" Yasmin asks. We nod than look to Zane. "Hey 'Blake' want to join their group?" I ask. He looks calm than nods yes. "Well then follow me." Yasmin says.

So we follow her to their base. On the way their Parsalece goes up to talk to her while Zane and I sayed back to talk. "So Zane you nervous about going back?" I ask quietly so Yasmin wouldn't hear.

He looks at me. "Ya I guess, but what if they recognize me?" he asks. I look at Zane. "Hey if Yasmin didn't recognize you because of the scar they won't either." I say. He looks at me. "I guess your right." he says.

After about 15 minutes or so of walking we see their base.

Zane POV

Once we get to where we can see the base. My heart begins to race. Then I see Garth. He walks out to Yasmin. "Who are they?" Garth asks pointing at us. Yasmin looks at us. "That is Buck, Parsalece, and Blake.

"Nice to meet you." he says. "Same to you." both Parsalece and Buck say. Then they all look at me. I just nod. Garth looks at me then looks at Yasmin. "Hey Yasmin why don't you take Buck and Parsalece to meet the others." He says.

Yasmin nods and leads the others inside. I look at Garth. "Hey Barf." I say. He gives me a questioning look. "Don't call me that." he says. I give him a look of confusion. "Why not?" I ask.

He glares at me. "Just don't only one person that ever called me that didn't piss me off when he did it." he says. "Who would that be?" I ask. He looks at me again. "His name was Zane. Je gave himself for us." he says.

Then I look at him as a tear rolls down my face. I know I have to tell him. "Hey Garth. Wanna know something?" I ask. He looks me in the eyes. "Sure." he says. I look at him. "Zane isn't dead." I say.

He looks at me anger in his eyes. "Don't lie. Zane was like a brother to me. Besides I watched him get killed by those fucking crawlers. I lock eyes with him. "No Garth. You watched him get taken by crawlers. He didn't die." I say back.

"What do you mean?" Garth asks. I look at him tears now overwhelming my eyes. "Garth, I'm Zane." I say. He looks at me closely. "Zane...Man I thought you were dead." he says starting to tear up. "Ya, so does Yasmin. So please don't tell her, or anyone else." I say.

He looks at me in question. "Why do you not want them to know?" he asks. I look down. "I will tell them when the time is right. So for now Garth act like I'm still a stranger." I say.

"Alright Blake." he says. I look up at him and smile. "Ok Garth let's go inside and introduce me." I say. He nods and leads me inside. "When they see me they all just look at me. "You must be Blake." Flare says walking up to me and shaking my hand.

When he shakes my hand my sleeve comes up revealing the bites on my arm. "How did you get those bites?" he asks. I look at him and shrug. He looks at me questioningly."Alright Flare that's enough." Yasmin says making him stop.

'Well she is still same ol' Yasmin.' I think to myself. "Hey Blake. Follow me." Yasmin says heading towards the back were we were the day of the 'Incident'. Once we get back there she turns and looks at me.

"So where you from?" asks. I look at her. 'Tell her'. I think. "Hey there's something you should know." I say. "What?" she asks softly. "I am..." is all I say before Dec comes in. "Hey there beautiful." he says walking up to Yasmin and wrapping his arms around her.

When he does this my heart feels like it was just pulled out and stomped on. As I begin to walk out Yasmin elbows him in the rids. "Stay away from me! How many times do I have to tell you. I will never go out with you." she says.

As Yasmin catches up with me I see Dec grab her. I turn around and punch him right in the jaw. "She said leave her alone." I say. After he recovers from th shock of the punch he gets up in my face.

"What are you gonna do about it?" he asks. "If you don't get out of my face I'll show you." I warn. Then he goes over the line. He backs up and kisses Yasmin. I snapped when he did that.

I reached out and grabbed his neck and pull him back. "Don't ever do that again." I say angered. Then he buys him a one way ticket to hell. He kicks me in the balls. I stand up and slam him into the floor.

Then I pick him up by the neck and push him into the wall. As I rear my arm back to punch him I feel something grab my arm. I look to see Yasmin. She shakes her head no.

So I release him. I watch him get up. After he gets up he punches me and knocks me into Yasmin. I hear her whimper in pain. I look at Dec and grab the back of his head and slam his face into a table.

Then I pick him up and slam his face into my knee. Right as I am about to kill him I see Garth come in. "What the hell is going on in here?" he asks. Then he sees me about to kill Dec. He looks me in the eyes. I look at Dec and drop him on the floor.

After that I go over to Yasmin to make sure that she's ok. Once I know she's alright I tell Garth what happened. He nods and grabs Dec and takes him out of the room. Then I look back at Yasmin. She looks at me. "Thank you." she says hugging me.

I hug back. "Well he was being an ass and he's lucky Garth came in or he would be dead." I say. She hugs me tighter. "Hey Yasmin do you wanna know why I reacted like that when he kissed you?" I ask.

She looks at me and nods. I look her in the eyes. "It's because no one messes with Zane's girl." I say. "Wait. Zane's dead." she says. I look at her and smile. "Then how am I right here with the only one I will ever love." I say.

When I say this she smiles. "It can't be I watched him die." she says. "Would it help if I told you something about you only Zane would say?" I ask. She nods. "Ok, the color of your eyes will only ever match you." I say.

"It really is you, but how did you survive?" she asks. I loom at her. "To be honest I truly don't know." I say. She looks at me. "None of that matters anymore. I have you back." she says hugging me again.

I hug her back and run her back.

End of chapter. Hope you enjoyed.

Later. Mountainboy out.