The fields were burning, burning and dying and the smell of death was filling my senses, filling my lungs. People are talking, yelling. They sounded faint and something was pulling me to run towards them, yet I couldn't. All I could do was stare at the on going flames.
"Remember..."
My body jerked, forcing me to turn around. A little girl stood a few feet away. She stared at the ground, blood splattered across her white night gown.
"Remember..." She whispered.
The flames grew closer and closer, and the girls voice grew louder and louder.
Just as the flames came upon me, the girl looked up, with blood splattered across her face and angry, glaring eyes, she screamed, "You will remember!"
My body jerked me awake and as soon as my eyes open, I saw fire.
I freaked, trying to crawl away from it, when I hit the back wall. I turn around and see the back doors open, just upside down.
'The ambulance flipped,' I thought before I crawled out.
I groan as I hit the ground, unprepared for the exit to be a few feet up.
"Hurt, hurt, hurt..."
I looked up and see Leslie standing there, waddling around in place.
"Red, red, red..." He mumbled, looking down at me.
I pushed myself up. "Leslie?" I asked. "You're Leslie, right?"
"Leslie?" He said. "I'm, Leslie."
"Okay, Leslie, well.." I move to touch him, and he quickly coward away. "Crap, wheres your doctor? I don't know if your a stable patient or not. Heck, I don't know if I am anymore..."
"Stable, stable..." He muttered.
"Okay, Leslie?" I said.
The albino boy looked up at me.
"We're going to go find the others, okay?," I asked. "I think it's best if we found one of our doctors. At least mine, if we could. I don't really trust your doctor."
"Others..." He mumbled.
I nodded and stretched out my hand. "I'm Eva, by the way. Come on. I don't think they could have gone far."
Leslie looked down at my hand before taking it. I smiled as he barely griped my hand and started walking towards the forest line.
"Everything is going to be okay, Leslie. I promise," I told him.
If I had know what was ahead, I wouldn't have made that promise.
The pain in my arm was burning and with my lungs feeling they were on fire, I almost thought that I was so. But the cold grip of Leslie's hand in mine brought me back to reality that no, I was not on fire. I was running for my life with Leslie as we're being chased by what I presume to be zombies covered in bob wire and glowing eyes. One had barely got me, but was able to tear up my arm, that was now bleeding and burning.
The first few showed up out of no where. Masked in the shadows, they jumped us and got my arm. In an instant, we were running, which seemed to attract more.
Leslie was trying his hardest to keep up with me, but I knew we are going to need to stop soon, but with the hoard behind us, it was unlikely.
Soon though, I saw a bridge and across that, a large, wooden barricade. I almost jumped for joy and picked up my pace. The bridge was stone and sturdy, no worries on whether or not it would break under us.
But half way across, there was suddenly one in front of us. I skidded to a stop and Leslie bumped right into me. The thing seemed to mock us, slowly walking towards while blocking our way. I looked around, searching for some kind of escape route, but there was so where to go. Unless...
"Leslie?" I turned to him. "Listen to me. We're going to need to jump into the water, okay? I-"
"No!" Leslie cried. "You go!"
"Leslie, no, I'm not-"
"Just go," Leslie pushed me, trying to get me to agree with him.
"Leslie!" I grabbed him. "I'm not leaving you, okay? I promised that everything is going to be alright and it is! I'm going to be right next to you alright? I'm not going to let you drown."
Leslie looked at me, his eyes pleading. "Pro...mise?"
"I promise Leslie," I let my grip on his arm loosen and my hand fell back into his. "I'm going to protect you."
He nodded and I glanced over. The hoard is getting closer.
"Okay, are you ready to jump?" I asked.
Leslie nodded and gripped my hand.
"Okay, follow me," I told him before climbing on to the stone wall. I looked down and cursed to see a dock below, making it impossible to jump.
I can hear the creatures going hostile, most likely realizing that we're trying to escape, when I finally notice a board sticking out of the stone wall. It looked big enough for me and Leslie to get on but whether or not it would hold us was another question.
'Fuck it, I'll take the chance,' I thought.
"Leslie, we're going to jump on to there, alright? As soon as we land on it, we're going to run and jump in," I told him.
He nodded and his grip on my hand got tighter.
"Everything is going to be okay," I told him. "You ready? One, two-"
A creature suddenly popped up and I quickly let go of Leslie. I turn around and kick it back, aiming to knock out a few more while I'm at it.
"Leslie, go! I'm right behind you!" I yelled, kicking back another creature.
I heard Leslie land on the board and as soon as I do, I turn back and jump on as well. I'm half way across when Leslie gets to the end and suddenly, the board snaps.
"Eva!" Leslie cries out before he hits the water.
"Leslie!" I scream, panic going through my head.
'I don't think he can swim,' I thought. I quickly run to where the board snapped and jumped in as well.
As soon as I hit the water, I'm looking for Leslie, blindly trying to find the boy in the murky water. Finally, when I'm about to go to the surface for air, I feel an arm. I grab it and pull him up closer to me and to my relief, it was him, but his eyes were closed and I barely felt his chest moved.
I quickly swam to the surface and climbed on to the rocks that lead to the docks. I pull Leslie out and laid him down.
"Oh god, Leslie, please tell me you're okay," I whispered.
He didn't move our talked, eyes still closed.
I started to freak out until I remember what I needed to do. I checked his pulse and sighed in relief when I felt it. I checked it breathing next, only to find it shallow.
'He might have water in his lungs,' I thought. 'Does that mean..'
"CPR," I mumble.
I pinched Leslie's nose and grabbed his chin, opening his mouth. I made sure he couldn't breath through his nose before taking a breath and blowing air into Leslie's mouth. The first try did nothing, and so did the second. When I did the third, I prayed I wasn't to late when Leslie sat back up with me and coughed up water.
"Oh, Leslie, thank god," I let out a sigh of relief. I rubbed his back as he coughed up water and when he was done, I told him to breath.
After a while his ragged, quick breaths slowed down and he was breathing as he was before.
"You okay?" I asked.
He nodded, but he didn't look up at me.
"Leslie, I am so sorry. I didn't think the board would break on you, I'm so sorry," I said, taking his hand. "You have every right to be mad at me. I told you everything would be okay, but it wasn't and I'm so sorry."
Leslie did nothing for a moment before wiggling his hand out of my grip. I thought I had completely fucked up, this poor boy doesn't trust me now, until he scouted closer to me and wrapping his arms around my neck. I stiffen, before realizing he's hugging me and I hugged him back, wrapping my arms around his torso.
"Please... Never again," He said into my shoulder.
"We are never doing that again, don't worry," I said. "I'm going to try my best to keep us safe. I promise..."
We pulled away and I helped Leslie up before looking over. A stair case lead up, possibly leading to where that closed off area was.
"I guess we go that way," I said. And with that, Leslie took my hand again and we start up the staircase.