The Little Scout
Chapter Nineteen
Tessa's POV
It was dark outside, Ben and Jimmy were scouting and Tessa was sat in her tent, sobbing. Maggie had her arms around her and Lourdes was saying things like 'she's in a better place now' and 'she's getting looked after by her real family, she's happier now'. It wasn't working; she was still crying her heart out. "Kid, she's with her real family now, away from that jerk." Maggie told her. Tessa hated crying in front of Maggie, crying was a weakness and she never showed her weakness. She got along well with Maggie, she was the closest thing to a sister that she had, Maggie knew all of her secrets, and she knew everything about her, things Tessa would tell no one else. But crying, that was something different. Crying, Tessa knew, was a weakness. "She's in a much better place."
"I know..." Tessa choked on her words and sobbed more.
"C'mon, I think you should get some sleep." Lourdes told her.
"It's late, c'mon Tessa."
"You two get some sleep, I need to go and see Captain Weaver." Tessa stood up and wandered out of the tent.
"Help!" She turned her head. Ben was dragging Jimmy, Jimmy was clearly hurt. "Help!" Ben shouted again. She ran ahead of them to Dr. Glass. "Help! Please, you have to help him!"
"Ben! What happened?" Dr. Glass asked him.
"We were hunting Skitters and..."
"WHAT?" Tessa shouted. "How could you be so stupid!"
"The Skitter just threw him into a tree."
"WHAT? HOW? WHY? YOU IDIOT!"
"He's dying, Ben!" Dr. Glass shouted, she ran around, trying to make Jimmy better. "His heart rate is dropping." She murmured to herself like this for a while and Ben and Tessa were sent out.
Logan stood outside. "Is he going to be okay?" He shouted at them. "What happened? I have to get there! I have to see him!"
"Logan, shush, he'll be just fine. We have a idiot who does stupid, irresponsible things that get everyone within two thousand feet of him killed!" Tessa shouted at Ben.
"It wasn't my fault!"
"You were hunting SKITTERS!"
Logan was crying, Tessa put an arm around him.
"He'll never know!" He sobbed. "He'll never know I love him!"
"Oh, Logan, he knows. Jimmy knows those kinds of things." Tessa soothed him.
"But I never told him!"
"That's okay, Jimmy knew you loved him. That's all he could talk about."
"But, Tessa!"
"Shush, shush, shush. It's okay; he's going to be fine!" Tessa assured him.
"No, he's going to die and it's my entire fault because I never told him..."
"NO! DON'T YOU DARE BLAME YOURSELF!" She shouted. "It wasn't you."
Dr. Glass came out of the med truck, she looked upset, she had been crying. "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do." She told them.
"No!" Logan wailed.
"You can say your goodbyes, if you want."
"I'll come in with you, Logan." Tessa told him. She choked back tears of her own and walked into the med bus with him. He sat in the chair beside Jimmy's dead body.
"Hi." He started. He made little hiccup sounds as he talked. "Hi...Jimmy...You can't be dead. No, not you, your a fighter, your my fighter." Tessa started crying. She couldn't stop them. "You're just going to wake up now and then laugh at me because I'm being so stupid and soppy. No, Jimmy, your not are you? You can't be gone. I never told you how much I loved you. How much I really did, we spent all that time together and I never told you. You told me but I never told you, how could I have been so stupid?" He dropped his head on Jimmy's unmoving chest and cried. "I...I've been so stupid and clueless. I love you Jimmy, I always have. Since I met you."
"Tessa, maybe you should leave them alone?" Dr. Glass asked her. She nodded and walked away, she could hardly see from the tears that clouded her vision.
Hai! I'm sorry Jimmy died, but it'll become clearer why in the next(and final) chapter! I hope you liked this one! :D
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