Disclaimer: I don't own gone, but I did come up with this ferret thing and plots and stuff added
Stupid-
Stupid life, stupid barrier, stupid parents, stupid starvation. Stupid Caitlin. Why was she so stupid? Why was she such an idiot? She kicked the blurred barrier again, gaining satisfaction as the pain shot up her leg.
Caitlin hated herself; she flicked her long light brown hair out of her deep green and hazel eyes. She had followed the barrier for day's now- getting nowhere.
The barrier had gone up weeks, months even, ago- she had lived off the food in a house that had found. Then the lights went out. Her food went off fast without the freezer.
When Caitlin had been hiking with Sophia in Totters Ridge when the barrier popped up, splitting her from her friend and the rest of the world. She was alone, apart from the ferret of cause.
The ferret had been following her since the barrier went up; it seemed to be watching her. Caitlin had looked about, found an empty house in the hills. She slept there, tried the answerless phone and woke to see the black ferret sat on the bed side table.
It wasn't scared of her when she tried to shoo it. It followed her downstairs as she got breakfast. It sped after her when she went outside to check out the car on the drive. She hadn't noticed yesterday, but the driver door was open- shopping bags half unloaded into the house, one bag dropped on the ground randomly.
Strange; like the owner had vanished into thin air unpacking his groceries, like he poofed. The black ferret was rummaging in the bag on the floor when it suddenly looked up. Caitlin saw what was wrong.
Mountain lion, creeping up behind her. Suddenly the ferret was speeding across the dusty ground and leaping at it, without a trace of fear. Caitlin jumped up, backing towards the house.
The ferret jumped onto the cat's face, using its growing claws. Caitlin remembered seeing a gun in the house, she sprinted for the door.
She ran into the house, grabbing the shot gun from the kitchen cabinet. Checking it was loaded, she sped back to find the ferret jumping for the cover of the house. The mountain lion stalked closer to the door.
Caitlin flicked of the safety, she knew how to work a gun flawlessly- it was the only thing her useless father had taught her, she learnt how to fight by herself. She aimed at the ground by its paws, hoping to scare it of instead of having a dead body attracting more predators.
The lion jumped and ran off. Caitlin spun around, slamming the front door, looking for the ferret that had saved her life.
Caitlin gasped, in the middle of her stolen house there was a teenage boy with short black hair, wearing torn jeans and a white ripped shirt bleeding from scratches all over him. She ran over to him, grabbing a first-aid kit from the kitchen.
'What's your name?' she dabbed his wounds with antiseptic. 'Shaun' he winced. 'What are you doing here? Have you seen a black ferret?' He looked up at her with his bright green eyes, as if she was stupid. 'You're kidding right,' he couldn't possibly mean…
'You're the ferret?' He laughed, running a hand through his midnight hair, which was the exact same colour as the ferret's fur, nervously. Caitlin looked him up and down, he was cute- probably 14-15ish, what the hell, stop and engage in the ferret-boy conversation! 'Prove it!'
He was gone; she looked around, then down to see a ferret staring up at her. She nearly fainted and Shaun was back, he had caught her. Caitlin blushed, bright red, pulling away. 'What's your name?' he asked.
'K-K-Kate-Caitlin…' she stuttered, still kind of shocked that the boy in front of her could turn into a ferret.
Shaun liked being in ferret form. Over the next few months they lived in the house, her and the ferret. Until the power went off. Then they got hungry. Then she shouted at him.
Shaun had ran off, she followed the barrier alone down to the highway.
And here she was, looking off the cliff top, kicking the stupid barrier and complaining about her stupid life. A dog was barking at the nearby cliff top hotel. A sign of life. She wandered down into Perdido beach, there had to be some kids even if the adults had gone.