"What do you mean they found Josh?" Matt questions hastily. Emily stares at the cell phone in her hand, barely hearing her boyfriend's words. "Was he alive? Is he okay?" Her racing thoughts block out all sound, her mind leaping from one idea to another, too chaotic to focus. "Emily!" Matt shouts, finally snapping her out of her haze.

"What?" she snaps, pocketing the cell phone she's been staring at.

"Em, I've been trying to talk to you ever since you hung up the phone."

"I'm sorry, geez, chill out. The news was a little unexpected, don't you think? I needed to process it, okay? And I couldn't do that while talking to you." She runs a hand through her hair, reminding herself that this isn't Matt's fault and that she shouldn't take it out on him. He's just as confused and maybe even as scared as she is. "What were you trying to tell me?" she asks, attempting to be more pleasant about it.

"I was asking you about Josh. Is he alive? Is he okay?" Matt repeats.

"I don't know. I think he's alive, but they said he was shot," Emily replies, going through her conversation with Mike in her mind. The shock of the news forces her memory of the call into jumbled fragments, which usually doesn't happen. Her memory is pristine, not photographic, but enough to net her a 4.0 GPA. So why is she having such a hard time remembering the whole conversation? There is the distinct possibility that it might be because she doesn't want to accept or think about what Mike told her, but she's reluctant to admit that reasoning.

"Shot?" Matt questions incredulously. "Who- why? Why would anyone shoot Josh? That doesn't... it doesn't make any sense. Did Mike tell you what happened, why he was shot?"

"He said something about Josh lunging at them and he said that when they found him, Josh was," she stops herself, shutting her eyes. Her mind has pieced together that part of what Mike said and she sorely wishes that it hadn't. "He said that Josh was eating that old guy's head. Oh god, Matt, what if Josh is one of those things?"

Panic starts to flood through her mind with that train of thought. "If he's turned, then we're all screwed. The police will know that we lied, they'll probably accuse us of the explosions and Josh's being down there for so long. They'll go back and find all that stuff and think we did that sick prank. They'll think we had something to do with Beth and Hannah." Her stomach churns at the memory of Beth's head in the mines and another thought strikes her mind, making her chest tighten. "If Josh is still alive and they bring him up here, there will be a massacre. They'll spread that goddamn wendigo shit everywhere. We'll probably all die anyway. We didn't escape from that damn place just to die anyway, Matt."

"Em, Em. It's going to be alright, calm down a sec," Matt says soothingly, taking a seat beside her in the mostly empty hospital lobby. "If Josh had turned, Sam, Mike, and Chris would never let the rangers fly him back here. And if he was turned, a bullet wouldn't have stopped him. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, alright?"

"Calm down?" she repeats, her voice raising an octave. "You want me to calm down when they could be bringing a goddamn wendigo to this hospital?"

"Em," Matt says flatly. "Josh is not a wendigo."

"Maybe not yet, but he could be turning into one of those things. The strange guy's book said it was possible if you eat human flesh," she replies worriedly. "Matt, they found him chewing on that guy's head. He could be… I don't know, infected or something."

"If he is turning into one of those things, then maybe they can stop it," Matt suggests. "They didn't know what was happening to those miners in the 50s, but we do. We can do something different, we have more information than they did. Maybe we can find a way to cure him or at least stop him from fully becoming a monster."

"How?" she demands. "Did you even see those things in the mines? They were disgusting. There was nothing human about them. How the hell do you bring someone back from that?"

"I don't know, Em. Maybe we can find something in the stranger's book," he offers.

"Yeah, like how to put him down," she scoffs.

"Look, I'm just trying to be optimistic here. Josh beat the odds. He survived a week down there and didn't get killed. Let's at least give him the benefit of the doubt before we decide that he needs to be put down." Emily looks down at her hands at the remark, a little disgusted with herself. Mike almost pulled the trigger on her for this same reason, granted she wasn't eating a dead body. "This is a shitty situation," Matt adds in a softer tone. "It's impossible to process, especially after what happened. We just need to hold it together."

"I just want this nightmare to be over," she says with a frustrated sigh. It's hard enough trying to forget this whole thing without the idea of it following them to safety. The sooner they can put this behind them, the sooner they can move on, and moving on is exactly what Emily has decided she needs to do. She knows dwelling on it won't do her any good and she doesn't want any more reminders of the worst night of her life. The sooner she can block it out, the better.

"The worst part is over," Matt tells her. "Nothing on that mountain can touch us."

"I hope you're right," Emily replies. "We should make a plan in case you're wrong, though."

"A plan to what? Burn the hospital to the ground with Josh inside?"

"That worked at the lodge and the sanatorium." There she goes again, making the same plans that almost cost her life with Mike. After he pointed that gun at her in accusation of turning, how could she possibly do the same thing with Josh? She hated the feeling when Mike did that to her, it chilled her to core that her own ex-boyfriend could've killed her, and yet her self-preservation is jumping on the same boat in response to Josh possibly being turned.

"You're not serious about burning the hospital down, right Em?"

"No, I just," she sighs again, fidgeting with her $300 jacket. "I'm scared," she finally admits. "I don't want to die, Matt, and especially not from monster Josh eating my body."

"That's not going to happen," he reassures her. "They're going to fix Josh up and he's not going to turn into one of those things. We're all going to get through this, Em. Trust me."

"I hope you're right," she says, doubt lingering through her mind. She wants it to work out like Matt says, but so far nothing involving that mountain has worked out right. His optimism is sweet, but so far the only optimistic thing they've had happen is escaping that damn mountain far from unscathed. Maybe this will all work out and she hopes it will, but past experiences have taught her not to get her hopes up.