Things are about to get a little sad...
Lizzie fainted and Pippa ran underneath her just in time to support her. Pippa took off her two jackets and put them on Lizzie. She leaned Her against a tree.
"Hold on Lizzie, I'm gonna go get help!" Yelled Pippa as she ran through the forest.
Jack looked over to Lizzie with his fear struck eyes and saw she was turning pale fast. Then the image changed. Lizzie was now in Jack's bed. In her white tank top with purple pajama pants. She was propped up on pillows. She looked weak. Too weak. Jacks mother was sitting in a chair in the corner of the room holding Pippa who was silently crying in her shoulder. A doctor was checking her temperature and he wrote it down shaking his head sadly. He looked very gentle and calm, he was about jacks height and was a little plump. Jack walked over to his notes and it read "93 degrees Fahrenheit." His eyes widened in shock. How was she holding on so long? He looked next to her temperature to the disease. It read "hypothermia."
"Ms. Overland? May I have a word?" asked the doctor taking off his glasses and cleaning them with his shirt
She nodded and set Pippa down. She walked out of the room and closed the door silently. When Pippa heard the click of it being shut. She hopped out of the chair. And ran to Lizzie's side. She took her hand and stroked it with her thumb.
"Lizzie, Lizzie please wake up." She whispered
Lizzie's eyes cracked open and she coughed violently. She smiled a very weak and faint smile. "Hey little lady." She croaked "you did awesome today, you know Jack taught me how to shoot like that. Now you can carry on the tradition." She said between coughs. Jack thought back into his own memories and he did recall him and Lizzie in the woods shooting. But he needed to pay attention.
"What's gonna happen to you Lizzie?" Asked Pippa
Lizzie looked through the window on the door and saw Jack's mother sitting on a chair with her palms covering her face and the doctor patting her back shaking his head. She knew she was going to die but she didn't want to show that she knew in front of Pippa.
"Pippa honey, listen to me." She said as she took both of her hands and held them in hers. "I'm gonna go in a little while and I need you to stay strong for me. Okay?" She said shakily
"But- but I don't want you to l-leave." Said Pippa as she teared up again.
"I have to little lady." Said Lizzie as she started to get choked up herself
Jack stood in the corner of the room amazed on how well she was handling the situation. He discovered his own tears running down his face. He was watching her die and couldn't do anything about it.
Lizzie picked Pippa up with all the little strength she could muster and placed her next to her.
"But always remember, in dark times, the light will always be seen if you truly wish to see it. You remember that?"
Pippa nodded
"Good"
She said as she wiped her tears away.
Lizzie leaned back onto her pillow and coughed up more blood but wiped it away so Pippa wouldn't see. "I love you Pippa and we'll be together again one day, but not yet." She said as she looked her in the eye. She looked up at the ceiling and Jack was sure he saw a light twinkle in her eye. She shut her eyes and she let her final breath go and she was gone.
