Ayy waddup TheProtato has taken over for this chapter! This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill!

Nea ran towards a pallet as the Wraith was chasing her. Huffing, Nea felt a surge of power as the Wraith got closer. She was ready to pull the pallet, but the Wraith just shook his head while staring at her.

"Are you really going to play this game all day, Nea?" He inquired as Nea shrugged, casually arranging her hat.

"You bet, skinny legs" she grinned as the Wraith took it personally and tried to swing his weapon at her. She managed to pull the pallet in time before running towards a large, yellow machine.

In there, she found Meg crouching, wounded. She was softly wailing as she held onto her bleeding shoulder, trying to somehow stop the bleeding.

Nea slowly made her way up to Meg, her heart sinking. She tore her blouse, making Meg jump out of her skin.

"I need you to remove you jacket, honey." Nea playfully tipped her hat as Meg obeyed, the braided girl knew that she couldn't act sassy now.

Nea nimbly patched her shoulder, applying some of the herbs Claudette gave everyone. She kissed her shoulder as Meg suddenly shivered.

"There, all done, nerd. I'd put in a recommendation to see a doctor but...yeah. Take your jacket before you'll shiver again." Meg gently sighed, her face red as a tomato. She thanked herself for burning that New Moon offering.

"So, where are we headed?" Meg whispered as the pair made their way out of the broken machine.

"I don't know, maybe towards a generator?" Nea spotted a chest, which made her giddy.

"Or I could check the booty first." She whispered as she held Meg's hand and made her follow to the chest.

"You're really going to loot the chest while we still hear the heartbeat?"

"I'm a pro in checking the booty. You should know." They both smiled as Nea's eyes widened.

"I'm telling you this shit is jinxed. Look at this." Nea twirled a skeleton key. It had a set of prayer beads on its handle and, at the end of the beads, instead of a cross there was a milky glass.

"And I thought you were ....locky to have me." Meg winked as she earned herself a playful punch from Nea.

"I guess I gotta pay respect to the pun master." She whispered as she took her hat off, and nimbly placed it on Meg's head. "There, you have additional sneaky tactics. Plus that you won't freeze your pretty head."

Meg blushed as she settled Nea's hat on her head, it was warm, and she was sad ever since she lost her cap.

She blushed as she suddenly thought of a brave move. Meg tackled Nea down to the ground and kissed her, making Nea stutter. They took a pause in order to breath, and Meg couldn't suppress a teasing remark.

"How the mighty have fallen" Nea pouted as she pinched Meg's cheeks.

"How the innocent became corrupted." She winked as Meg helped her up. The heartbeat was getting louder.

"Follow me."

The duo headed towards one of the generators, losing the heartbeat. Perhaps the killer was chasing someone? Meg raised her head and looked around, stopping on working at the generator. Nea was focused enough on the said object, so Meg was going to play the hero.

She sprinted towards the heartbeat as she saw the killer's red light. He had just caught Claudette while she tried to vault over a pallet.

"Guess what. Pallet this, friend." The Wraith grumbled, annoyed by the pallets. His domain was surely the worst for killers. Meg silently stalked the killer, when she heard the exit gates howl. Nea did it.

She looked in the Wraith's direction as he threw the brunette on a hook, then cloaked himself in front of her. Meg threw a rock on the opposite side and 'happy feet' began walking to the source of the noise. Meg immediately unhooked Claudette, which ran away.

Unfortunately, when Meg was about to sprint away, the Wraith uncloaked himself and hit Meg with all his might, the girl falling down to the ground immediately.

"And I wanted to let you have fun with your lover. What a pity."

He went towards Claudette, who was actually trying to hide. He hit a tree instead of hitting Claudette, thing which enraged him even more.

Meg was trying to somehow recover herself, but she needed help.

"Somebody...Please..." Her weak voice seemed to barely make her plea known, but she heard rustling.

Was it the killer? Was it someone else? She couldn't know. She grabbed onto Nea's hat as she hoped it'd be the latter.

"Your knight in shining armor has retu-" Nea paled and rushed towards Meg, which was bleeding intensely. She tore whatever was left of her shirt and used it as makeshift bandages for Meg.

Nea shivered as she touched Meg's wound, scared that, maybe this Trial they won't be able to get away together. Her dia de los Muertos tank top was filled with Meg's blood.

Her lover stopped bleeding, but was weakened from the blood loss. Both gates were opened, Nea could tell from the red lights one next to the other.

"Unlucky gate spawn" She muttered as she helped Meg up, being her support. They had to find the hatch or the killer would sacrifice both.

"Le...ave me he...re, you idiot." Meg could barely hold onto her consciousness, the bleeding took a toll on her.

"As if. How could I leave my nerd here?" Nea huffed as she held onto Meg even stronger. "We'll find the hatch and haul ass outta here." She then kissed Meg's forehead, carrying her towards the rundown shack.

"Boo."

Nea gave her key to her girlfriend as she pushed her towards the black lock, tackling the Wraith down before he could even uncloak. He groaned, wanting to hit Nea, but she somehow managed to snatch his weapon.

Meg stumbled towards the black lock, her vision blurry. She fell onto the hatch as she fumbled with the key, missing the hole a few times. Once it was in, she slowly slipped in as darkness took over her.

Nea heard that the lock opened and threw the Wraith's weapon as far as she could before running away. She grabbed the key before jumping in, this time the milky glass was missing.

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Meg groggily woke up with a groan. She was fully healed by the Entity, but she felt like crap. She felt that her head laid on something soft, and checked on what was her head laying.

A pair of legs.

She shot her eyes wide open and she was welcomed with Nea's silent gaze.

"Good morning sleepy beauty. You okay?" Nea broke a worried smile as she kissed Meg's cheek.

"Mhm... I feel like shit though..."

"Don't worry. I'm glad you made it at the very least."

"You tackled the fucking killer." Meg said, as matter of fact. Then she punched Nea's shoulder.

"You tackled the fucking killer! Are you insane?" Meg sighed, knowing all too well that Nea did it for her.

"Might be. Who knows?" She took a deep breath as she watcher her lover get comfortable.

"I might be insane, but I'm one hell of a pillow, aren't I?" They both smiled as they watched the campfire.

"Quality pillow waifu, dare I say."

"The best waifu you'll get. Dweeb."