17 Love Hurts

POV Anna

I shook my head to get the dizziness away from me. Slowly my eyes open as I hear someone yelling. “ASSHOLE!” It is Marc and I see how he throws a knife towards Hans who runs away. The next knife that Marc threw hit Hans to his leg which made him limb. “Serves you right!” Marc touched his nose and smirked.

“Hey Anna!” Marc kneeled next to me, “Oh. You look like crap!” He exhaled and helped me up. I heard running steps and a green flash was all that I could make sense in my eyesight. “Peter, d-do you know anything about stab wounds?” Marc gasped. There was Peter Pan with him. “W-where are the others?” I whispered and it hurt my ribs to speak.

Peter shook his head, “I couldn’t save Kida. I found Marc when he was running with a chubby white haired man,” Peter sighed. “Alexa is looking for Mavis and Johnny,” he looked at me and took out a medical kit. “We need to add some pressure,” Peter said while he pressed my wound. It made me moan in pain. “It isn’t fatal but painful anyway,” he smiled to me when he pulled the paper knife away. I screamed and he pressed his hand over my mouth. “Hush now or there might come more of them,” Peter nodded towards the zombies that were closing us.

“Time to go,” Marc nodded towards the pack of zombies that were approaching us. They gave me support and we run to safety. There was an abandoned school bus which we entered. “This might be useful,” Marc searched around the insides. I sighed, “We need to find the others.” Peter nodded and went to driver’s seat, he turned the blood stained key and the bus started.

“Hold on to something! I am just a pilot, not a driver!” Peter hit the gas pedal and the bus twitched hard when it started to move. It was moving a bit too fast since I and Marc got thrown backwards. “You should have told me!” Marc yelled, “I know how to drive, you know!” Peter didn’t listen to Marc, instead he drive forward and did sharp turns.

Marc pushed me to sit on a bench. He sat behind of me. “If we survive from this, I promise to never curse again,” Marc gasped when Peter drove to a narrow street, too narrow. The buildings on both sides of the bus got closer by every second. The bus made a metallic scraping sound when the sides were rubbing against the stone walls of the buildings. Our travel stop, we were stuck in the middle of the buildings. “Woops!” Peter exhaled and Marc ran to him. “Nice job genius, we’re stuck!” Marc pushed Peter from his shoulder.

I limbed to them, “We need to get out!” I pointed on the back of the bus where some zombies were already beating the backdoor window. “Not going from the side door,” Peter shrugged his shoulders as he glanced at the door that was tightly shut because it was against the building’s wall. “How about smashing the window on the front?” I sighed. “Excellent idea!” Marc sounded cheerful and he took a meat cleaver from his knife belt. He covered his face when he smashed the window to small pieces. They helped me out from the bus. The pain on my wound was horrible. We sneaked around the alleys, trying to avoid nasty people and the non people, the zombies.

Suddenly we heard someone calling from above. “Hey Anna! Peter! Marc!” We glanced towards the voice and it was Alexa’s voice, she was waving her hand. She was on fire escape ladders with other people. There was Johnny who had his shirt all torn, Mavis who stare to nothingness. Someone just dropped the ladders down. The guys helped me to get up. Kristoff was the one who had dropped the ladder, he gave me his hand when I reached the upper end of the ladders.

“Hi Anna!” Kristoff smiled but then he gasped, “What happened to you?” His question hit me like daggers when the emotions rushed back to me. “Did you find your sister?” Kristoff stared at me. “No. I found Hans, he did this to me,” I press my wound. Marc had just climbed up, “What? That douchebag was your boyfriend? Oh..  I swear that I will smack him to hospital next time I see him!” The he smiled cunningly, “Gladly hospitals are not accepting patients now!”

I smiled faintly to Marc’s words. “Did he tell you where your sister is?” Mavis whispered. “She is dead,” I cried. They all stared at me. Then I felt arms around me. Kristoff was hugging me, “I am sorry.”

POV Jack

I volunteered to search for supplies with Elsa and this punk dude, Hades. This time we headed to a smaller area but it could still be called as a town. It is a part of Sherwood city anyway. They say that here it would be calmer, safer. I doubt that. Hades goes in over a stone fence when we’re leaving the forest area. I jump over after him.

“Wait,” I tell Elsa and I offer my hand to her. She cocked her eyebrow but for my surprise she took a hold of my hand. My heart was fluttering when I helped her over the fence. She bumped on me when she jumped down from the top. “S-sorry,” she said while blushing. “No problem,” I whispered to her and a smile sneaked on my face.

“C’mon!” Hades called with grumpy voice. “Um.. I was thinking that maybe we should rest? Hades, you seem to be tired?” Elsa spoke and I glanced at Hades who is moving slow and looks a bit pale. She might be right and it is even night time still. Hades glared at us, “Fine.”

We decided to stay in the forest so we went back for a few steps. “I can take the first lookout and lit the bonfire,” I told them and Hades went to sleep immediately. He was further away from us, me and Elsa. I took out a lighter from my pocket after I had done a pile from sticks that I found. Soon we would have a nice fire.

My knees were wet because of the night had made the ground damp from moisture. “Jack.. C-can I speak with you?” I almost dropped the lighter when Elsa spoke to me suddenly. It startled me. “Y-yes,” I whispered and I tried to keep my attention on making the fire. It is not lighting! Oh man!

She sat next to me. “I need to thank you for everything. And to tell you that I am sorry about the mall..and… yeah,” she whispered and I felt my cheeks burning up. “Uh, huh,” I hummed while my finger did simultaneous movement on the lighter, trying to get a flame or a spark from it. Anything but ended up with.. Nothing. Her fingers suddenly wrapped around my hand that tried to work with the cursed lighter. I glance at her and she stares me. “I should REALLY lit this fire or you will be cold,” I whisper to her. Instead of letting go her fingers pressed now my hand that was more a fist now. My heart beat fast when she was touching me. “E-Elsa, please,” I tell her. “You said that you like me?” Her cheeks were the tone of the sweetest pink roses, rosy pink and delicate.

I sigh, “ Isn’t it obvious? I mean if something would happen to you I would die. When I saw you skating I thought that you’re interesting. You’re proven to be caring and smart. You’re serious but fun anyway,” the words escaped from my lips. “Y-you sure?” She gasped. “Yeah, more than of anything else,” I smiled to her warmly. I saw how her lips quivered for a bit. I look quickly over my shoulder, Hades is still sleeping.

“It is not just my appearance that you like? Really?” She exhaled. I chuckle, “Nope. It just seals the perfect image of you that I have.” Her smile enchanted me, my hand went to her cheek and my thumb brushed her lower lip. She closed her eyes and I leaned forward. I felt her warm breath on my lips now.

She made a muffled sound when I kissed her. My heart was fluttering, the feeling of her lips against mine felt amazing. My head was filled with dizziness and my eyes closed slowly when her hand went behind of my neck, keeping me still. Her waist felt delicate when I let my arm go around her.

She was breathing in deeply when we broke apart after the kiss. “I love you, Jack,” she whispered. My heart was almost aching from the feeling of happiness. I smiled to her while I tried to keep myself together. I couldn’t control myself anymore. My arms wrapped around her, holding her in an embrace, “I love you too, Elsa. I will protect you with my life!” She was now almost sobbing against my shoulder, “N-no, never sacrifice yourself for me. It would break me apart!” I hushed her, swaying her in my arms. She fell asleep and I listened to her calm breathing. Her hair felt soft and silky when I rested my head against hers.

A snap. Something just snapped. I must have fallen asleep. Elsa is still safely snuggling against me, fast asleep. I blink my eyes and I try to see in the darkness. A branch snapped again and I hear steps closing us. Finally my eyes start to get used to the dark. “Oh, Hades. It’s you!” I whisper to figure of a man with his hair made facing up like a punk kid would have. He approaches me. “Hey, let’s go when the sun rises. Alright? She could use some rest,” I say quietly because I don’t want to wake up Elsa. He isn’t responding. He is groaning. Groaning?

I look at him once again. Hades is walking in a strange way, almost if he is dragging his feet forward. I glance at Elsa who is still sleeping. Then Hades fells down because of tripping on a tree root. His eyes are blank. He has turned.

Hades is pulling himself towards us. I push Elsa away when Hades yells loudly. “W-what?” Elsa rubs her eyes after waking up. “Run!” I yell to her and she sees how Hades grabs my leg. I kicked him away from me. Elsa pulls me up, “I won’t leave without you!” She cried to me. My mouth was open for a moment from the surprise but I nodded to her.

“What was that?” Elsa whispered and for our terror more of those things came towards us from deeper of the forest. They had heard Hades yelling. We need to get away.

POV Elsa

We started to run after Hades attacked and those things came out of nowhere. Jack was running after me. “In here!” I yelled to him when I entered to warehouse area near the forest. He didn’t respond so I looked over my shoulder. He was still on the edge of the forest while I had reached the gate to warehouse area. A zombie was holding him still and others grabbed him. He was yelling to them. “Jack! Wait, I will come for you!” I ran as fast as I could.

He screamed. He just screamed. My heart was skipping beats when I heard him screaming. Did he get hurt? One of the three zombies was hanging from Jack’s neck. Jack grunted when he backed up fast making the zombie rush between the tree and him. It lost its grip from Jack. I reached him and I sliced the other two zombies necks. After that I quickly hugged Jack, “Are you alright? I ..  I heard you screaming and.”

Jack was panting and his throat sounded dry, “Y-yeah. It tried to bite but my hoodie was thick enough to prevent it,” He wiped away a tear from my cheek. “We should get shelter just for a while. That looks like a good hideout place,” he pointed at a warehouse.

“Wonderland of Dreams?” I exhaled. He nodded, “They do mattresses. It looks like we could get through from there and head back to Tiana’s.” He held my hand while we walked to that warehouse. It was dark inside.

BANG!

The door was slammed shut behind of us. We startled and turned around. I saw how Jack held his staff in front of us when a beam of light hit us. Someone pointed us with a flashlight. “Who goes there!” A girl yelled. “We are just passing through,” Jack said calmly. The girl chuckled and she lightened her face with the flashlight. It looked creepy.

She had long blonde straight hair. “I was working here on a night shift. Then those things were all over the news. Name is Alice.” She smiled to us. “Nice to meet you Alice -,” Jack chuckled, “- I am Jack and this is my girlfri-.” Suddenly Jack laughed nervously, “ I mean we are Jack and Elsa.”

Bang. Bang. Thump. Bang.

We all stared at the door. “Great You lead them here. Perfect,” Alice sighed. “I guess it is time to leave. Follow me,” she walked past some beds and took a metallic pipe with her. We went out from the back while trying to be as silent as possible. Suddenly I heard Jack coughing after we had been walking for a while.

“Are you feeling ill?” I glance at Jack and he smiles faintly back at me. “Nothing to worry about,” he says but I see how the normal sparkle in his eyes has faded and his skin is looking pale. “I will take you to my friend Tiana, there you can rest, Jack.” Alice said with worried voice. Jack stopped walking when we had reached the middle point on the bridge we’re just now crossing. “To Tiana? That is good,” Jack whispered.

“Yes, we know Tiana!”  said to Alice happily and she laughed. “Good, take her there Alice,” Jack said shortly and walked towards me. He didn’t smile, he didn’t laugh. He coughed again and now  when I saw him up close I saw it. It was blood. He coughed blood.

“Jack?” I look at him in misbelieve. His eyes are tired looking and there are dark circles around them. The sun rises and the light makes his hair glimmer in the light, slightly showing a golden shade of brown. However I notice something else when the daylight came.

Starting from his neck I see a wet spot continuing all the way to his chest. His hoodie is dark looking at that spot. My shivering fingers touch that place and I feel how he breaths in a shallow way. I watch at my fingers. It is like Jack is trying to say something but can’t,  his expression is sad.

It is blood, his blood. My hands shake when I pull the collar of his hoodie away. His neck is now exposed. He had a bite mark on his neck, blood was gushing out. He is panting, I see how he forces himself to not to whimper in front of me. His smile is faint, “Keep on living. No amputation can save me now,” his hands felt cold when he touched my cheeks.

He took out my silver gun, it clipped when he made it ready to shoot. He placed it onto my hands. “Please, do it. I beg of you,” he made me point at his forehead. He closed his eyes when the cold metal pressed his skin. My breathing was now shallow. How could he do this to me? Leave me now? Ask me this? After Everything?

Alice touched my shoulder. “I .. I am sorry,” she whispered. “Do it,” Jack pressured me and he had a tear falling over his cheek. I screamed with all of my lungs. I threw away the gun, “No! Never!” I yelled to him. He chuckled and backed away.

“I am so stupid. Sorry, I am so sorry for asking for that,” he whispered while he was climbing onto bridges railing. Is he going to? No. No he can’t. “Good bye,” he smirked and spread his arms when he stands on top of that railing. He was squeezing his staff. He looked over his shoulder once more. “Live,” he told me. I ran towards him but I was too late. I screamed his name when he let himself fall his back first. I just managed to see his smirk before he had fallen too far. It was at least 50 feet fall into water. I saw him being swallowed by the water. He was gone.

Alice forced me to move. She took us to Tiana’s. The pain is all I could remember. I just cried when they asked where Jack was and what had happened. Everything I love gets hurt. Love is pain.

Hello My Apocalyptic Snow Storm

I am so sorry that update took this long. Been busy with baby sitting a 5 months old baby plus was shopping.. So yea..SORRY!

So... Thoughts on this chapter? Anna is having her own adventure.

Jack and Elsa had their moment and they met Alice. YAY!

And.. Yeah. Jack got bitten *cries*

I really need to hear your feelings and how you think the things will go? I mean.. I had a rollercoaster of emotions while writing.

PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! *points up* LOOK! It is Tinkerbell! *uses the moment to escape from angry mobs*

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NO! I mean

Your Storm Creator, melantha 123

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