"45 minutes until go time, people!" says Gonzalo as he is gathering things in his bag. Both he and Rachel have both tried apologizing to me multiple times since she tried to use me as human target practice. I told them it was fine, but the truth is I'm pissed. That wasn't fair to me, and it certainly wasn't fair to Jonas. I don't want to die as much as the other people in this room,  but I'm not going to lose my humanity over the notion. 

"Rose?" 

I snap out of my trance that I've been in and see Charlie standing before me. He still looks a mess with the undersized old army uniform he is having to wear until we can get our clothes tonight from the cabins. At least I hope we are able to get to the cabins. 

What if my power doesn't work like it didn't with Dr. Winthrop at first? It's not the same as an old man chasing us through the woods, these are trained men with guns. They had no qualms pointing those guns at us either. I can't mess this up. Everyone assumes that I'll have this together tonight, but I don't even know if my powers will work in the way they're asking me. 

"Yes?" I say probably more harshly than I intended it to be.  

"Can we talk for a second?" he asks as he sits down on the bed. "It's not to try and get you back or whatever. I understand you're with Jonas. I..I just need to get some stuff off my chest," 

I scoot over on the bed I've been sitting at since earlier when Jonas and I talked. Charlie nods his head no and sits on the ground next to my legs. I look over the room to see where Jonas is and he is talking with Rachel and Gonzalo about plan logistics. He glances over and gives me a thumbs up and a smile and I can't help but smile back. 

Even in bad situations, he seems to make this okay.

"I owe you a huge apology," says Charlie. "We were together for a long time, and when everything started it was great, but we grew complacent, and after a while, I think we stayed together more for familiarity than our actual feelings,"  

That's something I noticed too when we broke up. I, of course, was mad, I mean, you don't leak your best friend's nudes for nothing. After everything settled though I realized a lot about myself and how I had left me behind in place to be Charlie and Rosalie. I didn't know who I was anymore, and that's not a position that I want to place myself in again. 

"I know the feeling," I say. "We were together for a long time when we shouldn't have been," 

It hurts saying words like that to someone at some point I had cared so deeply for. He had been my constant, my rock, for a very long time before the situation with Liv. Charlie was many things, but he wasn't a cheater. I know he slept with Liz out of payback and that was wrong, but we technically weren't together when it happened.  

"I guess I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry. This has the potential to go really bad really quick, and I haven't given you a very good experience here as of yet. I know that you're with Jonas, and to a degree, I accept that. Why I would like to still be with you, I'm not a fool, and understand it's not going to happen," 

"Am I getting my ex-boyfriend's blessing?" I ask with a laugh. 

"You have my blessing," he says matter of factly with a wink. "Are you ready for this plan? There's a lot of pressure on you," 

That also is something that I don't know how I feel about. The plan scares me. There's so much reliance on me being able to use my power over the intercom system, but what if it doesn't work? Everything can go right, but if I drop the ball on this one thing then we are all dead. 

Or worse. 

Who knows why these men want us? We could get experimented on. We could get poked and prodded for the rest of our lives and no one would know the wiser. They could come up with a conspiracy theory on how all of us died in the meteor impact and we would never be missed or looked for. Ever.

"You're overthinking," says Charlie glancing at me. "You have that look about you. You'd always do that when something is weighing heavy on you," 

"Am I that obvious?" I say quietly. 

I'll give Charlie this, he really knew me. You can't be together as long as we were and not know the other person. "You're going to do great, Rosalie," he says with a smile as he stands up and from the floor and dusts himself off. "Just think, in less than an hour we can be out of this dust hole and making a plan to take over the camp," he says with a smile as he gets up and walks towards his bunk. 

I lean back into my mattress and close my eyes. I need to focus all my energy on calming down. If I psyche myself out like I keep trying to do, we are going to fail this mission. 

A pair of hands place themselves on my temple and begin to massage them. I open my eyes and see Jonas leaning through one of the bunk bed frames. His touch calms my worries down as I close my eyes and allow myself to just be blank in thoughts and feelings for this brief moment in time. 

I wake up to a gentle nudge from Jonas. I don't know how long I was out for, but when I wake up, everyone is standing next to the stairs that lead to the exit of the bumper. 

"It's time, guys," says Gonzalo. "Remember the plan. Jonas, you force field us inside the house for safety, Whitney you scare them into a distraction, and Charlie you hulk out so you can punch the ones out that don't get the fear projection. Rachel and Emma, you're on Rosalie duty. Get her to the intercom safely, and Rosalie, well, you know what to do," 

"Copy that," I say. 

My hands are sweating, and I'm nervous. I can't think straight now that we are about to do this. What if they aren't able to hold all of them off and I die before I make it to the intercom system? What if Rachel and Emma get hurt trying to keep my safe? This isn't something that I think I can do anymore.

"One," says Gonzalo.

"Two," says Rachel.

"Three," says Jonas as he lifts the latch to the bunker and throws the door open.