~POV Austin~

   This bitch is fucking crazy.

   I can hear you!

   I chuckle and groan. "Don't ever do that again."

   "Make no promises," Y/N says as she walks back to the fire and sits down.

   "What the hell just happened?" The girl asks.

   "Oh... right..." Y/N says as she leans back. "This is gonna be a long story. You okay with me telling it?" You weak ass bitch.

   "Fuck you too," I say in reply to her silent comment.

   "I'll take that as a yes."

~POV Y/N~

   "Tell me something darling," I say to the girl who's walking over to me. "Is your name Mia Johnson?"

   The girl freezes and stares at me with horror.

   "I guess that answers my question," I pause and sigh. "Relax darling. I'm not working for the doctor."

   "He's dead," Austin says as he leans back against the wall.

   "Realy?" The girl asks with bright eyes. "Is he really gone?"

   I sigh. "I wish..."

   "What do you mean you wish!?" Austin shouts. "I put an arrow in him! That's not something you come back from!"

   "Yeah," I say looking back to Austin. "You also don't come back from bleeding out on a balcony, need I remind you." I sharpen my last words to get the message to him.

   He goes quiet after that.

   Mia was the one to break the silence. "So the doctor was D... huh?"

   "Yeah..."

   "Does that mean you two were the first ones to have a link?" The girl asks.

   She knows more than I thought. I say in my head.

   No shit, Sherlock. Austin replies glaring at me.

   I roll my eyes. "The first stable ones."

   "What?" Austin asks looking confused.

   "Maybe if you weren't sitting so far away you'd hear me," I say patting the ground beside me.

   Austin sighs and joins me and Mia.

   I look at him with a smirk.

   "Don't let it go to your head I just want to know who the first ones are."

   I pause. "Were."

   "Why past tense?" Mia asks looking at me confused.

   Maybe if you two let me speak YOU WOULD KNOW!

   "Can you speak telepathically a little quieter?"

   I mumble an apology. "Austin and I were the second ones to come out perfectly. In a way.

   There were so many attempts before us. But only one that was successful."

   "What about the ones that weren't successful?" The girl asks quietly not looking up from the ground.

   Her father was the partner of the doctor. "Mia It's not your fault," I say placing my hand on her shoulder. "Your father was against the 'link experiment' entirely."

   Is that true? Austin asks me.

   I wish. "Anyway to answer your question either both of them died or one went insane after the other died," I say looking to the fire. "And the one that survived would kill himself in one of the four ways a letter could."

   "A letter?" Austin asks confused.

   "One of the four?" Mia asks equally confused.

   I sigh. "Every one of the experiments that survived for more than a month was assigned a letter. And the four ways are the only ways to kill a letter. Before you ask the four ways are the following; falling to your death, being crushed, a grenade or a bite from an infected."

   "Jesus," Austin says as he runs a hand through his hair.

   "You said you two were the second ones to come out perfectly," Mia says looking to Austin than back to me. "What about the other two?"

   "Well..." I pause and look at the ground. "I don't exactly know their names but it was V and W. Apparently V was insane before the link. They were the only ones to both survive a full link."

   "Full link?" Austin asks leaning forward.

   "Alright," I say as I sit up and push him away. "A little too close for comfort kid."

   "Kid?" Austin asks a hint of anger in his voice. "We're the same age!"

   "Full link what is that?" Mia asks trying to change the subject.

   "A full link is where both parties can hear each other's thoughts and feel each other's pain."

   "Jesus," Austin mumbles. "I'm glad we're only half linked."

   "Care to repeat that bitch!?" I grab him by the color of his shirt and pull him so his eyes were level with mine.

   "N-no."

   "That's what I thought," I pushed him away and noticed he was blushing. Don't get any ideas perv.

   I wasn't!

   Uh-hu.

   "What kind of link do you have?" Mia asked with more than a hint of anger in her voice.

   I cleared my throat. "We have a half link. I can hear every last one of this 'pervs' thoughts. And he can feel my pain.

   But when I lose my concentration Austin can hear my thoughts. Same goes for him I can't usually feel his pain though. Which kind of surprises me, with how scatterbrained he is."

   "You know what!" Austin shouts as he stands up and steps over to me.

   I stand up so we're at eye level with each other.

   "Could you two stop fighting for two fucking seconds!?" Mia shouts.

   Austin and I just stare at the little girl.

   I chuckle. "Sorry, Mia. I guess it's the blood loss going to my head. Where were we?"

   She sighed. "Sorry for my little outburst."

   Austin mumbled something and sat back where he was a second ago.

   "You were telling us about how V and W were fully linked, and how V was insane."

   "Right," I shake my head. "Well I only managed to get bits and pieces but apparently V and W didn't get along. W was a good person and never followed the doctor's orders. Whereas V would jump at any chance to kill someone.

   At some point V wanted W to suffer. So he climbed to the top of the hospital and jumped. Killing both of them but W's mind split. so every time one of them dies the other one shows up."

   "Just goes to show you what the world does to people," Austin says as he lays down on the carpet.

   We sit inside for a while until we hear muffled voices. About four of them. I recognize two of them immediately. Mev and Xylo.

   "Well Austin," I say as I get up, grab my machete and my rifle, and help Mia up by her arm. "It was a pleasure talking to you. Have fun telling your group why you ran out with no explanation. I'm gonna take Mia to a safe pace and take care of her. Bye."

   I take Mia out the back exit before Austin can protest.

   "Is there any place in this world that's safe?" Mia asks as I dragged her down an alley and in the opposite direction.

   "Yeah," I say as I continue to walk through the city. "I know of two."

~AN~

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