𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩

𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 lets out a shaky breath as she scans the room they had found with random stuff. Her bright emeralds land on a small tray sitting on a cabinet filled with what looks like flashlights.

Slowly walking up to them, she reaches out and takes one of them in her hands. Her fingers spin the item around till she finds a button and clicks it on, resulting in the light beam to land on someone.

"Ahh, god—turn it off!" A voice whispers through the eerie silence. Blake smirks as she directs the light away from the boy, who now holds his hands up to cover his eyes.

A giggle erupts out of the small brunette's chest. "Not so fun now, is it, Min."

From a few feet away, Minho rolls his eyes at the girl before turning to a blanket on the ground. The boy walks over to it as Blake shines her flashlight in Minho's direction. Blake walks up to the boy and stands beside him, watching as he lifts the jacket.

"Looks like people lived here." Minho says as he turns to show the jacket to the rest of the group.

"Where are they now?" Newt questions from a few feet away, shining his flashlight toward Blake and Minho.

Thomas reaches for a jacket on one of the boxes next to the blonde and shakes the dust and dirt off. "Let's pack some of this stuff up." He says as he reaches an arm through the sleeve. "Anything you think you might need." Thomas continues as he throws the jacket around the other side, adjusting his shoulders to fit. "We'll split up and see what else we can find. Meet back here."

"Wait, Thomas," Newt calls out before throwing the boy something.

Thomas catches the object in his hands and clicks the flashlight on, "Let's go." Thomas says as he nods for Blake and Minho to follow.

Blake follows closely behind the two boys as they scan their flashlights around an abandoned area, looking in every direction around her.

Blake had no idea why—but something about this place made her uneasy. Her stomach churned, and her heart sped up at any slight sound that echoed throughout the darkness.

"Thomas"

"Yeah?"

"All those kids that we left behind back there—" Minho pauses as he continues looking around him, a slight frown forming on his lips. "I don't want to end up like that." The boy admits as he turns his attention to the boy beside him.

Thomas only scans his flashlight, looking around in silence as he tries to come up with something to say.

From afar, Blake flinches as she hears a sudden sound to her left, making the girl quickly whip her body in the direction.

Her flashlight points to a bottle that slowly rolls on the ground, making a grinding noise. The girl's eyebrows furrow as she takes a few steps closer in order to inspect the object.

"Hey? Do you hear me?" Minho's voice sounds from behind the girl as she inches forward. Her head briefly turns back in the boy's direction.

Thomas only muttered a response to Minho, but Blake ignored the boys behind her, shrugging them off as she walked closer to the bottle.

The bottle finally stopped rolling as Blake came to stand over it, pressing her lips together in a mix of confusion and worry.

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. Blake begged in her mind.

"Blake!" Thomas' voice stopped Blake's hand from reaching out to grab the bottle. Shining the flashlight to look back at the girl, Thomas nodded his head for Blake to come closer. "Don't wander off. Stay close."

Blake gulps before she turns back around and walks back over to the boys. Her eyes briefly connect with Thomas' as she stands beside Minho.

"Now, what are we looking for out here?" Minho questions.

"Signs of life. People. Survivors. Anyone who can help us." Thomas answers before shifting his body and light beam around him.

"I don't think anyone's been down here for a while," Blake breathes out as she runs a finger on top of a cabinet in front of her.

She lifts the finger up to inspect the dust and dirt caking her skin before wiping it off on her pants.

"Does he count?" Minho asks, making Blake furrow her eyebrows at the boy's question.

The girl turns around to see Thomas and Minho shining their lights on a silhouette of a person sitting in a chair.

The two boys walk closer to the body as Blake follows behind her best friend's footsteps, basically stepping on his heels as the trio shines their light onto the figure. Thomas leans closer over the body as Blake mutters a "𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙩" as she scans the person before her. The man sits with a plastic bag wrapped around his head, making Blake's eyes widen as she bounces her leg up and down.

Minho tries to click the lamp on beside the body before his voice startles Thomas, making him back away. "They had power."

As Minho turned his attention between the two beside him, his eyes land on Blake, who still bounced her leg up and down with her head scanning the area around her.

Minho's eyebrows furrow at Blake's wide eyes and nervous body language; opening his mouth to ask, he gets cut off by the other boy.

"You good, Blake?" Thomas questions from beside Minho with his brows furrowed as well.

Blake only nods hesitantly before the trio turn and scan their flashlights around them.

Blake looks around before noticing a bin full of clothes and slowly walks over to them. Her hand glides in front of her and grabs onto a black leather jacket, raking her eyes over the piece of clothing—she shrugs before throwing it over her shoulder.

Next, she comes across a pair of pants and a new tank top and throws them over her shoulder to change into.

Blake turns around and eyes Minho and Thomas, scanning on the other side of the room.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦. Blake thinks to herself before crossing her arms over the hem of her tank and lifting it over her head.

"There's gotta be a switch or something around here." Minho pauses as he whips his head back in the female's direction.

Thomas also paused his search to check on the girl who had followed them, noticing she wasn't right on their heels like she had been the entire time.

His eyebrows furrowed as he looked around for the girl till he got a glimpse of her bottom half, tugging up a pair of jeans.

His breath hitched in the back of his throat as he continued to keep his gaze on the girl, finally getting her jeans up over her ass.

𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

His mouth hung agape as a hand suddenly turned his face away from the girl. Thomas' eyes landed on an irritated Minho as they held eye contact for a split second. Minho only shook his head at the ex-greenie's lust-filled gaze.

"I—uhh. I wasn't.." Thomas tried

"Yeah, you were. Don't lie." Minho scoffed before turning away again to try and look for an electrical panel.

Thomas' adams apple bobbed as he took a gulp, realizing he had been caught. He had wanted to look away to give Blake some privacy—but he couldn't help it.

Blake's ears perked up at hearing the two boy's muffled conversation as she tugged on her leather jacket.

Blake turned to the side as she grabbed the other piece of clothing she had found and ripped a long piece of cloth off.

Tugging the cloth tightly between her hands, she pulled her hair up into a ponytail—finally getting her hair out of her face.

The girl glances back in the boy's direction and sees them starting to wander further and further away, so she picks back up her flashlight and grabs an abandoned backpack that leans against a box.

Shaking the dust off it, Blake slung the pack over one shoulder before catching up to the boys.

Minho and Thomas pushed each side of a set of doors open and slowly walked into another room, scanning their flashlights around them as they walked. Blake followed closely behind, also scanning her flashlight as the trio made their way into the room.

Blake flinched and let out a small gasp as the door behind them creaked shut.

𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘺..

The eerie silence made the girl feel uneasy, so she sped up her pace to trek right behind the boys. As the trio walked further into the room, Thomas shined his light onto a chain link fence, which had random objects leaning against it. Blake quirked an eyebrow at the flowers and stuffed bears leaning against the fence.

"This looks promising." Minho spoke as Blake turned her head to see the boy crouched beside a generator.

Blake watched as Minho flicked the switches on before bringing her attention back over to Thomas, who bent down and shined his light beam through the other side of the fence.

Suddenly, a click sounds from Minho's direction, making Thomas and Blake both whip their heads around.

"Hey, Minho, wait!" Thomas shouts in a panic

"What?" Blake asks as the lights around them start flickering on.

Minho smiles to himself proudly as he turns around, but his smile instantly drops as he looks past the two.

"𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙪𝙩!" Minho screams in panic

Blake and Thomas suddenly turn around to a loud bang behind them. The boy quickly grabs Blake's hand and pulls her away as they watch a person hang on the fence. Blake's heart races as her eyes widen at the growling and screeching.

"Jesus!" Thomas breathes out as he continues back up with Blake behind him.

Blake felt frozen in place as she watched the crank growl and screech, clawing at the fence. Her heart hammers against her chest as she narrows her eyes at the black holes in the crank's face.

"Her eyes!" Blake points out as the crank continues to screech.

Suddenly, more screeches and growls echo behind the trio as a crank knocks over a barrel. Blake and the two boys gasp as they turn around and shine their lights onto the creature.

"Oh my god." Blake whispers as her body trembles.

Minho and Thomas both push the girl behind them as the crank starts walking in an inhuman way towards them.

Thomas quickly grabs Blake's uninjured wrist and pulls her back with him as Minho quickly looks around. The boy spots a short metal pole and quickly grabs onto it, holding it in front of him as the crank grows closer.

"Stay back!" Minho shouts before knocking the crank on the side of the head, making the creature fall to the ground.

Blake gasps and holds onto Thomas' arm as the three eye the creature in horror. "What the hell is that thing?" Blake asks as she and the two boys continue backing up.

Another echo of growling and screeching causes the trio to flinch and point their light beams in front of them, searching for the creature.

Thomas bounces on the balls of his feet for a second before he pulls Blake with him, "Gotta move! Gotta move! Go!" He shouts in a panic, and the trio starts sprinting.

Thomas drags Blake with him as a crank starts growling and running towards them from their left, leading the trio to sprint to their right—into a set of doors.

Thomas and Minho each grab a door on opposite sides and quickly shut them closed, leaving cranks to growl and screech at them from the other side. Blake's eyes widen with fear as she watches the crank pound on the door.

"Hold it down! Hold it down! Blake, get in my spot!" Minho shouts as he pushes against the door, moving his body to the side as Blake rushes up to help.

"What?" Thomas mutters as Minho lets go of the doors, running over to the side. The boy grunts and screams as he pushes a large metal box over.

Blake and Thomas struggle to keep the crowd of cranks on the other side of the door as Minho finally manages to push over the metal box.

"Watch out! Watch out!" Minho yells as the box tilts in the two brunette's direction. Thomas' eyes widen as he grabs Blake's wrist again, pulling her out of the way with him once the box gets close enough.

The trio all stumble back as they hear the loud clang of metal hit the ground. Just as Blake breathed relief—another set of growling echoes from behind the three.

"Oh, come on!" Blake growls, throwing her head back.

More growling and screeching echo throughout the concrete structure as they scan their flashlights around.
"Okay. Go, go, go!" Minho shouts as he kicks his feet into a sprint.

Thomas' hand finds Blake's again as he pulls her with him into a sprint.

"Let's get the hell out of here!" Minho yells as he jumps over a crate in front of him.

Blake lets out a scoff from beside Thomas as they continue running. "No, I was thinking we should stay here and have a damn tea party with these things!" She manages to breathe out as she and Thomas follow closely behind Minho.

Minho turns to his left in a sprint and starts climbing a set of stairs as Thomas pushes Blake in front of him, keeping a hand on her back to make her faster.