Banished and 30 Days

14

"Please, don't hurt her"
"I won't if you give me what I want"
I woke up when Nate sat down next to me
"How's the leg?" he asked, he was leaning against the tree
"Fine" I replied with a shrug
"How're you?" he asked and I rolled my eyes
"I cannot believe you carried me like a sack of potatoes" I said in disbelief and he chuckled
"I warned you" Nate shrugged
"Fair enough" I said with the smallest smile despite the circumstances
"You know that you talk in your sleep, right?" Nate questioned and I scoffed
"I do now" I said throwing him a side glare
"So, you want to talk about it?" Nate said
"Talk about what?" I asked turning my head toward him
"You had a flashback or something, you kept repeating your mom's name" he said
"Oh, yeah. That" I said, I turned my head away and looked down at my hands, picking the dead skin, I did that when I was put under pressure and that seemed to be happened a lot lately
"I get what it's like, not having a mother. It sucks" Nate said
"I didn't kill Roland" I said quietly
"Really?" Nate questioned
"My mom and I were just walking down the hall when the guards came. I was tied up on a chair. Then he walked in. He made me watch. He made me hold her head when he was done because he didn't want to get blood on his stupid suit" I said with disgust in my voice
"He was an awful person" Nate said, I could tell that he was disgusted
"Then my dad showed up. I don't know how he even knew where to find us but he did and he was mad. It only got worse when he saw her body, he took a gun and shot him. I took the fall because I didn't want to lose him. I couldn't" I said, I could sense the unease. I understood, it was a twisted story
"That's... I don't blame him" Nate said
"I've never told anybody that. Not even my dad" I said and he nodded
"I get it" he replied, I looked up
"What about you?" I asked
"Childbirth" he replied and I nodded
"I get why they chose us. We had criminal records and weaknesses, our will to survive would be weaker" I said
"Probably" Nate agreed, I looked into the distance and saw something blue coming our way, Nate stood up grabbing his weapon and aiming it at the blue figure. I grabbed the edge of his jacket, pulling myself up
"What is that?" Abby asked as she and Nick stood up, they're eyes were still full with sleep
"I don't know. But I'm gonna find out" I said as I started to limp my way toward it, I kept going, stopping once I was on the edge of the light. The Blue figure was coming closer
"What is it?" Nick called as it got closer, I saw its face
"Courtney?" I questioned