The DT Journals

Vol 2 Ch1(Nicholai): Letting Go of Paradise (Part 2/2)

I woke up on my desk, I still felt drowsy. It was dark out as well, I guess I slept through the entire day. I looked up, the others were gone, only Lee and Matt remained. From the sound of their conversation, I assumed it was nothing serious, only about certain things for the train. A part of me does hate this train, having to rely on something to live, and all that has to happen for us to die, is it running out of fuel, but, I knew this was the only option we had. I got up from my desk and headed out of the train car, either they knew and didn't bother saying anything, or they hadn't noticed I left.

Outside the main car for driving was our sleeping quarters, it was just for Bravo team, every team had their own, and since the driving car had a ton of stuff we needed to monitor, we took the closest one. When I walked into the sleeping quarters I began to hear humming, the tune did sound familiar, but it came from someone else's voice. From the voice itself, I knew it was Crystal, she was the youngest out of all of us, and Sam was still in her infected coma, so it only left her. I knocked on her door and after a few seconds it opened

"What do you want L- Oh, Nicholai, what is it?"I didn't get why Crystal hated Lee so much, but I guess it wasn't my place to interfere with it.

"The song you were humming, where'd you learn it" While I talked Crystal leaned against her doorframe

"Sam hums a lot, even in her sleep" I don't see Crystal go into the infirmary that often, but I guess it was often enough to learn the song, but there was another issue

"Hmm, alright, but you're singing Lee's version of it, the one that lyrics was made for." Crystal looked confused, I guess she didn't learn it from Lee

"It's still the same song either way, so was that all?" Before that was going to be my only question for her, but now the whole Crystal hating Lee thing got my curiosity 

"No, I do have one more question"

"Well, ask away" Crystal stood up from her leaning, I guess she's the type to fidget a lot

"What's your deal with Lee?" The second I said that her face looked as though she was ready to rant "Just the main reason please"

"Then I can't say, I may hate him but I can keep a promise" A promise huh? I wanted to know, I couldn't help anyone if I didn't

"Ah huh, sure, we'll go with that" I heard the door to the driving car open, Matt came out, I expected Lee to follow but he didn't.

"Hey Nicholai, you ready to continue, I radioed the others, they're ready to play" Matt tried to get me to join his game, but I just wanted to ask 'Why are they all awake at like, 1 AM?' It probably wasn't that late, but it felt like it that was for sure.

"Sure, I just wanna talk with Lee real quick" I waved goodbye to Matt and headed back into the front car, we hadn't told anyone yet about Lee's power to go into the past, hell, he just found out recently.

When I entered the car I saw Lee outside, as in, on the train's front, where the railings and what not are, I mean, there was a platform to relax out there, but when I first saw him on it, I won't lie, it scared me. I walked to the door that leaded outside, Lee just looked at the city, the buildings were either destroyed or covered by nature, it looked amazing, but the history and people were all gone now, it caused me to feel a sense of nostalgia

"What do you want Nicholai" Lee asked in a blunt tone, he most likely knew what it would be about. When Crystal mentioned Sam, I wanted to know how she was doing, so I check my hud, Sam...Sam was almost dead, and if she died then we could only imagine how much chaos would happen, why would Lee know this? Ever since he was basically banned from visiting the infirmary he would check Sam's condition the same way I would.