Akakios got into the house and took out a case under the second bed. It held 2 large and heavy backpacks, one white the other black. He tossed the black bag in Anya’s direction. Inside the bags were 2 water bottles, 3 dried food packets, and a sleeping bag. In Akakios’ bag there was a tent ready to be put up at any moment, a lighter was inside of it and a medkit.
“This is it. There is one more thing must be done.” He grabbed the hide pouch (now named gas pouch). He pours it onto the door of the house. He uses the lighter. He sets the door on fire, the flames imprint themselves in his eyes.
“Let’s go.” He turns and walks.
“The valley is to the right” She catches up to him. She had her goggles still on from the fight earlier.
“I knew that!” He turns around and continues walking. The head down a path often used by deer the head down the mountains. Anya was watching out for any heat signatures at any cliffs. Akakios continues looking out for any food for the night. Then Anya notices some movement to one of the higher cliffs.
“Someone is up on the cliff.”
“Act like you don’t notice them. It’s better they believe that we don’t know if they are there.”
“Ok, if they step a foot closer down this pass I will shoot them on sight.
“Only, if they do they could be travelers like us.”
“I seriously doubt that.”
“How come?”
“Because the are running down pretty quickly.”
“Oh, shit.” Akakios hides behind a tree while Anya starts to shoot at the descending attackers.
“What’s our plan!”
“I don’t know, aren’t you the plan guy?”
“My only plan is to shoot these guys and run when there get to many.” The start to fire back at Anya. “Look out! Do you have any better one!”
“Ok, do we have any type of explosion thingy.”
“Thingy?”
“You know what I mean!”
“No! We don’t hav-.” He is interrupted by an explosion behind them. “They do though!” Akakios picks up one of the dead men’s guns, and he starts to shoot back at them.
“Can you see how many are left?” Anya shouted. Akakios looks up to see there are are 10 guys running down the hill. As he stares in awe he gets shot the shoulder. He runs back to the cover of the trees.
“About 5!” he shoots out one and Anya shoots another.
Akakios thought “8, we need to survive 8 fast higher-ground enemies.” Anya shoots another in the grenade he was carrying killing 2 others. Akakios continues to shoot 3 others down then see a grenade land near Anya’s feet. She kicks it far enough to only knock her back into a tree knocking her out.
“3 others” only three he shoots 2 in the forest, and the final one runs off with a bullet wound in his chest.
“Anya! Wake up.” He opens her rags to see if she had been shot. Luckily she wasn’t shot but she had broken her third and seventh rib. The latter was protruding out of her chest. Akakios rushes to take a small book out of his pocket. He flips through the pages and stops at one. He plugs Anya’s ears with snow and her shoots out the rib. He removes the snow. He carefully takes of her bra and wraps the bandages around her chest then puts her bra back on. He takes out the tent then puts down his sleeping bag. He picks Anya’s unconscious body and puts her in the sleeping bag. He starts a fire for warmth, he looks down at his shoulder. He takes off his clothes halfway revealing his bare arm and shoulder. He sees the hole went through the lower part of his armpit. He uses alcohol to disinfect the area and covers it in bandages. He looks up at the sky to see it is getting dark. He heads back inside the tent and sees the Anya is just starting to wake up.
“Hey, your gonna be missing half your rib, but everything is okay.” He gently approached.
“Sure, so there wasn’t five.”
“No, I thought you were going to run after five.”
“And left you become a slave, hell no.”
“Yeah, I think we won’t eat today.”
“I got jerky we are good.”
“How?”
“A drifter always brings her jerky wherever she goes.” She takes brown dried jerky out of a fold he her rags
“Can I have some?”
“Here.” She gives him jerky but doesn’t let go.
“Um, are you going t-.“ She steals a kiss from him. His lips touch hers, her lips touch his. She lets go of the jerky. He blushes and touches his lips seconds after.
“That’s for saving me. Thank you.” She said with her eyes. This was the first time Akakios was able to see her face fully. She had dark brown bangs almost black. The were dents under her eyes from the goggles. She had small scars on her nose. Her right hear had a small hole near the top. Her eyes two different colors the right one was a dark brown the other was a mix of green and grey.
“I think… we should got to sleep.” Akakios turned and lied down on the hard floor. “The night has already come.”
“Where will we go tomorrow?”
“I have no clue. The village probably houses the people that attacked us.”
“I think I like you.”
“That’s a surprise… me too.” He said sarcastically and sincerely.
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