Chapter 29 - Someone to talk to...

Ceylan never mentioned anything about that kiss… It seemed as if she just ignored it, like it never took place. She knew it… And she never did anything with it… But I was too afraid to ask… I was scared to lose her, because of that… Maybe that was the reason why I liked her so much… I tried to show as much as affection as possible, and yet she didn’t see it. Maybe she just wasn’t interested… But that’s what got me so fascinated about her… It’s like she’s a total mystery even though I know her better then anyone else. And the longer I spent time with her, the more fascinating she became… Even though she didn’t tell me if she liked it or not, I always had a hunch that there was more about it… But that’s just me I guess…[br]
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I had a relatively peaceful night… Which was the first time in many months… It felt as if I could sleep without any disturbance for just one night… Without waking up by bad dreams, or scary feelings… Ceylan was still asleep when I slowly opened my eyes and noticed I was still leaning against her… I looked at her for a short moment and felt how my hand was going to hers… Her soft fluffy paws felt so familiar as I held it in my hand and looked at her again… I wish she would just tell me, for better or worse… I wish I could hold her like I held on to Blain so many years ago… To be able to look her in the eyes and realize she was feeling the same… [br]
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I didn’t know how long I’ve been sitting like that… As I looked outside, I noticed it was getting day and that it had been snowing while we were asleep… Although it was still fairly dark, you could see the white snow clearly… And everything was just white… The dead bodies were covered by the snow… And the longer I stared outside, the more of a fairytale imagine it became… It was really beautiful to see… [br]
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At some point, I got snapped out of my daydream by hearing soft footsteps in the snow getting louder. It sounded like running, then walking… Running and walking… Then I didn’t hear anything for a short moment until the walking continued… Then all of a sudden, I saw a human… I got as low as possible while I was looking petrified at it… He didn’t seem to be armed, but he was going through the vehicles to look for something… He raided the car next to us, and then he got to our car… He opened the passenger door and I could hear him mumbling in himself as he searched the glove compartments and under the seats… I squeezed Ceylan’s hand because I was really scared… I didn’t know if there were more out there, but the last time a human got into our overnight stay, it turned for the worst… I bit my upper lip as I felt how my whole body was shaking… And not long after that, I noticed that Ceylan was slowly opened her eyes… I heard how she gasped when she saw the human, and I quickly muffled her mouth, but it was already too late… He noticed us… And he scared the shoot out of himself as well… [br]
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Human: Whoa!!! What the- [br]
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Right that second, he got dragged out of the car… There was a fighting going on outside and as soon as we got out, the human was down on his stomach as Lattei pressed his knee between the humans shoulder blade, holding a knife against his throat… Then I noticed he was a young guy, not older then the age of 15 to 17 years old… [br]
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Human: No, no, no!! Please!! I didn’t mean to harm you guys!! I swear!! Don’t kill me!! I didn’t know you were here!! [br]
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Lattei: Shut up!! *presses knee harder between the human’s shoulder blades* [br]
Human: *gasps* [br]
Lattei: You ok? [br]
Ceylan: Y-Yeah, I’m fine… [br]
Lattei: Nic? [br]
Nicole: *nods quickly*[br]
Lattei: You alone…? [br]
Human: Yes!! Yes, I’m alone!! [br]
Lattei: The hell you’re doing here? [br]
Human: Looking for food man!! Come on!! Let me go!! Please!! [br]
Nicole: Let him go, Lattei, he’s just a kid… [br]
Lattei: What? [br]
Human: Please!! I didn’t mean to-!! [br]
Lattei: Stop… Yelling… [br]
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Lattei searched the humans pockets and backpack to see what he was carrying… He wasn’t carrying any weapons, but that didn’t mean we could trust him… The only thing Lattei found was a little bit of food and half a bottle of water… Then Lattei got off of him and as the human stood up, he looked at us nervously… And when he turned around to run away, Mahabi stood there, pointing a gun in the human’s face… [br]
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Human: No!!! Please!! Take the food!! Take everything I got!! Just don’t kill me!! Please!! [br]
Mahabi: We’re not interested in food… [br]
Human: Then whadda ya want from me?!![br]
Lattei: You’re with them…? [br]
Human: … Who?!![br]
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Human: The hell you talking about?!! [br]
Mahabi: You mean you don’t know what happened for the past few months…? [br]
Human: No!! I don’t know!! Will you get that gun out of my face?!![br]
Mahabi: … *lowers gun* [br]
Human: You are the first living souls I encounter in months!! I don’t know what’s happening here!! [br]
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It stayed silent for a very long time… That was a very good question, because we didn’t know what was going on either… [br]
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Ceylan: It’s eh… I don’t know… We’ve seen everything happening from the start and yet we don’t know what it’s all about… [br]
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Human: *sighs* [br]
Ceylan: Look… I eh… I think we got off on the wrong start… It’s obviously you don’t know what happened but… Eh… I-It’s just that… [br]
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Human: Just what…? [br]
Lattei: It’s very hard for us to trust a human… We’ve seen… Numerous times humans killing furries and… We even have trouble to trust our own kind… We don’t know who to trust… [br]
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Human: You can trust me… I-I mean, I don’t know what this is all about… [br]
Ceylan: Yeah… [br]
Human: Look eh… My house isn’t far from here… It’s in a little village that didn’t get shot to pieces so… If you need to stay, I’ll be happy to help… It’s been a long time since I’ve talked to someone… Just… Don’t kill me… Please… I beg you… [br]
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All: *nods slowly* [br]
Nicole: … Thank you… [br]
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Not long after that, Rachel got out of the car… The human looked rather surprised to see Rachel, and Rachel was baffled as well… Then Axel got out, rubbing his eyes and yawned until he saw us with the human… He stared at the human with wide eyes for a short moment… [br]
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Axel: … Holy shoot!! Lattei!! It’s a human!! Take cover!! [br]
Lattei: Yeah, thanks for pointing that out… [br]
Axel: Run!! He’s gonna kill us all!! [br]
Lattei: No he’s not… [br]
Axel: What makes you think that?!! [br]
Mahabi: Because he promised not kill us… *chuckles* [br]
Axel: Ooooh… Alright then… [br]
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We walked with the human to his home, and, like he said, wasn’t far away. It was actually strange to see an entire village not shot to pieces, unlike everything else we saw. It felt so weird to be able to sit down on a couch and actually relax… Once we all sat down, he immediately went to a closet and got out all sort of things for us to eat. He placed everything on the kitchen table and we all looked at it… [br]
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Human: Come on, eat… You must be hungry… [br]
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He didn’t have to say that twice… We almost dove on the table and stuffed ourselves until we couldn’t eat anymore… But, at some point, we all looked at the human… [br]
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Human: … What?[br]
Ceylan: We really appreciate this… [br]
Mahabi: Yeah… [br]
Nicole: So… Thank you… [br]
Human: It’s alright… [br]
Lattei: What’s your name…? [br]
Human: Jason… Yours…? [br]
Lattei: I’m Lattei… [br]
Ceylan: I’m Ceylan… [br]
Nicole: Nicole… [br]
Rachel: Rachel… [br]
Axel: … Axel… [br]
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Jason: N-Nice to meet you guys… [br]
Nicole: Likewise, Jason… [br]
Jason: *nods quickly*[br]
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You could see that the young guy was a bit nervous as he was looking at us for short moments… [br]
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Lattei: What’s wrong…? [br]
Jason: I eh… It’s… Nothing… It’s just that… Eh… [br]
Ceylan: Just tell us… [br]
Jason: It’s been a very long time since I’ve talked to anyone… And eh… [br]
Nicole: Can I ask what happened…? [br]
Jason: I… eh… [br]
Ceylan: It’s ok, share if you want…[br]
Nicole: So… What happened to you that you don’t know…? [br]
Jason: Well… Eh… A-A few months ago, I had an accident and… Slipped into a coma… And… One day, I woke up on the ground on the first floor of the hospital… With a bed on its side and lots of debris as walls were collapsed and almost every window was shattered… And… I was on top of a dead body… And well, it wasn’t like I could just walk away like that… Because I haven’t walked in months, it took me a long time to get used to it again… And it was painful and a very hard thing to do… When I finally got up, I stumbled around to see if anyone was there… But… All I ever saw was dead bodies… And I didn’t know what happened… [br]
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Ceylan: Oooh… [br]
Lattei: Do you know where you’re parents are…? [br]
Jason: No… I don’t know where they are… And… My little sister… *sighs* [br]
Nicole: … Do you know what you’re parents did before the war…? [br]
Jason: Yeah… Well, sort off… They were political activists… [br]
Ceylan: Ooh… Eh… [br]
Jason: What…? [br]
Ceylan: GUN doesn’t take too kindly towards political activists… [br]
Jason: I know that… [br]
Mahabi: So all this time you’ve been wandering alone…? [br]
Jason: Yeah, pretty much… But I never found out what happened… Do you know…? If you do… Please… [br]
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Nicole: Well… Like I said… We don’t really know what’s going on as well… [br]
Jason: But you know more then me… [br]
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We spend the rest of the day explaining to Jason of what exactly happened to us before we all met each other… It was rather interesting to hear everyone’s story of what they did before the war broke loose. It was rather depressing to hear what everyone has been through, but some stories were also enjoyable to hear again… The things we told about our stay in Remington was fun when we look back now… We didn’t have any worries back then… [br]
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Many, many hours later, it turned dark once again and although it was still early, we felt really tired… Rachel was allowed to sleep upstairs with Ceylan in the Jason’s bedroom while Lattei stayed in his room and Mahabi in his sister’s room… I was sleeping downstairs on a thick mattress with thick warm blankets and pillows… I forgot how wonderful a blanket feels when you get underneath it, and how soft a pillow can be when you rest you’re head on it… It was a luxury I wasn’t used to anymore… But… No matter how nice the thick warm blankets felt, I just couldn’t fall asleep… I didn’t know what caused it… Jason was reading a book at the kitchen table so that I could sleep in the living room… At some point, I got up and walked towards him, and sat down across Jason… And I noticed it was still early in the evening… Half past ten… [br]
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Jason: What’s wrong…? [br]
Nicole: Nothing… I’m so tired and yet I can’t sleep… [br]
Jason: Yeah, I got that too sometimes… Especially when I was alone… I’m so glad you guys decided to stay… [br]
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Nicole: *smiles weakly*[br]
Jason: Can I get you anything…? [br]
Nicole: No, I’m fine… Thank you… [br]
Jason: A warm drink…? Tea, coffee, hot coco…? [br]
Nicole: You’ve got coffee…? [br]
Jason: *nods* Except I don’t know how to make coffee… So…[br]
Nicole: That’s alright… I’ll make some if that’s ok with you… [br]
Jason: Yeah, sure, go ahead… I’ll make some tea for myself then… [br]
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Jason got up and grabbed a cup out of a cupboard and a spoon from a kitchen drawer and placed it on the counter… A sealed back of coffee was pulled out of a closet and the moment I opened it, I smelled the typical scent of coffee, which was a wonderful thing to smell again… I’m not addicted to coffee anymore, but having a cup would be really nice by now… I haven’t had a cup of coffee in months…So I made coffee and poured it in a cup… Sugar and milk… And then I took my seat again… I looked at Jason for a moment as he closed his book and stared outside the window. I kept stirring my coffee and the whirlpool in it got me hypnotized for a short moment… Then I looked at Jason again… [br]
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Nicole: Jason…? [br]
Jason: Hm…? [br]
Nicole: We really appreciate this… It’s been a long time since we’ve had a comfortable warm place to spend the night… So… Thank you… [br]
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Jason: *nods* [br]
Nicole: Heh…[br]
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It stayed silent for a very long time… Jason wasn’t really the kind of guy who talked a lot… We noticed that ever since we met him… But I’m glad he still had his morals and ideals, and for a kid of 17 years old, he was very mature… [br]
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Jason: You know… [br]
Nicole: What…? [br]
Jason: It should be around New Years Eve by now… [br]
Nicole: How’d you know…? [br]
Jason: The last newspaper I found dates back to august the 15^th… And… According to the stats thing on my hospital bed, I arrived the 21^st of march… So… I’ve spent 6 months in a hospital… And calculated how many weeks passed by… And kept track of it ever since… I don’t think it’s that accurate but… Heh… Let’s face it… I didn’t have anything else to do… [br]
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Nicole: Well… In that case… Happy New Year, Jason… [br]
Jason: Yeah… Happy New Year… [br]
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Jason and I spend the rest of the evening sitting at the table… He drank up his tea and fell asleep on the kitchen table not long after that… And I couldn’t sleep… I was so very tired and yet I couldn’t sleep. How that was possible, I didn’t know. I listened to Jason breathing quietly and wondered how he could fall asleep like that. And then I heard a sound upstairs… It sounded like… Wood creaking and a thud… I went upstairs to see what caused it, seeing as everyone was supposed to be asleep. As I checked the rooms, everyone was still asleep… Except for Ceylan… I saw Rachel asleep but not Ceylan… I moved into the room until something caught my eye. A window to the left of the door was open and I could see the white tip of a tail dangling just below it. I went to the window and looked down on the roof tiles, and as I looked up, I noticed Ceylan sitting on the roof tiles, leaning against the slope of the roof… [br]
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Nicole: It’s a little cold to be outside right now… [br]
Ceylan: Whoa! [br]
Nicole: Sssh… It’s me, Nicole… [br]
Ceylan: Oh, hey… You scared me… [br]
Nicole: Sorry… [br]
Ceylan: That’s ok… [br]
Nicole: What are you doing up here…? [br]
Ceylan: Cooling down and… Thinking… [br]
Nicole: But… You still got a fever… You need to get inside… [br]
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Ceylan: Can I talk to you, Nic…? [br]
Nicole: Huh? Oh… Yeah, of course…[br]
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Then I climbed up and sat next to her, leaning against the roof slopes… [br]
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Ceylan: Okay… Eh… Th-This isn’t really easy for me to say, but…*sighs*[br]
Nicole: … It’s ok… Just say what you wanna say… [br]
Ceylan: I, eh… [br]
Nicole: What’s up…? [br]
Ceylan: I’ve been… Thinking for a very long time and… [br]
Nicole: … Yeah…? *smiles weakly*[br]
Ceylan: And… I…[br]
Nicole: … Yeah…? [br]
Ceylan: I really like someone else… [br]
Nicole: Wait… What…? No… Who…?! [br]
Ceylan: … Mahabi… [br]
Nicole: What……? [br]
Ceylan: Well… I like him and… [br]
Nicole: No! Y-You shouldn’t! I mean-[br]
Ceylan: … Why not……? [br]
Nicole: I eh… It’s just that… I- I want you to prevent from making the same mistakes I did… [br]
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Ceylan: I thought you said it wasn’t a mistake… [br]
Nicole: *sighs* [br]
Ceylan: Look… I’ve been thinking over this for a very long time and I wanna tell Mahabi that I like him while I still can… And I wanna be with him… He’s is a great guy…[br]
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Nicole: I know that… …Does he know you like him…? [br]
Ceylan: No… I don’t think so… You ever saw him when he took his shirt off…? Dayumn… [br]
Nicole: … But… You just had a fight with him not too long ago… [br]
Ceylan: Yeah but that’s what I like about him… He doesn’t let anyone push him around and… [br]
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Nicole: … *sighs*[br]
Ceylan: You don’t like the idea, don’t you…? [br]
Nicole: To be honest, no… No, I don’t… [br]
Ceylan: … You’re jealous…? [br]
Nicole: N-no, I’m not… It’s just that- [br]
Ceylan: You are jealous, aren’t you…? [br]
Nicole: *sighs* [br]
Ceylan: Look, Nic, I thought we went through with this… I just can’t… It just doesn’t feel natural to me… Maybe for you, but… [br]
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Nicole: … I don’t wanna lose you… [br]
Ceylan: You’re not gonna lose me… I’ll always be you’re friend… But it’s time I start thinking about myself… And… Maybe you should do the same… [br]
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Nicole: But- [br]
Ceylan: Listen, Nic… I didn’t stop you from doing what you wanted to do with Terry, and even when you told me of what happened, I didn’t think any different of you... It’s not fair that you deny me from doing this… I don’t need you’re approval to do the things I want. Whether you like it or not… [br]
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Nicole: *sighs* [br]
Ceylan: …[br]
Nicole: … I-I’m sorry… You’re right… [br]
Ceylan: You’re a great friend, Nic… But you gotta start thinking about yourself and move on… I can’t do that for you… [br]
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Nicole: *nods slowly* [br]
Ceylan: … Okay… Good… [br]
Nicole: … So… You’re really gonna tell him…? [br]
Ceylan: *nods* … Yeah… I’m not doing it to hurt you if that’s what you think… I’m doing it for myself… [br]
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Nicole: … Alright then… If that’s what you want… Then… I-I’m not stopping you… [br]
Ceylan: *smiles* Thanks… [br]
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I stayed quiet for a very long time. I didn’t know what to say. I could imagine how Ceylan would act with Mahabi and I imagined what it would look like if I saw them together. And whatever I was imagining, I didn’t like it… It hurt… I went through so many difficulties to tell her, only to find out that everything I went through was in vain… And that hurt a lot… I couldn’t just witness how everything was crumbling in front of my eyes again… So that’s why I had to go… [br]
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I got downstairs again and sought refuse under my blankets as I rest my head on a soft pillow… It felt as if the blankets and the pillows would ease the pain I felt and I felt how warm and soft it was for my fur… Over the months, I’ve shed so many tears and this night was no exception… I can’t explain what I felt that night, but I had really mixed feelings… I felt how my pillow got soaked with bitter tears that were shed quietly as I questioned myself over and over again of what to do… And I cried myself to sleep that night… [br]
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I woke up by the sounds of a lot of boots walking in the snow… The boots sounded like an avalanche or something… Caterpillar tracks that drove through the snow… And as I opened my eyes slowly, I could see large iron legs passing by the windows… Every time a leg touched down, it made the ground shake like a little earthquake… And it was terrifying to see them passing by… It was total darkness outside, but the vehicles gave so much light, it made the soldiers look like black shadows that were passing by… It reminded me of those black shadows I once saw, and once I realized that, fear got the better of me… I ran upstairs as fast as I could, and shook everyone awake and made them look outside the window… We saw a few soldiers going inside a house and they came back with something to eat… And all we could do was to hope that they didn’t get in this house… More and more soldiers decided to follow their example and got in the houses to look for food or any other things they might need. We saw a flash of light in one of the houses, shortly followed by a gunshot… Then more gunshots followed… The soldiers outside ran towards that house and a few more gunshots were heard… They came outside not long after that, followed with a small group of furries… They get thrown down on the ground as one soldier started talking to one of them. When the furry didn’t answered, he got kicked in the face… Then the soldier who talked to that furry barked out orders and a lot of soldiers scattered around to look inside the houses… [br]
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Lattei: Oh frack…… [br]
Mahabi: Turn that light off……!! Turn that light off……!!! [br]
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We hid Rachel in a closet as we prepared ourselves for what was coming… As I looked outside the window again, I noticed the soldiers spread out further than just this particular street… A few more furries were found and got thrown on the street… Why they weren’t shot right away, was something that kinda bothered me, but we would find out soon enough… We told Rachel to stay in that closet, no matter what, and that we all loved her… It seemed so strange that this was the end of everything we’ve ever been through, and we all knew that we wouldn’t get out alive from this village… We were so close to our goal… And we would never see another sunrise again… [br]
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We knew hiding wouldn’t make a difference… They’ll find us anyway… We left the room where Rachel was in and sat in the room next to it, across the stairs… We all looked at each other and didn’t say anything, knowing that this was the end… Ever since I know Ceylan, I’ve never seen her crying in despair… But now she was sobbing quietly… We all sat down on a bed and held each others hand as we were waiting for them… The door got kicked in downstairs and I heard someone running… I heard a gasp and the sounds of wood breaking into pieces rang throughout the house… I heard Jason begging and pleading as someone unknown was yelling at him… Then we heard the boots running up the stairs… And they barged through the door, aiming their weapons at us… About eight of them… We didn’t put up any resistance, knowing it was useless… And so, we got escorted outside, on the street, in the cold and joined the group of furries… We heard a gunshot behind us… And the soldier walked out of the house… Without Jason… [br]
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A long time passed by, standing in the cold… At some point, the group grew to a total amount of around 30 furries… I held on to Axel and Mahabi, as Ceylan and Lattei were not far from us… As I looked at Mahabi, I noticed he was looking at Lattei and he nodded in an almost inconspicuous way… Then Mahabi whispered very quietly as he grabbed Axels’ and my hand and we pushed our way back very slowly… [br]
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Mahabi: We’ can’t die tonight…… We’re so close now…… Lattei and I did this before…… So listen closely…… [br]
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Axel: What’s gonna happen……? [br]
Mahabi: They will open fire on us…… When they do, get down as low as possible, don’t let go of me…… Keep…… Absolutely…… still…… Once you’re down on the ground…… And whatever happens…… Don’t run away…… [br]
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Nicole/Axel: *nods slowly* [br]
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The soldiers walked around, barking orders to everyone else as a group of eight soldiers aimed their weapons at the group… I closed my eyes as I could hear them yelling and squeezed Mahabi’s hand… As soon as I opened my eyes… The soldier yelled to open fire… [br]
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Mahabi pulled me down along with Axel… I hit my head against the curb of the street and I felt dizzy… As I was down on the cold pavement, I heard gunfire rattle and people screaming… And I felt a stream of blood flowing down my head… And I passed out… It all turned black… [br]
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I didn’t know how long I was passed out… I didn’t really felt that it was that long… But I guess it was… The soldiers were gone… As I slowly opened my eyes, I noticed a posture running away… I got up with a lot of effort, still dizzy and disoriented… I could vaguely hear someone yelling and I saw Lattei down on the ground… And I noticed he was severely hit in his arm… I looked up and noticed Axel standing next, looking at me… He reached out a hand to help me get up, and once I was on my feet, I noticed he had a weak smile on his face… And that was something I’ve never seen before on him… We both walked towards Mahabi and Lattei… Well, Axel walked… I stumbled… Mahabi kneeled next to Ceylan who wasn’t moving… [br]
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Lattei: I-I’m sorry… I… I-She got down but… I got hit and… I let go of her… …… I’m so sorry, Ceylan… [br]
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I kneeled next to Mahabi and looked at Ceylan’s lifeless body… I couldn’t believe it at first… But… It happened… It felt like something was stuck in my throat… And all I could was to cling on to her as I couldn’t hold my emotions anymore. I couldn’t take it anymore… I kept telling her how much I loved her… And looking at her face… It seemed she could jump up any minute and tell us that it was nothing but a horrible joke… But she didn’t… And when I finally realized that, I just collapsed and cried my eyes out, holding her close, like I did with Terry… But I never had to say goodbye to her… Which pains me the most… And looking at the others… Lattei and Mahabi never really showed their emotions, but that night, I think they finally broke down… They weren’t crying but you could see it in their eyes… [br]
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Mahabi: Nicole…… [br]
Nicole: *sobs* No… [br]
Mahabi: We can’t stay here… We have to move on… [br]
Nicole: *sobs* No…! [br]
Mahabi: Come on…… Up you go……[br]
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Mahabi tried to pull me up to move on, but I didn’t cooperate. I stayed with her… I looked at her soft fluffy paws and placed them in mine… But I couldn’t feel those feelings anymore… Just emptiness… And although it was very hard to leave her like that, I knew I had to… We had to move on if we wanna make it… And when I think about everything she ever said to me, or made me feel, I was glad to have known her… I felt as if she was the only one who truly understood me… And it’s painful to loose someone like her… And right now, when I think about it… It made me realize I have more in common with her then I ever imagined… She’s been more honest then I’ve ever been, even with myself… She never had the change to say goodbye, but I still could… So I said goodbye to her… [br]
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I stumbled back to Jason’s house to get Rachel… As soon as I stood in the doorway, I noticed Jason’s body on the ground, with a bullet hole in his head… Why Jason was shot is something I never understood… He’s a human after all, one of their own kind… Maybe they saw him as a traitor… Well… If you asked me… Jason wasn’t a traitor… He was just a kid who wanted to talk to somebody… And it didn’t matter to him who it was he talked to… A kid of 17 years old has more common sense then the rest of the entire human race… He gave his life while defending his morals and ideals, and it’s the ultimate sacrifice that someone can make. And I respect him for that… It makes me believe that not all humans are monsters… If only more would follow his example… [br]
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Rachel… She wasn’t there when I came for her… I searched the place but I couldn’t find her… Then Axel revealed that they took her… They found her… And took her with them… I can only hope that they take good care of her… But nevertheless… It was still a very painful thing to witness… [br]
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We had to continue… We couldn’t stay… It was so difficult to say goodbye to Ceylan, Jason and Rachel… But we kept on going anyway… It went slow, and no one said anything… You could see that Mahabi and Lattei were on the brink of a mental breakdown and Axel… I couldn’t really tell… But the fact that everyone was quiet said enough… We were exhausted by the cold… But we couldn’t give up, not now we were so close… [br]
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Hours later, we saw the outskirts of the massive city… And Ceylan was right… It was a city in ruins… We got so devastated by that, realizing that everything was in vain, and that everyone who didn’t make it on the way, died for nothing… It was a silly thing to think that a city could give us hope, even though it was most likely in ruins… But we knew now, and we didn’t know what to do… And we all gave up on hope… It all shattered into thousands of pieces right in front of our noses… And so… We started to make the long journey back… We couldn’t care anymore… It might as well be all over… [br]
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Lattei was the first one who collapsed by exhaustion… As Mahabi was carrying him, he collapsed too not long after that… I couldn’t feel my legs anymore… And I hit the ground as well… I closed my eyes slowly and wished it was all over… [br]
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Then the next thing I felt was that I was wrapped up in thick blankets… As I slowly opened my eyes, I noticed we were up high in the sky… At first, I thought I died or something and that my soul was floating through the air… But as I looked around, I noticed I was in an airtransport… Were we kidnapped…? I hope not… It was so surreal… Then I heard the pilots talking… [br]
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???: COMScann, this Outlaw-2-5-niner, be advised, we found 4 civillians out in the open, 3 male, one female. Their showing signs of hypothermia. One male shot in the arm, condition critical. Female has multiple lacerations in the face. Notify EMT’s. ETA, 15 minutes. [br]
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Radio: Copy that, Outlaw-2-5-niner, notifying EMT’s. [br]
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I felt how I slipped away slowly… I was so tired of everything… And I just hoped that, when I close my eyes, I’ll never open them again… To have a peaceful sleep at last… And never to wake up again… [br]
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