In Town

I was about to chime in when gun shots rang out. A lot of them. "What the fuck?"

"Stay here," I said to the two newcomers then took off for the woods, pulling my gun out. I was almost there when I saw Asher shoot out of his house, then Charles. "They came from the woods." 

"Are any of ours out there this morning?" Everyone was ready and had their weapons out now as we headed into the woods.

I'd heard the gunshots too and headed outside when I saw people heading towards the woods. I got Daphne and took her next door to Cameron and Abi's, then loaded my gun and followed them, hearing what Asher said as I walked up. "Brooke just went out there to hunt not long ago. She doesn't use a gun though, she uses a bow and arrow." 

"Alright, we need to find her. We'll split up. Jon goes with me, Preston and Carter go with Asher."

"Fine by me," I said and went with them while asswipe went with Charles.

Jon and I was walking through the woods carefully "So. I'm sorry about your nose."

"It's alright. I deserved it."

"Darlene might come around. I don't know for sure but she'll just need time."

I nodded. "Understandable. I don't... really expect anything... from Ezra either." 

"If anyone can talk to her it's Asher." I told him and then stopped "Here's an arrow. Do you think it's her's? 

"Let me see," I said and held out my hand for it. The knife markings on it were identical to when she made her arrows. "It's hers," I said and looked around. "Where the fuck is she though? She never leaves arrows laying around, she always retrieves them to use later."

"So, you've hunted with her before?" I asked and started checking around for signs of a trail to follow. 

"Yeah. We hunt together all the time." 

"It looks like a few people headed in this direction." I didn't want to say it but it looked like she may have been chased, followed, or something.


We were analyzing everything around us and started to find shell casings on the ground in various places.

We looked around for awhile longer and with every step I got more and more worried... and pissed off. "She's not here. And she didn't leave by choice." 



"Where the fuck is she," I said, trying not to panic.

I met back up with Asher and the other boys and we didn't go much farther when we found where something big had happened. No bodies but blood was everywhere "Holy shit."

I stood there in shock. Blood... everywhere... probably Brooke's... Oh dear god let her be okay. "Oh my god..." 



I swallowed hard a few times. "We have to find her... We have to find her now," I said, my voice shaking.

"Let's look around and see if we can find anything. If someone suffered a gun shot wound there wouldn't be this much blood splattered everywhere."

"So they had more than guns, I don't fucking care, we have to find her!" I yelled.

"We'll see if the blood leads to anywhere. Come on, Preston." He came over and we went farther into the woods.


"We'll find her." I looked at Jon and I could read the worry and distress in his facial expression. "Holy shit. "She means something to you doesn't she?"

"Is it that obvious?" I said and ran a hand through my hair. 



"She might have been, but she's not anymore," I said then followed Asher and Preston into the woods.

What the hell? Oh, this was going to get good. "Yeah, it's obvious. Obvious that some kind of tension is going on with you and Carter too."

"I'm not stupid. I know something's going on between them. But she's been with me for a long time. I'm not letting her go without a fight." 

"Did you teach her how to shoot those?" I asked nodding towards the arrow he held. "Because if you taught her everything else you know then I wouldn't be too worried about her just yet." I sighed. "You've made mistakes but that doesn't change that you've always been a tough son of a bitch."