The door opens and I stand up, Scott walks in with just a cloth covering him. He collapses and I shout, Jess runs in, she covers her mouth. I kneel down and his skin's ice cold from the rain. I start dragging him as Jess kicks all the wet clothes away from the heater. She looks at me, "Why is he naked? Could he have been robbed?" I shrug and El marches in, "What the hell is this?" Thadius marches in, then looks at me.

  A couple hours pass by and Scott finally pulls himself up, "Scott?" He looks my way, with a new look of wonder on his face, he asks with an extremely scratchy voice, "Was that you?" I tilt my head, "What?" I stop thinking and grab the glass of water and hand it to him, he drinks it all down without stopping, then gasps for air. He asks, "You made me dream?" I shake my head, "I didn't do anything to you." He shakes his head, "Thank you." Did he slip and hit his head? "You seem different." He shrugs and springs up, "Thanks- Jess!?" She runs in, "Are you okay-" He walks towards her, "How did you save Thadius?" She looks away from him, "Uh, I just did." He sighs, "No, how exactly?" She laughs lightly, "Uh, I made a water current, gave him air." He smiles, "Ok, I need you to-" She backs up from him, "I don't think I-"

  He raises his arm quickly and she pulls away from him, he jerks his arm in place, "You can. We need you to." He points to himself, "Jack, Rose and Mama are depending on us." Puppers barks and growls at Scott. Scott grabs his knees, "Puppers, chill out, boy." He's been dreading this, but now he's more excited than ever?

  "Scott, where did you go?" Markus inches towards the kitchen, why is he- I hold out my hands, "Wait- calm down." He shouts, "Everyone get in here!" Thadius, Jan and El turn into the room with guns in their hands. Jan shakes his head, "Let's just kill him now!" Markus shouts, "No! I don't think-" Jan shouts, "It's what he would want." I grab my head, "Guys, Carter did not get to me! Let me explain!" I sit myself down on the ground, "I went to that new church. Guy spewed some nonsense to everyone, that we're god's warriors or something." Jess barks at me, "Did they remove your clothes?" Wait, where did my clothes go? How did I get to the beach? Could I be- I grab my head, "I don't know. But I wasn't followed on the way back." Jan scoffs, "Markus saw you come in and collapse. How do you know that for sure?"

  I groan, "I wasn't followed!" He rolls his eyes, "Oh, Scott. Tell us what happened to your clothes, right now." He raises his gun towards me, El and Thadius do the same. Oh god, I don't know. "I think I was robbed." Jan stares me down, "Not good enough." I wince and grab my head, "I woke up to my head hurting, naked. Just behind the church. Now can we make a plan to save our friends?" Jan steadies his gun, "Bye, Scott." Markus shouts and grabs the gun, "No!" They both struggle, "Don't make me shoot you, Markus!" Thadius grabs the gun and with his brute strength, he rips it out of both their grips. Jan jerks towards them, "He's compromised and we are too!" Jess looks down at me, "We should run while we still can." El shakes his head, "I don't believe he is. I mean, we'd be surrounded at this point, right?" Jan grumbles, "Unless that's what Carter wants us to think." El rubs his chin, "There's no way to truly know, is there?" Markus sighs, "Come on! Do you hear yourselves? We have to really make this decision slowly." Jess squawks, "There's no time to decide."

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  With a deep sigh, I shake my head, "Ok. I'll do it all myself. If I get cornered, I'll just shoot myself." They all look at me and frown, "Or just let me kill myself now. I want to do it myself." Jess groans and grabs her head, "Oh, this is so wrong." Jan nods, "Well, let's give him a shotgun with one shell." El lowers his shotgun, hunches over and grabs his forehead, "We can't be seriously considering this."

  Markus' eye's begin to glow yellow as he shouts, "We aren't- Thadius, we can't let them kill him." He cracks his knuckles, "Why not?" Markus scratches his head, "Just back me up here." He shakes his head, "Thadius! I mean it. Just this once. Please." He grumbles and then points, "You owe me."

  Markus nods, "I'm making a call." Jan laughs, "This is our operation!" "Not anymore. Thadius, Puppers." Puppers snarls and Thadius raises his rifle to Jan, El quickly drops his gun, "Shit!" Jan stares me down, "I'll blow your brother's head off." Jess slowly lowers Jan's gun. "We have to save them. They have survived for so damn long. There's a reason why that is and if we let them die, we die." Jan growls, "You don't know that!"

  I see Carter destroying a room, Jean's picture has blood on it, laid bare in abstract and elusive tone. When was this? A deposit of quartz cracks and splinters on it's own. It splinters so far and vast, no one could ever grab it all.

  A headache forces me back to reality, "Jan, we have to save them." He nods, "El, I suggest you disappear." Jan walks away and he pats puppers, "See you around, boy." He stops growling to whine. El shakes his head at me, "It's just you four. I'm too old for fighting." Puppers barks and pants, 'Guess it's four. Jess, could you-" She shakes her head, "No." She turns, "I just need you to get us inside." She looks down, then turns, "I get you all in and then out. That's it." Scott gets up, "I'm sorry for this everyone." He may not be possessed, but something definitely happened to him.