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Chapter Nine: The Girl Who Saw the Dead
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Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Choice in the Hallway
The door finished opening.Sophie stood in the gap in her nightgown with her blanket dragged behind her, rubbing one eye with a fist. She had heard the noise. She had come to look."Mama?" she whispered.Rebecca turned her head toward the small voice."Sophie, get back!" Jake shouted. "Go back inside, now!"Ethan was faster than Jake. He came around the corner at a dead run, threw both hands forward, and the last of his stored force hit the nearest door like a fist. It slammed shut in Sophie's face with a crack that shook the hallway. Behind it she began to wail, a thin, frightened sound that tore through the walls.Ethan staggered. His knees buckled. He caught himself on the wall with a gasp and a smear of red under his nose."That's all of it," he panted. "I'm empty.""Then stay behind me," Jake said."I'm not going anywhere."Rebecca hadn't moved. She stood with her bent fingers hovering near the wall, listening to Sophie's crying with her head tilted. A small, wet noise came out o
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Six: The Woman Behind the Eyes
"Eleven," Claire said. "Twelve."Jake stood over the cot with his hands open at his sides. The lantern light made everything look yellow and unreal, Rebecca's face, the blanket, the small silver pendant still resting in her fingers. He could have sworn the room had stopped breathing with her."Fifteen. Sixteen."Ethan appeared in the doorway with his eyes wide. A guard crowded in behind him. Claire waved them both back without looking up. "Nobody comes in. Nobody touches her.""Is she dead?" Ethan whispered."She's in stillness.""How long?""Twenty-two. Twenty-three."Jake didn't take his eyes off his aunt's face. He had seen Frank hit this stage. He knew what came after. Somewhere deep inside him he had already started to pray, in the bargaining way that people do when they've stopped believing anyone is listening. Let it be thirty seconds. Let it stop. Let it come back wrong but come back."Thirty," Claire said. "Thirty-one."Rebecca's chest rose.It was a tiny movement, barely a f
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Five: The Fever
The fever came in the afternoon. It started with a shiver at the east fence, something Rebecca waved off as the wind. By the time they got her back to the side room, her teeth were chattering and the skin of her forehead burned under Jake's hand like a stove lid. "A hundred and three," Claire said, reading the thermometer with her mouth in a flat line. "And rising." Nora already had a basin of cold water and a stack of rags. They laid Rebecca on the cot, stripped the blanket back, and pressed wet cloths to her neck, wrists, and the soles of her feet. She moaned and turned her face toward the wall. The gray line on her arm had split. Two thin tendrils crept up from the wound, one toward the elbow, one toward the shoulder, faint as pencil marks and unmistakable. Jake stood by the door with his hands hanging useless at his sides. He hadn't felt this kind of helpless since he was sixteen. "Talk to me," he said. "What can we do?" "Not much." Claire didn't look up. "That's the honest
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Four: The Last Normal Morning
Rebecca woke before dawn and asked for tea.Jake had spent the night in the chair by the wall, half awake, listening to the hum under the floor. It had faded around four in the morning, quietly, like a tired engine. When he heard the cot creak, he was on his feet before he'd decided to be."Easy," Rebecca said. Her voice was hoarse but clear. "I'm only awake. I haven't grown claws.""That's not funny.""It's a little funny."He untied her wrists himself, slowly, with the soft cloth strips still warm from her skin. She flexed her hands and looked at the faint red marks around her wrists. "Remind me to complain to Claire about the knots," she said. "She ties like a nurse and a jailer at the same time."It was the first joke he'd heard anyone tell since Emily died. He laughed, a short, rusty sound, and felt something in his chest unlock.The guard at the door found them a kettle. They had no real tea, only a tin of pine needles and dried mint that Nora called "a hot drink if you squint."
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Three: Rebecca's Fever
Maya didn't ask again on the walk home.They left the annex at dusk, a ragged line of people moving down empty streets with Marcus's truck rumbling behind. Peter carried Sophie on his shoulders. Laura held Ben's good hand. Walter led, Kai limped at the rear with a bandaged forearm and his eyes on the ground. The Stalkers on the rooftops had vanished while Jake was dead, and nobody had explained why. Nobody wanted to.Jake drifted to the back of the line and Maya fell in beside him, a careful arm's length away."You don't have to tell me," she said quietly."I know.""I'm only saying it because I saw the trace stop. I wasn't trying to catch you in anything."He kept walking. Ahead, Ethan glanced back once, pretended he hadn't, and turned around again. A block went by, then another. A bus rotted at the curb. A dog's collar lay in the gutter with the leash still attached."It's my Awakening," Jake said at last. "If something kills me, I come back. Ten minutes later. Healed."Maya didn't
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-Two: The Wrong Kind of Rescue
Walter's radio crackled at four in the afternoon. He'd sent one short burst from the lobby when they first got inside, then switched it off to save the battery. Now the speaker hissed, spat static, and Graham's voice came out of it in pieces. "...truck on the way... fifteen minutes... stay where you are..." "Tell him no," Jake said. "Tell him to stay at the Ridge." Walter hit the button and shouted. The radio only hissed. A last chirp of static, and then the battery light went dark. Ethan swore. "He's sending people into that." Jake was already moving. He took the stairs to the roof two at a time, Maya right behind him. The access door groaned open onto flat gray tar and a low parapet. The plaza lay spread below them, empty and bright in the late sun. Around its edges, on every roof, the Stalkers sat folded like cranes. Thirty of them now. Maybe more. None had moved in an hour. A flatbed truck turned onto the far end of the street. It came slowly, with Marcus in the passenger
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