The Next Day

"I suggest we split into pairs, scout the area and look for anything that could help us. Meet back here in one hour," we were all stood in a circle as Azul spoke to us, my neck hurt from sleeping on the floor but I was glad to still be alive. As a group of people, we broke away and I looked around for Zara but she was already with Adam, laughing at something he said.

"You look a little lost," I turned around to see Niall grinning at me, his eyes sparkling, "Want to be partners?"

I nodded at him, smiling widely and mentally dancing from happiness; the wall of awkwardness and tension had been shattered. Who knew that it would only take one life- threatening experience to put us back on good terms?

"Niall and Dara, you go downstairs to look," Azul barked at us and we both rolled our eyes in sync, I couldn't help but think in that moment how similar we were. How perfect we could be together. Shaking my head, I focused on the task at hand, hoping that searching for tools would stop my heart sinking. Stop me from thinking about what could have been.

We walked into a separate office from the rest of the cubicles, I noticed that the door had a sign on it that said 'Head of Marketing'. The room looked as though it was still being used, as if the worker would return any second from his lunch break. Photo frames were littered round the room and I traced the faces that were smiling in the photos. A picture of a smiling child, two teenagers sticking their tongues out.

"This person was just another number to add to the death count," Niall mumbled as he opened the drawers of the desk, pulling out staplers and the like before chucking them aside.

"Doesn't that make you sad?" I asked, pulling my attention from the photos to look at Niall who was holding a knife in his hand and examining it. He looked up at me with a quizzical face but I waited till he answered the question.

"There's no point thinking about who died, why get upset about something we couldn't control?" His tone and words upset me, that he could just brush off all those deaths like they  were nothing,"This guy was pretty into outdoor stuff or he was worried that he would be attacked any time. This is a hunting knife, you know for killing animals. Don't know why he had it in his office though."

Continuing on with the search around the room, I couldn't help feeling like we weren't alone. We were the only ones on our floor that we had been assigned by the boss, but every now and then I felt like I could hear footsteps. Shaking it off, I carried on looking for more things that we could use with not much luck.

It was only Niall's scream that alerted me about what was going on in the room, I never heard the thing enter. We had stupidly left the door open, perfect for a mutant to stroll in and try and kill us. I fell from my crouching position onto the floor and I quickly sat up, shuffling away from the beast so that my back was pressed against the wall. It grunted loudly into the air, and I watched as Niall fumbled with the knife that he had left on the table.

"Get back mutant," Niall said with a wobbling voice and tears began to roll down my cheeks. I said a silent prayer to whoever was watching over us, and prepared myself to die.

The thing lunged at Niall and I watched as saliva fell from its mouth like a disgusting waterfall, and its eyes rolled back into its head.

"I said GET BACK," Niall yelled at the mutant, which only aggravated the creature even more as it took a step closer to us. I couldn't help thinking each step it took was another step closer to our death.

Before I knew what was happening, Niall jumped forward and slammed the knife's end into the mutant's head, I could see everything that happened due to the creature's transparent skin. The blade dug into the brain, and brownish muck began to spill out of the wound.

The thing screamed out in pain, a low, gravely sound that rang through the room as I watched on in horror. It fell to the floor and stopped moving, but Niall stabbed it a few more times to be sure. Then he turned to face me, shock was present on his face and neither of us said a word.

"Are you two alright- oh my god!" Ellie ran into the office, quickly followed by Maz and she covered her mouth at the sight on the floor. Soon everyone was gathered inside the room, gawking at the corpse on the floor. I was still sat in the corner of the room, shaking slightly and Niall was still mute, staring at the mess on the ground.

"How'd you kill it?" Coby asked and Niall looked up from the body finally, he was sweating and he had turned extremely pale.

"Stabbed it in the head with this knife we found, I guess that's the thing that is still functioning," Niall looked like he was about to be sick and I felt like crying, I couldn't believe how naive we had been. Of course we weren't safe in the office. We could have died.

Closing my eyes I tried to block out the images of the mutant coming towards us, I balled my fists and tried with all my strength to forget what I had seen. I vaguely remember a pair of arms lifting me off the ground and Niall whispering to me that everything would be ok. I wanted to believe him, but after what my eyes had seen I couldn't be so sure.

So this was an action packed chapter and #Nara almost died but Niall saved the day! Where will they go now? They obviously can't stay anywhere near the mutants.

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