((Juanita Reid continued elsewhere))

They came in, woke her up. She wasn't aware she'd been sleeping. They were soldiers, or nurses, or nurse soldiers. The machine beeped as they changed out one bag of fluid for some other bag of fluid, and made some adjustments to another one. Juanita wasn't entirely sure which was which and what did ...

Fourteen kids survived.

Out of those fourteen, Juanita had been the first one to get her collar off and leave the game.

So, did that make her the winner?

Or was she the loser, because everybody else had survived on the island longer?

...She actually cared about that. What the fuck.

Beatrice hadn't made it. She'd picked at one of the soldiers' sleeves, told him that her friend might be out there still, might still be alive somewhere. She'd given a brief physical description, a hazy account of where Beatrice might have been. But as time dragged on and the last few survivors stra...

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The bleachers feel cold, even though it's a warm day. It seeps in through her jeans, spreading up and out and all through her body, and she's fidgeting and shivering a little bit, even though she's wearing a sweater. Two of them, actually. Her Worship and Prayers sweater, bearing its unfortunate acr...

Not long after, the sound of a snowmobile engine cut through the trees. ((Juanita Reid continued from If You Want Blood, I'll Give You Some )) Fitz was a good deal lighter than Evie, and his frame was stretched over a good few extra inches, but he somehow seemed to occupy way more space on the snowm...

Evie volunteered to stay behind, which nicely wrapped up the problem of trying to get three people onto a snowmobile that had only two seats. Well, more like one set with enough room for someone to uncomfortably spoon the driver while trying not to fall off. She'd have argued against it if she'd had...

The snowmobile was in sight. Juanita hustled over to it, not bothering to secure her load. Her leg was practically burning with pain, every step sending a spike of pain through her calf and thigh. The muscles felt rigid, throbbing. The simple act of lifting her leg and throwing it over the seat was ...

Okay. Evie was down, but alive. The other girl - crap, it was Kaede - was dead. Fitz was hit. Not down, but hit, running, leaving drops of red in his wake. Okay. Chase him down, get him with the kni- A gunshot. "GAH! EVIE, WHAT THE!?!" Juanita ducked to one side as a small puff of splinter...

And he might have nailed it, too, if Juanita had been a hair slower in arriving. ((Juanita Reid continued from HEAT UP )) But the gun was already out and the safety was already off. So, when Juanita rounded the corner and saw Evie down, with that weird kid Fitz and his deadly, deadly rifle, lining u...

Juanita recognized the voice. That weird girl who'd mocked her and ran away after John died. She sounded different now. Unhinged. Was she mocking Juanita to throw her off guard or just driven slightly mad by the island? Hard to tell. Didn't really matter. One chance. That was what she'd said, one ch...

((Juanita Reid continued from If You Want Blood, I'll Give You Some )) The smoke stung her eyes, and Juanita pulled the hood of her sweater across her mouth and nose to keep from coughing. The intruder was down here -she'd heard the terrorists squawking at them over the loudspeakers, and the muted e...

If the words had been less beautiful or the emotions less raw, then Juanita probably would have been looking at Evie while she spoke. But she was still watchful, still scanning for threats. Evie's words burned her anyway, almost as bad as John's condemnation or Teddie's anguish. Kelsey deserved bett...

Juanita grimaced. "I dunno," she said. ((Juanita Reid continued from In From The Cold )) She hadn't known Kelsey before this. Heck, she barely knew Evie, despite the trust bond between them. She hadn't been there when Kelsey died, and hadn't even been strong enough to help drag her out her...