Survival Of The Fittest

"You had to watch your friends die and get shot, it's awful!!!" She wept.

She fell to her knees and placed her head in her hands. After a brief moment she looked back up at him.

"I mean, I could never live through that, I'd have to find a way to stick with them, or pull them through hard times!!! And another thing, you are hurt bad!!! Did you get the bullet out?"

Jeremy said, "It's ok...your new here on the island right? You seem new...what I had to go through was tough, but I made it through." Jeremy then looked at his arm, "No I didn't get the bullet out. I don't have the equipment or the knowledge to do that. Besides it will just bleed more and that's the last thing I want."

"Yeah, I'm new. Nevera's the name, but you can call me Nev. While I was looking for a cure for my uncle. I found ways to take care of people and their wounds. I can remove the bullet and sew it up, I have a few of my personal things in my bag that they let me keep! So how about it?"

She wiped her tears and smiled.

Jeremy was surprised by the girls kindness and said, "Ok...." Sitting down he untied the shirt around his arm and looked at the wound. Jeremy knew he was lucky to be alive, but the thought of gunshots brought him to wonder if Glenn and Mallory were safe, if Heather managed to hold them off at the school, or what happened to Fred and his heroic attempt.

Nevera smiled and got her needle, stiches, cleaning substances and the like. "It may hurt a little." She began to sortof cut the dried blood enough to dig out the bullet. Within a few minutes, she retrieved it. A little blood came with that and she placed an alcohol pad on the spot to clean it, next some iodine.

Jeremy winced a little with the pain and said, "I can't complain about the pain I guess. That sickle of mine was accidently lodged in a friend's leg, I had to pull it out. That's why it's bloody incase your wondering....I'm not playing this game."

She nodded. "I was wondering a little, but now that I know, I am contented!" She smiled

She then began to stitch the small hole pack together, it took about 5 minutes to complete. After she was done, she stood up and cleaned her utensils. Then, she sat beside him.

"How's that? Do you need me to wrap it up in a bandage?"

Jeremy sat silently as she stitched up his wound, he winced a little every time the needle struck him but when she was done he said, "Thank you." When she then offered to badage it Jeremy said, "You have bandages to? That would be cool, thanks."

She laughed somewhat. "Yeah. I am prepared for any accident anywhere!"

She laughed a little and then bandaged his arm

Jeremy said, "Thanks, good thing I met you, I guess I don't really take my injuries seriously, havnt really met anyone on the island who knew anything about medicine."

"Well, I don't want my uncle to end up like me, so i am trying to find a cure for his illness."

She said lowering her head a little, her bangs covering her eyes.

Jeremy said, "Uncle? Illness? What? I'm sorry i don't really understand what your talking about." Jeremy turned to face Nevera.

She was teary again, ((sigh lol)) but she looked at him.

"I had cancer and lost my left eye due to radiation therapy. That's why I dont wanna play, cuz I think I would lose..... since I am half blind. Now my uncle is sick with cancer, and I wanna find a cure, so that he doesn't have to lose anything important to him."

She began to cry and pulled her knees up to her chest

Jeremy saw the girl start to cry....he wanted to do something to comfort her. "Hey...don't cry ok? Everything will be ok..." Jeremy then though about what she said about her uncle, "For now though, you should focus on yourself and not your uncle. Later you can work on helping your uncle...." Jeremy though about the later though, this was a game to fight until only one survives....he remembered Aiden and Dai's plan for escape....they had everyone sign their names....that was before the group split up due to the ambush with the guy with the machine gun...before Fred played Hero and ran off, before Glenn and Mallory made a run for the lookout point, before Jeremy got lost and found his way in this house. Jeremy only sat there silently listening to the girl cry, wanting to comofrt her, but couldnt.

She buried her face in her knees and shook her head. "But I can't go back, i will never make it through here alive!"