Undercover

Thumping. I woke up to a thumping on the top of the train. I shot up throwing my bag over my shoulder. I pulled Jack up and his eyes were still filled with sleep. He could tell by my eagerness that we had to leave. He gave me a worried look as he saw me looking over the edge of the train. There was water below but a jump from this height would kill both of us. Staying here would kill us too. I stuck my hand out for Jack to take.

"Are you crazy," he asked.

"Then stay here and die," I told him.

He grabbed my hand, tightly interlocking our fingers together. I jumped from the train, pulling Jack with me. We began to fall quickly towards the water. I grabbed the grappling gun from my belt loop and shot it at the bridge. I quickly pulled Jack closer into my arms as we bounced, the tension pulling at the cord. We slowly descended towards the water.

I retracted the hook and we fell from a safe distance into the water. I hope Jack had a waterproofed his bag otherwise he was going to be quite unhappy. I grabbed the pocket packs of oxygen and gave Jack one, telling him to wait until my word to surface. I heard a helicopter go over the water, stirring it up to see if we were underneath.

I pulled Jack further down in the water so they wouldn't see us. I heard the helicopter continue on it's way, it still wasn't safe to surface. Time passed, I don't know how much. I tugged on Jack's arm, pointing to the sky. We surfaced and Jack had a pissed look on his face.

"What the fuck dude, you just pulled me out of a moving fucking train! You need to explain yourself right now Alex," he screamed.

"Shut the fuck up, I'll explain it once we get to a place we can camp okay," I said.

"No, now!"

"Jay, please, just let us get to camp please."

He sighed and we swam to shore, me helping him due to the weight of the heavy bag. I threw mine on the shore and helped Jack onto the beach. He was breathing heavily but grabbed his bag, walking towards the woods. I quickly threw mine on my shoulder and ran over to him.

"Jay please, just can we make a fire and worry about food," I said.

"Whatever," he sighed.

He shook his wet hair and walked irritated to grab the rope from my hand to make what I assumed was a trap. I quickly made the base for a fire before quickly starting one. I stripped myself of my wet clothes, setting them on a rock near the fire to dry. I ran my hands through my soaking wet hair, knowing it would dry soon.

"Whoa, what the fuck Alex," Jack said.

"Sorry, I didn't have time to grab clothes yet. I just wanted to dry what I was wearing," I responded.

"Just put some fucking clothes on."

I sighed, shaking my head and pulling out a pair of boxers and sweat pants from my bag. I threw them both on and walked back to the fire. Jack had set out a trap for food so we didn't have any yet. I threw him one of the packets of beef jerky which he happily caught. I threw him one of the water bottles we'd packed.

"We need to talk about this, who's after you, why do they want you," Jack said.

"I know, I just , you aren't going to believe me," I said.

"You don't know that."

"I'm a spy."

"No you're not."

"Well not anymore, every time I'd disappear I had a mission. I ran away and it meant that I was giving up my life. Now that you know all of this you are at risk too. I'm sorry, it's just complicated."

"Wait, they're going to kill me too?"

"I'm sorry Jay, they just, I'm sorry."

He curled up to my side, neither of us speaking another word. I know that he realized he was stuck with me now. The fire cracked softly, taking over the silence so it wasn't awkward. It was weird to have Jack this close to me, the only person that has been was Rian. Rian was very touchy so I'd gone pretty far with him despite having no interest.

"Oh, I have a fiance too," I mentioned absentmindedly.

He pulled away from my side, moving suddenly as if he was afraid my fiance was going to find out. I didn't give a shit what Rian would do. He wouldn't even know.

"You're engaged," he asked.

"Spies are supposed to marry spies. You're set to marry before you're born sometimes," I whispered.

"That's stupid."

"Well, at least that rule doesn't end in death like just about everything else."

He stood up, stripped his wet clothes off. I never noticed how thin he was, how lanky he was. I tore my eyes from him was he was currently not clothed at all right now. I heard him rustle through his bag and curse under his breath. I sighed, stripping the sweat pants off and handing them to him. I threw a larger hoodie on so it covered my crotch. I was just uncomfortable sitting there in only boxers.

"Are we safe here," he asked.

"For now," I replied. "Safe is a relative term."

I looked over at the sun, we had slept a surprisingly long time on the train. I took some extra rope tying branches together to make a makeshift bed. I covered it with leaves for a small bit of insulation. I tied it to the fork of the tree. I sighed, tying our bags underneath the makeshift bed. I curled up on the surprisingly sturdy foundation.

I felt it move near me as Jack climbed onto it. I heard him snore softly as he began to drift into sleep. For some reason it was easier for me to sleep next to him. I was happier now than I had been in a very long time. Maybe this was actually the right choice in the end.

Notes

This is the last chapter before I leave town so for about a week. We celebrated my dad's birthday today (instead of tomorrow) so I still got to celebrate it with my family. Also, my band has been writing some awesome lyrics lately and we really want to put it to music and all of that because we feel like people would really enjoy it and yeah.

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