I woke up with a stiff back and dirt covering my cloths, the air had a stale wet dog smell which I presumed was natural after a rain storm in the outside world because I used to always love the smell of rain. I’d run outside just to get a whiff of the new life it brought and feel the water dripping down my body, clinging to my clothes. Wind swept into the cave making me shiver, noting the lack of body warmth on my legs I glanced around for Spencer.

She was standing at the foot of the cave, eyes scanning the area out side as her arms hugged her self, “Hey…”

Spencer turned quickly, jumping at the sound of my voice, her eyes different than the cool shade of blue than I’d seen before, “You could have gotten us killed do you know that?” she asked angrily walking back toward me in a huff.

“Excuse me?” I asked completely taken off guard, what had I done in the seconds I woke up to get us killed.

“You told me you’d stay awake, that you’d watch me while I slept,”

“I did watch you,”

“UNTIL YOU FELL ASLEEP!” her voice wavered for a second. She took a deep breath grabbing the bridge of her nose, “Look I’m sorry…” she dropped to her knees in front of my cowering form, sure I looked like some weakling but honestly I had never heard anyone yell like that in all my years of being in trouble, she reached out taking my hand in hers sweeping her thumb soothingly over the top of my palm.

“Why did you yell?” my voice cracked showing how much she frightened me.

Dropping my hand she sat back with her eyes closed for a second and all I could think, all I could wish for is that she’d take my hand in hers again but soon her blue eyes landed on my brown ones, “I don’t mean to…you just have to be careful out her okay, there’s a lot of bad people who won’t think twice about slitting your throat while your asleep.”

“Like the men you killed?” her soft features hardened as she pulled away emotionally again, shutting of the caring Spencer she had been just moments ago.