Livid Love

"Did The Rat Bite Your Hand Too?"

We land a while later at a small safe house with a room full of bunk beds, I finally get to lie horizontally and I fall asleep fast.

Something disturbs me from my sleep, I lift my head off my pillow just enough to see over the bed railings, 

"OH FUCK"

There's a HUGE rat sniffing around the room, i leap off the top of the bunk and into the ground, i run out of the room and floor it to the main storage room. I grab a mop and run back to the bedroom, Jesus Christ, it's over by Ghosts foot that's hanging out of the bed and it's about to bite his fucking toe, without thinking, I slam the mop down in the rat, hitting his foot in the process.

"THE FUCK?" Simon sits up and smashes his head on the underside of my bed, he holds his face while looking over at me with tears of pain in his eyes

"What the fuck are you doing? It's-" he checks his phone, "Four in the morning!"

Everyone but Soap has woken up at this point and they are all staring at me in drowsy confusion. Meanwhile, I'm frozen, holding a mop like a baseball bat and standing barefooted in the doorway. I slowly lower the bat,

"There was a rat about to bite your foot"

"A WHAT?" He's angry

"Mhm, a rat"

"Then where the fuck is it"

I look down and the rat is gone. Oh shit, i panic, drop the mop on the floor and jump onto his Half of the bunk bed. I look around the room and I see no rat, only everyone staring at me. We'll now they're all going to think I've gone delusional.

"What..are you doing" he's very angry

"I'm sorry I panicked, I think it's gone now"

I crawl off his bed and slowly place my feet on the ground, I turn to face the ladder and put one foot up on the first bar

"OW" the rat ran out from under our bunk and sank its teeth into my heel, I start hopping around the room with a rat dangling from my foot.

"Woah woah, I got u don't worry" Ghost gets out of bed, chokes the rat and makes it let go of my foot, he then twists it's neck and drops it on the floor.

"Ok I believe you now"

Then I look over at Soap who is chanting at himself "It's a dream Soap, calm down" "it's just a fucking dream"

Then he proceeds to lay back down as he keeps muttering to himself. You let out a laugh and ghost does too. My foot is stinging so bad I let out a low hiss and look down at it, it's dripping blood on the floor and starting to swell, badly.

"Sorry guys, go back to sleep, I need to bandage up my foot"

I limp out of the room and grab a Medi-kit from the cupboard, i sit on the chair and start to wrap the bandage around my foot. Can you get rabies from rats? I get a rabies shot and inject it into my heel near the bite just to be sure. Ugh fuck sake, someone used up all the tape in this kit. I get up to grab another one and my bandage unravels everywhere

"Fuck" I say under my breath while trying to stop it from unraveling more. I sit down and re-wrap it and stick the medical tape on it. Now the tape isn't sticking, I put a few more strips on it to make sure it doesn't fall off, perfect. I stand up and all the tape strands pop off 

"Ugh!"

"You're really struggling" 

"Oh hi, yea a bit" I look up and see ghost leaning on the door frame with his arms crossed, I can tell he's trying not to laugh at me, even through the mask.

"Stop laughing"

"I'm not" he's smirking even harder now

"Sorry for whacking your foot" I say as I look down to attempt to fasten the tape again

He doesn't reply, I look up and he's walking over to me, he sits down and puts his hand out, i don't know what he means by that gesture so I put my hand on his.

"Did the rat bite your hand too?"

"Oh no haha" awkward...

I lift my leg up and he says

"Oh you're using the wrong tape, this is for skin not bandages"

"Oh I didn't notice that"

"I guessed"

He takes out another tape from the box and hands it to me

"Here use this"

I put the proper tape on and it holds perfectly, 

"There! Thanks"

"No problem"

He stands up, stretching.

"I'm going to throw that rat away"

"Good idea"

When he's gone, I attempt to stand up but my foot has swollen even more now and it's unbearable to walk on. I hop on one leg to the door of the hallway and I make my way along, using the wall as support. He comes back into the room and says,

"You can take the bottom for now because of your foot"

"And you can take the top" I say with a small smile.

I get under the covers of his bunk and the first thing I do is snuggle into the pillow, it smells like shampoo, and a nice one too. I fall asleep  almost immediately.