Let It Shine

Chapter forty nine: The Rain

Emma shut the window behind her right as the rain started to pour, she sighed and pushed off the sill of the window and put the lighter and pack of smokes in her pocket before turning and freezing seeing Nikko standing there ''Where were you?'' Emma stood up straight taking her hands out of her jacket ''On the roof, wanted to watch the sun rise.'' she explained and smiled a bit, Nikko walked over and stood infront of her, his arm's still crossed over his chest, he leaned forward and breathed in through his nose before moving back ''You smell like a cigarette.'' Emma sighed and looked to the side crossing her arm's over her chest before looking back to him ''Don't speak about it, alright?'' she stated and passed him, Nikko grabbed her arm and went for her pocket, Emma pulled her arm away and grabbed his hand before pulling him forward tripping him, he hit the ground with a thud, she turned him over onto his stomach and bent his arm behind his back before pressing her left knee to his spine ''I'd rather die from lung cancer then getting bit, thank you very much.'' she stated and let go of his arm and got up walking down the hall.

Nikko moved his arm back around and looked up seeing her turn to the left and go downstairs where the other's were, he chuckled and looked down shaking his head before pushing off the ground and stood up seeing Connor open a door beside the stairs then look over to Nikko ''What?'' he spat before walking over and headed downstairs, Connor rolled his eye's and shut the door walking back over to the radio he found in this room, he sat down and put the headset back on before turning to look at the map he had on the ground. He wiggled a pencil back and forth between his pointer finger and middle finger, he leaned back in the chair waiting to hear any kind of chatter between the people living in Pittsburgh. He looked over hearing a light knock on the door and took the headset off as Mia opened the door ''Hi.'' Connor looked to the map but Mia was already coming in. She saw the map and scrunched her eye brows in confusion then looked to Connor ''What's this?'' she asked and saw the radio behind him losing the slight smile she had, Connor turned looking to the radio then to her ''You remember that group we saw terrorising the other survivours, or, those coming into Pittsburgh?'' Mia nodded remembering when they first arrived.

Connor put the headset on leaving his right ear uncovered ''They've been talking though radio's, my guess is these were left by the military or people bought them or took them from stores after the outbreak.'' he explained and turned to the radio while Mia walked over ''Why should we worry about them?'' she asked and brought her right side up on the table leaning into it ''They said something about the zone in Toronto.'' he stated and looked at her, she looked at him then to the radio ''You think these are the people who blew the walls open?'' Connor shrugged ''This is where Evin and them picked up that group, maybe they over heard them talking about it or, they were with them.'' he explained and turned it up a bit ''What do you mean with them?" Mia asked, Connor looked to her and sighed ''I just... Never really trusted them, any of them.'' he explained his opinion then turned to the radio ''Evin didn't either.'' he stated being truthfull and heard them talking so he moved the headset over his right ear. Mia looked at the map before crouching down looking at thing's he wrote down, there were red circles with X's through them and other with blue and green, the blue circles had question marks while the green had checkmarks.

''Mia.'' she turned and looked to him ''Their talking about seven tresspassers in New York.'' he stated and looked back to her, Mia got up and moved over while Connor listened ''Four kids all under the age of four, two asian's and a pale guy.'' he stated and looked to her, Mia thought about the information then shook her head ''That could be anyone?'' Connor listened more he shook his head ''Details come on.'' he turned to face the radio and waited, he sighed and hung his head ''Nothing.'' Mia turned and looked at the map ''What does everything mean?'' she asked and looked to him, Connor turned around ''The X's are infested buildings, the question marks are their bases, and the checkmarks are the building's or areas that are clear, although I think they might be using the clear areas as look outs or small bases.'' he explained, Mia smiled and looked to him ''Did you sleep?'' she asked and crossed her arm's over her chest, Connor looked to her and smiled shaking his head ''I'm to worried about Carson and Evin.'' he stated and turned back to the radio wanting them to say more. Mia walked over to him holding his shoulders ''Trust me when I say, I believe they made it out, alright?'' she asked and leaned her head to the side, Connor turned and looked to her nodding.

Mia smiled ''I'm gonna be taking Emma on a run later if you wanna join, I'll be asking Nikko as well.'' Connor thought about it then nodded taking the headset off and set it down turning the radio off and got up following her out ''Maybe after we can find stuff to get the projector up and running, watch a black and white movie?'' Mia explained and turned ''Why black and white?'' Connor asked as they got to the second floor where a bunch of seats were and a bar where adult's could've come to get a drink ''Aiden can't watch one of the other ones, I mean, unless we get subtitles on them.'' Mia explained as she headed down the second set of stairs with Connor right behind her, they got to the main floor and Connor saw everyone was awake, Robbie and Kristina were sitting in their sleeping bags, Robbie had one of those comics from the store in this movie theatre and Kristina was just waking up.

Emma picked up the baseball bat of her's and her backpack and looked to Mia ''Ready?'' Mia asked and picked her bag up with her shotgun and turned to Bruce ''If anything happens you know where to hide right?'' Mia asked using sign language for Aiden, he signed back 'Behind the curtians in the dark' Mia smiled and looked to Bruce ''Get them in the back and in the dark and don't come out until they've lost interest or until they wonder out.'' Mia nodded ''And if they don't do either?'' she asked, Bruce smiled ''Take out the dead or leave the living.'' Bruce explained, Mia turned to Nikko ''You wanna come?'' Nikko looked to her and smiled getting up walking over, Emma went to Connor as he checked his knife ''Evin get that for you?'' she asked as they headed to the front, Bruce followed to lock the door behind them, Connor nodded ''Right before we met you actually.'' he explained, Emma smiled as Mia and Nikko moved the couch and opened the door, the four of them left leaving Bruce to push the couch back with Aiden.