"You always choose to stay
Spend your nights keeping me away
You think you stand a chance to last
Against the ghosts of your past?"

Salvaged, By Natewantstobattle


I own nothing but my own Ideas

Until dawn, sole survivor endings. Chapter names from butterfly effects.


To the rescue


It's hard to believe, you are alive.

You shouldn't be alive. Not after being dragged through a window. Not after the fall you took, and the many hours spent unconscious down there. Hypothermia should have killed you. That… monster, should have killed you.

You shouldn't believe in monsters, at your age, but there is no other way you can think to describe what happened. You never had a clear view of it, but when it carried you, it was strong and terrible. It smelt of decay and old blood. Its shrieks were inhuman.

It was Mike who saved you. Mike who ran after you. Mike who… didn't survive. You survived, on a fluke. You picked yourself up, when you were conscious enough to stand, and got out of the mines, despite your fear.

Somehow you made it.

Somehow, you are the only one who made it.

The lodge is on fire. A male and two female bodies were found inside. No one knows what happened to the others. It makes you sick. It makes you scared.

What happened to Emily, your old best friend, one of the smartest people in your group, whose insecurities could turn her into a bitch at times, but could always be counted on to make the smart decision? What happened to Mike, who charged bravely after you, who has the girliest scream you had ever heard, and braved your teasing with good grace? What happened to your friends?

The marks on your body will scar. The time spent unconscious, has caused brain damage. What will you do with yourself now?

You don't know what happened to everyone else. Maybe the rescue crew is wrong. Maybe they are alive. But after what happened with Hannah, and Beth, you have every right to be worried.

Oh god. If you ever see Josh again, you owe him so many apologies (for that horrible prank, and for his sisters, and for how little you were there for him after). You will apologize to Sam too. And you are going to make it up with Emily, get to know Matt better, and kiss Mike, and get Ashley and Chris to hook up at last.

You know you won't see at least two of them, but you have to hold out hope of seeing some of them again.

It helps you get up again, some mornings.