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Split Spoils...

They were almost at the church when Trevor stopped the party .

He wanted them to split the spoils so they could be on their way .

Actually, he was scared that if they continued to move forward , they might encounter more people and the others might agree to split the spoils with the new people and he would not be able to disagree because he had not really played a significant role in procuring it .

" Hey , I think we have gone far enough now , let us split what we got and go our separate ways ".

Dean looked at him and all he could think of was that this meant that Trevor did not stay very far away from the church .

Dean yelped softly when two strangers , a male and female came into his line of sight .

Everyone immediately turned to him and Dean looked around for a moment .

" Who... who are they ? "

Blade only rolled his eyes and turned to the others .

" Pay no attention to Dean , he gets jumpy when he is tired and sleepy ".

They all nodded slowly while the newbies continued to watch him petulantly like a couple of new kids at the district high school.

Nelly got out of the cart and picked out all of Jade's bags , she handed it to him and did the same for Tara's bags .

She had no trouble pulling out Dean's over inflated sack and pushing it into him before she was finally left with her own shopping bags .

" Why are you splitting the shopping bags up ?"

Nelly looked over to Jade who had spoken and swept her eyes over his frame before replying , it was obvious from the grave look she gave him that she did not seem to care about his opinion a lot.

She did not actually seem to care about a lot of people's opinions .

" I am sure there were things you picked out with your teammates in mind , you can just hand it out to the respective people you chose it for , that is easier and faster for everyone ".

She got to work on her sacks without paying attention to the other people so Dean did the same .

Dean beckoned for Trevor to come over and took out the flashlight batteries he had gotten , Trevor swaddled over and bent down next to Dean .

" Do you need flashlight batteries ? "

Trevor shook his head hurriedly while peering deeply into the sack like a greedy little child .

" No , we made it a rule not to leave our lodgings once it gets dark ".

Dean nodded and was about to throw it back into the bag when he spotted the strangers from earlier , they seemed too fidgety not to own a flashlight , so he threw a pack of flashlight batteries into the male's hands , he caught it easily and gave Dean an appreciative glance while Dean went back to his sorting .

He took out all the extra ammo he had gotten and gave Trevor his shares , earning a wide grin from Trevor who had not been expecting ammo or had been too busy staring into the sack .

The grin almost split his face wide open when Dean gave him one of the pairs of radio transmitters .

Finally , he pulled out the baton that had spikes on it and pushed himself up .

He threw it into the cart that Nelly was sorting out .

" That is yours ".

He turned back around to see that they were all not even halfway done with their own sorting , he had been the first to finish yet again .

Dean groaned audibly before collapsing next to his own sack and staring at them .

Nelly was the first one whose eyes he caught .

She was muttering something to him .

He caught a "Thank you " and a " very good ".

He only nodded and turned around to see what the others where doing and how far along they had come .

Tara seemed to have just grabbed everything that her hands could reach so he crawled to her .

" What do you have here ? "

She jumped slightly before moving aside .

There was something for colds and fevers , headaches , a sedative , packs of tampons and pain relievers .

Dean split everything in three , giving them more tampons which had Tara going unnecessarily red .

He did not say anything to her so she could hopefully lose her new found color .

When they were done there , Nelly and Jade seemed to be done too .

Dean gave Tara the smallest of the three bags to hand over to the strangers who seemed to have gotten bags from Jade and Nelly already .

They were bending into a ninety degrees so fast as they showed their appreciation that Dean was scared that they might snap into two .

Eventually , they scampered off but not before Dean caught a glance of a loaf of bread causing him to smile .

Nelly eyed him evilly before her team also left , leaving Dean and his team alone .

" What is her problem ? "

None of them paid him any mind as they were rushing to secure the delivery seat of the cart .

Dean rolled his eyes and got into the cargo space with all of their groceries and whatnots .

He could hear them arguing as they rode the rest of the way to the church .

As soon as they got to the church , Blade who had been the one to win the strange battle offloaded all of their things and went to park the cart somewhere that would not be easily noticed while Dean and Jade began to take the bags Inside the church .

Two trips and a few moments later , they were sitting on the altar again showing each other what they had brought home .

There was lots of water , a couple of bowls and cutleries, fruit juices ,tissues, bread , Jam , peanut butter and fruits , Cereals , cookies , chocolate and milk that was strangely not spoilt , the seal only indicated that opening it without finishing it would spoil it .

So ,they just had to open one daily .

Everyone oohed and aahed when Dean emptied his sack , especially Blade who told them that he had just been about to quit being the green man since he had no grenades left.

When Dean pulled out the radio transmitters , Jade and Blade smiled like children that had been taken to Disney world , they immediately grabbed one of the two pairs and tore the packaging away before each of them took one of the two radios and ran to different ends of the room .

They began screaming weird commands at each other , not forgetting to add an excessive amount of overs and outs to it .

When they eventually got over the novelty of having radios , they decided to eat. They took a loaf of bread , milk and some jam and began to eat , sighing like they had never had bread or milk while Dean took the rifle and gown that he had brought for May and left their midst .

May had probably woken up and had been worried .

He opened the door and stepped in , May was not on the bed.

He moved closer and left the dress and rifle on the bed , her boots were gone too .

He left the room immediately .

" Blade , check the bathrooms up there and Jade, you check every other place inside the church , I will check outside ".

They both jumped on their feet before stopping abruptly .

" What exactly are we checking for ? "

Blade asked as he exchanged a brief glance with Jade , who already looked quite serious .

" May is gone ".

They all ran to their respective places while Dean headed out to the tree he had found her on yesterday .

She was not on it or on any other trees , she was not anywhere around the church either and there were no tracks in the sand except for Dean's .

He headed back into the church where he let Blade and Jade about to come out .

"She is nowhere around but her guns and her backpack are not here too , so we can rule out the fact that someone did something to her ".

Dean nodded , grateful for Blade's analogy and then he thought that they could have done something to her and taken her guns along as spoils of their kidnap attempt , this game was obviously a play on medieval life already .

" She could have gone in search of us and could be anywhere right now since she had no idea where we could have gone ".

Dean recoiled .

He had thought of waking her to tell her that they were leaving and would be back shortly but he had thought of the stress of waking her and decided not to and he had also been sure that she would ignore her treatment and want to come along .

She would have made sure that she did .

And now his single mistake would endanger May's life , the exact same way with his parents .

Dean ran back to the room and grabbed her rifle as well as his bow.

On the alter , he stopped to grab some of the bottles of menthylated spirit and stuck them inside the smaller pockets of his kevlar vest , he grabbed one of the remote transmitters and the new set of arrows before running back to where they stood .

" Wait here and stay on the radio incase she comes back ".

Dean ran out of the church , his name resounding as one of the two or maybe the two of them kept calling his name as he ran off .

He could not handle it .

He could not handle another person dying because of his recklessness.