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The Hoodwinker Island (Part 6/15)

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Kat is the first one to wake up the next morning. Creeping out of bed so as to not wake anyone up, she walks off to the bathroom, and gets ready. She changes out of her hospital gown and stockings, and throws on some fishnets, ripped jeans and a black Guns N' Roses crop top. Kat looks at herself in the mirror, then changes out of the crop top in order to put a plain vest top underneath it to hide her scars. Once she's put the top on again, she heads downstairs to get breakfast. When she's in the kitchen getting a bowl of cereal out, there's a creak on the stairs as someone else comes down. Kat freezes; it's still dark outside, and anyone could be out there. The light in the kitchen flickers on, and Kat almost drops her bowl in surprise at who it is.
It's Josh.
"Oh, it's you," Kat says; they haven't spoken since the argument last night.
"So," Josh says, staying in the kitchen doorway, "I see we've both moved on."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kat replies, trying to ignore the ache in her heart.
"Well, I've got Debby, and you've got that Roo fella."
"His name's Rou, and he's not my fella. We barely know each other. And is Debby your girlfriend now?"
"Yeah, she is, and she has been for the past year."
"Well, I've seen you've moved on quickly; I bet you're glad she's normal."
"Kat, don't be like that pl-"
"Like what?"
"Like- what was that?" Josh asks, looking towards the front door.
"I don't know, the wind maybe? I'm not a mind reader."
"We should go upstairs. C'mon," Josh says, grabbing Kat's arm and running off upstairs, causing Kat's cereal bowl to smash on the ground.

Once they are upstairs, Kat makes sure that Josh is safely in his room before rushing into the bedroom where Rou and Freya are, and dives under the covers. Rou stirs a little in his sleep before properly waking up.
"Kat, what's wrong?"
"T-there's someone outside the cabin."
Rou sits up properly.
"Are you sure?"
"Certain; I heard something crash."
"I'll go downstairs and have a look. Stay up here with Frey."
"No way! What if you get killed?"
"I'll take my chances," Rou says, before throwing on a jumper. Kat watches as he walks out the door and downstairs. Freya gets up, and follows Rou.
"Freya, no!" Kat hisses, and then she hears a scream. Abandoning all reasoning, Kat rushes downstairs and to the kitchen, where she sees Rou lying on the floor in a small pool of blood, and Freya nursing an injured paw.
"Oh, Rou, what happened?"
"T-that couple - the one who payed us a visit - they attacked me," Rou says, gasping in pain.
"Can you get up?" Kat asks, kneeling over him.
"I think so; I'm more worried about Frey through. They slashed her paw."
"I'll look at it," Kat says. "Freya, come here."
Freya limps over to Kat, who inspects her paw. It's a long cut, but it's not that deep. Rou sighs in relief when Kat tells him this.
"Now what about you?" Kat asks Rou. He lifts his jumper, and Kat gasps a little as she sees the wound; it's a long cut on the side of his rib cage, right near his heart, but it's quite deep.
"Is it bad?"
"Yup. But I think I can help calm the bleeding down."
Rou hums a response, and closes his eyes a little. He's looking paler now, and Kat starts to panic a little.
"Rou, c'mon, wake up," Kat snaps, trying hard not to cry. Kicking herself into action, Kat quickly finds a saucepan, and washes the wound and pats it down with a towel before wrapping some kitchen roll around the wound and going upstairs and frantically searching for a first aid kit. She manages to find some bandages, tape and saline solution in the bathroom cupboard under the sink, and rushes down to the kitchen again to find Rou sitting up against a dining room table leg, Freya curled up in his lap, sleeping away.
"Hey," he says, smiling slightly.
"Heya," Kat says, kneeling down and taking off the kitchen roll bandage. "Now, this is going to hurt a bit, so I hope you have a high pain tolerance." She starts to clean the wound with saline solution before applying the bandages and tape to keep the bandages in place.
"The bleeding seems to have calmed down," she says, before gently apply some saline solution to Freya's paw. Freya hisses a little at Kat, but then falls back to sleep.
"Do you think you can get upstairs? You'll be safer there."
Rou shakes his head.
"I think it'll be quite sore. But you could get the blankets and bring them down here."
And that's what Kat does.
"Are you sure you need blankets? You seem warm enough already," Kat says, taking note of Rou's bloodstained jumper and tracksuit bottoms.
"I'm sure. Oh, and Kat?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you want to stay here with me and Frey? I mean, I think it's nearly time for the others to get up."
"Sure, why not?" Kat says, sitting down next to Rou, who throws the covers over the two of them. Freya moves from Rou's lap and nestles on top of the covers between them. Kat yawns and cuddles up next to Rou, her arms wrapped around Rou's chest, being careful to not move the dressing on wound.
"You should get some sleep," she says to Rou, "it'll help the wound heal better."
"Hmm, I'll do that," Rou says, scratching Freya behind her head before falling asleep, his head resting on Kat's shoulder.

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