The Ruins Page #4

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the other, your left.

You'll cover more ground that way.

Search a spot and then move on. Okay?

Okay!

Okay.

Be careful.

Okay.

Amy, wait, wait.

Come on. We have to find it.

Just stay next to me.

Amy?

- That's where it's coming from.

- I can't.

- Come on.

- I don't wanna go in there. Amy.

We have to.

We have to find it.

It's okay, come on.

Okay.

Okay. Ame?

Hello?

Oh, my God.

The phone.

- It was just ringing.

- Let me see.

Yeah. It's cracked.

Amy.

Amy! Amy!

Oh, my God!

Go!

Run, Stace! Go!

Amy!

Amy!

Jump on!

Pull us up! Pull it up!

Pull!

Go!

Come on!

Come on!

- Are you okay, Ame?

- Get it off!

Did you find the phone, Amy?

- It's not a phone!

- Amy!

No, there is no f***ing phone!

What happened?

Stace, what happened?

What do you mean,

the flower was making the ring?

It was vibrating

and it was ringing like a cell phone.

How? Amy, how does it do that?

I don't know, Eric. I don't know.

It was moving. It was alive.

It knows we're here.

We just have to go.

We have to go. We just...

We can't do that, Stace.

Jeff, you didn't see it. Okay?

I'm not staying here.

If we try to leave, they kill us.

Mathias can't move.

I can't just leave him here.

Okay, maybe we don't all have to go.

I mean, I could go. I can get help.

They have guns, Eric.

There are 50 of them, 60.

They killed that little kid, Amy.

Okay, so you guys make a distraction.

I can make it to the Jeep.

- I can do it.

- It's too dangerous, Eric.

- We have to wait.

- Wait for what, huh?

For the Greeks.

Jeff, the Greeks can't find

their own f***ing hotel room.

- Eric.

- They're not gonna come out here

- and rescue us.

- We're being quarantined here.

We are being kept here to die!

This doesn't happen!

Four Americans on a vacation

don't just disappear!

Somebody,

the police, our parents,

the Greeks,

somebody,

somebody is going to find us.

We just have to be alive when they do.

Where are those keys, Amy?

- Amy, where are the keys?

- They're in the backpack.

No. We stay close.

We wait until we're found.

We keep someone always on guard.

We keep our wounds covered.

And we look out after each other.

That is the only way.

Somebody's coming.

Somebody's coming.

One swallow apiece.

Stace.

It's still in there. I can feel it.

See, look how puffy it is.

That's just swelling. It's natural.

It's just what happens

when you cut yourself, okay?

He won't last much longer like this.

- We have to cut them off.

- Cut what off?

- His legs.

- Tell me you're joking.

- He'll die if we don't.

- Just please tell me you're joking.

He'll get infected, if he isn't already.

Septicemia.

Well, what the hell is septicemia, Jeff?

An infection, usually in the bones,

when it's exposed to bacteria.

You're f***ing crazy.

No, I'm telling you,

he won't last through the day like this.

Without anesthesia?

He has no feeling beneath his waist.

The tourniquets are already in place.

We're gonna cut below them.

With what?

A knife?

We have to break the bones first

and then cut.

Well, we're not cutting his legs off

with a f***ing hunting knife, Jeff.

There's no flesh

covering his bones, Eric.

He is going to die.

Okay. Okay, fine. Let's f***ing vote.

You know, raise your hands

if you want to cut off his legs.

Stacy, what are you doing?

He's in med school, Eric.

Yeah. Yeah, he's in med school.

He's not a surgeon. He's not a doctor.

He's in school.

I'm entitled to my vote, Eric.

You do it.

Cut them off.

Cut them off.

Yeah.

I'll break the bones

first, with the stone,

then use the knife

to cut through.

Okay.

We're heating the pan to cauterize

the wounds to stop the bleeding.

You're not gonna be

able to feel a thing,

but if you want to bite down on this,

you can, just in case.

Eric, you ready?

You should wait in the tent.

Grab his feet.

That foot. Turn it up.

Hold him down! Eric! Eric!

God!

Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff!

It's okay.

- Eric!

- Jeff!

Hold him f***ing still!

Jeff!

Jeff, he felt it, didn't he?

Jeff!

- He has nerve damage.

- Yeah.

He can't feel anything

beneath his waist.

He was screaming, Jeff.

He was screaming.

He was telling you to stop.

He was screaming. How could

he not feel it when he was screaming?

It's just the visual.

- It was him looking down and seeing it.

- This is so not okay!

We didn't have a choice, Amy.

Amy. It's...

Oh, my God. Holy sh*t.

Oh, God.

What the f***.

Look, how can it do that?

Check your phone.

Let me see.

I just wanna go home.

Do you think Stacy's gonna be okay?

Yeah.

I mean, I got it out. I saw it come out.

Yeah, she just really believes...

You know how she is.

She gets something in her head and...

she convinces herself.

Do you think that

they're ever gonna find us?

Honestly?

I think making a run for it

is our only chance.

I know.

Amy, come here, come here.

Eric.

What the f***?

What?

I heard you.

- You heard me what?

- I heard you f***ing her.

Excuse me?

- Don't lie to me, Eric. I heard you.

- Stace.

I heard you. I heard you f***ing her!

Stacy, come on.

How could you do that to me?

How could you guys f***ing sit there

and f*** when I'm in the tent?

Stace, you need to calm down.

Don't tell me what I should do.

Stacy, you know I wouldn't do that.

- I heard you, Eric.

- We were just talking. I was just...

- I heard you moaning, Amy.

- I was crying, Stacy.

What's going on?

My boyfriend is

f***ing your girlfriend!

- That's what's going on.

- She's just crazy and irrational.

- You think she's never cheated on you?

- Stacy.

- F*** you!

- F*** you, b*tch!

F*** you! All you ever cared about

is your f***ing self!

- Stacy, stop it.

- Don't f***ing touch me!

Relax. You're scared.

She would've slept with Mathias

if I hadn't stopped her.

Mathias.

Well, thank God we cut his legs off.

Shut up.

It's eating me like it's eating him.

- Stace.

- No. It's inside. It's inside of me.

Stacy.

It's in my side, Amy.

It's in my... It's...

I'll show you. It's here.

If you just cut here and here...

- Stacy.

- ...and here.

- Stacy.

- Stacy, you're okay.

- You're okay.

- You're not listening!

- Stacy, you're fine.

- You're not listening!

You are not listening!

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

What the f***?

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

You're not listening to me!

They don't want us to spread it.

That's why they won't let us leave.

They're salting the soil

to keep it contained.

It's old. It has to be. Really old.

Because the birds, the insects,

somehow they've learned

not to land here.

And the horses. Remember?

How frightened the horses were?

It didn't happen.

What she said about Mathias.

- I didn't...

- You don't have to say anything.

But I do.

- Because I don't want you to...

- Amy.

Look at us.

Would it matter to you?

Guys?

Show them.

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