I do not own Inkheart or any of it's characters Cornelia Funke does. I own Amber, Charles and Ryan.
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Amber's POV
I sank back into my chair. The red leather squeking under me. The claustrophobia making my head dizzy. I waited in the dark of night. My fauther....a famous book collector had gone out 3 hours ago for some supper at a friends. It was 11:00.
I had long wavy amber colored hair and bright green eyes. My skin was pale. I was 17 almost 18.
"Were is he?" I keep mumbleing from time to time
I finally had to accept that he was gone. I rushed over and picked up the phone about to call 911 when I realized the line was dead. Silence seeping through every corner of the house. It was a dark moonless night and I decided that I did not want to sit in the faint pool of the lamps light so I turned it off. I did not want to watch the walls getting closer.
"Dang it! Dammit were is he!" I screamed
I turned out of this room and headed towards the living room. It was very dark so when i stumbled into someone I qiukly freaked.
"Who are you and what are you doing here!"
He chuckled. A faint sent of mint wafted under my nose.
"Well well I thought we were alone in this shit hole but I guess not. Flatnose, Cockerell you can come out we have a lady in our presence."
Then silently two figures moved from the shadows and headed toward the light switch. One qiukly fliked it on and smiled.
"What are you smiling at asshole?"
"Well don't you have a temper?" he said in a mocking voise
"Get the fuck out or I will call my dad!" I screatched
"How the phone line is dead."
"Don't think I am a moron not to have a cell phone!" I spat out of my mouth and qiukly regretted it.
"Oh really.. like this one?" he pulled out a small pink razer........my small pink razer.
I looked up at him. He smiled a cruel smile.
"Money is in the kitchen." I mumbled
"Oh we don't want your money we are looking for a book, but don't worry we searched through your library and you don't seem to have it."
"Well what do you want if you don't want money and can't find the book you are looking for?"
I knew I should have cared that a bunch of big (hot looking) evil men were in my house but at this point saddness took over my emotions ever since I got dumped. So they were here and frankly I did not give a dam.
"Well we can not leave you here and scince you are absoleutally beautifull I guess we should take you with us. Capricorn will be pleased."
Capricorn Capricorn. The name sounded familiar.
"You can not make me go." I simply said and plopped my self on the couch.
Basta walked up to me and kneeled at the foot of the couch.
"Oh you will. I am sure that a few cuts here and there would not be so bad." and he pulled out a
knife
"Oh"
I shifted my self so that at any moment I could spring up off the couch and through the door. I bet that they did not run as fast.
I waited.
"So are you willing to come with us because there are always other ways. For example the easy way and the hard way."
I gulped. His voise sounded threatening enough to pull me out of my dull state. And it did.
I counted in my head. 1 2 3 then I sprang up and dashed from the couch into the long hallway.
"Oh no you don't!"
I looked back to see the man... Basta right on my heels. I ran into the kitchen. The light was on. The walls started spinning and closing in. This olny happened when I was nevous.
I then fell on the ground with a thud. As I lay there the walls started closing in on me. I started screaming.
I was sobbing.
I heard him start to yell.
"What the hell is the matter with her!"
I screammed back
"I get clausterphobic when I am nevous!"
"He grunted not to bad I thought she was crazy but accually that seves as an atvatige."
I looked up dazed as he stalked over to me. Tears streaming down my face.
"Leave me alone." I said softly
I did not have enough strength to get up. Like I was paralized but in a different way. I had the ability to talk and I was consious I just could not move.
I started pondering why that would happen but as he got up.. a small needle in his hand answered my question.
"What did you do to me?" I squeked
He walked over to the dinning table and pulled up a chair and pushed it towards me. He stopped inches away from my body and took a seat.
"Oh you mean this? Well it is new it paralizes your body but still keeps you consious and does not turn off your nevous system."
I looked up at him pleading.
"Why me?"
"You are pretty and smart also your age is perfect I think."
Then a few seconds later the other men came down the hallway.
"Oh come on Basta why do you always use that stuff. Torturing girls untill they plead death is more enjoyable then it?"
"Come on guys you know the olny reason why you are saying that."
"Why Basta?"
"Beacuse I never let you watch."
I saw their faces and it looked like Basta was right.
"Well not this time. I am taking a liking to her. I think I will ask Capricorn if I can have her also she is clausterphobic so if she tryed running she would probably crumple to the ground in enough time that I could inject that stuff."
He reached down and stroked my face lovingly but still with a edge of possesion. I tryed to move my body but no matter how hard I tryed I did not move.
"How do you get this stuff out of my system?" I asked with an edge of panic in my voise and I could tell he could hear it. He was loving every minuet of my frightened to death pain.
"Well it takes about 4 four hours just long enough for you and me to be together on the way back to the village." he then smirked
I groaned. Tears swelling up in my eyes.
He picked me up. I was cradeled against his body.
"Lets go."
They snickered. Flatnose volontered to drive.
Flatnose got in the drivers seat and Cockerell got in the passengers.
Basta got in the back and layed me on him lap. I was streatched out across the back seats my head resting in his lap.
The car started.
He brushed the hair out of my face then started talking.
"How would you consider being my wife?"
"Are you joking?"
"I don't joke...most of the time." he said
"I think not... you just kidnapped me from my house."
It looked like he was taking that into his brain.
"I am surprised you said kidnapped it is mosly like adultnapped but then again..... How old are you?"
I though about telling him but then again do not talk to strangers so I shut my mouth.
He knew I was not gonna talk to he took out his knife and touched it half way down my neak and reapeated the question.
"I am 17." I said
"What is your name?"
"None of you fucking business!"
He smacked me then tilted me head back towards him.
Pain wrapped around my face. Tears welled up in my eyes and cascaded over my cheaks.
He wiped them away.
"What is your name? I am not gonna ask more that 2 times so if I were you I would spit it out."
"Well oviously you will never be in my situation so it would not matter to you!"
He lifted my hand up an cut me from my wrist all the way to my thumb tip. Blood gushed out. He set my hand carefully back on my chest. The blood soaking my clothes.
"My name is...Amber." I whispered
The pain in my thumb hurt like crazy.
"Why did you do that" I screamed. I felt the warm blood on my skin.
"Well you are just a kid, but good enough the younger the better. Well it does not matter if you do not want to be my wife because you have no option."
I groaned.
"Can I ask you a few questions." I said
"Shoot but remember I get my fair share next." he then winked
"How old are you?"
"I am 24"
"Can you please do me a favor?"
"Depends what it is."
"Could you cut a strip of my shirt and wrap it around my cut?"
"That is ok but if I do that you have to answer every question I ask."
"Deal."
He reached out and cut a big strip of my shirt. He then wrapped it around my bleeding hand. Me shirt had been cut half way between my ribs.
Then he asked me a question.
"Why are you so skinny?"
"I don't eat much."
"But you don't even have a stomach just skin and bones."
He then pulled my shirt up a little to look at my rib cage.
"What are you doing!?"
He oviously liked my iritation.
He put his hand on my body. I started yelling at the top of my lungs.
"Let me out! Don't you dare go any furthers then were you are now! Take your hand off me!"
Cockerell turned back to look at me then started laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Hey Basta can't you share?"
I growled
Then I realized that I could move again.
I started kicking and punching him.
Cockerell jumped from the front seat to help Basta with me.
Basta got my feet while Cockerell held my hands. Basta brought out 2 pairs of cuffs and handed one to Cockerell. They cuffed me.
"Get off of me you jackasses"
I started to squirm but then they put their wieght on my cuffed part. It was too much.I gave up.
"Ok fine you can let go of me."
"I think not also this is the closest way I can get to you with out you screaming."
They started laughing.
Basta then put one of his hands on my bare ribs.
I then with all the power I could bring up pushed mr legs to make a swing at his head, but I could not make my cuffed feet move up.
Basta started laughing. Is that the hardest you are trying.
"Yes"
He then exploded into hoots of laughter.
"You are weak!"
Then a second later Cockerell took his wieght off my arm. I swung it at Basta's face then swung it back at Cockerell's. Then I suwng my legs out and kicked the driver's seat.
The car stopped to a hault then turned off. Basta opened the door and yanked me out.
"You son of a bitch!" he yelled at me blood comeing down from his lip
I started laughing
Then out of nowere I was nocked to the ground a fist smashed into my wrist. I herd a sickening crack. I looked at my boody. My knees were bloody and my hand was broken. Other that that I was good.
Cockerell then started laughing at me.
"You think you can bash your hand into my face a get away with it?!"
Basta started screaming at Cockerell.
"What the hell! Capricorn will be furious!"
"I don't think Capricorn would be furious you just do not like he rough handeling your girl friend."
Basta scowled and then knelt down to my side.
"Amber are you ok?" I saw worry in his eyes
"Ouch" then I drifted into a heavy sleep.
I awoke half a hour later.
"Still in the car?" I mumbled
I looked at my self. The cuffs were off but I was drained.
I looked up at Basta.
"What happened?" I asked weakly
"I will sum it up short you broke your hand and have a lot of cuts and briuses."
The car then got out of the car and picked me up.
Once again I was cradeled in his arms.
It was dark out. We were in a village. He started walking. After a few min we came up to a church. He walked in.
"Capricorn sir we went to look for the book but it was not there but instead was this girl."
Capricorn looked at me, shock showed on his face.
"She is beautuful."
"I know sir though she is quite hard to handle."
He then summed up his trip begging to end then asked a startleing question.
"Capricorn may I marry her?"
He hesitated
"Well you have been alone a long time and it would get you out of the maids way."
"How old is she?"
"She is 17"
Capicorn whistled.
"She is the youngest here.... ok"
Then he got up and took me into a room.
A maid came by and tended to my wounds.
When she was done my hand was in a cast.
Basta walked out of the church... me in his arms.
"How do you feel?"
"Sleepy"
When we got into a small house he dumped me on the bed and pulled the covers over me then went to the bathroom.
When he was out he was wearing pj pants and a plain white shirt and slipped into the bed.
I started to scream.
"Why are you in the same bed!?"
"This is my bed."
"Get out!" I yelled my viose rising higher and higher.
"Shut-up!"
"No!"
"Oh I will make you"
But then I started to panic.
"Walls getting closer."
He grunted and pulled him self closer to me and put his hands on my shoulders and mashaed them then when I started panicing even more he reached over and grabbed something.
He then put it to my mouth. I did not remeber anything else as the blackness clouded my mind.