Saving Sophie

Chapter 1

Sophie

Keep running. Got to keep running.

The men were chasing me. This wasn't the first time I had escaped and they all knew I wasn't fit enough to run for long. I had been imprisoned for too long and hadn't seen daylight for weeks.

Keep going Sophie. You can't let them get you now.

Okay, okay let me explain. I was captured when I was eleven and have been in an undergound high-security prison ever since. Hang on, that's not really explaining things is it? No.

My name is Sophie Tyler and I am nineteen years old. I have been locked up because of my mother. She was an evil savant whose hobby was killing people...for fun. I hate her. My dad was a good savant but is - or was - being controlled by my mother. I don't know if he's still alive. Probably not, knowing my mother. There. That's better explaining isn't it!

I can hear them behind me. I keep running as fast as I can, although I am about to collapse. That is, I keep running until I hit something. Or, more specifically, someone.

"Crap! Watch where you're going, honey. You could hurt yourself!"

A boy - and a gorgeous one too - is kneeling down next to me. His eyes look anxiously into mine, searching for some sign of life. He's gorgeous and...Wait! Some evil thugs are chasing you and you're checking out guys?! Get a grip, Soph!

"Are you okay?" he asks me, a look of concern on his face. He actually looks genuinely kind and has a wanting-to-help look in his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Ye-yes. I'm fine. I ju-just need to get away from here." I stammer, helplessly.

"What's wrong? Why are you running?"

And then, to my utter embarrassment, I faint and collapse into his arms.

Will

Oh crap! What the hell should I do? I know. Dad.

Dad! Help! A really cute looking girl has just collapsed into my arms and I'm sensing a shedload of danger coming for her. I yell telepathically, hoping that Dad hasn't fallen asleep like he usually does.

What?

Some girl has just collapsed into my arms and I don't know what the hell to do. I think those creeps from the experimental station/prison hell are chasing her.

Yeah, just about. What should I do?

Bring her back home. Where are you?

I'm about 100 metres away.

Okay. Hurry!

I sling her over my shoulder and walk/run as fast as I can back home. It takes me ages but I get there in the end, Fainting Beauty, still completely out of it, over my shoulder.

"Will, are you okay? What happened?" Dad runs in from the kitchen and helps me lay the girl down on the nearest couch.

"Dad, can you find Xav? We need to check whether she's hurt." I glance at her. Still outcold but still breathing. Good. "Xav? Where are you?" Xav comes running into the living room with Crystal, Trace and Diamond in tow.

"What's up?" says Xav, my younger brother. "Who's died?"

"That's just it. Is she still alive?" I say as I collapse into an armchair.

"Well, Xav. Do your thing man." says Trace, my eldest brother as he clings anxiously to his soulfinder, Diamond.

"Will she be okay? asks Diamond, Trace's soulfinder.

Soulfinder. I hate that word.

Okay, maybe a little bit dramatic, but seriously If I had a soulfinder, id never let her out of my sight. I have been waiting for what seems like forever to find my soulfinder. I even bought myself a plane ticket to Amsterdam and stayed there for a few months, just to see if I could find her. Crystal, Xav's soulfinder, is a soulseeker and can find your soulfinder by reaching out to your mind and seeing where he or she is or has a connection to. Crystal told me that my soulfinder was in Amsterdam, but I didn't find her and I stayed there for two and a half months. I really need to find her soon, or I'm afraid I'll slip over to the dark side. I'm serious. I'm slipping now and I have found no way to stop myself.

I can't let that happen.

I have to find her.

"She's alive and I think she's going to wake up any second now." predicts Xav, and moves away to give her some space.

She's beautiful. She has gorgeous, flowing red hair that falls like a curtain over her face. Her skin is paper white, she obviously hasn't seen the sun for a while. She looks quite tall and she's dressed in a light blue hospital-style gown. She opens her eyes slowly. She has beautiful green eyes that shimmer in the light.

Then she screams.