Shelley POV
It's the third time this week that she's come to me while we were forced into the hot baths. She's out of hers almost as soon as Sister Sarah leaves us alone.
Her hands rush to unzip my cover that keeps me in the all too hot bath. As soon as she accomplishes her task, she pulls me out and her lips are on mine, with her hands running down my body.
She wastes no time, knowing that we don't have much. Within ten minutes, we are laying on the floor, trying to get both our breathings under control.
"Jeez, I'm supposed to be the nympho."I murmur
"Well, I've never been one to pass up any opportunity to show a pretty girl how much I appreciate her." Lana answers a flirtatious smile on her lips.
"What about your girl back home? Won't she be pissed when you get home and tell her you were doin the nasty with a crazy girl you met at the asylum?"
"I don't care what she thinks. She betrayed me and hasn't come to visit." Her voice says, anger obviously fueling her words.
"You say that now, but as soon as you get out, you'll be right back together like nothing has happened. Trust me, in a few months, you guys will be back to normal, or as normal as they let you guys be during this age. It'll be like nothing happened between us."
She shifts us so that she can look me right in the eyes. "We are escaping from this place. Grace and Kit are gonna try again tonight. I heard them talking about it. We're going with them."
"I heard them too. But it won't work. No one ever gets out. Here, once you've been here as long as I have, you don't get out. I may leave, but I will always be trapped here."
She's about to add something, but then we hear the sound of shoes coming down the hallway. They may not be coming to our room, but we can't take the chance, and scramble back into our perspective baths and zip ourselves back in.
Grace, Kit, Lana, and I are almost to freedom when we meet a hitch in the road. Kit really believes he can take out Carl, but I know better. There's only one way to distract him, and I know what it is.
I turn to Lana "I'll distract him. Wait for me as long as you can. If I don't make it, don't forget about me."
Then I do something that surprises us both. I kiss her.
She responds right away and though I wish we could continue, time is of the essence, and Carl is not getting any farther away.
I break off the kiss, and make myself known to Carl. After a few choice words and actions, I'm able to lead Carl away from them. I just hope I've been able to distract the only person standing in the way of everyone's escape.
Lana POV
Grace is looking at me weird after Shelley and I's kiss before she left to get Carl off and let us get into the tunnel.
"You like her, don't you?" she asks, breaking the silence that had enveloped us when Kit went back to see if Shelley was there.
"It's just sex. She doesn't want it to be anything else. And I have someone out there, waiting for me."
Even as I say it, I can hear my own bullshit voice. And so does Grace, but before she can comment, Kit returns, alone.
"We can't wait any longer. Something obviously has her held up." He says.
"Well you guys can go. I'm gonna wait for her." I respond
"I'm not gonna wait too much longer. But if you really wanna go yourself, I will wait about 7 minutes." Kit mutters, after Grace shoots him a look.
"You dot have to wait. Just when you get out of this tunnel, head north. That's the way towards the road. I'll go back by myself." With that, I turn around and head back.
A little down the tunnel I hear footsteps behind me. I look behind me and see Grace.
"She sacrificed herself when she didn't have to. And she's saved my ass quite a few times over the years. I can't just let her stay here without going back myself. I owe her big time." She says as an answer to my unspoken question.
I smile at her and continue walking. We are almost to the door when the sound of Shelley screaming in distress, (a tone of screaming I've never had to hear from her, and one I never want to) at Dr. Arden to let her go.
I glance towards Grace, and I know what I'm about to do, whether she goes in with me or not. Out of the corner of my eye, I see we are in sync running to the doors.
When we get through, we see that the "Good Doctor" has Shelley wrapped up in his arms. She's struggling and losing, and he seems about ready to end the fight that's going on between them.
He turns to us and I'm able to see the look of distress all over Shelley's features, and some of the bruises starting to form on her body. The Doctor has definitely not been trying to take her where he wants to unharmed. It seems almost like he meant to harm her before taking her most likely to his lab to do God knows what to her. He'd probably make it look like she ran away.
Just thinking about what he could have been planning to do to her makes me angry, and I grab the nearest object and slam it into his head before anyone can stop me. He crumples to the ground, and Shelley is able to escape is clutches.
Instead of the smile that I was expecting upon being her savior, I get a look of anger, and when she speaks, her tone matches.
"What the hell are you two doing here? I thought I told you to wait for me if you could! What if it hadn't been me? What if it had been one of the Sisters trying to lure you guys out? Then this would have been for nothing!"
"Well" Grace starts, forcing me to stay silent, which is probably better, since I most likely would have regretted my words later. "I guess it is a good thing Lana can tell when it's you screaming. Now we have to go before someone comes looking for all of us, and finds him and Carl."
She doesn't leave any room for argument, and goes on her way back to Kit, Shelley and I behind her, with Shelley shooting daggers at me with her eyes.
"I couldn't stand the thought that they would do something awful to you ok? I don't want to see you hurt, especially not for me."
"It was not your choice to make Lana! I gave myself up because while I want to get out, I have no one to miss me if something had happened. Kit and Grace have each other. You have Wendy."
I spin towards her, and slam her against the wall. "How can you say that? I care. I would miss you. And how do you know her name?"
She smirks at me. "This isn't the place for this. If you really want to talk about this, we will have to do it later, once we escape."
She leans in closer to me, and I think she's about to kiss me, but instead she forcefully pushes me off her, then runs after Grace, leaving me to follow in both their tracks.
Shelley POV
I can't believe Lana came back for me. While the gesture itself is sweet, it is something she cannot afford to be, not in this place, and not in the real world. But it has gotten her this far, and hell, it's the only reason I'm even here right now.
I've put some space between us, because I can't think with her that close, not after what she just told me. No has ever really cared. And I can't figure out why all of the sudden Lana does. It was just sex. She has someone to go home to. I am just the person satisfying her needs till she can go back to her lover on the outside, which, by the way things are going tonight, will be very soon, maybe as early as tomorrow morning, depending on the weather, and how far she actually lives from here.
I glance behind me, just to make sure she is still following, and she is. I don't know what I would do if she was not, but luckily I don't really have to. Kit is already talking to Grace, a little ahead of me, and he smiles at me whenever I stop next to him.
"So what's the plan?" I ask as Lana joins the group.
"The highway is a little North of here. Then we can follow it to town, and we can go our separate ways from there, if need be." She replies
"Well, you have a place to go, unlike the rest of us. So I guess we'll go with you to town, then head out on our own." Grace adds
Kit just nods, and heads out into the storm first, then Grace, with Lana and I taking up the rear.
"I want you to stay with me for a little bit. I think we have some stuff to talk about!" Lana yells over the storm.
"I'm not staying with you and your girlfriend! How stupid do you think I am?" I scream back
Before she can holler back at me, a scream cuts through the storm, and we see Grace and Kit hauling ass back towards the tunnel, screams of "RUN!" accompanying them. We turn, and see the reason for their fear.
These creatures, unlike anything that I have ever seen before are coming towards us, and fast. There is no real way to describe them, and not just because I can't stand to look at them for long. I grab Lana's hand, and drag her after Kit and Grace, back into the tunnel, back to the hell we thought we were escaping from.