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Weakening

--Chapter One: The Awakening

He looked around trying to take in his surroundings. He was lying on the hard ground with one thin blanket coving him, he was inside a cage that he was sure of. He looked beyond the bars and seen more cages, but it seemed that he was the only one in this great room littered with cages. The only light source was from a high window that barely let him see.

There was a piece of furniture just one , a simple straight back wooden chair, was in front of his cage, like someone had been watching him through the night.

He became aware of a throbbing in his head, trying to recall why it hurt, he had a flash back of what happen before he woke up in this room. He had just gotten his letter…he found Bo in the hay loft crying…waving goodbye to his family…hard, grueling work at boot camp…off to war…captured by enemies… Luke was panting when he remembered he had been captured by the Viet cong.

With the little strength he had, he pried and tugged at the bars of his cage, they didn't budge. "Damn" Luke said out loud. He looked around to see if he could find anything to make the bars weaker, nothing but the thin blanket.

He heard a click from somewhere far from his cage, he heard muffled shouts from the door he could see. Then a long, bright, patch of light flooded the dark room, blinding Luke for a fraction of a second. Luke jumped back into the corner of his cage that was still I shadows. A short, small man walked over to Luke's cage and stared at Luke sitting in the shadows. Luke studied the man from his corner, he was not Vietcong, so who was he.

"You hungry?" the man asked Luke. He had a Tennessee accent, American. Luke kept quiet. "I asked you a question, Marine." the Tennessee man spit. Luke nodded and the man shouted at the door in Vietnamese.

The more Luke studied the man the more he recognized him. The Tennessee man was Staff Sergeant Walter M. Gurder, one of Luke's drill instructors from boot camp.

Gurder turned back to Luke and spoke again, "No need for introductions, I can see you know who I am, and I remember who you are, Lucas Kenneth Duke."

--I hope you liked the first chapter please R&R and I might put the 2nd one up J jk.