Disclaimer: I do not own LWD, or Wikipedia(But I can edit it! lol I don't though, so that was pointless).
A/N: This is the sequel to "The Odd Couple." To understand where the characters are at in this story, it'll be best to read "TOC"
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
Holy shit my head.
Derek rubs his temple with his fingers. He opens his eyes to see a faintly glowing ceiling.
This is definitely not my room.
He lifts his upper body to get up. As he tries to stand up, his legs give out under him, making him fall right back down to where he came from.
What the hell's wrong with my legs? Why is the room spinning? Oh, I'm dizzy
Derek's vision is just now starting to clear up, and his eyes are able to make out person beside him. He knows right away who it is. Derek drags his body closer to her, to see if she is just unconscious. His hand hovers over her mouth, feeling her warm breath dissipate under his palm.
Thank god.
Derek places her head on his lap. He notices the eye movement on Casey's face. Casey's eyes open up. She wiggles her head on Derek's leg, and looks up at him, squinting. Derek places his hand on her cheek, "Casey…Casey?"
She still squints at him, not recognizing his voice.
"It's Derek," he continued.
Casey blinks her eyes, "Derek?" Casey reaches out to his hair, giving it a little tug, "Is that really you?"
"Yes!" He cries out in pain, taking her hand. Casey grabs on to Derek's shoulders to help herself up. Derek holds on to her, stopping her from standing up, "Not such a good idea. You'll just end up falling down like me." Casey tries to shake the dazed feeling, "Where are we?" She looks around the room; seeing nothing except four luminescent walls, each about three meters long. She turns back to Derek, "How long have we been out?" Derek looks down at his watch, "Well, it says 7:36PM, and it's frozen at 12 seconds, so for all we know we could've been out for a day or more. That would explain the limp legs and drowsiness." Casey's stomach growls. Derek looks back up at Casey, "And…hunger."
"Seriously Derek, what is going on here, is this one of your jokes, 'cause I'm not laughing." Casey interrogates.
"Wait a minute, my jokes are not intended for you to laugh, they're for me and others to enjoy." Derek grins.
"Derek! I'm paralyzed from the waist down and it feels like I haven't eaten in days. This isn't the time for your smartass replies.
"You're right, sorry," Derek replies, noticing the frightened tone in her voice. "Okay, the last thing I remember before waking up here, we were at the park and the lights when out. That's all I remember."
Casey moves her legs into an Indian-styled position, "I remember that and a loud noise, and then everything went black. Derek moves his legs, mimicking Casey, "Yeah, that high pitched noise." Derek glances at the walls, "If we were kidnapped, it wasn't done by just anyone." Casey looks at him with a puzzled look, "What do you mean?"
"Regular psychos don't use these methods. Actually, I don't think anyone's ever used these types of methods to kidnap someone," Derek informs.
"How would you know what type of methods are used?" Casey mocks.
"Wikipedia duh," Derek replies.
"Of course. Should've known," Casey scoffs. Derek crawls to the wall closest to him, "And that's not all" He touches the wall, which feels gel-like, "These walls are weird, it's not even wood, metal, or concrete. They even glow, and the floor is exactly the same. It's warm too, which is even weirder." Casey moves to where Derek is.
"I've never felt this kind of material before, or seen it." He says.
Casey examines the walls, "Your right, neither have I." Casey puts her pointer finger on the wall, and presses forward, bending the wall inwards a few centimeters. She takes her finger off, and area of the wall reverts back to its original shape. "Whoa," Derek replies in amazement.
"Well, that's new." Casey replies.
Derek turns to Casey, "Another thing about all this has been bugging me."
"What?"
"Why would my watch freeze at 7:36PM? It was working fine before all this." Derek says.
"Wait. 7:36PM?" Casey asks. Derek nods his head.
"It was around that time when we left the house, earlier than that I think," Casey says.
"So you think that was the time we blacked out?" Derek deduces.
Casey nods.
"But still, why would the time freeze at 7:36? It just doesn't make any sense." Derek says, staring at Casey for an answer. "What? I'm just as baffled as you are," She replies. Derek begins to stand up, though a little wobbly at first. Casey looks up at him, "What are you doing?"
Derek looks around the room, "Why isn't there a door somewhere?" Casey turns her head and notices the non-existent presence of any doors. "Weird." Derek helps Casey up off the floor.
"You alright? Can you stand?" Derek asks. "Yeah, I'm good." Casey replies.
Without warning, a tremor surges through the room, knocking Casey and Derek back down to the ground. The luminescent glow of the room darkens. Derek reaches out through the nearly dark room for Casey. "Casey? Are you okay?" He says.
"Yeah. What the hell was that?" Casey replies, brushing off the pain from the fall, "An earthquake?"
The room lights up again, now brighter than before. Derek turns to Casey, "Here in London? That would be a first."
Casey looks at Derek with a pained expression, "What if we're not in London?"
"Then, let's hope seismic activity has been on the rise in London," Derek replies, trying to calm Casey. Derek walks over to another wall, and touches it trying to find a door. Derek takes his hand off, and an opening manifests out of thin air. A big grin covers Derek's face, "Who's got the magic touch? This guy." He peers through the opening, and sees a corridor. Casey comes closer to Derek, "How did you open the door?" She whispers. "I just touched it, and it just materialized out of no where, like something you see off a science-fiction movie," Derek replies. "You stay here; I'm going to go check this out." He says. Casey yanks on his arm, "There's no way your leaving me here alone." She asserts, not releasing her grip. He concedes defeat, "Fine, but no talking, I don't want to get killed because of your nagging." Casey pinches his arm.
They make their way through the hallway, and find other openings on the walls, that lead to other rooms. Derek and Casey drag themselves along the wall, in a stealth-like fashion. Derek peaks into one of the rooms. He turns back to Casey, "They are two people in there, a man and a woman." He whispers.
"What are they doing?" Casey whispers back.
Derek looks in again, and turns back to Casey, "They're just laying there. They might be asleep."
"Maybe they're hostages too." Casey replies. Derek looks back in, then back at Casey, "Stay right here, I'm going to see if they're dead or just unconscious." This time Casey abides. Derek slowly walks into the room, and bends down to the woman to check her pulse. He goes over to the man, and does the same. He comes back to Casey, "They're cold. They've been dead for awhile." Casey covers her mouth with both hands. Derek grabs Casey's shoulders, "Casey, do not get emotional, at least not right now. Can you do that?" Casey nods. Derek grabs Casey hand. Both Casey and Derek's heads snap towards the next room. Their attention is caught by a crying sound. Derek looks at Casey, "Stay right behind me." They inch closer to the next room, still hearing the cries. Derek looks into the room, and rushes in. Casey involuntarily follows Derek.
"Oh my god." Casey says, walking towards a pair of babies lying on the floor crying. Casey walks over to one of them, picking the baby up to calm it down, "There, there. Don't cry." Casey looks over to Derek, who has done the same as her with the other baby, "Who would do this?"
"Some twisted demented fu—," he replies, cradling the baby. "Shh Shh."
Finally, the babies stop crying. Casey moves closer to Derek, "We have to get out of here now."
"Yeah," Derek replies, looking out in to the corridor. He needs nods to Casey follow him. Derek scouts the first room, and to his surprise finds Emily and Sam. He rushes in. Casey follows suit.
Derek checks their pulses, "Thank god, they're just unconscious."
"Em." Casey calls out, shaking her arm.
"Sam." Derek says, gently patting his face.
Both of theirs eyes open at the same time, and they look up at Casey and Derek. Emily and Sam blink a few times before regaining their vision.
Sam and Emily turn their heads too each other, then back at Derek and Casey, noticing the babies in their arms. "Are those yours?" Sam asked, nodding to the baby in Derek's arm.
"No, we found them in another room." Derek replies, not even bothering to make a snide remark.
Emily tries to sit up, but can't even manage to stand, "Ugh, what is going here, I feel so exhausted and numb." Casey looks at Emily, "We don't know. We were in another room. And have no idea what's going on too."
Derek speaks up, "We found these two babies crying in the room adjacent to this one, and we also found a man and a woman in another room, by ours." Derek sighs, "Both of them were dead when we found them."
Sam and Emily gasp. Derek and Casey help them up. "It's going to be kind of hard to stand for awhile. It seems we might have been out for a long time."
They lean onto Derek and Casey's shoulders. "Now let's try to get out of here," Derek says, walking toward the door.
Two figures stand in the door way. "What is going on here?"
They look up and notice them right away.
"Noel. Sally." Derek says, surprised. "You guys got kidnapped too?"
"Kidnapped?" Noel replies.
"Yeah, why else would we be here." Derek retorts.
A/N: I admit, not much of a first chapter, I just wanted to get this started. But I assure you, it will only get better. And I wonder if anyone has any clues as to what's happening. Actually, there were some hints in "The Odd Couple", I can't remember what chapter, but I put it in there on purpose.
Hope you all enjoy it and come back for more!
Lates.
