Darkness. All I can see is Darkness. It envelops me. It consumes me. It controls me. Darkness.
Keri's Pov-
I look at the other 4 in the base in the tense base. The air was thick with it… tension. Raw tension, that didn't just flow from the stiff stances Dan and I were showcasing as his hand brushed against mine, coming to stand up short as the contact is made, beside me, but from the sentence that just emanated from Frank's mouth. I suck in a deep breath and ask the question on everyone's mind.
"Frank, what's this terrifying mission then?" I speak calmly, waiting in cowardly fear for what we might accomplish on this mission, as a team, as in also Dan.
"It's not terrifying, so much, more you never want to talk about it again. Ever." Frank signs dejectedly. I chew my lip in thought. What could it possibly be? What horrors await us?
Dan's Pov-
She looks so adorable, chewing her lip like that. Christ, stop it Dan, you like Zoe. Keri is just her mirror image, her annoying doppelgänger. But, she does make annoying so adorable. C'mon, focus on the mission. I stare at Frank waiting for the task to be given to us. But am bitterly disappointed, as Frank says nothing still.
"Well, it's um, it's," Frank stutter's. I roll my eyes in annoyance.
"Get on with it Frank!" I groan, finally not being able to stand the suspense anymore. Frank gulps deeply, then speaks long and low, in a hushed whisper, barely audible to the four people standing less than a metre away from him. As he speaks, our eyes widen at his words.
"It's Zoe," he breathes. "She's been taken by KORPS."
At these few uttered breaths, my world, surprisingly, doesn't standstill, or fall apart or any of that crap. I don't know, if it's because of how I feel about Keri, or my determination to find the one who still clutches my lingering wisps of emotion tightly. My head is swirling and spinning with thoughts, and my knees start to weaken and soon they are buckling with my weight. Before I collapse into a heap on the cool concrete floor though, I am being led to the chair that Keri was previously sitting in, and by none other than the former occupant herself.
Usually I would stiffen at her gentle touch, but I am too numb with sheer worry for Zoe, and confusion from the feelings that have manifested within me regarding the two sisters I have come to grow so close with. I run my hands down my face and take a breath, so deep, that I feel the coolness of it pierce my warm insides as it hits the bottom of my lungs and rattles my ribcage mercilessly in the process.
"What do we have to do?"
Keri's Pov-
His eyes, they had started to quiver with worry and fill to the brink with fresh, hot tears, as soon as the news of Zoe's distressing whereabouts left Frank's lips. And I know it's selfish to think of myself in a time like this, where my own flesh and blood is being held captive against her will, in the most hellish place on Earth… but I was right. Dan doesn't care for me like he does Zoe. If he did, I probably would have done something already. I'm not afraid of a stupid boy. But this stupid, stupid, ridiculously amazing boy, I'm somehow terrified of. And I don't know how to forget him. Because he consumes me.
