Chapter 2: Underground Vaults

"Alright. I'm lost." Kayleigh said as she followed her older brother down the dirt floored hallway deeper into the underground vaults.

"Yeah, I'm sure you are. It would be a whole lot easier of you'd just come to the walk through with us, Kay. Why didn't you?" Nick asked her as he turned to face her. Aaron continued walking. Not wanting to get involved in some sibling rivalry thing going on between the two.

"The walk through was when…?" She asked softly tapping her chin as she put on a contemplating face.

"The day after we landed here." Nick growled back.

Kayleigh made on 'o' with her mouth as she nodded remembering that next day.

She'd woken up early that morning to find herself still in Zak's arms, still in his bed. She was stripped of clothing except for his button up shirt, and even then it had been unbuttoned all the way down. A vibration caught her attention as she looked down to see her brother's number flashing across the screen. Quickly ignoring the call she turned her attention to the dark haired man also naked in bed next to her. She smirked shaking her head slowly.

"Zak, how do we keep getting ourselves in these situations?" She asked herself as she leaned down leaving him with a kiss. As she quickly scurried off to her room she shared with Nick. She knew she'd have to come up with some sort of lie as to where she'd been all night long. "Where were you?" She heard as she let the door click shut behind her.

"I met someone last night." Kayleigh replied to him with a shrug.

"Oh?" Nick asked as she watched him stand up from kneeling by his suitcase, undoubtedly putting his clothes back in the case. She saw a glimpse of his disapproving expression, but she ignored it. Kayleigh nodded as she quickly made her way over to her bags. She knew that Nick wasn't stupid. She looked like she just woke up from rolling around in someone's bed. Luckily for her he didn't know who. She didn't even want to think of what He'd do if he ever found out it was Zak. "Well, who was it?"

Kayleigh stopped on her way to the bathroom, "What?"

"Who was the guy?" He asked her. "Did you even bother to catch his name?"

"Jack." She made up, and then continued on her way towards the bathroom. "Well, we have to head out to go to the walk through in the vaults today. I'd recommend that you come so you don't get lost."

Kayleigh turned to face him, "I'll be with you guys. I highly doubt that you're gonna let me wander off alone. So if you're going I'll be fine." Nick shrugged as he stood up.

"Well, we'll be back. The walk through is in like a fifteen minutes. So we'll see you afterwards?" Kayleigh nodded feeling the awkward tension between her and her brother. Suddenly Nick turned and walked out.

They were walking off towards the "cobbler's room." Because all of them had heard a sawing, and dragging noise for a continuous five minutes. As soon as they hit the cobbler's room Zak took charge as he slid Nick's camera out of his hands and handed Nick a digital recorder. "This is Nick, Zak, Aaron, and Kayleigh. In the 'cobbler's room'." Nick was holding the recorder like a microphone as he stood on the cobbler's side of the room.

"Mr. Cobbler, I'm on your side of the room now, and I wanna talk to you. Are you still working down here?" Then there was a long silent pause. Kayleigh glanced from Aaron to Zak. Zak gave her a small reassuring smile, and then Nick began talking again. "Are you working with any leather, or tools?"

After a long silence Zak said, "Alright now play it back, and see if we caught anything Nick." Zak then handed the camera off to Kayleigh.

"Wha-? Hey, I don't-."

"Nope. This trip so isn't free, you have to do your part too missy." She stuck her tongue out a Zak as she shifted the weight of the camera turning to get a shot of both the guys as they fumbled with the recorder. Upon playback they were all surprised to hear a slight popping noise, and then an inaudible noise.

"What the hell was that?" Kayleigh asked as she took a step closer to them.

"That sounded like a woman." Nick answered as he glanced between Zak and Kayleigh.

"Yeah." Aaron nodded from behind Kayleigh. Kayleigh kept her eyes on Zak as she watched him focus on nothing in particular as he brought the recorder to his ear, playing it back again. "It is." He said then turning to Nick as he hit a few buttons on the recorder. "Let's go to the darker side." With that Kayleigh moved so that she was on the same side as Zak and Nick, standing so that her back was towards the corner of the room and she was shooting the two guys. Aaron remained on the cobbler's side shooting from that angle. She felt herself shiver feeling something very cold blow by her. She played it off as though it were the wind.

"If I was a pregnant woman, would you hate me?" Nick asked. There was a single loud clear knock on the wall. Nick gasped as Zak said, "I heard that." Both quickly agreed that it was a knock.

"Did you just answer us? Can you make another knock for us?" Zak asked.

"Can you knock yes? Once for yes, and twice for no. Do you hate pregnant women?" Nick's voice echoed off the walls slightly. Kayleigh felt yet another shiver as she moved herself further back against the cool walls of the room. There was suddenly a loud knock right by her head. She squeaked as she raced out from the corner, launching herself between her brother and Zak. Almost dropping the camera in the process.

"Whoa, whoa. You okay?" Zak asked as she felt Nick come in closer to her looking around. Aaron stepped in closer to them as well, as if they were forming a subconscious circle around her. Kayleigh was visibly shaken. She handed the camera to Nick as she caught her breath.

"The- the knock wa- was right by my head. That- that's all." She explained. The guys all gave her some space, but no one left the room yet.

Suddenly there was a slight growling noise right between Kayleigh and Zak. She gripped Zak's arm as she moved away from the noise and slid herself closer to his side. She heard him gasp in surprise, "Did you hear that?" He asked her. She nodded quickly, her grip on him only tightening. Everyone glanced around the room, not sure what to do. There was suddenly another knock, louder this time right behind Kayleigh. "Oh, my god!" She yelled as she took off out of the room. Nick followed her and she heard the guys chuckling slightly. "No, I am not going back in there." She muttered to Nick when he followed her out in the hallway. She was leaning against the wall just outside the door way.

"Scared?" Nick asked her with a smirk.

Kayleigh nodded quickly, "Uh-huh. I'm not ashamed to admit it. That was fucking weird. I'm so done." Nick and Zak laughed at her reaction, but Kayleigh was too shaken to care.

"Fine, fine, we'll head to a different room. I'd say we've got enough evidence from her for the night." Zak agreed easily as Aaron and Nick moved out of the room. Zak stood in front of Kayleigh wearing an amused expression. "You okay?" He asked her softly. She nodded as her eyes darted around the room behind him. She began following them deeper into the vaults when she felt something grab at her ankle and yank her back. She landed on her stomach with a thud as she was yanked back into the room. She screamed and dug her nails into the dirt floors trying to fight against whatever was pulling her.

"Kayleigh!" She heard one of the guys shout. She was pulled around a corner and saw an angry looking woman covered from head to foot in black. The woman leered down at her as a growling noise reverberated throughout the room. Kayleigh screamed as she saw the guys came running in. Suddenly everything was quiet, and calm.

"What the hell just happened?" Zak asked as Nick raced over to her side. He put the camera down on the ground and hugged his sister tightly. Zak was on her other side while Aaron filmed from the doorway. Kayleigh was shaking at this point.

"Kales?" Nick asked her as he held her tighter. Suddenly she felt really dizzy, and her temperature spiked. She pushed at Nick trying to get him off of her. She slowly stood up and rushed out of the room, there was nothing but darkness around her and she didn't know where she was. Her stomach clenched and suddenly she vomited.

She groaned as she shuffled back in the guy's direction wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. "Ugh, I'm done guys. I am just done. I wanna leave." Kayleigh was tired and wanted out from being underground.

Nick and Aaron looked towards Zak, "What d'you wanna do, Zak? You wanna pack up and leave, or…?"

Zak looked to Kayleigh, his eyes scanned over her as she leaned against the wall tiredly. "I can just leave by myself, and head back to the hotel, guys." She sighed out tiredly.

"No-." Both Nick and Zak started as Aaron shook his head.

"I don't want you to be out there by yourself after what just happened." Nick said quickly. As he handed his camera to Zak. "I'll take her to the Hotel, you and Aaron stay here." Nick said to him. Kayleigh was so shaken that the most important fact didn't even register with her, but it registered with her brother.

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