p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"The Rescue /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Come again?" he asked. I tried to slow my breathing. "Mom worked for NASA and never died of a heart attack, she was killed. Satellite Asclepius can destroy the earth or heal it, this is what he wants" I gasped. "Max? Emmy? What is going on, your mum, what's it about your mum being killed?" Monica questioned suddenly out of her daze. "Nothing got to get going" I said in a hurry. "Yeah, dad'll be looking for us, thank you very much Monica" Max chimed in. We walked to the door and I opened it, and we stepped out. "Come back tomorrow, Okay? I want an explanation on what just happened, yeah?" she called as we walked away. "Yes Ma'am" Max called back. We began to walk back home until I stopped Max halfway. "There was a phone number, the head of NASA's I think, and I can remember it. Why don't we call…? Arron, I think his name was Arron, he might help us?" I asked. "I bet your phone is bugged to see if you are getting help, we should use an open phone box" Max said. "Okay, let's go"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We headed to the village where we saw staggering men coming out of the pub and gangs of teenagers running around. It was old, an old village, aged homes, and stores. But just then we heard screaming. High pitch, girly screams. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Kelly? Kelly!" Max began shouting at the top of his lungs. "It's Max! Keep screaming Kelly! We're coming!" He shouted. The screams became louder as we approached the old fair hut where couples went on Hallowe'en. The ear piercing screams became loud cries in pain. "STOP! Don't hurt me! NOOOOOOO! Don't hurt him either, you idiot!" a girl shrieked. It was Kelly, definitely Kelly. I wave of relief washed over me, it felt like nothing I'd felt before. She was alive, she was okay, I could not have been happier. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We crept around the back and peered through the fogged windows. I examined the room. It was dim and dusty with a flickering lightbulb lighting the whole room. There! I saw Adam and in seconds he saw me too. His face was tense but you could see it relaxed a bit. But all it took to change that face was a hand on my shoulder and a cloth over my mouth with a sickeningly sweet smell./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We woke up bound to a radiator with rope. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Great/em I thought em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"how were we going to get out of this one. /emA low moan comes from beside me. It was Adam. "Emmy, I'm so glad you're awake, we have been here about an hour and I was just starting to lose track of time, I was so worried bout' you, I need to talk to you later. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Alone/em. Please. But first, we need to get out of here. I should warn you don't freak out but we are dealing with…" but before he could finish his sentence a man entered the room, hidden by shadows. He was tall and stocky from what I could see and seemed very strong. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"No wonder Adam couldn't beat him. /emAnother man walked into the room and knocked out Adam and took him away. But once the shadowed man stepped into the light I froze. My Heart skipped a good few beats. Uncle Peter. The man I only saw about an hour ago in my vision. "What the bloody hell!" I spat at him. "You…..you…you're the one who kidnapped my friends, and sent those texts" I paused "You're the one who killed my mom!" I shouted, disgusted. "Only for the right reasons, NASA weren't going to do much with the/span/strong strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"Asclepius satellite anyway, I only know so much about the rock, so tell me, Emmy, what does it do?" he asked. I hesitated. "Tell me Evelyn or you will be knocked out and will wake up with no boyfriend, best friend, brother and father!" he shouted. "It….it can control the atmosphere, wait, you got dad, Oh my word. You are such a monster! Don't hurt them! Please! That's all I know! I just found out my mom was an astronomer!" I yell. He shouted a few curses and then said "she is no longer useful, dispose of her"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"He walked out of the room, left me alone in the silence./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"Minutes went by, minutes that led to hours. I began to cough as this cloud of smoke drifted into my room. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Dispose of her/em he said, what he meant was get rid of her and the rest in a fire./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"The smoke just grew thicker and thicker. My lungs were burning; my eyes began to prick with tears, not just because of the smoke but at the thought of the people who were going down with me. Time passed, it just got worse. I realized the rope was not tight enough, there was room to get out, and I pushed and wiggled my way out of it. Finally! I was out! I crept to the door. There was no one guarding it. Idiots. I tiptoe out of the room and through the hallway. There was pounding coming from one room. I tried to open the door it was locked. I began thrashing at the door, jumping on it to knock it down, I was lucky since this hut/cottage was so old I could knock it down. I saw Adam. Thrashing around until he noticed me. He looked so pleased, so reassured that we had got it this time. I unbound him and he hugged me. I hugged him back. He whispered into my ear: "I thought I was going to lose you and Kelly, I couldn't bare it" Although it was only seconds I wanted to stay there safe in someone arms with no fears of people trying to kill the people I love. But I had to pull away./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""They are keeping Kelly and Max in the same room in the attic cause he wouldn't shut up 'til he found out she was okay" Adam said. Classic Max. We sneaked up to the attic and found the door that was separating us from them. The stairs looked dodgy, unstable. When we reached the door Adam tried to open it. It was locked. "I can do it, I can pick it" he said self-assuredly. I pulled a long chip of wood from the decaying walls and handed it to him. "Might want to hurry up, the fire is spreading real fast" I warned. He opened it and the next thing I knew I was in a bear hug with Max. Dad was in the back of the room them tied up. He calmed as we went to untie him but just then Peter walked in on us. Oh no. Gun in hand./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Don't shoot, please!" Adam pleaded. But he was ignored. Peter was going to pull the trigger. It was going to be the end. It was like I was watching his finger curl round it in slow-motion. He did pull it, but I didn't get hit, my dad did. He jumped in the way in the very last second. Hit right in the heart. He slumped to the ground. "…." I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I kneeled beside him. His eyes were fixed on me full of love, full of pain, and then nothing. He was gone. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMy dad the one who tried to protect me and Max, the one who held a terrifying secret for so many years, my dad now dead. I sat in style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;" It's not real/em I thought. It was. Not a dream, not a night mare but it was rock hard reality. Adam had already jumped onto Peter giving him a good fight (it was what he was good at) we realised without peter not being dead or in jail or his men still out there, we were never going to be safe. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We climbed out of the attic window and down the roof. There was a small jump that we all made. Once we were down we ran, as far away and as fast as possible. The hut went up in flames, strong and tall. The fire brigade was already at the scene in minutes. I no longer had my bag and it was unsafe to go back home so we ended up in a squat. But we had to keep on the move./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"My name is Emily Collins. This is my story so far. I can't say where I am going but I am on a plane, to find a man named Arron Lockwood. I would say that the day you just heard about was the scariest thing of my life, but it's not. Every day is scarier than the next. Chilling me to the bone with fear, tearing apart my insides with grief, and most of all reassuring me with hope, I am hopeful that we will find someone who will help me find out more about my mom. Someone with high enough power to find Peter and give him a sentence. But for now we are on the run./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Come again?" he asked. I tried to slow my breathing. "Mom worked for NASA and never died of a heart attack, she was killed. Satellite Asclepius can destroy the earth or heal it, this is what he wants" I gasped. "Max? Emmy? What is going on, your mum, what's it about your mum being killed?" Monica questioned suddenly out of her daze. "Nothing got to get going" I said in a hurry. "Yeah, dad'll be looking for us, thank you very much Monica" Max chimed in. We walked to the door and I opened it, and we stepped out. "Come back tomorrow, Okay? I want an explanation on what just happened, yeah?" she called as we walked away. "Yes Ma'am" Max called back. We began to walk back home until I stopped Max halfway. "There was a phone number, the head of NASA's I think, and I can remember it. Why don't we call…? Arron, I think his name was Arron, he might help us?" I asked. "I bet your phone is bugged to see if you are getting help, we should use an open phone box" Max said. "Okay, let's go"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We headed to the village where we saw staggering men coming out of the pub and gangs of teenagers running around. It was old, an old village, aged homes, and stores. But just then we heard screaming. High pitch, girly screams. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Kelly? Kelly!" Max began shouting at the top of his lungs. "It's Max! Keep screaming Kelly! We're coming!" He shouted. The screams became louder as we approached the old fair hut where couples went on Hallowe'en. The ear piercing screams became loud cries in pain. "STOP! Don't hurt me! NOOOOOOO! Don't hurt him either, you idiot!" a girl shrieked. It was Kelly, definitely Kelly. I wave of relief washed over me, it felt like nothing I'd felt before. She was alive, she was okay, I could not have been happier. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We crept around the back and peered through the fogged windows. I examined the room. It was dim and dusty with a flickering lightbulb lighting the whole room. There! I saw Adam and in seconds he saw me too. His face was tense but you could see it relaxed a bit. But all it took to change that face was a hand on my shoulder and a cloth over my mouth with a sickeningly sweet smell./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We woke up bound to a radiator with rope. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Great/em I thought em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"how were we going to get out of this one. /emA low moan comes from beside me. It was Adam. "Emmy, I'm so glad you're awake, we have been here about an hour and I was just starting to lose track of time, I was so worried bout' you, I need to talk to you later. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Alone/em. Please. But first, we need to get out of here. I should warn you don't freak out but we are dealing with…" but before he could finish his sentence a man entered the room, hidden by shadows. He was tall and stocky from what I could see and seemed very strong. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"No wonder Adam couldn't beat him. /emAnother man walked into the room and knocked out Adam and took him away. But once the shadowed man stepped into the light I froze. My Heart skipped a good few beats. Uncle Peter. The man I only saw about an hour ago in my vision. "What the bloody hell!" I spat at him. "You…..you…you're the one who kidnapped my friends, and sent those texts" I paused "You're the one who killed my mom!" I shouted, disgusted. "Only for the right reasons, NASA weren't going to do much with the/span/strong strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"Asclepius satellite anyway, I only know so much about the rock, so tell me, Emmy, what does it do?" he asked. I hesitated. "Tell me Evelyn or you will be knocked out and will wake up with no boyfriend, best friend, brother and father!" he shouted. "It….it can control the atmosphere, wait, you got dad, Oh my word. You are such a monster! Don't hurt them! Please! That's all I know! I just found out my mom was an astronomer!" I yell. He shouted a few curses and then said "she is no longer useful, dispose of her"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"He walked out of the room, left me alone in the silence./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"Minutes went by, minutes that led to hours. I began to cough as this cloud of smoke drifted into my room. em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Dispose of her/em he said, what he meant was get rid of her and the rest in a fire./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"The smoke just grew thicker and thicker. My lungs were burning; my eyes began to prick with tears, not just because of the smoke but at the thought of the people who were going down with me. Time passed, it just got worse. I realized the rope was not tight enough, there was room to get out, and I pushed and wiggled my way out of it. Finally! I was out! I crept to the door. There was no one guarding it. Idiots. I tiptoe out of the room and through the hallway. There was pounding coming from one room. I tried to open the door it was locked. I began thrashing at the door, jumping on it to knock it down, I was lucky since this hut/cottage was so old I could knock it down. I saw Adam. Thrashing around until he noticed me. He looked so pleased, so reassured that we had got it this time. I unbound him and he hugged me. I hugged him back. He whispered into my ear: "I thought I was going to lose you and Kelly, I couldn't bare it" Although it was only seconds I wanted to stay there safe in someone arms with no fears of people trying to kill the people I love. But I had to pull away./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""They are keeping Kelly and Max in the same room in the attic cause he wouldn't shut up 'til he found out she was okay" Adam said. Classic Max. We sneaked up to the attic and found the door that was separating us from them. The stairs looked dodgy, unstable. When we reached the door Adam tried to open it. It was locked. "I can do it, I can pick it" he said self-assuredly. I pulled a long chip of wood from the decaying walls and handed it to him. "Might want to hurry up, the fire is spreading real fast" I warned. He opened it and the next thing I knew I was in a bear hug with Max. Dad was in the back of the room them tied up. He calmed as we went to untie him but just then Peter walked in on us. Oh no. Gun in hand./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;""Don't shoot, please!" Adam pleaded. But he was ignored. Peter was going to pull the trigger. It was going to be the end. It was like I was watching his finger curl round it in slow-motion. He did pull it, but I didn't get hit, my dad did. He jumped in the way in the very last second. Hit right in the heart. He slumped to the ground. "…." I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I kneeled beside him. His eyes were fixed on me full of love, full of pain, and then nothing. He was gone. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMy dad the one who tried to protect me and Max, the one who held a terrifying secret for so many years, my dad now dead. I sat in style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;" It's not real/em I thought. It was. Not a dream, not a night mare but it was rock hard reality. Adam had already jumped onto Peter giving him a good fight (it was what he was good at) we realised without peter not being dead or in jail or his men still out there, we were never going to be safe. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"We climbed out of the attic window and down the roof. There was a small jump that we all made. Once we were down we ran, as far away and as fast as possible. The hut went up in flames, strong and tall. The fire brigade was already at the scene in minutes. I no longer had my bag and it was unsafe to go back home so we ended up in a squat. But we had to keep on the move./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Semilight','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"My name is Emily Collins. This is my story so far. I can't say where I am going but I am on a plane, to find a man named Arron Lockwood. I would say that the day you just heard about was the scariest thing of my life, but it's not. Every day is scarier than the next. Chilling me to the bone with fear, tearing apart my insides with grief, and most of all reassuring me with hope, I am hopeful that we will find someone who will help me find out more about my mom. Someone with high enough power to find Peter and give him a sentence. But for now we are on the run./span/strong/p
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