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Chapter Two: Sam
I felt like complete shit.
My head was throbbing and my limbs felt torn and stretched to an impossible length. I lifted my hands to feel my nose, which was healing quickly in a broken way and I popped it back into its correct position before opening my eyes.
I was lying on my back in a stone room, it seemed. The ceiling above me was dark, dirty, and leaking. I let the water drip across my face, hoping to wash away the dried blood that was present there.
What happened? I started to sit up when I heard an awful scream to my left.
A woman was standing there, facing what appeared to be total darkness. From behind I could only make out her long, blonde hair- matted and spattered with blood.
A creature lay crumbled at her feet; red-skinned with pointy ears and talons the size of rulers. I looked back to woman, watching, waiting, as silently as she was.
"Come on!" She yelled after nearly a minute of complete silence. A man lunged at her, wearing nothing but a metal collar of spikes pointing toward his throat. I reached to my neck and realized I held a similar contraption. I gulped and felt the spike push against my Adam's apple.
The woman caught him mid-jump and threw him to the ground, using her hands to bend the collar until it pierced the man's flesh. He cried out in pain, grabbing at his neck in a type of frenzy. His blood spilled into the floor around the woman's bare feet.
"Who's next?" She called out into the darkness and her threat was met with a series of growls and cries of fury. She seemed unfazed, picking up the man and the creature as if they weighed nothing and tossed them to whatever waited in black hole before us.
"Now, leave me the fuck alone." She ordered and I heard a scurrying of feet and then silence.
"What the hell is going on?" I demanded and, as the woman spun to face me, I realized she wasn't a woman at all, but a girl: just a teenager.
She had an oval face with bright green eyes, pouty lips, and tired, worn, expression.
I couldn't understand what was happening.
Why were we here? I tried to remember something, anything, and all I could recall was that I had been patrolling on the edges of La Push. Patrolling alone, I stopped to take a drink of water in a small creek and then…. Nothing.
"I just saved your life." The young girl spat, jerking me back from my thoughts as she went to lean against the wall farthest from me. I stared at the bars around us, then at the open cage door, wondering why she didn't just leave, if it was unlocked…
Maybe it was because of whatever monsters lay in wait outside; although she didn't seem to struggle very much with them. So why stay?
My head ached with each beat of my heart and I couldn't think straight. I felt exhausted.
"Thank you." I told her earnestly, weakly. "But where are-"
"Don't." She cut me off viciously, sliding down the wall until she was seated on the dingy floor. She let her head fall back against the stone and closed her eyes.
"Don't what?" I asked, attempting to pull myself to a standing position. My legs felt like jello beneath a two-ton truck: worthless.
"Don't talk to me." She explained. "Ever."
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