|Chapter 4|

Her body felt limp and she smelled the faint smell of chloroform, as she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyelids felt heavy, she wanted to get back to sleep for some reason but as soon as her eyes focused on the surroundings she got alert. It wasn´t her bed, it wasn´t her bedroom at all. She knew this place, it was familiar, it was Eric´s living room; She often was there and she connected this place with so much great memories but right now it seemed odd, it seemed uncomfortable and creepy. The floor seemed hard and she had a bad headache. She was so tired, she actually had to fight to held her eyes open.

She heard some noises, it sounded like quite whimpers of pain but she wasn´t sure; It wasn´t far away from her but it was so pitch dark in the room so that she couldn't see anything. So many questions were on her mind; She didn´t know what happened to her, wasn´t she in her bed as she fell asleep? Why the hell was she at Eric´s place,? Where does this noises come from and where the hell was Eric? But she found no answer for any question right now. All of her consecration belonged to this creepy noise.

"..Cal…" the voice was stopped by a soft whimper of pain, "-Calleigh…"

She gasped out loud as she heard her name. She didn´t wondered that it was her name which was called, she just got confused as she recognized who said her name. Eric. It was a whisper, filled with pain and fear. The fear was showed in Calleigh´s eyes too. That couldn´t be, was it really Eric who said this or was it just a coincidence? She attempted to move her body. "Eric?" she managed to brought out in a soft whisper. She thought she´d have seen something not far away from her; It seemed like someone was writhed himself in pain. Calleigh crept over to where she had seen it.

"Oh my god," she mumbled quietly in shock. Eric was lying in a pool of blood, his body covered in cuts and bruises. She carefully put her hand on his chest, "Eric…" she paused for a moment, shaking his body slightly, trying to wake him up, "..-what happened?" she whispered. He groaned in response, turned his head to the side to face her. His eyes were closed but they twitched lightly, actually a lot. "Eric..look at me," her eyes watered, "-please.." her hand made it´s way up to his cheek. She stroked his cheek as a few tears made their way down her face. It was awful to see him like this, in pain.

His eyes fluttered open, his eyes were filled with fear, pain and confusion at the same time. He had to fight to held his eyes open, "Cal.." he paused for a pain filled moan, "Cal..y-..you need to leave, before.." he trailed off when the pain kicked him again, "-be..-before.." he couldn´t make it anymore, his eyes shut close when he lost consciousness.

"Eric?" she chocked out quietly. Calleigh blinked away the tears which had made their way in her eyes again. "Eric?" she asked with more power this time, when he didn´t answered, when he didn´t moved either she called out his name again. "Eric!" she almost yelled at him, "Eric, wake up!" She cried out, the tears streamed down her face by now. She leaned closer and hugged him tightly, shocking him at the same time, "Open your eyes,.." she just stared at him for a moment, "..-and," she swallowed hard, "-and..look at me…" she pleaded at him but no response. She heard footsteps but it seemed to didn´t bother her.

"I see you are awake," she heard a voice saying, the voice was filled with a strong Russian accent. She froze, unhanded of Eric and turned around to take a look at the guys who were right behind her, "Take her!" she heard one of them saying, and before she could prepare, someone yanked her hard backwards. The air was barley kicked out off her, she yelped in pain and surprise at the same time. He knocked her to the ground, and hold her in place. He squeezed her wrists pretty hard against her back and with the other hand he pressed her face against the floor. The second man walked over to where Eric lay. "Your little boyfriend over here wasn´t a good guy, he´s the reason why Alexander is in jail right now" he got angry and kicked Eric very hard in the side. Suddenly he became consciousness and gasped loudly out in pain.

"STOP!!!" she yelled at him, when he kicked Eric a second time. The man relinquished his grip on her and let her sit up on her knees, but still holding her pretty hard. The second man just smirked at her and punched Eric several times in his face, he was near dead now. "Please!!!" she cried out, her eyes became wet again. "Please Stop.." she screamed, begged for him to stop. She started to fight, started to try to get free from his hold but it was no use, -the man was just to strong and it was little use without her hands. She cried harder; Calleigh just couldn´t hold back the sobs anymore, "Don´t.!" she screamed, "-..please, you are going to kill him,". She didn´t knew what to say, she didn´t knew what to do. "I´ll do whatever you want but please stop beating him," she cockled out.

But he didn´t.

He just grinned at her, he enjoyed every second. He kicked Eric a last time in the stomach before he finally stopped to beat him. He walked over to Calleigh and bent down, "It was fun but I gotta go now." He kissed her forehead, ignore the way she flinched in disgust when he did, "-maybe," he paused and smirked at her, "-..maybe one day..we´ll meet again," he looked up to his partner and stood up. He went to the door to leave and as soon as he reached the door his partner joined him and let go of Calleigh. She wiped away the tears, pulled herself back together and crept over to Eric.

"Eric?" she whispered carefully to him, when she reached his unconscious body and took his head in her own hands and felt his pulse.

A/N: I´m soo sorry if someone got confused. And I know that I said the next Chapter would be longer, I´m sorry. I know I´m not that good with the drama, actually I´m not sure whether I´m a good writer but I still hope you enjoy me story.

TBC