AN: Sorry this took so long guys, I've been really busy and haven't had much inspiration for this.

I have a quick question though, there are two ways I might have this story go. I will either bring in several Angels or I won't. So, what you guys rather see? Angels or no Angels?

The next few hours were spent wandering around the large main room, in and out of the bedrooms that branched off of the main room and asking the same questions over and over again. No matter where anyone looked, there didn't seem to be a way out of this place. No drains, no vents and completely seamless walls and floors. Whoever had made this place had been very careful at making sure there was no way out. I'd already considered trying to open a portal, but had given up once I realized that my necklace didn't have enough magic for that.

Ben had fallen asleep on my shoulder and I was content to leave him there, it gave me an excuse not to have to get up and look around for an exit that wasn't there like the others were doing. It was strange, when I looked at Ben and is ostentatious outfit, I couldn't help but think of Magnus and how much I missed him. Ever since we'd actually started dating I'd never been away from him for more than a few days and I'd always been able to call or text him.

"FUCKING LET US OUT!" Zach shouted, banging against a wall with his fists.

"Zach! That won't do anything. Whoever put us in here won't let us out just because you bang on the walls." I chastised.

"No, it won't. But I do rather enjoy watching you try." A strange voice echoed through the room. Ben jumped awake and several of the children whimpered and clung to each other.

"Who…?" Jessie whispered quietly as her eyes darted around the room.

"Please, by all means, keep banging on the walls. It amuses me." The voice chuckled. Zach growled and went to punch the wall full force but just before his fist could connect the building we were in vanished and he went toppling forward. Rapidly I jumped to my feet; Ben did the same staying close to my side. Once he stood up I realized how small he really was, he just barely made it to my shoulder.

We were in what looked like a forest and the overcast sky above was a sickly grey-brown colour. There were no other buildings in sight and the one we had been in was completely gone, there were no indicators at all of where we were. The only thing around us was a pile of generic backpacks, it looked like there was one for each of us.

The second the walls had vanished several people had taken off into the woods, it looked like the ones who had left were Mike, Jeffery, Zach, Erica and Amanda. Other than those five, everyone else had the sense to remain put. Carefully I walked over to the pile of backpacks with Ben. When I actually looked at the bags I saw that each had a tag with a name on it. I found the one with my name on the tag and unzipped one to see what was inside. It looked like the contents of a survival kit. Two canteens of water, a hunting knife, a small first aid kit, a change of clothes, a blanket, and various packages of dried food. Everyone else's appeared to have the same things inside except for the children's which didn't contain a knife but a small story book instead.

"What the fuck is this all for?" Ben mumbled as he examined his bag.

"For the games." The voice from earlier echoed out from nowhere. "And those games, begin now."

"Who the hell are you?" Derrick shouted at the source-less voice. He didn't get an answer.

"What now?" Elizabeth asked quietly, she still had her arms wrapped protectively around her stomach. Instantly there was a myriad of voices all suggesting what we should do now. None of them seemed to actually come up with a good answer though, and several heated arguments broke out.

"I hate when people shout." Ben mumbled, stepping behind me slightly.

"Yeah, me to." I pressed two of my knuckles to my lips and let out a shrill whistle, hoping it would get everyone's attention. Thankfully, the noise was effective.

"What?" Taylor said irritably.

"Look, it's almost dark and we don't know how cold it could get. We need to find a place to sleep for the night and then we can figure out more about what's going on tomorrow." I told them. After a bit of grumbling everyone agreed and grabbed their packs. Several of the adults helped the youngest kids with theirs and some even decided to carry the littlest ones. Once everyone was ready we took off looking for a good place to sleep for the night, or some sign of where we were.

"I hate this. I just wanna go home." Ben mumbled. We'd been walking for maybe twenty minutes now and Ben and I had ended up near the front of our group. Everyone else was trailing along behind, moaning about how we shouldn't be worrying about shelter, but instead finding out what was going on.

"Where is home?" I asked, just to break the monotony of walking through the dismal woods.

"A little town in northern California, there's only about four hundred people in the town, and then a few people who live just outside the town's limits but come in for the store and such."

"That sounds nice. I've always liked little towns, I like the quite."

"Yeah, the quite is a plus. The lack of demons is the best part though."

"I'm sure it is... Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Why is your hair changing colours?"

"Oh," He let out a small, half hearted laugh, "my grandmother was a fey, so I've got some fey in me. The streaks of color in my hair change depending on my mood, my eyes do it to." He explained as he brushed his hair out of his eyes revealing that they were the same light pink as the streaks in his hair.

"Interesting." I sighed and looked off into the woods.

"What? You think that's creepy or something?" Ben looked slightly offended at my response.

"No, I just… it made me think of my fiancé, that's all. He dyes his hair all the time."

"You're engaged?"

"Yeah."

"What's his name?"

"Magnus. I've known him for about three years; we've been engaged for a couple months now."

"That's sweet."

We walked in silence for awhile after that just listening to snippets of other conversations. Ian and Marty were arguing over who had won a basketball game the other night, and Kim had her arm around Elizabeth and was gently consoling the distraught woman. The others were griping about our situation.

"…Alec, will, will Magnus look for you?" Ben asked suddenly.

"I hope so." I answered after a moment.

"I know my family will. They know I'd never just leave like this…I can't just leave like this." He mumbled the last part.

"Well, at least we know that one of our families will definitely be looking for us. That's something."

"Yeah."

"Hey! Look at that!" Ian shouted suddenly. He was bouncing excitedly in front of a sign posted next to a small foot path. Sadly the sign was old and barely legible. The most anyone could make out was "Met—fac---y 2--les. "

"Well that isn't helpful." Someone mumbled.

"It's a little helpful, at least there's some chance we're near civilization." Another person responded.

"I say we head in the direction of that arrow." Taylor said, she…he… whatever, was standing next to Ben and I.

"It's not an arrow! It's a triangle." Jeremy argued.

"You only have one eye…" someone pointed out.

"Well I still got the other one and it works just fine!" He snapped.

"Alright, alright calm down. Yes, there is a chance it isn't an arrow. But if it is then there could be people in that direction so lets take the chance and go that way." I suggested.

"I agree with the kid." Jared spoke up from the back. Jared was a rather large guy, around six foot ten maybe and very heavily built, no one was really willing to argue with him.

"I guess we follow the arrow then." Taylor spoke up when no one else said anything or moved to go in the direction the supposed arrow pointed. Before anyone else responded Taylor was already walking down the path.

"Is that a guy or a chick?" Ben whispered as we followed.

"I've been wondering the same thing." I answered.

"Good, I'm glad it isn't just me."

"Me to."

After about twenty minutes a large building loomed up out of the semi-darkness. As soon as people caught site of it they took of running. Thankfully though some of us had enough sense to stay a good distance away from the strange building. It was maybe two stories tall, with about ten windows spaced evenly across one side and five spaced along the other along with a metal door. Most of the windows were cracked and dingy; some of them were broken or even completely gone. The building looked completely abandoned, there wasn't even a road leading to it from what I could see, and there was trash littered everywhere.

"Guys, we should search that building. We don't know what or who might be in there. For all we know it could be a demon nest." I shouted.

The mere mention of "demon nest" stopped the runners in their tracks.

"Kim, could you stay out here and watch the kids?" I asked. She did seem the most motherly after all. Elizabeth elected to stay with Kim and the kids.

"Sure." She nodded and went to coral all the children into one area.

Everyone else dropped their bags, taking only the knives, as we all moved carefully towards the door. As soon as we were inside everyone spread out and carefully looked through the rooms.

The place looked like it may have been a military base or something similar at one time. There was a large cafeteria with an old buffet line and tables with the chairs attached. Three large rooms with ten made-up cots each, the cots were spread along one wall and a small dresser across from each bed. Even a library filled with dusty books and stuffed chairs. There was nothing overly remarkable about the place though, nothing that really stood out or gave us some idea of where we were.

"There isn't anything useful here." Paul groaned.

"We don't know that, it's not like we've examined everything. At the very least it should be a safe place to stay for awhile. The women can have one room, the guys can take another, the last can be for the kids unless they want to sleep with someone else." I spoke up. "Ben, why don't you go outside and grab everyone else so we can get settled for the night." He nodded and slipped back outside returning moments later with Kim, Elizabeth and the kids.

We explained what we were going to do and they agreed quickly. The two of them took the kids to the room we had decided to give them and tucked all of them in, electing to sleep in there that night. Everyone else wandered into the other two rooms except for Ben, Jared and I.

"We should keep watch. Whoever it was that put us here could show up at any time and we don't know what they want." Jared suggested.

"I agree." I told him, Ben just nodded.

"Right, I'll take first watch then. You take second and Paul can take third. If we each go for three hours we should get through the night alright."

"Sounds good to me." I told him.

"Right, I'll come wake you up in a few hours then." He told me as he walked back towards the entrance.

Ben and I walked into the guy's room and took the last two beds at the very end of the room. Strangely, the sheets and pillows looked fresh which was a little creepy.

"It's like all this stuff was put here just for us." Ben was eyeing the bed warily, like he expected it to jump up and eat him. Those fears were soon dissipated when he saw Ian and Marty start jumping on theirs like a couple of five year olds. He watched them for a moment before pulling off his jacket, shoes and belt and climbing into bed. I eventually lay down as well just staring at the cracked ceiling.

After what seemed like several moments Jared was shaking me awake saying it was my turn to take watch. I didn't even remember falling asleep. I mumbled groggily that he should go get some sleep as I pulled my shoes back on. Grabbing my knife I walked quietly out of the room and outside. The cold air quickly cleared my senses once I stepped through the door.

I did a quick walk around the building before I settled against one of the walls. The sky was still overcast so there were no stars to judge where we were by. The woods were thick in every direction and my walk around the building confirmed my earlier suspicion that there were no roads. In fact, there didn't even seem to be any paths other then the one we had come off of.

Other then a small deer running through the minute clearing around the building and nearly giving me a heart attack nothing interesting happened over the three hours I had watch. Gratefully I trudged back inside and woke Paul before I collapsed back into my bed.

Just as I was about to drift off I heard Ben whimper and shift in his bed.

"Ben, are you okay?" I whispered. He didn't answer so I stood back up and sat on the edge of his bed. He was still asleep but his eyes were clenched shut and he looked like he was in pain. "Ben, wake up." I shook him gently and he bolted up right with a loud gasp.

"…Alec."

"Right here, are you okay?" He just shook his head. Carefully I wrapped my arm around him in attempt to sooth him a bit. "Anything I can do?"

"Just…just sit here with me for awhile, please."

"I can do that."

AN: Yes, Ben is a very small little guy. But I love him so much. We'll get into his past a bit more later which should help make what he does and the way he acts a bit more understandable.

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