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Chapter Six: "You're all under house arrest!"

For a moment, no one moved. Caine, Sam and Taylor glared at Drake, he was on his own, yet he seemed even more threatening than any army.

"Go back to your room, Caine" Drake smirked

Caine glared at him, taking a slow step back, his eyes darting but there was no weapon. Sam rose his hands to fight even though he knew it was useless. Taylor was thinking, if she bounced behind of him and held him, maybe Sam could beat him in fists. But there powers did not work on Drake, would it work NEAR Drake? She wasn't sure.

"You heard me" Drake said, stepping forward

They all took a step back. Then Sam stepped forward again. He held his hands up and sent light straight at Drake even though he knew it was pointless. Drake walked through the light like it was nothing.

"Am I speaking another language here?" Drake snickered, he was loving every minute of this.

Suddenly Caine darted passed Sam, he done it so quickly and sharply that even Drake did not see it coming. He punched Drake hard as he could in the chin and would have punched him again, when Drake's tentacle arm acted without thought. It whipped out and caught Caine's cheek, throwing him down to the ground so he landed awkwardly and twisted his wrist.

Caine jumped back up just in time for the tentacle to wrap around his arms and pin them to his side. Drake's other hand cover over and covered Caine's mouth while he pinned his nose between his thumb and forefinger, cutting off all the air. Caine struggled for a moment, trying to fight him off but Drake's tentacle arm was a lot stronger than he was and managed to hold him perfectly still.

"Let him go!" Sam shouted, stepping forward

"Sam, since when do you care about him?" Drake snickered holding Caine against him tightly to stop him struggeling so much, there was pure panick in his eyes as he fought for breath "Or is twins brotherly love kicking in finally?"

"He can't breath!" Sam snapped, Taylor stayed quiet, cruel but she did not care about Caine.

Drake smirked, he looked down at Caine, whose struggeling was getting weaker and weaker, he held on for a few more seconds before releasing his nose. Caine took a deep breath and gave a half cough into Drake's hand, breathing deeply for a few moments before it returned to normal.

"Now then..." Drake looked back at Sam.

"Let him go" Sam repeated

"But I like him" Drake said playfully like a baby. Caine reached up and tried to pull his hand down but Drake's tentacle prevented him from lifting his arms very high.

"Let him go" Sam said once more, he wanted to add an or else but he had no threat to give.

"No, what do you care anyway" Drake smirked, he moved his foot just as Caine tried to stomp on him.

"Look, just let him go" Sam snapped angrily

"No" Drake snickered "You want him, fight me"

Sam hesitaited then stepped forward in a threatening manner. Taylor was suddenly grabbing his arm.

"Don't do this for him, let's just go" she hissed

Sam might have done just that, but he saw the look of panick of Caine's face when Drake had him holding his breath. He saw the cut on his cheek and he remembered, Caine was still his brother and Drake was a nut job! He might have left if he knew Drake would simply kill Caine but the fact that he could very well torture Caine before killing him made Sam sick. He couldn't leave Caine to die like that!

"Well?" Sam said "Come on"

Drake smirked, he unwrapped the tentacle and quickly used his normal arm to pin Caine's arm to his side. He used his tentacle to make a threatening motion at Sam, trying to intimidate him.

Sam winced but took another step forward, no idea what he was going to do. Taylor was glaring at Caine, as if it was his fault.

Sam bit on his lower lip, he really had no idea what he was suppose to do now.

Then Drake took this chance to dart his arm out and smacked Sam's shoulder, knocking him backwards. As he hit the ground Taylor ran to his side and Caine jerked, trying to break free and failing. Drake laughed horrible and took the chance to whisper into Caine's ear.

"You ever try to leave again, this is what I'll do to Diana" Drake whispered, then used the end of his tongue to run along Caine's ear. Caine shivered and clenched his eyes shut.

Sam slowly climbed to his feet and growled while Taylor stared up at him. He pounced but was quickly knocked back down again.

"Come on then!" Drake smirked

Sam climbed back onto his feet and growled, he had no idea what he was suppose to do... Even without his powers he might just be able to take Drake on in a fair fight. Maybe not take him on but he might give Caine a chance to run and then run for it himself. But Drake had an advantage, an unfair one at that. His tentacle arm allowed him to hold onto Caine and attacked Sam without breaking a sweat.

Then suddenly Caine turned around and bit down hard on Drake's ear. At first Sam and Taylor both though he might be doing it more... What was the right word... Playfully, but then they heard Drake scream and throw Caine down to the ground.

"Move!" Sam shouted at Taylor, grabbing Caine's arm and pulling him to his feet.

They three began to run, Caine spat a small amount of blood from his mouth and Taylor darted ahead of the two boys.

Drake roared after them, angry as hell, but they all ignored him.

They turned around a corner of the floor and made there way down a long corner, Sam tried to not look over his shoulder in case it slowed him down, but when they turned the corner he caught a climpse of the sandy haired boy chasing them. Caine had gotten rid of the blood in his mouth but he was distracted and kept stumbling into Sam when they turned corners, Taylor was head but in the rush she was running blindly, now no idea where they were with no time to stop and work it out. She just hoped they didn't go into a dead end.

"Don't move!" Drake shouted

They all ignored him and darted down another corridor, they seemed to be running around in circles at the moment. But then Taylor tried to make a break for escape and knocked right into a door... and the dead end she had been dreading.

"What now?" Caine demanded

"You come up with something! Smart guy!" Taylor screamed

"Enough" Sam hissed, he opened the first door, a cleaning closet, he grabbed both Taylor and Caine's hands, shoving them inside and shutting the door behind them before turning to face Drake.

"Where are they?" Drake scowled

Sam inched towards the second door, no idea what was inside but he done it so subtly that Drake even believed it and made his way towards the door.

"Move" Drake walked over

"Make me" Sam growled

Drake just gave a cool smirk as his whip snapped down and wrapped around Sam's ankle. He snatched him right off the ground and threw him back down again onto his back so hard that Sam lost all the breath in his body. Then he was picked up again and thrown against the wall before he was thrown to the ground one last time.

When he was lying on the ground, Drake walked over and straddled his hips, pinning him to the ground and smirking down at him.

"Now then... You know... You can't beat me, Sammy" Drake smirked "Sammy boy!" he seemed to be thinking and gave a small smirk "If you were part of Coates... And maybe a little less up tight, you and Caine might be in different shoes"

Sam frowned up at him, trying to ignore the pain in his back. He had no idea what Drake was on about. Did he mean he would want to be in charge like Caine did, and lose it all because of Drake?

"But for now. You're not" Drake stood and grabbed the door and pulling open the handle.

He blinked at the empty room and recieved a shock when Sam pushed him inside, pulling the door and holding it shut.

"CAINE! TAYLOR! GO!" Sam screamed

The two opened the closet door and ran out with even looking. They turned and darted down the corridor, turning sharply. Sam waited a moment before he let go of the door and ran after them.

Drake threw the door opened and stepped outside. His face was burning red, eyes wide with anger and teeth flaring. He didn't waste any time darting down after them, now he was pissed, he was not going to tease Sam, he was going to kill him and Taylor and drag Caine by his hair back to his room. Then he would keep his little pet locked away and treat him like the pet he really was.

They had a short head start but it was very short. Drake managed to pick up his feet and watched as they made there way to the nearest door.

"If you leave! Then I swear! Diana will be dead by morning!" Drake shouted

"Good luck with that!" Taylor howled, taking any chance to make Drake look and feel like an idiot "She's already halfway to Perdido Beach!"

Drake's features were blank a moment, then rage as he darted across and tried to move even faster. The only problem with that, was that he grew tired too quickly and began to slow down quickly.

Meanwhile, Caine, Taylor and Sam threw the doors open and ran out. Taylor bounced behind one of the guards and snatched there gun. The guards were so shocked, Drake was expecting Sam and that to somehow get inside and help Caine but he had told no one else, so it gave everyone else a chance to dive passed without any trouble.

"Shoot them!" Drake screamed "Don't kill Caine but kill the other two!"

Fires rang out, Taylor held the gun over her shoulder, not even aiming as she shot at them. She bounced behind a tree and shot a few times before bouncing behind some other objects. Distracting the guards so Caine and Sam had a chance to dive and hide behind a rock. They spent only a few seconds getting there breath back before they began to run again.

"Where to?" Caine asked

"Perdido Beach!" Sam gasped

"Are you crazy?" Caine demanded "I can't go there!"

"Well then..." Taylor snapped at him "What are you waiting for? Go on" Caine frowned "Drake's waiting for you, go back to him if you don't want to come with us" Caine scowled at her. He would have thrown her across back to Drake and his goons if it were not for the fact that Sam would have him. Then he would be left to be Drake's little pet again.

"Fine" Caine snarled

Taylor hated Caine, so she took up the chance to tease him while running "By the way. Are you wearing a collar, Caine?"

It was too much. Caine launched at her and the two fell down to the ground. Sam shouted and stopped, he looked over his shoulder but by now no one was following them anymore. He turned back to Caine and Taylor, Caine had her pinned to the ground.

Sam had no idea what he planned to do to her, but he was not going to let him. Diving forward he grabbed Caine's right wrist and faced his palm against Caine's face.

"Give me a reason" Sam threatened

After a moment of hesitation, Caine climbed off of Taylor and stepped back.

"You owe us, Caine" Sam scowled "We helped you, so the least you could do was be good and leave my friends alone while we decide what to do with you"

Caine glared at him, but said nothing. After a moment, Caine nodded sharply as Taylor got to her feet and rubbed her sore jaw. They all stared at each other for a moment before Sam looked over his shoulder and they all began to jog back to Perdido Beach, slowly now so they could regain there breath...

Slowly they walked into town, Caine keeping his head down but still unable to hide himself from many of the younger kids that screamed and ran away from him, or the older ones that ran at him and were only stopped by Sam and Taylor explaining that he was with them.

Astrid was waiting for them, she was not looking happy at all, Petey standing by her feet, playing on his gameboy. Astrid had her arms crossed over her chest, her lips were pressed so tightly together they almost looked invisible, her eyes narrowed and she was squinting ahead at them. Even angry, Sam couldn't help but admire how beautiful she looked, standing under the hot sun with it shinning down on her blond hair, growing long each day since she never had time to cut it properly.

"Hi" Sam said when they finally walked up to her

"What. Have. You. Done?" Astrid hissed

"Look, I can explain, but for now let's get all the Coates rescues in one place" Sam said quickly

"Rescue? More like spy! You have no idea what is going on, yet you just helped them anyway! Sam how could you be so stupid!" Astrid snapped, Taylor scowled and stepped up.

"Hay! You didn't see them! I did! This was not a trap set for us and it was not a trick! They were really suffering and although I personally would have let them suffer a little longer, Sam was great! He saved them and helped them and he was really..." she struggled for a new word and then just stuck with the old one "Great!"

Astrid and Taylor glared at one another for a moment.

"Where's Diana?" Caine suddenly demanded, scowling at them all

Astrid turned her glare on Caine, Taylor not far behind. They both worked there anger on someone much more deserving.

"Well?" Caine snapped, stepping up passed Sam to the girls, mostly pointed at Astrid "Where is she?"

"Come on" Astrid hissed, looking at Sam.

She turned and began to lead the way. Caine following closely, eager to see that Diana was OK. Taylor held back to ask if Sam was OK, he just shrugged and walked on in reply, not in the mood to talk to anyone at the moment.

Sam didn't really want to save them, he wanted to use them, but he then heard Taylor talking about how bad they were, he remembered how he felt when he had to fight Drake to save Caine. They were off pretty bad in there and he had saved them. He shouldn't be feeling guilty just because Astrid did not agree with him all the time, yet he couldn't help it...

He loved Astrid, he didn't want to make her mad.

Just as they made it to the town hall they saw Dekka was waiting outside, looking tall and fierce, with Diana sitting at her feet. Diana had clearly been waiting for Caine just as much as Caine had been waiting for her.

Diana jumped up and threw herself right into Caine's arms. To anyone else it would have looked like a beautiful romantic moment between two lovers that just hid there feelings well. But Caine new better, he caught her and listened closely. Diana was not really one to show so much expression, even if she felt it, she wouldn't do it in front of the audience. Instead she whispered quickly into his ear, pretending to nuzzle his neck with affection.

Caine didn't nod or whisper back, instead her wrapped his arms around her and pretended to hug her close until she was finished then he let her go and she stepped back.

"I thought he'd kill you... All of you" Diana said, keeping up the act, if she didn't act the least bit emotional after that hug then Astrid the genius might suspect something.

"Yeah well he was close, meaning you owe us big time!" Taylor snapped, pointing a finger at Diana.

Diana just rolled her eyes and flicked her hair, looking her fingers in with Caine's she turned and walked back into the town hall, Dekka led the way while the rest of them all pulled up the rear. Inside, the other students from Coates were all sitting on the floor, just the three of them.

Penny stood and quickly walked over, she asked in Caine was OK and he nodded sharply, keeping a sharp eye on Quinn and Edilio who both stood by the door, guns in hand, glaring at them.

"OK, so Sam's back. What now?" Brianna asked, appearing on the other side of Sam in a blink.

"yeah" Astrid scowled "Now what, Sam?"

Blinking, he turned to face Astrid. He knew she was annoyed but he had no idea how stubborn she really was. He didn't know what to do now. In fact he had been so busy getting them out and running away from Drake he completely spaced on what they would do afterwards. No way would anyone in Perdido Beach treat Caine and Diana with any kindness what's so ever.

"I notice you don't have any of the food, I thought that was the whole point of your trip?" Astrid demanded

"Would you lay off you super bitch!" Taylor snapped and the two were caught in another death glare.

"Enough, both of you!" Dekka hissed, she looked at Caine who stared back, equally cold.

"Look" Astrid stepped forward, beside of Sam, speaking to him "We can't trust them. We might be able to in the future but for now we can't. We need to keep them somewhere until we can be sure. You know I'm right, Sam" and he did

"House arrest" Sam nodded, everyone blinked at him "We find them one of the empty homes and put them under house arrest, have guards watch them, then we just... I dunno. It's short term arrangements, the best we are gonna get"

Astrid nodded in agreement for once.

"Right! You heard Sam!" Brianna called down to them "You're all under house arrest! Welcome to Perdido Beach, where we do things a little different"

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