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Aleksandra Chapter 7

Alek POV:

Stepping into the brightly light room I felt a certain sense of dread wash over me when I saw cowboy sitting lazily at the far end of this open room wearing his classic cowboy hat and bolo tie.

The room that I was brought into was almost like a meeting hall in its size. Its décor was interesting to say the least. It was filled with a number of artifacts from what I imagined was from rodeos and ranches all around the room, along with many stuffed animal heads and cow skulls littered around hung high up on the walls.

What scared me most however, was the sly cruel grin that shaped cowboy's thin lips. "Alek"! He greeted me somewhat cheerfully, "How nice to see you awake"!

Rudely with venom lacing my words I replied "I don't recall that I was sleeping". "Ha-ha", he chuckled to his men, "Is she not a funny one"!

Grimacing, I figured that I had nothing to lose so I figured that there was no real reason to be all that polite here. "Look dude, I am not here to make small talk, either tell me what you want or let me go back to my cell"!

Even though that was the last thing I wanted to do I refused to be some kind of entertainment to these vile men.

I let out a gasp of surprise when one of cowboy's henchmen thru his oversized fist into my stomach. "That is no way to talk to you superiors"! He screamed at me.

I was just about to yell back to him some not so nice don't say in front of your conservative grandmother things, when cowboy stood up out of his chair looking rather insane if I do say so myself.

"Boys, maybe we need to teach our new guest some manners, what do you think"! Judging by the looks on all of their faces I got this feeling that I was not going to particularly like this lesson all that much.

I was right.

Tak POV:

I was going crazy with worry!

I did not know what to do!

Charlie was on the phone talking to some of his "friends" to try and see if anybody knew where this man was going to be or where he was right now.

I knew that this was the next step to take but I could just not stand to be sitting there waiting and doing nothing while Charlie made his calls. I could tell that Max felt the same way. "Okay, thanks, bye"! I heard Charlie end his latest phone call.

My head shot up and I asked with no small amount of hope "any luck"?

I could tell from the defeated look on his face that there was none but that did not stop me from wishing that I had read his expression wrong and that someone somewhere had come through with helpful information.

"Sorry, nothing so far, but I will keep trying". Spoke Charlie with remorse. I wanted to be mad at him, yell that he should be trying harder, but all I felt was sheer exhaustion and pain.

Pain that my wonderful, beautiful wife was gone and there was nothing that I could do about it. It had to be one of the worst feeling that I have ever experienced in my life!

So I merely sighed and nodded my head at Charlie praying that he would find somebody soon who would be able to help us.

What to do, what to do was all that ran through my sluggish tired brain. I had not slept a wink since I learned of Alek's abduction almost two days ago and it was starting to wear me out.

Max had been trying to stay awake not wanting to miss anything but soon he was fast asleep on the couch curled up right next to Farra who was also fast asleep.

Charlie, however, had not rested either since he heard the horrible news as he felt somewhat responsible for all that had happened and was determined to help.

"Tak, Charlie" I heard a voice speak from over on the chair "You two really should try and get some rest" . It was Farra, I had not even noticed her wake up. Both of us opened our mouths to protest but Farra beat us to it.

"No, you two need to sleep have you looked at yourselves you are both look like zombies! Neither of you are any use to Alek if you cannot even focus"!

I knew that she was right, I just did not know how I could ever sleep when I knew Alek needed my help. But Farra was not giving up so easily and soon had both Charlie and I heading upstairs to try and get what little sleep that we could.

We were at Alek and my house. After we heard the news we all came right here were we could work better than in the Lemkova Suite

. I showed Charlie to one of our guest rooms first. As I turned around to leave he caught my arm "Hey man we will find her"! He said fiercely.

"Yeah, I replied I just hope that we won't be too late". I replied turning around and heading to guest room myself for I just could not bear to sleep in our bed without Alek there next to me.

Lying in bed I tried to force myself to sleep but it was no use, my mind just kept going thinking of all of the worst case scenarios.

Finally, what seemed like hours later I drifted off into a restless slumber.

DREAM:

I was in some strange dark hall. I could think of nothing else to do but continue forward. At the end of this hallway there was a large thick cement door. Fearing slightly what was behind it I traveled cautiously inside. I let out a strangled cry as I looked in past the door. There on the wall bound and gagged was Alek. Wasting no time I ran to her side but I felt like I hit a wall half way there. I could not go any farther. Slowly and with what I could tell was a great deal of effort she raised her head and looked straight at me. Her normally bright blue eyes were blank and unseeing. "Why, why aren't you helping me? Where are you"? She cried out to me. Opening her mouth once more she then let out a strangled scratchy scream. I jumped thinking it was me that she was terrified of, but then I saw that she was not looking at me but behind me. Slowly, I turned around. There behind me was a man wear a cowboy hat with a drawling accent laughing evilly advancing in on Alek!

I woke up with a start covered in sweat more determined than ever to find Alek, praying that my dream was just my imagination running wild and nothing more.

I hurried downstairs to find that everyone was grabbing something to eat. "Wow, you look awful"! Farra exclaimed passing me some toast.

"Thanks", I replied dryly you don't look so great yourself. In fact none of us did and only Max seemed to have any little bit of energy and even he was exhausted.

But, tired as we all still were we were determined to make some kind of progress before the day was over. Charlie was back to making calls and Max was trying to remember anything that he could that would potentially help us out.

I was off calling some people I knew in the WRB and robot fighting world to see if I could find anybody who knew anything about this man as well.

Farra was doing the same. We were going to find her.

I refused to let my mind think otherwise.

A/N: Hi everyone! Here is the next chapter! I know that it is a little bit shorter than the last few but it is still just as good! Please please please all that read please review!