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One thing for this story, this story had about four or five chapters left. Maybe more depending on how I organize my time and ideas.
Chapter 11 Zach pov.
My Brain was fuzzy. My body hurt. Images flashed through my head. Cammie. Cammie staring at the sunset on a boat. This would have had to be out honeymoon but I was not sure. It was fuzzy.
"Zach?" she called her voice soft, far away. But she was right there. She reached for my hand but it fell right through mine. I tried to grab her, hold her close, and feel her breath on my chest. But she slipped through my fingers like fog.
"Zach?" she called again, she sounded more far away. "ZACH!" she yelled but it came out a whisper and she was fading. Cammie felt for her body as she disappeared horror written all over her face. Her voice was silent as she faded to nothing.
Cammie was now above me, slowly unbuttoning my shirt one night when I was sick. Cammie cuddling up to me in the dark on a cold night somewhere in Iceland. Cammie's shocked face when I pulled out a ring, the tears of joy as she nodded wrapping her arms around my neck. Her laugh as I spun her.
The gun cracked loud and clear. Cammie's grip slacked on my neck. I caught her as she fell, my hands covered in blood. Her blood. There was nothing I could do. "CAMMIE!" I yelled as men in black overtook me and Cammie's broken body.
"ZACH! WAKE UP ALREADY!" came a yell breaking into my dream. I jerked awake. I realized I could not move but I was shaking and sweating. I hated dreams like that. The never ending, horrible dreams. They used to be about my dad.
"Where the hell am I?" I muttered taking in my surroundings. "Don't know." Allison said as I looked at the white medical looking room. There were scary-looking tools everywhere. All three of us were strapped to tables, unable to move. My head hurt. "Don't look now but we're all half naked." Nick said. He was right we only had clothes on the essential parts of our bodies. Allison had positioned herself so Nick and I could only see her back.
"How did we all get here?" I asked. "Don't know that either." Allison said trying to flip her blond hair over her shoulder but ended up grimacing in pain. "What hurts?" Nick asked. When he talked to Allison now it was different. Allison still talked spitefully to him. "My neck." Allison said letting out a breath.
"What did they do to us?" I wondered aloud. "Probably ran tests on us." Allison said. There was a snap and Nick suddenly sat up. "Why are you sitting up?" Allison said. "My metal bands came lose." Nick said getting up and stood for a minute. "I feel like I haven't stood up in forever." He said.
"That is because you haven't." A voice said. It was that red haired lady from when I first came to this god-forsaken place. None of us said anything. She took that as a chance to start talking. "You have been under testing for three and a half months. Our tests have been quite beneficial, seeing how you all would react to different images transmitted into your brains." That was when I actually felt that there was a cord attached to my temple. I wanted to rip it off.
"My son has been the most… shall I say… easiest to test on." My mom said coming into the room. "Why?" I snapped. "You've become weak Zachary. A tough exterior but mushy on the inside. That's what love does to you. That is what I felt for your father so I killed him knowing he would be a weakness to me." The restraints wrapped around my wrists and ankles held me as I fought them.
"Shock him." My mom said simply. A ripple of electricity ran through my body, leaving it tingling and breathless. All Nick and Allison could do was watch. Allison from her curled up position and Nick, his feet seemed rooted to the spot. "Tell me, why did you kill my dad. The real reason." I said fury in every inch of my voice.
"You do not deserve to know." My mom said. "HE WAS MY DAD!" I screamed. "More." Electricity burned my body once more. "Stop." She said. "Love only makes you stronger, gives you something to fight for." I said my head pressed against the table. "What you have in you Mother is not love, you never had love and never will, what you did to my father was not because of love."
"HE KNEW TOO MUCH!" My mom screeched. "So the truth comes out." Nick said crossing his arms. My mom slapped him but it did little to faze Nick. "I've had worse." He said and then moved to sit on the metal table Allison was on.
"You all… you all have it coming to you. Within three days I guarantee you all will be dead and we have one more piece of the plan and it's over. Forever. The Circle will reign forever a never ending monarchy." My mom seethed before turning on her heel and walking briskly away.
"Make yourself comfortable. You will spend the night here before relocating." The red haired lady said. She hit a button and Allison and my bonds came loose. Allison relaxed but stayed in her fetal position. "Testing us half naked, now that's just wrong." Nick said pushing himself off the side of Allison's bed and began looking around the room.
Allison made a noise as I sat up, sore and feeling deflated. I rubbed my wrists. "And we're stuck here, no way to get out." "We've never been able to get out smart on." Allison said. Nick turned and glared at her. I listened to them argue like they always did. Damn it was annoying. "Can you two just shut up!" I said testing my legs on the cold marble floor. The room went quiet. "Thank you." I said.
Nick mumbled something to himself as he bent down. Allison just closed her eyes and sighed. "Here" Nick threw a blanket in Allison's direction. Gingerly Allison took the blanket and wrapped it around herself. "What the hell happened to your wrists?" Nick asked. I was still trying to get my legs to work. "None of your business." Allison said. My muscles seemed to remember how to move. "It is." I said taking her wrist. It was bloody and blistered.
Allison jerked away and curled back into her fetal position. "You tired of her cause I'm about to snap with her." Nick said. "Sure you are buddy, sure you are." I said turning.
"There's lots of chemicals here we could use to make a small explosive." Allison said. She had finally gotten up but was still being stubborn. She had the blanket wrapped around her as she looked around the room. "How small?" I asked. "Small enough to blast the keyhole so we can open the door." She said. "Pretty small then." I said. Allison nodded grimacing.
Allison than proceeded to bring out the chemicals she found. She was right, there were lots. Immediately she started separating them. It was quiet in the little room. I twisted my wedding band around my finger. I missed when Cammie used to slide it on and off and then go hide it. I just missed her period. "You don't mind giving up that blanket do you?" Nick asked Allison. I kicked him as Allison glared at him. "Take that as a no." Nick said.
There was a bathroom off to the side of the room, there I found medical supplies. The COC may be a terrorist group but they were not the best with us hostages. Unless we were getting the good way and not the torture. Which is probably the most logical.
"Here" I put the antiseptic and a few bandages on the table Allison was using. She looked at them before going back to her work. "Allison, just use them, you can't have those getting infected." I said. "Fine." She picked them up but still was looking at her chemicals.
"Freaky." Nick muttered. "Nick, she's like our only chance getting out of here." I said. "Still, a bunch of chemicals is not going to get us very far." "It gets us out."
That night they moved us. Into a tiny dirty room. It was not pleasant. But when we walked out I saw Allison slip a handheld computer device she had found and a few chemicals in the folds of her blanket. Nick caught it too and sent me look. They let us walk without blindfolds and with no bindings. They just prodded us to move faster. Nick and I place Allison in the middle of our little pack. We would get poked and prodded but not Allison. We needed her in the best condition we could.
We walked deeper and deeper into the base. The walls became rough and a bit moist. The air smelled of mold and other things… dying things. Another hostage was marched by, forcefully. They had a blindfold over their eyes. I did a double take. That person had the frame of Grant. The walk, even if it was forced was Grants walk. The skin, dirty but defiantly tan.
I was sure it was Grant. "Keep moving." I felt a sharp poke in my back. The person was thrown into a cell with grunt and yelling. "I will get back… my friends will be here… my fiancée too!" the person yelled. "Grant." I muttered and turned. I started running but was held back. "YOU LET ME GO! THAT"S MY FIREND! LET ME GO!" I yelled as guards grabbed me. "Zach." Nick said Allison by his side. My world went black.
When I cracked my eyes open we were in the tiny room. My head hurt like hell but I had jeans on now. And a shirt. Nick and Allison were leaning against the opposite wall looking over the handheld computer Allison had stolen.
"This route will lead us straight to the entrance." She was saying. "But the entrance will just get us captured again." Nick said. "God can you not listen to what I have to say?" "Most of what you have to say is bullshit anyway." "I'm trying to save your life here if you didn't notice; I have the bomb ready and the map of all levels of this place. You have done nothing the entire time except drink beer and…"
She was cut off because Nick had kissed her. And Allison kissed him back. About time, I thought as Nick pulled her body closer to his. I closed my eyes as I saw it deepen just a bit more. Leave it to them. They'll be back to hating each other in the morning.
"You had no right to do that." I hear Allison say. I cracked my eyes open. Allison moved away from Nick blushing furiously in the dim light. "Allison." I heard Nick say. "Don't talk to me." Allison said curling under her blanket facing away from Nick slumped against the wall.
See what did I tell you.
By the time we wall were awake we weren't sure if it was morning of night or somewhere in the middle. Allison and Nick were ignoring each other. "Ok, this will buy us enough time to get out of the lower levels. If we can get out of here and 10 minutes we'll be lucky.' Allison said.
"I want to stop." I said. Nick and Allison stared at me. "What?' Allison said. "My friend, I'm positive he's in a cell down the hall." I said. "Is that why you went berserk down there?" Nick asked. I didn't answer. "Fine, But if we die trying to rescue him I will kill you." Allison said. 'We need to stop and send a message to the CIA too." I said. "How are they going to help us when they are all the way in America and we are here in India?" Allison said.
"They have their ways. You should know." Nick said coolly. Allison glared at him. "Don't get me started on you mister." She said.
"Allison, just do it." I said. Allison knelt by the door and worked her little chemical bomb into the door. A small explosion and a little coughing on Allison's part before she turned and smiled. "We're out."
Cammie pov.
We had heard nothing about Zach or Grant for eh past three and a half months. I was now 8 and a half months pregnant, the time Macey said was the time I most needed Zach.
We were now all over at Macey's having our movie night. Brady was with us because he refused to go to bed. Bex was bored with our movie selection. You could see it in her face. She had been working almost non-stop on Grant and Zach's cases. She had traveled many placed in the past months we felt like we had barely seen her.
"You know what this bores me." Bex got up and snatched the remote away from Liz. "Don't protest Lizzie." Bex said noticing Liz was about to. Bex switched the channel to a bloody, gory fighting scene of a movie. "BEX!" Macey said pressing Brady's innocent face to her chest.
"What?" "TURN IT OFF!" Macey said. "Fine." BEx switched it back. I drummed my fingers on my very swollen stomach. I knew there was no chance of Zach coming back but I still had hope. Macey's phone rang. "Auggg! It's Preston again." She said before hitting answer. "What?" "No." She got up and left the room.
Bex laid her head back in a silent groan. Liz was smiling as she texted on her phone. "Who you talkin' too Lizzie?" Bex asked. Liz jerked her head up. "No one." She said. Bex snatched her phone out of her hand. "Bex!" Liz said. "Jonas?" Bex said. Liz snatched her phone back. "We're working on you dumb case." Liz said moving back to her spot on the couch. "It's not dumb." "It is to me and Jonas. We can't even get ant sleep and barley have time to eat." Liz sunk into the couch. Bex went back to her chair.
"Everyone's snippy this evening." Bex muttered. I was trying to ignore them while also trying to drive off a headache. While being pregnant they wouldn't let me take pills in fear of harming the baby. Liz was now glowering over in the corner of the couch. Brady than decide to use my stomach as a pillow.
"That freaking son of a bi-"Macey stopped mid swear because she realized Brady was still in the room. "Butt." She finished. "What happened this time?" I asked. "Preston, stupid politicians." she said. "Momma." Brady reached for Macey. Macey picked him up. "Who knew custody fights were this hard." Macey said. "Just about everyone who had been through one?" Bex said. Macey shot Bex a look. Macey say down with Brady in her lap, who leaned against her chest.
Bex got up at the sound of her phone. When she looked at it her eyes went big. "I have to go." She said and rushed out the door.
This took me way too long to write. But what did you all think? This story will be coming to an end soon I am sad to report. Zach, Nick and Allison are almost out! Do you think that person could be Grant? That's for me to know and you to find out!
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