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chapter Thirteen: Shallow Morning

"Hello" I call, I know it's a stupid thing to do but could it really get any worse?
Actually knowing me...yes. Yes it could.

No reply.

"HELLO" I shout this time, my head spins a little. I try and move but my backs still a little tender, images come to me in short burst. My mind is piecing together my memory.

Quinn, The beach, Eli, The beach, Nicky, Our argument, Running, Pain in my spine, Blackness.

This replays over and over until I finally hear the unmistakable and sickening sound as the centre of my spine fractures and splinters.

Immediately I check to see if my legs still work, first my toes wiggle then soon my legs follow suit, I should have been paralyzed, a blow like that would have left any normal human a paraplegic...

"My soul is gone; I'm a freak of nature."...

Oh that's right I'm not a normal human being, but that doesn't change the fact that my spine was broken... But how?

Quinn, The beach, Eli, The beach, Nicky, Our argument, Running, Spine Breaks, Blackness.

Again I replay the event in my head over and over until a new factor arises, a drowned out plea for me to stop...

"Nicholas Drake. You son of a bitch! Get your ass in here now!" I'm on my feet instantly, ignoring the pain in my back, I freeze and am answered by silence. He isn't going to answer me...

Unless... I say something rather drastic and I have the perfect thing.

"If you don't answer me I'm going too irreparably damage myself, to the point where I might not ever speak again, or walk, or I don't know how about my lungs just happen to fail."

This time I hear a sigh, quickly followed by the click of a lock and then seven others... Eight locks?

He opens the door cautious to only open it enough to slip through and close it again.
"Don't you think you're being over dramatic?" he asks

"Two things...First eight locks, really? Eight?
And second YOU BROKE MY SPINE!"

He tries to escape back out the door but he isn't quick enough and I have him pinned to the wall. "Lucy back off" I feel him trying to pull his charm over me but it only makes me feel ill.

Ha! "Why? You didn't"
"I'm sorry it was an accident"
"No you say 'I'm sorry it was an accident ' if you trip someone up or run over their dog, NOT when you break their spine"
"I said I was sorry and you're fine aren't you?"
"Yes I am, but you won't be"

Fear flickers through Nicholas's eyes, just briefly but it was definitely there, it is quickly replaced by a cunning grin "you didn't correct me when I called you Lucy"

Shit...

"Don't change the topic!"
"Why not?"
"I'm going, I've had enough of this besides I need to find Eli"

Nicholas looks blankly at me; oh of course he doesn't know Eli.

ELI'S POV

I stay as silent as possible, I don't know where i am but I'm cold, I'm bound, I'm sore and I feel slightly nauseous. I can here something dripping so I must be in the same room as water, that is if I'm even in a room. I can hear the heavy thud of another's heartbeat, another what? though is beyond me. I try to sit up but am forced onto the ground by a Vicious, feral growl and the sound of chains being strained against... So my guard isn't human or at least in that direction so there is no hope of talking with it, which was a pity as i was rather hoping to figure out where the hell i was. The best doesn't shut up if it isn't growling at me it's whining for as far as i'm aware no reason except to irritate me. There is no way to tel how much time is passing... That is if it is passing at all. I often find my mind wandering to Lucky, Where was she now?
Was she okay?
Did she find her way home?
If so has she realized I'm not there
Is She even alive?

The only thing to pull me out of my strange thought/question train was the silence that seemed to have settled. The best had shut up.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end... I wasn't alone.

"Up an at em sunshine" A cruel voice whispers in my ear before i am yanked onto the feet i at one point forgot i even had and began my hopping march.