Note: The final line of this story I took from he movie Conspiracy Theory. Sorry! Don't sue. Oh yeah and the company Tommy Hilfigure doesn't belong to me either.







Chapter 33 - A Race Through the Corn



William glanced at the approaching helicoptor light. He pushed hared on the gas. The car was slowing down.

"What's happening Will?" Meredith was afraid to ask.

"The gas line's cut! FUCK!" William shouted at the car. Meredith watched him skid to a stop, the light approaching quickly. She grabbed her coat off the seat and opened the door.

Will was off and running into the nearby corn field. She followed, quick on her feet. Thank God I wore runners, she said to herself. Smartass William, going for the corn field. These are Tommy Hilfigures you know.

"Run Meredith!" He shouted to her.

"Oh like I'm going to do anything else you stupid idiot!" She screamed. The light in the sky passed over her. Meredith slowed to a stop. The light follwed her. She dove into the corn. She couldn't see William anymore. As the light left the area she was in she calmed her mind.

It's a game of flashlight tag, she told herself. That's all.

"Mere?" Will nearly stepped on her hand. She stood up, corn in all parts of her hair.

"Well that was fun." She said, combing her fingers through her hair. The light circled, then started heading back.

"The party's just getting started." He said. Meredith followed him through the corn. Every piece her darted through flew back and hit her in the face. He was going in a different pattern. The light was shooting back and forth and so far they had avoided another run in.

"What are they doing?!" Meredith shouted to him. William stopped in a row and looked up. The helicopter was landing and several landing lines shot out.

"Why do I get the strange feeling they're not just here to go corn picking?" He said. Meredith watched in awe. She stood on tip toes and looked over the corn. A tiny barn was in the distance with a house and a light came from several of the windows.

"There!" SHe pointed. The two teenagers took off again, trying not to attract attention from the military men jumping out of the helicopter. They darted here and there, William in the head and Meredith beside him. The mitlitary moved quickly and covered ground faster then they could.

Meredith turned left.

"You protect William." Althought she despised Jason, his words were starting to have and affect on her. She ran away from William, leading hopefully to another part of the field.

"Meredith?!" She didn't listen anymore. She had to save him. She had to make sure he was okay. She ran through the carn, her hair a mess of stalks and her shoes smothered in dirt. She watched the people in the helicopter stand in the corn field for a moment. Her mind was elsewhere. Why us? She questioned. Why us?

William jumped over the picket fence and made it into the yard. He looked back for Meredith when he was tackled to the ground by several men in military uniforms.

"Let her run all she wants." The tall one in a business suit said. "It's this one I want." William was brought to his feet and his arm was twisted back and handcuffed.

A man stepped forward, sunglasses on and suit perfect for a man who had walked through a corn field.

"You're quite the smart one William." He said. "But not smart enough to save your girlfriend."

William clenched his teeth.

"Yes I like you. Take him away." He snapped his fingers once. Meredith! William called through a single thought. Was she captured? Had she been killed for real this time? He didn't want to think about that.

Meredith's long hair flew through the wind. SHe was a good runner and had competed in track and field for a long time. She kept at it, her breath coming out in even strokes.

William was thrown into a helicopter seat, his hands cuffed behind his back. He looked out the window. He saw the lights come on as it lifted itself into the air. He search for blond curls. He searched for Meredith. The seacrh lights traced across the field. Other then what the light revealed he was blind to the other parts of the field. He looked into the helicopter. There were two men in business suits, one who had ordered for WIlliam to be taken away and another whose features were also unseen.

That was when the searchlight spotted her, just outside the corn field, running as fast as anything, her blond curls flying angelically through the air.

"Found her, just outside the field." One man said into the walkee talkee. William stared at her. He couldn't do anything but stare.

"Oh WIlliam I don't see why you watch this sort of thing." The light flickered and died.

"You've never seen her run." He replied.