AN: This is an actual chapter. I know it has been a very long time since I have updated this story. I just have had trouble trying to figure out what I was going to have happen next. Well I hope you like this chapter. I need at least 3 reviews to post the next chapter. This chapter is in Rachel's POV. I just might not pair Max off with someone because my story just might not work out the way I planed it. On with the story.
Dedication: To Zaz, hay25, freedom-angel, and messymissy for their reviews on chapter 10.
Three months. I have been in Manticore for three months, and it doesn't look like I will be getting out anytime soon. There is twice as many guards then there use to be, and camera's at pretty much every exit. There is no way I am going to get out. I hope Max and all of them don't try to come to get me. There just going to get themselves caught, and that would make White so happy. All he wants to do is get his hands on Max.
I looked around the small cell I was in. There was no window. It was like they were afraid I was going to climb out of the bloody window. Why would I want to climb out a window? Yea I would jump out it for freedom, but still there could also be something that happens after I jump out the window. I could jump and then land on my head or something.
As I looked around my cell a second time I heard footsteps. But they didn't sound familiar. They were quiet as though someone was sneaking down the hall. It was well past lights out, so who was walking down the hall? I heard my cell door open. I looked over at it to see someone walk in. I was shocked to see 975 walk in. "975 what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I'm here to help you get out. The others are waiting for us so we can go." he replied.
"But you...you..." I couldn't get the words that I wanted to say out.
"It was all an act. We all had to act as though the brainwashing worked. I'm so sorry."
"Its ok. I have one question for you. How are we all going to get out?"
"You got a lot to learn sis. Just follow me. We already have everything taken care of."
"Is 819 coming?"
"Yea. He is so sorry for bringing you back. You should of saw his face when he was told that he had to bring you back for a mission. He was told that if he didn't he would be killed. So he had to."
"I guess I kinda understand why now."
"We better get going." He said. I just nodded and followed him. We walked down the hall it was darker than usual. 'They cut the power.' I said to myself. We had been walking for about 5 minutes when we reached the basement. He lead me to a room. I looked around. I saw them all of them my siblings. I smiled. I turned to see 975 signaling us, giving us orders. We all nodded and then left the room. We weren't going to split up. We were all going to make it out alive. We silently crept down the halls making it to the doors. I wasn't sure if we were going to make it to the perimeter fence. There were about 10 of us, and somebody was bound to have seen us. I wasn't going to worry. We were fine right now. I could remember when the unit had at least 20 people in it. Everything changed over the years. We kept moving when we were half way through the forest we heard alarms going off. They found out we were gone. 975 signaled us to run. So we did, as fast as we could. Blurring to the perimeter fence. We then jumped. I looked around making sure everyone was there. "No what?" I questioned.
"Now we get out of Canada." 782, one of the other females replied.
"We can't until everybody has names. We won't get anywhere if you guys don't have names. We could always go to Seattle I got friends there who can get everybody places to stay. And we won't have to worry about coming back to Manticore."
"Sounds like a plan." 975 said.
"Ok then names." I said. "819 why don't you pick one first."
"Why me?" he questioned.
"Cause I just think you should pick one first."
"Fine. My name will be Brad."
"Brad?" I asked. "Why Brad?"
"Its not a very common name."
"Sure. 975 why don't you choose one next." I suggested.
"K. I like the name David."
"Isn't that the name you used on a mission once?" I asked him. He nodded and every body else picked names. Now we all had names. Rachel, Brad, David, Dani, Mary, Greg, Liz, Ash, Kathleen, and Darren. Everybody chose there name for a different reason. When they asked me why I had chosen the name I did when I first escaped. I told them I had heard a guy call his daughter that, so I chose that. After that we left in search of a way to get to Seattle. That was when we ended up in front of a bus station. We did some stealing, we ended up with over $500. We got bus tickets to Seattle. We all got on the bus. As we headed to Seattle, I began to think. I asked myself questions, 'What will be in Seattle when I get there? Will my parents still be there waiting for me? What are Max, Alec and Zach going to say about my family from Manticore?' I looked at my siblings who were all scattered around the bus. I hadn't said much to them. When we got to Seattle I was going to start asking them tons of questions if I remembered to. I looked out the window I was sitting beside, then down at my hand it was shaking. I clenched it into a fist. 'Not now.' I thought. 'Please, not know.' I closed my eyes, the shaking got worse. I was having a seizure, perfect timing to. I hit my head against the cold window, knocking myself out.
The next thing I was aware of was the voice of, 975 or David. I slowly opened my eyes, "What happened I asked."
"You had a seizure, and hit your head." he replied.
"Where are we?"
"Seattle Bus station."
"How long was I out of it?"
"A couple hours."
"Where is everybody?"
"Sitting down waiting for you to introduce us to your friend who is going to give us some place to stay. Do you think you are going to be ok?"
"Yea, I'm going to be fine. But we better get going." He nodded and helped me get up. We walked over to the others. They all asked if I was ok. I just nodded and we left. Nobody said anything they just followed me. I was going to go to the apartment I had shared with Max, hopefully she would be there.
Once we got to the building. We walked up the stairs to the apartment. I could here voices. I could kind of guess who was talking. I turned to the others and told them to stay outside. I opened the door and walked in. I silently closed it, I walked into the living room to see a whole bunch of people around the table looking at something. I leaned against the doorframe, and asked, "Miss me?"
Everybody turned to face me. I saw Max's eye's go wide, "Rachel? How did you get out?"
"A little help from my family inside of Manticore. Took three months but here I am. But I need Logan to do me a favor."
"What is that?" Max questioned.
"I wasn't the only one to get out. My family from inside Manticore escaped too, and they kind of need to find a place to stay."
"Where are they?" Alec asked.
"Outside," I replied. I looked around the room there was about 7 people in the room. But my eyes fell on two people in particular. One of them had the same color hair as me, and the other one had the same color eyes as me. They looked like they could be my parents. "I'll get them and introduce you guys." I walked out of the room.
When I got outside the apartment I heard Max say, "That was your daughter Jondy and Zane."
I looked at my siblings and asked, "You guys ready to meet my friends?"
"Of course." I heard Mary say.
"K. Then follow me."
So they followed me in but Brad is in the back of the group almost like he didn't belong or something. Max and Alec looked at me and I introduced them to everybody. Max then introduced me to Syl, and Krit. Max smiled at me after she introduced the two and said, "I guess it's time you meet you parents."
"Hurry up." I said.
"Fine." Max said. She gestured to the two I had seen before and said, "That is your mom Jondy, and your dad Zane."
I looked at them. They were just sitting there. I sighed and said, "Are you two just going to sit there, or are you going to give your daughter a hug."
Zane laughed and said, "Of course." He walked over to me and gave me a hug, as he did that he said, "You sound just like your mom."
"Of course." Jondy said walking over to me and pushing Zane out of the way giving me a hug. "She takes after me."
After hours of talking Logan showed up and gave my brothers and sisters documents and passports so they could leave if they wanted, they all decided it would be best if we scattered around the US. They all promised to keep in touch.
A day later Krit and Syl left saying since they didn't have to help with getting me out of Manticore they were going to go home. Against Zach's will my mom and dad moved to Seattle. They bought a beautiful house that we now live in with Max. Everything changed. I finally had parents. They enrolled me in school. And I started working at Jam Pony every day after school against my will. Every once in awhile I would hang out with Alec, Sketch, and OC at Crash when my parents and Max wanted the house to themselves. I was finally happy.
Two months after the whole ordeal I walked into the house trying to make it look like I did nothing wrong. I had almost made it in to my room when I heard my dad ask, "Why did you skip school today." I shrugged my shoulders and tried to get into my room. "Answer me."
I turned around and said, "I had better things to do."
"What were these better things?" he questioned.
"I was helping a friend out with something."
"Your lying." 'How could he tell?'I asked myself.
"I am not lying."
"Sure you aren't. Your grounded for two weeks."
"That is not fair."
"Yes it is. This is the fifth time you have skipped school this month, and we didn't do anything about it the last four times."
"But there is a dance on Friday."
"I don't care your not going."
"You have to let me go. Everybody I know is going."
"Your not going."
"But dad..."
"No but dad's. And don't even think about asking your mom if you can go. Because she is going to say no too,"
"Fine." I said turning around and walking into my room. "This is so not fair." I said slamming the door behind me. 'I am going to go to that dance and no one is going to stop me.' I said to myself as I sat down on my bed.
AN: How was that? Personally I think it sucked. What is your opinion? I have a few ideas that I want to get out. There is probably 5 or 6 chapters left it all depends, on any ideas you guys give me. White is going to come into the story again, just you wait. Remember I need three reviews to post the next chapter. But I gotta bounce. Peace. Out.
Dedication: To Zaz, hay25, freedom-angel, and messymissy for their reviews on chapter 10.
Three months. I have been in Manticore for three months, and it doesn't look like I will be getting out anytime soon. There is twice as many guards then there use to be, and camera's at pretty much every exit. There is no way I am going to get out. I hope Max and all of them don't try to come to get me. There just going to get themselves caught, and that would make White so happy. All he wants to do is get his hands on Max.
I looked around the small cell I was in. There was no window. It was like they were afraid I was going to climb out of the bloody window. Why would I want to climb out a window? Yea I would jump out it for freedom, but still there could also be something that happens after I jump out the window. I could jump and then land on my head or something.
As I looked around my cell a second time I heard footsteps. But they didn't sound familiar. They were quiet as though someone was sneaking down the hall. It was well past lights out, so who was walking down the hall? I heard my cell door open. I looked over at it to see someone walk in. I was shocked to see 975 walk in. "975 what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I'm here to help you get out. The others are waiting for us so we can go." he replied.
"But you...you..." I couldn't get the words that I wanted to say out.
"It was all an act. We all had to act as though the brainwashing worked. I'm so sorry."
"Its ok. I have one question for you. How are we all going to get out?"
"You got a lot to learn sis. Just follow me. We already have everything taken care of."
"Is 819 coming?"
"Yea. He is so sorry for bringing you back. You should of saw his face when he was told that he had to bring you back for a mission. He was told that if he didn't he would be killed. So he had to."
"I guess I kinda understand why now."
"We better get going." He said. I just nodded and followed him. We walked down the hall it was darker than usual. 'They cut the power.' I said to myself. We had been walking for about 5 minutes when we reached the basement. He lead me to a room. I looked around. I saw them all of them my siblings. I smiled. I turned to see 975 signaling us, giving us orders. We all nodded and then left the room. We weren't going to split up. We were all going to make it out alive. We silently crept down the halls making it to the doors. I wasn't sure if we were going to make it to the perimeter fence. There were about 10 of us, and somebody was bound to have seen us. I wasn't going to worry. We were fine right now. I could remember when the unit had at least 20 people in it. Everything changed over the years. We kept moving when we were half way through the forest we heard alarms going off. They found out we were gone. 975 signaled us to run. So we did, as fast as we could. Blurring to the perimeter fence. We then jumped. I looked around making sure everyone was there. "No what?" I questioned.
"Now we get out of Canada." 782, one of the other females replied.
"We can't until everybody has names. We won't get anywhere if you guys don't have names. We could always go to Seattle I got friends there who can get everybody places to stay. And we won't have to worry about coming back to Manticore."
"Sounds like a plan." 975 said.
"Ok then names." I said. "819 why don't you pick one first."
"Why me?" he questioned.
"Cause I just think you should pick one first."
"Fine. My name will be Brad."
"Brad?" I asked. "Why Brad?"
"Its not a very common name."
"Sure. 975 why don't you choose one next." I suggested.
"K. I like the name David."
"Isn't that the name you used on a mission once?" I asked him. He nodded and every body else picked names. Now we all had names. Rachel, Brad, David, Dani, Mary, Greg, Liz, Ash, Kathleen, and Darren. Everybody chose there name for a different reason. When they asked me why I had chosen the name I did when I first escaped. I told them I had heard a guy call his daughter that, so I chose that. After that we left in search of a way to get to Seattle. That was when we ended up in front of a bus station. We did some stealing, we ended up with over $500. We got bus tickets to Seattle. We all got on the bus. As we headed to Seattle, I began to think. I asked myself questions, 'What will be in Seattle when I get there? Will my parents still be there waiting for me? What are Max, Alec and Zach going to say about my family from Manticore?' I looked at my siblings who were all scattered around the bus. I hadn't said much to them. When we got to Seattle I was going to start asking them tons of questions if I remembered to. I looked out the window I was sitting beside, then down at my hand it was shaking. I clenched it into a fist. 'Not now.' I thought. 'Please, not know.' I closed my eyes, the shaking got worse. I was having a seizure, perfect timing to. I hit my head against the cold window, knocking myself out.
The next thing I was aware of was the voice of, 975 or David. I slowly opened my eyes, "What happened I asked."
"You had a seizure, and hit your head." he replied.
"Where are we?"
"Seattle Bus station."
"How long was I out of it?"
"A couple hours."
"Where is everybody?"
"Sitting down waiting for you to introduce us to your friend who is going to give us some place to stay. Do you think you are going to be ok?"
"Yea, I'm going to be fine. But we better get going." He nodded and helped me get up. We walked over to the others. They all asked if I was ok. I just nodded and we left. Nobody said anything they just followed me. I was going to go to the apartment I had shared with Max, hopefully she would be there.
Once we got to the building. We walked up the stairs to the apartment. I could here voices. I could kind of guess who was talking. I turned to the others and told them to stay outside. I opened the door and walked in. I silently closed it, I walked into the living room to see a whole bunch of people around the table looking at something. I leaned against the doorframe, and asked, "Miss me?"
Everybody turned to face me. I saw Max's eye's go wide, "Rachel? How did you get out?"
"A little help from my family inside of Manticore. Took three months but here I am. But I need Logan to do me a favor."
"What is that?" Max questioned.
"I wasn't the only one to get out. My family from inside Manticore escaped too, and they kind of need to find a place to stay."
"Where are they?" Alec asked.
"Outside," I replied. I looked around the room there was about 7 people in the room. But my eyes fell on two people in particular. One of them had the same color hair as me, and the other one had the same color eyes as me. They looked like they could be my parents. "I'll get them and introduce you guys." I walked out of the room.
When I got outside the apartment I heard Max say, "That was your daughter Jondy and Zane."
I looked at my siblings and asked, "You guys ready to meet my friends?"
"Of course." I heard Mary say.
"K. Then follow me."
So they followed me in but Brad is in the back of the group almost like he didn't belong or something. Max and Alec looked at me and I introduced them to everybody. Max then introduced me to Syl, and Krit. Max smiled at me after she introduced the two and said, "I guess it's time you meet you parents."
"Hurry up." I said.
"Fine." Max said. She gestured to the two I had seen before and said, "That is your mom Jondy, and your dad Zane."
I looked at them. They were just sitting there. I sighed and said, "Are you two just going to sit there, or are you going to give your daughter a hug."
Zane laughed and said, "Of course." He walked over to me and gave me a hug, as he did that he said, "You sound just like your mom."
"Of course." Jondy said walking over to me and pushing Zane out of the way giving me a hug. "She takes after me."
After hours of talking Logan showed up and gave my brothers and sisters documents and passports so they could leave if they wanted, they all decided it would be best if we scattered around the US. They all promised to keep in touch.
A day later Krit and Syl left saying since they didn't have to help with getting me out of Manticore they were going to go home. Against Zach's will my mom and dad moved to Seattle. They bought a beautiful house that we now live in with Max. Everything changed. I finally had parents. They enrolled me in school. And I started working at Jam Pony every day after school against my will. Every once in awhile I would hang out with Alec, Sketch, and OC at Crash when my parents and Max wanted the house to themselves. I was finally happy.
Two months after the whole ordeal I walked into the house trying to make it look like I did nothing wrong. I had almost made it in to my room when I heard my dad ask, "Why did you skip school today." I shrugged my shoulders and tried to get into my room. "Answer me."
I turned around and said, "I had better things to do."
"What were these better things?" he questioned.
"I was helping a friend out with something."
"Your lying." 'How could he tell?'I asked myself.
"I am not lying."
"Sure you aren't. Your grounded for two weeks."
"That is not fair."
"Yes it is. This is the fifth time you have skipped school this month, and we didn't do anything about it the last four times."
"But there is a dance on Friday."
"I don't care your not going."
"You have to let me go. Everybody I know is going."
"Your not going."
"But dad..."
"No but dad's. And don't even think about asking your mom if you can go. Because she is going to say no too,"
"Fine." I said turning around and walking into my room. "This is so not fair." I said slamming the door behind me. 'I am going to go to that dance and no one is going to stop me.' I said to myself as I sat down on my bed.
AN: How was that? Personally I think it sucked. What is your opinion? I have a few ideas that I want to get out. There is probably 5 or 6 chapters left it all depends, on any ideas you guys give me. White is going to come into the story again, just you wait. Remember I need three reviews to post the next chapter. But I gotta bounce. Peace. Out.
