Chapter 1: The Fog

Thick fog enveloped her, as she stood alone on the dock over looking the harbour. Her thoughts were swimming too fast to make any sense. She was trying to hold on to her emotions long enough to attempt to make sense out of what had just happened. It was just minutes ago when Jason.the man who she thought loved her more than life itself.told her that he wanted nothing to do with her anymore. She had been through this before when Sonny refused to let them be together, but there was something dramatically different about this situation despite the similarities. Something had changed within Jason. As he was talking to her, she saw no part of the man she loves, it was almost as if someone else was walking around pretending to be Jason.

Wouldn't that make it easier, she thought, then maybe it wouldn't hurt as much as it did. At least then she would know that it wasn't her Jason who said all those hateful things. God, how was she going to get through this?

i"I just convinced myself that I loved you. I can't love anyone. I thought that if I told you that I loved you there might be a chance that I would eventually feel something for you, but there is nothing there, my heart is empty. Being with you.it just doesn't make sense. I think its time that we both moved on with our lives and forget that each other exists. It will better that way",i

It took every ounce of her being to push his hurtful words away.but no matter how hard she tried they kept screaming through her mind. It was too much to hold the tears in anymore, with her head in her hands, the tears flowed freely.

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He walked through the park, obviously on a mission, with head down and a purposeful walk. He needed to tell them that he was successful, that everything went just as it was planned. The girl had been upset, just like he said she would be. Now that his part was done, it was up to her.what was her name again? Courtney? Yeah that was it..everything was up to her now. Would she be able to do what they wanted? The rest of the plan depended on it.

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It wasn't necessarily the darkness that bothered him; he could deal with that. Oddly enough it was actually comforting in a way. It was often in the darkest parts of the night when he would be lying in bed listening to her breath as she slept peacefully beside him, safely tucked into his arms. The memories of her were what were giving him hope that he was going to get out of this hole. The thought of her also made his breath quicken with knowledge of what they were doing to her...and he could do nothing. Nothing but sit here in this confining cell and hope that someone figured out what was happening before it was too late. It was the powerlessness of being stuck in here that was eating away at him. He knew what they were planning, he had heard the guard talking to someone on the phone..did they think that just because he couldn't see them that he couldn't hear them? He had to think of something, and fast. He was pretty sure that they had already begun the plan...he didn't have much time left.