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Chapter six
questions

The next thing Jack remembered was waking up to a dark room. His head was aching and it felt like he hadn't had a drink in years. He pushed himself up against the bed and felt his hand sting painfully. He caressed it with his right hand and felt a bandage. Probably covering a deep cut for it felt that way. That was when the flashbacks had found their way to Jack's memories. That cut was from the thing he had used to escape from his father. The man that had tried to kill him. He lowered his bruised hand while the other brushed away the brown hairs that had fallen in front of his face. He felt the wound on his head, just above his temple. That was from when his father had hit him and he had fainted.

But what had happened after that? Had his father brought him here? Where was he exactly? The boy got out of bed and ignoring the enormous painful head ache he looked around only to found the room was still completely dark, the only light came from a little split of light from what seemed to be a door. Jack walked over to it and slowly opened it only to close it quickly before even have a tiny look outside. The bright light had blinded him and a knife had cut through his head. He rubbed his head a couple of times, before hearing someone walking outside. All of a sudden Jack knew where he was. In that house, the house by the sea. He had totally forgot about that, he wasn't in his hometown. His father and he where in some place he didn't even knew the name of. The footsteps in the hall where coming his way, Jack quickly made his way back to the bad and pulled the blanked around him.

The door opened a little and a voice asked:

"You can come out if you want." Jack threw the blanked of off him and looked at the door in shock. That wasn't his father speaking, it was a woman.

"Who are you?" His voice sounded faint.

"You needn't worry, I am not going to hurt you." The woman said and Jack saw the door opening up some more, the light was still to bright so he looked away. The woman had come into the room and had left the door slightly open behind her, just enough to see. Jack only saw a black figure standing not to far away from him. "I figured you would have a concussion, so I closed the curtains and let you rest."

"Can I please have some water?" Jack asked.

"I thought you would ask, here you are." The woman held out a class that Jack drained at once.

"Thanks." He said.

"You're welcome." The woman answered, "I'm Anna by the way, so what's your name?"

"I'm Jack," Jack said, "how did I come here?" Jack could see the woman hesitate.

"Well, I found you on the beach and couldn't possibly leave you there, you wouldn't survive. You where badly wounded." The woman grabbed a chair and sat herself next to the bed. "I hope you are feeling better now, you've been asleep for almost 3 days now."

"You mean it's 3 days since..." Jack tore his gaze of Anna, he couldn't tell her was had happened on the beach that day.

"3 days since I found you, yes." Jack thanked god he the woman didn't ask him what he was going to say. "I hope you are feeling a bit better."

"I'm er... fine." Jack said. The woman let out a small laugh.

"Of course you are." She answered still smiling. "Can I have a look at your wounds?"

"It's not that bad, really I'm fine." Jack answered.

"That wound on your head did seem quite serious to me." Said Anna, and the woman walked to the door to open it so it would be light enough to see. "You probably should better close your eyes against the light." Jack tried to held his eyes open, but his head hurt so much he had no choice and closed them. He heard the woman walk back to him and felt how she brushed away the hairs that had again managed to escape from behind his ears.

"It does look a lot better than when you first came here, but I think it might leave a scar. Now let's have a look at that cut in your hand." Anna had grabbed his hand and carefully removed the bandage. Jack who looked through narrowed eyes saw a deep cut, he had no idea it was so bad. He hadn't even felt it. "Same goes for your hand, it will heal, but possible leave a scar." She had grabbed a fresh bandage and was putting it around his hand again, when she was done she walked over to the door. "I'm sorry I didn't ask before, but are you hungry?" Jack nodded, he was feeling a little faint and could do with some food. "I'll be back in a sec." Anna said and exited the room.

Jack who had been sitting on the end of the bed lay down against the pillow and closed his eyes. He tried to forget about his father, tried to ignore the flashbacks that where haunting him. But when a memory of Uno popped up, his eyes started to water. It was all to much. He heard footsteps walking up the stairs again and quickly dried his eyes with his sleeves, it was a good thing the room was dark that way the woman couldn't see his hurt eyes. He ate the bread Anna gave him, mumbling a thanks. He had almost finished eating when a question popped into his mind.

"Where's my father?" He asked the woman.

"I have tried to contact him, but couldn't find him. No one could tell me where he was. Nobody knows you or your father."

"We don't live here." Jack said.

"Well, that explains it, but I thought you would know where your father would be. I could visit him if you like, tell him your fine, I think he would like to know that, don't you?" Anna answered. Jack almost chocked on his bread, but managed to swallow it properly, Anna didn't notice though. He couldn't possible tell the truth.

"Well, er... yeah... I guess." The woman smiled.

"I'm sure." She said. Jack didn't felt like eating anymore, his father would probably be pissed off if he knew, Jack was alive. He tried not to think about it, like always. Anna saw he wasn't eating anymore and saw this as a sign he was tiered, said a quick 'sleep well' and walked away, giving Jack the opportunity to fall asleep.

It take a while before he really felt like sleeping, but after setting his father and Uno out of his mind, he managed to fall in a deep sleep, which in nightmares would find him and torture him.

-TBC-


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