I'm sorry I took time to update! But I had loads to do!
Here it is –it's quite long – dunno how much but let's see!
I wont take this long next time – promise!
xXx Tiana
Kate woke up in a dim lit room. Her head stared to thump with pain almost as soon as she opened her eyes. But her urge to groan, like anyone else would have, was stopped when the memory of what happened came back.
Anya she thought. Keeping her eyes narrow, so they were like slits in her head, her tried to take in the surroundings. She held her breath for a second so that she could hear what was in the room with her. To her relief, she could hear another person's breathing too. But she was unaware of who it was.
Tilting her head up a bit, so that she could face where the raspy breathing was coming from, she was shocked to see a bed, perfect like a Royal's. On the bed, however, there was a body, the person who was breathing. Her heart sank when she saw the figure that did not match Anya's at all. This one was fat, shabby and a man's, from what she could see.
Closing her eyes again, and keeping as still as she could, Kate attempted to count how often the person was breathing. Every 5 seconds. Which meant he was asleep
Kate sat up. As soon as she did, her head felt dizzy, and her eyes had dot dancing in front of them. She closed her eyes for a second, before opening them. Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness, and she could see alright.
The room was of medium size, with a desk and a chair. Above the table in the middle was a light bulb. She followed the little plastic pipe that lead from it along the ceiling and down the opposite wall. It led right to the light switch. And right next to that, with a slight yellow glow around it, was a door.
Kate looked at the man again, and then at the door. Her eyes swept the room, making sure that there was no one else there, and that there was other way for her to get out. Once she had planned her escape, Kate closed her eyes and breathed deep.
'One… two… three… four…f-five.' Kate mouthed to herself, making sure that she made no noise whatsoever. Her fear now pushed aside, Kate opened her eyes and stood up as silently as she could. Her legs felt like jelly for a minute, and she wondered whether that escaping was such a good idea after all. But the same thought came back to her in the end, and it convinced her more than anything to go. Anya.
She let go of the wall behind her, which felt as if it was painted, and silently crept out of the room. Try as she might, the silence of the room made her shoes echo and she couldn't do a thing to stop it. But the man sleeping didn't seem to notice. For once in my life, I wish this guy would snore!
As Kate reached the door, she grabbed the handle with both of her hands, and glanced over to the man once again, checking he was still asleep. Carefully, she pushed down on the handle and opened the door. She begged that it wouldn't creek or make a sound. Inch by inch, Kate opened the door; each time looking to make sure that the man was still asleep.
When the door was ajar enough, she stuck out her head at the minimum so that she could see into what ever there was on the other side of the door. To her relief, the light bulb was on out side, which obviously explained the golden halo around the door. She looked up and down the corridor that was out there. Nothing she felt relived.
As she continued to open the door, still inch by inch, Kate suddenly heard vices. There were distant, but it was clear to know that there were more than a dozen of them. Unfortunately, the voices were muffled. But Kate found the advantage of this situation. If they're all there, they won't be able to hear me, nor catch me.
For the final time, Kate glanced back to the man on the bed and smirked.
'Stupid man.' She hissed, half hoping that he could hear her.
Kate walked out of the room, and headed away from the voices, as the corridor extended that way. She tiptoed as much as she could, but she didn't care much, seeing as she could still hear the voices form the other side. If Kate had paid any more attention, she would have noticed that they were all happy. But right then, she only wanted to find Anya.
After what felt like five minutes, every second or so she had thrown a look over her shoulder, she came to a large room. It all looked too familiar to her. It's like our hatch! She shouted at herself, glad she had finally placed it.
She turned a full 360 to look at everything, hoping to find something. When nothing jumped out at her, she took a much closer look at everything. She needed a weapon.
Kate stepped closer to a chest of drawers and pulled out the drawers as quietly as she could. They were quite large, and the first two had clothes and some tape in them. In her state of mid, Kate didn't bother registering the fact that these might come in handy, so the left them and travelled further down the chest.
In the finally, drawer, the depth of it wasn't as the other's. It was much shallower. Kate dug her hands into it and pulled up the sheets which were in it. Below, there was a cardboard board. Kate quickly pulled this up, and felt underneath. He hand ran around until she felt the coolness of metal, and the bump of a trigger. She quickly grabbed the gun and replaced everything.
Kate turned and exited though the way she had came. There were no other exists, so she was forced to walk towards the voices. Kate held the gun in her hand, but kept it next to her leg so that it was easy to use, and hide if she had to.
After ten minutes, Kate approached the other room on this side of the corridor. I should have came here first she thought. On the table were her bag and Anya's. She when to grab them when something caught her eye. On the left, there was another door. And on the door, was a splatter of blood. Oh God please no!
With the bags in her hands, Kate went to the door and opened it without even thinking. The door creaked, but she didn't care. Over in the corner laid a figure, crumpled up, with a crimson pool in front of it.
Silently praying to God that her eyes where playing her, she walked over to the body. She had dropped the bags, and the gun, when she had seen the body. When she reached it, Kate almost threw up when she saw the knife sticking out of the back.
Kate reached out to turn the body over. She was trembling ever so lightly. But what happened next made her jump for her life, and forget where she was.
A hand from the body grabbed her, limply yet strong. She let out a loud yelp.
The door behind her opened. Kate turned as the light came flooding into the room. Only then did she realise that the figure on the floor was one of them.
The man in the doorway laughed.
'Not so stupid then am I?' the man asked. Kate realised who he was.
'Where is she?' she shouted as he came to grab her.
The more she demanded to see her, the more of them came. In the end, there were 8 of them and one of her. She kicked and fought as much as she could, but they managed to grab her.
'Be quite or I'll have to drug you.' the man who looked like a leader exclaimed to her. Kate weighed her options. She decided to shut up.
'Take her to the other one if she wants to go so badly.' He whispered to one of the men. As he marched her out of the room, Kate felt as if she was under arrest one again. She made to grab the bags, but the leader pulled it from her reach.
'Uh uh uh. These belong to us now.'
The man led her to another room, where Anya lay on the floor. She gave the leader one last cold look when the guy holding her shoved her in.
'Son of a bitch!' she yelled.
As the door shut, Kate made her way over to the figure ion the floor, this time 100 sure that it was Anya.
She kneeled in front of her and tried to shake her.
'Hey. Hey, wake up. Anya?' she shook her some more, hoping that she would wake up. Of course she will!
After a couple of minutes of shaking, Anya finally came to. Kate let out the breath she didn't know she was holding.
'Hey. C'mon get up.' She said, soothingly.
Anya opened her eyes, trying to think about where she was and what had happened.
'Kate?' Anya whispered, her voice breaking up.
'Yeah honey, it's me. You're 'k. can you sit up?' Kate helped her sit up, getting her off of the cold floor would help her, even just a bit. Looking a around, Kate realised that the room they were in looked the same as she was in. but there was no bed. Kate sighed.
'Where are we?' Anya was almost fully awake now and her eyes were adjusting to the darkness.
'I dunno. We're in some kind of hatch. But it's Their's.'
All of a sudden, the events of the day came back to Anya. The beach, the hatch, the three men leaving, and then Kate and her going to he caves. But never getting there because…
'Oh my God! I'm so sorry Kate. This is all my fault. You shouldn't even be here!' she said, guilt ridden.
Kate was shocked by this outcome. She thought that, first of all, Anya wouldn't remember what tad happened, and second of all, that she would remember that it was her not Anya, who wanted to go to the caves in the first place.
'Hey! It wasn't your fault, ok? It's not your fault that these freaks want you. And we're here now, so let's just forget about it…' Kate trailed off as she heard footsteps approach the door. She placed a finger to her lips as Anya opened her mouth to say something. She was grateful that Anya could see that in the dark that they were in.
The door opened and three men came in. A younger girl followed behind, carrying two backpacks that they realised as their own. Kate stood up, protecting Anya and giving her a better chance to do something if needed to.
The girl threw their bags to them. Anya opened hers and looked into it to see that her medicine wasn't in it anymore. She would've have argues with them, yelled at them actually, and demand for her medicine, but the look of the guys kind of scared the living daylights out of her. So she stayed quite, and let Kate handle the situation, as well as she could.
The men advanced onto them, obviously wanting them to come with them. But Kate tried to resist as much as she could, and tried to stall.
'What are you doing? Why do you want us?' Kate asked, moving out of the men's reach. She kept dodging them.
Her voice was quite load, and it had attracted the attention of the leader from the other room. He came walking in, and switched on the light. Anya and Kate blinked several times so that they could adjust to the sudden burst of light.
The men had taken advantage of this and two of them grabbed Kate, while the other forced Anya off of the floor and onto her feet.
'C'mon! Quickly. Get them ready. They're here!' the leader barked the orders to the other men.
Anya thought about what they meant by 'get ready'. She looked at Kate and realised the same fear. They both had their bags on their back now, and no one seemed to care.
As they entered the main room, both of their fears were confirmed. On the table in front of them were tape, two black bags, some thick black fabric and some ropes. Tight rope. Rope with the means to tie and burn the skin. There were other people also around the table. There grabbed the ropes when they saw the two of them come out. Kate wasn't fighting what they were doing, so Anya decided not to either. Not like it would do me any good, considering I can't even feel my legs!
The men pushed the two of them to the table and brought their arms behind their back. Anya's was easy to do, but Kate tried to resist, only causing herself harm. Once she had let them tie her hands, the leader turned them both around to make them face him.
'It is foolish to think you can beat us.' He turned to look at Kate more specifically. 'You will not come back. If you want to keep her alive, you will not come back. If we let you go, you go. All of you. If anyone comes back, we won't negotiate. Do you understand?' he said the last three words as he were talking to a two year old.
When Kate didn't respond, he repeated the question. When again she didn't respond, he walked over to her and slapped her. The sound of it made Anya gasped in fear. But the man holding her pulled her hands and the ropes bunt into her skin.
He asked again.
'Yes.' Kate hissed to him. Anya looked over to her to see that she had some blood oozing out of the corner of her mouth, but no matter how you looked at it, she looked braver than ever before. She'll come back. Anya knew.
'Do what he says. If they let you go, go. Go back to the camp and leave it alone. Don't; risk it. If you come back, I'll die, and so will you.' Anya whispered to Kate when the men had started to cut up some tape to tie around the rope on their hands.
'No. It's not going to happen, so don't think it. I don't' know what they're playing at, but no one's going to let you go like that. Especially not me. I promise.' Kate whispered back before the man turned her around and blindfolded her eyes and taped mouth simultaneously. She didn't try to reset. If she were to keep this promise, she had to corporate. She would get Anya back, even if it were the last thing she did, which in this case, it probably would.
They placed the black bag onto her head and marched her out of the hatch. She could here footsteps behind her, and the occasional falter, which she could only assume to be Anya's.
Outside, time passes slowly as she heard gunshots and the leader's voice. The other voices were a blur, and she tried to concentrate on the people around her's breathing, to calm herself down.
But her heart started to race again once she heard Jack's voice. Oh God. By the way he was talking, it was obvious that Danielle hadn't reached them. Then she was dragged out and pushed into his arms. She tired to squirm, but found herself relaxing, knowing that Jack was there. He would save me!
The man removed the bag off of Kate's head, but kept her blindfolded, so she couldn't see Jack. But she felt the tension in the air, and the emotions as they all realised who she was.
Then it all started to happen.
I know - it's LONG!
I'm sorry I got carried away!
Did you get bored?
Please say no!
So what's gonna happen next?
Review and let me know what you thought of this!
xXx Tiana