Control 12

Questions

Brennan leaned up on his elbows to try and see into the darkness where he had heard the man fall. He didn't like the silence that had followed during the man's falling, not even the water dripped like it had before. 'Is he dead?'

Blackness was stiff all around him, and he struggled not to light up his hands again, that had just been a beckoning for the guy lying a few feet away, most likely unconscious, but to do it again was wishing for bad luck.
Slowly, Brennan climbed to his full height, and continued to walk down the path where he hoped, would lead to Adam.

Adam gently opened his eyes, when he recognised the drumming of blood loud in his ears. His head hurt as he lifted it to look around where he was. As he dropped it slowly back to the cushion it had recently lay on, he wondered what had happened. He'd been taking pictures, and one that he'd noticed a bit further in had caught his attention. He couldn't recall what it looked like, and then realised that he couldn't remember anything else.

' Did I bump my head? ... Did Brennan and Shal bring me back to the mansion? ..." All these questions left unanswered made Adam feel at a disadvantage. He couldn't remember whether the other two had found him, and fear suddenly gripped him when he realised Shal and Brennan had staring at some thing in the woods, and then Shal took off running... but Adam could briefly recall being struck from behind.

Now he knew it wasn't Shal, since she'd run off, and if certainly wasn't Brennan since he'd been looking right at him.

Adam took a gamble and opened his eyes fully, blinking several times to adjust his eyes to dim light. He rocked his head to see around the room he was in, or what could be classed for a room. He knew in seconds that by the cool draft that filtered in, that he was indeed still in the cave. He was lying on a mattress, and the lighting around him was small flames on the end of thick pieces of wood, and Adam suddenly recognise it as a torch.

But his attention was redirected, when foot steps started to echo down the passageway that lead directly into the room, but thankfully he was hidden slightly to the left, out of plain sight from the door. The footsteps grew louder, until Adam knew the person would be right on top of him, in walking into the room.

When some one did enter, Adam half glanced at the figures appears, and considered putting his head back down to try and wake up.

Shalimar started to feel confused when she had stepped further into the cave. A feeling of comfort, and a feel for home seemed to rise out of the ground and seep from the rocky ceiling and walls. But as she drew more into the cave, Brennan's scent had started to fade, but she could... feel him. Walking about, and her breathing became heavy. Her eyes were already golden to help with the darkness, but she felt her control slipping away. Urges to suddenly sprint into a certain direction lulled her. She gave a grunt of annoyance and leant against the nearest wall to her, panting. Normally, she could handle the feral in her better, but at the moment... control was not winning over her animal instincts.

In the back of her mind, things screamed at her, thoughts. She laid her head back, trying to not get too caught by the web of the distraction. Suddenly, Brennan's scent seemed too heavy in the air, and she turned her head away to try and ignore it. Adam was in trouble, which she knew. Some thing screamed he was... but Brennan was close by.

She dropped to her hands and knees, trying to keep from going completely feral... but she was losing. Within seconds, the feral was whispering in her ear, tempting her and raising her mind to accept them... accept what she wanted.

When her eyes opened again, she felt she could see even better than before... now that she had some thing to follow.

Brennan was using the wall for support, and was looking like he was limping as well. He growled as he remembered the attack. The guy felt like he'd done his left arm when the squeezing had seemed to cut off all blood flow. He tried to twist it about, to check it was ok, and a striking pain near his shoulder told him to stop.

His right arm was starting to get small scratches off the wall, and new cuts formed. Brennan tried to imagine what he may look like, and thought it must have been a mess. Trying to ignore the stinging of the cuts on his right arm, he kept on, determined to find Adam.

' Come on Mulwray... you've felt worse...'. Really, he never had felt worse. His right side gave twinges of agony shooting into his lungs and preventing too much air from being inhaled. He tried to ignore it the first few times, but was halted when his whole side went slightly numb and his lung shrieked for comfort.

Now he took a slow pace, still feeling his chest try to heave every so often for more air that was desperately needed. He stumbled a few times, and a growl of agony echo all around him in the darkness. That was even worse, that the dark almost seemed to mock him in his attempts of searching. It was determined not to make it easier for him. With a sigh of relief when some of the pain wavered away, he carefully climbed back up, and continued to push him self on. '... I need to find him... Jess man, if you think its boring staying in the mansion, I'll gladly trade places with you'.

Shalimar seemed to move on thin air as her feet moved in the instruction of a slow run, just starting up, but her eyes wondered to looking about. It was true, she could sense Brennan, but that didn't mean that the caves didn't hold any danger. She came to a passage, where it split in two. She gave it a growl of annoyance that it was slowing her path, and slowing her arrival to Brennan. ' And Adam...' but some part of her knew she was trying to convince her self she was still interested on where Adam was... since he was apart of her pack. But Brennan was whom she was going after and she couldn't deny it. Protective nature for Adam was overpowered by what she was following.

She lifted her head up clear in the air, and inhaled. Images of things flashed in her mind... and one of those was Brennan... going right.

Ok. Sorry for it being so short, but I want to leave some for later.

Please reply and thx 4 reading.

Tunder28