SirOlives: He will, I promise. It is only a matter of time and chapters. But don't worry, all works out well in the end. :)
Spottedivy: I'm sorry, I really am. :( You'll just have to see how everything pans out. Yes, they will be okay eventually... two or three chapters I think. Can I make you some hot chocolate? Give you a shock blanket and a hug? I swear to you, all will be alright.
Summerstorm: I know, I know. I certainly wite it like I'm picturing it - which is like a film. I understand that it's all a suprise, and you enjoy that. :) I hope you like this chapter at the very least, even though it will probably mess with your feels more.
heroherondaletotherescue: Yes, she is. It's exactly what Alex wants, and he's going to get her right where he wants her... but not for long. :)
DaHybridQueen: She's not playing with his feelings. She is keeping him safe - well, that she knows. I'm sorry you feel that way, though. :(
Everyone get together for a group hug. I will make you all hot chocolate, and pass out shock blankets. I am so sorry. C'mon, everyone needs a hug right now, so I'm sending you all one from here with an assurance that everything will be alright, and that this story ends happily.
Bella felt like screaming. She had just gotten everyone assembled when the world around her froze to a complete standstill. She looked at her watch, feeling as if a bucket of cold water had been thrown on her face. Lizzie had stopped time, which meant only a few things, and none of them good. Trying to be proactive, she searched her memories on how to form a portal, wanting nothing more than to be ready to go as soon as Elizabeth resumed time.
"Frustrating isn't it?" Her mother asked from her place a few feet away. "Whenever your sister does this she always leaves us feeling helplessly alone."
"She hasn't done this to me in years, what's more I'm just remembering it. She used to think it was funny." Bella replied, finally letting out the scream, it wasn't as if anyone would remember it anyway, after all they would go from one second to the next with only a faint memory of something happening in between. "I'm gonna kill her."
"Let's not, Bella, your sister is already under a large strain." Veronika replied, looking down at her watch. "We're still stopped..."
"What do you think is happening?" Bella asked, she might as well find out since they were here.
"The worst thing that can." Veronika replied. "Alex is most likely moving the group out of the docks—"
Bella nodded, a portal suddenly forming in front of her, a ship clearly seen on the other side. "They can't go." she said, motioning to their still-frozen-in-time companions. "But we can. We might be able to do something."
"Just us?" Veronika challenged. "He has twenty to thirty mutants – maybe more. We can't take them all on."
"Our goal is to get the hostages, it has nothing to do with fighting our way around." Bella countered. "Mom! We have to! Lizzie is digging a grave for herself, and they're going to be moved, if we don't get there first it's possible that Pepper, Clint or Loki could die. Now I don't know about you, but I know how Lizzie would react."
Veronika sighed, shaking her head. "Bella, they would be the first people moved, don't you see?"
Bella shook her head, facing the portal. "I'm goin. If you want to stick around here and figure out a way to get everyone to the docks on your own, then fine." she said, expecting Veronika to change her mind.
"What if time resumes and the Avengers see that we are gone?" Veronika gave for Bella's consideration.
"Then we'll explain it when we get back." Bella answered, stepping through the portal. Veronika looked at each of the Avengers for a few more seconds, almost willing them to start moving before she stepped through as well, the portal closing behind her.
Silence. That was the first thing they noted when they arrived on the docks, the sounds of the water moving being the only thing to hear. It was suffocating at first, and it took a few moments before both women realized that there was no one in sight. The ship which Veronika had seen Alex board several weeks previous still stood there, but there seemed to be no life from within.
"You were right... they've been moved." Bella said first, breaking the silence. "We're too late."
"Maybe not?" Veronika replied, holding out hope even though both of them knew that the chance was slim that they were still in the vicinity. "Alex's car is there."
"I doubt he needs it." replied Bella. "When I knew him he could teleport himself, no doubt he has a mutant who can do the same – remember, he had me. I have no doubt that they moved like shadows, and without normal means of transportation."
Veronika moved to the side of the ship, in her minds eye she was able to see that the group had been there not long before, the scenes flashing through her head quickly. "Someone escaped..." she whispered, the sounds of a groan suddenly causing both women to turn, fully prepared to fight whomever was in the area. Bella followed the voice, her guard raised as her mind raced through its memories of fighting. She had no idea she was that ruthless. Finally she reached the source, and bending down, she lifted a large crate off the top of the dock. "Who is it?" Veronika asked from her place.
"Don't know yet." Bella replied, lifting a small hatch which seemed to be in the floor. Within she found a man, his eyes looking up at her in fear. "It's Happy." she called to her mother, using her power to transport him from the small place in the floor to beside the large crates.
"Must... see... Mister... Stark..." Happy breathed out laboriously.
Bella nodded. "We'll take you. How long have you been down there?" she asked, remembering the small bottle of water she had in her jacket and passing it to him. He drank it, and looked at her in gratefulness.
"This morning." Happy answered. "They were planning on moving Miss Potts, and basically said I wasn't needed anymore. They were taking her to see Agent Barton and Prince Loki."
"At least that means they're alive." Bella commented, breathing in relief. "For however long that lasts, though."
Veronika nodded, looking between the ship and Happy. "Wait, Bella... if he's awake and talking to us..."
Understanding dawned on Bella, and she nodded. "They're back. We'll take him with us, I don't see a point in bringing them here." stooping down, she grabbed Happy's arms, lifting him up as high as she could before she opened another portal, this time with the alleyway on the other side. Stepping into it, she practically collapsed into Steve Roger's arms, taking him off guard. But, being the gentleman and super-soldier that he was, he simply caught her and Happy, taking the man off of her.
"Where have you two been?" Logan snapped.
"Time stopped, you guys were frozen. We were the only ones still mobile." Bella explained quickly, looking back down the alleyway. The world was back to business as usual. "They were gone. Alex cleared out, he must have known we were coming."
Bruce was already examining Happy. "He's not normal guys, I don't know what's wrong with him." he said.
"An experiment, no doubt. Alex is vicious." Bella replied. "No need to stay here though, or to continue on to the docks. There's nothing there, and no clue as to where they went."
Tony looked murderous, the thought that Pepper was still in the hands of a lunatic making him feel completely hopeless. Pepper was his lifeline, and he'd be damned if he lost her due to one of Lizzie's stupid ideas. "Lizzie better know what she's doing." he snarled uncharacteristically.
"Lizzie wouldn't be foolish enough to go through with a plan she knew would fail. I'm sure she has everything under control, and that Pepper will be alright." Bella replied, looking at Logan for confirmation – he, however, just looked away. He wasn't as sure.
Tony nodded, calming down a little bit.
"What now?" Natasha asked. "Clint and Loki are still out there, and now we really have no idea where anyone is."
"We'll find out, I'm sure." Veronika replied. "Alex took them all for a reason, and he does enjoy gloating more than he probably should."
As if to punctuate her statement, Tony's phone buzzed, alerting him to a hacking of Jarvis. "Sonofabitch!" he exclaimed, looking at Steve. "Give me my suit, I need to get back to the tower stat, somebody has hacked Jarvis similarly to how that bastard did it last week."
Steve exchanged a look with Bruce, who just shrugged. "It's in the trunk." Tony moved like lightening, opening the trunk and grabbing the briefcase which had his suit in it. Activating it, he was soon completely armored as Ironman.
"C'mon Captain Puerto Rico, you too blondie, I have a feeling I'm going to need your help." the mechanical version of his voice said as he walked up to the pair, holding them around their middles before they even had time to protest. In seconds they were off and flying to the tower.
"We need to take care of the driver." Farbauti said, speaking for the first time. "He looks like he's sustained injuries that no normal human could produce."
"No normal human did." Logan replied, examining the exhaustion level in Happy, the scent which the driver gave off causing his brows to furrow. "That scent certainly isn't human."
"What do you mean by that?" Natasha asked, looking up at the man. Veronika and Farbauti exchanged a look, looking back at Logan with wide eyes as they all put the pieces together.
Lizzie leaned her forehead against the window of their new headquarters, tears streaming down her cheeks. She was in intense pain, her heart feeling as if it had been ripped out of her chest and trampled upon. The worst part of it all was that she had brought it upon herself. He wouldn't love her now, no matter what she did when all this was over to convince him that she hadn't meant it. It was too late, he hated her, she was sure of it.
"Loki..." she whispered to the window. "I'm sorry... I am so sorry..." He couldn't hear her, she knew that, but she wished that somehow she could apologize to him, to make him understand. If only Gollum hadn't been in the room, she could have changed things, she could have told him everything that was happening, and begged him to forgive her just this once. She supposed that on the bright side, Gollum wouldn't be sneaking on anyone anymore, as she had permanently disabled that particular side of him. Alex had been furious.
It was raining outside, and Lizzie immediately wondered if Thor was back on Earth. Somehow it wouldn't surprise her. If he was, there was no doubt in her mind that he would have information as to their whereabouts, and probably come in as wrathful as she could possibly imagine him being. She had betrayed him too. He had asked her to change his brother, and to give him a second chance... it wasn't Loki who needed it now.
Her hand reached underneath her corset, grabbing onto the watch-locket which Frigga had given her. It was her last tie to him, and brought on a new wave of tears. It had only been a few days ago that they had had their discussions of 'what if?' and had decided that without the events in their lives they never would have met one another. A new 'what if?' filled her mind, this time recounting the events over the last day. What if she hadn't gone back to Alex? What if Gollum hadn't been in the room? What if she had been able to get them out of there before the transfer?
What if she knew where she was?
She didn't know, as it turned out, Alex refused to inform her of their location under the guise of 'It didn't matter'. Sighing, she held the locket at her heart, wishing that all of this misery would go away, and that the world she lived in would be simply and easy to maneuver. No deceptions, no lies, no forced hands... just life, and love.
"You grieve for him." a female voice suddenly stated and Lizzie gasped, her hands immediately tucking the locket back into her corset, her face of stone.
"How did you get in here?" Lizzie snapped, narrowing her eyes at the blonde woman in the strange dress. If she didn't know better, she would think her Asgardian. "Furthermore, who are you?"
The woman smiled kindly, motherly, her blue eyes filled with a sadness of her own. "I am Frigga, Elizabeth. I mean you no harm." Perhaps she didn't know better.
"Frigga?" Elizabeth echoed.
Frigga nodded, taking a step toward the younger girl, who frantically looked at the door. "I have put wards around the room, no one will hear us." she assured her.
Lizzie nodded, looking at Frigga once again. "You are Thor and Loki's mother?"
"And you are Loki's love. I have been watching you, been watching how you interact with him." she said. Lizzie's eyes went downward, the tears once more threatening to fall.
"Then you know what has happened within the last two days." Lizzie stated. "You know that I am no longer any love of his..."
"Nonsense." Frigga countered. "Loki loves you more than any other."
Lizzie looked toward the Queen, a sad smile on her face. "Not anymore he doesn't. Or did you not see what happened on the ship?" she asked, her voice cracking. "He despises me, and I drove him to it. I am sure that if he had a chance he'd sooner kill me than love me."
"His pride might, perhaps, but his pride is not him." Frigga replied, moving toward Lizzie. "You love him." She stated rather than asked.
"Surely you know that answer to that." Lizzie countered, wiping away new tears which gathered.
"But you have not told him." Frigga said. "He does not know of your love."
Lizzie scoffed. "If he did, would that make him love me more?" she asked, sitting down on her bed. "Forgive me, your majesty, but I have killed whatever love he may have held for me on the ship. I threw his feelings in his face and openly mocked them."
Frigga sighed, sitting next to her. "But that was not what you wanted in your heart, was it? The words you shamed him with were not those which you wished to say." she stated.
"I – no!" Lizzie stuttered out, the tears now coming more often. "Why would I wish to hurt him so harshly? To tear him apart at the seams, and dance over his soulless body?" she sobbed, and Frigga pulled her into her arms.
"I understand you did what you thought you had to, dear." Frigga said softly as the girl's shoulders shook. "But that does not mean that he does not love you."
Lizzie raised her head to look Frigga in the eyes. "The things I said to him." she murmured, shaking her head. "I was so cruel! There is no way he could love me at this point, not even if I got down on my knees and begged..." Her eyes closed, and she took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. "I did what I had to do." she said, this time her voice was much calmer.
"Loki is not a child, Lizzie." Frigga told her. "You must not believe that you need to protect him."
"Alex would kill him if he knew how much I loved Loki." Lizzie said softly. "And Loki cannot protect himself at this point." She stood, walking over to the window. "Do not take offense, but I must know... why are you here? For what purpose does coming to visit the woman who has destroyed your son for good, have?"
Frigga sighed. "You and I have a similar aim, Elizabeth. We also have one person whom we love dearly, who we never would want to see fall again into the abyss which he once came from." she told the younger woman. "Loki feels betrayed, yes. He doesn't deal well with betrayal, I'm afraid. That does not mean, however, that you two are not reconcilable."
"The ship is only the beginning, your majesty." Lizzie said, looking out the window. "When the Avengers – and possibly the X-Men – come, I will have no other choice than to fight against them. I will lose every last friend I have in the world, and all because I was a fool."
"They will understand when it is explained—"
"No, they won't." Lizzie interrupted sharper than she had intended. "The X-Men know my past more intricately than any other – excepting Loki of course. For me to join with Alex once more would be something which they all would view as treason. I was given my second chance, they will not give me another."
Frigga stood, walking to stand in front of Lizzie. "You are too hard on yourself, and you are too hard on them." she said, placing her hand on Lizzie's cheek, her blue eyes catching the immense pain which swirled within the chocolate brown. "They are your friends, and when they know the truth, they will not abandon you."
"And what is the truth?" Lizzie asked, her voice showing the depths of her current despair. "That I am Frankenstein's monster? That my creator holds the one thing which I hold dear most in this world, besides Loki himself, on a string with which to puppet me? Taunts and teases me, always baiting me to go that bit further for her sake?"
"You speak of your daughter." Frigga replied, suddenly going stiff. Lizzie didn't know about the fact that Saoirse was dead, she had to tell her.
"You know about Saoirse?" Lizzie asked, her eyes wide with worry, as a mother should be no matter whether she had ever seen her daughter or not. "Please, tell me she is alright, tell me she is alive. Alex won't say anything, he keeps going on about how he's going to tell me when he's ready, and when I prove myself." She rushed out, not even allowing Frigga to get a word in in her panic. "I must know, she is the only thing keeping me sane in this madhouse."
"Elizabeth!" Frigga finally shouted, getting the girl to calm down so slightly. "Alex is lying about Saoirse."
Lizzie's eyes widened more, if that were possible, stepping back from the golden-haired queen. "Lying?" she echoed, her heart beating faster. "About what? Has he already started the tests? Dear God, please don't tell me she's on one of his tables!"
"She's not on a table, Lizzie, and she's not being subjected to tests." Frigga replied, her hands resting to Lizzie's arms. "Elizabeth... Saoirse... is..."
In that moment, there was a loud bang on the door which made both women jump. "Elizabeth? Open the goddamn door!" It was Alex who shouted. Obviously in her panic she had not heard his previous telling of her to open the door.
Lizzie panicked, looking at Frigga in sudden worry. "You need to leave." she stated.
"I will, but first—"
"No! Don't you understand what will happen if he finds you here? Even more so if I don't open that door right now?" her voice had turned higher in pitch. "Please, Frigga, go!"
Frigga looked at the door for a moment, then back at Lizzie. She had to tell her that Saoirse wasn't alive, she simply had to. However, she knew what would happen if Alex was not answered soon. "I will come to see you later. Do not believe what he tells you about your daughter." She said, disappearing from the room right as Alex broke the door in, immediately holding Lizzie up with a force field which reminded her vaguely of Darth Vader's choke hold.
"What the fuck?" Alex spat at her. "I was banging on that door for five minutes."
"I—I'm sorry." Lizzie choked, feeling helpless in that moment. "I didn't hear you."
Alex's eyes narrowed in fury, using his ability to throw her across the room and straight into the wall on the opposite side, holding her there. "Do you hear me now?" Alex growled, stepping close to her, his eyes glinting dangerously.
"Yes." she replied, her head beginning to go light. She almost wished he'd just choke her to death and get her misery over with, hating how easily he was controlling her. She felt heat from the chain around her neck, as if telling her that if he dared the magic would wreak havoc on him.
Finally he let go, and she gasped loudly for breath, doubled over as she saw stars. He had always been one to fury, and when he did it had always been she which he took it out on. She rubbed her neck with her hand, looking up at him in fear. The look in his eyes, though frightened her more than ever before. It was a hungry look, which made her wonder just what was going through his head in that moment, and fearing the worst.
"You know what I just realized?" He looked at the bed, and her heart spiked in panic, her vision already turning red. 'No.' she shouted in her mind as he suddenly grabbed her and threw her upon it. She bounced, fighting to keep her emotions in check and her mask in place. "That you and I haven't had any fun yet."
Lizzie fought the tears which threatened to spring up, and swallowed the lump in her throat as her mask finally slid into place. She knelt on the bed, pulling her hair out of its ponytail as she took on the persona. "Well then, shall we make amends on that?"
He grinned like the predator he was. "If the lady insists."
Frigga was livid as the magical flame before her showed the following events. She was half-tempted to tell Thor to forget going to the Avengers first, and to simply take Sif and Hogun with him straight to the headquarters that Shaw had established in Rochester. She had watched Elizabeth break down into tears over what happened with Loki, and to see her suddenly transform for survival was what drove Frigga into a motherly frenzy.
"Thor!" she called, stepping out of her quarters and into the sitting room where her son sat. He immediately stood.
"Did you find out where they were?" He asked, Mjolnir hung in his bear-like grasp.
"An old house in the northern part of the state of New York." she said. "Loki is there as well, in the basement with Agent Barton."
"And Lady Elizabeth?" Thor inquired. "What did you discover from her?"
Frigga sighed, closing her eyes as her mind conjured the last images she had seen. "Not everything is as it seems, my son. When you see her, you will think she has betrayed you all."
"Has she not?" Thor boomed.
"No." Frigga snapped, silencing him quickly. "Elizabeth is in a very finicky situation, and one which she has no idea how deep of a problem she has. Get her out as well, if you can, otherwise I assure you that she will not survive."
Thor's brow furrowed. "What do you mean, mother?" he asked. "Surely Loki will, if she has seen him."
"Loki is under the impression that she seduced him and betrayed him." Frigga informed him, sadness overtaking her tone. "He will not assist her in any way, his pride will not allow it."
Thor nodded, adjusting Mjolnir in his grasp. "Does he not love her?"
Frigga chuckled sadly. "With all his heart." she replied. "And she him."
The Thunderer looked at his mother and kissed her forehead. "I will bring them both back, I promise. I will not return until I do." he swore, leaving her in her room, he then headed to the Bifrost.
"Loki?" Clint called across the room. He was worried, a moment ago Loki had been in the middle of talking about where they might be, trying to get Clint to think about what little they had seen when they entered the house. He wished Pepper were there, as it would help them somewhat if they were all together – but she wasn't with them, and he could only imagine what was going on wherever she was.
He knew there was nothing which they could do, but he wanted to work something out anyway when it came to trying to escape. Suddenly, he had gone silent, his green eyes looking as if they were looking somewhere else but him. "Loki?" he tried again.
Finally Loki came back to his senses. "I'm sorry, I got lost in thought. What were we talking about?" he asked, as if nothing had happened.
"Uh-huh, yeah, I don't buy it." Clint retorted. "You looked like you did the day that Shaw snuck into the tower and you got that vision-seeing-thingy where you knew where Lizzie was and that she was in danger. So what the hell just happened?"
"Nothing of importance." Loki replied, looking at the staircase. "Or maybe something of importance."
"What are you on about?" Clint asked.
Loki didn't answer him, his eyes moving to Clint's chair...his eyes narrowed, and a strange smile came on his face as Clint suddenly felt that which bound him loosen. Clint's eyes widened as he brought his hands around in front of him.
"Planning on staying there surprised that you're actually free, or can we start moving?" Loki's haughty voice asked, and Clint looked up to see he was already standing, waiting for him at the top of the stairs.
Clint jumped up, meeting the Asgardian. "How the hell did you do that? Your powers were incapacitated."
"Elizabeth's locket." Loki replied snappishly. "It believes she's in some kind of danger."
"Maybe she is..." Clint trailed off, and Loki scoffed.
"Aren't you funny." the darker haired man replied, looking at the door. "Now, we need a plan on how to get out of here."
"We need to get to Pepper." Clint replied sternly. "I don't care how we get out as long as we get Pepper while we're doing it."
Loki nodded. "Agreed. From what Elizabeth told me – if she was telling me the truth – Stark's woman is in grave danger." he said, listening carefully to the other side of the door. He heard footsteps and, looked over at Clint. "They're coming in." he said. "Go back down the stairs!" he whispered, sending the smaller man back to where they were before following.
"What are we going to do?"
"What do you think?" Loki retorted, staying silent as the door opened, the mutant coming down the stairs. Loki looked at Clint, and put a finger to his lips. Sneaking up on the guard, he covered his mouth, bringing a knife which he had conjured out and slitting his throat.
Clint came out of his spot, keeping his eye on the door. Loki looked at the man, his features changing from his own to that of the man who was dying. He tapped Clint on the shoulder, and the archer's eyes widened before he went to strike Loki. "Barton!" he hissed. "It's me." Switching momentarily back to his own form, Clint let out a sigh of relief.
"So what now?"
Loki looked back at the door, then to the man. He didn't know when his magic would run out, but so far things were looking good. He made the man look like him, then looked at Clint. "Hit me." he said.
"What?"
"Hit me, punch me. I need you to start fighting." Loki as the guard replied.
Clint shrugged, pulling his fist back like an arrow and letting the punch fly. Loki's head spun to the side, blinking momentarily. "Thanks, I've been wanting to do that."
"Of course you were." Loki replied snarkily, suddenly disabling Clint by twisting his arm behind his back.
"And here I thought we were finally getting along." Clint said. "You're going to go up there and make it look like I fought and somehow you got yourself killed."
Loki's voice was different in pitch, but there was no mistaking the chuckle as his own. "Precisely. Glad you can keep up." he said, pushing the smaller man forward. "Now, move."
In a small shed to the side of the house, Pepper was crying. It had been the most painful half-hour she had ever experienced in her life as the doctors poked and prodded her, the needles sliding in and out of her skin with little care. They had finally left her alone, and she was now allowed to let her feelings overwhelm her.
She wondered if she'd ever see Tony again, to hear his sarcastic attitude when everyone else was around, only to be the most romantic guy in the universe when he was alone with her. God, she loved him, and this time she wasn't so sure that she'd be able to see him again in her life. She missed him. She just wanted to be with him, to feel safe as she knew he would – quite literally – kill anyone who dared to come near her. She just wanted Tony.
The door to the lab opened again, and she tensed, readying herself for whatever was about to happen. More pain, no doubt, as they tried to figure out how her newfound power had come into her body and didn't kill her – and somehow she was able to have good control over it. She wondered how much pain she could take before she finally gave into the unconsciousness which teased her vision, and called to her from it's darkness. She just wanted blissful ignorance, at least it would be less painful.
"Pepper?" she heard, and her heart nearly stopped. Lizzie? What was Lizzie doing there? "Pepper, can you hear me?" She opened her eyes, the face in front of the fluorescent lights discernable as Lizzie's, with her ponytail coming over her shoulder. She could feel the monitors being pulled away from her, the needles coming out of her skin. "Pepper, I need you to wake up." Lizzie kept saying. "C'mon, I know you can do it."
"Lizzie?" she finally croaked out. "How—" she coughed. "How are you here?"
"Alex is currently sleeping." Lizzie replied, slight disgust coloring her tone. "It was the only chance before this got out of hand."
Pepper felt Lizzie's small hands reach under her back, trying to pull her up. "But won't he notice?"
Lizzie scoffed. "Not likely, unless he's figured out a way to completely paralyze my paralysis. I disabled his waking state, and the only way he'll wake up is if someone shakes him really hard." she replied, leaving Pepper sitting up as she went to get her clothes. "Now, can you stand?"
The redhead nodded, leaning on Lizzie heavily as she did so. "I knew it was a lie." she whispered with a tired smile. "I knew you were putting on an act when he was around."
"Shh... you've been through a lot, don't talk too much." Lizzie replied, pulling Pepper's clothes onto her. "I need to get you out of here before someone notices that time is moving particularly slow right now." she said, moving around Pepper as if a blur.
"Loki..." Pepper started clearing her throat. "He thinks you've betrayed him."
Lizzie stopped moving, and Pepper looked at her. "I know." the brunette announced. "I did it on purpose."
"You love him." Pepper replied.
"We don't have time for a discussion, Pepper. I need to get you out of here as soon as possible, and somehow get a hold of my sister – it's the only way to make this work." Lizzie told her, supporting Pepper's weight somewhat as she walked out of the laboratory.
"Thank you, Lizzie." Pepper said, fighting against her dizziness to stay awake.
Lizzie shook her head. "I got you into this mess, the least I can do is get you out." she said, reaching the front door.
She could only hope they wouldn't get caught. If they did, there was no way they would both live through it.
There's got to be a morning after! I promise good things to come after the next two chapters. The pain will not continue. IN the meantime, what did you guys think of it?