Light sleeper
Lucas woke upon a chair with his hands bounded behind his back, he looked down to see his ankles bounded with rope as well. He could see them out of the corner of his talking in the back room. He only caught a few words like: him, brother and lost. He tried to speak only to cough on the cloth in his mouth. He saw one of them look his way and motion the others. Within seconds they made a circle around him and one came up and took the cloth out of his mouth.
"You all right?" Lincoln asked.
Lucas didn't answer him.
"What should we do with him?" Sucre asked.
"We stay here for a bit then leave," Michael said looking down at Lucas.
One came up, Lucas immediately remembered the face from the mug shot on the tv. Theodore Bagwell.
"I think that we should take our little friend here," T-bag started placing an arm around Lucas's throat, "And dump him somewhere, say the lake?"
Lucas's heart pounded with fear as he felt T-bag's breath on the back of his neck.
"Enough T-bag," Michael growled pulling T-bag away from Lucas.
"Just giving out suggestions Pretty," T-bag said smiling.
"I don't need you and your suggestions,"
Once again they started arguing but Lucas wasn't paying attention to them at all. He was thinking about something else. Just then the doorbell rang once again and Tweener went to go and see who it was. He could make out a girl's figure.
"Its that Karen chick," Tweener said.
"What?" Michael said coming over, "Shit it is,"
T-bag leaned against the kitchen counter.
"Fuck," Tweener whispered to himself.
"Just do what you did last time ok, if she asks about the boy tell him he's in bed alright?"Michael said it was obvious he didn't want this, "Put that down T-bag!"
Everyone turned to see T-bag drop a knife.
Tweener once again sprayed water on his hair and lightly flattened it.
"Go," Tweener said as he got near the door.
Abruzzi untied Lucas and half dragged and half carried him to the back. Once the door was shut Tweener opened the door.
"Hey what's up?" Tweener said.
"What's up is that my car broke down near the street, I was wondering if you had any jumper cables," Karen said innocently.
"Jumper cables?" Tweener asked again.
Karen nodded.
"Um come with me to the garage and I'll see what I can find," Tweener said pushing his way through.
"I think I'll stay here,"
Tweener stopped and tried to smile, "Uh I don't think that would be a good idea because Lucas is sleeping ya know and uh..."
"And?"
"Well I think that no one should bother him, light sleeper,"
"Don't worry I'll stay out here,"
"Really?"
Karen nodded.
Tweener let out a breath of relief, "Ok cool,"
"Cool,"
Tweener went to the garage and disappeared behind the wall. He poked his head around the side to see Karen still there smiling at him. He gave a tiny laugh then disappeared once again. He turned to see Michael right by his side and he jumped.
"John?" Karen asked.
"Um its ok," Tweener shouted then lowered his voice, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"What does she want?" Michael asked.
"Jumper cables,"
Michael nodded, "Ok jumper cables," then went back to normal and whispered angrily, "Are you out of your mind Tweener?"
"What?"
"She'll want you to help her start up her car,"
"And? Wait shit,"
Michael made a face and Tweener ran his hand through his hair.
Karen quietly went around to see John and another man standing there almost arguing. Then she ran into the house and locked the door. She wandered around to see if anyone else was here but she didn't see anyone in the light. Karen turned around and fast walked up the stairs half way then broke into a run until she got to the top. Karen then walked down the hall to Lucas's room, her feet made tiny thud noises on the hard wood floor.
"Lucas?" Karen said.
No answer.
"Lucas are you here?"
Still no answer.
Lucas's door was slightly open and there was no light on. She came up to the door and pushed it wide open. Karen stared at the lump in the bed and quietly walked over.
"Lucas?" Karen whispered quietly.
She pulled off the top cover to reveal what was beneath.