Because of Autumn

Aura's Notes: ALright guys, I'm so sorry it took too long to update, but I had a HUGE school project due and now that's out of the way, I'm free... for now. :_:

AND, this chapter will Blow. Your. Because of Autumn. Mind. Prepare for a mass pile-up of Secrets, Plot Twists, and Horror/ Romance!


-Chapter 11-

Because I Hear Voices

"WHAT?" screamed the entire Flock, all except Iggy of course.

Tears trickled out from Autumn's eyes. "They… they killed them…"

"Autumn…"

Iggy's PoV

I clenched harder onto the bars. I heard it… I heard it all from a few floors below. Autumn always knew what the School was. She had experienced their pain. Could that mean… she always knew who I was? Was she just playing it off the whole time?

Footsteps raced up the stairs to my floor. Probably the White Coats trying to protect their "experiment". I closed my eyes and allowed myself to ease out the pain.

The door suddenly burst in. I snapped my eyes open, but it's not like that'd do any good.

"IGGY!" Autumn ran over to me.

"Autumn!" I held my hand out of the bars. She grasped it and came down to my level.

"Iggy… what have they done to you?" she cried out.

"I'm-I'm fine! But you won't be able to get me out without the keys-!"

"NO NEED!" Out of the blue, the bars were slashed and I crawled out. I assume Fang gave her the knife he found a while back while we were in Texas. She helped me up and I gave her a quick and well deserved hug.

"Autumn, I'm so sorry about your parents…" I hugged tighter.

"It's okay, you don't have to be. The important thing is that you're safe now." She pulled me into a momentary kiss.

No matter how much I enjoyed it though, I tugged her hand back out into the hallway. Gunshots became heard from several floors below and raging footsteps alongside them. I grit my teeth and hopelessly looked around. "Damn it!"

Autumn held onto my tightly. "Iggy…" whined her voice, quivering. I put my arm around her. Neither of us knew where to go.

To the right, take the second hallway on your left.

I whipped my head around trying to find whoever said that. But, as the noises came closer, I took a leap of faith and lead us that way. Once there, the voice in my head returned.

Now to the right, go straight until you hear a gunshot and turn an immediate left.

I did so and we kept going straight.

"Iggy, how do you know where we're going?" Autumn asked.

"I-I just know!" I huffed out.

Without warning, a loud gunshot came from behind us. I launched us into the left hallway.

There is a room straight ahead. Go there.

We ran into the opened room. Autumn gasped and banged on the walls. "Iggy! There's nothing here! It's only walls!"

"WHAT?" I ran from wall to wall, knocking on them. No prevail. "STUPID VOICE!"

There's a hidden switch underneath a tile on the floor. It has a slight blue discoloring untrained to the normal eye.

"Untrained to the normal eye…?" I whispered out. "But Autumn is, well, normal in a human way and I'm blind…-!"

I fell to the floor and began touching all the tiles. This is the normal color: a white. Since I can feel colors, this may be the only way to our way out… alive.

After much frantically searching the floor, my hand came upon an ever-so-slightly discolored tile. I ripped it out of the floors and pressed a small red button underneath it.

"Iggy! This way! A wall opened up!"

I put the tile back in its place and we rushed into the new opening. It closed up right after us. I was, at this time, gasping for breath. Autumn froze up at me side. She took a step forward.

"…Mom...Dad?"

"Autumn!" Two voices cried out. One of which… was the voice in my head. Autmn ran from me and to the other side of the white room. I heard the clinking of metal and them weary footsteps.

Autumn broke down sobbing. "MOM! DAD!"

They pulled her into a huge hug, their tears dropping down onto her. "Oh Autumn!"

I went up to them also. "You guys lead me here…"

Mrs. Miller hugged me also. "Thank you Iggy… thank you for our freedom AND our daughter."

I rolled my eyes and blushed. Both of which I don't do… ever. "You're welcome, but I'm really confused right now."

Mr. Miller tugged us back to the entrance. "Iris and I will explain later, but for now, your friends have caused the White Coats to retreat so we have exactly five minutes to get out of here and 2 miles away from the School."

I opened my mouth to speak, but her parents got us all the way to the entrance of the School within 2 minutes flat. We also picked up the Flock on the way and they too were beyond confused. Autumn, also, was mixed up in an unexplainable situation.

Once outside of the School, her parents stopped us for a breath.

"Okay Sherlock, now tell us exactly how we're going to get out of here." Max demanded.

"I know this is asking for a lot, but is there any way you can fly us into town so we can at least get a car to get home?" Mrs. Miller questioned.

"… You know?" asked Fang. Her parents nodded.

We've carried adults before, but the Flock was too hesitant for my liking about this. Somehow though, I persuaded them and we flew Autumn and her supposed-to-be-dead parents into the nearest town. We all took shelter in a café without a single customer. All of us squished into a deluxe booth.

"We really, really can't thank all of you enough." Mrs. Miller said, "I mean this is… one of the best days of my life."

"Now that the thanking is done for, can you please explain the voice in my head and why you were at the School?" I asked, concerned.

Mr. Miller sighed.

"Well… Iris and I… we were taken from our homes back when we were only teens and the School wanted to work out some of their "newest" experiments on us. They found a way for a human to use more of their brain power."

"Brain power?" Max repeated.

"You see, humans only use 10% of their brain, so the School aimed to see what could happen if we could use 50% of it… and there came us. Iris and I grew up for years in that hellhole, excuse my language, and we finally easily outsmarted them. We escaped and got married trying to leave our past behind us. Soon after came Autumn."

"Which explains her weird, no offense, mannerisms back at the house?" Nudge asked. They nodded.

"Autumn retained the "gift" the School gave us, though at a lesser extent. But, even though it has been 14 years, the School wanted us back… and they wanted Autumn this time too. We saw this coming and sent Autumn off on a plane trip to my brother's house in Florida. But…"

Mrs. Miller took over. "They caught us… and it was only a few weeks later that we heard what happened to…" She choked up. "Autumn…"

"That's right." Autumn whispered barely loud enough to hear. "Remember? I said when we first met that I was in a plane accident…"


Author's Notes: Here's the 11th Chapter of Because of Autumn! And, yes, this is not the last chapter, but 12 is the End. But, alas, not the End to BoA, because there's going to be a sequel!

I hope this Chapter really shed some light on this story and thanks for reading!

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