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Chapter 7: Escape

The whole group were sat at the table, drinking their drinks and talking as if they were friends, all of them except for Carrie. They were enjoying the night but to Carrie it felt forced, it felt fake as if they were told to do it. All she could was imagine Stephen as some kind of twisted puppet master, playing with the people around her. She looked at Dave who was opposite her, he didn't give her much eye contact but she knew he was on the same side as her.

"So how has your work been Charlie?" Stephen said. Charlie paused for a moment, looking at Stephen, he winced a little but then returned to normality, this just made Carrie even more alert.

"We're getting good results." Charlie said. He tried to eat his food but his hand was shaking to much for him to get it into his mouth. Stephen watched this carefully as if he was taking notes.

"Danny...What have you been up to?" Carrie asked as she watched her old boyfriend. He was acting like any other person but like Charlie he was struggling, shaking and blinking quickly.

"I've been great Carrie, just doing some research." Danny said. Like the evening, it sounded forced and Carrie could tell.

"You were dead….They told me you were dead." Carrie said. She was starting to get angry, she slammed her fist onto the table and everyone looked at her.

"Carrie, not really dinner time conversation now is it?" Stephen said as he tapped his fingers against the table. His hands stopped and started to shake like Charlies and Dannys but this was different, this was worse.

"So how long have you two been together?" Kathleen, still blind to the situation asked Rachel and Paul.

"Excuse me, I'll be back in a moment." Stephen said as he struggled to get up. He knocked a glass of wine onto the floor, smashing it. He stumbled away, being followed by a group of guards.

"I need to go to." Carrie said as few moments later and rushed away from the table. The only people to care were Paul and Dave. Paul got up without saying a word and followed Carrie.

Carrie was following Stephen but as she kept her distance, Paul threw her into one of the bathrooms. She fell to the floor and Paul walked in, he waited for the people to run out and then rolled up his sleeves.

"What happened to you?" Carrie asked as she got up.

"I learnt magic." Paul said as he walked towards Carrie. She used her powers to push him back but he pulled a coin from his pocket and threw it at her. It hit her in the forehead before she could stop it, making her let him go.

Paul sprinted towards her and kicked Carrie into a wall. It felt like being hit by a car and would probably leave a mark like one.

"Asshole." Carrie muttered under her breath.

"I am going to tear you apart." Paul said. He walked towards her slowly, the red in his eyes made him look like some kind of demon but before he could do anything, Dave appeared and pulled Paul back.

"You cunt." Dave said as he spun him around and punched him as hard as he could, causing him to fall into one of the toilet cubicles.

"The knight in shining armour...Or in your case green and yellow." Paul said as he got up. The three looked at each other for a moment, the silence filling the room.

"Stephen order you to do this?" Carrie asked as she held Paul in his place. He was trying to fight it which only made it harder for him to escape.

"No..He'd probably have me killed for this...I just hate you." Paul explained. Carrie pushed his head against the wall, knocking him out.

"Let's get out of here." Carrie said as she ran out of the bathroom, Dave quickly followed.

Carrie and Dave ran into the corridor where three guards were aiming their guns at them, Carrie threw them into the wall and knocked them out. Dave picked up a gun and the two ran down the corridor, ready to get out of there.

"Wait…" Carrie said after they ran through a series of random corridors, trying to find an exit.

"What? We've got to go." Dave said. He ran towards a door that had a staircase on the other side, they wouldn't go on a lift in case they were waiting for them.

"I need to get Danny, I need to find out what happened to him...Go to that address and tell them that I'm here." Carrie said. She pointed to the gun and ran away. Dave looked at the gun to reveal that she had used her powers to make the metal on the gun move, revealing an address.

Dave ran down the stairs and found the basement, he peeped through to see that the place was filled with guards but it also provided him with an exit. He ran towards a car and smashed the door open. He jumped inside and drove off as quickly as he could. The guards had noticed him and started to shoot at the car but Dave only started to speed up, trying to get out of there as quickly as he could.

X

Carrie was walking along the corridor, she was going to try and work out what had happened to Danny before she left, she had to help him. As she was walking down the corridor something changed, something felt weird.

"Save me."

Something was calling her, dragging her to room 237. All she could hear was a voice, getting louder as she got closer. She didn't know how to describe the voice, it was a strong southern accent, somewhere around Mississippi but there was something in the voice that made it sound different or at least hard to understand. She was trying to find Danny but this made her want to forget, she didn't want to but it was making her.

She looked at the door and forced it open, throwing it off its hinges. She walked into the room to see Stephen injecting himself with some kind of green chemical. In the bed beside him was a tall black man, he was skinny, almost like a skeleton.

"I had him moved up here, he was in to much pain down there...We drained him...There's nothing left." Stephen said as he forced the rest of the chemical into his arm. He put the needle down and started to twitch.

Stephen turned to Carrie, his eyes had turned bright green and his veins were now a bright purple. He fell down, holding onto the table as he tried to regain his balance. His fingers wouldn't stop shaking but within a few minutes he had returned to normal.

"That's better." Stephen said. He reached for his tie that he left on the bed and proceeded to put it on.

"What the fuck is going on here? WHO IS THAT?" Carrie asked. She was shocked, her heart was about to stop and she wanted to be sick at the sight of the dying man in the bed.

"His name is John Coffey, I met him at Green Mile...It's where they kept the death row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary...It's also where I first met the Magician who used a different name at the time but that's doesn't matter." Stephen explained. He was breathing heavily, struggling as he did.

"Who is he?" Carrie asked as she walked closer to him, clenching her fists as she did. She looked into John's eyes, he was in pain.

"This is the man that granted us our power...This is the man Carrie...This is the man that started all of this." Stephen said as he showed Carrie the dying man, She couldn't help but feel angry, she hated Stephen but she wanted answers, she wanted to know what was going on.

X

Alex was crawling through the snow, he was fighting Nemesis in the cold, night and he had to admit that he was starting to lose. He ran towards him, jumping up in the air and kicking him but Nemesis caught the kick and threw him to the ground.

Alex tried to get up but Nemesis kicked him back to the ground and then stamped his foot on him. He pressed down hard and was starting to break the bones inside of him. Sue had been taken, he didn't know where she was and this was making him panic. Nemesis then stopped which gave Alex time to get up and register what was happening.

"Why did you stop?" Alex asked as he looked right into his eyes. He took the moment to swing his fist and punch Nemesis in the jaw but he was still stood still. He then turned his head as if he was being controlled and then sprinted away. Alex was stood there, confused as he watched Nemesis sprint as fast as a car.

Alex ran round the back of the cabin and found an emergency quad bike. He started to ride it down the road, hoping that he would catch up with Nemesis. Nemesis was sprinting down the road and jumped into a car, knocking it into the air.

The car landed and the ground, completely wrecked and Dave crawled out. He was covered in cuts and bruises from the crash. He looked at Nemesis, confused and a little frustrated.

"You going to kill me?" Dave asked as he managed to regain his balance.

Before the fight could begin, Alex appeared on the quadbike a moment later and got off. He walked up to the two who were about to fight.

"Need a hand?" Alex asked as he approached Dave with caution.

"Sure." Dave said as the two shook hands and looked at Nemesis. They took a deep breath and got ready to fight the monster.

Well I hope you enjoyed so please review. The next chapter is going to explain all of the backstory behind everything so if you have any questions I'll answer them for you. Until next time, have fun.