I will say first, sometimes really great books leave you confused till the end. It builds suspense... bon apetite!:3
Nina ran though the halls of this strange place. It had an antiseptic smell that hang in the air. She continued through the long , also white, corridors. Every few meters there was a door. Some were locked, and the open ones were empty. Nina walked down the hall another few doors or so and came to a cross-way. She stood in the middle looking down each of the four directions. Nothing but more white. She dropped to her knees; believing she would never find anyone. "Fabian could be dead for all I know," she whipsawed to herself, trying not to break down at that moment.
"Nina?," a voice called out.
Nina turned to see Alfie walking quickly towards her. "Alfie! I never thought I'd ever be so happy to see you!" she said meeting him half way, overly excited to be seeing someone familiar.
His face went serious as she greeted him, "Nina, I think we've been abducted by... Aliens,"
Nina thought to herself and wished that's what she'd been told by Evalynn Duke, "abducted yes, I don't know about aliens though," she said feeling her heart sink again.
"You haven't seen the others have you?" he asked.
"No, your the first person I've seen since we were at the house," she answered remembering Fabian again, "what happened to you guys?"
"I don't know, I was on the stair case watching for Victor. I heard like, a gun shot noise coming from upstairs, so I started towards the attic, then-, I don't remember anything else," he said running a hand through his hair.
"Oh," Nina said cringing at the mentioning of gun shot, "we have to go find everyone else,"
"Yeah," he responded.
After deciding what direction to go Nina and Alfie went down the left hallway. Nina was practically running, she was terrified to even think of the possible outcomes of Fabians wounds. She found it hard to breath just thinking of him.
The two continued there search when a whirl of blond hair turned the corner as they started down the corridor. Alfie sprinted and Nina followed.
"Amber!" he called.
She appeared from around wall, and also started running towards Nina and Alfie, "Guys!" she shouted, hugging them both, "What's going on!" she said almost in tears.
"I'm not sure," Nina said, relieved they had found her.
Alfie was still hugging Amber, when he glanced over for a split second, and saw Patricia as well, "Patricia!"
She ran up to them from the same direction Amber had come from. "Nina! Amber! Alfie!," she cried, "Where are we," she asked calming down a smidge.
"We don't know," Amber answered, holding onto Alfie's arm.
"Nina, Where is Fabian," she asked, a slight desperate plea in her voice.
Nina's breath caught, "I-I don't know," she said with her voice shaking, the way it would before one would would burst into tears. she tried to hold it back but they were streaming down her face, "Patricia, I'm scared, he-"
"Now Nina, like you said, let's calm down and think, don't panic," Patricia said trying to reassure her.
Nina sniffed and nodded wiping her eyes.
Amber and Alfie looked at each other worried.
"Nina, what happened to Fabian?" Amber asked.
Nina took a breath so she wouldn't sob, "H-he got hurt," was all she could manage to say.
Amber and Alfie's concern escalated a bit.
After about another hour of searching, Nina, Amber, Alfie and Patricia had reunited with Jerome, Mick, and Mara (sorry I just skipped that, I was too impatient to go into detail...)
Nina's POV:
I felt clammy, and like I couldn't breathe. We were all here except for him. "Fabian, oh Fabian..." I thought to myself. He was dead now because of me. "Damn it! Why'd he have to jump in front of me," I continues in my mind. I crouched on the white linoleum floor, in this endless labyrinth, and I sobbed. My best friend in the entire world was dead all because of me. Beyond my endless sobs I could faintly hear my name being called, and there were arms around me. I dropped my hands from my face so I could see, and I saw Fabian.
"Nina! Nina, are you alright," he asked worried.
"I should be the one asking that," I said hugging his neck, and wiping my eyes. "I thought you died," I whispered in his ear.
"I'll never leave you," he whispered back, "But protecting you comes first," He winced when I hugged him tighter around his wound.
"Oh my god, I'm sorry," I said frantically backing off.
"It's alright," he said holding his shoulder.
"What happened to you?" I asked.
"I was shot," he answered with a half grin.
"No, after that,"
"i don't know I blacked out. I woke up in one of these rooms, with my shoulder bandaged. What do you have?" he asked refering to the folder.
I opened it, since I hadn't even seen. Inside were eight plane tickets to London.
"Why do you have these?" Patricia asked as well.
"You guys better sit down," I said
Well that answered the question of what happened to Fabian. I know most of you will be relieved I didn't kill him (HOW COULD YOU EVER KILL FABIAN!) I know you all are also still pretty confused and I will say a lot will be answered in the next chapter, POSTED FRIDAY! be ready for it:)
