Mission Failed
I walked across the roof edging around the windows and ducking when a guard walked by on the ground. I saw a rusty old ladder and was about to walk over to it when I was stopped by strong arms lifting me up, gagging and blindfolding me. I thrashed and kicked and tried – not successfully – to scream. I was pushed me down a hatch and shoved me along a corridor that smelled musty and damp. I stumbled but whoever was dragging me did not stop so I had to leap up before I fell flat on my face. We arrived in a room where I was tied to a chair and left for 15 minutes hearing only hushed voices and seeing nothing. I didn't understand why me Isabelle church, age sixteen with no real friends and a boring life would get kidnapped. It just didn't add up. Think Isabelle, well I'm not rich so it's not ransom their after, definitely not famous, could it be … no no-one knows about that it was my secret and only gramma Martha knew about that…
Flashback…
We went down to the brook just gramma and me as a special treat. I splashed about in the water while gramma laid out the picnic under a willow tree in the shade from the fierce sun. Every 5 minutes the water would have pulled me out near the rapids and gramma would call to me in our special signal 'bird you're at the edge of the nest' but this time gramma accidently dozed off due to our big meal and the warmth of the sun, so by the time she realised what she had done I was already in the rapids and did not realise because on the surface it was like any other part of the brook but below the surface there were strong currents in every direction and when I realised it was too late because I was being pulled under and the last thing I remember was gramma screaming my name.
The next thing I was on the shore bone dry and breathing normally. Gramma was looking at me with awe and I remember her saying that she knew I was a special child and would bring greatness to the world.
Then that was it all I remembered gramma hadn't told a soul, she took it to the grave with her and I mean literally she died four months ago. Wait what was that … was some-one coming in or had they been there all along.
Watching
I had been in the room for half an hour watching as she suddenly went from alert to practically asleep, one minute she was fine the next minute her facial went slack and she started breathing deeply she sat like that for 30 minutes then snapped back to reality. "Wh…Who is it? I let out a sigh and went back to my usual sarcastic ways "It's Zac your ummm…." "Oh let me think captor,kidnapper,abuser and I've a lot more where that came from you…" she spat "That's quite enough thank-you I was going to say your host but obviously you have other ideas" "host are you being serious I've been kidnapped twice drugged God knows how many times and you have the cheek to say that you were a host, please just let me go home" and she burst into tears. Oops that was definitely the last thing he expected .He cleared his throat "uhh sorry to break it to you but your parents currently think you died in a car crash while out with your friends and well it would mess up every-thing…" he trailed off when he saw her face she wasn't crying any-more her eyes were filled with such a pure hatred Zac almost flinched. "You didn't" her voice was low but got higher and higher "you didn't , you didn't. My brother died in a car crash when he was twelve I was all they had left and they were finally picking up the pieces of their broken lives and you went and shattered it again you monsters" she said it so bitterly I took and involuntary step back but she didn't seem to notice she just closed her eyes and looked as if she was concentrating deeply.
I closed my eyes after my outburst I needed somewhere t channel my anger but I didn't know where. I used a rather keen sense of mine (I seemed to always be able to find water even with my eyes closed) to find a bottle of water behind one of my kidnappers. I focused on the contents of the bottle and channelled all my anger into it and with a pop the bottle exploded leaving me drained but content. I opened my eyes sleepily and saw my captors for the first time as they had taken my blindfold off. They were a little older than me but that was all I got before I passed out into the darkness once again.