Chapter 10
"I didn't mean to hurt you." Patrick dared to speak again, gently grabbing boy's shoulders and pulling his now sobbing form in embrace. "Just calm down. You're safe with me." Jane kept talking soothingly to the young man.
Slowly after a while kid calmed down. But somehow his breathing didn't sound well.
He hadn't spoke since Jane's soothing but something seemed off.
"Hey, you ok?" he asked, sounding worried.
For a moment there wasn't reaction, then the boy moved.
"Hurts." was all he managed to choke out before harsh coughing fit erupted from him. All Patrick could do was to rub circles on the man's back until he stopped coughing and only the sound of wheezing, fast breathing echoed in the dark place.
After some more time a weak voice suddenly spoke slightly above whisper, "I'm Anthony, possibly not entirely human or a human with non-human abilities. I can levitate myself and other things. I'm capable of moving objects with my thoughts. And I really hope we're still in Honolulu otherwise I'm in deep trouble." Anthony's breath hitched again as he finished. It was obviously huge strain to him. His body got more slumped against Patrick's and it worried the older man. The boy's story didn't made much sense but more confusing was that he appearantly thought they were in Hawaii. And now Jane had to break the news...
"Uh, well, I'm Patrick, work for CBI. And I wasn't in Honolulu. Sacramento, California, it was. And probably we're still preferably close to that."
"What?" Anthony cried out desperately, swiftly jumping up from the floor but didn't get anywhere far. Appearantly sudden change of body position had brought some dizzy spell because Anthony slumped back down on the floor with a weak, pained gasp.
"Just carefully, Anthony." Patrick said, taking over his comforting task. Maybe this kid was hurt just little more than it had appeared by first look.