Chapter 19

Are We Doing The Right Thing?

Solomon's POV

It's been a week since Cammie was found.

A week since Bex and Macey were taken.

A week since Cammie has withdrawn further and further into herself. She doesn't talk to anyone, not even Zach.

She refuses to move, to eat and drink, refuses to do anything.

The only thing she says is, "It was all my fault. It was all my fault."

The burns on her arms and stomach have become infected but she wont let anyone treat them.

I am 100% certain that she is suffering from PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

She doesn't let anyone near her for a long period of time. The longest anyone has been in the room with her in the last week was 25 minutes.

And that was only because Liz blatantly refused to leave the room.

I have never been this worried about her before, never.

Not when she first found out Chris wasn't coming back, not when she was on the roof in Boston and not even when she was almost taken in Washington.

All of these times she seemed that she was able to bounce back.

I guess this was one thing too many. There is only so much a teenage girl can take before they break.

We may be able to teach them fourteen different languages, to give them every self defence move known to man kind and how to create an antidote to poisons but all of that only goes so far.

We can't keep them safe all the time. We can't tell them everything they will most likely face in their careers.

We can show them everything in theory but that is nothing compared to the real thing.

We teach them to refine their minds so that they can remember everything they are presented with until they have an almost photographic memory.

Sometimes it is better not to remember.

From what I have heard Cammie has been having nightmares and waking up screaming nearly every night. She has seen so much already in such a short amount of time and thanks to us she can remember everything in perfect detail.

Cammie may be a legacy but she has been thrown into terrifying reality too many times before she was fully prepared. She has seen things that a girl should never have had to see. She has felt pain that many people can't even imagine.

Nothing can fully prepare you for that.

You can be given information, you can be told exactly what you will be dealing with but you can't be sure how you will react until the danger is staring you in the face.

I have seen the best of people go to pieces in a situation like Cammie's.

You can only expect so much of a person.

Maybe we are putting too much on these girls?

Are we really doing the right thing?

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A/N ok I know it is kinda short but I needed to have it in there. The next few chapters will be everyone's thoughts about this and then it gets back into the main plot.

Hope you enjoyed Solomon's POV.

Please R&R