CHAPTER 2: ESCAPED
Clavo had managed to tie her on the machine. No matter how much she fought, he won. Now she was struggling to break free of the tightly bound ropes. He started to unbutton her shirt.
'No. NO! Don't! Please," Calleigh's mind begged. But she couldn't form the words. All she could do was grunt and cry. Then suddenly Clavo fell over and started wrestling…what was he wrestling? He was so close to the machine that she couldn't see. After a few minutes, the man Clavo was wrestling stood up. Clavo on the other hand didn't. The man untied Calleigh. Something was familiar about him, but what? He looked so dirty and he looked like he hadn't eaten enough, not to mention, he looked like he had been beaten a few times. When he got her untied, He drug her below the dirt ground through an almost invisible trap door where five other people were waiting, all of who were dirty, beaten looking, and looked a bit under fed as well. Something was really familiar about them. Something was familiar about ALL of them…ugh…she couldn't figure it out. One of them reminded her of her father while another one (mostly because of hair color) reminded her of Horatio. She didn't have time to think about it beyond that, much less button her shirt up, seeing as she was being pulled through a long underground tunnel. She wanted to ask where they were taking her and who they were but she couldn't from the words. Couldn't make her voice work. This was all happening so fast she didn't have any time to think.
'Umph. What the…? Where did the ladder come from? Aaagh! Stop pushing! I'm going!'
When she had gotten to the top she realized they were going to be walking through another cave-like tunnel. How were they going to see where they were going if they didn't have a flashlight? It would get dark real quick. Fortunately the African American woman had a couple. Once everyone had gotten up, she got pulled through the tunnel for what felt like forever. She didn't know how long they'd been down there before something smelled awful, she felt some liquid around her feet and sounds of the city as well as dawns light started coming through over head grates. They were in a sewer under a city!
'Great. I liked these pair of pants too. At least this gives me a reason to get rid of these shoes.'
Five minutes later, they were climbing out of a man hole that was oddly placed in an alley. Calleigh recognized where they were. The guy that reminded her of Horatio, the man of her dreams, and the guy that attacked Clavo started whispering to each other.
'Where have I heard those voices before,' she wondered. This situation was getting SO irritating. At least she was out of Clavo's hands for now. The man that looked a bit like her father kept staring at her in sort of a loving manner. 'Creepy. Why is he staring at me?' he noticed her glance and looked away. She shivered and walked to the edge of the alley, looking around to see where they were exactly. 'Looks like we never left town.' When she looked back around, everyone was staring at her with a blank 'huh' expression on their faces. Everything got awkward for a minute. Then everyone, with the exception of Calleigh who was still confused, looked at each other. The red head that reminded her of Horatio walked up, to her stood in the same sideways stance Horatio had, got that same look of concern that Horatio had and asked…