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Chapter 10

I felt the sunlight on my face. I was starting to wake up. I didn't want to. I rolled over. I stopped. I wasn't on the ground. I was on a flat surface. The events from last night came rushing back.

The van. The rocks. Alex. Alex!

I didn't move realization hit me. I had been unconscious. I was on a sort of bed. No. No! This couldn't happen. Had the seekers caught us? What happen? Where were Alex, Dan and Sandra? I was about to be erased?

I felt two hands grip my shoulders. I screamed. My eyes flew open and I made a grab for my knife in its sheath. It wasn't there. Well, I wasn't about to go down without a fight. My attacker spun me around to face him. It was Alex and he was human.

"Alex?" I was cut off when he pulled me into a tight embrace. He rested his chin on the top of my head before he pulled away from me keeping his hands on my shoulders.

"Amy, you're safe now. Nothing will hurt you. Wait, are you hurt? Are you okay?"

"Alex. What?" I asked exasperated.

"Are you okay?" he repeated. I processed his words. I remembered getting rammed into the wall. I checked my shoulder. There wasn't even a scratch. I swung my arm in a circle. It felt fine.

"How?" I asked staring mouth open at him.

"Long story. Oh Amy, I'm so sorry for slamming you into the wall, it was so stupid of me. I was trying to push you into the crevice, but I guess I failed. Huh?"

"Why were you trying to push me into the crack? And while you're at it, where are we?" I asked taking in my surroundings. We were in a cave that was lighted by sunlight coming from holes in the ceiling. It had cots in it and a desk at one end of the room.

"Amy," he began, taking me by the hands and sitting me down with him on one of the cots in the room. "Amy, I shoved you in the wall because I didn't want you in the fight."

"But why? I may not be as good as you o-"

"No Amy. Not because of that."

A/N: This was another short chapter. My life is so screwed up right now. Well one of by BFFs got back today from a long vacation so YEY! I sent an email to the person in charge of movies over here asking when Twilight would get here. All I got back was a Nasty-Gram saying "Blah blah blah. We don't know if we will get Twilight or not so don't ask." I felt totally unloved after that. Mean person. Also I won't get to see Twilight till after Christmas or I'm going to have to watch it dubbed in Spanish which won't be any good at all. So that's my sob story.