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Chapter 18 - Losing Hope

"So m' lovely," Lukas' smooth voice startled Will out of his thoughts. "How do we want to start today?"

A cold chill hit Will as he once again remembered the night before.

Lukas saw Will stiffen and briefly saw the flash of fear in his eyes before it was buried. Will was determined not to let Lukas know how much he got to him, how scared he really was.

Slowly the man walked around behind Will.

"We did some good damage yesterday, hey m' lovely?"

Will didn't answer.

Lukas sighed thoughtfully, "We're going to have a special guest today." He walked back to face the apprentice. "I think you know him well. He's your mentor."

Will's heart stopped, what? Halt had been caught too? No, no, no, no, no, no, no...

Lukas watched as the words sunk in, he saw Will begin to shake his head, muttering under his breath.

"Oh yes my dear Will, Joel should be back around midday with him. Also that other annoying one, what's his name?"

No, not Gilan too. Please not him...

"Gilan! That's the one," Lukas said triumphantly remembering the name.

Will's heart sank, he just wanted to melt away and sink into the ground. Be gone from all this torture forever...

He heard it before he felt it. Being so caught up in his thoughts Will hardly noticed Lukas get...something. It wasn't a rod, it felt different, too soft. But quite frankly Will didn't care what it was, it caused pain and it was in Lukas' hands.

And that was a bad combination, especially for Will.

This was indeed a rare occasion. Morgarath was, worried was not the word, more annoyed to say the least. But it was slightly deeper than that. After years of watching and waiting he finally had his chance to take revenge on Halt and really he had got it already, but Morgarath wanted more. He wanted to see Halt suffer at the suffering of his apprenitce and possibly his former apprentice too.

But something had gone wrong. In all the years Joel had been working for Morgarath he had never one been late, not by ten minutes, not by ten seconds. He always arrived when he said he was going to. After thinking on it for a while Morgarath did admit he expected Joel to be a little late with Halt, it was Halt after all. But this was too long. Three hours! It wasn't right.

So the Lord of Rain and Night was considerably annoyed.

"Lukas!" he yelled.

A man popped his head through the tent flaps. "My Lord?"

"Go and get me Lukas, now!"

Will was almost comatose. His head rolling from one side to the other, his arms were holding all his weight after his good leg gave way beneath him. He had just survived another of Lukas' beatings. Just.

If it had continued any longer Will would have been dead, well at least that's what he thought. Just when Will believed he wouldn't be able to go on Lukas stopped. Vaguely he remembered someone talking to him then Lukas said something along the lines of: "Be back soon m' lovely" and then left.

It was starting to get to him. The physical torture, the mental torture, the never ending worrying and being on his guard and now to add to all that Halt and Gilan could soon be enduring the same thing. No, it was all too much. Tears began to leak down Will's face, leaving tracks in the mixture of mud, blood and sweat. They would be the last tears Will cried for some time. They were tears for what had happened and what was to come.

Will was scared and his fear was beginning to blind him from his sense. And what made it even worse...

The fear was increasing.

"You sent for me my Lord?" Lukas' voice, although still smooth, was slighlty uncertain.

"Something is wrong." Morgarath's voice sharply cut through the air like an icy dagger. "Joel is not back yet."

"My Lord, perhaps he is just late?"

"You know Joel, since when is he late?"

Lukas thought for a moment. "Perhaps you a right my Lord. What do you want me to do?"

"Have you told the boy yet?"

"Yes my Lord, earlier this morning."

Morgarath's lips curled into a devious snarl. "Good, go back and tell him they have arrived. Tell him that he cannot see them and they are going through the same thing as him."

Lukas grinned evilly too.

"The thought of it will break him," Lukas sneered and Morgarath finished the thought.

"And when Halt finally sees him it will break him too."

"I can't believe you talked me into this Gilan," Halt said quietly.

The two Rangers were preparing to ride out with the Unit again, this time together.

They were riding out after Joel. After having absolutely no luck questioning the man Gilan convinced Halt to let him escape. Joel would obviously go back to Morgarath's camp and they would follow him.

Halt only hoped he wasn't too late for Will.

kk...so that was it...I know its only short but two short chappies in a row equal one big chappie right??...anyways....I would write more but its 8min to midnight and Im slightly tired....so Im gonna go to bed now...well after I finished watching this movie....21...its good...Ive seen it before...anyways...

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