It's been a while and I'm sorry. It's been really hard to think of how I wanna move this story forward.

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Robbie matched Andre's step for step which resulted in them circling each other. Both wanted to avoid making a move to attack the other.

"I'm not going to fight you, Andre." Robbie announced to his friend. The morning sun blinded him as he came to a stop causing Andre to stop also.

Andre moved a little until Robbie could see him properly. "Pretend we're back at home. It's only sparing, Robbie." Andre had no idea how Robbie and Beck had gotten themselves into this mess but he was sure it had something to do with him.

"But…"

"I thought I told you to spar… I don't remember saying dance." They both shot a glance towards the annoyed Jade and the nervous Tori.

"Come on, man." Andre announced quickly. "Tori's nice… her sister not really. I don't wanna make her angry. I'm not going to attack you unless you fight back… you already suck at it." Andre was worried about his skinny friend who was more of a planner then a fighter. The brains of the group so to speak, and he had always gone easy on him in sparing back home but if ordered he wasn't really sure if he could disobey not going all out.

"Fine…" Robbie huffed.

Andre took a wide but heavy swing at him and Robbie quickly ducked out of the way. Robbie was surprised his friend had actually put his full power into it. If he hadn't moved he would have been unconscious. He barely moved out of the way of another powerful punch that landed on his shoulder and spun him around and made him stumble backwards.

Wincing he blocked a kick headed towards his mid-section, but wasn't as lucky for the one that hit his head. He landed on the ground with a bone cracking thud. Another foot landed harshly against his side, it wasn't at full strength so no ribs were broken. He was able to roll out of the way of another blow and was quick enough to get on his feet again.

A little unstable Robbie quickly put a lot of space between himself and Andre his hand to his side. As Andre attacked again Robbie used his only one up on Andre, and that is speed.

He quickly ducked under Andre's arm he threw a leg up connecting with Andre's abdomen making him stumble backwards. Then he used his elbow to smash against Andre's face. The bigger boy was only momentarily stunned as he quickly recovered tackling Robbie.

They rolled around for a bit exchanging blows. It wasn't long before Andre was on top of Robbie one hand around the curly haired boy's neck, the other reared back into a fist ready to finish Robbie.

"Enough!" Jade's yell echoed, and Andre instantly froze. Adrenaline quickly seeped from his body leaving the young man horrified at what he had done to his friend. He quickly got from atop him his bloody hands shaking. He felt a breeze blow by him as Tori checked on the conscious but haggard breathing Robbie.

"I'm sorry man." Andre mumbled.

"Are you alright?" Tori asked Robbie who gave her a strange look with his one good eye.

He coughed and groaned holding his side. "No I'm fine…" His tone was laced with sarcasm and they all caught it. Tori looked sheepish, Andre looked troubled, and Jade made a sound of amusement?

They all turned to look at her all taking note of the amused smirk on her face. "You'll get used to her and her dumb questions…" She announced simply. Her eyes slid to Andre, "let's go." She began walking away back towards the house; Andre followed a moment later shooting Robbie one last glance of remorse.

"She's in a good mood." Tori mumbled to herself, watching her sister walk away. She turned to look Robbie. "Can you walk?" The male was already rising to his feet; he lightly stumbled before catching his footing. "I guess so…"

They took another path back inside one that would go by the wooden stake. Robbie limped behind the girl, his eyes widened when they fell on Beck who was chained to a stake like an animal. Beck's skin was an inflamed red and his head was bowed and his shoulders slumped, and he looked unconscious.

Anger and guilt filled Robbie's gut as he looked at his comrade and leader look so… defeated. His angry eyes turned to look towards Tori only to find the girl gone, his eyes darted around the yard finding the Tori returning from inside the building a cup in her hand. He watched as the female approached his friend – he was certain she was breaking a rule here. His eyes widened when Beck batted the cup away from him, hitting it out of her hand making the liquid pour out mudding the brown dirt it wetted. Tori barely seemed effected by his obvious show of disrespect as she quickly picked the cup up again and returned inside coming out again. This repeated three more times before the girl approached him with the cup.

"He needs to drink it." Tori told him simply handing the cup to him. He nodded weakly, slightly surprised and not really sure how to think. He approached his friend bending down to his level though his body protested it.

"You have to drink it, Beck." His friend's head shot up at hearing his voice.

"W-what," he coughed his voice rough. "What happened to you?"

Robbie grinned sheepishly. "Andre beat me up." He then shoved the cup into Beck's face. "Are you going to drink it?"

Beck took the cup with a blistered hand and took slow thoughtful sips. "He's alright…?" He asked between drinks.

Robbie nodded. "The one in the black cloak has him. He looks fine though, a little thin…" Robbie glanced behind him towards Tori who was watching patiently. He lowered his voice. "I think you should play along until we can find a way out of here."

Beck looked physically sick with the idea. "You mean eat when they tell me to eat, fight when they tell me to fight, following them around – act like a dog?"

"Yeah," Robbie answered honestly. "We can't get out of here if they kill you."

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