Sorry if my first chapter was disappointing. Four characters in a dark cell is not all that interesting and kind of hard to write. This chapter gets a little more interesting. Disclaimer: I do not own Michael Vey or any of the original characters.

Taylor

"Uh oh," Ian says, "Hatch is back, and he does not look happy."

"The new glow?" McKenna asks.

"Unless Tara did something really, really, stupid. There goes Nichelle, Abi?"

"On it," she says, and runs over and catches me as the first attack came. Even with Abi helping, I remember lasting only five minutes before I pass out.

A half an hour later I wake up with the worst headache I've had since Abi came here.

"How are you doing?" Ian asks. I try to sit up, but fall on my back.

"My head," I manage to say. Abi comes over and helps me sit up, while McKenna gets me a glass of water.

A few minutes later, Nichelle resumes her attack on the new girl, and I got caught in the crossfire, again.

I woke up sometime later to the sound of someone crying. "I want to go home," I hear her say.

"I know," Ian says. "Be still. I'm not going to hurt you.

"Please don't hurt me," she says.

"I won't hurt you, Taylor. I'm a friend."

"You know my name."

"Yes."

"My name is Ian."

"You're one of them," she says.

"I am one of you, not them." Ian reassures her.

"Where are we?"

"We're on Level D. This is where they put the disobedient ones. We call it Purgatory."

"Who's 'we'?"

"There are four of us who won't obey Hatch. Five, counting you. So what did you do? Or I should ask, what didn't you do?"

"Hatch wanted me to cause an accident at the motorcycle show. I could have killed the rider."

"That's one of Hatch's tricks."

"Tricks?"

"First he tries to buy you. He makes you feel obligated so he can manipulate you by guilt. If you're stronger than that, he tries to get you to do something wrong. Something small at first, then he increases it. Once you cross the line, he has you. He will hold it over you forever and he keeps upping the ante. You're lucky you're down here. Because if you were still up there, you'd be a murderer."

"My sister Tara's not a murderer."

"Yes she is. Tara, Bryan, Zeus, Quintin, Grace, Kylee, Nichelle, Tanner. They've all sold out. That's why they're up there, and we're down here."

"She's my sister."

"She's your twin," Ian said.

I closed my eyes. Images from my past flying past my eyes. Hospital visit after visit. My sister starting at the Academy, Hatch taking me away.

I opened them again.

"How long have you been here?" I hear Taylor ask.

"Three years."

I could hear her cry, "I can't do it."

"You can, you're stronger than you think you are."

Abi and McKenna come over and help me up.

"I want to introduce you to the others," Ian says.

"There're others here?"

"Like I said, there're four of us."

"That's McKenna,"

"Hi," McKenna says as she nods.

"Hi"

"And Kate,"

"Hey," I say weakly.

"And that's Abigail."

"Hello," Taylor says.

Abi and McKenna help me sit down and Abi kneels next to Taylor. "Hi Taylor. I'm going to touch you" she says softly. "It won't hurt. I promise."

While Abi helps Taylor, McKenna helps me back down and I fall asleep before my head hits the floor.

I hope you are enjoying this. My updates will probably not be consistent or quick. I will try keep a few chapters ahead in case I hit writer's block or another story takes over my brain. I WILL NOT FORGET ABOUT YOU! R&R The next chapter will come out after 8 reviews. I hate to do this but I would really like to see some.