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Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine

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Chapter 18: Arms of the Ocean Deliver Me

I slowly awoke from another dark sleep. After I talked to Cross, I wanted nothing to do except wish for everything to disappear in a long sleep. I would wake up once in a while. My eyes would open to see Noah watching me from the lab table and then they would open again. I could see Connors in his lizard form dragging something.

I was now dead asleep. Dreaming of nothing except being with my family and Peter again. All of us...being happy and then...I heard a whisper of my name.

"Anna" Someone whispered. My eyes fluttered open but I would then fall back asleep. "Psst! Annabelle. Please, wake up"

This time, the voice sounded familiar and it gave me the energy to open my eyes and look up at the person who was whispering my name. My eyes fluttered open again and this time, I focused on keeping them wide open. I tilted my head up to see a blue and red object sitting in a car across from me.

I closed my eyes hard again and then re-opened them to see the face on the body.

"Peter!" I yelled in shock.

"Sh!" Peter hushed me as he gave me a smile. "Yeah, its me"

"I thought they went to kill you?"

Peter let out a chuckle. "Not yet," he then scoped out the lab we were in. "Where are we?"

"The sewers," I said. "At least, that what I think"

"Of coarse. Connors old lab"

"Well, no time to sit a chat," I said. "Please, Pete, get me out of here. The cables are starting to hurt my wrists"As I said that, I started shaking the cables around my hands.

Peter looked at me with gilts written all over his face.

"Anna...I wish I could but," Peter then violently started shaking his hands that were wrapped around cables that were wrapped around the chair he was in. "I'm stuck too"

A gasp escaped from my mouth but I tried to hold it in. I then started crying.

"Hey, hey," Peter said in a comforting tone. "It's ok. I'll think of something"

"How?" I asked in disbelief. "How are you going to, Peter? Your stuck in that chair and I'm stuck in here? How are you going to save us? What are you going to do, flash the Batman signal into the sky and hope Batman and the Justice Team come and save us? We're stuck!" I yelled as I started shaking the cables that were wrapped around my wrist.

I gave up after a could tried and then hung my head. Staring down at my pink toes that still hanged over top the rushing water. I then felt a tear roll down my face and then another and more a more came out of my face and I began to sob.

"I'm never getting home" I whispered and continued to sob

"Hey, Hey, Hey," Peter began to whisper to me. "Look at me," I didn't. "Annabelle, please look at me," I slowly rose my head up and looked into those beautiful hazel eyes. "I'm going to get us out of here. I don't know how, but I'll find a way. I promise"

I slowly nodded. Knowing, by Peter's word, he would try fighting. I then hung my head back down, waiting.

What felt like hours later, came foot steps from a distance. By way those heals hit the hard cement floor, I knew exactly who it was that was coming.

"Rise and shine, sleepy heads!" Cross blasted from the top of her lungs as she walked into our prison.

I slowly raised my head to see Cross, Connors and Noah walk into the room. Connors limping with every walk in and Noah has a nice shot gun wrapped around his greedy little figures. I glared at the three as they stood there in front of Peter and I and Dr. Cross noticed. She gave me a smirk.

"Aw, don't be like that Anna," she said through her thick accent. "You'll soon be begging me for your life in a couple minutes"

Noah popped his head up and glared daggers at the doctor.

"Excuse me?" he asked in an unpleasant tone.

"Oh," Dr. Cross turned around and gave the poor boy her plastic smile. "I mean...her pretty little boyfriend will"

She turned back around to Peter and I and started to roll her eyes.

I felt the fear fill up in my eyes and I snapped my head towards Peter who did the same.

I've never seen Peter like this. Scared. He wasn't suppose to be scared. He's fuckingSpider-Man!

Peter keep that look on his for a couple more seconds before shaking his head and glaring at the trio.

"Why are you doing this to us?!" Peter screamed at her as he started to try to break free from the cables. It scared me a bit. I've never seen Peter this angry before.

Dr. Cross stared chucking as she had her hands on her hips.

"You'll see in a couple minutes, Parker," she then turned around and walked back to the lab table where Connors and Noah were standing around. "Noah, darling"

Noah looked up at the doctor. "Yes, ma'am?"

"I want you to go keep watch upstairs on the streets. No doubt her daddy," she said as she gestured to me with her hands. "Has got the those police fools looking for his precious little daughter all thanks to Spidey, here, and that blonde bomb shell, Stacy"

"Will do" Noah said.

He glanced at me one last time before turning around and walking away from the lab with his shot gun still armed. I watched him walk down the hall before disappearing from my sight.

"The love sick fool," I looked over at Cross who was now looking at Connors. "He's going to get his greedy little hands wrapped around this red rose that all he's going to get is some thrones into his heart"

Connors gave her a grin.

"Would you like me to dispose of him?" Connors asked.

"No. I only want you," she said as she walked up to him and dug her index finger into his chest. "To kill one person and that will not be him. Now, get Parker over here"

She then started playing with the chemicals on the table. Connors turned back to us and transformed into his lizard form, walking over and picking up Peter by his arms and placing him on a table. Strapping his hands and feet to the table.

"Now, time to play doctor," Cross said with a grin. She then reached over to grab something from the table and then let out a loud sigh. "Damn it!" she smashed her fist into the table.

"What's wrong?" Connors asked through his raspy voice.

"I forgot the god damn supplies in the car," she then smashed her fist again into the table. "I was so eager to see if you actually caught Parker that I forgot," she then turned and glared at Connors. "I'll go get it" she said as she started walking down the hall.

"And what shall I do, ma'am?"

She turned back around and looked at Connors for a second. "Get the machine ready"

He nodded as she turned back around and slowly walked back down the hall, eventually she diapered from my sight. Dr. Connors turned and looked at Peter and I.

"You two just sit tight," he said. "And don't try anything"

He then turned to another room and disappeared into it leaving Peter and I all alone.

I let out a sigh as I hung my head and looked one more time at the cabled wrapped around my wrists.

"I'm sorry again, Peter. I...Th...This is all my fault" I whispered

"No," don't say that. We're going to get out of here" Peter said.

"How?" I asked, now looking over at Peter still on the lab table.

Peter looked at me with that famous smirk of his. "Like this"

Peter then shot a web out of his wrist and latched onto a surgical knife that laid on the table across from him and shot it back into his hands. He then slowly cut himself out and freed his right hand and did that same with his other hand and his feet. Tears started pouring down my face"

"Oh my god" I said quietly, not wanting to get anyone's attention. "Peter. I can't believe you did it."

Peter gave me one last smirk before grabbing the Spider-Man mask that laid on the same table the tools were on and putting it on.

"Now, lets get you out of her, Ms. Jamison," Peter said as he ran up to me and starting getting the cabled off my hands and feet. Once my libs were free, I almost wanted to scream in excitement as I fell into Peter's arms. The feeling of being free again could never be explained in words.

"Annabelle, listen to me, ok," Peter said as he grabbed hold of my face and made me look into those glassy yellow eyes. "I need to take care of Connors and Cross, ok," he then turned my body towards an escape down a long narrow hall. It almost looked like the one from my dream. "You just run straight now there and never look back, you understand me?" I nodded quickly, shivering. "You get help down here, I'll meet you when this is all over, understand?" I nodded again.

"Alright, now go!" He then pushed me towards the exit and I started running.

I ran and kept running. Hearing the pitter patter of my feet hit the wet concrete floor below me. Hearing the rushing water beside me as I ran. I slipped a couple times but that didn't stop me. I felt my head spin a big too, feeling a bit of deja vu run through my head. I shook the feeling and ran harder and harder as I felt a smile on my face as I got closer and closer to the exit.

Then, out of no where, a tall green figure stood in front of me and I stopped, making me fall on my arse and slid across the floor, only to stop a few inches away from him.

Connors gave me a grin as he looked down at my shivering body.

"Going somewhere?"

I panicked. Wanting to scream at the top of my lungs as I tried to get away from him. I screamed to get up. Scratching at the grounds trying to get away from him but he grabbed my bare leg and dragged me back towards him. I started kicking, wanting his scaly hands off my body but Connors wouldn't let go.

Once I got closer, Connors grabbed me by my throat and held me up to the sky as I started gasping for air.

"Why do you have to make things so difficult. As stupid as you are, you still try to get away. You still try to-"

A rock was then thrown at Connors head. Connors blinked his amber eyes a bit before turning towards the direction the rock came from. I turned and felt my eyes open wide. Noah stood there, madder than ever.

"Hey!" Noah yelled at Connors. "I thought we made a deal?! You weren't suppose to hurt, Annabelle"

Connors let out a sigh as he glared at Noah.

"Don't you get it, boy?" Connors asked in his raspy voice. "You were played. We only use you to get to Parker. Don't you feel foolish now?"

Noah glared at Connors for a second before giving him a grin.

"Don't you? For giving me a shot gun" Noah then raised his shot gun and fired at at Connor's face.

Connors screamed in pain and dropped me as he brought his hands up to his face.

I hit the hard cold ground with a thud. Scraping my hands and legs. Noah then ran up to me and grabbed onto me.

"Come on," he said. "Lets get out of here"

We then started running the other direction. I started running faster than Noah, not wanting Connors to come back to get us. Sure enough, we heard a dreadful cry coming from behind us that motivated me more.

"When we get to the exit," Noah started saying as we ran. "Don't wait for me, just go and get help"

I turned and glared at Noah. "I wasn't going to wait!" I yelled back at him.

Noah turned and looked back at the path ahead. "I did this for you," He said. "This was all for you"

I turned and looked at him with sympathy in my eyes. I knew that. I truly did but Noah knew that we were never going to work after what happened between us. Especially after this.

Noah then turned back ahead. "Shit!"

I looked back and saw Cross standing in front of us. Noah and I stopped dead in our tracks as she stood there. With a hand on her hip, gun in the other hand and a smirk plastered all over her face.

"Well, well, what do we have here?"

Noah and I turned around but then, there Connors stood, just healing up from the gun shot. Noah and I turned back to face Cross. Noah moved in closer to me and wrapped his arms around me, placing his hands on my head. I didn't move once inch or push Noah off. I don't know if it was the fear that was racing through my body or that I was just too exhausted to even move.

"Noah, Noah, Noah," Cross said as she stepped closer towards us. "What is this? What have you betrayed us?"

"Betrayed you? You betrayed me! He tried to hurt Annabelle!" Noah screamed at her as he pointed to the big green monster behind us.

Cross looked up at Connors before looking down back at Noah and I. "Why, Cross, you made a deal"

"Oh, I did make a deal...with Connors. I made a deal that I would do anything to get his revenge...even if it meant killing anyone in my path"

My eyes opened in fear.

"But..."

"Sorry, Noah"

Cross then pointed the gun at Noah's chest and fired, causing the bullet to fire into his chest and his blood to spatter all over me.

"Noah!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as he fell to the ground below me. I looked up at the doctor who now was smirking at the dead body. "You bitch!"

I ran up to her but Connors grabbed onto my arms and pulled me back.

"Don't think I forgot about you, missy!" Cross screamed at me. "You and your family have been a pain in my ass since you're mom walked through my office door!" She screamed at me as she walked up to me, pointing the gun as my head. "Once I'm done with you," she now whispered. "I'm going to use this same gun to fire a bullet through you're sister's head too," I glared at her as she smirked back at me. "Goodbye, Annabelle"

Just as Cross was about to pull the trigger, a web shot out and pulled the gun out of Cross' hand and threw it on the ground beside her. Cross then looked up and then Peter jumped her and threw her aside. He then shot the webs at Connors face, blinding him. Connors let go of me as he tried getting the stuff off his face.

I ran into Peter as Peter pushed me towards the exit in front of us. "Get out and get help!" Peter yelled at me.

"But-"

"Now!"

All of a sudden, a bullet hit the wall beside us and we saw Cross standing there with a gun in her hands. Peter than jumped into the air and starting fighting off Cross. I did as Peter said and started climbing up the exit. I was almost there until I heart he roar of the Lizard echo through the sewers. I turned and saw Connors run up towards Peter and then began to fight him off. I felt awful standing there and watching. As the Lizard fought off Peter and Cross waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger.

Connors pinned Peter down on the ground. Peter laid there, unable to move. Dr. Cross slowly walked up to Peter and smirked as she pointed her gun at Peter. Without hesitation, I went against Peter's wishes and ran up to Cross pushing her to the ground, causing a bullet to lodge into the concrete floor. Peter then freed himself and fought the Lizard again.

There Cross and I were, fighting on the ground, trying to reach for the gun. I finally kicked Cross off, almost causing her to go off the edge, into the waters below us. I finally wrapped my hands around the gun and stood up only to have her jump me and try to take the gun away from me.

She tried pushing the gun back towards me so she could get her shot but I tried to push back. With all my strength and kept pushing and pushing until my index finger pushed on the trigger and then I was now covered in her blood. Her neck was now gushing blood and she then placed her left hand on her neck as she sank her knees into the ground.

I stood there in shock as my hands were still wrapped around the gun. I shook in fear as I stared down at her.

Cross looked up at me and glared. "You-Yo-You-"

Her eyes then slowly close as she fell back to the ground. She was dead...I...I killed her. I felt a sob escape from my throat and the tears pour down my eyes as I stared down at the gun. I couldn't believe I just did that. I...I...I Annabelle Jamison just killed a person.

I didn't have enough time to think before a painful scream brought my attention back to the fight between Peter and the Lizard. I watched as Peter's body smashed against the wall and then him laying there unconscious.

"Peter" I whispered.

Dr. Connors then looked over at me and the dead Dr. Cross' body. He stared at her body for a couple of seconds before looking over and glaring at me.

"You" he then stomped towards me.

"Stay back you bastard!" I screamed at him as I started firing the gun at him but it was no use. Connors just walked it off.

He then hit my hand, causing the gun to go flying through the air and then grabbed onto my throat again.

"She was going to bring me victory. I was going to rise again. You took away my chance...and now," he then gave me a smirk. "I'm going to take away your life"

I tried shaking my head. "No, please"

Without hesitation, Connors threw me into the air and into the icy cold waters below me. I tried grabbing onto something but there was nothing for me to grab onto. I tried using the only energy I had left but it was no use, the current kept pulling me and pulling me deeper and deeper into the abyss...and there I was.

Deep into the icy cold water, sinking deeper and deeper. The air slowly fading away from my lungs. The darkness overcoming me. I took my one last look at life before my eyes close and a blast of light overcame me.

I, Annabelle Jamison...was dead