Thank you, SibunaMockingjay and believenyourdreems (and everyone I may have missed while writing this chapter) for your encouraging reviews on this story. I appreciate it very much.
This chapter of the story will be about Fabian (Yay!). I felt that I needed his presence to the story, and in this chapter, two other characters will be introduced. I hope you will like it.
Fabian
I was feeling dazed. I did not want to wake up, but something was pulling me. I open my eyes and I realize that I'm in a dark room, and I was strapped to a chair in the middle of the room. I was feeling a little pain on the back of my head, but I did not know why I was feeling that way. I was feeling a little dizzy at first, not being able to focus my eyes anywhere, but then I hear a thud as I think a door was being opened and closed. I weakly lift my head and see a person getting close to me.
He smiled at me, no, grinned at me as he observes me for a moment and then he clears his throat to speak. "Hello, Fabian Rutter. I see that you are awake." I look at the person, whose face I don't recognize, but it looked like he was one of those kinds of people who would hurt you to get what he wanted. "Who are you?", I asked, feeling a little scared of this guy who was looking at me with mischief in his eyes. "You don't want to know who I am, I tell you. Besides, that is not the right question to ask, is it?" This guy is making me a little angry. "What am I doing here?" He smiles at me and replies, "Now that's the right question, and believe me when I tell you the answer. You see, Fabian, you are a very important person to me. I need you here, so I can't let you escape from me. You are that important. If you ever try to escape, you will pay for it with pain, and not just a little pain. It will be a lot of pain. I will promise you that if you dare to escape from this place, I will make you lose your will to live. And to make your suffering worse, I won't let you die. You would need to do that yourself." He smiled at me, and that was when I knew that this was not one of Jerome and Alfie's pranks. I thought of that at first, but now I knew otherwise. He then turns back to the door to leave, and when he was about to close the door behind him, he said, "Your friends will find you very soon. I'm looking forward to the moment they join our little party here." He closes the door behind him with a lot of force, making me jump a bit in the chair I was sitting on.
I stared at the door for a while, waiting for any movement to take place, but there was nothing. The room was quiet, and I started having dark thoughts in my mind.
What if I try to escape? Will I survive? If I decide to stay, what will the guy do to me? What was he talking about, saying that my friends will find me very soon? What has happened to them? What did this guy want from me? If I die, will my friends find me? What if they get hurt? Are they looking for me? Where was this place? There are a lot of things I had going on in my mind, and all I could do is to stare out the door. I was strapped with what seemed to be a modified straitjacket which held my arms away from any object. I could not move very much, so I decided to stay put.
I don't know how I fell asleep, but when I opened my eyes, there was someone in front of me. It was not the same guy. In fact, it wasn't a guy at all. It was a woman, and she was holding what seemed to be food. The woman must have spotted that I was awake, as she walked closer to me.
"You have to eat if you want to live", she motions to the food she was holding. I motion to my hand with my head, at which she nods at me and says, "I know. It's why I'm here. I have to feed you, thanks a lot to my boss who wants to keep you alive and breathing." I had second thoughts about eating the food that was being given to me. After all, these people are the ones who kidnapped me and brought me to this place. "Are you sure that when I eat this, I won't be poisoned or something?" "No, of course not. My boss wants to keep you alive." I had to eat the food. I did not eat for a while, so even though I was in no mood for eating, I had to eat. I was starving.
The woman then proceeded to spoon-feed me. I hated it, but there was nothing I could do. My hands were tied behind me, so I can't really hold the plate or the spoon. She was becoming somewhat frustrated with how slow I was eating, but how could I eat any faster. I was weak, and I did not really have the appetite. She speaks up, "Come on. Eat the food, please. I will be in a lot of trouble if my boss finds out that you are not being treated well, or if you are sick." I saw the scared look she had in her eyes, and the pleading voice made it look as if she was really terrified of the man who came here a while ago. I felt a little sorry for her, so I ate faster than before and made sure that I ate all the food.
"Thank you Fabian, and I'm sorry this happened to you. But I can't let you escape, lest my boss will surely kill me." She leaves me at the room and I was alone again.
Why was this happening to me? What was so special about me that they needed to keep me alive? Who was she? What was I supposed to do now? I continued thinking a lot about everything that happened before I got here. That was when I remembered something. I went out after curfew in Anubis house as I went to take a walk in the woods, then I felt something hit the back of my head. The next thing I remember, I was already here. I had no idea where I was and how long I was out, but I had a feeling it was not that short a time.
That's the end of this chapter. Was it a little underwhelming? I hope not. See you again next chapter.
Any guess who the man and woman are? Please review.