Hey everyone. Thank you all who have been reviewing! Hopefully more of you will review (Hint Hint J) I hope you like the chapter. I want to clarify when this takes place in case it's been a little confusing. It takes place after Chloe transforms, but in my version I have kept Scarface. Also it takes place before the finale and Dogs of War (Little spoiler, I am thinking about bringing back Jackals). Chloe has only died once. Oh, and sadly I do not own the Nine Lives of Chloe King.
"Chloe King where have you been!" Amy shouted in the phone. Alek and Jasmine went into their rooms, probably eavesdropping, when I was still in the living room considering how I wasn't able to walk well. I was supposed to meet her over an hour ago. We were going to have dinner together with Paul.
"Amy I am so sorry. Something came up." I can't believe I forgot about our dinner. Well I guess it wasn't like I had a choice, but it still made me a pretty bad friend.
"What do you mean? What came up? Are you okay?" I sighed and told her part of the story about what happened. There was no point to freak her out so much. "Are you okay? How bad is your leg? How long are you going to have to stay at Valentina's? What-" I cut her off from all of her questions.
"I'm fine. My leg will be healed soon. I have no clue how long I'm going to stay here. All Valentina said that I had to stay here until its safe."
"They can't keep you there forever." Amy pouted. It does ruin our plans of our sleepover and dinner tonight.
"Try telling them that." I scoffed. "There was no way they are going to let me leave their apartment now."
"Then it's settled. We'll be there in twenty." Wait, she was going to come here? To Valentina's apartment? That really doesn't sound like a good plan.
"Amy I don't think-" I tried to say but got cut off by the dial tone. Well this should be interesting. I don't know why she thinks it is a good idea for them to come over to the apartment, but Amy was Amy. She doesn't ever change her mind when she comes up with a plan.
"Amy and Paul are coming over then?" Alek asked me as he walked back into the room. I thought he would be angry that they were coming over here, or a little annoyed, but instead he seemed like he was happy they were coming.
"Yes, eavesdropper, they are coming over here." He gave me one of his famous smirks that always seem to get on my nerves. "Do you mind?"
"Nope, not at all." He really doesn't mind that Paul is coming over? The same Alek who thought that Paul was one of the most annoying person ever?
"Amy and Jasmine are coming over here?" Jasmine asked us. "Sweet. That should be fun. I've wanted to ask Amy to help pick out an outfit for my date with Derek."
"You were supposed to go on a date tonight with Derek." I remembered. "I'm so sorry that I ruined it. Maybe you could still go catch a movie or something."
"Don't worry about it Chloe. We rescheduled for Sunday. Besides, you heard my mom; we aren't allowed to leave the apartment. Anyways, I thought we broke up after I found him cheating on me." She joked, trying to lighten the mood.
We heard a knock at the door. "I'll go get it." Jasmine told us. A second later Amy and Paul walked in holding two large pizzas.
"We thought you might be hungry, so we brought a large cheese and a large meat lover's pizza. But it looks like you are already full on ice cream." Amy told us. I looked down on the coffee table and saw my uneaten ice cream next to Alek's. Amy came over to me and gave me an awkward side ways hug. Luckily she knew not to bring up today's events.
Alek went to take care of the ice cream dishes and grab some paper plates for the pizza. When he returned, he saw that we were debating over what movie to watch. It appeared to be a decision between The Terminator and 27 Dresses. Amy and Jasmine wanted 27 Dresses, I was undecided, and Paul was for the Terminator.
"I'm going to go grab something to drink. Anybody want something?" I asked and they all shook their heads. As soon as I stepped up, my leg gave out and I fell back onto the couch.
"Smart," He smirked as he walked over to the couch. "I'll go get you a drink while you stay here." I took a few deep breaths, trying to breathe through the pain.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked me.
"Fine," I said while ignoring the throbbing pain of my right foot, "Just feeling very stupid." Alek came back carrying two cokes. He handed me one before sitting down.
"As you should." He said. I tried to whack him but he was lucky that he sat far enough out where I couldn't reach him. "So what's the verdict? What are we watching?"
"27 Dresses, I think we've had enough action for one day." Jasmine put in the movie and pushed play. The pizza's were gone within twenty minutes, but I didn't even manage to finish up half of a slice. My stomach was still in knots, making it near impossible to keep anything down.
"Are you all done?" Amy asked as she was gathering up the plates. When I nodded she frowned but didn't say anything.
I felt so exhausted from today, that about halfway through the movie, I felt myself nodding off to sleep. I almost fell asleep on the couch when I felt someone picking me up.
"Let's get you to bed." The British accent smugly whispered.
"I can walk to the guest bedroom myself." I said even though it was the last thing I wanted to do.
"Yeah, because that worked out so well last time." Alek laughed. "You might want to wait until tomorrow to start walking again." He gently put me on the bed, but instead of leaving, he sat on it. I groaned and turned sideways, facing away from him. "You could've been killed today."
"But I wasn't so just let it go and let me sleep." I groaned.
"You have to be more careful with your lives." He continued as if I never talked. "You have to stay in the apartment. No going out of it. Valentina knows what she's talking about when she says it's dangerous."
"Where would I go?"
"Just promise me Chloe. You won't leave this apartment until Valentina gives you permission and you have protection with you. " At this point I turned around and faced him, sadly with my eyes open.
"Really Alek?"
"Please just promise me. You won't leave the apartment."
"Just please, promise me." He said before I could say anything else. I couldn't believe that he was trying to get me to promise. That was going a little far.
"I promise that I wont leave the apartment until Valentina says that it's safe." He stared at me for a little bit before realizing that that's all he was going to get from me.
Alek brushed back some of my hair on my face. "I'll let you get some sleep."
"Alek," He turned around to face me. "Thank you for tonight. I don't want to think about what would've happened if you didn't show up."
"That makes it two or three times that I saved your life?" He smirked. It only took a few minutes after he left before I fell asleep. Unfortunately my sleep didn't last as long as I wanted it to.
I was running through the tree's again, the branches were scratching against my arms as I pushed past them to continue running. My breath was ragged, and I was slowing down. I didn't know how much longer I could keep it up, but the people in black hoods continued to chase me, so I continued to run.
I finally ran into the parking lot of Coit Tower, a place where there were other people, a place that I might be safe at. As fast as I could, I ran past the cars in the parking lot and into the building. When I glanced back, I saw the people in the hoods running past each other, trying to figure out where I ran to. I didn't dare hesitate too long, just incase they figured out where I left to.
Quickly, I started to climb the stairs that led to the top of the tower. When I fell while running on the stairs, I barely felt the pain, the adrenaline rush was too much for me to notice it. Finally, I reached the top of the building, and when I glanced around, I saw no one around. I walked up to the edge of the tower and glanced down. The two dark hooded figures ran to each other in the parking lot. After a few seconds of talking, they split up to search again.
Suddenly there was someone was behind me. I twirled around and saw a man with three scars, almost cast like scars, on his face. "Good bye Chloe." He said, and before I could even react he pushed me off Coit Tower with a groan. The time seemed to slow down as I fell to my doom, just waiting for the impact. The pain was excruciating, almost as if I broke every bone in my body, and died.
Anybody recognize the dream?