Stolens

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(Fourteen day's later)

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I didn't know if I was dead or alive. Had I ever been alive? I didn't even know where I was. It was so cold, but was there a different feeling to how I felt now? Had I always felt this? What was I doing again? It was pitch black, peaceful and I couldn't feel anything. Someone had said something. When was it? Who had said it? Ray? Then I remembered.

You will lose yourself.

She had said I would and I was. Raine. Blond hair that glistened in the peeks of the sun, blue eyes round with wonder and compassion. How long had I been here? I had no idea. I tried to move in the water but I couldn't. Hell I didn't even know if I was breathing. Was I dead? Hang on. Who am I?

Shit I was losing it.

I tried to hold on but I couldn't yet it was one name that I held inside my mind. One thing I wouldn't, couldn't forget.

Raine.

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Finally my head was clearing up, the headache was gone and my hands wern't shaking anymore. I stared at the boy slumped against the wall and he looked back with me with green eyes. I ignored him. I didn't want some stranger here. Cal had been in here fourteen days with me and I'd barely said a word to him. His blonde hair flicked out messily over his green eyes. He was cute, very cute.

I wanted Rev.

A whistle ran out in the corridor and I stood up holding my sheets. Just another day in the hell hole. The door opened and Scar peered at us with his beady eyes and flaky skin. I stared at his usual comrade clothes,

Did he ever get dressed?

"Hello sexy." He smiled at me. I shuddered and stared at his black teeth which stunk the hollow air in the room with each breath he took. Cal stiffened beside the wall, as if waiting for a fight.

Why did he care what Scar said to me?

"Come on then. Get out, no noise." He didn't have to say it because we were already doing it. I joined the line outside with the other kids. We thumped down the corridor and dumped our covers at the end inside a plain square room. Cal caught my eye and smiled at me. My heart jumped out of my chest.

What the hell Raine?

I wanted Rev.

"Hurry up!" Scar barked and shoved me back down the corridor. His hand squeezed the side of my bum as he did it. I wanted to turn and slap him, but the metal bat in his hands wasn't just for show. I felt dirty and sick.

It's only a matter of time before he trys to take it further.

I cleared my mind. It was hard but I managed it, somehow. I thought about Rev and his green forest eyes instead.

"Cal"

Cal followed Raine, up the stars towards the food hall. He'd been with her two weeks and all she had said was a simple hi, good night and good morning each day. He could see it in her eyes, she longed for Rev, but then sometimes, sometimes he had caught her staring at him and something had fluttered inside his chest,

"You! Boy!" Scar stood in front of him. "The boss wants you. Go!" He saw Raine staring at him. She opened her mouth, closed it and ignored him again. He sighed and left the line of sad faced kids who didn't even look up as he passed them. Cal ran in the corridor and down the to the third flight of stairs. He was sure this place had six floors and a basement. He hadn't been to the fifth or sixth floor yet but he would soon enough, he had to. The basement would be harder. He knew the 101's were kept on ground floor but what was kept inside the basement? He closed off the thought with a shudder. Who knew what lurked in the dark shadows of this place. Cal knocked on the office door and stepped inside,

"Ah, nice to see you." Creeds smiled at him. He wore his white suit and his black hair was greased back, "Now then tell me what the girl what has said?"

Nothing, Cal thought silently. Absolutely nothing. But he couldn't say that.

"She told me about how she used to want to escape." He said slowly, "But now she thinks most of the kids have gave up." He was lying and Creeds could usually tell if he was. Cal held his breath,

"And she has said nothing else? Nothing about the medicine we gave her?" Creed frowned and stared at some files waiting for an answer,

"Um no sir..."

"Here." Mr Creeds tossed Cal an apple, "Better than the breakfast you would have been having. Go back to your room, there will be no experiments for you today". Mr Creed started to write down on a file, and Cal took that as his cue to leave. He walked out, thinking deeply. Why would Raine say something about the medicine they gave her? It had made her better and that was it, wasn't it? He knew it wasn't. How could he find out about it without asking? The files! The files on Mr Creeds's desk. It was worth a shot if he got the chance. Cal pulled out the small notepad from his pocket and stared at it. He had mapped out the ground floor and the first but there was so many coridoors and passage ways and rooms in this place. It was going to take awhile for him to finish the simple map and he had to go to the basement as well. He didn't have a choice. He was the only person with the privilege to run around the place.

You're playing a dangerous game, his Dad would have said. Cal knew he was but he had to win this game, there were no more life left after this one.

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There were no experiments for me today. I found out as Scar led me back to my room. I should have been happy about that,

"See you later babe." Scar leaned forward and kissed me on the cheek. I slapped him. I couldn't help it. His dirty dry crackled lips on my cheek. It was disgusting. It made me urge. I threw myself backwards in horror at what I had done. Ducking away from his ugly leering face, "Oh I like 'em tough but, ouch b***h that hurt." He brought the punch to my face before I could lunge away.

Slam.

His fist cracked against the side of my face and I staggered back. Pain blurred my vision. Scar laughed and pulled my hands above my head pinning me against the wall,

Oh god he was going to do it and Rev wasn't here to save me.

He smiled, his rancid stinking breath lingering on me. I could see a spot oozing puss on his blotchy skin. I shuddered and Scar laughed,

"I like 'em scared as well." He leaned forward and brought his yellow cracked lips to mine. I tried to turn my head but he held my chin tightly. I couldn't move. I felt sick. He was kissing me. I could taste his breath on my lips, and I urged holding back the vomit, knowing I couldn't waste any food in my stomach on him. His lips traced under my teeth and I bit. I bit as hard as I could and I tasted blood, his blood,

"You f*****g b***h!" He punched me again and this time it broke my skin. I could feel my blood dripping wet along my cheeks. Scar grabbed my hair and slammed my face against the wall. I was crying now. Huge tears rolling down my face, "I'll have you for this you slag! I will, you wait." He dragged me by the hair and pulled me to my room, "You wait." He whispered in my ear and slammed me through the door. I collapsed on the floorboards, crying,

He kissed me. My first kiss had been with him.

I felt dirty, so dirty. My lips were covered in him and I clawed at them as if trying to remove the skin which he had touched. I felt the blood. There was blood on me everywhere and then I felt him. The boy. Cal,

"Shhh it's ok. It's ok." He picked me up and pulled me into his lap. His arms around me, and I hugged back, crying into his shoulder,

"He kissed me and I thought he was going...to...to..." I stuttered through my sobs,

"No. It's ok Raine, I've got you, don't worry." He whispered and rocked me slightly. I was shivering not from the cold but from fear,

"No because he said he was going to come back and..." I sobbed,

"Don't worry." He muttered, "I'm here." I looked up at him and stared at his blue eyes, "You're bleeding." He whispered,

"He hit me." I said. Cal stiffened and then relaxed. He grabbed the bottom of his t-shirt and brought it up to my face wiping the blood. I saw his muscular chest underneath in the peeps of the sun which drifted in the room. His hands were so soft against my skin and it calmed me. I stared at his chest and he coughed slightly,

"It should be ok, but I can't stop it from bleeding." He muttered,

"That's bad right?" I asked and he nodded. I suddenly felt embarrassed. I was practically on top of a stranger. What about Rev?

Rev

Guilt burned inside me and I tried to pull away from Cal,

"No Raine. I have to keep pressure on the cuts, unless you want to do it?" He asked. It was ok if he done it right? Because he was just helping me,

"You do it. Please." I mumbled and leaned back against him. I didn't think I would sleep and if I did I thought I would have nightmares about Scar. But sat in the warmth of Cal's embrace and feeling his soft hands on my skin, I soon felt my eyes closing against their own will.

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So silent. So swift. These shadows my home and I was the keeper. Silent whispers encircled me, wrapping me in their clutches. Where ever I've been. I belong here. So cold but the cold warmed me. Greeted me. Who am I?

Slam, slam slam slam.

What the...? My home was being took away. The water which embraced me was leaving.

No....

Someone opened my home and light poured through,

"Hello. Welcome back to hell." A voice screamed to me. I didn't want to leave but a dry cracked hand grabbed me. I heard the screams, my screams. I felt fire ripping inside me. Burning my every cell. The pain which lashed through my mind and body as he touched me. He was killing me! I was dying! The light ate into my eyes, blinding me...

Just make it stop!

I was laying on a cold wet floor. Shivering, my mind was flashing. I saw a room; dark and bare. I saw a man laying dead at my feet. A girl with summer blond hair and a man with a blue head. I heard a million screams and then silence. As if my mind was waiting. I crawled to my feet groaning at the pain. Trying not to scream. Huge purple dots flashed in my vision as I glanced around the room in which I stood.

Washing machines?

"Hello Rev." I looked up at the other man dressed in a white suit. I smelt the overwelming pine aftershave which rang from his skin. He smiled at me. Rev? Who was Rev? "Follow me, it's time to take you home." His voice was loud. So loud I almost screamed in agony, "Of course experiments will follow after you have rested." I stumbed towards him, my body groaning in pain. The white suit man opened a metal door and I heard it. A million voices in the burst of a wind and they were all crying and screaming and hurting....

NONONONONONONOOOO!!!!!BANGBANGrev?BANGBANGJenna????Wheres my home?Dying!!lyingAHHHHHHHA!gonna kill you punk! RAAAAARAAANo place like homeGETmeOUT NO NO NOjust end itPAINi want my toes...PLEASE!gotta GET out!!!mum?dad?KILL ME!is it sunny?FOOD?WHERE ARE YOU!!!I MISS HER!SEXits so cold in here.............................

I buckled back in agony as the noise raged inside my mind and soul. I saw flashes of rooms, of things I didn't understand; a room of blood, toeless feet, a single wooden chair in a passage way, a kid screaming with blood in their eyes. A silent room filled with grotesque twisted bodies held in glass tubes. I didn't understand any of it.

"What is it Rev?" As soon as he spoke. The noise was silent. I looked up at the man in the suit, "What's wrong?" He asked. I shook my head,

Don't trust him.

The heavy thuds of my bare feet echoed down the corridor. I could hear the voices but they were whispering now. Who were they? What did they want with me? I wanted to go back into the dark. The silence. Where everything was simple. We stopped outside a door,

"Well here we are. I'll come and speak to you in a soon. Let you get used to being out." He chuckled, unlocking the wooden door. I stumbled inside and stared the people in the room. A girl with blond hair and a boy with blond hair. They had been talking before I entered but when the girl's blue eyes stared up at me she ran forwards and grabbed me. The noise enveloped my mind again as she held me. I was burning at her touch. Fire inside. The scream broke free from my cracked lips.

Rev was screaming in agony.

Oh god. What have they done to him?

I pulled my hands back,

"Rev? It's me, Raine." As soon as I spoke he stopped his screaming. I stared at him, at his green eyes which glistened in the peeps of the sun. His skin had a yellow sheen to it and his cheeks looked hollow. He was looking at me like he didn't even know me,

"Raine?" He croaked his voice so dry and cracked. But I saw his eyes flicker in acknowledgement,

He hadn't forgotten me.

I jumped forward and went to hug him but Rev backed away into the wall. He winced and stood away from it,

"Don't touch me. The noise it comes. The voices come, hang on what happened to you you're face? It's bruised." He didn't sound like himself, a crazed boy full of rambles, which was understandable but he remembered me!

"The bruises? Well they were nothing. It's nothing Rev." I muttered. He frowned,

"Nothing? Who's Rev?" He asked and stared at me.

What the...

I stared at his face, drinking in beautiful green eyes. I had missed him so much. Every bone inside me wanted to reach out and hold him. He didn't even know his name,

"Rev is you. It's your name." I said slowly but he was backing away from me,

"No. Who are you? You're lying to me." He fell to the floor ripping his back hair in clutched hands,

"I'm not lying!" I said and fell to the floor with him, "You have to know me Rev. You have to." The tears fell from my eyes then,

"No. They're all killing me! They had my hands!!!!! My fingers are gone!" He screamed and pulled at his fingers.

He's crazy.

"Cal?" I said. He was sat against the wall staring at Rev, "Do something!" I begged him. Cal kneeled forward and bent close to Rev,

"Mate. It's ok, your hands look. You have hands and fingers. No ones getting them." He muttered into his ear softly and Rev stopped shaking. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes,

" I'm sorry Raine. I'm sorry. I can't. I can't hold on. There's this noise and it's coming and I was in this dark and it was so silent but here it's so much noise and...and I can't...." He looked up at me and in that second his eyes were so clear and sane, "I missed you." He closed his eyes again and started shaking,

"Rev stay with me." I whispered. I wanted to touch him and hold him close to me but I was scared to reach out for him again. Rev had always been the one who wanted to escape but in that second. I wanted to do more than escape. I wanted to kill Mr Creeds. How could he do this to us? What gave him the right? I wanted him to suffer. Boiling red hot anger raged inside me. Clay looked up at me from beside Rev,

"I want to kill him. Mr Creeds." I breathed, "I'm going to kill him."

Raine had been serious. Cal had seen it in her eyes. The anger. The pain. The boy, Rev was nuts, completely crazy. Sometimes he would be with them, the next he was clutching his head and muttering about noise, about the voices. Not too long afterwards Scar had pulled Cal out of the room saying he had to do experiments and Raine hadn't even stared at him as he left. She didn't need him now she had Rev back. He felt oddly hollow at the thought. Mr Creeds greeted Cal as he walked into the office,

"Ah young Cal. So tell me how is Rev dealing with being out? I must admit after two weeks I thought he would be dead. You know we've never kept someone inside for that long." He smirked. Cal stared at Creeds.

Did he know that Rev was hearing voices? Would it hurt to tell him? What about Raine? The look in her eyes. When she said she would kill Creeds,but she wouldn't be able to do that anyway,

"He's scared. Flinches at every sound. I don't think he even knows who he is" Cal shrugged,

"The girl?"

"Sits beside him. I've been with her two weeks. I don't she will be any trouble." Mr Creeds smile reminded Clay of a huge frog who had seen a fly,

"Oh she'll be trouble. You all will." He left the sentence hanging in the air, "Leave now." He muttered. Cal left the room in a hurry.

Rev's P.O.V

The girl stared at me with her round blue eyes. I knew her, I know I did but I couldn't...

"Rev?" She whispered. She was kneeled in front of me; her skin cut and bruised, her lips were scabbed up and her eyes were begging, pleading. I fought inside, tried to clear away the voices of kids screaming inside my mind, tried to escape the flashes of images which pulled at my mind,

"Raine." I muttered. She smiled with soft sorrow tears in her eyes.

Sea blue eyes.

I breathed out as I remembered her again,

But for how long? How long can you keep sane for before you turn back?

The answer was not long. I could already hear the whispers in my mind,

"I dunno what's happening to me Raine. I'm seeing things, hearing things and I can feel all the pain." I muttered. She frowned at me, her blond hair circling around her face in soft folds,

"You're hearing things? Like the kids? In here?"

I nodded and fought off the voices threatened to overpower me,

"I can see stuff as well, oh Raine. I missed you." I whispered and reached out a hand to wipe the falling tears,

"I missed you as well." She breathed. My fingers brushed her cheeks and a I felt everything.

Pain. Sadness, so much sadness and yet so much love, for me. I didn't deserve it.

I heard her gasp but I wasn't with Raine. I was seeing a vision. I felt ugly lips running on mine, tasted the rotten meat breath, shuddered as a fist flew to my face and I was back in the room staring at her blue eyes,

"He hit you and kissed you. I am f*****g going to kill him." I mumbled to her shocked face and then the voices overwelmed me and I forgot.