Stolens

9.

In the corners of madness the truth lurks waiting to be discovered

Raine's P.O.V~~~~~~I sat in the corner and closed my eyes. My head thumped with an ever lasting head ache. My hands were cut from the latest run of experiments.

This is never going to stop.

My hands were still bleeding and I couldn't stop the red dripping from the long thin cuts. The rip on my face. Where Scar had punched me, it still dropped blood along my cheeks every hour.

What the hell was happening to me?

It was like I couldn't stop bleeding. It was scaring me, people died of blood loss. What if I never stopped? Clay was out having experiments, and Rev, well Rev was leaned forward on the balls of his knees staring at me. His green eyes wide and glowing in the soft specks of light but they were blank. He wasn't here. He had been still like a statue for hours. There was something wrong with him. I'd tried to touch him but he just started screaming in agony. I ran my hands through my hair and leaned my head against the wall. Last night he'd woken up screaming and shaking, full of beads of sweet but freezing cold to touch. He had been muttering as well, about his hands. How someone was taking his hands. I couldn't help him. I could only watch him slip away from me. One second he was normal the next he was screaming and forgetting everything. There had be something, anything I could do...

Maybe if I spoke to Mr Creeds. Maybe I could make a deal?

I couldn't lose him and anything would be better than him losing his mind, forgetting me. He was sick and I needed to help him. Seeing him like this was killing me,

"I miss you." I mumbled staring at him but he didn't answer. It was like he was somewhere else and before I could stop them tears starting rolling from my eyes.

~~~~~~~Rev's P.O.V~~~~~~~~~~~

I knew what was happening to me. Raine thought I was crazy and the other boy did as well, but I wasn't, well I was but I knew why. I was understanding it, the voices, the visions. They wern't in my head, well they were, but they were thoughts. Thoughts from the kids all around us. I could hear them crying and suffering. I could feel their pain rippling inside me but...

Shit it felt like I was dying.

It was like being in a room with a million people screaming at you and sometimes you get lost inside the noise because it felt like I was there with them. Inside all these rooms, inside every kid, inside every touch of pain. I lost my thoughts and forgot Raine. Forgot myself but sometimes I would come back and see her, blue eyes begging me to stay with her. To hold on a little longer. She had tried to touch me again, I'd felt it, the agony fire raging pain from her soft touch. The voices and flashes of a hundred images running through my mind. It was like I was living in a dream.

Maybe I was dead.

"Rev?" She whispered but it felt like a shout. The voices in my mind were soft, always there but quite. I held on and looked at her tears,

"Raine. I need to tell you something." My voice sounded cracked and bitter, like I hadn't spoke for a century. She stared at with a sad smile on her lips, "The voices they're not fake, they're real. It's the kids in here, s**t I think I can read minds." I mumbled realizing how stupid it sounded aloud. I heard her sob and more tears glistened down her face. The tears were slightly red maybe I was seeing things though,

"Oh god Rev what has he done to you." She muttered,

"No. I promise Raine. I hear them. I hear them now." She had to believe me. She was the only one that mattered,

"It will be ok Rev. I promise." She sobbed and stood up,

"What are you doing?" I asked. She walked over to the boarded up window, her back to me,

"When I first came here. I was alone, they never put me with anyone." She whispered, "Then a girl turned up. She was called Sky, you remind me of her. Then they took her away and she never came back." Raine looked at me and I saw the red in her tears this time. She was crying blood, "I can't lose you Rev. You're all I have left in this s**t hole."

"I'm not going anywhere." I mumbled,

"You are. You come and go, speaking rambles. These voices you hear Rev it's not real."

"No they are real. You have to believe me please!" She had to believe me. Raine whipped her blood tears away and took a breath,

"I'm doing this for you, because I don't know what else to do." She muttered and walked up to the door, giving me a final look,

"What are you going to do?" I asked in a hushed whisper,

"I'm sorry." She cried, "I'm so sorry." And slammed her fists on the door, "SOME ONE HELP ME. PLEASE QUICK OR I'M SLAMMING DOWN THE DOOR. HURRY!!!" I jumped to my feet and grabbed her hands,

"What are you doing. They're going to come and take you away!" I shouted ignoring the screaming voices and millions of flashes; a room, a girl with no hair just scalps of flappy skin, no toes and they were ripping of my fingers. No! I had to hold on.

"I have to Rev." She cried as the door slammed open.She thought I was crazy. She didn't trust me and if Raine didn't trust me, then what was the point? Her blue eyes stared at me, begging me to forgive her but how could I? When she was the only thing that mattered to me in this damn place.

She didn't trust me.

She banged on the door again,

"SOMEONE COME QUICK!"

The bangs of heavy shoes echoed outside, slowly and loudly. A clattering of a key in a lock filled the silence as we waited,

"Raine. Please don't do this." I muttered. I wasn't crazy. It was too late. Scar opened the door, his sunburn had turned brown now and it looked like someone had took a shite on his scalp, B.O reached my nose before he had already stepped through the door.

He really needed a bath.

Scar swung his metal bat about and glared at Raine with beady brown eyes,

"What's with the screams b***h?" He hissed at her. I frowned, there was something, something I had to remember about him, something he'd done. My mind was in a jumble as I tried to remember.

What was it.

"I need to, to talk to Mr Creeds." She stuttered and took a step back from Scar. Raine's face was pale and terrified, filled with frozen fear...

She never used to be that scared of him.

What had he done.

"Yeah? You sure you wanna try that b***h? He may get mad slag." Scar was taking small steps with each word he said. Taking small steps towards Raine. She looked at me, blue eyes round with terror and in that one glance. I knew I couldn't just stand there and let him talk to her like that. Even if she didn't trust me,

"Hey!" I snapped, distracting him, "Back off." Scar smiled, black teeth glinting like shadows, red blotchy skin flushing purple in anger and rage,

"Forgot you were back boy. You enjoy your holiday? Does things to your head that place. Makes you loopy." He grinned and faced me, "I had some fun with your girl. She loved it, begged for more." His words awoken my memories in a flash. The visions of Raine's. His dry lips pressing down on hers and a fist slamming into her face. A cut which was still bleeding days later.

I was going to kill him.

"You bastard." I whispered. The voices in my head were growing louder again with each second,

"Say that again boy." He hissed,

"BASTARD!!!" I jumped out and shoved into him, surprising the ugly man,

"Rev no!" Raine tried to grab me but I pushed her off. My fist connected with Scar's face in a flash. His scream pierced out into the room, it sounded wrong.

Grown men didn't scream like that. It wasn't right.

The voices were screaming now and I felt power. Strength and rage. Pure white anger. I punched him again and the visions came; a girl screaming as Scar covered their mouth and undressed her. A boy with no eyes being stabbed by his knife. Scar cowering in a corner as a lady threw punches at him. I slammed my fist into his head and his neck knocked backwards with a crack. A bone shattering crack. He fell to the floorboards in heap. It was silent, my hands were shaking, the voices hushed in my mind,

"Is he dead?" Raine whispered. I knelt down and pressed my fingers to where his pulse should thump. Nothing,

"Yeah."

"But how the hell, one punch? How can one punch. Oh my god Rev. s**t s**t s**t. We're dead now. Creeds is going to kill us." She was in shock. I was trembling and then I remembered. A knife in a man's back. I had killed before.

~~~~Raine's P.O.V~~~~~~~~

Rev was shaking,

"What do we do?" I asked him. He was crazy, but I trusted him, cared about him,

"I dunno. I dunno. What have I done?" He mumbled. I took a breath,

"Come on." I stepped over the body not looking at Scar's eyes wide open,

"Are we leaving?" Rev asked. He looked so vulnerable standing in the corner, trembling,

"Yeah. We're going to go now." I smiled at him. It was a strained smile. I was crying at the same time.

This is how we died.

"Raine your tears are blood." Rev stumbled forwards. I frowned thinking he was talking crazy again but as I rubbed at my face I saw he was right. My tears were red, like drops of blood. What was happening to me?

"Come on." I mumbled and ignored the blood. Rev nodded and followed me out the open door, "Every things going to be ok." I muttered aloud more for myself than to reassure Rev. I walked down the corridor unsure where to go but in the end it didn't matter,

"Are you two plaining to escape again?" Mr Creeds smiled and walked up to us,

"Sir I was only trying to find you." I muttered. Rev hovered behind me,

"Who is responsible for Marco's death?" He asked in a soft voice. Marco? Oh he meant Scar,

"Both of us." I whispered. Rev didn't say anything. I think he was gone again, living inside his own crazy mind. Mr Creeds frowned,

"This is the second guard that's been killed because of you two. Death awaits us all I guess. Well it's not like I didn't expect people to get killed when I began this. I will get Marco removed from your room and you will return. However I want Rev for the rest of the day."

"You're not going to kill us?" I stuttered,

"Your whole purpose is learn to kill little one." He chuckled darkly, "Things are progressing quicker than I ever thought." He leant forward and gently touched a falling tear that streamed on my cheeks. Blood red staining his fingers. He blinks at the tear in wonder, "I didn't expect it to work." He looks shocked for a heartbeat, before washing the look off his face, "Follow me please Rev." Creeds turned away leaving me in the coridor alone, completely in shock.