The Fog

Chapter 25

I walked into the library and started walking around. I didn't plan on doing much today so I wanted to read some books. I grab several books off the shelf that seem interesting and sit down in a corner and start reading. I'm probably there for an hour when Michael walks in.

"Hey, there you are." He walks over to me and sits next to me.

"Yeah sorry I came here after breakfast to read some."

"You worried me a little I didn't know where you went."

"I'm sorry I should've told you, I'll make sure I start telling you where I'm going from now on." I grab his hand and hold it while I rest my head on his shoulder. I read outloud to Michael and he falls asleep. I continue reading and after two and a half hours he wakes up so I set my book down and we go to the kitchen to make lunch. The rest of the day and the next week were quite. I would wake up early in the morning but I would wake Michael up and he'd talk to me and cuddle me and we'd fall back asleep. The nightmares are getting a little bit less frequent now and not as bad. We're outside in the garden walking around, we find a bench and sit down.

"You know you're beautiful right?" I look at my ripped jeans, boots, and plaid flannel with a tank top underneath. I chuckle and shake my head.

"I'm not though I'm wearing old stained clothes." He looks me up and down and smiles.

"You're beautiful to me. Your 'old' and 'stained' clothes just make you more beautiful." He plants a passionate kiss on my lips and grabs my waist, pulling me closer. We continue to kiss until my cousin interrupts us. She coughs and we quickly stop and awkwardly pull away.

"Hey, can I borrow Elizabeth? Thanks." She grabs my arm and drags me away. I look back at Michael and shrug.

"So what do you need Brynn?" I ask as she drags me into the dinning room.

"I need your help obviously." She walks over to the table and grabs a note. "This showed up taped to the door but I don't understand what it means." She hands me the note and I read it.

'Thanks Elizabeth, it was fun spending time with you but he's mine now.' I read this and my blood runs cold. I quickly run to the garden and to the bench we were on and see that Michael is gone. I look around and see his ring on the ground. I pick it up and frantically look around. I run around the garden and the fortress checking everywhere, praying that my worst fears are not true. I arrive back at the dinning room and collapse on the ground and start sobbing as I hold his ring to my chest. Ethan runs in and hugs me.

"What's wrong?" He quickly asks me.

"He took him. He has Michael." Ethan looks at me in horror as he quickly gets up and takes off. I quickly get up and follow him down to the prison cells. We look in horror as the cell Trenton was in is blasted open. I fall to my knees again and continue to sob and Ethan rubs my back trying to comfort me. He goes and informs everyone and I walk to our room. I go to open the door but I stop, I couldn't go in, it was too painful. They started trying to find him but we had no leads I fell asleep in the library that night, I couldn't stay in a room that reminded me of him. The next two days seemed like an eternity as they tried anything and everything to find him. I was sitting at the dinning room table when Ethan shouted that he found Michael's location. My heart felt like it leaped out of my chest as I jumped up. I quickly grabbed some weapons and ran out the door. Ethan quickly catches up and we head off to go save Michael. Us and several other bust into the location and we see Michael tied up to a chair like I was with cuts and bruised everywhere. My heart broke a bit to see him like that. My thoughts were quickly interrupted by Trenton.

"You found me a lot quicker than last time. I'm going to have to make this fast." I see he's holding a knife and is about to plunge it into Michael's chest. Next thing I know it's like I telephoned over to Trenton and I start fighting him. I kick the back of his knees and he falls to the ground but he quickly turns around and cuts my legs. I'm too focused of fighting Trenton to feel the pain from the cuts. I stumble back a bit and he stands back up.

"I see someone wants a rematch." He smirks and he lunges at me. I am able to knock the knife out of his hand and we start throwing kicks and punches. I'm doing well until Trenton says something.

"How does it feel to see poor little Michael in the same condition you were." With that memories come flooding back and he's able to knock me to the ground. He puts his foot on my back making me unable to get up.

"You made a valiant effort but I'm going to kill you and then Michael."