How I Survived

Part 22

"You know there's an unspoken rule where if this many people are trying to kill you, then you should be dead already" Nik spoke as we walked down the white empty corridor.

"Yeah well they all suck at killing" I replied turning the corridor to see two people dressed like us walking towards a room, the only difference being they had guns to defend themselves and we literally had torture weapons.

Turning my head to look at my annoying partner we made eye contact, I nodded and we set off following them.

"What the fuck"

The room was absolutely trashed, glass was shattered all over the floor, there was blood splatters everywhere, ceiling tiles were broken and there was a flipped over desk with scattered papers on the floor around it.

"Hey! What are you doing here"

We both lifted our head from observing the floor to the two people we followed in here.

Nik cleared his throat and readjusted his stolen jacket "what are you two doing in here, no one has clearing to this room yet"

The authoritative tone he took fooled them as they bowed there heads and started walking out the room.

As they walked passed us Nik grabbed the one closest to him and snatched the gun, shooting them both in the head, he looked at me a small smile playing on his face as though he didn't just kill two people

"I guess nothing I do would make you afraid of me" we both started rummaging through the stuff in the room.

"Seriously I used to have worse nightmares about failing chemistry and I was one of the youngest in the class" I picked up a picture off of the floor.

It was a small Polaroid of a lady holding a child, the child's eyes shut and seemingly only a few days old and the lady's eyes also shut from smiling so wide.

The photograph was old and dusty, most of the picture was dirty and smeared but it was clear enough to distinguish what it was of.

On the back of the photo had the words assassination agency 01/07/14 sprawled messily across and a small drawing of a ring. The writing and drawing though were significantly older then the photo itself though, almost as if the person scribbled it down as an emergency.

That seems familiar, where have I seen it before?

And then it clicked.

Remember the folder I was set up to get from that building when we first moved here, where I had to break into the safe where I got the file and usb from.

The file had that exact same thing on the first page.

Now what's so special about this?

"Find anything" his words break me out of my trance

"No have you" I tuck the photo into my chest area which was the best hiding place I could find right now and carried on looking.

"Do you hear that?" I whispered

He looked at me about to reply as I grabbed his arm and shoved him behind the door as it opened.

"There're not going to be happy when they find out someone's trashed the place" we heard from where we were standing behind the door.

Nik made eye contact with me as he stepped out of the hiding space, despite me glaring at him to stop.

He stood behind the guy who entered the room and pressed down on a pressure point on there neck.

"What the fucking hell is wrong with you" i hissed at him, my eyes furious.

He ignored me and picked up a piece of string off the floor tying it around the guys hands and another one for the feet leaning him across the wall.

"We're talking about this later"

"Wakey wakey eggs and bakey sunshine" i squinted at him for stealing my lines

"Hey dude wake up"I slapped his face lightly a few times as the guy started groaning

"You guys are dead" he groaned his head flopping to the side realising he was restrained.

"Funny you say that" and the next thing I knew he was doubling over in pain as a shard of glass was shoved into his stomach

I pouted at Nik "you didn't ask me if I wanted to do the honours" but then I turned my head away realising I was supposed to be angry at him.

"You..." he stated at me and then turned to Nikolai "and you" he shook his head as though it was funny "who would have thought"

I grabbed him by the neck still crouched down next to him and slammed his head into the wall "how about we do the talking and you answer when we let you" my eyes burned into his threateningly as he realised I wasn't joking

"What is this place" Nikolai questioned spinning a shard of glass between his fingers as I released my hold on the guys neck

"It's a facility.. b-but you guys already know that. it was used as there b-base"

"Who's there" I questioned

"We don't know anything about them, only that the power they hold amongst the underworld is great, they forced us all to work here and they're looking for someone in particular, who they would do anything to capture"

I shared a look with Nik a part of me knowing it was me.

"Care to enlighten us who this person is"

"You" he looked straight at me "Phoenix Hera Salvatore, the girl everyone's been talking about" he stared at me as though understanding why

"Why" Nik slammed his hand into the wall next to mystery guy "why do they want her"

He laughed, the guy who was literally restrained and at our mercy had the audacity to laugh

"Naive little children, the answers been in front of you this whole time" his eyes met mine for a second "mostly you though I'm surprised you haven't figured it out"

"You have five seconds before I slit your pretty throat"

"Lets just say not everything is at it seems, I'm going to die anyways so slit my throat" i stared into the eyes of a deadman. Not dead physically but mentally, he had no will no reason to leave. He was the ultimate shell of a person.

"You got the die bit right" a voice spoke form behind me.

Getting up off the floor keeping in mind both threats in the room i looked at Carson as he stood in the doorway "You're trapped. There's no way to run now" he says triumphantly, drawing a knife.

Instead of being intimidated i double over laughing

I see his smile waver as I finally straighten up with a grin Nik watching the scene closely

"I have no need to run, because you see" i gesture around the trapped room "we're not trapped in her with you."

Faster than he can comprehend, he finds himself somehow disarmed and pinned against the wall, his own knife being held at his throat.

I whispered my declaration in his ear "your trapped in here with us"