A Hunter's Nightmare

What am I meant to do now

At this point I have two choice; Give my self up and and possibly die or, try and fight for my survival, but then I could still get captured and well die. If I go through with it I die, as I must at some point. If I don't go through with it my choice is essentially to suffer, and to inflict suffering on my family, and then die. Possibly in the way that is consider more stressful, and painful this way. But if possible I need to keep others safe, and if I escape then, who will pay, my friends? My family?, who knows what my mistakes could escalated to become. I realized that Tom knew where I lived without me telling him, so how am I meant to know what else he knows about my life, my loved ones. But what am I meant to do, to keep them safe, to keep myself safe. But right now I wish for them to be safe and for my self well, I guess I will have to stay here until I know it's safe for me, if it ever will be.

So much time has passed and no sound from anyone not Tom, not the people who are working for him, not even Mia, but I need to contact her. After three rings she picks up and I can hear that she's been crying. 'Oh my God Alex, I got your voice mail, are you okay?'

'I'm fine, I'm so sorry I should have listened to you, but please you need to take care of yourself and my family, I don't think I can leave here, if I escape then who knows what will happen, I will try and survive for as long as I can, but this has to stay between us, tell my parents that I'm staying away from home for a little while and that they don't need to worry about me, please can you do this for me'

I can hear Mia is still crying 'Yes, I can, but please live, for me, do what you need to do, just don't worry about us, i'll take care of them and myself, I love you Alex'

Great now i'm starting to cry 'I love you too Mia, I'll speak to you soon, bye' I hang up the phone, it's extremely rare if I cry, and to cry with Mia that never happens, only with films, like 'Marley and Me' but I think everyone with a heart cried at that. All of a sudden I start hearing sounds but their not coming from my surrounding, it's coming from my ear piece, of course it's Tom, but I want to beat him to the conversation 'So Tom, what's the new game'

'Oh Alex it's great to hear your voice again, started to think that you left, although that is quite impossible here' I could just hear the evil in voice, I wanted to kill him, but I don't even like killing spiders, how am I meant to kill someone who is out to get me. 'Great to hear your voice too Tom, so this new game what are the rules'

'The rules are simple, give your self up'

'No, I don't give up easy Tom, you of all people should know that, how many months did it take me for you to agree to finally meet me, three I think, even though I strongly regret that now.' There is so much anger building up in me, if it was simple I would go to him and end this, but then I would have lost everything. Tom is laughing in my ear 'Fine if that's how you want it then that's your decision, there are men covering every area around the forest there is no escaping, they will see you and stop you, but then I still have men in the forest'

'Really I haven't seen a single on of them, must be really bad at hide and seek'

'Well Alex, they aren't out looking for you now, since I was trying to see if you would just come to me, but since your not, I guess you better hope your hiding spot is as safe as you wish it would be, I will be seeing you very soon, chow'

As safe as up in the trees might be I could get cornered really easily, so my safest bet would be back on ground, I quickly take of the earpiece and throw it and the Walkie Talkie onto the net below, I really do not wish to speak to him anymore, I quickly climb down the ladder attached to the tree and look for the best route to a safe place, guessing the tree or the starting point would be the worst place to be going, and the boarder for the forest is surrounded with men, but this is a huge piece of land there must be some parts that are safe.

After walking around for half a hour I start hearing men coming my way, to my left is a bush that looks like I can hide in, I quickly crawl into a narrow space, and being breaking of branches and lay them on top on me as well as dead leaves and dirt, I grab my water bottle and pour a bit onto the dirt and rub it on my face, so that, my face could blend in better with the dark colours instead of my pale white skin tone. It's a great thing that they gave us clothes that blend in well with the surrounding but that was their mistake, I've watched loads of survival documentaries with my dad so its safe to say that i've learned a thing or two.

The men walk past, two on ground with some sort of gun (looks like taser) and two above in the trees, one of the men on the ground has a stick that he is poking into the bushes, when they arrive at the bush I'm in I hold my breath and I can hear they slightly normal conversation, one man asking how the other man's family is, the wife the kids, the other saying their fine, but complaining that due to my performance he has to stay longer than expected, and is now missing his daughters 6th birthday, as bad as I feel i'm not going to give up just because a guy is missing his daughters birthday, just because I'd rather live then go to Tom and have God knows what to happen. The guy with the stick starts poking at my hiding spot carefully seeing if he can detect me, lucky he isn't paying much attention and is hitting the patch of ground inches away from me. they start walking away, but just to be on the safe said I stay hidden here, glancing at my phone I see that it's now 6pm and the sun is starting the go down, my best bet is to camp here for the night, I slip my hand into my bag and grab a protein bar and a bottle of water, I sip a small amount of water to make sure I can make this last as long as I can and only eat half of the protein bar. This is going to be a extremely long night, I'll be lucky if I mange to get any sleep, good thing I don't snore other wise they might find me.