When Darkness Falls

Introduction

My eyes flutter open

It takes a moment or two but my cloudy vision finally clears and the fog evaporates from my confused mind

I don't know where I am but there's a terrible darkness tugging at my memory, and panic quickly wraps its self around me as I feel my throat constrict with fear

Where am I?

My hands make contact with the cold stone floor and the pain that rips through it tells me I'm injured, I don't know how badly, or how it happened, all I know is I have to get out of here and I have to get out of here now

I squint my eyes in an attempt to see through the darkness that surrounds me, I think I can see a light, far away in the distance, it's flickering...almost like a candle on the horizon and somehow I know I have to get to it

Bracing myself once more for the pain I know will follow, I place both hands onto the coldness beneath me and attempt to push myself to my feet.

It takes a couple of tries but eventually I'm vertical and nausea is rushing towards me and as it hits me head on it almost knocks me off my feet.

White lights swirl around me and I find myself leaning backwards against a wall I didn't even know was there.

Minutes pass by, and eventually so does the nausea, feeling brave I open my eyes and taking my injured hand in the other I feel the stickiness of blood and again the panic finds me and threatens to consume me.

I want to scream, I want someone to hear me and rush to my rescue but I know that if I scream out the only person that will come for me is the person that has done this to me

I feel the floor around me but all of my belongings seem to be gone, there's no easy escape and no way of calling for help and then suddenly I realise that's exactly what he wants, for me to be cut off from anyone that can help me and unable to escape, I don't know what his plans are this time but something tells me I'm about to have a starring role.

I'm just about to panic when suddenly strong arms wrap themselves around my memory and a musky scent floods my senses. I feel the brush of chocolate coloured curls against my cheek and for an instant I feel safe again, safe in the way only one man makes me feel... but he's gone. He wont know what's happened, won't know that I've been taken. Tears scold my eyes as I realise that this time, unlike every other, he won't be coming for me

Okay, I have to focus, I don't know how long I have until he comes back for me so I have got to make my move now

Lifting one aching leg, I attempt to move forward but my knee gives way immediately, causing me to crash back down on to the ground

Everything hurts....

My surroundings are shrouded in darkness ...

My tears are coating my face in a mask of hopelessness

I'm sure my pathetic display of weakness is being witnessed by the one person I can't risk seeing it but at this moment I'm nothing more than a victim to my weaknesses and fears

I'm the person that was supposed to be the protector, but on my knees in this stone prison I am the person in need of protection...

The power is gone and the only thing left is me... Camila Cabello. One quarter of a team of superheroes chosen to protect the world and we were doing a pretty good job of it until all of a sudden, darkness fell.

*Shawmila superhero story anyone?