Apocalypse Love

Remember Me

I hum a tune in the library as I look through the shelf's. The rose scent entered the room and I knew who it was. "We've got to stop meeting like this..." I turned to the spiral stair case to see him leaning against it. "Langdon..." I give him a warm smile.  "How'd you know it was me?" He questioned with an arched brow. "I senses you." "Sensed?" He repeated, walking closer to me. I shrug my shoulders "Something Samuel said I could do...Odd I still think about him. Even now" I smile as he walked up to me and leaned against the bookcase. "This Samuel, was there anything else there? Besides a friend?" Langdon asked me. "Is this apart of my test?" I asked him. "Isn't everything?" He responded. I roll my eyes "Samuel although my best friend, he was into men" I stated. "So...nothing happened between us" I added with a smile before turning my back to Langdon and reaching up to grab another book. "What were you humming, before I got in here?" He asked me. I turn and look at him "I...have no idea. I guess a tune I just have stuck in my head all the time." I knit my brows together "Maybe, something from my past." "If you had any suggestion, who wouldn't you want to come to the Sanctuary?" He then asked. I couldn't help but giggle "Isn't that your job?" I asked. He stared at me, as if he was challenging me. "I don't know, honestly a lot of these people I barley know" I tell him. "Gallant and I hang out but I can only take so much of him before I feel like falling asleep. Coco is selfish. I guess the only two I don't have issues with is Camilie and Timothy." My eyes drifted back to Langdon who looked to be in deep thought. "So...uh when will that second interview be?" I finally asked him. "Ms.Venable said you were leaving soon and..." I lowered my head. "You were hoping I'd take you?" He finished. I lifted my head "Or at least kill me before you go. I couldn't do it myself and I definitely wouldn't want Venable getting the satisfaction of killing me" I smirked. Langdon let out a chuckle that tugged at my heart. It was the first time I had seen him actually show some sort of happiness and it was warming. "Well..." He takes a step towards me, placing his hand softly onto my cheek. He then tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and I felt my cheeks burn. "I will definitely let you know" he tells me. I was confused with the sudden attention Langdon was giving me. "Until then..." He whispered before he had turned and walked over to the spiral staircase. "Goodnight, Langdon" I tell him. "Goodnight, Athena" he replied before walking up the staircase.
   I returned to my room and begin getting ready for bed when my door suddenly burst open. I spun on my heel to see Ms.Venable, Meads and The fist standing in my doorway. "Come watch me get undress?" I scoffed. Ms.Venable slowly appoarched me with a smirk on her lips. "You think you're funny?" She asked me as she got inches from my face. "I think I'm hilarious" I responded. "Then you'll also find this to die for..." She stated. The fist and Ms.Mead both appoarched me, grabbing my arms. "What are you doing! Let go!" I shouted as I struggled against them both. "Take her, she will give her partner up" Venable ordered. The first and Ms.Meads suddenly begin drag me out of my room. "I didn't do anything!" I shouted. "Let go!" I screamed.
    The fist hung me from the ceiling by my arm and stripped me down to my bra and underwear. Ms.Venable stepped into the room. "Come to see the show?" I asked her. "Tell me who you're having sex with" she ordered. "I'm not having sex with anyone" I hissed out. "You were caught in the library by another!" She shouted. "Then you really need to find someone else to get information from because they lied to you" I hissed out. Ms.Venable nodded and a sudden pain hit my back at the sound of a whip. "Ah!" I screamed. "Name your partner and this can be over" Ms.Venable tells me. "Fuck....you!" I hissed out at her. Suddenly my back erupted with pain as the whip hit my skin again and I scream out. Meads goes again and again. I could feel the whip, taring at me skin. When Meads got tried the fist began taking her turn. My body went limp and I felt like I couldn't move "Stop... We'll begin this tomorrow and you will name your partner in crime" She hissed before I hear the footsteps leave the room. It felt like I was hanging there for a long time before I hear footsteps again. "Come to whip me some more?" I quietly asked. I slowly lifted my head to see Langdon with a surprised expression on his face. "Langdon..." I breathed out with a smile. He stepped closer to me and began to remove the handcuffs chained to the ceiling that held me in place.  "What have they done to you?" He asked me. My body was too weak, collapsing against his. His rose scent caused my stomach to flip and my heart to race in my chest. "I don't think Venable likes me..." I joked as my eyes closed. Suddenly he had lifted me up like I was a feather. Everything around me moved. For a split second I open my eyes to see him staring straight ahead. My body stung as I felt something cold against it. I peal my eyes opened to see I'm lying on a brown leather sofa. My ears notices the crackling sound of the fireplace. "You have to sit up..." I hear Langdon voice. He helped me sit up and I couldn't think of a reason he was being this way with me. "L-Langdon?" I stuttered out as he sat behind me. "Hmm" He hummed. "Why are you so different towards me?" I asked him. He remained silent as his warm hands touched the open wounds on my bare back. "Stay still..." He ordered. Suddenly I felt a hot iron pain in my back and my hand went for the nearest thing which happened to be Langdon knee. My hand clung onto it as I winced, hissing at the pain. "All done..." He spoke, the pain subsiding more by the second. I let out a sigh, unclenching his knee. "Good as New" he then tells me. He moved from behind me "How did you find me?" I asked him. "I tried to find you, for your interview when Camile told me that Coco told Venable you were having relations with someone in the library.  So, I followed Venable" he informed me. "Coco? Can someone just kill her already?" I shake my head. I hear Langdon chuckle "You've never liked her." It wasn't a questioned, more like a statement. "What I want to know is, who are you having relations with in the library?" Langdon asked me. I roll my eyes "Nobody, this was obviously a plan to try to get rid of me" I huffed. "You're probably right, Venable will take any chance to get rid of you as well" he tells me truthfully. "The feeling is mutual" I retorted. It was nice to talk to Langdon, it made me feel like I wasn't in a shelter and the world hadn't ended. Langdon kneels down in front of me and I felt a magnetic pull from him. "I'm leaving soon, I need you to focus" he spoke. Something was wrong and I could feel it in my body. "I need you to remember your past" he stated  I shake my head "I can't" I tell him  "Yes, you can" he stated. "You don't think I've tried?" I asked him, tears forming at my waterline. "I don't even know if I had family out there, searching for me before the world ended" I say  He placed his hand on my cheek. "Tell me who you really are" he says softly. Tears escape my eyes "I don't know who I am..." I say.   He tilted his head to the side "You are Athena Black. The one person I never stopped trusting....or loving" he says softly. "But I had to keep the most important part of you hidden from your mind" he says. "W-why?" I stuttered out. "To protect you" he tells me. "But now it's time for you to remember it all" he stated. "Sacramento Eastate" he whispered and just then a white light hit my sight.