Game of Survival {A.D.C x you} Book II

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September 13th, 2022

"Mum, Mum, stop please stop," Alycia spoke gently but swiftly grabbing the blanket from her mother shaking her head.

"I'm sorry Alycia," Alycia's mother gently spoke standing, looking down at her daughter who stays sitting on the couch. "I'm only trying to help. You went through-"

"You don't know what I went through. Nobody does," Alycia said, quick to cut her mother off. "It's been four months Mum. I'm fine."

"You are not fine Alycia!" The girl's mother shouts stomping her foot. Alycia's head lifts slightly looking at her mother to see tears in her eyes. "You were kidnapped! They held you hostage and hurt you! I saw those pictures in the courtroom!"

"Y/n didn't do that! Marcus did and he's dead!" Alycia shouts, flashes of herself on that screen burning inside of her mind. She shakes her head and clenches her jaw. "Yes I was kidnapped okay Mum? But I love Y/n. I love them!"

Alycia's mother shakes her head from side to side. "Alycia sweetie how can you love someone who manipulated you? Who kept you hostage and killed so many people?"

"But that's the thing Mum. Them killing anyone wasn't proven..." Alycia's voice trails as her eyes tear from her mother and down to her hands that mess with one another. "Plus... No one saw them like I did. No one lived what I did. And I don't know why or how I love Y/n, but I do. And I miss them and I want them back."

Alycia's mother looks at her daughter flabbergasted. Her lips separate but no words form as she goes to speak. And she doesn't get the chance to either as the bell to the house rings.

The mother slowly rises, a sad look glowing in her eyes as she walks away from Alycia and to the door. She glances through the peep hole and sighs lightly as she unlocks the door and opens it up.

"Hello Everlynn," Leone says kindly. Everlynn gentle smiles and looks past the woman to the girl on the couch.

"How is she?" Everlynn asks, her voice low. Leone's eyes are heavy, red and puffy. Bags stayed under her eyes. It's clear to anybody and everybody the woman was tired and rightfully so.

Leone tears her eyes from Everlynn and glances over her shoulder to her daughter shaking her head.

"I don't even know her anymore," Leone whispers. "I look at her and I know it's my daughter but at the same time it's not my baby."

Everlynn's eyes soften as she steps into the house. She reaches up and gently pats Leone on the shoulder, before giving the older woman a squeeze.

"Can I speak with her alone?" Everlynn asks and there's hesitation in Leone's eyes but nonetheless lets a sigh escape her lips, slowly nodding her head. Everlynn nods lightly as she heads over to Alycia while Leone shuts the door and exits the room.

Slowly as Everlynn approaches Alycia she could see Alycia's hands. The Australian's fingers messing with one another. Bruises and marks covered Alycia's hands and up her arm. They were clearly visible due to Alycia wearing a short sleeve short. Everlynn's eyes soften at the sight and slowly rounds the couch looking down at the girl.

"Hey Alycia," Everlynn gently speaks as her eyes look Alycia up and down. The Australian gently picks her head up and locks eyes with the girl in front of her. That's when Everlynn sees the bruises and cuts all along Alycia's face. They look better than they did at the trial. But still looked bad. Alycia's eyes were heavy, red. She looks exhausted and fact was she is. She hadn't slept and when she tried, flashes of what happened in the past 7 months flash through her mind. She couldn't deal with it.