Skyfall

Chapter 2

   I'm bone tired. My muscles ache all over, but I still need to make Daniel some breakfast. I groggily get up, scratching my head and looking around my small plain white room. Then, I trudge into the kitchen where mother is sitting on our beige sofa and staring blankly at the small television set we have. Obviously she was doped up on her pills again.

   As I cook Daniel his breakfast, the roasting pork wafting through the air, I can feel something different. Something about today feels different from the normal sluggish days we've had in the past. I can feel in my soul that something big is going to happen, but I choose to ignore it and scrape Daniel's food onto a plate. Finally I go to his room, open the door where I see his tiny frame moving up and down. He's still asleep.

   "Daniel, wake up please its time to eat breakfast" I say, shaking his shoulder slightly. He slowly opens those beautiful brown eyes of his. "Em! Em, good morning" he gave me a toothy grin, sitting up and stretching.

   "Good morning Dani" I bend down and give him a small peck on his cheek. He throws his legs out of his bed and begins to swing them back and forth happily.

   "What's for breakfast, Emma?" Daniel asks, climbing out of his bed and leaving crumpled blue and white sheets behind.

   "Uh, just some toast with jam, and some bacon" I smile taking his soft little hand in mine. My fingers rub the smooth skin soothingly.

   "Yay I love bacon!" he cheers.

   "Yea that's why I made it, just for you, boo" I say, as we step out of the doorway and into the living room. He sees mother, and before I can react he gallops over and practically jumps on her.

   "Good morning mama!" Daniel says, trying to give her a hug. Instead of returning the hug she harshly pushes Dani shouting, "Give me time to wake up before you come to me with all that lovey dovey crap!"

   Daniel roughly lands on the harwood floor with a 'thud'. Before I can understand what my mother just did Daniel screams in horror. "Emma my bottom, it hurts, it hurts!" . I picked Daniel up from the ground and he tucked his head into my chest, sheltering him from the cruelty of my mother. Except this time, I didn't just let it slide. I felt a wave of anger flowing through my body.

   Before I know it, my hand has connected with my mother's face. I can hear the air getting whisked out of her. I clasp my hand over my mouth, my eyes growing in horror and realization of what I had just done. My mother looks quite surprised too, but her reaction isn't as late as mine. She quickly slaps me back, a warm redness spreading where she hit, and shouts at me. "Get out! You little ungrateful punk!"

   Daniel still wrapped in the security of my arms was now whaling for me to stop hitting mama. I ignore the tears growing in his eyes as I run to our rooms to pack up our things. I stuff all of our clothes into a huge duffel bag quickly. Adrenaline rushes through my veins and my brain is cloudy. This is the last straw.

   Just as I was walking out the door with Daniel he started to scream at me. "Don't leave BoBo behind!"

   Who is BoBo? BoBo? Oh, crap! BoBo was Daniels 'security'. It was basically his only form or comfort, besides me. I run back to his room and grabbed BoBo.

   I slammed the door on the way out of the house just to upset my mother.

   "Emma where are we going?" asks Daniel, the tears now almost gone; however, they are replaced by a thick coat of fear.

   "Some where much more safer than here..." I speak slowly, as we run away.

   "What can be more safer than home Emma?" he says softly, confusion filling his sweet voice.

   "That's not home Daniel...That's t-that's hell..."

   "What is 'hell'?" Dani's normally brown eyes look confused and scared.

   "Its a place where bad people stay...very bad people"

   "Then why is mama there? she isn't bad, is she?"

   I stopped to look at Dani. He is still so innocent. He doesn't know anything, nothing at all.

   "Dani...Ugh its to hard to explain, but she just cant leave hell..."

   "Yes she can...shes my mama...I love her"

   I stopped walking again. "Daniel she doesn't love you. She doesn't love anybody but her pills and the GTG. She only loves those things because she loves to see me and you in pain. She doesn't love you!. She doesn't love me! SHE DOESN'T LOVE US! THAT'S WHY SHE CANT LEAVE HELL DANI!" I felt my face heat up. I was crying and dizzy. I shouldn't have been saying those things to Daniel, it wasn't his fault he loved her, but I'm scared and confused too, and I feel numb.

   I turned to look at Daniel. His nostrils where flared and his face was red. He had tears streaming down his face "SHE DOES LOVE ME! SHE DOES! SHE DOES! SHE DOES! SHE TOLD ME!!!"

  "Dan-"

   "Shut up! I hate you! I hate you I love mama!"

   "Daniel no... just stop screaming!" I put my hand over his mouth and he calmed down, breathing heavily into my palm.

   "We have to get out of here before the GTG come and find us, mama has probably called them and said that we ran away..." I picked him up as he wrapped his arms around my neck. I ran as fast as I could.

   Soon sirens blared through the air as I ran to the fields. Daniel screamed and held onto me tighter, his fingers digging into my shoulders. I heard dogs and helicopters around us. I didn't dare look back, I was not taking that risk. As I kept running I noticed the fields in the distance started to seem closer. I picked up my speed. The gate to survival was right there. All me and Dani had to do was cross the border of Section C09.

   Section C09 means that we are the third safest place to live in Tenebris, the country I currently live in. The 'c' is there because it is the third letter of the English Alphabet. The 09 part means that we are in the ninth district of Section C.

   This means we are living in mediocre conditions.

   "Run faster Emma!" Daniel shouted snapping me out of my thoughts. I was dazed so I looked back to see what he was talking about. I'm such an idiot. Why did I look back...

   "Grarghhgh!" I screamed as I felt a hard yank on my back. The GTG had gotten a hook stuck in my duffel bag. I pulled my bag and tugged and tugged, but the GTG had already started to pull me and Daniel up with the hook that was connected to the helicopter. Daniel started to cry as we got higher off the ground, above the trees and old run down buildings. I kept thrashing around trying to set us free but Daniel just screamed even more.

   "Im slipping Emma, Help!" he shouted as I struggled to pull him closer to my chest. When the helicopter pulled us up it loosened my grip on his hands. The whir of the blades is deafening.

   "Daniel hold on!!!" I yell over the loud whisks of the helicopter. I can see the tears running down his cheeks as he slipps more and more. My face starts to heat up  as I tried to pull him towards me, but I was too weak.

   "Let go!" Daniel shouted. I could barely hear him before he started shouting "Im letting go Emma!"

   Once again I barely heard him and before the sound of his voice could hit me Daniel was out of my arms and falling to his death.

   "No!" I let out an ear piercing scream  seeing his brown eyes spill tears as he fell.

   I couldn't feel anything. I didn't know what to do, so I jumped too.