Phantom Of The Labyrinth (the World Below)

Bond

A couple of hours later...

Nothing much has happened, most of the time B and James have been walking and gathering supplies and occasionally running into a random entity or the odd room now and then.

They have started to get along a lot better throughout the time, they would chat quite often with one another about each other to lighten up the mood.

James still seems to dislike B slightly, seeing him as someone who is just temporary and would hopefully get him out of this mess. they walked beside one another. James had his arms crossed and had a grumpy look on his face.

B looked down at him briefly. "What's wrong? You seem like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, have you had a bad day or something?" B teased.

James looked away from B seemingly more annoyed.  He then decided to ask B something. "Soo err B... How long have you been... Ermm. Here?" He said awkwardly.

B looked at him locking his eyes with James'. "Er it's unclear, I've been here for a while and think I have been here once before but I don't want to remember that time it was pretty horrible." B looks to the side as if he is remembering something completely awful.

James looked up at him with a shocked impression but became curious. "W-what d-do you mean b-by horrible?" James continued to look up at him still nervous by the situation.

"Never mind, let's just say it involved a bit of violence." B quickly pushed the question back.

James noticed a hint of shakiness in his voice, he did not want to talk about it so he didn't push on. "anyways, how come you were quiet earlier?"

"...well.." he paused trying to not come off as rude with his next response. "You seemed a bit...aggressive, randomly waking up and shouting at me in German, I didn't exactly...like that?"

"oh..." James paused. "so you just assumed that I would just try to beat the shit out of you? because I got scared?"

"it seemed far from fear." B joked.

James went a bit quiet. "well it's just a way of expressing it."

"an interesting way. It's basically flight or fight but you instantly thought of fight before considering flight."

James took a bit of offence to that. "well, I'm sorry, want me to...uh...kiss...no..."

B raised an eyebrow.

"never mind. just, let's just talk about something else, that if it doesn't end up offending anyone again." James looked away briefly. 'I just came off as really gay.'

"well, anything happened recently, like outside of this hell hole that is."

"no not, nothing notable, except for ending up here. B?"

"yes?"

"how long have I been here?"

"Like, about a day I think?"

"huh." James looked around. "I need to get back home."

"I've had the same thought for the past couple of months."

James' heart sank. "does that mean, I could be stuck here... for MONTHS!"

"Maybe, you can be here for a day, weeks, months, years, whatever really." 

"So, I could just never return back home? and be trapped in this fucking hellhole for god knows how long."

"Yes, but those freaks of nature that stalk this place isn't the worst thing here"