Memories and Strangers (A danisnotonfire fanfic )

16: Darkness

Fays POV

After some moments of perfectly awkward silence only disturbed by our loud breathing, I dared to say something. My heart was beating way too fast, and I was struggling with holding back the hot tears, that desperately wanted to leave my eyes. But I wouldn’t let them show how weak I was. I wouldn’t. He would have to at last think I was strong. They all had to. That was the only thing I had left. Now when Dan and Claire were out of reach and my chest got tight by the thought of maybe dying with this thing and never seeing them again. I dropped the thought and breathed in deeply.

”Why did you never call?”, I asked and now there was a black figure standing in the room and itwas screaming the question against the grey lifeless walls. The question asked so many times. And the hardest one to answer. Why?

”It’s complicated”. I had to hold back a laugh. He never called for two years! And when meeting him again, being kidnapped by some men, he just told me it was fucking complicated? It was obviously complicated. Too obviously. Too complicated. He had an explanation. He was the explanation why we were here. And I wanted him to tell me. Why?

”I know Dad”, I said as calm as I could, “but look at me. Don’t you think I can handle some answers? Some truth”, I hissed. He sighed and then said:

”You know nothing about where I worked, do you?”

”No”

”Well, I was the employer and the employee. Do you know what it is like to always lie?”

”Stop asking questions, Dad. I want to hear the truth!”

”Alright. Well, I was doing some, let’s say not a hundred percent legal, business with immovables. I was making a lot of money. And I dealed with a lot of people. Then suddenly the people were gone. And the people were still there. They said they would kill me if I wouldn’t pay them. They did. I would have never thought…”, his voice broke mid sentence. He bit his lip. Suddenly I felt angry. He ran away, leaving us behind with the little money mom and my brother made. He ran away without telling us why. He was just afraid. Nothing else. It wasn’t even that complicated!

”What would you never had thought?”, I shouted, erupting my emotions on him, “That they would go ahead and burn down our house, burn us with the house to get you back? Of course not. You don’t care!” He tried to touch my face but I slapped his hand away.

”I’m so sorry”, he whispered. I didn’t believe him. He wasn’t. He wasn’t even crying about the fact that his mother and son died. I was disappointed.

”Forgive me, please, Fay”. What? No! How could he ask for that.

”You can’t just show up and ask me to forgive you after all the things you did. You did them for money, worst of all”, I yelled and hit his chest. A tear now did run down his cheek, but it didn’t bother me.

We didn’t talk until we were woken up out of our light sleep by a man’s voice.

”What was all that yelling, little girl. You should be nice to your father”. We looked towards the door where the two men stood again. One of them had a mocking smile on his face.

”It’s time to go”, the other one said. I recognized his voice. He was the one that kidnapped me. I had so much hate inside of me, all I wanted was to scream it out. Then I decided to just do. Not the best idea. For my excuse, I was hungry and tired.

”I will scream until you let us go”, I yelled and then started screaming at the top of my lungs.

”Shut up, you stupid girl, you’re giving me a headache”, he mocked, obviously he thought I wouldn’t be able to hold on to this. But he didn’t know me. I carried on until he hit my head against the wooden box behind me. I fainted and the last thing I felt was his arms picking me up and throwing me over his shoulder.

I was never popular for having good ideas.

Dans POV

I tapped my fingers on the hard couch table, creating a hectical rhythm in the dark silent room. Claire was in her room taking a nap but I just couldn’t. My eyes were burning. I was tired. But I didn’t want to sleep.

I wouldn’t. Tom left 2 hours ago. It was already 5am. It could just take some moments until he would call. I was wondering where they were taking him. Why wasn’t he calling?

What if he’d wait too long and something would happen to Fay?

What if someone would find out?

I had more than one time considered to call, but then decided not too. It took all my self discipline to keep sitting on that couch. I just wanted to drive and do something. I had to. I jumped onto my feet, no longer baring the pressure. Then I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, reminding me of all the moments Fay and I had shared. I thought about our ice picnic. It was like the most exciting thing I had ever planned. I had Pj, Chris and Phil make it and I wasn’t sure how it was going to look and if they would be finished. But they were. And it was absolutely beautiful. And the sparkles in Fay’s eyes were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. The touch of her skin on mine, the most amazing thing I had ever felt. 

My heart was aching from worry about her and I felt a hot tear run down my cold cheek. My hand was shaking as I wiped it away.

I decided to switch on the TV to distract me. It didn’t work. The screen stayed black.

Did we have electricity?

I tried to switch on the light. It didn’t work. Then I took my phone. It was almost out of battery the last time I checked. I pressed the unlock button. The screen stayed black. It was out of battery. Completely. I felt like everything inside me was twisted around, my thoughts were a rollercoster.

What if Tom had already tried to call?

What if now Fay was in trouble?

What if it would be my fault if she gets hurt?

Panic grew inside of me. Shit!

I ran into Claire’s room. She had to had a mobile phone. She just had to.

”Claire!”, I shouted. She was sitting in the bed her eyes were open, staring at the opposite wall.

”What is it?”, she said, sounding incredibly tired. Of course. This must be really hard for her. Tom was her lover. And her best friend’s kidnapper.

”We don’t have any electricity”, I said, hearing the panic in my voice.

”And? You have a phone, don’t you”

”It’S out of battery”. She looked at me in the end, here eyes widening in surprise.

”How is Tom supposed to call us now?”

”I don’t know. You have a phone don’t you”

”I do. But, uhm, I’m not sure where it is. It was somewhere on the sofa. Uh.”

We got into the lounge again, hectically shoveling through the sheets and blankets.

”Got it”, Claire said.

”Please tell me it has battery”. Claire clicked some buttons. No light in the display. She clicked again. Harder this time. Still no light. It was off. It. Was. Off.

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