Stockholm Syndrome ~Original~ // discontinued

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A loud band and a curse made me jolt up in the bed, fear running through me. Soon enough the fear was replaced by annoyance: seeing Charlie stand in the doorway, mumbling and rubbing his ankle. "What do you want,short stack?" I asked, standing up and groaning at my crinkled shirt. My thumb was sore, with dried blood from practically eating it when I was asleep.

"Tessa wanted to know if you slept well. I presumed you'd be awake since its ten in the morning and you've been sleeping for almost twenty-four hours." Charlie explained, leaning against the door frame, his foot hovering in the air.

Confusion filled my thoughts. The longest I had ever slept was fourteen hours; and that was when I was seven and my family and I had just come back from a trip to Italy. After a few minutes Charlie spoke up,

"We got another note too."

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I was sitting in, what seemed like, the living room? It was quite dark, yet it was relaxing. The dark grey walls complemented the black carpet yet there was no windows; all the light came from lava lamps, lights from a fish tank that replaced the west wall. It seemed like my ideal room - after my own, of course - except the one of the walls opened up into a weapons wall. That I'd leave out...

I was anxious on what the note could possibly of said, causing me to cover my hands with my grey jumper, letting my fringe fall over my eyes. My socks itched my skin under my black skinny jeans and my beanie felt like it was falling. I sighed as I waited for Tessa to join us, growing impatient of Charlie constantly giggling and blushing from whatever Damien was whispering to him. The site would of been cute, with Charlie pressed against the taller boy, Damien's arms wrapped around him as he mumbled into his boyfriend's ear. Well, I just presumed that Damien and Charlie were dating.

Tessa soon joined us, Damien looking up never taking his arms away from Charlie. She held her hand out for me, a blank expression on as she did. "Tessa Gray. Miss.Aris, am I correct?" She asked, I nodded in return and shook her hand. She faced the two boys, sending them a stone cold glare causing the two to separate. Damien sat between the Charlie and I, both of them straightened their posture so I copied their movement. "We received another note," The older lady explained, taking a note out of her jacket pocket.

"I see you recruited the girl, good. Now it'll be four against all of us, if she can even fight. How long do you think she'll survive, a week? Two days? Probably less. Good luck Lost Boys. Tell the traitor their old friend said hello."

"She's fighting with us?" Damien asked as soon as Tessa finished. Tessa simply nodded, "She has to."

"But, Matt doesn't want her involved in this!" Charlie practically screamed, fear laced in his voice. I didn't want to get involved in this either, I only came to help with the background stuff - like investigating and deciphering clues or just helping with moral support.

"We all know that she'll be the first target, that's why we brought her here! Other wise we would never bring her here, she can't stay there, they know where she lives." Damien backed up Charlie.

"We can't protect her all the time. She'll need to defend herself, she'll need to learn." Tessa said, her voice cold. "Start training as soon as possible."

Both boys sighed and Charlie gave me a timid smile. "Well,what are we waiting for?"

Word count: 611

I want to update at least two more times this week, before half term ends. Depending on the chapter lengths for the next two, I will hopefully. I'm going to start adding questions at the end of each chapter now, just to see what you think of what's happening in the plot. Please answer, I'm doing it for you guys so I can help shape the plot a bit, if it's not a drastic change.

1 - Who do you think the traitor is? And what do you think they did?

2 - Also, how do you think Liz will do in training? What do you think she's training in and who's teaching her what?