Hailey Upton / Caged birds

Chapter seven

"Is she alive" "i think so, she is breathing, right?" "should we do something" I can hear faint voices around me. My eyes felt so heavy, i tried to open them but my vision was still blurry. "Where am i" I asked "I would tell i you if i knew" a voice answered. I blinked my eyes a few times, trying to focus my sight. I saw two girls sitting infront of me. "Wait, you are Julie and Angela. Right?" i asked. "Yeah? How do you know us" Girls asked. "i'm Hailey, i'm a police officer, i'm investigating your kidnapping. Or atleast i was" i said looking around me. "are you girls hurt?" i asked. "nothing severe, just a couple of scratches. You on the other hand, you look like shit, no offense" Julie said. We were locked up in some kind of prison or a cage. "do you guys know what this place is?" i asked. "well i guess this is some kind of old kennel, you know for dogs. But more specifically i don't know" Angela said. "So did you came here to save us, is someone coming?" Julie asked. "i hope so" i answered. I slid myself closer to the cage door, trying to see more. This place was full of cages and we weren't the only ones here, there was atleast five other girls. Then i could hear a heavy metal door open. Julie and Angela tried pointing me to get away from the door. "Good morning little birdies" the man said. "it's time for you daily meal" he then shared everyone a sandwich and a glass of water. He stopped at our cage and looked me straight to my eyes. "You don't look scared, not yet atleast. I'll see you later today" He said and headed back to the door. "what was that about" i asked girls. "That man is sick, he keeps us here as his "birds". Everyone here is afraid of him." Angela said. "i just want to go home, my parents must be worried sick" Julie saids. "We are gonna get out of here" i tried comforting them and maybe myself too.

few hours passed and the man came back. He was walking towards our cell. "it's time to go" he said opening the cage. "I'm not going anywhere" i fought back. "haha, i think you're my favorite, these little ones don't have the courage to talk back" the man said. He grabbed me from my wrist and pulled me away from the cage to the aisle. He was pulling me after him. I couldn' reserve weight on my right leg so i was kinda just sliding after him as he was pulling me from my arm. He took me to some kind of old office. He must have been spending time there because he had a bed and everything in that office. Finally he let go of my hand. "you know you kinda did this to yourself when you tried to escape." He said pointing to my knee. let all of these girls go" I said. "yeah, i will. Eventually." He said. "why are you doing this, what do you want from me" i asked. " if you let us go now, i can talk to the police and tell that you are cooperating" i said. "You know, you are the prettiest of my birds." he said ignoring everything i just said. "you are too pretty to be kept in a cage, i think i'm gonna keep you here with me." he said. This guy was out of his mind. He walked behind his desk and grab some rope from his desks drawer. Then we walked towads me and grabbed me from my wrists. He tied both of my wrists to a pole on the wall. Then he squat before me and just stared at me. I felt so uncomfortable, this guy was disqusting. He lifted his hand to my cheek and kept staring.
"you know what we are gonna do next? We are gonna call your friends" he said and stood up and walked back to his drawer. What is this guy up to. From the drawer he took my phone. "who is your boss" he asked. "what" i asked "i said who is your boss" he yelled angrily. "Voight, Hank Voight" i answered. "Let's give him a call" he said and lifted my phone to his ear.

Jay's pov:
Couple more hours has passed. Voight and Kevin were now back at the station. We were almost out of ideas. We had already checked everything up and we had no idea where Clark was keeping them. Suddenly Voight stormed out of his office and showed his phone to us. Hailey was calling him. He answered and turned it to the speaker.
V: Voight
C: Hello
V: Clark, stand down now and then we can still help you.
C: oh no no, i couldn't do anything like that. 
V: What do you want?
C: Actually i have an offer for you.
V: Let's hear it.
C: I'm going to set some of my birds free. Now your job is to decide which birds.
V: Is this supposed to be some kind of riddle?
C: I have 8 birds here with me, sad and in cages. Now i'm giving you a chance to choose, do i let free these seven pretty birds or do i let go only just this one bird that seems to be a little more precious to you. It's your choice.
V: No, we are not playing your games, you have to stand down and let go all of the girls unharmed.
C: I'm going to make a whole world to see my beautiful birds. Choose wisely. What do you think the world would say when they here that you chose just to free one instead of seven.
V: How can we know that they are even alive?
C: You will see, you have one hour to decide.

After that Clark ended the phone call. "That son of a bitch, he is blackmailing us" Voight said. "That guy is a psycopath, he was talking that those kidnapped girls are his "birds"" Adam said. "What can we do, if media found out that we chose to save Hailey insted of those seven girls, it wont be good" Kev says. This is a impossible situation. Ofcourse we want to get Hailey to safety as fast as we can, but what about those seven girls. I hate to think that Hailey is with that kind of maniac. I hope she is okay.