Stuck In The Factory

Chapter 11: Don't Stop Running

RECAP: I looked around the dark corridor, moving down it with wary fear, I moved at the end, looking up at the torn ceiling, seeing a handle I could reel myself up on, when I reached up, a outraged scream sounded, as something pink threw itself down at me, causing me to yelp, scrambling back to get away, Marie stood there, her eyes filled with rage and resentment.

"I asked you to play fair! And you cheated Feather!" She snapped at me, ripping a pipe from the wall, shaking in fury as I backed away, afraid for how badly she was doing, she seemed to look ragged now.

"I HATE cheaters! Now... we're going to play one... last... GAME!" She snarled, pulling herself closer to me, I stared at her, my eyes round as an owl's, I felt terror grip at my like sharp claws tearing at my skin.

"It's called.... Hide... and.... SEEK!" She spat, her voice seemed to be warbling between her sweet facade and her own hateful anger, but something else too, her pupils became blown wide, hiding most of her green colour, her limbs ad become stretched way to far, and she'd positioned herself ready to pounce at any moment, I felt my eyes tear up, what had this place done to her? She didn't recognize me...

"10... 9... 8..." She started counting in her sweet facade, before fading back to her fury, I felt anxiety hit, as I turned to run at 9, hurrying to the door that was opening behind me, she doesn't recognize me, she'll kill me if she catches me.

I had to run, I had to run before she could catch me...

I had to run from my wife....

"7...6... 5... 4... 3... 2....... 1." Marie snarled out, counting down while I turned to run through the newly opening door behind me, rushing down to a stair case, looking down I chose to jump past the broken railing onto some lower stairs to get down faster, feeling a small amount of pain as I landed, continuing down the stairs as I kept running.

"When she stopped counting, everything was silent outside of my running footsteps, I felt terror grip me as I kept going, weaving around the corridor, going through twists and turns, trying to keep ahead of her.

My mind was swirling with thoughts, would we she really kill me? I don't know if I wanted to try and find out.

I found a metal stair case, hurrying up it as fast as I could, I was already tired and hungry from not resting or eating properly in days, I don't know how long I've been here now, but I know it's long enough to getting weaker from lack of proper self care.

Up the stairs was a hole in the wall that I pushed myself through, clambering across barrels to get through it, before continuing on, looking around the new room, I was surrounded by pipes in a maze like way, I moved to the left, finding another hole in the wall and crawling through that, to discover a new hole leading straight down.

I allowed myself to fall through it, finding more pipes, why did this place have so many, and when was it this big?

I moved on, I needed to find a safe place to rest and gather my thoughts, a place to figure out what I will do next.

I walked to the end of the corridor, turning left and carrying, looking around me often to make sure everything was safe and that Marie wasn't behind me.

I found myself in a new room with a lever, pulling it down I opened a door on  a conveyor belt, I hopped onto the belt, moving to crawl through, hopefully this was too small for Marie to get through.

I followed the winding path of the conveyor belt, but it was too dark for me to see, I wound up falling through a hole in the floor with a squeak of surprise, hitting the ground, as I looked around with wide grey-blue eyes.