Love & death: Feel it all

Svetlana

The place where I woke up wasn't at all what I expected. Something inside me felt wrong. Weak and maybe high. I thought I would wake up in a dark cold basement or in a bathtub with blood oozing from my body. But this looks more like someone's bedroom, except it's lit up by red LED lights. It's bigger than any bedroom I've ever had and it doesn't have as much stuff. No posters, no clothes, no makeup or plants. Theres a bed and some furniture and an open door leading into a dark hallway.

When I try to stand up, my legs give in and I fall to the ground with a thump. I freeze in my whole body praying to myself that nobody heard it.

I have no idea what Svetlana wants with me, to be honest I thought she was dead. And she was Gustav's girl and he's gone now. We barely knew each other back then but she was nice to me. Why would she kidnap me?

I decide to crawl to the door slowly which is all my body can take for now. I look from sidw to side out the door into the dark hallway, only poking my head out. It looks empty but at the far end on the left, it seems to be going down.

Get up... get up... get up. I manage to stand on wobbly legs to prepare myself if I have to run. I don't know what to expect, but if someone sees me, I can't crawl away from them. They'll catch up with me. So I take one wobbly step at a time as if I'm a baby, getting to know what feels like new legs.

I finally reach the stairs at the end. They go in a sort of square spiral down. I can see about three pairs until I'll be on the floor.

The steps are easier than flat ground because I can lean against both the wall and the safety rail looking thing on the other side. It doesn't look as nice as the bedroom and I can see red LED lights coming from where I'm going. It doesn't look nice.
I feel as if I'm willingly stepping into a slasher movie where I'll be the first one to die. Strapped to a table or cut up with a chainsaw. Not my plan for today. All I want is to go home and be with Bill. I just got him back.

The stairs are stone with what looks like prison bars on the side that I support myself on. My heart beats faster and faster the further down I get. And when I reach the bottom, my heart stops for a second.
I hear a familiar voice. A laugh. A child's laugh. As a mother, I know my own daughters laugh when I hear it, and I have to find her. It's Cat and I know she's here.

I take three wobbly but rapid steps towards the noise, before I am stopped by gentle slim hands on my shoulders.

"Not yet princess. You'll have to wait until the whole family arrives." Svetlana says with the familiar slightly russian accent. It digs into my soul like an ice cold knife.

"What are you talking about?" I ask her, not thinking about anything better to say. I don't know what to say in these situations.

"Well obviously we'll have to get Bill and Tom before you get to do anything. If you see Cat now you'll just run away with her. Or try to." Svetlana says. As if I wouldn't try to run away if the house was full of the people I love.

This is all starting to feel like too much for me. Every time I think things are starting to go well, someone gets kidnapped, killed or shot. But now that I think about it, couldn't they have taken Tom then? If they want all three of us.

"Where is Tom?" I ask Svetlana, straightening my back to seem more assertive but she just scoffs at my attempt.

"How am I supposed to know? I have someone else searching for Bill and Tom now. I've gotten word that Gustav is out of sight though. We'll be taking Georg and his whore as well." Svetlana says. To me, it sounds like she doesn't know where Tom is either. If I don't know, and she doesn't know... where could he be?

Toms pov:

The cold metal almost shocks me awake. When I open my eyes, I wonder if I was actually shocked awake with electricity. It seems like the kind of thing Nick and his men would do. I've seem them do it.
A bright big spotlight is shining directly down on my face. I feel the panick rising inside me when I feel like a little boy again. Just run away from my uncle and Bill did something he wasn't supposed to, and I was blamed.

"There he is!" Nick exclaims and leans over my head, blocking some of the light. I blink, getting used to the dark figure in front of the light.

"I bet you're pretty confused in your little pretty head, huh? Must hurt too." Nick says. Now I notice the pumping pain in the back of my head from getting hit by whatever it was.

"Well... we actually have no point in keeping you here..." he pauses before he continues "other than for good old times sake." Nick says. I stare at him with worry. There are more important things I need to do now that he's helped me. I can't just lay here strapped to a metal table and do nothing. I have to get back to Scarlett. What if Bill has gotten out of the hospital?

"Let me go... I have to find my daughter." I tell Nick, but I know he won't listen. He's already made up his mind. This is who he is. He's going to keep me strapped to this table, torture me and hurt me until he feels like it's enough or he gets bored.

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