After Midnight

Chapter 25

I watched as Barry broke the legs off of all one chair and hand them to us. He took the knife and the razor blade and taped them to the tips of two of the legs while I wrapped Dalton's wrist tighter. He handed me the one with the razor and the regular ones to Dane and Dalton.

"Why does she get the one with the weapon?", Dane whined.

"Dalton's hurt, and I don't trust you with sharp things"

"Fair enough", Dane shrugged. Dalton walked over to the door and grabbed the chair that we had jammed the door with, just in case locking it wasn't enough.

"You guys ready?", He asked, looking back at us. I nodded.

"Wait", Dane said."What about him?", He asked, pointing to the man we had tied up."Aren't we gonna see who he is?"

"Actually..", Barry walked over to him and cut the ropes around his wrists. We had tied them in case he woke up.

"What the hell are you doing?", Dalton asked, stepping towards him.

"Don't worry about it", Barry pulled him up and shoved him against the wall.

"Give me your jacket and your mask", Barry said and took a step back from him.

"Go to hell", He mumbled and rubbed his temples.

Barry held the end of the leg that had the knife and hit him in the jaw with the other end twice. I turned away and Dalton put his hand on my shoulder.

"I asked you nicely", Barry said. I looked back at him. The man coughed and dropped to his knees.

"I won't ask you again", He said. The man took off his jacket and handed it to him. He hesitated for a while before taking his mask off. He held his hands over his face.

"What? Are you scared?", He kneeled in front of the man at an angle where I could only see his knees and his arm."Come on, kid", He chuckled."Are you ashamed? Cause I would be"

He took his hands away from him face and stared up at Barry. Dalton walked over to him, put his hand on his shoulder and hit him hard. Then he pulled him to his feet by the collar of his shirt and shoved him into the wall.

"What the hell, Tommy?", He shouted at him.

"I didn't want to do this!", He shouted back."Dad made me do it, I had no choice"

"You always have a choice"

"Not when there's a gun in your face"

"He wouldn't hurt you", Dalton shook his head.

"Obviously he would. I'm surprised he hasn't put us both down already"

"You're his favorite, Tommy. You've always been his favorite"

"He almost killed me"

"He is killing me. If he wanted you dead, you'd be in my position. Not working with him"

"Why would he want me to work with him? I'm not strong. I can't hurt people"

"You can't hurt people yet"

"I don't want to hurt anyone", He shook his head and rubbed his chin on the side Barry and Dalton had hit him.

He looked like Dalton. The bright blue eyes and features were almost exactly like Dalton's. But Tommy had dark brown and curly hair instead of dirty blonde and straight like Dalton's.

Dalton sighed and shook his head."Come home. Dad won't be there for a long time, not now that I know"

"He'll find a way. He threatened to hurt mom", Tommy's eyes started to water."Even more than he already does"