as i fall

Chapter 17 - Captured

Caleb’s P.O.V.

            My time is up.  The Seekers have found me.  I have to lead them away.  I want you never to think about me again.  To keep you safe.  I love you.

            “ALEX!” I howled out into the silence.

            For all I knew the Seekers could have taken her already, or she could have fallen over or… No.  She’ll look after herself.  But what if?  I can’t stand thinking about her being hurt or in any danger because of me.

            A half moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the forest in a gloomy eerie light, as if all the color has been saturated.  I didn’t think as I wandered through the trees, calling out her name, searching for any sign that she was here.

            I didn’t see the tree branch that was lying on the ground, and I walked straight into it.  A sharp pain spread across my shin, and I swore softly as I looked down at my leg.  That was definitely going to bruise.

            Limping back to my house in defeat, I felt a pinch in my arm.  Not thinking much of it, I continued on.

            I entered my house through the back door, and I stood there in the lounge room, looking at everything.  In the corner sat Alex’s note, scrunched up into a ball, and I looked away quickly as tears burned my eyes.

            All of a sudden, my eyes began to droop and my body felt heavy as if it had been drugged.  I tried to move towards the couch, but my legs didn’t respond and I collapsed onto the floor face first. 

I heard the locks on my front door open and footsteps come my way.  Two black forms stood in the door way and they talked among themselves whilst looking at me.

“Orders are to take him and to meet up with the others,” one of them said, and they both moved towards me.

Grunting, I struggled to stay awake but soon I was consumed by blackness filled with images of Alex.

Alexandra’s P.O.V.

            “Wake up!” a voice yelled at me, and I groaned as I tried to move, but something encircled my wrists and ankles, restraining me from going anywhere.

            “Good, you’re awake,” I identified the voice as the female from before, the one who drugged me.  The room I was staying in was mostly dark, but light streamed through a barred window, a speaker and video camera were position in the corner and the restraints that held me where I was were chains that were bolted into the ground.  Everything seemed so familiar.

            Then it came to me.  This was the room from my vision, the one of the future.

            I raised my hands to my neck and my fingers met cold metal.  A collar was around my neck and the chain was connected to the wall behind me.  Knowing that if I move too much, an electric current would be sent through the chains and through me, so I sat as still as I could.

            “Who are you,” I whispered to the walls, surprised that my voice didn’t waver to show how frightened I was.

            “My name is Adeline, and I’m the head of a secret department that handles unknown foreign threats, such as yourself.  Now, I have to ask you a series of questions and you need to answer with the truth, or you will get a shock like this,” she said, and a shock went through my body, making my limbs spasm and my head jerk back into the wall.  I shouted out in pain as it stopped, but I could still feel the current running through my system.