Catch Me // Spider-Man (BOOK 1)

Chapter 13 - Promise me?

The scream that emitted from me when I realised what a predicament I was in was enough to shatter even the thickest of glass. It seemed that way anyway. If Peter was still in the building somewhere, conscious or unconscious he would have heard that. There's no doubt. If he wasn't aware I was in trouble he would be now.

Connors, the lizard whatever you want to call him literally picked me up and threw me over his scaled shoulder. He started trudging towards the girls toilets for whatever reason and I kicked and hollered the whole way. If he was taking me, I was going to make sure I didn't go quietly.

"Where is he? Where's Spider-Man?" I yelled in tremors when it dawned on me something terrible could have happened.

"I think you mean Peter Parker, Miss Adams." The way he spat out Pete's name with such venom terrorised me even more.

As we entered the girl's bathroom it was immediately obvious that this is where Connors got in. One of the cubicles had been completely ripped out and there was a huge hole in the ground where one of the toilets used to be. I had a very strong feeling that this hole is where we were headed. It scared the crap out of me. No pun intended.

At that point my screaming reached a whole other level. This didn't subdue Connors though. He just gripped tighter. So tight in fact, that his claws broke my skin, broke it in such a way that deep gashes were now prominent across one of my arms. I'd never felt pain like it.

"What have you done to him?" I stuttered in a whisper, tears engulfing my eyes.

"It's not what I have done. It's what I am doing. He wants to take away my future so I am taking away his."

"You mean me? He'll never let you get away with this."

"It appears I already am."

After what felt like hours but was probably only a few minutes I could feel the endless cries and crazy pain in my bleeding arm getting the best of me. We were underground, travelling through water logged tunnels that were connected like subway routes. Where the hell was he taking me? I shouldn't have gone back into that frigging school. It was all taking its toll and it wasn't long before everything started to go dark and blurry. The last thing I was aware of was being thrown to the ground, my arms forcibly synched together on a pipe with cable ties. There was a make shift lab surrounding me, computers, serums, anything you could imagine would help in researching mutant lizards.

"Please don't kill me?" I begged the lizard man as I could feel myself sinking into unconsciousness. My words coming out in an exhausted drone.

"I have no intention of hurting you further. I want to scare him. I want him to feel for a few minutes how I feel every moment of everyday, hopeless. I will leave and he will find you soon, and when he does you can explain to him how pathetic you humans are, how weak, how devoid of any strength. I will fix that. I will fix it tonight."

It was then that I drowned. It was then I let the blackness take over.

"LAUREN? LAUREN? LAUREN?" Minutes later I was pulled back to consciousness, the pained screams, getting closer and closer and bringing me back.

"Pete?" I whispered as my voice struggled to make itself known. I needed him to hear me. I needed him to find me.

"LAUREEEENNNNN?" He yelled even louder. The panic in his voice was unlike anything I had heard before. Connors had achieved what he wanted. He wanted to scare Peter. It worked.

Pushing the pain in my arm to one side I pulled the miniscule amount of energy I still possessed and brought it to the forefront. I took a huge intake of breath and voiced as loud as I could muster the one word I knew would get his attention. I said his name.