Is it Safe to go Back?

Nolan//Chapter 18

*No One's POV*

In the coldness of a conference room in a building that appeared to be a bank from the outside, Anna Collins was asleep on the cold floor. Her feet were chained up to the wall so she couldn't escape and a camera in the corner of the room watched her every move. She had been here for the last day and hadn't woken up yet. Isabel who had been quietly watching the whole time was starting to get worried.

"She should have woken up already" she kept saying as she continued to watch all day and wait for her sister to wake up. Meanwhile, Carrie Graham had other things on her mind.

"Come on Nolan, you must have something she can do, the girl just wants to know her sister is okay. She isn't a bad person, and she never did anything to give you a reason to kill her!" Before she could say another word she was pinned against the wall, an angry Nolan holding her up with just one arm.

"Don't you dare question my decisions, the girl has proved herself to be a great threat many times before. We already lost Alexander, Elijah, and Lucas because of her! Also, I never said she was guaranteed certain death, I'm just saying if any of her friends show up trying to save her again or her little pain of a sister tries anything stupid, I will not hesitate to kill her. Understand?" he yelled, Carrie just slightly nodded her head as much as she could without being choked.

"Ye-es" she choked out and the grip around her neck was released, as Nolan walked out of the room.

"Go see if she is awake yet, and if not then wake her up!" he yelled as he headed to his office.

*Anna's POV*

"Wake up!! Come on, you've been sleeping for a whole day! Get up!!" I heard a woman yelling in my ear as I was being shaken like a rag doll. My vision was blurry as I struggled to open my eyes, I felt better rested than I had in a long time.

"What's going on?" I ask when I'm finally able to open my eyes fully. "Wait! Where am I?" I screamed, I was in some sort of conference room or something and Isabel was standing above me glaring at me. She had a red hand mark on her neck and her mouth was moving but I couldn't understand anything she was saying. She kicked my leg,

"Are you listening?" she asked, with no sorrow or regret evident in her voice. Her voice. It was different. Harsher. More mature. Older. This wasn't Isabel. Memories flooded my mind, the shirtless make out session, the family dinner at Red Robin, finding out Isabel is still with the gang, and Carrie had been pretending to be my sister for the last 5 months, and being kidnapped by Carrie.

"So basically my boss thinks you're someone special so just follow me and do everything he tells you to and you won't die." She said as she unlocked the chains around my ankle.

"What about my sister?" I asked weakly, my arm hurt.

"She'll be fine too as long as you follow orders." When she finished getting the chains off my ankles I stood up and she grabbed my hands and handcuffed them behind my back, "Just a precaution, so you can't run off." She said snapping the handcuffs closed. She pushed me forward and out the door. She led me down the hall, down some stairs, and finally she led me through a door at the end of a hallway.

"Wait in here, I'll go let him know you're ready." She said right before taking the handcuffs off and reentering the twisting and turning hallway.

"Ready?" I asked myself confused. "Ready for what?"

"Your interrogation." A weak familiar voice said from the corner.

"Isabel?" I asked with tears welling up in my eyes.