Dying is Not an Option

Chapter 6, The Nightmare Continues

Chapter 6, The Nightmare Continues

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Thanks.

Kat

Recap:

Tamera ordered me to make breakfast for 8, and when I finished making the food, she pushed me back in to my room, and locked the door behind me. I was rather puzzled, by the amount of food that she had me make. But all I could think of is who was their company. I wonder who would come here?

I stumbled over to my mattress and sat down. I tried not to go to sleep but the next thing I knew I was back in the dream. I was standing in the middle of the forest, my wrist was still covered by the cloth that I had wrapped around it. It was still stained with my dried blood and I was really puzzled, why am I having such a strange dream and how was it manifesting in reality.

I slowly started walking around, when I suddenly remembered, that my daddy taught me how to find my way out of the forest. I'm sure no one would be looking for me here, so I circled the trees looking for signs of moss, which would show me north. When I found a tree, with moss, I carefully studied and started walking in that direction. All I could feel was helpless and I wanted to remember everything Dad had said.

As I thought about Dad, I felt so alone, I wondered, if you and Mama are watching me? Did they know what was happening to me, do they understand this. I was so scared and I asked myself, "do you know anything about surviving in a forest, I don't know how to get out and I don't know what I can safely eat. If you eat in a dream, will you still feel hungry when you wake up?"

Duh, what a stupid thought, of course you would still be hungry. How many times, since Dad died, have you woken up, from a dream of sitting down to a feast with him and Mom.

Slowly, I headed out to the forest checking a tree, occasionally, to make sure I'm still headed the right direction. Hopefully, towards someplace where there are people. As I shivered in my thin clothes, I wondered, if this was my fate, to die in my dream of hypothermia.

I am trying to be careful, where I put my feet, but I'm so tired, that I'm just stumbling, over my own feet and the rocks on the ground. It had gradually gotten rocky and the trees thinned out, until there was only an occasional pine tree. Not very many, I had no idea of what day, month or even year, was spring or winter or fall, I don't know. I knew it wasn't summer, as none of the trees had any leaves, but in the other seasons, they could be just getting them or having just lost them.

I shivered and when I finally stopped shivering, I was getting sleepy and I was numb.

I blinked my eyes and I was on the ground. I don't remember falling,

It just doesn't matter anymore. ... I'm just too tired , ...

have to rest ...

have to sleep ...

I don't care if I dream ...

I close my eyes and as everything faded away, "I thought, could you dream in a dream?

And it seemed like I got warm, like, I've had a warm bowl of soup,

That was just funny because I knew that wasn't going to happen.

I 'm so sleepy ...

Just for a little while, ...

As everything went black, I thought I saw someone standing over me but,

I started hearing noises and I was so pissed, I was finally getting some sleep. But when I heard someone say my name, I opened my eyes and everything I saw was blurry and somebody said she's waking up.

I heard Tamera say "Is she going to live, she has to live a little while longer?" I heard another voice say "I didn't know, she might live but she's really weak. Its been really cold, and you haven't had any heat, in her room, so she's been getting weaker, all the time. On top of that, you've barely let her eat, she looks like an anorexic."

Tamera said "Listen you she has to live for another week's, she's going to be 16! she has to live until her 16th birthday."

Going to be 16, that can't be right!

Two years, I've been their SLAVE for two years!

I felt a sting and everything just started fading ... away,

TWO DAMN YEARS!

Try to fight, maybe they will help you get away...

FIGHT, Fight, ... fight, fig...

Two year...s.., I couldn't fight the darkness, but I was pissed.

Tamera Point of View:

I can't believe that fucking bitch is trying to die on me. I have not spent this much time and energy, for her to die, before I get my big payday. I didn't spent 6 1/2 years married, to that boring stick, and now another 2 years, for this puta (whore, bitch to die, before, I find a way to get to the money. That 10 million dollars is mine, not some Cabron (fucking bastard) partner. "Why can't I find out who the hell it is?"

That damn attorney won't give me any information and no one at his office has taken my bribe. Why the Hell can't I get a name?

Wild thought: "Maybe I should just break-in, I could get it that way." No, can't do that, but Rafe would know someone. Maybe even do it himself.

"Rafe, Rafe, come here. I've got an idea."

Unknown Viewpoint:

I really feel sorry for this poor girl, she has scars, bruises, and lacerations all over her body, but I can't get involved. I have to stick to my plan, too many people have said, that Rafe is involved in the organizing of the rogues and the human slave trade.

I need to get him to trust me, and if I push them, to treat her better, they will not believe I'm trustworthy. We need to find out what he's planning. My sister has been missing for two years and I've been told he can tell me where she is.

The number of rogues seen lately has increased by over double, the last estimate is that there are 200-300 in the Quad-pack area. That is unacceptable, too many women have gone missing. The few bodies that have been found were mutilated beyond recognition. We had to use dental records to identify the last three,

Quad Roman is running out of patience with each day that passes and we get more and more reports of missing or murdered women and girls.

Note: one of the authors I'm reading puts odd facts about herself at the end of each chapter, does anyone think that's weird or interesting?