Broken

Chapter 53: I Remember

Astrid

"Hehehe stop, it tickles," my voice was small and delicate and it echoed throughout the room. He kept tickling me and making my laugh become higher and higher. My pushed him off me and crawled away from him still laughing and my smile curved brighter. But then he started to act really sad and he had this really silly pout across his face. I crawled over towards him "Jack I'm sorry I didn't mean to – Ahhh!!" he tackled me to the floor so he was staring down at me and our ocean eyes clasped together.

"Alana come here," he said reassuringly, he helped me sit up and held onto me tight while I leant down against him and looked up at him with my big eyes, I held onto his arms while he held onto mine. "When are mom and dad coming back Jack?" He sighed and answered "I don't know, but we'll see them again."

The scene the again changed and I and Jack were back in the factory older than we were a moment ago. Jack was on the other end of the factory room and I on the other and we both saw as our parents were lying dead on the ground. Their bodies drained of blood from disastrous wounds, with no sign of life. "MOM!! DAD!!" This sharp pain was running through me, I couldn't control what I was feeling; all that I knew was that it felt like I was reliving my own memory.

"Alana their gone!!" Jack shouted out at me. "There's nothing we can do about it now, their gone!" he ran over towards me and held onto me pulling me back away from them in case something bad would happen if I did get to them. Both our heads suddenly turned to face this sweet cackle of a laugh, we turned to see this blonde woman with hair like Roxie's standing with another woman with hair like Merida's.

"Well they shouldn't have messed with something that was none of their concern, now it's your turn," Roxie's mother laughed. I immediately pushed Jack aside and charged towards them. As I did so I could see Jack bent down to our parents aid and I could hear the last words of my mother saying to him "Take care of her....." and that was her final breath. Jack soon raced towards me and helped me fight against Roxie's mother.

"Why don't you just give up now, you're never going to win against us," she pushed Jack against these men who threw him to the floor and started beating him while she turned me round and held onto me tightly making me watch as they were beating my brother to pieces. "Watch as you lose him forever," I recognised that voice, my face turned to see Roxie and Merida standing next to Merida's mother.

"Like I said give up!" Her mother spat in my ear. "I'd never give up," I plunged my dagger into her stomach and her grip loosened on my dropping me to the ground and the men coming over to catch her as she collapsed to the floor. Roxie, Merida and her mom running to the woman's aid. I crawled over to Jack and held onto him. He grabbed hold of my hands and held onto me back. "You're pay for this!" Roxie screamed at us.

Moments afterwards, their men tore me and Jack away from each other "ALLY!!! ALLY!!!" Jack screamed out trying to reach for me as I did the same back. Soon the men knocked me out and everything in my picture faded. Soon I watched as they took Jack away from me, splitting us apart. The scene changed and it showed as I was in this hospital looking room of theirs and they injected this liquid into my body.

"This will make her forget everything that has happened in her life, she won't remember a thing, she will start from scratch," Merida's mom told her daughter and Roxie. They left me on the side of the road and left me passed out in the rain. Soon, Elsa and Anna's parent's came and picked me up and took me to the police station and they said, they had no claim to whom I was.

The police gave them permission to take me and raise me as their own as my whole other life was vanquished before me. The scene appeared back to Jack, Merida's mom and men still had hold of him. He looked beaten well and it seemed to me they were questioning him. "We will make a deal with you, you do as we say and you will get to see your sister again, other than that you will watch as we kill her in front of you, the decision is all yours."

I watched as Jack agreed to save my life and I watched as they told him to expose me in the college hall, how they told me send me the questionable notes, how to ruin everything for me just so they could get hold me so I wouldn't destroy their plans. How they threatened him when he tried telling me the truth all those times. "You bring her to us and you will be free to do as you wish, and never come back or we will kill her."

He sadly agreed and I watched as he came with this other guy as I and Kerri came out the cinema and they followed us back and then kidnapped us. Suddenly I woke up....