The Will to Live

Chapter 1

It has been so so long since He has last been in here. I should have known something was up when he guided my hand to the plate which held an entire apple and a full sandwich. I don't know if he was apologising for the fact that he was leaving me or if it was a last meal before he starved me to death. All I am aware of is that right now I'm stuck in a room without a doorknob or any way to see anything.

I'm so alone.

The unmistakeable sound of footsteps rings in the area of space outside my room before light floods in.

"Found another one!" A deep voice shouts. The first face, the first voice, the first light that I have seen in who knows how long.

Found?

"Hey sweetheart, can I call you that?" The man sits in front of me, lowering himself so he is level with me. I just stare, wide eyed.

How do I talk?

"It'll be better now, ok? We're here to take you home, to take you back to your family. Can you walk?" I shake my head, knowing that when I have tried to it never works.

"Ok, that's fine. I'm going to lift you so we can take you and all the others somewhere safe where we can help you." 

"O Others?" I rasp out, coughing afterwards, remembering how to get the words out.

"We've found at least thirty girls in this house so far. We believe there are many more to find still." 

I just stare at him, he sighs before slowly moving towards me, he wraps a blanket around me before lifting me up. He cradles me as he lifts me out of the tiny cupboard I've been in since I was fourteen. 

He pulls me out of the suburban house and sits me on a bed type thing. There were many ambulances around the street waiting to be loaded and I could see other girls being brought out of the house. Lights were flashing everywhere and there were news vans being scolded by the police. 

I couldn't see any sign of an arrest on Him. 

"Hi Hun, I'm Doctor Peters, can you help me to help you?" A kind lady comes to stand in front of me, white doctors coat on. 

I nod, pulling the blanket tight around myself.

"The police want to question all of you girls about what happened to you, but first you are all being transported to a hospital to be treated. The very first thing I need to know is your name."

"S S Sang. Sang Sorenson." I say in a hoarse, underused voice. 

"Sang hun, can we take you to the hospital?" 

"Please." I whimper, letting myself be guided by her hands into lying back on the bed and let her push me into an ambulance. A different doctor is inside, he's young and blonde. 

"Hello Pumpkin, I'm Sean Green, you're Sang?"

I nod, staring at him with wide eyes. 

"I'm going to be your doctor throughout your stay in hospital."

Sean Green's POV

Even when you are in the pool at your brothers house and you get a call to get to the hospital and climb into an ambulance you go, no 'but' about it. So that's what I did. I changed into my doctors scrub (I keep a set at each of my brother's homes), don my white coat and scrambled into action. When you find out that every ambulance from every hospital in the near vicinity has been ordered into circling between one spot and the hospital you know that something awful has happened.

When each Academy Doctor is assigned to stay in the ambulance and stick with the girl that gets pushed into their ambulance until they have fully recovered you realise that Phil was successful and the girls are all alive, at least mostly.

A young young girl got pushed into my ambulance looking extremely overwhelmed and extremely bashed up. The doctor inside me just wanted to treat her now but I knew we weren't in the hospital yet.

I introduced myself to her, reading her back her name and securing the gurney in the ambulance so it won't roll around. I banged on the side twice once I'd pulled the door closed and the driver took off.

"Tell me how old you are Pumpkin, I wont' be able to do much for your injuries until we get to the hospital for your old injuries but I need to tick you off the list of girls we knew he had or if we were unaware you were involved in this mass kidnaping."

"I I don't know how long I was there for." She whispers to me from the bed. 

"That's ok sweetheart, how old were you before." I can feel the rage boiling up that this girl doesn't even know her age, but I have to be professional right now.

"I was fourteen." 

"Ok love, your name hasn't come up so that means we weren't aware you were a part of this event. I need to fill out a form for you to put you into the list of girls involved so we know who to get statements from to lock this guy up."

"O Ok."

"Your full name please Pumpkin, and your birthday. That's all I need right now."

"Sang Sorenson. S A N G. S O R E N S O N. I was born October 6 1998"

Shit, that's only a few years younger then me. She was in there for such a long time...

I smile at her as I feel the ambulance come to a stop. I unhook the gurney and push it out and into the building, straight to an assessment room. I only vaguely noticed the line of academy staff including Erica waiting to swap into an ambulance.

An: I couldn't find what year Introductions was set in so I couldn't work out her actual birth year so I'm just  making it up to suit how old I want her to be. Thank you for reading xxx