The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 26-Escape

'Michael? Luke? Are you there? Can you hear us?'

A voice comes through to me, I jolt awake in the realization that I've fallen asleep. I sit up, and start looking around the room but find nothing unusual. Michael is still sleeping, I can hear him snoring lightly. I could've sworn I heard someone call my name. I sit back in frustration, I must be hearing things.

'Guys, are you there?' I rub my eyes and sit back up. That voice again? It sounded kind of like Calum I thought, but I hadn't heard him for days. I had to be imagining it.

"Huh?" I hear Michael say as his eyes jump open, he looks around the room. We exchange a glance, and I know that he'd heard it too. Maybe I wasn't imagining it after all. Was it really them?

'Yes.' We both think at once. There's a pause and I begin to think that both Michael and I were reacting to nothing. It's probably just a hunter's trick.

'You guys! Oh, my gosh!' A voice that sounds like Ashton thinks back.

'Ash we must be close to them.' Calum's voice says in an excited tone. My heart leaps a little, it sounds exactly like them. Did this mean that they'd finally found us?

'Yeah, I can hear them too.' The voice I thought to be Ashton agrees.

'I think we can both hear you?' I say to them, I glance over at Michael who nods quickly.

'So, you're together?' Ashton asks.

'Yeah, we are.' I tell them.

'Okay we're coming. We're just working out how to get you both out.' Calum's voice says a few seconds later.

Please tell me their plan didn't involve them giving themselves over to the hunters, as well. Michael had already proved that wasn't a good one.

'They're really, here, aren't they?' Michael asks. 'I'm not starting to go crazy, am I? Hearing voices is supposed to be the first sign of madness.'

I nod, 'I thought that was talking to yourself, but yeah I heard them too.'

'Phew, I was worried for a moment there.' He smiled back.

A few moments later, Michael started describing where he knew us to be to them. I sat back in relief that at least something seemed to be working out. Perhaps Michael's plan hadn't been such a bad one after all.

'Good, we're not far from there.' Calum said, 'Any idea which side of the building your being held in.?

'Not sure, but you should be able to find us now that the bond's back.' Michael suggested.

Of course, if I could hear them perhaps I could sense them as well. I closed my eyes. It was like a flickering candle flame, but I could tell that they were close. It seemed to fade suddenly, but I guessed that just meant they were out of range again because the bond was silent as well.

I couldn't fall back asleep knowing that Ashton and Calum were somewhere nearby and looking for a way to break us out. Michael didn't fall asleep again either. He'd started using his hand cuff to make patterns on the floor. There was a sense of anticipation between the two of us, I just hoped that they could pull it off. It wouldn't do any of us much good if one of them was caught, or worse.

An hour or so later, the door to the room opened. I guessed it must've been time to make me feel like an idiot for being a werewolf and not a hunter again. Two shapes walked in, their silhouettes illuminated by the light coming from the hallway behind them.