Retaliation: the beginning

Chapter 4"One of the most difficult things in life is regret"

At anytime of the day something will happen to someone, and that someone might do the wrong thing, afterward they might wish they had done something different.

Elias rubbed his eyes as he looked around the room. "Where the-"

"Charming isn't it?" Aaron cut off, chained to a pillar.

It seemed like they were in a basement.

Elias shook off his dizziness and blinked up at his surrounding, a part of him was convinced it was all just a nightmare concocted from his wild imagination; he had to think for a minute because he wasn't too sure he actually remembered the whole story. But then he did, and it wasn't all good.

"Maybe our plan wasn't planed well," Aaron joked "obviously we didn't plan to get locked up with the person we planned to rescue." he continued.

Elias shook his head "Waw. That is a lot of 'plan' "

"Spare us the sarcasm will you?" that voice was quite familiar, Elias would recognize it anywhere, he heard it several times, he wasn't sure why but he looked for it, worried that he wouldn't hear it again.

Emily More was there.

"Emily?" the boy jumped in alarm but then slowed his movements when he looked at her, she was wearing the same dress he last saw her wearing but a bit stained and shredded, her feet bare and wounded, her appearance reminded him of that reflection he saw the other day at school.

"I'm not the one you should be worried about." she turned looking at Aaron.

"Wait, why are you the only one chained?" Elias remarked, from what Aaron could tell, he was examining everything around him and taking it in piece by piece. He was an observer; much like Aaron but Aaron was just not nearly as good.

Aaron just laughed "Can't handle to be singled out huh?" he said with the usual smirk.

"Don't play tough Blake you're injured." Emily argued.

"injured?!"Elias hissed.

"He fought with him. Playing hero? please." She scoffed.

"Why were we saving her again?" Aaron suddenly blabbered to himself.

"ok you guys we're in this together and you two fighting isn't quite helpful."

With that logic, Elias looked back at them making sure they were all in the same page, Aaron didn't have any problem following his friend's instructions as for Emily, she gave him a nod of agreement but then again she didn't have any choice.

"First let's get you out of these chains, if this is a basement there must be tools here somewhere." Elias sighed; the chances of finding a tool to break a chain were pretty small.

"I'll help you look." Emily offered a hand.

"And I'll be here waiting." Aaron finished "not that I'm going anywhere."

The place was a mess, thin electric cords dangled from the ceiling with spider webs at every corner. The wooden floor was layered with every step a cracking sound echoed the place, dust and torn books thrown all around a low table on top of it broken glass and tea service with a silver platter underneath, all this and yet, no tools.

Moments went by fast.

"This is hopeless." Elias finally gave up; he threw his body in a mattress on the floor gazing up the ceiling.

Gracefully, Emily followed and sat next to him "We can't get him out of those chains without a key; all we need to do is find a way to get out and get it."