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:19: Maurice's Help

"It looks like everything is going well, Carnate. I'm very surprised though as to how I never realized you were pregnant before though..." the nurse laughs, while examining me in our room.

"I'm not sure either." I reply, looking up to her as she finishes and takes a step back. "May I ask a quick question, uhm...?"

"Maurice, my name is Maurice." the nurse replies, noticing my trouble with continuing the sentence without her name.

"May I ask a quick question Maurice?" I ask again, as she nods. "What will happen to the baby...if I gave birth to it here..." Maurice doesn't have to think one second before answering.

"The baby would then be held captive in here and it would grow up to become a Guard. You wouldn't be able to see it again, since it could grow up to be rebellious and fight back like you both had."

"That's horrible..." I whisper to myself, as I stand up and start pacing the floor. "I can't let that happen, how can I stop that from happening? You have to help us!" I fret, moving toward Maurice and clinging onto her.

"If I get caught helping you escape or even just getting your baby into your own arms, I could be killed..." Maurice hesitates. "the only reason I actually took this job was because I wanted to help those who needed it most after most likely being hurt extremely bad. I didn't sign up to help people escape...that's a big death penalty here and I don't want to die."

"So you'd rather have a young mother and father, who have to watch their baby be taken away from them?" Camic butts in, making Maurice turn to him immediately.

"I'd rather not have anyone in this situation!" she slightly yells, making me back up a step. "It's not my fault you two got caught while she was pregnant! Horrible timing if I must say!" she yells again, making me step all the way back to Camic. He grabs a hold of my waist and gently brings me down next to him on the bed as we listen to Maurice rant on and on about how she doesn't want to risk her life for such a thing.

One half of me respects her decision, but the other half is furious and wants to ask how she could be so selfish as to not help in such a situation as this one. "I want no part in this!" she yells once more, before stomping out of the room and slamming the door behind her. Immediately once she leaves I ball out in tears, making Camic and Jess startled within the second.

"We will figure it out." Jess says calmly, climbing down from the bunk bed and walking over to the door to look through the slot. "There has to be some way to get out of here..." he contemplates, as he tries opening the door with no luck.

"It's no use. We are trapped in here." I cry, wishing we weren't in this situation at all. We could all still be in the cabin with the warmth of the heater on, as we watched the snowflakes fall from the pine trees outside...if it weren't for me. I groan loudly as I fall back onto the bed and take a deep breath. I'm not having my baby in this prison, nor will I let them take it away from me and never have me ever see it again! It's my child not theirs!

"Carnate, why don't you get some rest?" Camic says, as he crawls up beside me and lays my head down on his chest. "Everything will work out; just try to get some sleep while it does." I nod slightly, before nuzzling myself down into him and closing my eyes. I can hear his heart beating softly in my ear, each beat soothing me to sleep until finally I doze off into a dreamless slumber.

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"Carnate, Carnate," I hear faintly in my sleep. "Wake up, common." I flutter my eyes awake to darkness, until I soon enough adjust and realize who stands in front of my bed, Jess. But he's not wearing the clothes he usually does, yet a dark grey and blue Guard's uniform.

"Why are you wearing that?" I fret, moving away from him a bit. 

"The nurse, Maurice...she came in while you were asleep and agreed to help us escape. This uniform is part of the plan." Jess says quickly, pulling me up from the bed.

"How did she gain access to a uniform?"

"She works here, she has access everywhere!" Jess replies, scooting me over to the door. "Now we wait until she comes back with Camic. They both went to get supplies for when we escape, since I know nothing about what we need to bring."

"Wait, but what's our plan? We need a plan." I tell him, looking through the small slot in the door.

"Our plan is that I will lead you and Camic out into the forest since I have the uniform on. It will look like I will be bringing both of you out there to be punished, when really we will escape."

"Well where are we running to even?" I ask, since we need a place to go.

"Now that you ask...I'm not sure. I guess we will have to figure that out once we get out there." Jess replies, making me already doubt our plan. If we don't have a location to run to, we might as well just keep running in circles.

My thoughts are tossed aside though, when I see Camic and Maurice both come walking down the hallway. I stand up immediately and move to the side, while they open up the door and walk on in.

"We have to hurry, the Guards awake for their morning run through any minute!" Maurice frets, handing me a small bag of the supplies they gathered.

"Thank you." I whisper to her, making her look over to me and smile.

"You're welcome." she whispers back, but losing her smile once we hear boots come tromping down the hallway. "You have to run now. Make sure you stay hydrated, fully fed, woundless, and moving in a forward direction. Don't go in circles and come running back to this place by mistake; they will capture you and I'm not sure if you will be able to ever escape again." she finishes whispering to us quickly, before tossing Jess out of the room; followed by Camic and I. We don't get too far though, for once we step out into the hallway the shout of a Guard is heard behind us..

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