STAY WITH ME ▹ ANDY STRUCKER [ON HOLD]

EXPLOITED

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❛ season one — episode ten ❜
❛ eXploited ❜

          I HAVE NEVER BEEN LOCKED UP BEFORE, my body actually felt weak. I was sharing a cell with Lauren who was sulking in her seat while I laid my head down on her lap. Her hand made its way into my hair and started playing with it like back then.

"Ugh, this thing itches," Andy says jumping up and down from his stance.

"Hopefully, that's all it does," I sigh.

"Stop messing with it," Lauren advises.

"Look, we can't just sit around, okay? We've been locked up in here for hours. Hey. We want a lawyer, or whatever! Can any of you creeps hear me?" Andy yells holding onto the bars.

"Don't do that," Lauren demands "Andy, please."

"I said we want a..." Andy begins but stops when the buzzing of the collar hisses. The room shakes as he does the same

"Andy!" I call out getting up from my seat and near his. Andy falls to the ground still keeping his grip on the deadly collar when suddenly it stops. Andy moans and groans as it ends.

"You okay?" Lauren asks.

Andy pants answering her question "What's gonna happen now?"

Both siblings look at me "They have to charge us at some point. Probably with some terrorist thing but in all honesty, I don't know what's going to happen," I shrug.

"I'm scared," Andy admits.

"Me, too," Lauren says from behind me as she squats down joining our little sitdown.

"Do you think... Do you think we could have used our power together to escape?" Andy questions "I know I said we couldn't. But now, I feel like we're trapped in here, and it's my fault."

"No. You were right. There were innocent people in that building who would've died. You saved them," Lauren reminds him.

"You saved me," I give him a half smile.

"Who's gonna save us?" Andy asks. Lauren takes a moment to think but in the end, nothing came out.

Everything was going fine until a bunch of security guards "What are you doing?" I frantically ask as they all grab onto me, Andy, and Lauren. There were at least two guards for each person. My guards were rough and handled me like nobody should be handled. I wasn't even a mutant, for crying out loud! I struggle out of the grip as I see Andy and Lauren being handled differently than me.