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Luke

They say right before you die, your life flashes before your eyes.

They lied.

Whoever THEY are.

The only thing Luke could see was darkness.

Well,If you can see darkness that is.

He was pressed against the wall, he could feel the weight of another body on him, but who's?
He was sweating under his shirt and in his hair.

Well, there goes my $15 hair gel.
He said to himself.

Shut up Luke,you're about to die!
Himself chided back.

Great! I get to spend my last minutes arguing with myself. Yipee!
He yelled furiously back to his brain as he continued to struggle with who, or what, was pinning him against the wall.
"You won't ever find them!"Luke yelled at no one in particular.
"Leave us alone!! It wasn't our fault. We had nothing to do with it! I wasn't even born then!!!" Luke screamed, with just a hint of despiration in his voice.
He was trying his best to be brave.

There was no reply.

He stayed pinned to the wall in the completely darkened room.

Which room?
He realised he didn't even know.
He couldn't remember?
Cold fingers crept down his spine.

Bang bang bang...... Someone was knocking??
Gods!! Where?

"Please just leave them alone" He felt a lump form in his throat.
"They'll go away, far away!! They won't come back,I promise. Just let them leave please" He was desperate, He was begging.

There was no reply.

There was silence for what felt like eons.
He counted in his head.

One, two, three, four, five, six........

Suddenly, He felt the pressure leave his chest, for the first time in forever He could move.

Bang bang.... That banging again

He still couldn't tell what had been pinning him down. He just knew it wanted him dead;Him and his family.
But he wasn't about to let that happen, he was going to protect them no matter what the cost.

He turned to his left.
Darkness.

His right.
Darkness.

Behind him, nothing but wall. Cold,thick concrete wall.

Bang bang............

With the last of his strength he launched himself forward,pushing his right palm off the wall to give himself an extra boost.

Then it happened.

Luke saw it 0.05 seconds before it came.

Something big slammed against his chest,pushing him backward with lightning speed,straight into the wall.
He rammed against the wall so hard he felt all the molecules in his body vibrate. And at least four of his ribs breaking simultaneously.

Luke could swear on all that was holy that the wall cracked under his skull.

Bang bang bang bang...... Where was that damn banging coming from?

Before he had time to focus his eyes again, he caught a glimpse of something silver in front of his face.

Too late.

Slash... Four extremely long, extremely sharp fingernails came scraping down his face, then something wet which he guessed to be blood came trickling down his face before he had time to register what was happening.

It was getting into his eyes, which weren't very much useful then anyways.

How did I get myself into this? He asked himself.

Well, you do have a knack. That voice in his head was starting to piss him off.

I didn't know, I didn't know.... He was just in my head, it was just a dream. He isn't supposed to be real......

Yet here he is.....

I won't let him find them, I'll die if I have to. But I will not let him hurt them. He made a silent promise of it to himself.

I.....

Slash... The silver claws came down on his face again, this time he could taste blood.

He knew exactly how he got here, up until this moment he had been trying to deny it.
It had happened before.
He knew why they wanted him dead, and he had just dragged his whole family into the crossfire. This was not supposed to happen.

They wanted HIM.

Bang BANG!!!!!

For the first time that night, Luke was angry.
Really angry.

He remembered when it all started.
Two years ago.
They started talking to him.
The voices. They were supposed to be just in his head.

In my head, he thought.
The voices aren't real.
The voices aren't real.
The voices aren't real.....

"Yet here I am" said a cold voice, a silent hiss.

BANG BANG..

That got Luke mad. He's reading my thoughts.
NOBODY READS MY THOUGHTS!!

With the last of his strength, he surged forward.

To die.

Then BANGGGG!!..

A wall came crashing down Jericho style, then a light,a blinding light. It was like waking up in the middle of the night with the lights on in the room.
Was that THE light?
Was he dead already?

The images came flooding in,flashes.

I guess it does flash before your eyes.... Huh.

When he first came to Luke. Two years ago.
He let the thoughts consume him.
He closed his eyes to the lights thinking..
This is the last light I'm gonna see.