Feral (Gabentine Fic)

Barbed Wire

I know he's hiding something from me. And I know it's something big. I had been tracking Lee's activities he's been doing every night and it's the same thing, over and over again. He goes out to that building at 12:30 in the middle of the night with a brown sack and stays inside for nearly 10 minuets. Then, he comes back out and locks the door behind him. Three nights I've watched him do this and tonight I'm going to find out what's inside that building.

It was well after 1 in the morning when I made my move. Lee had already done his thing tonight and I made sure everyone else was sleeping before sneaking out and making my way towards the building. The moon was my only light as I moved quickly to the entrance of the building, digging the key out of my pocket and pausing. There was a slight sound coming from inside, it almost sounded like someone singing. My hands worked shakily on unlocking the door and I fought with it for a moment before a click sounded and the door opened.

I took a deep breath and opened the door fully, the scent of blood immediately hitting my senses. I grimaced at the smell and put my hand over my mouth and walked forward. The halls were dark and had little lighting in them. My feet shuffled through the dark and lead me closer to the source of singing that was getting louder. I was getting closer and the voice was becoming clearer and I realized that it was very hoarse, as if it had been strained from hours of screaming and shouting.

"I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh. I want to hold you high and steal your pain away."

I rounded a corner and seen another steel door that held the owner of the voice. It had bloody hand prints all over it and the stench of blood had gotten stronger the closer I got to the door. My heart began pounding in my chest but, I clasped the handle in my hand and opened the door.

"Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome. And I don't feel right when you've gone away."

There was a cage in the middle of the room with a dim light shining down on it. Blood was splattered on the walls and floor, leaving me to gasp at the horrid scene I had walked in on. I walked closer to the cage and peered inside, seeing barbed wire around everything and also seeing something that made me completely stop.

A figure was sitting on the floor in the middle of the cage, covered in their own blood and looking down at the floor. The figure was chained to cement blocks with barbed wire wrapped around their arms and legs. The amount of pain they must be in did nothing to hinder their song that they were singing.

"You've gone away. You don't feel me here anymore."

The figure moved slightly as they finished and the barbed wire slit up his arms at the movement. Blood was literally dripping from them and the sight made me drop the key I was holding. The figures head snapped up and I thought I was going to become sick when I recognized them big yellow eyes.

"Gabe?"

He opened his eyes wider to look at me before shooting me that smile of his that had my heart stopping.

"Hey, Clem."

I rushed to the gate and found it to be locked with a padlock. I wanted to cry at the sight but, remembered that I had a bobby-pin in my nightstand in my room.

"Gabe, I'm coming right back. I have to get something to unlock this and then I'm getting you out of there. Okay?"

Gabe smiles again at me and nodded his head. My heart did a stutter and I bolted out of the room and building before sprinting to my room. I didn't give a shit about people hearing me because he was alive. My feet had me in my room within seconds and I looked furiously through my drawers and grabbed all my bobby-pins. I also grabbed a spare blanket before sprinting back outside and into the building. I skidded to a stop in the room and ran to the cage, through the blanket to the side and began to work on the padlock. I felt Gabe's gaze on me but, I ignored it for the time being and focused on opening the fucking door.

"Got it!"

I threw the padlock aside and swung open the door, dropping to my knees in front of Gabe. My hands went to pull him into a hug but froze as I recalled the wire he was wrapped in. Gabe noticed my hesitation about the wire and inclined his head slightly to the corner.

"There's a wire cutter in the corner outside of the cage. It's kinda rusty but still might work."

I nodded my head and dashed out of the cage, spotting the cutter where he said it was. I grabbed it and moved back inside and started cutting the wire from his body. Blood dripped down from the movement and I wanted to scream in frustration but, I finally got it all off of him. Gabe didn't even stop to tend to his wounds, instead lurching forward and pulling me into a hug. I eagerly returned it, his blood now getting all over me but I couldn't care less. I felt his breathing become choppy and pulled back to see his face become pale.

"Gabe! What's wrong?! What do you need?"

His eyes were droopy and his smile was now falling.

"Nothing. I don't need anything because I have you back."

Gabe's body became relaxed and his yellow eyes rolled back. I barely had time to react as he fell down to the floor. I cried out and held him up, reaching for the blanket and wrapping him in it before kissing his bloody forehead. I laid him gently on the floor and ran once more out of the building, running to get Kate and Eleanor for help. I didn't want to tell the others yet because I somehow knew they had something to do with this. My heart was torn in two as I realized that they were the ones that were hiding Gabe from me. As I came upon Kate's room, I decided to make Gabe my number one priority.

My number one priority because I loved him.