The Kidnapper 3

Chapter 17: Stranded

When I began to open my eyes, I felt intense pain shoot through my body.

I looked around and saw Dad, Jared and Grant near me.

"Hey, shes coming through" Dad said.

I tried to speak but my throat hurt so bad.

"Hold on" Jared had grabbed a bottle of water as Grant helped me sit up and gave me some to drink.

Drinking the water, I felt it go down and it felt so good entering my body.

When I cleared my voice, I asked them, "Where's Austin and Nathan?"

They all looked at me confused.

I started to panic as I asked them again "Where is Austin and Nathan?!"

"We dont know, we all just happened to find each other close by" Dad said.

I tried to stand up as I said "We need to go find them"

They all looked at me as if something had happened.

"Wha-what is it? Why are you just standing there?!"

Then Grant had showed me something.....

"What is this?"

Looking at it, I notice it was a necklace that I gave Austin for his birthday.

I grabbed it as I felt tears come down.

Dad had came up to me and hugged me saying "Alex this doesn't mean hes-that hes gone okay...we will find him and Nathan"

I nodded my head...but I couldnt help but have my doubts. 

"If anything we need to figure out where we are and how we are getting back. The longer we're stuck here the longer he has Aaliyah" Grant said.

"I actually think I know where we are" Jared said.

Jared started looking around and continued..."Considering that the temperature seems to be dropping rapidly right now, I think we're in Canada" 

"Canada?!" we all questioned.

He nodded.

"I actually recognize this area. If I'm not mistaken, we're not to far from the town but we arent as close either" he said.

"And how exactly have you been here before?" Grant asked.

"I did start the organization remember...we've hosted the auctions here before and I remember coming through here" he replied.

"Wait so does that mean you know your way around here?"

He shook his head and said "I wish I could tell you yeah but...that was years ago and this place has changed since then" 

"Well in any case, if im correct, since we are in Canada we need to find Nathan and Austin ASAP" Grant said.

"Why you say that?" dad asked.

"Well I'm sure you know that at night Canada's temperature drops drastically" he said.

My eyes got wide and I started to panic.

"W-we have to find them quickly. We're already wasting time"

"Wait hold on Alex" Jared said.

"Why are we waiting, we need to go find-"

"And we will, but we also need to find where the plane crashed at" he said.

"For what?!"

"Have you've forgotten what we've been told to do?" he asked.

"But they could die out there, especially if their unconscious and alone"

"I understand, but we need to find our bags that we are suppose to deliver" he said.

"Who cares about that! Austin and Nathan are more important...do you not care about them at all?"

"Of course I do!...Alex...Austin is my son, and you are family to me. It kills me that you've forgotten the whole reason we got on that plane" he said.

My eyes got wide as I looked down.

"Aaliyah..."

"Exactly...Austin and Nathan are both strong, I'm sure they are both okay as we speak, the quicker we get the bags the quicker we can find them" he said.

I nodded without hesistation.

I cant believe I wasnt thinking about Aaliyah.

What kind of mother am I?!

"Lets get going guys, the sun is starting to go down" Grant said as we started walking away.

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-Nathan POV-

As I was walking, I noticed it started to get colder and colder.

"Man, I really hope everyone is okay"

As I was walking, I saw someone on the ground.

"Hey, are you okay?!"

I ran over to them and noticed it was..."Austin...hey man are you okay!?"

Running up to him I noticed his leg was bleeding really bad and he was still unconscious.

I quickly took off my jacket and my shirt.

I ripped my shirt and wrapped it around the wound which was kind of deep.

When I tied it, I made sure it was really tight, to try and stop the bleeding.

I quickly ripped my shirt again and doubled tied it, but not to tight. 

When I was done I sat down in relief because the beeding finally stopped.

I touched around his neck where his pulse was.

"...Good, hes still alive" I blew a sigh of relief as I put my jacket back on.

"Man it starting to get really cold" I balled myself up as I closed my eyes.

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-Grants POV-

As we were walking, I noticed it started to get alittle colder and colder by the minute.

"Hey guys I think-" before I could finish Jared interrupted me.

"I see it!" He started running to it and we followed.

We saw pieces of the plane and bags scattered.

"I found them" Looking over at Alex dad he had the bags in his hand.

"Good and here, everyone take one of each" Jared started to hand each of us a coat along with some gloves that he found.

"Im going to hang on to this for Nathan and Austin" he said.

Looking around, I spotted another bag that had a first aid kit and some water bottles.

"Here Alex, you can carry this. We may need it" I handed the bag to her.

"Here's our other bags with are clothing and here's my laptop and equiptment as well...okay since we have our stuff we need to quickly start moving to find them" Jared said.

We all agreed and continued to move.