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Chapter 27

Olivia's P.O.V

Sitting up I notice I'm not handcuffed any longer. And I'm in a nicer room. I looks like... a hospital room... I gasp and look around to see a window. Standing around a counter is doctors... two or three of them.

Light blue scrubs and pure white lab coats. Scrambling to find the remote, I push the red button quickly. I get so lost staring at the remote and pushing the button that I don't notice that someone is in the room until it's being pulled from my hands.

"Ms. Benson?" A man asks. I look up at him. He's young. Maybe his early 30's. He's brunette, brown eyes.

I open my mouth to say something but nothing comes out. I reach up to touch my throat and look at him, a panicked expression on my face.

"Don't worry, you're fine. Your body went through a lot of trauma." He speaks as if he's talking to a three year old. I glare at him.

'I'll show you a three year old.' I think to myself. I slam my fist down on the bed with an angry look. The young doctor looks at me anxiously before pressing a button on the remote. I look at him as I tilt my head and then I watch as more doctors come flooding into the room with restraints.

Realization hits as I realize that I'm about to be strapped down. I shake my head as tears well up. I look at my wrists, bruised and scraped. I let out a scream and a sob, my voice deciding to work. "Amanda!" my mouth lets out, over and over, mostly without my consent.

The straps hold me in place but my mind wanders, thinking of Amanda, her eyes, her lips, her button nose that flips up at the tip, almost as if she is constantly turning her nose up at what you are saying. A small smile flits to my lips, my eyes crinkling.

A hand grabs my own tenderly and I jump slightly, startled at being touched so gently by another human. The woman I see in front of me looks like my Amanda, she looks older, more tired and sad. "Liv it's okay." she murmurs, her hand squeezing mine gently, "I'm here now."

I let out a soft sob and collapse into the pillows behind me while Amanda begs the doctors to unstrap me. Another sob racks my body and I try to cover my face with my hands, momentarily forgetting that my hands are strapped down to my side. I feel Amanda's hands tugging at the straps and finally they come free.

I wrap my arms around myself and Amanda leans over, wrapping her arms around my full body, pulling me into her chest. Slowly, I manage to calm down, hiccupping occasionally until my breathing is steady once more.

The blonde moves away slightly and looks me in the face, her hand sliding up against my cheek and resting there as she caresses it. "I'm so glad we found you." she whispers. I whimper softly, an image of the lady who abducted me fleeting through my head.

Amanda's hand weaves her way through my hair and hushes me, "It's okay baby. I'm right here, love." Her fingertips rub the back of my head in a familiar motion and slowly my eyes begin to shut.

Amanda's P.O.V

I watch as Olivia slowly falls asleep in my arms, my hand cradling the base of her neck as if she is a newborn baby. I guide her head down to the pillows and slide up the bed so I am fit between her and the bedframe. Looping one arm behind her shoulders and the other over her chest, I kiss her forehead while she is sleeping.

Slowly, my eyes rake over her body, taking in the amount of damage that was done to her in the last four weeks. Bruises on both her ankles and her wrists, possible rope burn, bruises on her neck, shoulders and legs, possible burn scabs as well. My heart aches quietly, wishing that I could have protected her from this.

The brunette stirs in her sleep, mumbling words softly, "No" and "Stop" are cried out softly twice. I rub her shoulders gently, knowing how to calm her down while she is having nightmares.

I kiss her forehead once again and hold her tightly to my chest. God how I've missed you, I think towards her in my head. I give her one last look over before resting my temple against hers and falling asleep for the first time in days.

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Okay.. so I know that it has been well over a year since I updated this story and I am not going to lie, I missed writing. I had already started this chapter two years ago and never got around to finishing it, but that's okay.

Now that I have some motivation to start writing again, I feel like it is a good time to say that once I finish the stories that are incomplete on my page that I may delete them, or I may unpublish them and rewrite them completely.

I am now a senior in high school, quickly approaching my last day on January 22nd 2021. Believe it or not, I am so not ready to be a high school graduate at 17, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Because not only will I have more time to focus on myself, and work my part-time job, but I will also be able to get back into writing (something I have dearly missed.)

But like I said- I am so so sorry that this took me so long to post and update but hopefully my updates will be MUCH quicker in the future.