I stare at her with this choke hold grip on my husband's throat. "Karen please..." I say trying to sound rational but the situation reminds me so much of what happened with Lisa. I hold tight to Abel's hand, and I look at the scene before me. "Just give me your son, and Ben can go free. We all know you care for him more anyway." Karen says with a cold, and calculating look. Ben gives his head a Small shake, and i know i should run. I should go i should flee, but my feet stay planted firmly on the ground. I stare at my husband. He looks tired, done with the whole situation. There is no way I'm going to just leave him here with a women whom i know is capable of killing him without any remorse.
"I'm not going anywhere Karen. I think you should just give me my husband back. I mean do you really think you're going to win this war?" I try to sound collected, not like my whole world could fall to pieces at any moment with just the movement of this woman's hand. "At this moment do you really think you have the ability to ask you that question? I mean you can't even be sure if your family is going to make it through this ordeal right now alive. So I don't think you should be trying to cast any direct ideals of victory onto me." Karen's voice is steely, and agitated. The room is silent, and neither of us say another word. We just stare at each other, like this is some stare down on the playground or something ridiculous. Then the silence is pierced by a scream that knocks Ben, and Karen off their feet.
The scream is coming from my son. Everyone falls to their knees. Including Karen. The scream continues and I feel as if my brain is melting out of my skull. But it only takes Ben a moment to regain himself, and soon his elbow makes contact with Karen's face. Everything moves quickly now.
Ben races towards us. And we follow suit running to the exit. We don't hear anyone following behind us, but we run anyway and quicker than I ever thought we could we're escaping, the ground feels hard against my feet and we don't stop running until we've reached the camp. As we enter the camp everyone bombards us with hugs and kisses our heads. "Eliza!" Alyss screams, and after a moment of celebration the group disperses back to what their jobs are. The camp goes to its normalness, and in that moment of being back home I scoop up my baby, and wrap my arms around my husband. I hug my family. Ben pulls away first. "I'm going to check on matt, and dad. I love you two, and I'll see you at bedtime." He kisses both of our checks, and rushes off.
AN: Hey readers! This is shorter than is usually going to be. You guys are so amazing for sticking with me:) and how should the Story go? I hope you're enjoying this! I appreciate every read!:) Drop, a vote or a comment!
