Let Me Go (Book Four)

Chapter: 1

DAY: 188

Lark

Twenty days since Jack attacked me. Twenty days since I woke up in a new place with no recolection of what happened to me. Twenty days since Jack told me I was safe with him and my father. Aidan was there too, only he wasn't as keen on making me miserable and terrified out of my mind.

When I first came to, wherever the heck I was, I was dragged into a lab and prepped for something. I didn't know what it was, nor did I remember it. All I know was that when I woke up from it, I was still pregnant and still fighting off those guys who tried to keep me quiet like a wild boar.

My father visted me every day, thought I paid no attention to him when he came into the room that I was given. When I first asked about the place my father told me that it was just somewhere where I could be kept safe. When I asked again he said that it was my home and that it was where no one would ever find me unless they blew up the planet. Which was a little extreme. It was like the entire place I was in was an underground mansion because there were no windows to see the light. Which I sorely missed. But other than that the place was amazing, high-tec, fresh looking and above all suspicous. Most of it was only used for me and only me. Which made me believe that my father had a plan, involving my future. Which scared me entierly. But I was treated alright here, the only pain I did feel was the pain of being away from Bucky. That was the only real pain I felt and would let myself feel. Everything else was just ignored. Now I'm five months pregnant, trapped and frightened to speak. Jack always yelled above me when I tried to say anything, so I started keeping my mouth shut around him.

I was given maternity clothes but I always refused to wear them, kept wearing the same thing over and over again just to prove a point that I wouldn't live up to their expectations wherever I was. My father couldn't control my life. Though, the jeans they gave me, I'd sneek a pair and hide them away. They let me keep Bucky's jacket that I had used, they let me have it. And seeing it always made me break down in sobs. I felt like I had betrayed him in some way, some stupid and ignorant way that I know I'm bound to do again.

Aidan would come to visit me in my room often, both of us would often talk but sometimes we'd just sit there in silence for the longest time. Aidan apologized to me every day until I forgave him two weeks ago. I know it was probably a dumb idea but it was probably my only chance of actually finding someone to help me get out of here.

My door opening woke me up from where I sat in a chair in their little library. Aidan was standing there.

"What?" I asked him. "You look pretty freaked."

"They've just caught a group of your friends, they want you to identify the ones you know and then the ones that you don't know." he said. I stood up and quickly followed him out, he lead me down the hallway towards a heavy silver door and he pressed his hand against the surface, it read his palm and it slid open. The first person I noticed was Natasha. She saw me and started crying.

"Lark? Oh my God, you're alive!" she said. I stepped in and she threw her arms around me in a tight hug. I started crying myself. Natasha stepped back and looked me up and down, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine." I told her. I looked around at the other people behind her. There was Peter, Wanda and Banner that I spotted throughout the group, but he had grown a beard which was probably why no one seemed to really recognized him.

There were too guards who stood with them all. "Which of these people do you recognize other than that woman?"

"Why? What are you going to do with them?"