You're Never Alone

Chapter 16

Word Count: 1079

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Dan wakes a few days later in his room again and everything is a blur as people get him ready. He quickly eats whatever is shoved at him and he's downstairs a couple moments later. He's shoved around and put into a room with his father and a camera crew. His father makes up some bs about him being safely returned by the rebels and Dan sits there, with a fake smile. After the camera is shut off, Dan is roughly shoved and brought down to the dungeon where he's thrown onto the ground.

He lands with a thud and everyone shuffles out of the room except for a couple of soldiers. Dan slowly gets up with a groan and looks around as his vision comes into focus. A large clear box connected to hose sits in front of him and Dan immediately knows what this type of punishment is. He looks over at Phil's cell where Phil lay without any movement covered in bruises and dried blood.

Dan scrambles up and looks at his father. "What did you do to him?" he asks and the king just laughs.

"Oh you know. Just a little interrogation," he father says and Dan glares. "You care about him? Hmm I see I'll have to do more than beat your little friend."

"Don't you dare-" Dan growls quickly taking steps towards his father but a painful shock bursts through him causing him to crumple on the floor in seconds.

His father just looks down at his son with a devilish smile. "Oh dear, looks like you can't do much about it." The king waves at a couple people in the room and two soldiers grab Dan's arm, putting him into the clear box big enough to fit multiple people and Dan realizes that he's not going to be the only one in the box. A couple people put Phil in the box moments after Dan realizes and the door slams shut.

"No, no! Don't do this to me!" Dan yells, banging his fists on the clear wall as his father walks out of the dungeon, but the king doesn't turn around and the doors close. Dan spins around and hakes Phil on the ground, desperately trying to get him to wake up. "Wake up. Please wake up."

The world is foggy and blurry as Phil opens his eyes slowly. He feels shaking on his shoulders and someone loudly begging him to wake up. Phil's vision comes into focus and he see Dan above him. "D-dan?" he whispers.

"Oh thank god!" Dan exclaims, hugging Phil and Phil smiles slightly before pulling away and realizing where he is.

He sits up and sees that they're in a clear box. "Wait what's happening?"

Dan sighs and helps Phil stand. "Let's hope the rebels have a plan to help us out today," he mutters and Phil gasps in shock.

"They're drowning us?!" Phil yells and Dan nods as tears form in his eyes. "Oh Dan don't cry."

"We're are literally about to die," Dan says and Phil looks away. "Look I'm sorry I got us into this mess. And now I'm going to get you killed-"

Phil interrupts Dan before he can finish. "Hey, if you didn't do what you did, more people that are innocent might have been killed so don't apologize, okay?"

Suddenly water starts filling up the room through the hose and Dan panics. "What do we do?!" he yells and Phil looks around frantically before running up to the door and trying the handle. While Phil tries that, Dan runs over to the hose and feels around, trying to see if there's any leeway but it doesn't work and the tank is filling up fast. The water is already at their knees. "We're running out of time!"

"I know!" Phil yells back. "Come try using force with me to open the door!" So Dan runs over, splashing through the water as fast as he can, and the two ram their shoulders into it multiple times but it won't budge.

Dan pulls away in anger and runs his hands through his hair, trying to desperately think of a way out. Just then he realizes that the cuffs on his wrists generate electricity and if he's covered in water, that's going to hurt. But he knows that the cuffs have needles that are stuck into him so that way if he tried to kill himself in a bathtub, it wouldn't work. The electricity is generated purely into him and can't be generated throughout water.

Suddenly an extremely strong wave of electricity bursts through him, strong enough that it rips a scream from his chest, and Dan starts to fall over but Phil catches him as the world fades in and out.

"Stay with me, Dan," Phil pleads and Dan blinks back into reality, standing back up on his own with the water up to his mid-back now.  The two go back and forth to the hose and door multiple times, hoping for a way out and hoping that Dan won't almost collapse again. A few minutes later, they both come up for air because the tank has at least a two feet left of room to fill and their feet can no longer touch the bottom.

"If we don't make it out of this, I just wanted to say thank you. For saving my brother from this whole mess when you could," Dan says to Phil, treading water.

Phil chuckles. "Well of course. I would do anything to help him and you because I believe that's the right thing to do."

The water is getting closer to the top and Dan and Phil both take a deep breath as it fills up the rest of the way. Just then the doors burst open and people in masks run in. They disperse throughout the room and the two smile at each other. The soldiers are knocked out and a couple rebels look at the tank and panel before quickly trying to figure out how to get Dan and Phil out.

Suddenly a burst of electricity explodes through Dan and Dan let's out whatever air is left in his lungs, screaming underwater and thrashing around in pain as the world fades in and out. He claws at the cuffs and Phil swims to him, trying to save him. Dan reaches out with one of his hands for Phil but his goes unconscious before Phil can grab him.