The Land After Tomorrow (Completed)

Chapter 13: Recovery

Blair woke up with a massive headache that seemed to pound like a drum within her skull. The room was spinning in several directions and she felt like she was about to hurl. The pain in her ribs radiated enormous pain throughout her body that made her gawp. She could barely see out of her left eye that was almost swollen shut. She looked down at her body with her good eye and could make out padding and cloth tied around her ribs and under the cot. The cot was made of sticks and animals pelts that looked recently built new. She looked down at her legs to find them also strapped. Her heart rate began to rise as she remembered what had happened and memories floated back. She began to squirm while pain radiated as she jerked at the pain. Someone was calling her name trying to make her stop. They put her hands on her trying to make her stop squirming, but she didn't care about the pain. She continued to struggle as someone's lips touched to hers. She felt a rush of heat from their lips that glided into her own. She stopped struggling and stared into their eyes.

Blair gazed eyes full of defiance and pain. Behind those eyes, was someone she never knew. She only knew the man he wanted her to see and not the boy behind those eyes, but she knew what was there. She could see the abandonment, the pain and everything he tried to hide from her even the love he wanted, but she couldn't give him that. She didn't love him like he wanted, although, he loved her.

The boy stumbled back, "I... I was just trying to make you stop. You were hurting yourself," he said.

She looked at him still taken back from the kiss he just gave her, "I know Bane."

Just as Bane was about to respond, Jacob came into the tent. He looked at Blair then to Bane, "Leave." Just like that, Bane left without a word not even looking back to leave her strapped to a cot with this monster looming over her. Jacob pulled up a chair and stared among her body.

"How do you feel?" he asked looking over her body.

"I'm fine," she responded as she turned her head towards the wall of the tent. "What do you want from me?" she murmured.

He smiled at her, but not like a joyful smile. A smile of devious intentions that sent chills into Blair's skin. "Because I saved your life from dying and being killed, you are now my property. You do what I say and when I say it."

Blair gave out an abrupt laugh that quickly sent pain shooting through her body. She let out a gasp of pain and clutched her fists together. She closed her eyes and looked at him, "And what happens if I won't cooperate?"

"Then I must kill you for the sake of my people."

Blair cocked a smile and spit right into his eye. He breathed deeply and calmly before trying to wipe it out of his eye. "Then you should have killed me the first time," she spat. "Your people aren't people. They are monsters, and savages!" she yelled. "Just like you," she whispered between her teeth showing defiance.

"Like you aren't?" he questioned raising his eyebrows.

"I am no monster," she clenched her fists.

He grinned and then turned to a smile, "You may soon come to realize we are a lot alike, you and I."

"We are nothing alike. I'm not a monster like you."

"You will see," he responded. He leaned down so that his lips pressed up against her ear, "You will cooperate, or I start shooting your people."

Jacob stood from the chair and turned to the door as Blair started to struggle against the restraints. "You promised to let them go free!" she screamed.