Chapter 1: A Rock And A Hard Place

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"I did not tell half of what I saw for I knew I would not be believed..." - Marco Polo on his deathbed, 1324

I groan in pain as I slowly open my eyes, my vision at first was blurry and my ears were slightly ringing. Finally, I was able to see and realize that I was in a train cart. A flickering light swings overhead and the curtains, lining the windows, had been ripped and torn. I place my hand on my head then look to my left to see my brother, who was unconscious. 

"Nate..." I said in a croaky voice, like my throat was dry, but as I reach out to him, I felt a sharp pain in my left side, close to my abdomen. I look down to see a bullet hole in my side just as I hear Nate waking up. "Nathan...." I muttered, again, and he looks over at me. "(Y/n)? What's going on...?" He start to ask but then he groans in pain and looks down.

I look over and see that he was shot on his side as well. "That's my blood...that's my blood, that's alot of my blood." he mutters as he places his hand over his wound. He looks over at me and saw that I was hurt as well. "Mine too." I said as I start to feel dizzy. We rest our heads back on the seat and I look out the window on my right. Outside, I could see a snowy cliff.

"What...?" I started to say, confused, when I heard something. Then Nate ducks to the side, towards me, as a wooden crate and an oil drum flies past him. We look back and see the oil drum falling out the back of the train behind us. "Oh God!" Nate exclaimed just as our seat starts to break. "Crap!" I said then Nate and I jump out of our seat and grab hold of the seat in front of us as our seat falls away. Nate loses his grip and falls through the train carriage.

"NATHAN!" I yelled, while he was screaming, just as the headrest starts to break. "You gotta be kidding me!" I whispered in a panic when I lose my grip and start fall, screaming in fear. Suddenly, as I went through the doorway of the carriage, I felt someone grab my arm, stopping me from falling. I look down at the abyss below then up towards the train to see that Nathan had caught me with his right hand while his left hand was holding on to the handrail that was on the back of the carriage.

"I gotcha'!" He said as I wrapped my fingers around his wrist. "Please for the love of God, don't let go!" I pleaded to him. "I wasn't planning on it!" He shouts back at me then he pulls me up to where I was able to grab on to the handrail as well. I let out a small sigh of relief until I looked up to see that the carriage was dangling, precariously, from a cliff. "Oh, crap!" We said, fearfully, when Nate looks around then gestures for me to follow him.

At that point, we start climbing up the side of the train's chassis. Then the train shakes when a large boulder falls from the edge of the cliff above and a part of the pipe we were latched onto starts to break away. "It's ok... it's ok... come on..." he tries to assure me when the pipe twists to the side and it swings round and slams us into the side of the train.

After recovering from that, we climb around to the roof of the train and climb back into the carriage. Nate and I climb through then back outside. As we near the top of the carriage, the carriage edges closer over the cliff. A door on the side of the carriage swings open and some luggage falls out, almost hitting us.

We climb onto the second carriage, on the edge of the cliff, then we run through the carriage and leap out of it as the train falls over the edge. We pull ourselves up onto the cliff and roll onto our backs, gasping for breath. And at that moment, I lose consciousness as I start to think how the hell did we ended up here....





Flashback 

Nate was sitting at the bar, alone, when I found him. I give a small frown towards his direction as I start to walk over to him. After what happened between him and Elena, I figured he didn't need to be alone. I mean...yeah, he's been with other women before but usually they were either flings or he was the one breaking up with them. This time it was different. I've never seen him this down before....it's worrying me.

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