The Race Against Time

Chapter 6

Brooklyn

I woke up with a sudden agony in my leg, I felt extremely dizzy. When I looked down at my leg, I noticed there was a T-shirt wrapped securely around it.

It was then I realized the commotion that was going on in the room. Lucas was shouting curse words and pacing the room

I finally attempted to make myself known.

"What's going on?"

Their head snapped in my direction. Lucas stopped quarreling and came running towards me with Tyler at his side. They kneeled next to me asking if I was alright. Lucas placed his hand on my cheek watching me intently making me blush. I mean anyone would blush if someone did that to them. He began leaning in to kiss me which made me a little uncomfortable because I didn't like him. I would have tried to move away from him but my leg prevented me from moving.

Before his lips could even come in contact with mine, he was roughly pulled away by a fuming Tyler.

" WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Couldn't you see she didn't want to kiss you? And you still made the move to kiss her!" Tyler shouted at Lucas.

I gasped in shock; I didn't expect Tyler to even recognize what was going.

"Are you like her boyfriend or something? No, you're not so stop defending her I'm sure she could defend herself.

Tyler was angrier than I have seen him in years. The last time I saw him this angry was in middle school when his childhood bullies threw his ice-cream on the floor.

Tyler snapped and swung his first at Lucas punching him in his stomach. I watched as Lucas doubled over, the blow caught him off guard. Tyler then swung another punch at Lucas' head but Lucas' blocked the punch and kicked Tyler on his leg.

The rest was a blur I could only see punches being thrown at each other over and over again.

Yori and Xiomara were shocked. Their mouth was wide open

I hated seeing fights. I shouted for them to stop over and over again but they did not pay any attention to me. I limped in the middle trying not to put too much pressure on my leg. I tried to part them, but Tyler's fist suddenly came in contact with my cheek making my head snap to the right.

I could feel the heat on my skin, it burned so much and it was just getting worse. Tyler and Lucas stopped fighting immediately watching me in shock.

I was shaking in anger, my chest heaved up and down. I quickly unlocked the door and limped running through the hallway when suddenly I was stopped by a big bulky chest. When I watched up, I saw the same man who had stuck the knife in my thighs, and at the side of him was the man who we saved Yori from. Not even mustering a word one of them grabbed me by my arms, covering my mouth with a cloth, and dragged me away from the others I watched as the other man ran and followed where I just came from.

I woke up with a severe headache.

My eyes flew open but I closed it back at the sight of the bright light. When I finally opened my eyes again, I realized that my feet and legs were tied to the wall making me stay in a standing position. Pain shot up in my injured leg making me groan in anguish. The door in the room slammed open.

The freak show came out of the door and began walking towards me.

Why was I always in this situation?

"Your children are trying to make our job much harder."

I stayed quiet not wanting to anger him, I was already hurt, no need to get more hurt.

Lucas

I watched Brooklyn in shock as she held her face. She then unlocked the door and limped out of the room.

"Brooklyn don't!" I shouted to her; she didn't even pay attention to me. "This is your fault!" I said pointing at Tyler's chest.

"How Is This My Fault!"

Before I can answer back Yori intervened

"Stop fighting we need to go after her freak show could still be out there."

"Oh shoot "I shouted as we all got up to go after Brooklyn. Xiomara reached up to me and put her hand on my shoulder. "Just stop Xiomara I don't like you so just leave me alone," I said shrugging her filthy hands off of me.

She just rolled her eyes and stomped away from me. She is such a drama queen I can't handle her. We ran through the hallway and down the corridor. We came to a halt when we saw the freak show and the man who cut Brooklyn holding her roughly by her and covering her mouth with a cloth so she would not scream but she was already unconscious. I watched the leg and saw that it was bleeding." Let her go!"

" She would suffer for what you did to me, we would have to transport 4 people and that's no problem for me, she is the one preventing me from carrying all of you." The one that stabbed Brooklyn said.

He then took a gun from his pocket and pointed it towards Brooklyn's leg that was not injured." Stop, we could fix this please don't do this shoot me instead."

Tyler was there standing doing nothing like he gave up on Brooklyn a long time ago.

He smirked at me saying, "Too late."

But it didn't hit Brooklyn. When he was about to pull the trigger, Tyler jumped into action and dived on the man pushing him away from Brooklyn. The bullet flew and hit the back of a wall.

The man began to panic knowing things didn't go as he planned and took out something from his pocket and pulled it.

The room suddenly became full of gas. I immediately began to cough uncontrollably. I tried to cover my mouth with my T-shirt but it wasn't enough to stop the gas from entering my nostrils. My body was numb and I fell flat on the ground, as my eyelids began to get heavier, I could see the rest of them on the ground except for the man, he was dragging Brooklyn away and that was it my eyes were shut close