The Last Hope

Chapter 5~ Rae

Everything came in fragments. I was in a back seat stretching along the width of the vehicle. There was a man in the seat in front of me, in a new position every time I saw him. It was dark, but soon bright, golden light tried breaking in through the old, cracking, purple tint on the windows. Two people were in the front.

I don't know what time it is, my guess would be about noon or so. My head is spinning as trees and dirt roads rush past my face, beyond the window. I have no idea where I am. Memories started flooding back to me. I sat up slowly, almost collapsing after a big bump lurched the van up then down again. I looked at the sleeping face of the boy-not man- that sat in the seat in front of me; he can't be any older than 15. His hair was long. About shoulder length and a chocolate color with steaks of gold in the light. We hit another bump and his head bobbed up, showing more of his face as it lifted and his hair moved away with a gust of air from a rolled down window in the front seat. I couldn't stop the gasp as I recognized his features. 'I don't know this boy! I don't know this boy!' I kept repeating in my mind as I fell back. He holds an uncanny resemblance to the girl I met the other day- but for some reason it felt like more than that... The gasp apparently was loud enough to catch the attention of man and woman in the front seats, and when they looked back I could tell the one is definitely a man, and has the same cheek and jaw bones as the woman next to him; from the other day.

"Brother!" the driver cried as he turned back to the road. The driver had eyes that were an electric mix between ice and cobalt blue. His hair was very dark and long, in a messy gathering in an elastic behind his head. I was sitting back on the seat with my feet up holding my knees to my chest. The 'brother' that was sleeping snapped awake and seemed disoriented and confused looking at me.

"What?" he asked, "What can she do?"

"What's going on!?" I cried.

"Just, drug her again or something!" The driver continued while ignoring me.

"Is that safe? She should still be out for another 4 hours or so with the amount she got! I don't know how she's even awake..." The boy tilted his head observing me. "Dose she remember us?" He asked.

"Of course I do!" I answered with a harsh smile. He seemed almost hopeful for a second until I continued with; "You just kidnapped me!"

"That would be a no. We still have about two hours to go, knock her out again." The driver growled. All the while I was stating demands and questions that were being ignored throughout their conversation.

"Don't say it like that, Axle." Guy snapped at the driver.

"Aria, back off. She can be dangerous right now. Don't let your feelings and her innocent stature fool you, remember who she is? What she can do? I want us all to get home safely." The young one nodded then started preparing something slowly; I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

"I think that her memory was wiped of that, too. Maybe it kept linking her to us, so they had to erase all that too? She would have done something by now if she knew she could." Aria attempted proving her point with nonsense. I asked what they were talking about, but they continued ignoring me.

I started to cry as the boy with the stature of a very intimidating man started carefully moving towards me, cloth in his hand. Not again... I looked up, deep into his eyes, dark brown and daunting, his hole face was dark, like a shadowed monster creeping up to attack you. I cried out and pleaded for him not to, his eyes held deep remorse and gentle glimmer of apology as he held my hands down to my knees, the only thing that was holding him black slightly. The cloth covered my face, the only air I was able to get had to filter though the cloth and the chemicals that had been laced within it. My body relaxed and went numb as I found my mind wandering to thoughts of Kota; It's been hours, what has he gone through this whole time? Is he out looking for me? Is he asleep? Will he be able to sleep? How will I get home to him? The guy- Aria was looking back at me, angry and in distress it seemed. I looked deep into her eyes, the glowing green the last thing I saw as blackness faded around them, then finally into them.