Runaway

Special Prisoner

Author's Note:
The fifth chapter I owe you guys!
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Chapter 16:

As controllers over me, they lied. I was never going back to the pit. I had to move and stay in a prison cell. They never told me though that I had to stay with other prisoners as I realized later.
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Damien carried me to the pit.

"I can manage on my own," I said as I wiggled free from his shoulders.

I walked and kept walking even though I felt a rush of pain swim around my body. I didn't really know why I was being such a snob to him. He really wanted to help me. I couldn't let my guard down though. I knew a few days ago that he was working with my enemies and could I just trust someone like that? Apparently, I kind of did.

I was so deep in my thoughts that I didn't recognize him helping me. This time, I didn't stop him. I felt the same anger and agony towards him and everyone else but I felt that he was different.

"What happened to you to make you join them?" I asked out of the blue. I wanted them answers and I wanted them now.

"I can't remember," he said, his face scrunching up in concentration.

"You can't or you don't? They're two different things."

"Both. I know I have a childhood but I can't and don't remember. I know I had a family but I don't and can't remember 'who'?"

"But you know your name?"

"Obviously or else I wouldn't be able to tell you that."

"Isn't it dangerous to talk about this?"

"No, I de-bugged the cameras. They only see what I want them to see - you and I walking quietly. As soon as I want it to go to normal, I press this," he said as he showed me a button on a remote.

"As I said, 'Isn't it dangerous?'"

"No. That's why I need your help. I need you to help me find out about my past."

"And in turn?" I said. I didn't want just him to benefit.

"I'll help you."

"With my parents?"

"On my honor," he said.

At that moment, the deal was sealed. Only them I knew: we were both after the same thing - our parents. We just went after it differently.

"Here's where you'll stay. Well, until they dispose of you."

The moment he said "dispose", I felt a cold shiver running up my spine.

He out his finger on a fingerprint scanner and opened a gate filled with people - boys actually.

"They're experiments like you," he said to clear some things up.

"Why are there no girls? Am I the only one?"

"Iris does not find anything useful in them. You're the first one ever. Try to think of that as a good thing."

He let me walk through the door then left.

I watched him leave before I let my eyes adjust to the dim light of the room. The walls were cracked with peeling wallpapers. The only way out was a door - the only way I entered.

I didn't want to cause commotion or chaos or anything so I remained standing in front of the door. Apparently, it was working.

The boys were busy wrestling in a circle they drew - two people at a time.
They were hooting and cheering for the guy they wanted to win. It was the first time I saw someone or people smile in a situation like this.