(1D) Saw ; The Beginning

(2) Chapter Six ; An Eye for an Eye .

Ashton Irwin ; 

   "Mhmm..." I groaned.

My head was pounding like a drum, and with each beat I winced. Slowly I sat up, watching as my surroundings began to spin around me. I didn't feel too good. As I sat all the way up, something slid off my chest and hit the metal ground with a soft clank.

 "What the?" I scratched my head.

What is going on? The last thing I remembered was talking to Jill, and with that thought, came the haunting memories of her daughter, Sarah. I pulled my knees up to my chest and started crying into my pant legs. I didn't mean for this to happen.

Suddenly, I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. I lifted my head to look around the room, and I was alone. This room was huge. There were four open doors equidistant from each other; one at each wall. In the center, there was a glass case that seemed to have been, broken. What is this place? But then, the sudden realization finally hit me.

  "Shit??" I looked around frantically, darting to my feet. "Gems?? Gemma where are you??"

It was silent as my voice echoed, and the more I sat in it, the more it killed me. She was gone. My tears started to flow a little heavier. I was supposed to protect her, but I failed. I crouched down into a ball, crying into my arms. Under my foot, I felt something solid like a rock. I looked down at what seemed to be a tape recorder. Taped to it there was a little piece of paper that read 'Play Me'.

 "The fuck?" I held it in my hands, tearing the little pice of paper off. I examined it for a couple of moments, contemplating before I finally pressed play.

  "Hello Ashton," the deep, eerie voice spoke my name and I froze. "By now you've noticed that you're all alone, secluded from the ones you love dearly."

 "Please... No..." I cried, holding my head in my hands. "I'm sorry! Please! Don't hurt them!"

  "I want to play a game," the familiar words rang a bell, and my eyes widened. This was really happening. Just like in Amanda's tape. "The reward? Your life-"

 "Fuck!!!" I cried.

  "All I ask of you, is to discover the truth," he went on, and right now it didn't make any sense. "For your life, lies in the hands of your friends."

 "Wh-what??" I panicked. Nothing he was saying was making sense. "What the fuck does that mean??"

  "Injected into your nervous system, is a lethal poison that, over the span of twelve hours, will kill you slowly, and painfully," my eyes widened at the sound of that. "The only way to stop it, is to find the cure."

 "Please!" I muttered like it could hear me. "Please don't do this..."

  "The cure lies in your friendship, let the game begin-"

 "No!!! Please!!!" I cried harder.

The tape stopped, and so did my heart. What am I supposed to do? I looked around the room again trying to make sense of the words but they were all jumbled up in my head. Find the cure. I repeated in my head. The cure lies in your friendship? 

I looked down at my wrist, only now noticing a watch-like device around it. I examined it a little better, seeing a timer on it that read 11:50:23 and counting down. Shit. I tried to pull it off but it wouldn't budge. There seemed to be a keyhole on it that I couldn't unlock without a key. I sighed trying to pull myself together. I can do this. The cure must be somewhere in this room.