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I woke up in a dark room. I blink my eyes and try to rub them. Only to find my hands are tied. Great, I'm assuming I was kidnapped by my own brother. Fun.

"Well, looks like he woke up!" I hear someone laugh. "Let's have a little chat with him Deceit" A hand touch's my face and I flinch away.

"Ah yes, forgot about that" I hear Dimitri say. "He doesn't like physical touch"

"I don't care if he does or not!" I hear someone get slapped, what's happening! It's so dark. "Get out of here you snake"

"Yes sir"

"Now onto you," a man with a Cheshire smile says, walking into view. "What shall happen with you hmm?"

"Please, like you would do anything" I say with a smile, granted I'm petrified. He looks almost taken aback.

"Well, lets get to work shall we?" He paces around my chair. "I make a deal, with people. You might want to take the deal by the way, the other option is much worse."

"Alright what's your deal then?" I ask, I'm still scared, but if I can get trust with him, I might be able to leave this place and get home.

"Excited are you?" He comes back into my view. "Let's see what happens when you are shall we?" He goes into the dark for awhile, he comes back with a bucket. Dimitri also comes over. "Stay here and keep company" the man with the Cheshire smile leaves.

"Dimitri? Why aren't you running or something! Who is this dude? What did he do to you!" He looks up at me, "what happened to you face?"

"Asking questions are we?" The man says coming over with a fan. He turns it on and I'm pelted with wind. He soon picks up the bucket, throwing its contents on me. The ice cold water hits me, soaking through my clothes. The wind created by the fan makes the ice water feel colder. I'm soon shivering. The man looks over a Dimitri and nods, "Alright my work here is done, for now" He gives me that smile again, "lets go Deceit" Dimitri nods and walks away into the dark, leaving me to sit wet and freezing. I try and wiggle my hands out of the ropes, nothing happens.

A few hours I'm assuming later, I'm dry but still freezing. I've still been trying to wiggle my hands out, making only small progress. But progress nonetheless. My wrists burn from the rope. Not to mention the spider that's just chilling on my leg. I don't mind the spider it doesn't seem to be harmful and I enjoy the company. Even though it's just a spider. I hear a crashing noise above me, making me jump. Can I also mention how I'm sitting? I'm against a wall, hands tied behind me, making my shoulders hurt and sitting crisscross with my feet tied. It's surprisingly very uncomfortable. I continue to wiggle my hands, I feel one slip out. I guess my sweaty hands came to use. I start to cry. What if this means I have a chance of going home? I want to see Roman, I don't care about what he did, I just want him to tell me everything is going to be okay. I wipe my eyes with my now free hands. I check my pockets, trying to find my phone. I brought it to the bridge I know that for a fact. I reach into my back pocket, finding it. I click it on, it illuminating the dark room. I don't think before texting Roman,

Virgil: kidnapped help

I sent the text along with my location, using the send location thing on my phone. I hoped it would actually send. I turned the phone to silent, putting it in back in my pocket. I hoped they would get the message. I continued to sit in silence. The sound deafening. I heard the door open, and quickly put my hands behind me again.

"Aw that's too bad, he isn't dead" The man with- I need to give him a name. Chessur, that's his new name. You know, like how the Cheshire Cat is called Chessur in Tim Burton's 2010 version? "Hey! Listen up boy" I feel a sharp pain in my cheek waking me from my thoughts. "Deceit is going to show you the ropes," my hands are still untied I slip my wrist into the knot behind me and hope it looks right, "and don't try anything boy, unless you want a day freezing with no food again" I nod my head as a understanding, if I can play this game long enough, my friends should be able to help me. This dude is a lousy kidnapper. I mean like, your meant to search the body and remove items from the pockets. Who taught this dude? I'm distracted again. I'm soon being pulled up by Dimitri.

"So you gonna carry me or?" He glares at me and looks to Chessur.

"Fine untie his feet" He says walking out.  Dimitri unties my feet and I can finally walk.

"Let's go" Dimitri says. It's not very comforting like it used to be. What happened to him?

"Dimitri?"

"Shut up idiot, play his game and survive, don't play it and get the punishments" I look at him confused.

"Are you trying to help me?"

"Your my little brother, I was basically  assigned at your birth to protect you" he says a slightly glaring at me. "Now play this dumb game until your friends find you, got it?"

"What about you?! Your my brother too! I'm not leaving you alone again."

"I'd shut up if I were you, boss won't be happy if he knew I was helping you get away" He says taking a corner. "Just play along okay?" He looks at me, then he takes my phone out of my pockets. Shoving it into his own. "What is about to happen is going to be tough, you don't want this distracting you." Before I can get a word in, he pulls open a door and shoves me inside. I see a group of people, all with weapons. This is going to be a great day.

What seems to be a few hours later, the men are gone and I've been beaten to a pulp. So much for protecting huh Dimitri? I hear commotion outside but ignore it. Every limb hurts especially the most likely broken wrist. The pain is still around but it's not too bad anymore. My knee hurts a lot too but I'm sure o can still walk.

"Virgil, get up quick!" I hear Dimitri yell. I look around and don't see anything. He soon comes into my view. "Oh god what happened?"

"M not sure" I reply, my injury's aching. My vision keeps fading in and out, but I assume it's me blinking. I can't really tell. I have no more tears to shed either. Lightly Dimitri picks me up.

"Come on, the cops are here to get you. They can't see me though so you'll have to walk a bit." He says quietly, going down a hall I think.

"You have to come, m not leaving you again" I soon pass out from either the pain or no sleep in two or so days. How long have I actually been here?

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