Infiltration(ON HOLD)

Chapter twelve

My heart is beating fast. I feel the walls closing in on me.

Mask. No. Andreas. Andreas Xavier. Wolfdog.

"Annie..Annie... tsk-tsk.. you look you are going to faint any minute." He says.

I don't respond. I can't.

He calls for Gale. I can't breathe. I need to breathe.

Gale comes rushing to where we are standing.
Andreas says something to Gale. I can't hear him. My ears are buzzing.

"You..you..I won't leave you." I try to scream. I can't hear myself.

Fuck! Fuck this!

My eyes are clouded with tears. My knees buckle. Gale holds me up by my forearms.

"Take her to her room. " I hear him say. It's a faint voice in middle of the buzz.

Gale takes me to my room and settles me on my bed. She brings me a glass of water and makes me drink it.

Once the water is in my system my heart beat slows down. I am able to breathe better. The buzzing in my ears has stopped.

"I think you just had a panic attack" Gale says. She sounds worried.

"Mhmm" I say.

"I am sorry." She says.

I lift my eyes to hers. She looks genuinely concerned ,even guilty.

"My loyalties lie here. My intention was not to cause you trouble." She says. Oh she thinks it's because of what she did. She had no idea.

"I know." I manage to say.

She looks troubled.

"It's okay Gale. I understand." I say.

She nodds.
 
"Can I get you something?" She asks me.

I shake my head no. She waits. She expects words.

"No. I'll manage. You can leave."

She nods once before leaving the room. She shuts the door behind her softly.

I lie down on the bed. Xavier. Could it be another Xavier. No. Bullshit. He knew my name.

I had initially thought Vicious had told him my name. How wrong was I ?

Andreas has some connection to Martha and Alexander Xavier.

Or maybe he just has the same name.

God! The way he clutched my fingers. For a minute I felt it was Alexander. I felt like my old self trapped in a room with a man she couldn't fight off. A man who would torture her to remind her just how weak she was. How much more she had to learn to be strong.

I feel the tears running down my cheeks. Bad luck followed me everywhere. I run away from a place to only land in a place worser than the first.

I am not staying here. I can't take this. I am running away.

What about Catherine? Are you going to fucking abandon her again? No. Never. She'll go completely crazy like mom. I had promised
Dada. I would keep them both safe. Mom was gone now. But Catherine. Catherine was here. Catherine needs me.  I was not going to fail Catherine.

I count the strikes louder this time.

"Good girl" I hear him mutter.

"Ni..nty" I gasp. Tear after tear rolls down my face. But I am careful to not make a single noice. He hates when I do that. He'll double the number. I can't take that.