To Kill Time

Chapter 5: Threatened

June woke up. She heard two voices.
"Are you sure we can't be seen?"
June tried to wiggle around. She couldn't move.
"Positive."
June remembered what happened before she was knocked out. She remembered Derek's scream, he and Eric laying down on the ground, unconscious. 
"How can you know?"
"Because I have done this a thousand times."
She looked around. Her eyesight still wasn't a hundred percent yet. She saw two fuzzy figures in the distance and two other people lying next to her.
"The fact that no one had seen you before now doesn't mean you can't be seen now."
Her eyesight was clearing slowly. She could see Derek and Eric tied up in thick ropes next to her. June looked down. She was too.
"If anyone had seen me, I would have noticed it."
June turned her head in the direction of the voices.
"Why don't we go back. It's too risky."
She could see them now. One was a woman with black hair. Her back was facing June. The other person was a man. They one of them sounded familiar.   
"No, wait," said the woman
"I rather..." 
"Look. They're about to start."
Both of them were looking towards June and the others. The woman made her way towards June. 
"I know you're awake."
"Please ma'am, step ahead." The man said in a snarky voice.
June had never been as terrified as this moment in her life. She, Derek, and Eric were being threatened by two people, a man and a woman, trapped in a cave that Derek had gotten them into. What could be worse?
The woman standing next to her leaned down and picked June up. She tossed her to the man who caught her with brilliant reflexes.
"Thank you for taking care of that one." The woman said, "Now, I only have these two bags."
The woman walked over to Derek and Eric. She removed two spikes from some of the huge thorns around them. She held them over Derek and Eric's hearts.
"Ok, that's fine. I'll take good care of her."
June didn't like how the man said that. What was even worse was that Derek was being threatened. Eric still couldn’t be trusted.
"Let. Me. Go." June said, struggling to break free.
"Who are you anyway, girl?"
The man grabbed her hair and shoved her against the base of a spike nearby. June winced. 
Her eyes focused on the woman. "Hey, you look familiar." June's voice cracked. She cleared her throat. "You remind me of a friend I met a while ago. What was her name? Oh, right! Maria. You know her?"
"Well I hope my doppelganger treated you well back then because she isn't me. And I have never heard of her."
"Shut up!" The man said. He reached for June's neck and clutched it. June gasped as she tried to swallow as much air as possible.
"Now tell us. Who are you and how much did you hear? If you resist, we will have no choice but to give you some motivation." He nodded towards the woman. Unexpectedly, she swung the spikes down, aiming for Derek and Eric's hearts. Her heart skipped a beat
"Stop!" June yelled hoarsely. "Stop. I'll tell you who I am but just leave those two alone."
She looked at Derek. The only thing between him and the spike was his shirt which had no guarantee of safety at all.
"Don't tell them anything." Derek said in a cautious tone. "You have no right to."
"But–" June saw the expression on his face and stopped. Derek was dead serious. 
"He's right." She looked at Eric now. Tears clouded her vision.
"Ok, enough chit-chat." The woman interjected. "I think it's time to get the main event started."
She raised the spikes, targeting the boy's bodies, and lowered them. Fast.