<the.capture,the.plan,the.torture.and.the.truth>

Nick open his eyes, the fact that it was almost freezing stunned him. He looked around, his teeth chattering.

Around him he could hardly see, it was dark, even with the very few lit candles. Nick's body felt like it was turning to ice, making him aware that his heavy sweats were gone. He heard the door creak open, he watched as four dark figures in robes that made them look like munks, clumsily stumble in with hand full of candles.

Slowly and very quietly the four people lit and placed the candles all around lighting up the entire room, making it so Nick realized where he was. He was in the room that was to the left of his. Nick opened his mouth trying to speak, but nothing came out, his mouth was gagged. He tried to struggle but he was chained.

He looked around, His brother, sisters, and Sky, were all the same. Except they weren't gagged.

One of the robed masked figures walked over to him, viscously pulling the wrap down off of his mouth. He didn't speak, afraid of what may have happened. "Good job boy, stay silent, you are wise." The voice said.

Nick swallowed hard, just noticing how dry his mouth was.

"Please let us go!" BJ yelled.

The figure closest to her pulled a whip from underneath his cloak and whipped her bare stomach. BJ screamed in pain, making Nick flinch at the action. "Hey! Stop that!" He yelled.

The figure grabbed his cheeks. "I thought you'd learn to stay quiet." It growled harshly. They too pulled
something from their cloak, but something much more violent. A gun.

"You will not be killed, for we need to keep you alive as long as possible" The person pulled the hood of their cloak from around their mask and then pulled their mask down from their face.

"Sammy?"

Samantha pulled the trigger of the gun. It echoed through the room. Nick felt the bullet slice into his left side. He was too shocked to scream, and too afraid to talk anymore. He felt the blood seeping out of the wound.

Sammy laughed and left the room. The three others quickly were following.

Nick groaned. "Nick? Are you okay?" A weak voice asked.

Nick tried to breath but the lump in his throat kept him from doing so. Instead all he could do was let the tears flow freely.

"Nick, remember you said you'd get us out of here, please don't do this help us." His sister begged.

Nick felt like it was hopeless. "I can't BJ, its useless, were going to die. Deal with it." He was surprised at the cruelty in his voice. The silence filled the room.

Nick looked around hoping for some kind of escape. The door suddenly creaked open. One of the figures stood in the doorway. "I'm here to help you, but you need to listen and follow my directions perfectly. Understood."

Nick nodded.

The figure pulled down his hood and mask. Nick's mouth dropped open. "Dad?"

The man nodded. "That's who you want to think that I am. But really my name is Jeff Henry. I am a look a like to your father, your father was killed already, a day after he left to help your mother. I took his place and told your mother I was going to go get you guys and bring you to her. The fact that she is dying. Thanks to your Aunt Helen and your cousin. The plan was that we would kill the entire family, then the money you leave in your will, would become ours."

Nick didn't want to believe a word of this, but there was nothing he could say to make himself not believe.

"Listen Samantha comes back in here in about an hour to unlock you. She only unlocks one hand or arm at a time, So you can relax it a little, then she locks it back up and unlocks another. When she comes I will be outside the door, Nick she is going to unlock you first, hit her. I know you might not want to, but it's your only way of survival. I will come in and take the key, unlocking you all, then you must try to get out. But I am warning you ahead of time. At night there are more rooms, something happens to the house at night making it a maze of locked doors. But you have to find the right one to leave, it may
take you several days or weeks of hiding. But you must trust me." The man, Jeff dropped a pile of brown clothing. "Here so you don't have to wander in your undergarments." With that he left.

Nick looked at his sister. "BJ, I'm sorry, I'll get us out of here."

BJ smiled weakly.

"Are you hurt badly?" A girl asked. Sky.

Nick smiled and winced at the pain. "Nah, just bounced off my ribs a little that's all." He looked over at Sky. Her brown eyes and dark blonde hair. They had lost the life in them that he had seen so many years ago.

That one night had changed their lives, their one night of love.

Nick remembered it well. He had taken Sky with him on tour. It had started out as just a friendship, a close relationship between the two. He had asked her to be one of their dancers on their summer tour.
Sky and her mother had both agreed.

Slowly they moved from friendship to relationship, dating nothing serious. But one night, Nick and Sky had the bus to themselves, and that night, their relationship took a violent shove into serious.

Nick could feel the tears rolling down his cheeks, he couldn't tell if it was from the pain of the gunshot, or the pain of the memories.

Nick was lost in the memory's, he remembered them so well. The touch from her hands on his bare back, the way she traced his tattoo with her nail. The way she kissed him. The way she smelled and felt and everything else.

But with that night, brought so many awkward moments between them. The fact that she began to date AJ a week after that night and the fact of her miscarriage of their baby had just been a few of them.

"Nick... Nick wake up!" He heard Sky's voice and let his eyes slowly open to the creaking of the door. This was their moment. His heart was racing as he watched Sammy walk inside. She took a key from around her neck and began to unlock Nick.

Nick's left hand was freed, this was his chance. He took his shaking hand and whipped Samantha across the face. She fell to the floor the key sliding over towards the other wall.

Jeff rushed in and picked up the key, he began to unlock the others before Nick. Finally Nick was freed.

He didn't realize how weak he was. Sky and BJ slid him into a brown robe and helped him out, they were almost free.

"Listen to me children. Go up the stairs in the east wing, it will lead you to a room where you will be safe until Nick is well. Go!"

Nick lost conscienceness from there, everything around him was gone.

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