Hostage

Matt’s POV

I tried to open my eyes and I wanted to put a hand to my head but I couldn’t move them.
My head hurts and my eyes refused to open.
What was going on?
The headache got worse when my eyes finally opened a little.
My hands were bound to my back.
Wait..
What?!
I tried to force my hands to the front but I couldn’t move them, my wrists were bound together by a rope.
I looked around, I lay on the ground a dirty carpet beneath me.
When I tried to lift my head the headache was intensified by ten. I had to close my eyes again and let my head drop to the floor.
I tried to recall what the last thing I remembered was and it was hard to bring my brain to work at all.
I talked to Brian, then I went for a run…
The gym, I have been in the gym and… then nothing.

I opened my eyes again and tried to get into a sitting position, my whole body protested but I finally succeeded. I leaned against the bed behind me and let my head drop back to rest it on the cover.
Fuck.. this was an old hotel?
Bed, the carpet but the window was closed shut I couldn’t even see if it was day or night.
I heard a stifled moan and looked around, was someone else here?
I turned around and saw a small figure on the bed, she also had her hands behind her back, her eyes closed.
On her mouth was a tape so she wouldn’t talk or scream, I sat on the bed next to her, couldn’t move my arms but tried to wake her while softly shaking her shoulder with mine.
She jolted awake, her eyes wide open her nostrils flared she looked at me shocked and shrank away.
“Ssshhh..” I tried to soothe her.
I have never seen her before, who was she and why was she here?
Why am I here?
She began to mumble behind the tape but I couldn’t make out a word.
“Ssshhh… wait, let me try to help you, alright?!” I told her in a calm voice.
A calm voice I wasn’t really feeling, but when I looked into her frightened eyes I had the feeling that I needed to sooth her. Whoever she was…
She nodded slowly and I hadn’t figured out how to help her so I got up and thought of the best way to get rid of the tape, but the only way was to turn my back to her and try to snatch the tape with my bound fingers.
“I will turn my back to you, then you gotta move your mouth to my fingers and I try to snatch the tape of, but don’t scream, alright… we have to stay quiet.” I told her and again, she nodded her eyes wide open.
I turned around and I felt her soft cheek against my fingers, I held my index finger out and let it run over her skin until I touched the tape, I regretted that I had to hurt her but there was no other way.
I grabbed the tape and before I could snatch it away, she already did the work and was free and gasped for air.
I turned around and looked at her, she had tears in her eyes but blinked them away.
I sat down beside her again, “I’m Matt… do you… can you remember something?”
“Alicia… I… don’t know.. I wanted to train I went to the gym… I…” she seemed to think of something her eyes closed.
I looked at her face closely, she was a beauty…
She had some red marks on her arms, but she wasn’t bleeding, what have they done to her?!
What did they plan for her - for us?
Who were they?!
“I came into the gym.. I saw.. you.. yes, I saw you lying there… you were bleeding.” She looked at me and gasped again..
“Oh my god.. there is still so much blood.. does it hurt bad?” I wanted to touch my face where she was looking at but I couldn’t raise my arms.
“I.. guess.. yes.. but what else?” I asked her.
She breathed in and out, “I wanted to help you, saw the blood… then there were two guys discussing about you… with a gun, yes they had a gun.. I wanted to flee and call the police but someone grabbed me while I was running away… I struggled, but he was stronger… he held something before my mouth and I don’t know.. that’s it… I tried to scream…” She looked up to me.
“Who are these guys? What does they want from us?”
I shook my head, “I don’t know.”

William’s POV

“Did you hear that? I think they are awake!” I told Carl and he looked excited.
“Should we give them some time or just- Alright.”Carl swung the door open and walked into the room.
We saw both sitting on the bed, the victim we wanted and the victim with the bad timing.
We couldn’t leave the girl running out of the Gym after she had seen us, it was her bad luck that she walked in while we had finally succeeded in our plan.
So we had to take her along… but she wasn’t needful for us.
“Hello hello hello.. who do we have here?” Carl said loudly and looked from the guy to the girl.
The girl shrank back on the bed and the guy just looked angry.
I closed the door, so neither of them could try to run away, with the bound arms, they couldn’t get the door open anyway.
I heard a knock on the door and saw my brother standing there with a first aid kit.
“What do you want with that?” I asked him frowning.
“He was bleeding badly, we need to at least clean his wound so he won’t get an infection.” Sean said and moved past me.
I sighed, Carl would hate this.
Carl was talking to Matt and grinned the entire time, sometimes he would show the gun which was tucked inside his pants.
“WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT? WHO ARE YOU?” Matt yelled.
“Ah ah.. Matthew… not you are the one who ask the questions, I am. And I am the one who will also make the demands!” Carl said and moved closer.
The expression on Matt’s face looked murderous but he was silent. I saw him move over to the girl, trying to shield her maybe? Does he know her? Or was she really just at the wrong place at the wrong time?
“And about you, what’s your name, darling?” Carl asks the girl and she pressed her lips together.
Carl moved closer to the bed and leaned down to her, “Tell me now, or you will regret it.” He spat at her and she flinched.
“Alicia.”
“See, wasn’t so hard, was it?” Carl looked at her with a smile.
“C?” I asked when he didn’t turn away and kept staring.
“Oh right, Matthew, we got your phone… you have at least three messages from your friends. You just disappeared from them… for over a day now… they seemed worried.”
“FUCK YOU!” Matt yelled and seemed to couldn’t suppress his anger anymore I smiled, oh this would get interesting, Carl wasn’t good at the anger department as well.
“Matthew, Matthew.. we gotta work on your behavior or there won’t be any dinner for you today… you two must be hungry.. slept for a long time. So if you two are playing along nicely, this will over soon, if not… it might get a little rough.. if you know what I mean.” Carl smiled at them.
“So, we will give you now a little time to adjust and maybe you will get something to eat later.” Carl finished and with that he turned around and motioned for me and Sean to follow.
Sean was about to protest but I shook my head.
We obeyed and walked out and left the two strangers alone in their misery…

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