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Chapter: 21
Zan walked through the door and saw his wife asleep on the couch. He motioned for Michael, Max and Alex to go in the Kitchen. He walked over to the couch and knelt down. He touched her shoulder softly and kissed her forehead. A small smile crept up as he looked down at Liz.
“Liz, sweets, ya needs ta get up.” Zan whispered. Liz’s eyes flung open and she jumped to where she was now sitting, causing Zan to fall on ass.
“You found them?” She said looking down at her husband and his shocked face that was soon taken over by a look of sadness. He got back on his knee’s, his head looking towards the ground. He softly shook his head and said, “No. We’s looked all night. No Rath. No Isabel.”
Liz’s eyes started to water. She’s been crying all day. It had been a week since Rath and Isabel were taken and they still haven’t found them. They searched Kyle’s apartment which led to nothing and then they started hounding the streets. Looking down every alley, into every club. Even, though they new they probably wouldn’t be there they still looked. Trying to find some hope.
Zan went and sat next to his wife. Taking her in a hug and rocking her as she sobbed into his chest. He combed his hands through her hair.
“It’ll be ‘aight, Liz. We will find dem. Soona or layta. We will. I’s promise ya. We will.”
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“When are we going to tell them, Billy? We can’t keep lying to them. There are friends now. They already know who and what we are, why can’t we tell them this.” Laura asked as she sat next to Vienna on the couch.
Billy looked up at Laura. “Hon, we can’t tell them. They’ll think we’re apart of it.”
“But, we’re not. We had no part in it. We left the Special Unit because we were tired of Khivars orders and plus we never even followed him, he was never our ruler. Zan and Rath were always the one’s we believed in. We need to tell them, Billy. Rath and Isabel could really get hurt!” Laura said standing up now and a few inches away from the couch.
Billy closed his eyes. Thinking about what he should do. He looked up and saw that Vienna was standing next to Laura. “I second it, Billy. We need to tell them, you might have been my brother on Antar and I might have listened to anything you said, but this is Earth and another time. We are no longer the people we once were. I’m not Tajana, your not Kar, and Laura is not Vilia. We are not servants anymore. We’re not the one’s that died in the palace those people are gone. However Haylus is still Haylus. He is a servant that died in the palace. He works with Khivar and we need to warn them. Rath and Isabel’s lives are on the line.” Vienna said staring at Billy.
Billy took in her stare and nodded his head in agreement.
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Isabel was sitting in the corner of the dark room. She was waiting for Rath to wake up. This was how it was. They slept. She woke up first. Went to corner and sat there. Waited for Rath to wake. He’d wake up. And join her. They’d wait. Then, a stray of food would slid into the room. They never saw anyone. Or anything. They got used to darkness. They never saw light. Not from a lamp or the sun. Their live’s were now lived in a pitch black darkened room.
Isabel shuttered and Rath put his arm around her. They got closer everyday. Getting to know little things about each other. Now, all they had were each other. And each other is what kept themselves alive.
The door opened and a bright light came through. Causing both, Rath and Isabel to lift their hands to their eyes to shield the brightness. They both stood up and saw three figures.
Kyle, Nickolas, and a man they’d never seen before.
“Who are you?” Isabel asked, as she looked at the unknown man. Rath put a protective arm around her wanting no harm to come to her.
A laugh came out of the unknown man. “God, Vilandra. I thought you’d recognize me. Guess my thought went to shit, huh?” He said smiling.
“Khivar?” Isabel said with disgust.
“There you go.” Khivar said clapping.
Isabel looked away from him to Kyle, “Kyle how could you. I thought you were our friend. We told you we were sorry.” Isabel said tears streaming down her face.
Kyle started laughing, “Well, Is. You see I’m not Kyle. My name is Haylus. Sure Kyle was going to bring you in, but the stupid human didn’t have the guts. His exact words were, ‘I won’t give up my friends.’ So, we knocked him out. He’s in a cell pretty much like this one. But, aside from that. Wasn’t the wedding beautiful. God, don’t remember the last time I’ve been to one of those.”
“It wasn’t Kyle.” Isabel said with relief as she thought back to the fist that had collided with her face.
“No. I hit you.” Haylus said.
When Isabel looked up this time she saw a dark haired man, in his early thirties.
“Wat do ya want wit us? Wit Zan and da rest of dem?” Rath asked.
“Oh, we don’t want Zan or any of the others. We just wanted you two.” Nickolas said with pure pleasure showing in his face.
“Why’s dat?” Rath asked.
“Well, we need some lab rats.” Haylus said with a evil grin.