"Nooo!!"

There was a loud whipping sound and Alice screamed.

It was the next morning and Aaron came in excited to start playing with his new victims. But they day had not started well.

Aaron was furious. Helen had just told him she couldn't find the boys. He completely lost it and took off his belt and began hitting Alice in frustration, but it did not calm him down.

Dana and her brothers were missing. Even her father managed to make himself disappear in the Maze. All of a sudden, last night's triumph disappeared too.

In frustration he took the belt and wrapped it around Alice's neck and began to chock her.

Alice gasped for breath as she dug her fingernails into the belt, trying to claw her way free.

"Stop." Helen said. "This is not what we taught you."
But Aaron did not loosen his grip on Alice.

"Let her go, Aaron." Came a voice from the door. John was back, he was wearing the disguise of an old man and was dragging something that looked like a body wrapped in a bedcloth,

Aaron did not immediately let Alice go. "Whose in there?" He asked John.

In a swift motion, John uncovered the face at the same time Aaron released the belt.

Alice saw the face and screamed.

"No!!!"

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Dana couldn't keep her food down. She could not sleep and she could not sit still.

She stayed with Cristy for less than a day and she was already starting to feel suffocated.

It was not because Cristy was being over protective of her but because she dint know where her family was and couldn't do anything to help her them.

"You said that if your mom doesn't return by breakfast it means she got caught trying to help my mom." Dana said curled up on the couch. "So why can't we go and get them out?"

"We can't!" Cristy said again. Dana had been trying different ways to go back to the cells but Cristy stood firm to the plan. Neither of them would leave the house till nightfall.

"My mother is a smart women, we have been here for a long time." Cristy continued. "She will find a way out and she will get your mother out too!"

"But if we leave tonight to go into hiding, how will she find us again?" Dana asked.

"Dana! Don't you trust me?" Cristy asked, looking very upset.

Dana hesitated, she was not sure if she should trust Cristy but then her mother got her out of the captivity and risked herself to save her mother, so maybe trusting Cristy wasn't a bad thing?

"What about the rest of my family?" Dana asked.

"They are probably caught too, but if makes you feel better we can stop by the hotel to check before we leave." Cristy replied and then Dana finally agreed.

By the time the sun was about to set, they were ready to leave. Cristy had packed some clothes for both of them and cash. Now all they needed to do was let the night fall into complete darkness and then make their escape.

******

Derrick was weak and dazed. People he managed to talk to thought he was drunk and angrily dismissed him.

He fell into the side of the street, all the energy he managed to get after the food given to him by the Spanish guys, drained quickly and he was close to loosing consciousness again.

Just then he saw a man, the man seemed to be staring at him with a frown in his face.

Derrick blinked hard, trying to clear his vision. The man was very old and was holding a photo in his hand.

"Please. Help." Derrick managed to say, he couldn't talk anymore and managed to communicate with few words.

"What happened to you." The old man asked.

"Maze." Derrick struggled to say. "Help. Please."

The look on the old man's face changed. "Come, I'll help you." He said as he put his arm around Derrick and helped him to his feet.

The old man led him to the Copper Pan bar still clutching the photo in the hand wrapped around Derrick.

Through his blurry vision, Derrick thought he recognised the man in the photo.

"Sit here, I'll get you some water." Said the old man.

With no energy left, moving was not an option. Derrick sat with his head against the wall until the old man retuned.

Mouthing a word of thanks, he gulped down the water quickly.

There was immediate relief, his vision cleared and he was able to support his own weight. Suddenly he realised that the man in the photo was him.

He looked up at the old man and opened his mouth to ask something but no sound came out. The old man smiled.

Derrick began to panic. He had no idea why but he knew he was in trouble. He stood up quickly, his legs wobbled.

"Where do you think you are going?" The old man asked putting an hand on Derrick's shoulder, forcing him to sit down.

Derrick fell back on his chair unable to move, his jaw was locked and his breathing became shallow. He was paralysed.

"Don't worry, I'm going to take you to your family." The old man said with an evil smile.

Derrick was helpless, he was wrapped in a cloth and dumped into the back of a trunk. The old man was surprisingly strong.

Derrick was awake throughout the ride and while being dragged on an uneven ground he got bumps and bruises.

Suddenly a horrible stench filled his nostrils and then they stopped.

The old man unwrapped his face and there was a scream.

Derricks eyes travelled to the other end of the room, his heart almost stopped beating.

Aaron, he remembered this boy. Dana introduced him as a friend months ago. This friend now stood there with a belt around Alice's neck.
Alice had been crying, her eyes were swollen and every big of skin on her hands and face showed bruise marks from the belt.

Derrick felt immense rage, it was so powerful that he could feel his fingers curl into a clench.

"He needs another dose." The old man said to the beautiful women watching him. He wondered for a moment if she was there against her will but her body language made it clear she wanted to be there.

Derrick was thrown to the floor as the women came forward with a syringe in hand.  All he could do was shake violently till the medication entered his bloodstream and paralysed him again.

"I don't get how we got three adults but let the kids get away." Aaron said. Derrick realised with a jolt who Aaron was talking about.

"They just got lucky. We will get the rest of them,Don't worry." said the old man with a sinister look on his face.

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