Mila let out a breath of relief. "Thank God it's only you Blake. Can you please hurry untieing us, before he comes back!"

Blake hurries over to Nick first.

Mila smiles over to Peter, but he is scowling.

"Why aren't you happy? Blake is saving us."

Peter looks at Mila, "He isn't going to save us."

"What?" She gives him a dumbfounded look.

Mila looks over at Nick and Blake, just before a pair of hands claps around Nick's throat from behind.

"Oh, how I have been waiting for this moment," Blake says in a surprisingly calm voice.

He looks down at Nick, who is starting to turn red, "Unfortunately I will have to wait to kill your all. We are still missing a few people before things turn interesting."

Mila's mouth is hanging open from utter shock.

Blake laughs and removes his hands from Nick's throat. "Why so shocked Mila? Is there something you don't understand?"

She merely nods her head in response.

"Well," Blake says and straightens his suit, "storytime will have to wait until I come back with the others."

And with that, he turns around and walks out of the door.

Leaving the three prisoners in complete darkness, leaving them to think.

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"Hey, where did Blake go?" Irina asks, noticing that he is gone.

Robert merely shrugs his shoulders and continues looking through his phone, as a distraction.

Nobody cares that he isn't here.

He isn't a part of the family or a good friend.

Blake is just a man who stole another man's woman.

And that woman is dead now.

She took her own life.

Or, maybe not.

Nobody knows.

"We can't just sit here and do nothing!" Jace says as he jumps up from his chair, and begins pacing the room.

Ryan rolls his eyes, "You have been saying that ever since we got here. You do know that nobody is keeping you here, right? You can leave whenever you want."

"The police did say that it would be best if we stayed here." Sam answers.

"I don't care," Jace says "I am out of here." He then walks out, without saying anything else.

As he leaves, the air becomes thick. Thick with tension.

Not only have they all just been to a funeral, but now two people they all care about are missing.

And they have no idea who took them.

Or, one person does, but it isn't ready to share it just yet.

It is not time.

A phone rings, bringing all of them out of the awkward silence there is, aside from the radio in the background.

"Sorry," Irina says "it's my mom."

She leaves the room, leaving Kyle, Ryan, Sam and Robert.

Kyle scratches the back of his neck awkwardly like he always does.

'I never got to tell her how I feel...' He thinks to himself with a sigh. He never got a change, after the failure on the plane, when Mila met Chelsea the exact moment he was trying to tell her how he feels.

"So, you are Mila's new boy toy of the month?" Ryan questions Kyle.

"Stop your crap, Ryan. You were the one to break up with her, leaving her in a very vulnerable place." Sam pops in, not leaving any room for Kyle to defend himself.

Ryan turns around, so he is face-to-face with Sam. "I didn't ask you, now did I?"

Sam's face fires up, and they begin to bicker with each other.

Clearly, they have some issues to work through, the two old best-friends.

Their voices begin to be louder, and they are almost shouting at each other.

"Okay, the two of you, out! I can't hear what they are saying over the radio." Robert scowls them and pushes them out of the door.

They continue fighting outside.

Now, it's only Kyle and Robert there is left.

They look at each other, but Kyle quickly avoids eye contact. They haven't met each other before, and Kyle isn't the most outgoing person.

"So..." Kyle starts out but never gets to continue as the fire-alarm cuts him off.

They both spring up from their chairs and walks outside the room.

The station is empty, and they are about to walk out through the main doors, when a man, or more like a police guard, comes from behind and knock them both out conscious.

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The door opens once again. Though, this time light doesn't illuminate the room. Only the creaking sound of the door and footsteps signalises that somebody just walked in. 

None of the prisoners says a thing, as more chairs are being pulled out. 

Somebody groans and a dumping sound echoes in the large room. The chair creaks, probably because of the tying there is happening. 

'5 chairs.' Mila thinks.  

She looks over at where she knows Peter is sitting. She can barely see his face, but he is looking at her. 

He must have come to the same conclusion as Mila; 'He is back with the 'others'.'

Mila looks over at the newcomers, or where they probably are. "Are you okay?"

A few groans, but nobody answers.

The door closes, and the light is turned on. 

The first thing Mila notices is the 5, new people in the room. 

She doesn't gasp out in surprise as Blake probably have expected. No, she figured it would be these people he would bring. 

Even though she doesn't know why he is doing this, she knows it has something to do with her and Peter, and that he wants to hurt the both of them. And these people before her, are the ones who can break her. 

The ones who mean the most to her. 

Peter only had Jeremy, as far as Mila knows, and Blake plausibly got him killed. 

He may even have killed Chelsea! 

Mila looks up at Blake who is watching the scene with a sadistic grin. 

He can feel Mila's killing glare on him, and he sends a smug grin her way. 

Blake begins to slowly walk into the middle, the invisible line which separates Mila and Peter from the 6, others. 

Nick, Peter and Mila follow his movement with silence. 

The others are slowly waking up. 

Robert is the first one to open his eyes. He takes in the situation, and he immediately tries to move his arms and legs, but they are tied.

He looks around, and when he sees Mila, his whole posture instantly relaxes in relief.

Though when he notices that she is tied up, Peter too, his relaxing state tenses up once again, and that makes him look to his right.

He sees the anxious eyes of Irina, the tired eyes of Nick, the scared eyes of Sam, the angry Jace and lastly the nervous Kyle. 

Roberts studying eyes zeroes in on Blake, who still hasn't said a word. 

Blake must have noticed the new set of eyes on him because he looks over at Robert. 

"Who is ready for a story?"   

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