… Ouch, my head hurts, all of me hurts. All I see is darkness. What’s going on? Oh, yeah; I’ve got my eyes closed. I slowly start to open them, extending my senses as I do so.

I can hear the sound of deep snoring; and, by the sounds of it, it’s near by. I can feel… leather…of a; seat? Yes! It is a seat! I can feel the vibrations from it. And I can hear the hum of a, it’s hard to tell, but some kind of engine? Why would I be on a leather seat, near an engine? Unless… wait… it’s not near at all. It’s all the same vehicle. I’m in a car! I’m in a car? I’m really confused now. What, in the name of Nyx, happened?

My head’s pounding, like I’ve been right up close to a full volume stereo, and my muscles are aching like mad! I straighten the top half of my stiff body, but wince with pain that it gives me doing so. I collapse back down on the seat, groaning with further agony. Now where is that snoring coming from? I turn my head towards it. No! It can’t be; can it? A sleeping figure’s on the floor, next to my feet. The figure its, its; Jamie? Jamie! My chest is swelling up with joy, oh Jamie. It wasn’t a dream; your really here! My throat fells tight. Man! I know what comes next, and I refuse to cry! Not again. I sink back into the seat further; sighing with relief. “Jed. Sleeping beauty’s up.”

I stretch again, but this time a bit slower. Click, click, click, click, click. Ouch. Well; I guess I needed a good stretch hey? My joints feel better now they’ve clicked; but I’m still very confused. Why does he have to not be a dream? I start to turn my head, painfully, towards the voice that I now hate. I can see his face, damn it is him! Rage is building up inside me again; adrenaline is rushing rapidly through my blood stream, starting from the core of my heart! I want to scream, lash out worse then I ever have before. How dare he sit in the same car as my Jamie. How dare he! Just wait until I get my hands on this demon. Just he wait. I raise myself into a sitting position, with shaky arms. I glare at him with my silt like eyes. He jumps back a little (people say that my looks hit them with lots of emotion), ha! I scared him! Gutted!

He’s now staring, hesitantly, back with wide green eyes. Oh Nyx, I hate him! Really, really, hate him! Give me strength not to smash his head in. The only reason I don’t want to is that Jamie’s had a hard day; he needs his rest. I’ve got my hands gripping the leather seat so tightly, it’s quiet a good stress ball thing. “What’s wrong; hurt your head?” He breathed, trying not to crack up. Oh I’ll give him something to crank up about! I open my mouth to make one of my witty remarks when the most horrifying sound came out of the radio, in the front of the car. “Hello? Hello? I know you're out there! My darling daughter (Ha!) is missing and you are going to help me find her! I know you're there Jediff! You find her and bring her back! It’s Sookie Secret that’s gone so I expect you know what she looks like. Bring her back to my mansion; she has to be back here now! FIND HER!” I can’t stop shivering. Oh Nyx, she knows! And she’s got Jed and his ‘gang’ to bring me to her; oh Nyx help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! I’m a gonna! I’m bricking myself! I-I can’t see; everything’s going dark…

 ...Ohmygod! My head! What the hell is going on? My senses are coming back to me, first my hearing. I can hear a quiet sound of shoe on ground.

 My head’s swimming, but I think that I can make out a couple of male voices. It smells like freshly dug up earth and it feels like I’m lying on a metal table; where am I? Under my closed eyelids, I can see a reddish light. There must be a light on somewhere, I just haven’t decided if that’s an advantage or a disadvantage. I start to open them slowly, wincing at the sudden bright lights, suddenly closing again.

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Sookie Secrets (14) is running away fromher mansion and her money-hungry step-mother.

Her only escape is London but these mysterious men turn up.

Will they help Sookie or are they working with her step-mother?

updated Apr 5 '10 by H.C.Chapman