Undercover

I don’t know why I was letting myself sit in this cell. Alex needed me and I mean, I should hate him for going against his word but I understand his view point. What he didn’t know was they only said they’d wipe my memory to keep him quiet, they weren’t going to; they didn’t care about his last request or any of that. Why would they break protocol for one stupid teenager? It made sense anyway, he had played such a major part of my life that I wasn’t sure how they could make me forget him. I would lose too much time, it become apparent that something had actually happened. I think this was better though, I don’t know if I could live without remembering the caramel haired boy that means just too much to me. I couldn’t help but get the last words we shared before we were separated in this prison. He was vulnerable for the first time since I had known him. He was weak and I think I liked him that way. He wasn’t trying to be Atlas or Superman, he was just being Alex and I think I’m okay with that.

I sat down, my back against the cold concrete. I laid my head back, the top of my head touching the concrete as well. I felt alone, not because I actually was but because I felt like I needed Alex. Maybe I just didn’t know how to be alone; I mean even at home there was always people around that’s just what happens when you have siblings though. You crave the few minutes a day that you can be alone and now I want nothing more than to be next to him. He told me that he loved me and that if I forget everything else to not forget that. It was no secret that I was in love with him, hell, I had told him, I just couldn’t get my mind off the fact that if this wasn’t our life now we could get married. Maybe we could adopt kids or at least a dog. Instead we were damned to a hell of running. Except that’s tiring which is why we are now here. Before I had never thought about getting married but with him it seemed okay, it seemed like that was what was meant to happen.

“Let me out of here,” a voice yelled from further down on the hall.

The constant yells were something that you just got used to. It was the new normal that I had to adjust to yet again. That seemed to be all I did lately, adjust to this or adjust to that. I mean I didn’t hate it but it wasn’t ideal by any means. I don’t think anyone really lives their life hoping to spend it running away from problem after problem but that’s what Alex and I did and we got real good at it. What I would give to just see him one more time but I knew that just wasn’t going to happen. We were too much of a problem together, we had foiled their plans when we were together, I knew that time we spent together in the van was the last we would see each other. I wasn’t okay with it but there was nothing I could do, I was stuck waiting for my time.

“You’re a bunch of lying assholes, let me out,” I heard a familiar voice.

“Alex,” I screamed.

“Jack, is that really you?”

“Yes, it is.”

“We’re gonna get out of this I swear.”

I tried to looked out the bars to see if I could see him but I just couldn’t. I sighed as I stood up. There was nothing to do but hope and that didn’t seem to be enough anymore. That was also exhausting to do day after damn day because hope just wasn’t enough for me anymore and maybe that was what was destroying me. I honestly had no ideas, I just knew that there was only so long I could fight and only so long that I was going to hold on because it was exhausting to keep waiting for a tomorrow that you weren’t sure was going to happen. There’s something unsettling about waiting for the one thing you never thought you’d be pacing around a small room waiting for. As much as I wanted to get out of this damn cell I didn’t want them to let me out because I knew what was going to happen. All I had done wrong was fall in love with Alex and trust him but the business thought that it was wrong. I mean he was right, I didn’t know anything that would give them away and I’d be too damn scared to say a word but something about forgetting Alex made me not want to take that path at all.

“There’s gotta be a way out,” I whispered to myself.

I placed a hand on the wall, looking for anything that would lead me out of here but I was certain that I wouldn’t find anything. I was pretty sure that they had checked everything because we had escaped once before. Even if I got out I wasn’t going to leave Alex and I really wasn’t sure if how to get him out as well. If I wasn’t worried about breaking my hand than I would punch the wall but I cared because maybe there was a way that I could get out of this prison. Footsteps shook me from my thoughts; I looked over to where they were coming from. Rian was standing there, his head at the ground.

“I’m here to transfer you to Alex’s cell,” he said softly.

He unlocked the door and brought me out; he brought me down the hall to an area that had much smaller cells. He unlocked Alex’s and brought him out too. Rian looked like he was doing something he shouldn’t have. Alex stared at him, very confused, hell I was confused too. Why were we standing in the hallway, was this the moment that I had been dreading? Was it finally going to happen, was this our last time together.

“Look, I’m risking everything for this, there’s one way out of here and that’s through the leaders, take them out and you’re golden. I was never here, I never let you out. You escaped somehow ok,” Rian said quickly.

“Why are you helping us,” I asked, my voice cracking.

“I love Alex and Alex loves you. Love makes you do crazy things I guess, just be safe you two okay?”

We didn’t say a word and once Rian was out of view Alex grabbed my arm and pulled me close to him, pressing our lips together. That was a feeling I never thought I would feel again. However, in this moment I could die and I don’t know if I would care. I know I shouldn’t say that considering that was what I was waiting for but that was how it felt. I was content as long I was in his arms.

Notes

So, I'm back at school which means I have no earthy clue when I'll be able to update so, because of that have a special chapter in Jack's POV. I thought that it would give a little insight to him, not much but it's something. I know it's just a filler but I hope you enjoy it.

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