𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒 - jj maybank

- 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲

Jordan nodded, hugging his legs close to his chest in attempt to keep warm. He hissed in pain as his knee hit against the open wound on his stomach.

Luis nodded to him, gesturing to Kaci on the floor. "What about you guys? — how did you end up here?"

Jordan shrugged. "Rafe killed Sheriff Peterkin," he said, and Luis seemed shocked at the mention of the oldest Cameron. "I was there. Ward blindfolded me. Next thing I know, I'm trapped in a cardboard box, I can't see a thing and I'm getting stabbed in the stomach. Then I woke up here." He furrowed his brows. "Where are we, Luis?"

"I have no idea."

They both turned to Kaci again, silence filling up in the freezing air. She didn't blink. The boys weren't sure if she could hear them, if she knew what was happening, if she was dying. She didn't look alive. But she was breathing. Anybody that breathed in this room would be caught in an instant — it was so cold that the shortest breath would release a thick cloud into the air. So, Kaci was breathing and alive, but it was the length of her breaths and the lack of movement in her body that was the cause for concern.

"She'll be okay," Luis assured his younger brother, who looked more worried than ever. "Kaci always is."

Jordan shook his head. "She's not as strong as she let's on."

"You're right. She's stronger."

𖧷

𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, and the room started to fill up with darkness again, the clear image of the siblings fading back into black outlines. Kaz remained uncharacteristically silent as he was rocked in his uncleʼs arms, and Jordan spent hours absently tapping his rough fingers over the smooth ground. Kaci still didn't do a thing. She hadn't opened her eyes in a while, either, and Jordan was beginning to assume the worst, the panic taking over his body. Luis, however, remained calm and cool throughout everything.

There was a sudden crash coming from below them, and Jordan jumped up in surprise, pulling on the metal chains that tightened around his hands. He cried out in pain as the movement of his body stretched out his wound.

Footsteps could be heard surrounding the perimeter of the walls the were trapped inside. The single person continued to move. Again and again. All around in a perfect square.

Luis held onto Kaz that little bit tighter, but he did nothing to make himself known.

Jordan threw his fists against his wall, ignoring the pain that increased the more he moved. This could be his only chance to get out, and he had to use it well. To save his family. "HELP US!" he screamed out through his dry throat.

Kaci didn't move, nor did she wake up.

Something outside rattled. A door handle. A lock. It rattled again and again, and the person outside was losing patience.

Luis remained calm throughout to process, rocking a crying Kaz back to slumber. Jordan only got louder, desperate for his safe escape. Kaci didn't so much as twitch.

"Hold on!" the voice behind the walls called back to him, sounding panicked and startled. He rattled the door again, starting pounding on it with as much strength as Jordan did. "Hold on, Jordan, I'm coming!"

Luis turned to Jordan, whose eyes widened at the familiarity of the voice. He looked to Kaci, who didn't do a single thing.

The rattling stopped.

A minute went by and nothing happened.

Jordan shook his head at the hopeless look on Luisʼs face. "Trust me — he won't give up."

But then another minute slowly passed.

And another.

Then half an hour.

And the next thing the brothers knew, the light was coming back into their small room.

Kaci Flores still didn't open her eyes. She didn't do anything.

Jordan lied back onto the floor in a crushed defeat.

He wasn't coming.

They were going to die in there.

Authorʼs Note
so we finally find out what happened to luis?! how are y'all feeling about this season so far?? i just want kaci and jj to reunite ngl, she needs one of his hugs desperately. i've also been really busy lately so i'm sorry that i'm not updating every single day like i used to, but i am still very much in love with this fic and i want to keep writing it until the very end.
love, tay </3