Twisted (Rewritten Version)

Chapter Twenty

~Flashback to about eight years ago~

I take a deep breath.

"Silas I don't want to do this." I say. He holds my hand.

"We don't have a choice." Silas whispers.

"What if it doesn't work. What if they accidentally kill us. Or only one of us the other will be so...." I say trailing off.

"Ok Em your up first." My mom says coming up to us.

"NO." Silas yells. "Let me go first. Not her."

"Silas you are going next." My mom says calmly.

"I said I'm going first." Silas says stepping in front of me.

"Silas move out of the way. Now!" My mom screams.

"No! Let me go first please." Silas pleads. My mom pushes Silas out of the way.

"No no no no. Mom please no." I cry.

"MOM STOP PLEASE STOP!" Silas yells trying to move her hands from me. Tears fall down both of our faces. My mom picks me up. I kick and scream trying to get out of her arms. Silas tries to run after us but she slams the door and locks it again.

"Mom please. I beg you please stop." I plead. She whispers in my ears. Hushing. Then something goes over my mouth and everything goes black.

I wake up to a bright light. My head hurts. I try to sit up but somebody makes me lay back down.

"Where is Silas?" I manage to ask. My voice sounds dry and hoarse. Nobody answers but I know they are there. "WHERE IS SILAS?"

"He is in another room." Whoever it is says.

"Take me to see him." I beg.

"You can't get up yet." They tell me.

"I need to see him. Now." I say. I sit up but they try to push me down. "STOP LET ME SEE HIM!"

"Em calm down. If they know your awake they will test you." They say.

"Who are you?" I ask them.

"Don't worry about it. You need to sleep some more and then we will let you see Silas."

"No. No no no. Let me see him please." I said. I yawn feeling drowsy. I close my eyes and drift off to sleep.

*Silas's Pov*

I wake up with a gasp. A bright light in my eyes.

"Where is Em?" I yell.

"When she wakes up you can see her." My dad says. "I heard you fought with your mom on who should go first."

"I was trying to protect her." I say. "Is she okay?"

"Yes." He says.

"Are we in your recovery room?" I ask.

"Yes. She is in the other room." He tells me.

"She was scared. She thought you could have killed us. She was afraid that one of us could have died and the other would have been stuck by themselves. We protect each other. I will protect her. To the ends of the earth.." I tell him. "Parents are supposed to be terrified that their kids would die before them. But you.... you two.... you could have killed us. You could have killed her. What if you killed me. Who would protect her? From the mean people. From the world. From you."

"Silas you are both fine." My dad snorts.

"No we are not." I say. "Who says this will work? What if you try again? What if the next time someone dies?"

"THIS WILL WORK!" He screams. I hear a girl screaming.

"NO!" I scream sitting up. "Where is she? What are you doing to her?"

"We are testing out the procedure. To see if it worked. Do you feel anything?" He asks.

"YES! I FEEL WORRIED. Do it to me." I beg. "Don't torture her torture me."

"Silas you can't always protect her." My dad tells me.

"Yes. I. Can." I tell him.

"Silas you guys will grow up." My dad says.

"No no no no no." I say. I stand up.

"Sit down son." My dad orders.

"NO!" I scream. I push him out of the way and run out the doors. I run to the sound of the screaming and slam the door open.

"STOP IT! STOP!" I scream at them.

"Silas go back to your room." My mom says. Some guy is standing by Em with a hot metal rod. She had burn marks on her stomach.

"MOM!" I scream looking at Em.

"Silas go back to your room." She orders again.

"No! WE ARE NOT YOUR EXPERIMENTS WE ARE YOUR KIDS!" I scream at her.

"SILAS I SAID GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM!" She screams back.

"I don't feel it. I don't feel that so stop it." I tell her.

"Silas it will work." She says. I slap her.

"Did you feel that?" I ask her. I run over and grab Em. The guy tries to stop me but I take the medal rod and stab his eye with it. I pick Em up and run with her. She is knocked out. Probably from pain. I go upstairs into the house and run to my bedroom and hide us under the bed. Footsteps sound from outside the room. The door opens and someone walks inside. Em moves a little as she wakes up. I cover her mouth. Whoever it is leaves the room.

"Em we have to go." I whisper.

"Go where?" She asks me.

"Away." I tell her.

"How are we going to get out of here?" She asks me.

"Easy." I tell her sneaking out from under the bed. I grab one of the home phones and help her out from under the bed. I open the door and we sneak down the hall. There are a bunch of people downstairs talking.

"WHERE CAN THEY BE THIS HOUSE ISN'T THAT BIG!" My mom yells.

"We looked everywhere." One of their employees say.

"Apparently not they couldn't have gotten that far." My dad tells them.

"Yeah you need to fire someone." I say to them.

"Where have you been? You guys are in some much trouble." My mom says.

"No. If you don't let us go you are in trouble." I tell them pulling out a phone. "Three numbers away from the cops showing up."

"You wouldn't dare." My dad says.

"9-1-" I say.

"Ok fine." My mom says cutting me off. I help Em down the stairs and out the door.

"Where are we going?" She asks. Her voice is hoarse.

"We can go to Brooke's house she lives down the street." I tell her. I help her over to Brooke's and we knock on the door.