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Nostrum Fortis Leo	By : dmdarklord Category: Twilight Series > AU/AR > Slash Views: 15796 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 14

Emmett reached out and took one of Edward’s smaller hands in his. Not only did he do this to pull his younger brother along with him, but he wanted to somehow express that he did not blame Edward for the events that’d happened the previous night. He looked down to see the handcuffs were still encircling Edward’s wrists, creating rings of blue and purple.

“We’ll find a way to get them off later, okay?” Emmett whispered in Edward’s ear.

The youngest Cullen nodded.

On tiptoes, the three boys’ made it through the kitchen and out the back door of the cabin, ensuring they did not make any unnecessary sounds. Finally outside for the first time in days, they discovered that the cabin was surrounded by nothing but forest.

“Which way?” Emmett asked the others.

“Well, there has to be a drive way that will lead us to a road where we can find help,” Jasper reasoned.

“Good thinking.”

They walked around the cabin to the front being careful where they stepped with their bare feet. Out the front of the wooden dwelling, the boys’ noticed that the black van that had brought Emmett and Jasper to the cabin was stationary, while the jeep was nowhere in sight. There was another vehicle in the form of a Nissan Patrol. The second thing they noticed was that Laurent was right next to the van, shutting the door!

“What the...?” Laurent exclaimed, disbelieving that he was looking at the three escaping boys’.

Emmett acted quickly. He dropped Edward’s hand, ran up to the dark skinned man and pounced. He knocked Laurent to the ground and found a loose stone with his left semi-uninjured arm which he used to smash against the kidnappers head. Laurent slumped down.

“Quickly, come on!” Jasper urged. This time he took up Edward’s smaller hand and began to pull him towards the forest; the opposite direction to where Laurent lay. Emmett hurriedly caught up to them.

Seconds later they heard a groan as Laurent got up to observe them as they fled.

It was hard for Edward to run though the forest. Not only did the stones and sticks dig into his bare feet, but the pain in his behind was causing him to cringe and limp harder with the strain he was putting on his muscles. He was also very cold.

“Come on, Eddie,” Emmett encouraged as he saw his brother weakening, “We have to move so we can get home to Mum and Dad.”

The thought of his Dad and Mum made Edward determined. If he kept running they would be found and taken home. Oh, how he wanted to go home... to be safe. Edward pushed on.

The three of them ran hard for a good solid hour, but eventually their weakened, weary body’s slowed. With the combination of their injuries and lack of sustenance, they were unable to press on.

“We need to rest,” Jasper told Emmett.

Emmett’s jaw was clenched and he fought to deny the rest his body was craving. If they stopped it heightened the chance of the kidnappers finding them.

“Emmett. You’re brother is about to collapse. Let him rest,” Jasper implored.

Concerned eyes flicked to the smaller member of the group. Edward looked the worst of them all. His skin was clammy and pale contrasting against the speckling of bruises, his face was ashen and he swaying so much that it looked like he was going to fall over at any second. Emmett grudgingly complied.

Both he and Jasper helped Edward over to the base of a large tree and sat him down on the moist leaf debris. They sat down as well, close to the shivering boy doing their best to keep him warm.

They sat in silence for a while as the sounds of the surrounding nature tittered around them.

“I don’t feel well, Em,” Edward whispered, bound arms clutching as his stomach.

Emmett looked down, concerned.

“I think he needs a doctor,” Jasper said.

“I think you’re right,” Emmett replied. “We better keep moving then. Who knows how far we are going to have to walk. It’ll be near impossible when night comes.”

Jasper nodded in agreement.

Edward was lifted to his feet by both Emmett and Jasper. The two older boys’ kept a firm yet comforting hold on him as they proceeded with their escape. Their pace had marginally slowed, more practical for the weakening Cullen.

They stumbled through the trees for hours. It began to darken. Emmett and Jasper shared a worried look over Edward’s head, but they pressed on doing their best to put a much distance between them and the kidnappers as possible.

As twilight encroached, the boys’ froze as they heard the sound of a stick snapping from close behind them.

“What was that?” whispered Jasper urgently, looking back to where’d they just come from.

“Do you think...” Emmett muttered, leaving his sentence unfinished.

Edward tensed fearfully between them.

There was another noise to their right; a crunch of leaves.

“Shit. Hurry!” Emmett said in a panicked voice. All three of them began to run again.

They veered slightly to the left as they fled away from the noises. Their pace was slowed as they continuously tripped over long sticks which were hard to see in the waning light.

A few more meters and they skittered to a halt. There, before them was a furious looking James.

Emmett blindly reached out for his brother and spun them around, heading in the opposite direction. They came face to face with the barrel of a gun, held in the outstretched hand of Felix.

“Don't move,” he growled.

Another crunch of leaf litter and from out of another direction stepped Laurent, also with a gun in hand, torch in the other.

Edward let out a strangled, choked sob at the realisation of the failure of their escape attempt.

The three kidnappers glared at their victims.

“You’re good, James. I’ve give you that,” Laurent praised.

James had not taken his gaze off Edward. He tilted his head as if trying to size up the teen’s intentions.

“I have been tracking through all types of terrain for years. There is no tracker better than me,” boasted James. His unblinking gaze did not shift from Edward as he spoke to Laurent.

“It’s getting dark. We should get them back to the lodge,” Felix said.

Emmett and Jasper were pushed back the way they’d come. “Let’s go boys’,” Laurent ordered. His gun came closer to Emmett’s head before the thwacked it across the elder Cullen’s skull. “That’s for the rock.”

The force of the blow made Emmett stumble but he remained upright and walked away in the directed direction.

As for James, his gripped onto Edward’s copper hair with a jarring force and wrenched the boy’s head up to bring their faces together. “You will not do something like that again, or I will torture you so viciously that you will think that the last couple of days have been a dream vacation.”

Edward whimpered pathetically at the threat and the pain of his head.

“Do you understand?”

Flinching, Edward nodded. “Yes...” he whispered.

James seemed satisfied for the time being. He let go of his hold on Edward’s hair, but lowered his hand until it gripped the boy’s neck, instead.

“Move,” James ordered.
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