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Post by Twich on Feb 24, 2008 19:38:55 GMT -5
Twich stood in shock for a moment. He wanted so badly to call for help, but he knew no one would come, and if they did it would only get worse. He pulled his shoulders and wrinkled his brow.
"Get away from her." before he could think of what to do next, he drew his are back and with all he had, let it go. He head the sicking crack of his hand coming down on his bosses head. He crumpled over in pain.
"Come on!" he yelled grabbing Stars hand. almost dragging her behind him, they raced through hallway after hallway. He head Antony shout a cruse after them, but Twich didn't dare stop. He ran into the sewing room shoving past hundreds malnourished, dirty kids carrying bundles of cloth and threads. He opened the wooden door leading to a closet. "Shhh" he said to her in the dark, "Don't say anything. He prayed the no one would open the door.
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Post by Twich on Feb 24, 2008 20:00:21 GMT -5
He let his head fall back agenst the wall and dug a sewing needle out of hand. Breathing heavely he didn't dare let his garud down. "A-a-are y-you ok?" he asked, Squzzing her hand back.
The doornob began to turn. Twich held his breath as it begain to open. Light filled the tiny closet, and in the door way, stood a little girl in a ragged blue dress. She let out a scream, and Twich himself almost screamed to, a few kids turned to see what was going on. "N-n-no, it's, it's alright, j-j-just shhhh" he put his finger to his lips and slamed the door fumbling around for a lock.
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Post by Twich on Feb 25, 2008 16:08:35 GMT -5
Panic crossed his fear stricken face. He swallowed hard and nodded slowly. "Y-y-yeah, I do." he closed his eyes and tried to fly away, it did not work, he was still on Earth, he was still in a tiny closet, and hundreds of tiny needles were still pricking his calloused hand.
He heard footsteps, he heard the room go silent, he heard a small child gasp. He knew what was coming, he had seen it happen many time before, and yet, nothing could have prepared him for what was about to come. There was no way out, and he knew it, he wondered if Starsage knew it, no one could be sure. He placed his feet against the door, as if that would help, let out a final sigh, and wondered what would happen next. A tear rolled down his tender cheek, one of many to come.
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Post by Twich on Feb 25, 2008 16:34:14 GMT -5
Twich gave no fight, he no longer cared, no longer did he feel brave, powerfull. No more. He let his limp body be drug down the many hallway, children passed, but they payed no attention, thay knew where the quite boy and his hero were going.
He sat in a splintred chair. Antony Davis laughed. It was then that he relized what fools they had been. For a moment, he wished he had never ran into the building that rainy time, it was olny a day ago, but seemed like a life time. But then he thought again, no, he had met the girl who showed him not all things in life are bad, she had tought him how to have fun, and mabey more importantly, how to be a kid.
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Post by Twich on Feb 25, 2008 17:04:22 GMT -5
Twich placed his hand to his forehead, he had not yet said anything about quiting. "Is this true, you were gonna walk out on me you little basterd?" he slaped Twich. "Uhhh, w-w-we w-w-were j-j-just, uhhh"Twich stuttered. "Out with it!" Another slap. "And who the hell is she!" slap.
Twich breathed heavely. "Go" Antony wispered. Twich was confused. "G-g-go w-w-where?" he dared to asked, "Aggg!" yelled Antony "Must I explan everything to." He recived anotned slap, thing time, wiping a small drop of blood form his cheek. "Y-y-yes sir." jhe said turring to go. "And take her with you." he pointed to Star. Twich nodded. When they had reached to door, he bent over to whisper another excape plan into her ear, when he heard a cracked voice behind him. "Ah, ah,ah not with out an escourt, we wouldnt want to get lost now would we?" a sicking grin crawled across his greasy face. Twich felt a heavy hand come down on his sholder. He was begining to think there was no hope.
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Post by Twich on Feb 26, 2008 16:41:33 GMT -5
Twich looked forward, it took all he had to place one foot infront of the other"I-I, I dont know" He didnt dare look at her. "S-s-sorry I let you down, s-s-sorry, I got you into this, I knew what would happen, w-w-why was I so blined?" he said, more to him self than anyone. The two men shoved them into the sewing room where they had been olny moments ago. Twich placed his hands on the heavy door, he heard it click, the door was locked. He looked at his feet,
"C-c-come on, I'll show you what to do." he said with a fake smile. He noticed Star looking around at the other ghost like children. "Rule n-n-number one, d-d-dont stare." he quoted what he had here many times. "R-r-rule numb-b-ber two, d-do what you told when your told, n-n-no questions, rule number three, i-i-if y-y-your supposta be somewhere be there at all costs, got it?" he looked at her severly, feeling terrible that he had gotten her into this, and wasnt sure how to get her out. "S-s-sorry." he said to her.
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Post by Twich on Feb 27, 2008 8:02:53 GMT -5
Twich looked at her, "Oh y-y-yeah, never l-l-let them see you s-s-smile." he said.Twich took her hand and led her to the machines "t-t-this is your cloth, your m-m-making coats, your expected to do at least 24 a day, if you sew 26, than it dose not carry over, y-y-you s-s-still have t-to do 24 the next day, got it?" he took her hand and traced it down chalk lines drawn in the fabric, "T-t-these are your guidelines, or lifelines, f-f-follow them when you sew, if you mess up, to tell the m-m-man standing over there at that door," he pointed to him out to her, "I-i-if you do mess up, you will get a beating, if you don't report it, the whole camp gets a b-b-beating, s-so, you gotta tell."
He took her step by step, every thing he knew he told her. It felt good being able to teach someone something, he liked it a lot. "N-n-now, if you don't get finished on time, you get a beating, and then y-y-you h-h-have to take them home, don't forget the buttons, if you don't have a sewing machine, thats to bad, b-b-but, if he lets us out tonight, w-w-we will never come back." he looked at her. "Ok, you got all of i-i-it? I k-k-know it w-was a lot information all at once." he worried that they would never be let out, but he thought about, he knew they would. "Two meals a-a-are served a day, but if Antony doesn't like you, w-w-who knows when you will be f-f-fed, and I d-d-don't t-t-think he like us very much." he said with a smile.
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Post by Twich on Feb 28, 2008 8:31:36 GMT -5
Twich stood and began to sew coat after coat untill his fingers bleed. The men at the doors never seemed to stop watching him. He wondered how Starsage was doing, he knew how had it been his first day, all the rules and deadlines had seemed to much for a 7 year old boy. He started to worry that she would forget something, or get hurt one of the dangours machines.
He counted the coats, 24, he smiled, he had never made them that fast before, hopefully that would work to his anvantge. He crossed the room to the gaurd and let him inspect his work. His stomic lurched as the gard looked up at him. "Good work, come with me." he lead Twich out the door. Twich was confused, he figured he would have to make more, expecily since there was a bit of his blood on one of them.
Twich quickly figured out where he was headed to, back to Antony's office. The man shoved open the heavy door and shoved Twich in a three legged chair, of course, the chair broke as soon at he was pushed into it. He rose and rubbed his behind. He looked to his left, there sat Star, she looked diffrent now. "A-a-are y-you alright?" he asked, bending down to her and placing his hand on her back.
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Post by Twich on Feb 29, 2008 20:53:58 GMT -5
"N-no, It alright, I'm h-h-here," he spoke softly to her. He gently placed his own tired hand under her chin, trying to be as comforting to her as she had been to him. he thought back to his first day, and the boy who had helped him through it, Twich hadn't seen that boy in a while. He would like to think he had gotten away, but knew that was not likely to have happened, but it was possible.
"S-s-so, how w-w-was it?" he asked tiring to pass time and to block the thoughts of what was to come. He pulled another chair up beside her and took a seat. "Treat y-y-you pretty rough huh?" he asked already knowing the answer.
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Post by Twich on Mar 1, 2008 8:55:34 GMT -5
Twich shook his head. "I-i-it wasn't y-y-your fault." he looked at the floor and kicked at a tiny dead bug who was ling there. "I-I-I g-g-got you into this, s-s-so, I s-should b-b-be the s-sorry one, n-n-not you." he could hear voices coming nearer, he could one make out bit and pieces, he heard his own name several times, along with, "The girl" he could hardly make out anything more. He bit his lip and rubbed his swollen, cracked hands.
"Yeah, t-t-the first day is a-a-always t-t-the hardest, b-b-but as far as I'm concerned, y-y-your not gonna have a s-s-second day a-a-at all, r-right." he smiled at her and cocked his eyebrows. "A-a-and, I d-d-don't really know w-why we are here, b-b-but, I have a feeling we will find out v-v-very, very s-soon." he looked toward the office door as the voices continually got louder.
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Post by Twich on Mar 1, 2008 14:08:32 GMT -5
Twich licked his lips nervously, ideas running though his head, he got it, a good one, he was almost positive it would work, something that would eat Antony up from the inside, he knew it would start off bad, but it was worth it. A grin spread over his pale face. "Oh, t-thank you sir, we have h-had a lovely day haven't we star?" he glanced at her and winked to let her know he knew what he was doing. "B-b-before you so kindly took me in, I w-w-was living off the streets, but y-y-you feed me, and put a roof over my head, w-w-well, most nights, so, f-f-for that Antony Davis, I thank you, f-f-from the b-b-bottom of my heart." Antony took a step back and shook his head. Twich grinned with pride, he did not know where all this courage had come from. "What in the world are you talking about?" Antony said, "I starved you, beat you, and now your thanking me?". Twich was mad at himself that he hadn't thought of this earlier. "Thats it!" Mr. Davis said, "Your working all night tonight, no food, no water." Twich jumped in quickly" Oh! thank y-y-you so much, I was gonna h-h-have to sleep in the streets tonight, and so was she." He lied as he pointed to Starsage. "Mr. Davis, your the nicest person I k-k-know!" Twich grabbed his hand ans shook it. Antony drew his hand back and placed it to his forehead. "Just get out." he said to them.
Twich didn't think twice, he grabbed Starsages hand and they ran down hallway after twisted hallway. Together they busted out the door and didn't dare stop they continued down the street, he pulled her into an alley. "T-t-that w-was awesome!" Twich put his hands on her shoulders and laughed, "I c-c-cant believe that actually worked!" he grinned his goofy grin.
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Post by Twich on Mar 2, 2008 14:13:17 GMT -5
Twich felt his face turning red. He raised his hand to his cheek and left it there and bit his lip nervously. He laughed and shrugged it off. "I k-k-know, you w-w-were great to, I-I-I d-didn't know if you would get w-w-what I was doing, b-b-but you did! You were b-b-brilliant!" he laughed and threw his arms in the air and walked in circles to excited to stop, he could not even remember that last time he had felt like this.
"I'm n-n-not going b-b-back,ever!" he grinned as his looked at her, running his hand through his sweaty mop of hair. 'wow' he thought to himself, he really wasn't going back. He wrapped his arms around her holding her to him, "Thank y-y-you, thank you, t-t-thank you! I could have n-n-never done this with out you!" he said still grinning from ear to ear. He put him arms at his side, it was his turn to be embarsed. "Oh, uhhh, s-sorry." he grinned shyly.
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Post by Twich on Mar 3, 2008 15:55:58 GMT -5
"Oh, r-r-right, sor, I mean, n-n-never mind." he said with a grin, but looking at her for apporvel. Twich thought, he wanted to do something spical, this certinaly called for it. "Hmmmm," he thought of some where he had really wanted to go for a lone time. "How about, C-c-coney Island?" he asked really hopeing for a yes. His stomic growled, "Or, s-s-something to eat!" he said with a smile pulling out the rest of his his money.
He looked up at the bule, blue sky, and thought to him slef, 'I'm free' he thrusted his arms upward and laughed. "Thank y-y-you." he said giving Starsage another hug. "T-t-thank you Star."
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Post by Twich on Mar 3, 2008 16:31:10 GMT -5
Twich laughed as they started to dance, hummimg a waltz tune as he went along. He shrugged and put the money back in his pocket. "Alright, your the b-b-boss!" he smirked at at her. "W-w-where do ya wanna go?" he asked, relinking arms with her, he was not used to such freedom.
He knew they would always heve to be somewhat carefull, Antony Davis always had his little rats running around New York. Nobody thay didn't know well could be entirally tursted, Antony would most likely pay a lot to have them found.
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Post by Twich on Mar 3, 2008 16:58:22 GMT -5
Twich laughed louder than he had ment to. She was actually very good. Sevral people stoped to stare at the the crazy acting kids before hurrying on there way. "And were off!" he said to her cocking his eyebrows.
He thought back at the past few day, he could honestly say that they had been the best of his life.
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