Captured | Completed

Chapter 50

"Her eyes filled with excitement and happiness," Marcus told Oceana quietly. 

"I'm glad she's back," She replied as she put a hand on Kalika, who was sleeping soundly on her bed.

Oceana smiled and watched as her brother-in-law stood and left them. She looked over at Kalika's face and watched as a smile crept up her face. 

"You definitely got him!" Oceana exclaimed, smiling.

"I know, you did good, convinced him," Kalika said as she got up and sat.

Kalika happily watched Oceana, it had been so long since they were able to play tricks and pranks on people. Since they had time together as sisters. They talked all through the afternoon, Oceana with questions, Kalika with the answers.

Oceana remarked Kalika's change. She had become older, wiser in a way, different. In a good way, but she just wasn't the same. She had a feeling that she wouldn't be playing games together like they did before, of course, she'd make time for her, but it would be different.

Knock, Knock.

"Come in," Kalika said as she stood up and smoothed out her dress.

In came the 4 brothers, Marcus, Lucas, Cyrus and Darius. They all sat down at a table, Cyrus had brought them food instead of having Eurycratides's servants bring it to them. Darius had brought the drinks, grape juice and fresh water.

"So, where is Nilo anyways?" Kalika said as she started giving everyone food in their equal shares.

Marcus looked up at her. "I don't know now, but he should still be in the woods you guys last stopped," He said as he watched her place bread on his plate.

Kalika's eyebrows raised, she had the expression on her face that said. Hm... really... She moved on from it and turned to the door, watching as Odysseus and Rhodes came bounding in. She smiled and watched as they sat at the table.

"How was it?" Kalika asked as she set food on their plates, handing it to them.

"Good, Eurycratides is a lot of work, but it's worth it," Odysseus replied, digging into his food.

"Yeah, he made us do a lot of combat, but it was fun, and soon, we'll be able to protect you from Nilo," Rhodes replied as he took a sip of grape juice. "Once we master what we've been training for."

Kalika smiled, the thought of her two younger brothers taking care of her was nice, because back home, that never happened. She sat down and started to eat, but all she could really think about was what they would do in Sparta, how they would get out.

She kept being cheerful for her siblings, for her husband and her brother-in-laws, yet she couldn't help but think about Sparta and Athens.

She couldn't help but think about being trapped.

~*~

Kalika set Odysseus, Rhodes and Oceana off to bed. It was quite late after all. She sighed as she watched Lucas, Darius and Cyrus leave Kalika and Marcus's part of the room to their part of the room, which was separated by a wall, not a door, just a wall with an opening.

She plopped down on the bed and lay her head back, letting out another breath of air. Marcus got onto the bed and lay beside her, just on his side so he'd face her.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he wiped the hair that was falling in front of her face away from her face.

"Marcus, you know we'll be here for a long time right?" Kalika asked as she turned her head to Marcus.

"I know, we'll be back home soon," He said as he leaned back.

"You know we could be stuck here, what if Eurycratides decides to keep us, or if Nilo finds us?" Kalika questioned as she sat up a little.

Marcus could only shrug. He never really thought about it, he didn't like thinking about it, it was so negative. It could bring so much down for him and his family and friends. He looked to his right at Kalika, she had a frustrated, but sad look on her face.

"Don't you get it?" She asked, a tear forming in her eye, dropping as she said her next words. "We're trapped."

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