Save Me

Chapter 1

"What are you planning on doing to her?"

"That's for me to know and for you to shut your mouth." 

The sounds of voices talking in the background bring me back to the world of the living. I groan as I touch the side of my head, the pain making it's first appearance. A thousand needles in my side would hurt less then the way my head feels. 

"Oh good. You're awake!" A face comes into my view. Well not his actual face as he is wearing a mask that covers the majority of it. The only part of him that is visible is his eyes. They are piercing blue and I can tell from the way that they are lit up that he is smiling gleefully under the mask. 

This son of a bitch. He fucking kidnaps me, an innocent bystander, and he has the audacity to fucking smile and act like what he did is totally fucking normal.

Well yeah Chloe, he is a psychopath so he doesn't understand the difference between good and bad. My mind berates me. 

"Why so quiet?" The man, let's call him asshole, says while still staring at me. His gaze makes me shift uncomfortably and I make it a point to look everyone else but him. Hey that spot on the wall looks nice and brown. What a great shade of brown.

"Chloe." My gaze snaps up to his eyes as he says my name.

"How the fuck do you know my name?" I say as calmly as I can muster through gritted teeth. 

"I know everything about you." He remarks making me once again grimace. Well that isn't fucking ominous at all. 

I finally decide to take in my surroundings. Mainly so I can ignore him. I notice that I am sitting on the cold concrete with my back against a hard wall. My arms are chained the ground and as I touch my face I notice a bandage covering most of my forehead. 

This asshole really bandaged my face after taking me hostage. If he thinks he can get brownie points with me he has another thing coming. 

As far as the room there is not much to see. The walls are brown and empty just like the floor. I notice the woman that had a hand in kidnapping me standing in the corner ominously. I notice she's being strangely quiet. 

"Who are you?" I snap back to look at my captor. That's the only question I need answered. 

He laughs and then slowly begins taking off his mask. I gasp in horror at the sight before me.

Adam Lockwood. My first love. My first boyfriend. The guy who broke my heart. 

"Adam?" I choke out. Just then a flashback hits me of the woman and that guy Ralph talking about a guy named Adam who had taken an interest in me. I would have never imagined this was who they were referring too. I never thought I would see him again much less that he was the reason I'm sitting in a basement tied up. 

"The one and only." He smirks and I have the urge to smack that look right off his face. I don't know whether I want to cry, scream or throw up. Maybe all of the above. 

Tears begin to fill my eyes as I try my best to fight them.

Adams face turns to one of concern and he kneels down next to me. He begins to reach up like he wants to touch my shoulder but I hiss at him before he gets the chance too.

"Get away from me!" I scream while the tears let fully loose and I put my face in my hands. 

"Oh stop your whining bitch." I hear the woman snap at me and then Adam immediately shoots up.

"Vera please leave us." He says with a sort of malice in his tone that scares me to my very core. 

"But sir-" she begins but is cut off by Adams ferocious, "That's an order." 

She quickly bows her head and scurries out of the room. 

"Please let me go Adam. I won't tell anyone would happened. Plus no one would even care or listen anyway. Please." I hate that I have resorted to pleading but I know Adam. He can't resist my cries. 

"There are problems that you have Chloe and I want to help you fix them." Adam remarks slowly making me more confused then I already am.

"What problems?" He gives me that knowing look to my question and I sigh.

"Look I appreciate the concern but you know I can handle this on my own." I attempt to be as intimidating as him but Adam remains unfazed as usual. 

"Oh really? Then what's that." He points to the giant scar still littering my leg. 

"It's nothing. I just fell while skateboarding." I reply nonchalantly. Normally people buy my lies, probably because they don't really care anyway but Adam has always seen right through me. 

"Who did this to you?" His eyes fill with fire and in all the years I have known him I never realized he could look that intense. 

"I fell." I shrug my shoulders trying to prove it's no big deal.

"Dammit Chloe! Tell me who the fuck did that to you!" He slams his hand against the wall right next to my head that for a second I expected him to hit me. The years of abuse will do that to a person. It's all I've ever known.

"My boyfriend." I mutter out and I hear a sharp exhale come from the boy crouched down next to me.

"Bad people need to pay Chloe. People that hurt you need to pay. We need to teach these people in your life a lesson. Join me and we will take those bitches down." I grimace at the smile that Adam produces at his words. It reminds me of Pennywise the clown and this is an image I will never get out of my head. 

"What is this place? Who are all these people in this building? What do you do here?" Even though I'm scared to find out my curiosity got the better of me. 

"The technical term would be that we are assassins. However, our mantra is bad people must pay. We are simply ridding the world of the scummy, lowlife, good for nothing jackasses plaguing this world. So for instance the pedophiles, sex offenders, rapists, abusers. People like that. We like to think we are helping the world become a safer place. I have known you since elementary school Chloe. I know what your parents do to you. It's not right. They are horrible people and for that they deserve to die. I am your saving grace Chloe." He finishes and lets me have time to process this load of information. 

He can't be serious? If you kill a killer you're still a killer. Even if you are helping out the world by getting rid of a bad person. Adam, the guy I used to be in love with, has turned into a coldhearted killer. The thought sends chills down my spine.

"Um what are you suggesting Adam?" I squeak out at a high frequency that dogs could hear it from a mile away. 

"Join us Lo, I have spent years perfecting my craft just so I can find you and make all of the people that hurt you go to hell. Bad people will only do bad things so we are saving this world. Join us." My heart picks up when he says my nickname and then I quickly push any feelings away.

"I can't Addy, I can't hurt people. Even if they are the worst person in the world, I could not hurt them. It goes against everything I stand for." 

Adam stands up with a disappointed look on his face and then turns to walk towards the door, "You'll change your mind. They always do." He says while slamming the door behind him.

"Wait! Adam! You can't leave me in here! Adam!" My screams are only met with silence.

For the first time since I woke up in this place, I am all alone.