Death Trip

‘Silke, sit up…’ said Jake.

‘But Thomas is my brother. He needs me.’ Silke held Thomas and hugged him.

‘You will make it worse for him. They think we’re all pathetic enough,’ whispered Jake.

‘I don’t care…’

‘No, Silke, Jake is right. Please…’ Thomas gently pushed her away and drew his knees back into his chest. ‘Don’t worry. I’m okay.’

‘Walk in the middle of us tomorrow, Thomas,’ said Jake. ‘Don’t give Weasel a chance to…’ Jake stopped mid-sentence as Thomas rocked violently back and forth and moaned and cried. Silke went to hold him again but he turned away from her.

‘You don’t know what he tried to do to me…If Saw hadn’t stopped him because he was in such a hurry to keep moving, he would have done more.’ In the moonlight Jake could see Thomas’s eyes were full of tears, his face stretched tight and terrified. ‘You don’t know what he did to me, Silke.’ Silke put her hand on his arm. ‘No. Don’t, please, Silke, don’t touch me.’

‘You couldn’t have done anything, Thomas,’ Jake whispered as he looked across at Weasel, still with his eyes fixed on the group. ‘That bastard Weasel is a psycho.’

‘None of us could have done anything, Thomas,’ said Lucas and he looked across at Jake. Both of them seemed to hit on the same thought at the same time.

‘We need to escape.’ Jake looked across to Lucas. He nodded. Thomas said nothing. Anna smiled and nodded but Silke looked worried. ‘Saw’s gone somewhere tonight. I saw him leave. If he’s still gone tomorrow, then that’s our chance.’

‘How?’ whispered Thomas.

‘When one of the girls is tied to Toad,’ said Jake.

‘Yes, when it’s steep and he has to hold on to the branches, then he lets go of the rope around our neck,’ explained Anna.

‘Then that’s what we aim for,’ said Jake. ‘It’s getting steeper every day. We stay close and wait for our chance. We take our time, then hang back. Saw’s men will go ahead.’

‘Weasel’s always running on. He hates going slow,’ said Anna.

‘Yes, then we’ll be left with just Toad,’ agreed Lucas.

‘We keep an eye on Toad, make sure Handsome and Weasel are at the front, and we jump Toad at the back. We jump him, cut our ties, take his weapons and run.’

‘We will have to kill him,’ said Anna. ‘Who’s going to do it?’ asked Silke.

They looked at one another. There was silence.

‘I will,’ replied Jake.

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