After The End: Alex Rider FanFiction

~Chapter Three~

Alex's (POV)

Something hard slaps me in the face.

I jerk awake, my eyes snapping wide open.

Everything hurts, a fog of never ending pain swirling around inside me as I slowly raise my head to look around.

Dread fills me.

I'm back in that nasty cell room.

Taking stock of my situation, I notice my wrists are attached to chains that are dangling me from the ceiling, my bare cold feet just barely touching the ground. Like a dead pig getting ready to be butchered.

            It's not like I have the strength to hold myself up anyways.

So I just hang there. Tears gathering in my eyes as my shoulders burn like a red hot fire, my wrists raw and irritated from the metal restraints wrapped around them.

I look up as I hear a short throaty laugh.

Right in front of me is one of Razim's big goons, his minion-who I'm predicting was the one that slapped me awake.

"Aww, is the great Alex Rider crying?....Again." He starts cracking up like he just said the worlds funniest joke.

             I look back down at the grubby floor, the tears starting to roll down my dirty cheeks.

I hate crying in front of them. At first I did a good job to contain it, to keep it all inside. But as the days turned into weeks, I found myself slowly breaking.

            Now I find I'm crying almost all the time.

Stupid emotions.

"Rat! Quit that racket or I'll chop off your other ear." A menacing voice shouts from just outside the small room.

That immediately shuts Rat up.

Yes Rat, I have no idea why his henchmen are named Rat and Stick. But I have a hunch it has to do with Rat being fat/muscular and Stick being, well....stick thin.

            I hear his footsteps echo in from the hall, each one sending spikes of fear through my heart. Then the man himself walks in.

             Razim.

He immediately walks over to me, eyes examining my still body. Smirking, he roughly grabs my chin, forcing me to look him in the eye.

"So how is our dear Alex Rider today?" He smugly questions, his eyes looking deeply into mine as he looks for some unknown something. "Hmm, not so good I see." He answers his own question.

He lets go of me, my head falling back down to my chest.

At this point I'm trembling all over, my breathing coming out in painful gasps.