Part 5- Rogers perspective:

“I would first like to welcome you all to today’s auction! As you all read in the invite, this is a secret trade and anyone who dares says a word, you will be prosecuted, understood?” The audience of 30 clapped and grinned. “Bidding will go up in 10,000 dollar increments, highest gets the child…”

“No- stop!” I heard Allysa say to the guards. They were moving her out of the shared cage and into a “exhibition enclosure.”

I couldn’t believe this was finally happening.

Alyssa kicked and screamed but it was no use, they had her chained up in moments. Suddenly a large hand grabbed me by the wrist.

“Your second! Quit fighting!” A guard yelled at me. My tics went out of control and I knew every rich guy in that audience could hear me struggle. Finally him and his backup got me in.

“Alyssa!” I hear Ella whisper. “Whatever happens, I love you!!”

“I love you to, all of you. You’ll all be my little babies forever, you hear?” She replies and blows us all a kiss. At the sound of Dr. Burts call, they wheeled Allysa out the curtains and onto the stage.

“Who’s gonna but this piece of misused trash?” A man and his ugly buddy said pointing at me. I hisses at him but they laughed.

“IF I ONLY HAD A HELPER!” Dr. Burts voice rose as the guards embarrassingly scrambled out on stage. I tried to look out the curtain but everything seemed to be paused. I saw Kate in the third Exhibition crying and making a mess of her hair.

“ROGERRRR” a quickly turn to see a blonde haired little boy taping my cage. He seemed to blink between visible and ghostly. Laibele! The boy who escaped! “Roger, I’m going to get you all out of here, but you have to do what I say!” Ella had perked her ears and was listening to.

“Laibele you have to hurry- Allysa is- out there now and she will- be- taken after being- sold-“ I say, not letting my tics make me angry.

“Shut yo yammerin’ boy” a suited man whispered to me. Laibele quickly faded into the walls. He didn’t notice Laibele’s aggressive movements behind him, but the guard didn’t leave.

“30 MILLION!” An angry mans voice boomed from the now silent crowd. Allysa is worth 30 million!? But then they started moving me.

“Roger!!!” Ella screamed at me, her hands trying to hold me back by my shirt. But then a guy with a knife stepped between.

“ENOUGH” he argued, and when Ella still refused to let go, he raised the knife and sliced her wrist. Shrieking in insane pain she let go of me and held her wrist back together. I know what it feels like, and that is no minor cut. I could only glance once before being pulled out and she was in a pool of blood. No, no, no she could die!! But before I could tear up, I found myself on a stage looking out to a dark audience.

“Now, before we get to a more impressive experiment, we’ll get this one over with” he smirked. But as he was reviewing bidding rules, I notice a shadow moving along the back wall. And he was silently killing members of the audience with one slice of the neck. It could only be one boy.

Laibele.