Blood. The unnerving taste of my crimson, gooey, vital blood filled my gagged mouth. The cool chains biting my hands, restraining them evermore with every small movement. The object, which can only be a cotton pillow case thrown carelessly over my head, blocked my vision. Lets just say this wasn’t my first rodeo, I knew how this ended: it ended with a bullet through my brain, or it ended with them in the ground. I knew they had the advantage, but I was experienced, I was still alive which meant they definitely didn’t know who I was, and at that moment, that was my greatest advantage and chance at escaping.

With ease I snapped the legs off of the back of the chair to which I was roughly tied, flicked my head back so the pillow case flew off gracefully into the distance, whilst also blowing the messy hair out of my face, I made it look too easy, which of course it was but this ultimately blew my cover.

I was surrounded, the one thing I didn’t want. Of course there was still a way out, I just had to find it. Time was against me, as was everything else it seemed. It took about 10 seconds to plan my escape, and as quickly as I took my next breath the plan was already in motion.

I took too long.

Maybe a second, maybe less, maybe more, but regardless of how long, I wasn’t quick enough.

Time passed slower than ever as the bullet travelled at unreal speeds towards my skull, it was all I could do to not scream. Screaming shows weakness, and I could not afford that in the moment. I had accepted that if I was going to die, I would die with dignity. But it never came to that.

As quick as a flash the bullet missed my head, and hit the chains and which bound my hands together so tightly, that’s when I realised the shot was never meant to kill me in the first place. I knew no search party would come, I absolutely forbid it. But I hoped he would, my brother could be annoying at times, but when all was said and done he would never let me down, besides he owed me his life… But thats a story for another day.

My brother had done all he needed to, as the chains fell away, I took it from there, disarming every man Im the room, this time I made sure to make it look as easy as possible, and with that taken care of I gave my brother a long hug, and walked out of training centre with a beaming smile on my face.

- Cal :)