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I soon blacked out as well..

Tom's POV

I groan slightly. I felt so stiff. I couldn't remember what happened... all I remember is being seated at the restaurant with y/n... y/n...

I quickly open my eyes. I was tied down to a seat. My mouth was covered and the room was lightly dimmed. I looked around to see y/n in a chair next to me. Her head was down as I assumed she haven't woken up yet.

I jerked my arms to try and get them out of the cuffs that were cuffed to the arm rests of the chair. I felt an anxiety adrenaline pump through me as I knew exactly where we are.

I heard a door open behind me and my hard began to pound out of my chest.

Hearing the clicking of boots get louder and closer. The sound eco in the room as the room was empty except two chairs with two people in them.

At least the person who was in the room wasn't who I hoped it wouldn't be.

"I'm glad your awake now Mr. Rige," a tall female spoke. Her name was poppy. She helped me escape when I was last here.. I was a bit glad to see her again.

I watched her as I was unable to speak. "Mr. RedLeader wanted me to come Inform you two..- hold on.." I watched poppy go and wake y/n up by ripping the pice of tape over her mouth. "OW! What the hell- wait... what...?" Y/n says looking around and saw me and poppy. "Wait... we got caught... oh mY GOD!!! HELP!!-"

"Shh!! Please don't scream. Screaming will do nothing for you except give me and Tom a headache." Poppy said. She had a bit of a Russian accent as of course she was Russian. Y/n stoped quickly as she looked terrified.

I sighed as I looked at poppy with a look. "Back to what I was saying," poppy sighs as she actually was holding a few papers. "Mr. RedLeader has wanted me to come inform the two of you for the things he plans with the two of you. Mr. RedLeader is a very busy man and couldn't be in here today." Poppy spoke.

Poppy then lets out a sigh, "there no cameras in here. I'm here to also help you two but it will be a very long process as we need to plan out a plan that is EXACTLY in line and neither of us can mess up. I know two other guys who are second commands who can help me out without knowing what I'm going to do." Poppy says to me. I wanted to speak but I tried to signal her to take off the tape.

Poppy then comes over and rips the tape off my mouth. I hissed slightly from the slight pain from the tape. "Ow.." I said as I rubbed my jaw onto my shoulder. I looked over at y/n as she was hyperventilating.

"Y/n look at me.. I promised you that I will never leave you side ok... poppy is here to help us ok?..." I said before looking at poppy. "Make sure nothing happens to her... let everything that bastard wants happen to me..." I told her.

"I can't guarantee that Tom.. you know how Tord was with you the last time you were here... maybe I can convince him to have her work for him.." poppy says and looked at y/n up and down. "He will definitely be attracted to her, I'll tell you that now." Poppy says getting a closer look at y/n, "hey sweetheart, look at me and breath with me ok?" Poppy says in a soft voice as she began to help y/n calm down.

"Poppy.. she's my girlfriend.. if he lays his goddamn hands on her I won't be afraid to try and tear him apart again! I don't care how much pain he'll put me through afterwards..." I told poppy and growled. That angered me. Yes y/n is a very beautiful women... but if Tord gets to her... Fuck that bastard will be dead soon..

After poppy was done helping y/n she was talking quietly to her. I never see poppy like this... I guess she understands the panic someone would be when they get kidnapped.. anyone would be like that who am I kidding.

Soon poppy stands up and sighed softly. "Don't worry... I won't let anything happen to you ok sweetheart.." poppy says as she straightens up and looked back at me. "Your a lucky man.. make sure red doesn't find out she's your girlfriend.." poppy said. I know what she meant when she said that as... ive seen things when someone had tried to save their girlfriend from Tord. "What do I say? She was with me on just a friends night out?" I asked poppy.

"Perfect. Just say that. The less the value you make it seem that y/n has to you, the less things he will do to her. You have to stick to that story too as he will ask you many questions about him," poppy says as she turns her attention back to y/n.

"W-What would he do to me..?" Y/n asked poppy nervously. "Oh nothing to bad. If he thinks you are 'single' and attractive, he would most likely try to hit on you or work up the courage to ask you on a date or something. The guy is very nervous around pretty girls." Poppy says as she chuckled. "Hell, I always tell the new girls, just keep teasing him. He likes the teases." Poppy says.

God Tord was such a loser. He can act all tough all he want but that is just a shell. Once he takes off that shell, he is just one creepy pervert who likes guns. "Hey, don't tell her too much or else she might leave me for him." I said jokingly as I knew that would never happen.

"I would never.. after all I heard about what he did to you, I'll never give that monster the chance!" Y/n says to me. "Oh just be carful with him... he doesn't like being told no straight up. Make a confusing way to say no, if he asks you a question like asking you out, ask him a question back." Poppy says. I knew poppy knew all of tords weak points but god I feel like I don't know him as much as poppy does.

I then heard the door open again. I saw poppy look up quickly. I saw her smile widely. I knew exactly who it was as poppy only smiles like that to one person.

"Hey love, how is everything going?" I heard Pau ask poppy. "Oh everything's going fine. Just talking to these two for RedLeader." Poppy says. I knew Pau helped me too. But pat can't always be trusted... pat... "pat was the one who drugged me!!!" I said out of sudden realization. "That's who the waiter was!!! Fucking hell!!!" I said out of frustration. I lean back in the chair letting out a groan. "God I would have gotten out of there if I knew who he was! His hair.. was just slicked back and had his weird two hair pieces!! Fuck!" I complained. I was very annoyed now.

Poppy's POV

Poppy looked at Tom and mentally smacks her head. "Tom... I purposely made it be pat to try and warn you! I guess now you finally learned who he was." I said rolling my eyes. I put my hands on my hips.

"So... are you just a soldier for this man or..?" I heard y/n ask me. I couldn't help but laugh softly, "he wouldn't let this one come in, he believe that im very stern... well I can be but not to my friends." I told her. "Heyyy, red gave pat and I a option to come here! We are second commands," I heard Pau say. I do love him but god some of the things that come out his mouth makes me want to slap him.

"Pau, he can trust me more then you." I plainly said. "I wonder why he wouldn't let two Dumbaśs's come talk on his behalf." I heard Tom say. I held back my chuckle bit said simply, "I care about them both, but pat and Pau, are so dense that together they make one brain. That's why I'm Tords assistant." Poppy said letting out a chuckle.

"Hey! That isn't nice poppy." Pau said and walked over to me. I looked down at him and leans down to kiss his cheek, "I know but it's kinda true my dear," I said to him. I heard y/n 'awe' so I looked at her. "You two are so cute!" Y/n said smiling at me. I smiled a bit back and looked at Pau, "thank you. Pau and I have been together for a while. I've also known Pau ever since I joined the army." I spoke as I faced back to Tom and y/n. "Hey Pau. I'm going to need your help to bust these two out." I told him.

"Alright... we need to be carful because I was talking to red and he suspects you helped Tom. But pat jumped in and defended you. So you are a bit on the line right now when it comes to helping these two." I heard Pau say, so I turned my attention back to him. "What else did he say about me?" I quickly asked. "Why am I finding out about this now?" I also asked quickly.

"When Tord found out we found Tom, that's when he said that. He has a list of people who he thinks helped Tom and last time I checked you were at the bottom of the list." Pau said. I sighed a bit in relief but it was still pretty bad that I was on that list..

"What does he plan on doing when he finds the culprit..?" I then asked as I knew red can be cruel depending on how bad the thing was. "He said this exactly. 'I'll make sure I'll kill them. I don't care how important to me as people who are important to me don't break my rules'." Pau said. I sighed as he could have honestly shorten it up and said 'he'd kill who he finds who helped tom'.

A knock was heard at the door and I brought my attention up. I stand up straight and gave my stern look to warn Tom who came in. It was Tord.

"Well! How is the Jehovah witness- oh? And his friend," Tord says walking over. He stood next to me and took at the both of them. Glancing at y/n he looked at Tom. "Welcome back Tom. I didn't miss you but I can't wait to do the things I told you I would do if you ever left." I heard him say.

Y/n's POV

I watch as.. Tord I believe his name is, talking to Tom. He looked terrifying... the scar on the left side of him.. the robot arm... over all how tall he was and showed no emotion.

"Whatever dumbaśs. I'll get out again." I heard Tom say. I looked over at Tom and then up at poppy as she looked... more stern as well... maybe she is like this when Tord is around...

I saw Tord began to laugh, "listen Tom, you aren't escaping! Ever! Over the years you've been gone I've been escape proofing my base. You will never leave again." I saw Tord smile at him in a really chilling way. I got chills when I saw him smile...

"Now as for you.." Tord says turning his attention to me. I saw a half smile appear onto his face as he bends over a bit to get closer. "Mmh, who is this you brought with you Tom?" Tord asked. "Oh don't answer, I want to hear it from this woman~" Tord says looking at me closer. I lean my head back a bit as I didn't want him getting too close.

"I'm.. im Toms friend..." I said quietly. "A friend huh? Why were you two at a restaurant and live in the same home together?" He then asked me. I see what poppy means by him asking me a lot of questions. "Um... Tom and I have been roommates... we just wanted to try something else out for dinner... so we just went out to a fancy place as friends.." I said looking away from him slightly.

"Hm.. just friends huh? You are very beautiful may I add~" I heard him say. I felt him grab my chin and made me look at him. "Your e/c is very beautiful too. I'm surprised Tom haven't taken you~ oh well~ Tom has bad taste when it comes to woman." Tord said sitting back up and looked at poppy.

"Take Tom to his room. Since you two are roommates.. then I'll keep it as that." Tord said and I was shocked he was going to let Tom and I stay together... but I honestly thing this is to test and see how important I really am to Tom... which I hope I am important to him but it's going to be hard to act like we aren't interested in each other.

"This isn't some kind of trick is it?" Tom then asked Tord. "A trick? I'm a little suspicious of why you asked that Tom... maybe you two are hiding something from me Hmm?" Tord says smiling.

"I talked to them a bit earlier sir. They both are just friends. Ask Pau too." Poppy says to him. I watched Tord turn his head to them and then back at Tom. "Fine.. I take that back. But I'm keeping a close eye on you two in the room." Tord says as he then walked away behind Tom and I. I heard him open the door, "so yeah, just take these two to their room and tomorrow is when we start the experiments again!" I heard Tord say before hearing the door clock shut.

I looked up at poppy and her expressed now looked more relaxed, "alright. Pau help me get them out of these chairs," poppy says and went to me to take off the cuffs on the chair.

Once my wrists and ankles were free I stood up. I looked up at poppy and was shocked at her height. Sitting down was hard to see how tall she really was. "Wow.. you are very tall poppy," I said as I then smiled. "Oh thanks," I heard poppy say and smile at me.

"I would also like to tell you, if Tord ever removes your from tour shared room with Tom, you will most likely bunk with me. If not I'll try and convince him to let you bunk with me as... the other females in this army can be weird with newbies." I heard her say. "Ok!" I said as I just tried to think positively about this situation.

I saw Tom get uncuffed and once he did I saw him stand up and go over to me quickly and hugged me. I hugged back tightly and rests my head onto his chest as every time I hug Tom all my thoughts go away.

"Let's get you two going before he ever decides to come back. You two can do that in the room." Poppy says as soon leading us out of the room. I stayed close to poppy as I felt more comfortable around her.... I felt as if I can trust her a lot since she helped Tom.

But.. I just hope she can help us get out of here and get Tom out again..

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Whoop whoop two chapters in two days.
This chapter I wanted to introduce my good friend UNFORTUNATELY-WEIRD Oc named poppy. More info will be given after the book and in the story as I don't want to spoil any future plans I have for this book!
Hoped you enjoyed this chapter! -LB

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