Creative Writing: The New Prisoner

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Pushing past the exhaustion and the pain, Olivia slowly limped her way into the next room of the cave where a new prisoner had been brought in a couple of weeks ago. If only she had some kind of choices about what she could or should do. Any choice. When she first got recruited to take care of the group’s entourage, she surely didn’t know what she was signing up to. The injuries she saw on the bodies of the first two young males that had been placed in her careturned her stomach upside down more than once and part of her mind was glad their suffering were over. As much as she desperately wanted to help them, she knew she was keeping them alive so they could be ready to endure more of this unspeakable torture and it made her feel sick every …show more content…

Just trust me," she said, gently as she pressed the bottle against his lips. Slowly, delicately, she let the water’s drops moved out from the bottle and into the man’s mouth. The spasms in the prisoner's throat were apparent as he was struggling, and badly failing, at coughing out whatever had been put in his mouth against his will. What could have these monsters been giving him to make this new prisoner so distrustful to all liquid? His weak attempt almost had him choking on the water until his reflexes forced him to swallow against his will. Whether he realized or not that what he just drank was water, the relief it brought him had the man groaning and begging for more. Sadly, there wasn’t enough left. Olivia smiled: "You fight. I’ll do everything I can to make sure you stay alive, but you have to keep fighting for me," she softly whispered to the man she just met, the man she wouldn’t know the name for another 5 months or so. …show more content…

"How about we let the Flash talk to the mayor? Or even the judge? We could try and work a deal for you since you helped the Flash. You might end up with a reduce sentence. You might only end up with something like community services during the weekends." "What if it doesn’t work? What if I still go to prison?’" She asked, biting her cheek to keep herself from shaking. She didn’t want to leave, she didn’t want to lose everything she just found here with Barry and his team. She didn’t want to lose it all,but that’s what always happen with her; people leave. They always do. Everyone always end up abandoning her. Unphased, Barry kept on smiling tenderly: "Hey, listen, if things don’t go our way, I’ll come visit you as often as I can. Everyday if I have to. I can and I’ll make sure your place on this team is still there when you get back." Barry couldn’t blame her even if he wanted to, that poor girl had been pushed away, kicked out and used by pretty much everyone she used to know. Trust in others and faith that the future was gonna be better wasn’t an easy thing to do. The temptation to give in to hope was strong and easily readable in her face, but something was holding her back. Emotions were overwhelming her face as tears started gathering at the corner of her

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