chapter 5: Liam?

"Shit!? Why am I on fire!?" I lept to my feet and attempted to put it out. I saw the lighter on the ground and realization snapped. Chris. Chris? Where were we? I looked around and recognised the hallway we were in. "Shit..." and then I noticed the cigerette on the ground. "Fuck chris..." At that particular moment I wished that I had never hooked chris to smoking. Our last chance of escape was screwed.
I walked painstakingly to the staircase and opened the door at the top. Another hallway. "Just as I thought. We're here." I turned around and walked to the other staircase that led downwards. I saw Simon passed out, blood drenching his face and pooling around him. Jesus, chris, did you fricken kill him?
I walked down and felt for his pulse. There was one, but it was faint. Simon wouldn't be around for much longer. I then continued onto the cell room. Kraig was passed out and chained. Well that was a turn of events. Walking over to him, I lifted him up and shook him.
"Kraig? What in hell is going on?"
Kraig came to a little at the sound of my voice, "ahhh Liam, we finally coaxed you out. We'd had to go through three other personalities to do it, but we did it." He stood up, laughing as he grabbed the cuff of my shirt, "we've got you now!"
"Oh contrare," I slapped his hands off my and stepped out of his reach. That's when he finally realized the situation he was in. The smile faultered, but only for a moment.
"Come on, Liam, we just wanted the stash back."
"The stash? you think I had it? Are you crazy? What the hell would I do with that shit?" I grabbed him by the collar and thrust him against the wall. "Do you know what you've done? You've dragged all my other alters into this." I punched the wall next to his head. This was not good. Someone was setting me up, someone who knew I had alters. There weren't a great amount of people in the company, and even fewer who knew I even had alters, and those we unlucky mishaps. Thoughts of sammy suddenly appearing that one time-- ugh, something a kid should never see.
And now we would be trapped here, until the effects wore off. We were sitting ducks. Kraig saw the anger and betrayel flash across my face and I could see the fear welling up in his eyes. He had every right to be scared, he was lucky I wasn't about to kill him. I laughed darkly, I couldn't say the same for Simon.
Growling angrily, I punched kraig hard enough to knock him out, but not kill him. I stepped away angrily only to come face to face with Toni.
"Out of all your alters, you are definately the strongest in both character and spirit. I'm glad I managed to be welcomed by you. That would have made things a lot less fun. I wouldn't enjoy taking the life of someone ignorant to the reasons of their death." She smirked malevolently, hatred pouring out of her.
I stared at her, "Antoinette, I should've known... only you would steal the stash. You're hooked aren't you?"
She laughed, "you say hooked, I say enlightened. This world is far greater than anyone could have ever imagined. Even you do not know its full potential."