Part Eighteen

"So are you ready to give an Oscar caliber performance Sis?" Mark flashed his sister a wicked grin as he watched her smear dirt on her face.

"Almost." Amy reached up and tore the left sleeve of her shirt as she looked her brother straight in the eye. "Okay, go for it."

In a blur of motion, Mark swung and hit Amy on the side of the mouth sending her into the wall of the mine.

"I said hit me, not break my jaw " Amy snarled as she removed her hand from her cut lip, looking at the blood"

"Sorry." He reached over placing his hands on her shoulders. "But you said you wanted it to look convincing."

"I’m sure it does from the way it feels." She lightly slapped her kid brother in the face before she headed out of the mine. She stopped at the mine entrance and glanced back. "You owe me big time for this." She flashed him her biggest grin before walking out "Show Time."

Sydney took the lead followed by Nigel and Zach. As they neared the bend they saw a disheveled Amy come running around and stop dead in her tracks.

"Sydney, Thank God it’s you." Her balance wavered and Zach quickly went to her side for support, but pulled back when he felt her flinch at his touch "He’ll be coming soon." Amy’s voice was trembling as badly as she was. "Lee took us to the mine....he said.....he said that he was going kill everyone, and......then.....he hurt Andy......" Her voice suddenly gave out as tears streamed down her face.

"Don’t worry Amy, your safe now." He was not usually a violent man, but seeing her torn shirt and the blood on her lip, Zach knew he was going to make that Bastard Lee pay for hurting her, and Andy.

"Zach take Amy back to camp. Nigel and I will take it from here."

Zach didn’t want to leave Sydney and Nigel alone to face what awaited around the bend, but Amy was in no condition to go with them. He pulled out his knife and offered it to Nigel.

Nigel shook his head. "You keep it. You’ve got Amy to think about."

Zach instinctively reached out to Amy again as they headed back toward the camp, but stopped short, remembering her reaction the last time. Zach glanced back at Sydney and Nigel. He saw them slowly heading back towards the bend, then everything painfully faded to black.

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