*James and Daniel belong to me. Have fun with them, please don't steal them.
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I closed the door behind me, the alarm beeping softly in it's one-two time, and wiggled the handle to make sure it was locked. Narrowly avoiding a fresh wad of pink soft looking bubblegum, I bent and picked up the trash bag waiting for me in the hallway. I clipped my keys onto my belt loop and slipped my headphones over my ears, blaring altrock as I padded quietly down the hallway. I headed past the back doors of other mall stores and further into the labyrinth of back-alley hallways towards the movie theatre exit, checking my text messages as I went. Pretty standard stuff, brother wants to borrow my cd, mom is mad I didn't call, boyfriend can't find his belt... blah blah, I responded to a few and tucked my phone into my back pocket.
My hand was barely on the door handle, the neon EXIT sign bathing my skin in red when a dark blur hit me like a train from my left. I found myself pinned to the wall, trapped and gasping. There were hands around my body, trapping me into a corner between this person, the fire extinguisher box, and a dirty cement wall. He reached to my waist and ripped my keys from my pants, sending the little strip of fabric flying between us, and a scream welled up in my throat. He threw the keys, jingling and skidding, down the empty hallway, then ripped my headphones violently away and they followed suit. His other hand wrapped around my neck and pressed a sharp object into the tender skin at the hollow there.
"If you scream, I'll make you bleed." He blew the words as scalding air across my ear, and my whole body tightened in terror at the sound. I was breathing too quickly, my heart pounding a terrible tattoo against my chest.
"What do you want?" I whispered, shuttering, terrified. He didn't answer, but pushed my face against the wall with one hand. It was so cold. I whimpered and screwed my eyes closed, pushing back against him with my body, trying pathetically to get away.
"Stop it." He smashed my face against the wall with a crack, and dots of light danced behind my closed eyelids. The hand around my throat found its way to my thin t-shirt, his fingers tracing the outline of my bra pressed close to the fabric. My teeth clenched and I dropped the trash bag, using both hands in a pushup motion against the wall, and shoved, ramming his back into the fire extinguisher, before turning and pulling away from him.
He was faster than me, and with a grunt from hitting the metal box, he grabbed at my right elbow with one arm and bent it backwards at a funny angle. I moaned in pain, my eyes rolling back in my head, and slumped in his grip. He spun me to face him and tore my pocket out in one practiced move, letting my cell phone crack loudly to the floor and kicked it away from us. One hand traveled back up my body and wrapped itself in my messy ponytail, sending black tendrils into both of our faces but giving him control of my upper body.
He had a black knitted beanie with a blue stripe all the way around it pulled all the way down to his eye brows. His eyes were stunning, a crystal, sparkling blue, though they were set too deep in his face, the dark look in those perfect eyes chilled my blood. That was all I could see of him however, he was covered in a heavy leather jacket with a high collar, buckled all the way up, covering his chin, mouth and nose. His skin was white, and I could tell he was flushed.
He pulled my injured arm upwards, over my head, and held it between several fingers of the hand in a death grip of my hair. His whole upper body leaned in towards me, pinning my chest with his shoulder, he grabbed my other arm and wrenched it upwards as well, my wrist joining his collection in my hair. His hands were so large they covered both my slender wrists, his hand slipped into his jacket and pulled a neon bit of plastic from its depths. I realized what it was and began my struggling again in earnest, small terrified noises spilling from my lips.
His hands stalled in their motions, and he looked into my eyes. "What did I say to you?" He said, crushing my wrists painfully against each other.
"w-what?" I stuttered.
"If you scream?" He pulled shoved his hand into the pocket and pulled out a flat silver object. With one smooth motion he flicked the blade out, the light glittering wickedly off the metal in the dim hallway.
I didn't know what answer he wanted. My bottom lip quivered and I watched his hand go towards the other at my head. "Y-you'll make me bleed?" the words came tumbling thickly out between heavy shuttering breaths.
"Good girl." There was a small noise,