Chapter 17

Mia's POV
It all happened so fast. I barely had chance to see what was going on when a tall man came charging into the room. His brown hair cut close to his head and his eyes reflecting mine.
I sat in my cage and he ran over to me saying how much he's missed me but I've never seen him before. He opened my cage and pulled me out.
Master was out like he was everyday and he could be back any second. I was going to get punished so much for this. I wanted to go back in my cage and curl up so if master came in he wouldn't get angry with me but the man pulled me towards the door and I felt a strange rush of power.
The only rush I got from Dalton. I looked around the room and tried to speak to Dalton but my mind wasn't working.
"Dalton?" I asked out loud looking up around me.
"Yes?" The man answered and I looked at him confused. "I'm Dalton Mia you just have to trust me and I'll explain later. Right now we have to go."
I didn't say anything. How could he be Dalton? Dalton was a spirit attached to me. I was pulled along the corridor and down the stairs. Just as we got to the bottom step I saw master come out of a door a bit further down holding a needle and smiling.
Dalton pushed me into a cabinet nearby and stood in front of it pretending to clean it.
"Who are you?" Master growled I couldn't see his face but I shank back into the shadows of the cabinet silently.
"I'm a new slave Sir." I heard Dalton reply in a submissive voice.
"You missed a spot." Master growled again. I didn't have to see him to know he was smirking.
"My apologies Sir I'll clean it again." Dalton said and it was really convincing.
"Make sure you do otherwise I'll have you whipped until you bleed out. That won't look good on you if its your first day." Master chuckled and I heard him walk away.
Dalton waited a few moments before pulling me out of the cabinet and towards the door.
"Dalton wait. Master just came out of a door down there with a needle. He goes there everyday and I'm pretty sure he's hiding something. I want to go down there to see." I tried to pull from his grip.
"No Mia its too dangerous. We have mere seconds before he sees you are gone. There is a car parked on the left hand side of the street about a meter down. Its a blue ford. Get in there and wait for me I'll go down there to see what it is. He thinks I'm a slave so he won't question why I'm there."
"WHERE IS SHE!?" Master screamed.
"Mia go!" Dalton shouted and he ran to the door master just came out of.
I flung open the front door and ran as fast as I could. I bolted down the driveway and into the street turning left. I could see it up ahead. A blue ford focus. I opened the door of the car and dove inside shutting it and I hid under the glovebox just as master appeared at the end of the drive way.
I shook silently hoping that he couldn't hear me. We were parked quite far away but I still didn't know just how far his hearing was.
He wasn't able to hear us when we were talking downstairs as he hasn't made a move towards the blue car so maybe that his range. But I don't know if the car is in or out of range.
I saw in the mirror that master was really pissed off and he stormed back inside. I just hope that Dalton comes back soon. I stayed hidden beneath the glovebox just in case master cane back.
I must have been sitting here for about half an hour when I finally saw it in the mirror. Dalton had emerged and beside him with his arm around Dalton's neck was Michael.
Dalton's POV
I made sure that Mia was out before I opened the door. There were a lot of stairs leading down but I heard a crash behind me and I shut the door quickly and started to clean the handle with a cloth I had found.
"You there! Come here right now!" I turned around slowly and walked up to Derrick.
"Yes Sir." I said as submissive as I could hoping he couldn't see through my act.
"Have you seen a pet go by? My pet has escaped from my room." He growled and I could see the anger rising.
"I haven't Sir no. I thought I heard the front door when I went to get some more cleaning supplies for the cabinet Sir." I said keeping my head bowed and to be completely honest he was actually quite scary.
"She can't have gone far then. Get back to work slave I want to see my face in that cabinet." He growled and walked away. I watched him open the front door and slam it.
The moment he'd gone I darted to the room flung open the door and ran down the steps. There was a jail cell at the bottom of the stairs and the key swung on a hook.
I took the key and unlocked the door and there sitting on the floor was Michael. He was out cold and chained up but otherwise looked ok.
I quickly undid the chains with the key and lifted him up to his feet putting his arm around me to help support him. He was really heavy but I manger to get him back up the stairs.
How long has he been down here? I'm guessing the same amount of time I was in that lab before I broke out. As we got to the top of the stairs I heard the front door slam again signaling that he was back. By the sounds of how he was cursing I guess that he didn't find Mia.
I waited for him to go upstairs and I heard him tearing his room apart trying to find her and I took my chance. I walked down the hallway to the front door opening it quietly and I managed to get us both outside and shut the door.
I heard crashing as I raced as fast as possible down the drive way and to the car. I opened the back door and lay Michael in the back. Mia sprung out from under the glovebox to see if Michael was OK and giving me a heart attack at the same time.
I jumped into the drivers seat and sped past the house just in time to see Derrick run out again screaming at the car.
I sped as fast as I could down the street and out of town we drove past 4 towns and after almost 8 hours of driving it was getting dark and we were both tired.
Finally I saw where we were heading and pulled up in front of the house. It was small and old but homely. No one lived there and I had found it when I escaped the lab.
I'd been walking for days when I'd come across it. It wasn't much but everything was still in tacked. I'd lit a fire before I left so it would be warm and well lit. I helped Mia get Michael out the car and told her to go inside.
I needed to ditch the car. I knew they'd be tracking it and the last thing I needed was for them to find us. I got back in the car and sped in the opposite direction of the house.
I knew this way well as this is where I had walked to find the house in the first place. I'd walked down here everyday since I left and it was walking down here that I found the car.
Took a while to start it without the key but once I got it started it was easy enough to drive. I only crashed 5 times.
I pulled up in an abandoned parking lot and parked the car between the others that had been left here. I ran out the building and started my hour hike back to the house.
When I heard cars behind me I sprinted into the tree line on the side of the road and ran back to the house.
Luckily they didn't see me and hopefully they would find the car to be empty and think that we had gone into the forest surrounding the car park in search of Michael's house.
I made it back to the house we were in and opened the door. Once inside I drew all the curtains and locked the door blocking it and any other entrance to the house.
Finally I sat beside Mia. She'd lay Michael down on the sofa in front of the fire and was sitting on the floor beside him stroking his hair.
I sat opposite her on the floor and I knew that we had a lot to talk about.