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A/N: Hehe, Oh my God, I’m back again! That’s right I’m here to give all you joyous readers something to sink your teeth into. I hope you enjoy this chapter for my sanity as well as my dear co-author’s sanity- leave a review on the site please or simply e-mail us what you think of this story or any chapter of the story. Thanks and enjoy!

“Contributions of Dilemma”

-“For troubles without number surround me;…”- Psalms 40:12A, NIV Bible.

**~Chapter Seven- More Than Imagination~**

She fumbles with the key to the hotel door and swings it open as the group of girls pile in the room. Jamelet sighs and holds the door open as Summer, Rose, Alison, Paige and Kimberly enter the room carrying their belongings and book bags. Jamelet closes the door and walks to the small bedroom.

“How are we all gonna share this room with only two beds?” Kimberly asks, her dark brown eyes scanning the small hotel room.

Summer sighs and drops her small carry on suitcase on the crème carpeted floor. She gazes at the ivory walls in the room as her emerald eyes absorb the white velvet couch and a small television set placed in the corner of the room. A white love seat was centered in the room facing a small entertainment area, an old stereo system and radio.

“Well this is wonderful. It looks like we’ll be bunking with each other then.” Rose states, her blond tresses lying in a slight disarray around her shoulders.

Jamelet collapses into the white sofa in the living room staring at the blank black screen of the television. She turns on the T.V. with a remote lying on the sofa and the news blasts out, showing a young woman reporter giving details about a sudden secret organization that is beginning to expand. Jamelet raises the volume on the set as she calls the girls over to check it out.

“Oh man, this is it. See Backstreet was kidnapped!!” Alison squeals out, her dark medium brown locks lying wildly over her shoulders. She shakily points to the screen with her finger.

Jamelet sighs annoyed with the news and shuts off the television. “If I hear anything else about CAPPA, I’m just about to lose it.”

“I thought it was over, how can CAPPA come back?” Rose shrieks running out of the bedroom.

Summer nervously runs her pale snowy hands through her blonde tresses. “Ok, look. We obviously were blind if we can escape from the government. I mean who are we kidding? We can’t run from them, what are we trying to prove? That we’re smarter than the institution?” Summer yells, the fear rising in her voice.

“God, you’re right. What was I thinking? Look I’m not giving up. If those creeps are involved with the kidnapping of the Boys then we’re next on the list. I’m sure whoever is running the company knows about us.” Jamelet states softly, she kept her gaze away from the fallen eyes on her.

“Is there something you’re not telling us?” Rose asks, her ocean blue darting to the petite figure of the woman sitting on the couch.

Jamelet rolls her light brown eyes and sighs, “I didn’t want to mention to you guys before because I was concerned about our safety. But when I left work today, two men dressed in black…” Her voice trails off when she hears Alison humming the Men In Black soundtrack.

“Sorry.” Alison blushes, her light cheeks an array of pink and red. “Continue.” She whispers softly staring at her.

Jamelet finishes telling how two men were looking for her at her office but left the building instead after getting the information they needed.

“So they never even saw you then?” Summer asks, her voice dropping out every once in while in shock.

“No, by some miracle the men left and they didn’t even bother to go into my office.” Jamelet state: tapping her white sketcher sneakers on the carpet nervously.

“Ok, so then this is good and bad, right?” Paige asks sitting besides Jamelet, her grey blue eyes boring into Jamelet’s eyes.

“Somewhat, if you want to think about it that way.” Summer says shaking her head in disbelief.

Paige sighs, her tousled blond locks tumble over her shoulders gently. “We’re in trouble aren’t we? We have to get away from these people. Who are they? Can they even be from CAPPA? We destroyed the institution, it doesn’t exist!” She says exasperated, her blue grey eyes staring at the black screen of the television.

“We can’t stay here, they could come after us.” Kimberly states quietly, her dark brown locks in a tight ponytail.

“Where we gonna, huh? Tell me where we gonna go? We have limited money and this room cost half of the money we’re carrying!” Jamelet growls under her breath.

Kimberly gulps and stares at Summer for help.
Summer smiles and squeezes Kimberly’s shoulder gently, “She didn’t mean it, we’re just a bit stressed right now trying to figure things out. If Jamelet had mentioned the work incident before maybe we wouldn’t be in this hotel room.”

Jamelet rolls her eyes angrily and mumble something incoherent, leaning back on the velvet couch. A deep quiet tension stuffed the room and the ringing of the phone suddenly, breaks the uncomfortable silence.

“I’ll get it.” Paige states: running over to the small black metallic phone on a mahogany desktop. Paige picks up and whispers a “Hello?”

A deep raspy voice responds back, invading her ear, “I see you. I’m coming and you can’t hide!” The eerie voice growls into her ear.

Paige holds the phone out, away from her as Summer takes the phone away from Paige.

“Hello? Who is this?” Summer states nervously, waiting for a response, but heard nothing but the click and the dial tone. ‘There’s no one on the phone, they hung up. Who was it Paige?”

Paige shakes her head, her sweat like drops of water, form on her temples, “They know we’re here! We have to get out!” She whispers loudly, fear banging in her chest.

Jamelet gulps hard and pushes Kimberly, Rose and Alison into the small bedroom. “Where can we go? It’s too late! They found us!” Jamelet states eerily, her light eyes wide open in fear.

Summer gently hang up the phone and pulls Paige away from it, towards the bedroom. “I’ll call security. Then we’re leaving. Get everything ready, looks like we won’t get any sleep this evening.” And with that turns back around to see the black phone ring again.
~*~

Natalie opens her dark brown eyes to see the five men from the past experiment. It seemed she was brought back to the guy’s cell due to Cyrus’s orders. “You’re on the news. People know about your kidnapping.” She whispers, her throat raw and pain from the screaming and crying she did before hand. It seems she was brought back to the guy’s room for some strange reason.

“Yeah, that tends to happen when you’re famous.” A.J. states smiling gently; kneeling down to Natalie who is sitting on the metallic floor.

“How did they get you?” Brian asks, his light eyes bores into Natalie’s eyes.

She gulps, the throbbing pain in her throat reminding her of the soreness. “They knew where I live and broke into my place. They got me right there.” She closes her eyes in hopes she was just caught in another one of her nightmares, unfortunately that wasn’t the case.

“They’re after the others you know.” Kevin spoke, his smoothing voice, erasing Natalie’s discomfort for a moment.

“I know. I wish I could have called them, but I lost contact with them after we went our separate ways.” Natalie speaks gently to avoid bringing more pain to her throat then needed.

“You lost contact with them? Why?” Brian asks approaching her.

Natalie shrugs her shoulders, “Don’t know. When I went to visit family, I never got any of their phone numbers or any form of contact, so it was impossible to stay in contact without the info. The girls went to live together and I was asked to go be with them. But I said I had to see my family and I thought it didn’t feel right living with them. Figured I’d be too much of a burden, with so many mouths to feed, Jamelet and Summer thought it be best to stay together. I argued with them telling them, I’ll find them again, and now looks like it would be best time.”

Nick who was sitting on one of medical tables, spoke so quiet, everyone turned to listen, “Did you really think you could fool us into thinking that CAPPA died? You, along with Summer and Jamelet never gave us the full story. Now it seems you have to get info on us, how ironic is that?” He states glaring at her from across the room.

Natalie sighs and looks around, there were only four men in the room, last she came she saw all five, “Where’s Howie?”

“Why do you care?” Nick growled.

Natalie avoided the hurt look that passed on the blonde man. “Where is he?”

“A soldier came back under Cyrus’s orders. Cyrus stated Howie was gonna see Ana. And that he will get a taste of his own medicine.” Brian states sadly.

Natalie sighs, “They’re hurting him, I know it.”

“You know that Ana is here. They found her.” A.J. states: staring at her curiously.

Natalie shakes her head, “What? How? She was under the supervision of the girls, how can she have gotten caught?”

“By the looks of it, she came here alone. Cyrus almost killed her in the medical room. I thought she died after he plunged that sword in her stomach.” Kevin states softly.

Natalie shakes her head: all this was too much for her. “I’m sorry if you think other wise of me. I know I lied to you before but it was for your safety. You must understand!”

Kevin stares at the young doctor and shakes his head, “I don’t know what to believe anymore, your lies or the companies?”

Natalie wipes away the stray wetness on her face from the tears that had leaked before using her blue cotton long sleeve shirt. “I’m sorry, it was done for your safety. Your powers are growing as we speak.”

Nick shakes his head, “Wrong again doctor! It seems this Cyrus guy managed to weaken our powers by dunking our bodies in chemicals. I thought for sure you knew that!” He mentions in a sarcastic tone.

Natalie squints her eyes and shakes her head, “Weaken your powers, how? The powers are in you. Unless they drain you of your blood where the chemicals are mixed in your blood system, that would be impossible.”

Abruptly, a voice through the metal intercom blasts into the room, “Thank you doctor for that vital information. It will be very much useful as I drain the blood out of our boys and I’m sure they’ll gladly thank you later before they die!” Cyrus’s cackles thundered in the cell.

Nick glares at Natalie with hatred in his eyes, if he was gonna die, he’s going down fighting. “Should have known you’re in this too!”

Natalie cries out, “What!! No, I knew nothing about this!! How can you say that?!” She states, tears trailing down her light tan face.

The thick metal door in the room swings open as a badly bruised Howie slumps unconscious in the two soldiers arms. One of the burly black dressed soldiers throws Howie on the metallic floor and laughs before walking away. The other solider holds the door open for Cyrus to enter it.

“Good evening my children, how are we doing? I’m glad we’re all here to unite, I have quite a surprise for all you. Howie already knew what my surprise was so I had to put him to sleep. He’ll be ok if he behaves right next time.” Cyrus states, his cold dark eyes glare at Kevin who’s cowering over Howie like a mother.

A.J. glares at Cyrus and rolls his eyes, “Let me guess? You’re treating us to dinner.”

“You’re quite the funny one Alex, but it’s something far better than food.” Cyrus states, his eyes twinkling in delight.

Brian gazes at Nick who stands up and walks towards Cyrus. Nick eyes the man and brushes pass him roughly. Nick kneels down on the floor besides Natalie and stares at Cyrus.

Cyrus eyes Nick and whispers something to one of guards, “Behave blonde one, or you’ll suffer like your poor friend did over here.” He mentions, pointing to Howie.

Nick gulps and watches as two more soldiers bring in a young blonde hair woman in the room. Two more soldiers drag in a young unconscious woman into the room and drops her hard on the metallic tiles.

Kevin sees the tangles mess of blond locks covering the soft face of a young woman. “Ana.” He whispers, staring at the wound on Ana’s stomach. “Oh God what did you do to her?”

“She’ll be fine, just sleeping. It seems she’s one of the five we’ll need. I figured by the way your friend Howie acted upon seeing her, that you all met with her before. So I came here to see if you will be polite and state any information that we might need about those women.” Cyrus states smiling, his dark eyes glaring at the men before him.

Brian gulps and shakes his head, “We know the same you do about the girls.”

Cyrus stares to one of soldiers who points a rifle in Brian’s direction. “Don’t lie to me. I don’t like liars. I know you know who our Ana is. You’ve seen her before haven’t you mister Littrell?”

Brian nods his head slowly as he hears the others guys gasping. A.J. smacks the rifle away from solider, “Leave him alone, he’s right, we’ve seen her before but we don’t know where the others are.”

Cyrus smirks, “Well Alex, care to inform us of your vital data?”

“No.” A.J. states growling in hatred as he walks to a medical table to sit on.

“Well, that’s rude. It seems you boys are becoming more daring, not knowing all your lives are in danger as we speak. I must say, the more you all hold out on me, the worse your little girl friend here gets it.” Cyrus states: kicking the unconscious body of Ana on the floor.

Natalie stands up and holding onto the wall behind her, whispers, “Cyrus what is it that you brought all of us here? You found them didn’t you?”

Cyrus smiles and gives a quick nod to her, “You’re quite the fast one darling. Yes, it seems that way. Not that it matters, my dear friend Steeles is pleased to know I’ve captured his beloved ice princess. What a reward I’ll get. As for you Natalie, under the company’s regulations, you work for us now. There’s no way you can leave or get fired from here. The only way out is death and I don’t know how that would looks on your resume when looking for another job.” He states laughing leaving the room, as the soldiers drag the blood stained Ana out the room, locking the door behind them.

Natalie stares at the boys, “We won’t leave here, it’s too late for us.” She states defeated, slumping against the metal walls.

Howie moved and opened his eyes painfully to see Natalie in the room, smiling, he sits up from the floor with the help of Kevin to see her. “You’re here to help us?” He whispers, cringing in slight pain of his cracked lips, bleeding.

A.J. smirks, “Sorry D, she got caught. She’s stuck with us.”

“Oh. What about Ana? She’s not ,you know, dead?” Howie manages to whisper fearing the results of that answer.

“She’s ok. She’s sleeping now. A man is coming to take her away and care for her.” Brian whispers, his ocean blue eyes full of sadness.

“What about us?” Howie asks, staring at Nick.

Nick stands up from the floor and sighs, “We’ll die D. That’s what.” And with that, he sits next his friend Howie embracing him as fear crawled into his spine.
~*~

**~To Be Continued…~**