Owen Trayhill

We barely escaped the soldiers when we ran into Gabe carrying Chase through the woods. "What the hell are you doing son?" I asked, picking up Chase. 

"The same thing you you are."

I shook my head. "You shouldn't have made a run for it. Too late now though. Come on, we're gonna hide at Chad and Owen's cabin for now. I just hope they weren't found." 

"Why is that? Can I be honest with you and say that I am really fucking sick of people telling me what should or shouldn't be doing all the time. Come on, let's go." I said and headed in the direction of Chad and Owen's cabin.


"Good job, Brady."

"Hey I was just stating the obvious. Not my fault people are pissing him off all the time. It's not like I told him to go back." 

"You can't really tell someone it was a bad idea to run when here we are."

"He brought Chase though, who needs medical attention, not to be drug through the woods."

"Have you ever seen one without the other? They kind of remind me of you and Brayden to be honest."

"I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult," I teased and took her hand. "Come on, we need to keep moving."

"It's a compliment of course. Like you or Brayden would ever leave one or the other behind. Cut the kid some slack." I smiled as we kept going and eventually made it to Chad and Owen's. I couldn't help it, I passed everyone else and opened the cabin door. I had to know if he was okay or not "Chad!? Owen!?"

"That's Mom," I said to Owen and we got out of hiding and jumped down from the loft. "Thank god you guys are okay," I said and hugged her hard, then dad and Uncle Brayden. "Where's everyone else? Where's Winter?" I asked as he went and laid Chase down and Gabe came in.

"We had to let the rest of them go. We were surrounded and if all of us had ran we would have had casualties. We barely escaped ourselves."

"What... no... No, they're not... Wait where's Cody? She said she was just going down to the stream to get water and she never came back. Did you pass her on the way here?" 

"No...I'm so sorry, Chad. She must have decided to come into the camp to check in with everyone. They took her."

I didn't say anything for a minute. "No... no they... Please tell me they didn't take her," I said even though I knew she was telling the truth. "What the fuck is going on?" 

"A new President came after us all. But his ultimate goal was to catch his mistress who had ran away with one of his soldiers. We were all going to leave again and go farther after we found those who were missing but we were too late."

I sat down and put my head in my hands. "What... what now?" 



"We're gonna come up with a plan and get everyone out, then we're gonna keep going and not stop till we're far the fuck away from that place, where no one'll ever find us. We'll get her back Chad. And Winter, and your cousins. And everyone else." 

"They won't have any record of Cody being in Kampfer because she was raised out here anyway. I'm sure she'll be fine. Your sister and cousins too."

I nodded and rubbed my hands over my face. "What happened when they got there? Down to the village? What did they do?" 

We explained everything to him and told him what the man had spoken to Quin and Asher about. "We're going to figure this out, we always do."

"How? How the fuck are we going to figure this out? How are we going to get them out of there?" 

"It'll take some time but we'll think of something."

"She's right son, we will. Now come on. We need to get up in the loft and bunker down for the night, just in case they come back. We'll start thinking of a plan in the morning, once we've got sleep and some food in us." 

"Your Father's right. Come on, let's get get Chase up to the loft first."