All Chapters of Runner - Book One: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The fire was back and burning through Todd Peter’s. He was in a rage; he was angry and he did not care. As soon as Darcy had hung up after their radio conversation, Todd went into a frenzy. He had kept breathing during the conversation, hoping that she would hear his calm voice and believe that he just wanted to talk. But her ‘no’ had anger

  Todd stepped into the room, followed by Pete, who was larger and shorter with grey hair on his sides. He was about ten years older than Todd but looked ten years younger.  ‘When’s she going to wake up?’ Todd asked frustrated.Darcy kept he

  ‘You want sugar with that?’  ‘Sure, just one. I’m trying to cut back.’  ‘No problem, be right back.’T

There was a black bench behind her, the paint was peeling and she sat down, placing the backpack next to her and Darcy now looked at the piece of paper. The train had just pulled away, struggling forward, and gaining momentum, leaving the station behind. Most the passengers had now left the platform, a few had crossed over to the other side, waiting for another connection and the moody man, dressed in black jeans and a black t-shirt sat at the end of the platform watching her. What did he want? She ignored him and looked down and read the paper she had been holding. With each word her eyes widened, memories clicked and absorbing the words she could hardly believe or understand what she was reading. It was then that the headache started. Tiny nails began to knock into her skull, a burning sensation stung the back of her head and the pain intensified. Closing her eyes small deta

There was a nervousness to Pete while he waited in the shop, trying not to fidget and look suspicious. He quietly lingered, looking through the various choices of chocolate, drinks, magazines, anything that you needed. Still hidden from view by the full-size poster, he peered out tentatively and glanced toward the main door. No sign of Williams.   He thought about what was going on and knew that Todd was on to him, probably figuring out that he had helped Darcy and hidden the sheet of paper in her backpack. From what had happened before he was certain that it would trigger her memories and help Darcy to stop the bombing. He had also set the computer to fry the implant, something only he knew how to do, because he had programmed a hidden sequence in the computer that could disable the implant. It was painful, sometimes caused burning and even worse, could make the subject pass-out, but the im