Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Nick slowly awoke. He rose from the metal table he was lying on and got to the ground. There was an odd numbing feeling coming from the back of his head, and he felt it. About a dozen stitches ran up and down the back of his skull. He had to get out of here. He didn't know why, but for some reason, this place gave him the creeps. He headed up the stairs and and stumbled around for a while before finding the ladder that would lead up to the surface. He pushed the manhole cover aside and climbed into the sunlight (what little sunlight the dome would let in of course). Nick wandered around for a while before he finally found a bench to sit on, which he did. All of this seemed new to Nick...and just as he was getting comfortable, a hysterical woman ran up to him. "Nick! Nick, thank god! Come on! Derek's been kidnapped! You have to help me!" Amy tugged on Nick's arm, but he didn't budge. "Do I know you?" he asked. "Nick don't-wait, is this about what we did before?! That doesn't matter right now Nick! Derek's in trouble!" Nick shrugged her off and started down the sidewalk. "Nick!" "Look," he shouted back to her. "I don't know you, I don't want to know you, and I have no idea who this Nick guy is, so leave me alone!" Amy almost broke down right there. "Fine!" she shouted. "I guess I'll have to find my son and my husband on my own!" Once Amy had left, Nick calmed down a bit. "The nerve of some people!" he said to himself. "I don't know who she is! But she seemed to know a lot about me..." Nick stopped walking and turned back to where he had last seen Amy. "Maybe I should help her though...she shouldn't be wandering around the city on her own." He ran down the sidewalk, thinking where she might have gone.