A year. Twelve months. Fifty-two weeks. That's all it had taken to end up here. Here, laid at the bottom of the stairs in a crack house. I wasn't exactly sure what had happened, everything was hazy... It had been for a while now.

I couldn't move. My entire body ached if I even attempted to move a finger. At first I'd felt the blood drip down the side of my head from where I'd thumped it multiple times on the way down, now it just felt like a sticky patch on my forehead. I'd called out a few times, hoping someone would hear me... But no one ever did. My throat was aching now too. I could've been laid here five minutes, or maybe twenty. I didn't know. It felt like forever.

More time passed.

My head was still thumping, although it was starting to feel numb. It hurt even more to attempt to move. My eyes were starting to become heavy, but the one thing that I concentrated on, was keeping them open, staying awake.

Some more time, and still no one came. I tried again, calling for help, but my throat was croaky and dry. My body no longer ached, it was numb.. I couldn't feel much at all.

I'd almost given up when I heard the voice, that oh so familiar voice, that was now keeping me awake. That voice, repeatedly calling my name.. Until I was eventually starting to hear the frustration in it. They'd been calling a while, and no one had found me yet. Would they find me at all if I didn't make a noise?

I took a slow and shaky breath, before yelling out as loud as I could. At first, I didn't know what I was going to say, but then I realised that the one voice I recognised belonged to the person I wanted to see most.

"Smithy!" I wasn't sure if I'd even called out loud enough, but it was all I had left in me. I took a few more shaky breaths, my eyes finally too heavy to hold open anymore, and listened. There were footsteps above me, quick ones. I hoped that they were coming in my direction.

The sound of the door bursting open was the last thing that filled my ears before a terrifying silence rang through them and I slipped out of consciousness.

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