Previously on Nathan's Journey, Last Night Nathan's world was shattered in the matter of 2 weeks and he's been convicted of multiple counts of Murder and trespassing, dishonesty on the stand, and so many more... Now he has been sentenced to life in prison... Will he make it out and see Andrea? We'll see what happens Tonight...
It starts with the flashes of the final moments of the trail...
"Andrea I'll always love you, please don't let our love end on a bad episode!" Nathan says as he's being aggressively taken away. "I will find a way back to you!! I promise, I'm not like everyone else who abandoned you!!" Nathan makes one final promise to her as he looks at her beautiful face one last time. "Please don't cry." Nathan smiled at her one final time...
He looks to Marcus's figure walking out...
"Arriverdeci." Marcus's words still ring in Nathan head. As Nathan sees the darkness surrounding him as the door closes.
"Marcus!!" Nathan lashes out as he awakes in his cell. "Yet again... I had that dream. I have to let go of this." He says as he shows his bruised body and his cut lip. "This has been Hell..."
He has flashes of his time in prison.
"The day I arrived, I was welcomed by a ass whooping..." He remembers it vividly as he could remember every punch and every kick, he remembers every ugly thing the prisoners told him, everything he's faced has been ingraved in his body and mind.
" Keep feeling it, even when I'm not being hit. It feels like." Nathan lays on his back thinking further on his struggles up until this point.
"I thought I almost died in my dreams again. I've been fighting for my life I can't tell the difference if this a dream or reality." He feels those prisoners grip on his neck as he remembers almost being choked to death. "I couldn't breath again..." he says as he feels out of breath, his body and mind completely traumatized from this month...
Nathan sees the sun raises but he's stuck behind the bars. "I wish... Somebody... Anybody... Could save me from this hell... Not even God... Wants to save a soul like me..." He thinks all hope and determination has completely faded from his eyes as the light from the sun doesn't even reflect off of his dark blue right eye. Nathan feels completely abandoned by everyone even God has turned his back on him...
"Inmates it's time for breakfast!!" The guard says as he slams his night stick on the bars.
Nathan painfully pulls himself out of his cell as he's bumped and pushed around by other inmates as they walk past him. "I've given up on trying to fight back against these guys..." Nathan walks with his head facing down and his posture is hitched over As he has lost all confidence in himself.
As Nathan walks into the big dinning hall , this is the Seattle maximum prison with 1 000's of 1 000's of hardcore criminals and genuinely evil people, and in Nathan's eyes... He's one of them. "I deserve this..." He thinks as he takes his food of plain oats and a rotten apple a complete reflection of how Nathan feels inside. "I hated this at first but..." As he eats it his taste buds gone completely numb.
"Hey Boy don't you want some cream with that Oats." This voice is familiar... No... It can't be...
"No thank, Tyler..." Nathan says he looks it's that same big black guy who completely demolished his eye in the holding cell.
"You think I'm asking? I wasn't asking..." Tyler steps up to him , his muscular build towering over Nathan.
Nathan doesn't try to run because he knows he can't escape him... "No, leave me alone." Nathan says as he walks away not putting up a fight and running with his tail between his legs.
"When did you become such a pussy? I like it better when they fight back!" He slaps Nathan's ass knowing he has complete control over Nathan in these walls.
"I'm not trying to get my ass jumped again like yesterday..." Nathan remembers the day before as he tried to fight back out of self defense but everyone jumped him and that's where his bruises came from and his cut lip... "I almost got caught lacking last night..." Nathan now remembers in the showers where he was almost helpless as Tyler was choking him out. "I couldn't hear him..." He remembers him sneaking up and Nathan couldn't hear him because of his hearing problem. " And he grabbed me from my blind side..." He remembers it terribly as Tyler towered over Nathan as he couldn't see him but he could feel his presence... "If I hadn't tripped him and got him angry, he would've had his way with me..." As he's desperately trying to avoid letting them take his dignity. They already took everything else, his wife, his life, his freedom. But he will never let them take his dignity. "I'd rather take nearly being choked to death than..." He gags thinking of that...
Nathan sits in his cell reading a book with an interesting cover.
"I really like this story of Seven Rings of Hell, I think I'm about 56 chapters in and..." As he smiles slightly for the first time in so long. "I feel like... I can actually escape this hell... If Kimura can escape the dark grip of his pain... Then... There has to be a away, there has to be light at the end of this tunnel. I know God didn't put me here just to suffer, he didn't write my story just to have hardships. He would never foresake me. Like him..." He thinks of a shadowy figure of a man he never knew, the man that abandoned him when he was young... His father.
"Inmate 1902, you've got a visitor." The guard says banging on Nathan's cell.
"Yes sir." Nathan gets up he looks out the window and the light reflects slightly off of his eye.
Nathan is taken to the visitation room and he sees her...
"Natie!" Andrea for the first time in such a long time, Nathan sees her adorable smile, her beautiful eyes. He looks at her and sees everything he's been missing.
"Andie..." Nathan is so overwhelmed with emotion he's driven to tears. "I miss you so much... Why didn't come visit sooner?! I've been waiting everyday to see you, I genuinely thought you abandoned me like... Like." He can't even bring himself to say it, even though it's through the glass and a phone seeing her was enough.
"I'm sorry I didn't visit, I've been dealing with a lot with work, having this baby, and I've been going through just as much through this month without you. And I... Miss you too." She smiles as tears falls from her eyes as she wishes they didn't have to reunite like this...
"I still love you." Nathan sees her looking down with her tears as he reaches his right hand on the glass.
"I love you too Nathan." She also puts her hand on the glass. There so close yet so far...
"I wish... It didn't happen like this... I wanted to be there for you during your pregnancy, I wanted to protect you, I wanted to be the man... Who was better. Than him!" He says slams his hand into the glass as he refuses to be like his father.
"Nathan, I brought your mom here." Andrea says Nathan stops in his tracks as a flood of memories good and bad flow past his mind.
"I haven't seen her in years." Nathan says he sees her in the background.
"Hey , my child." Nathan's mom walks in her voice soft and kind.
"Mom... I wish you didn't have to see me like this..." He says as his body is nothing like what his mom last saw when Nathan was young.
"I know it's been so long, you were 16 the last time I saw you. You were so full of heat, you resented me and your father... You cut me out Nathan, I missed you so much." She says tears stream down her face as her biggest regret is letting him leave.
"I'm sorry mom, I just..." He struggles to find a way to put it as it hurts to say.
"I think... It's time I tell you what happened with your father..." Nathan's mom says.
It cuts to black
To be continued.