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"Get in the car," Lori whispers as she pushes Carter in front of her towards the parking lot outside the motel. She grabs Carter's arm and escorts her to the car.
"You don't have to do this," pleads Carter, but Lori ignores her. Carter getting anxious continues, "Stop, please tell me where we are going at least?" A pause from Lori. But she succumbs to her daughter's request with a dull, "I can't tell you."
As Lori opens up the car door for Carter, her eyes dart around, looking for a way out. Lori expects Carter to sit in the passenger side, but she can see that Carter's distracted.
"Please, get in the car," she says.
Carter bolts. She runs as fast as she can, but avoiding cars and pedestrians causes her to slow down. As she reaches the hills to the forest, Lori catches up while stopping every car in her wake. Carter climbs up the steep hill, but can't find enough traction so Lori becomes an arm's length away.
Lori grabs Carter's hair and pulls her down. Carter screams from the sudden pain. They have already reached the top of the hill; Lori gets on top of Carter to restrict her from escaping again.
Lori, almost offended, says, "I get you back and this is how you repay me?"
Tears forming in Carter's eyes as her body shakes. Out of breath, Carter cries, "I don't know you anymore."
She tries to wiggle out of Lori's tight grasp, but no luck. A single tear streams down her face.
"This only becomes harder for you if you resist, Carter," Lori says. However, as Lori attempts to be nurturing, Carter can't take the trapped feeling, she suddenly tries to free herself from Lori's weight which just seems to be getting heavier.
The more Carter fights, the harder it is to breathe. Lori is almost kneeling on Carter's stomach. Both of them are getting angry.
Lori finally yells, "I love you and I'm trying to protect you!" Carter screams back, "THEN GET OFF ME."
Lori caresses Carter's cheek, leaning forward, adding as much weight as possible. Carter's breath gets hitched.
Carter whispers, "You're a monster," as her eyes grow wider from this realization. Carter feels like she's dying. The light dimming in her eyes as she's on the edge of passing out.
Lori aggravatingly says, "We. Need. To. Get. Going."
Carter starts to shake from the lack of oxygen and gives up. As she loses her breath, Lori begins to stand up and continues, "Good. Let's not have this happen again."
Carter slowly regains oxygen through shallow breath and deep coughs.
Lori stands Carter up and they walk down the hill together; Carter losing any kind of hope for the future.
Max and Taylor sit in silence in her living room. With shifting eyes and an uncomfortable awkwardness, the elephant in the room is mentioned by a stuttering Taylor.
"You don't-don't, uh, think that-that Lori would-would hurt her? Carter?"
Max looks around as if his answer is hidden in the jewelry box on the table across the room, but, after a beat, "Uh. With everything that's happened. I don't know, Taylor. Things have changed now? I mean, from before; Lori's different now."
Taylor can't understand his answer; she can't tell if he's worried about what Lori will do, or what she has done. "What was she like before?" Taylor asks, trying to get perspective on the situation.
He reminisces on the past and smiles, "She was cool. Really supportive; I was part of the family."
Taylor can see the sadness in Max's eyes, so she reminds him, "Now you have us."
They have a long embrace for the chance to mend their broken hearts.
The two have buckled up and Lori demands, "Give me your phone."
Carter hands it over in silence.
"I need to take a picture of you, so they know you are okay," Lori explains.
Carter just looks at her, waiting for the picture.
"Here, hold this newspaper," Lori says as she gives the newest issue of the local paper. "Smile!"
Carter looks stone cold in the photo.
Lori texts the photo to Taylor with a message.
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Taylor's phone lights up across the room. Taylor walks to her phone, grabs it and nearly drops it from reading the message.
TONY'S SHACK. 2 PM. Attached is the haunting picture of a trapped Carter.
Taylor stutters, "M-mmax." Her hand shakes as Max rushes over to her and reads the text.
"Oh my god," he says. In shock. They look at each other. Taylor and Max run into the kitchen, looking for help.
"Mom!" Taylor exclaims, "You need to see this!"
Elizabeth reads the text. Angry at Lori and worried for her poor daughter who has been taken for the second time-because of her. She runs around the kitchen to put on her police belt which includes the standard handcuffs, gun and badge.
She says, "We're going. Together."
Grant walks into the conversation, furious.
"So you're all just going to leave me here?"
Elizabeth looks at Grant apologetically. She understands his frustration, but he doesn't understand the stakes.
"Sweetie. Look. It's a picture of Carter, don't you want her back?"
The family can see the battle Grant is having in his head, choose Carter or choose Taylor.
"But I don't want to lose you," he decides.
"You won't. You won't!" Elizabeth answers, "Gabe's dad will be there."
Taylor and Elizabeth exchange looks.
David intervenes and says, "Come on buddy. They need to get ready."
Grant hesitates, but reluctantly follows David. They leave.
"What do you mean that Gabe's dad will be there?" Taylor yells at Elizabeth.
Max insecurely chimes in, "Yeah, I don't know if that's such a good idea."
"If we put the wire on you, Taylor, Lori will never know. She'll expect me to have a wire. She'll check me for a wire."
"I don't think she's expecting you at all," Taylor counters.
"I'm coming, Taylor," Elizabeth insists.
"Let me go call Kyle," she says.
In Lori's car, the radio is playing odd music and Carter hasn't spoken the entire time.
"Aren't you happy we're together now?" Lori encouragingly asks Carter, hoping for a reply.
No response.
"Now, we just need Taylor!" Lori exclaims.
Carter turns to Lori, almost shocked, but something comes over her. She almost expects something this crazy would come out of Lori. So, she dismisses it.
"Oh, come on," Lori continues. "You need to say something. Aren't you excited for all of us to be together?"
Carter is starting to get upset, but she won't let Lori get to her. She stares out the window, biting her tongue.
Lori violently pulls over the car. Car horns are louder than the radio playing inside the car-louder than Carter's thoughts. She grabs onto the door as Lori drives over four expressway lanes into the shoulder. Halting to a stop.
"You will not treat me like I am some stranger! I am your mother!" Lori screams at Carter.
Carter shrugs off with, "You lost that job a while ago." Still staring out the window.
"Look at me." Lori calmly says. Carter doesn't turn her head. Lori grabs her face with one hand and whips it close to hers. "I will not take this, you brat. I finally have you, I expected more." She shoves Carter back.
Carter thinks for a few seconds, deciding whether or not to challenge Lori.
"I don't want to be here! I don't want to be with you. Not like this!" She whispers, "And I don't want Taylor experiencing the same thing."
Lori, stunned by Carter's rebellion unsurely asks, "You would rather be with them?"
Carter nods as tears form in her eyes.
Lori floors the gas and speeds the streets, angrily.
Quietly, Carter says to herself, "Taylor doesn't deserve this."
Lori, going 100mph, is seething with anger, honking and yelling at other cars. She's becoming dangerously unstable.
"Don't involve her in this, please," Carter pleads. "You have me. Like you said. Can't that be enough?"
Lori ignores Carter.
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That's it! That's the first chapter. What do you think will happen next? Next chapter will be set in Tony's Shack! Thanks for reading!