Taking Over Me

Chapter: 2

Rating: PG

"Then kill me." Holly replied, unfazed by his threats. "Because you and I both know that I'm not leaving this warehouse alive."

"Don't you have any faith in Robert?" he asked. "You don't think he'll swoop down and rescue you?"

"I have faith in Robert." she insisted. "I know that he'll do the right thing and rescuing me isn't the right thing."

"He'll be here." Faison said calmly. "Just give him some time."

"I don't need or want to be rescued." she told him. "So either let me go or kill me."

Faison smiled. "Well one thing is for certain." he said. "I'm not letting you go."

"Then I guess you're going to have to kill me." she challenged yet again. "The only thing Robert is worried about right now is finding Anna, he's not going to let some trivial thing like his ex-wife stand in the way."

"You keep saying that." he said. "But we both know that Scorpio is going to burst through those doors any moment now and try to take control of everything."

"You're wasting your time." Holly insisted.

A loud sequence of loud sounds echoed throughout the empty warehouse. "Faison!" Robert yelled out. "Where the hell are you?!" he asked. "This better be good!" He rounded the corner to find Holly tied to a chair and Faison standing with a triumphant smile plastered across his sinister face.

"Hello, Scorpio." Faison said. "I'm so glad you made it to our little gathering."

Robert immediately went for Holly. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Don't." he warned, pulling a gun into view. "If you take one more step then I'll kill her right now." he said as he aimed the gun toward Holly. "You wouldn't want that would you?"

"Just tell me what you want." Robert said. "I'll do anything you want, just let her go."

"I'm sorry, Scorpio." Faison smiled. "It's not going to work like that."

"Fine." he agreed. "I'll play by your rules, just tell me what you want."

He walked around the chair where he had Holly tied up. "Don't come any closer Scorpio." he said as he began untying her hands. "We're going to do this on my terms, not your's."

"I'll do whatever you want."

Faison leaned down and whispered in Holly's ear before he pulled away and then she got up from the chair. "Go to him." he commanded, pushing her in Robert's direction.

Robert reached out to Holly, drawing her into his arms. She flinched at his touch but nevertheless allowed him to wrap his arms around her. "Are you okay?" he asked her. "Did he hurt you?"

"No." she answered. "I'm fine, but you need to get out of here, he'll kill you if you don't."

"I'm not leaving you here with him." he promised.

Holly looked up at him with tears glistening in her eyes. "Go." she breathed out. "You've walked into a trap and if you don't leave now you're not going to get out alive."

Robert gently wiped away a few fallen tears. "I'm going to get us out of here I promise."

She pushed him away from her. "I want you to go." she told him. "You have to find Anna. Robin can't grow up without her mother, you have to go."

He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back to him. "I can't leave you here!"

"You don't have a choice!" she cried. "Please, I want you to go."

"He can't leave yet." Faison chimed in. "Not before the fun begins. You do want to play the game don't you Scorpio? You want to have Holly and Anna don't you?"

"Just tell me what to do." Robert said, calmly.

Faison walked over closer to them. "You see, the game wouldn't be fun if both Holly and Anna died. I need one to take with me. One to turn against you. One to make mine. So here's the first part of the game, I'm going to make Anna believe that you are having an affair with Holly, here, so she won't pine away for you. Anna will see you for the bastard you really are."

Faison put down his gun and picked up the camera that set on one of the crates in front of him. "I want you to do exactly what I say." he told them. "If not then they game will be over and you'll lose."

"Fine." Robert agreed. "What you do want us to do?"

"The two of you are going to kiss." he instructed as he got his camera ready. "And I want it to look real and convincing or you lose this part of the game."

Robert looked at Faison and then at Holly. "Okay." he said, willing to agree to anything in order to get them out of this alive. He look down into Holly's eyes for a few long seconds before moving his open mouth to softly cover hers. It was the first time he had kissed his wife in years.

Holly kissed him back, slowly and softly as the flashbulb went off in the distance. She knew that this would be the last time her lips would ever touch his. She wasn't going to make it out a alive, but she was hoping and praying that he would. He was all that mattered, he was her heart and her soul, even if she couldn't tell him.

She pulled away from their kiss and looked up into his eyes. "You should go now." she said. "Faison has what he wants."

Faison smiled, wickedly. "That I do." he replied. "And these pictures are going to leave Anna heartbroken and I'll be there to pick up the pieces." he said as he put the camera back on top of the crates and reached for his gun. "Now for the next part of the game." he said as he brought the gun up and aimed it in their direction.

"You don't want to do this, Faison." Robert said slowly. "It doesn't have to be like this."

"It's the only." he replied. "It's my way. I think I'm going to kill her first, that way you can watch her die."

Robert pushed Holly behind him. "I can't let you do that."

"Oh, no?" Faison asked. "Can I do this?" he asked, quickly moving the aim of his gun toward Robert and swiftly pulling the trigger.

Holly tried her damndest to push Robert out of the way in time, but she knew that wasn't possible so she did the only thing she could think of. She stepped in front of him and the gun.

tbc...