Chapter Two

"The Saints are Writing Down My Sins"

Kate walked down the parking lot looking for a familiar car she had been in so many times before. She found it and thanked God that Jack still drove the same car. She pulled the latch of the back seat and to her utmost surprise, it was unlocked. She sat inside and waited for his shift to end.

She hadn't planned on talking to him ever again, but plans change. After all, she hadn't planned on Evelyn getting kidnapped either. It was finally time to face the music, or in this case, the good doctor Shephard.

The car drove for miles and miles while hour after hour passed. Evelyn was terrified of falling asleep; she wasn't so sure she would be entirely safe if she did, but then again she wasn't in an all too safe situation to begin with. She thought over various escape routes, but it was dark now and she wasn't so sure she wanted to go through with any of them. She might end up facing something far far worse than this.

The radio hadn't been turned on since Ben had started to question her in his own polite way. It was interesting how he could seem sincere and condescending in his voice and manner. He was a contradictory person who tried to be your friend while questioning you as if you had broken the law or committed a vicious and barbaric crime.

Evelyn hadn't said one word to him and had downright ignored him completely during the time he questioned her. He got frustrated, as most people would be, and told his friend Tom, while he was somehow addressing her in his own Ben-like way, Juliet would handle her.

Juliet. Evelyn wouldn't give her any information either. There wasn't really a difference in who she was talking to or how they handled themselves. She had no idea what was going on and she wasn't going to tell them anything even if she did have the answer to what they asked.

It took nearly two and a half hours for Jack's shift to end and for him to walk back to his car. It took him a second to find Kate lying fast asleep in the back seat. He smiled and remembered nights where he would just watch her sleep for hours. She was so different while she slept. You would never know the dark past she held while she slumbered peacefully.

Jack started the car and in the instant the car sprang to life, Kate was awake. She saw him staring at her and all she did was sigh and sit back in the seat.

"How have you been?" Jack asked, shutting off the car and standing outside. Kate left the backseat and stood in front of him.

"Jack, they took her," Kate told him, wasting no time. With those four words, Jack knew the worst had happened.

Evelyn did end up falling asleep in the car. In doing so, she lost a good two hours of questioning and the insults that were sure to fly out of Tom's mouth. Evelyn dreamed of a conversation she had with her mother four years ago.

It was late, nearly midnight when Evelyn strayed into her mother's bedroom. She had heard her mother's sobs coming down the hallway into her own bedroom and she needed to see if her mother would be alright. So Evelyn walked the hallway and climbed onto the bed where her mother had tried to stifle her cries.

"Mommy, are you okay?" Evelyn asked laying down next to her. Her mother turned to face her, the last of her tears disappearing.

"Yeah, I'm fine. How are you doing, little girl?" Kate covered and Evelyn moved on.

"I had a bad dream," Evelyn shared in the small scared voice that often accompanies small children when they discuss something frightening.

"What happened?" Kate had always held the policy that talking about nightmares made them better. It made them easier to handle if they ever came back.

"I couldn't help them," Evelyn said quietly and Kate knew exactly what was troubling her daughter. All her life, Evelyn had talked about becoming a doctor when she grew up and every so often she would have a nightmare where she couldn't save a patient and they died. It was a fear that Kate knew all too well how to handle.

"When that happens, you just count to five and it gets better. I promise."

Those were the words that rang through Evelyn's head now as she was shaken awake. While she was struggling with Tom as he tried to bind and gag her once again, she remembered to count and when she lost the fight she had to count again.

One...

She was carried out of the car and into an abandoned warehouse. Once inside, Tom slammed the entrance shut and Ben made sure Evelyn was sitting in the metal chair located in the center of the room. He untied her hands and wrapped them behind the chair, he secured them with handcuffs and he made sure they were tight. He left the gag in her mouth and walked away from her.

...two...

Evelyn heard Ben leave and she was left alone with Tom. Another man entered the room, Tom greeted him with the name "Ethan." Evelyn shut her eyes as she choked on the cloth material in her mouth.

...three...

Footsteps announced Ben's arrival and more footsteps signaled somebody else's appearance. Evelyn opened her eyes as she saw a blond woman walk towards her and stand in front of the chair. The small light from the warehouse allowed Evelyn to see the outlines of boxes and the people standing in the dimly lit room.

...four...

"Hello Evelyn, I'm Juliet."

With that introduction, Evelyn's heart pounded and the fear became unbearable.

...five.

"I'd like to ask you a couple of questions," Juliet said kindly, pulling a chair in front of Evelyn. She signaled to Tom, who took off Evelyn's gag. She coughed for a few seconds before she addressed Juliet.

"And why should I answer them? You kidnap me, almost kill my mother, bound me to a chair, and now you want to talk to me! I'm not telling you shit." Evelyn smiled with her statement, happily silent.

"Well, that was certainly a nice speech. However, if you don't answer my questions, you should know that we won't hesitate to kill your father," Juliet stated easily as if she had said it a thousand times before.

Evelyn felt the fear again, but she refused to count to five. She had never met her father and she didn't know whether or not they were lying. He could have been a dead beat, someone who knew about her but didn't care and maybe he deserved to die, but she didn't know for sure and she couldn't risk his life.

"I'll tell you everything," Evelyn said monotonously.

"Good," Juliet said with a smile. Ben, Tom, and Ethan left the warehouse, leaving Evelyn alone with Juliet.

Evelyn looked around the warehouse and noticed the blinking light that was a camera focused right where the chair was. She knew somebody was watching, she just didn't know who and for what reason. All of her suspicions pointed to the person who may have been watching her father, ready to kill him if she didn't comply.

She felt like throwing up when Juliet asked the first question. It was a simple question and normally she wouldn't have had a problem answering it, but she felt like a trader when she told her.

"What's your full name?" Juliet waited for the response.

"Evelyn Diane Shephard," She answered quietly, her eyes on the floor.

"You're mother's name is Austen?" Juliet was intrigued by Evelyn's previous answer and that was when Evelyn knew she had just betrayed her family. She knew that they didn't have her father and that she had just told them who he was. They knew him, even if she didn't.

"You lying bitch," Evelyn felt the words drip like acid from her tongue. Her stomach churned and she swallowed the bile in her throat.

"Thank you Evelyn. We'll talk again very soon." Juliet stood and walked away while Evelyn felt the tears fall from her eyes.

Juliet must have called them, because Ethan and Tom came in to lead Evelyn to her prison. They unlocked her hands and put her in one of the storage rooms in the warehouse. They relocked the handcuffs so she could use her hands. They left her some dry cereal and water, then slammed the door shut and locked it.

Evelyn couldn't move, she could barely breathe, she didn't know what to do. She stared at the floor and felt her eyes shut as she fell asleep against the wall. The blinking light on the wall indicated there was another security camera located in that room as well, but Evelyn never saw it.

Juliet walked into the room where a man sat watching the television sets getting the feeds from the cameras around the warehouse.

"Good work," The man hidden in shadow told Juliet.

"Thank you, James." He turned around with a smirk on his face.

"It's Sawyer, but I'll forgive you. Anyway, it looks like Saint Jack's going to have a hell of a time meeting his daughter," Sawyer said happily, laughing every so often.

"Do you want me to send Ethan and Goodwin to get him?" Juliet asked watching the television where she saw Evelyn against the wall, asleep.

"Yeah, we need to make sure Katie didn't get to him yet. And if she did, well then they should kill her and take him," Sawyer ordered and Juliet nodded in agreement. She had known Kate before, when Kate worked for Sawyer, but after she disappeared Kate had become a hit on everyone's list and they all wanted to get her. They all wanted to be the one's to tell Sawyer they had killed the only person to betray him for love. It didn't hurt that there was a big payoff if and when they got the job done.

"And what should I do with her?" Juliet asked indicating Evelyn.

"Make her tell you everything," Sawyer answered, the ruthlessness in his voice bone chilling.

Evelyn opened her eyes to the darkness, her eyes still void of any emotion. She felt dead and thought she might as well have been dead. She stared at the floor and hoped she would find a way out of this situation.

Feel your heart, it breaks within your chest now
Try to get some rest now,
Sleep's not coming easy for a while, child -"Down" - Something Corporate

...to be continued...