Yet another chapter up, hope everyone has been enjoying it so far.
White Rose Fox- Yes she is. I got the ideas for this story from actual child abuse cases I have read about.
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"Why are those there?" Yusuke asked slowly as Alea untied the second piece of rope from the other side of the bed.
Alea kept her eyes lowered. "Jacob and his friends didn't like me trying to escape after they had all passed out." She carried the rope over to Jacob and looked over at Hiei. "Would you help me tie him up please?"
He nodded and went over to help her as Yusuke and Kuwabara stood, still in shock over what she had said.
"You said "they all."" Kurama said quietly when they stood up. Attention snapped to the comment. She nodded in confirmation.
"How could he do that to you?" Yusuke asked incredulously. Alea looked up at him with a small smile. "I wasn't a son. He's never cared about me." She smiled a little more. "Don't worry about it guys. it's the past. I grew up with it so its all I knew. Plus, I get to go with you guys, my life just improved as much as it possibly could in a million years!"
She went back to folding clothes one handed, a smile on her face. The boys didn't know what to say. The silence stretched on as Kurama continued helping her, and Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei just stood there.
After the clothes were folded and put in one of the bags she sat down in front of her computer and turned the screen saver off.
"What are you doing?" Yusuke asked, coming to stand behind her.
"Moving stuff onto my portable hard-drive." She replied. "Most of my stuff is on my laptop, but there are a couple of things I would like from this computer."
Yusuke watched her pull up documents and drag them into her portable hard drive. After she finished that she grabbed her laptop and put it in the laptop bag, curling the cord up and putting it in on top. After that she put in her portable hard drive, checked to make sure all the cords she would need for her ipod were there, and put her ipod in its pocket. She zipped it up and looked around, running down a list of stuff in her head.
"Shoes!" She exclaimed, startling the boys. She giggled at the looks they gave her. "I almost forgot shoes!" And walked back into her closed, she made multiple trips and soon had the second bag partially filled with shoes. She laughed at the looks Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei were giving her.
Suddenly another bold of pain shot down her arm and seemed to linger. Alea gasped and clenched her eyes and good fist, fighting the urge to grab the broken arm.
"Alea." She opened her tear filled eyes to see Kurama holding out more leaves for her to chew. "I know they don't last very long but they will help till we can get you to Genkai or Yukina."
She nodded and smiled at him before chewing the leaves and swallowing.
"I need to get some stuff from downstairs. Would one of you grab him and drag him with us? I want to leave him somewhere other than here." She said after running over her mental checklist again.
Yusuke grabbed Jacob and they all walked downstairs again. Alea walked into the living room and motioned for Yusuke to go ahead and leave him anywhere. Yusuke tossed him roughly onto the floor.
Alea walked over to an old grandfather clock that ticked away in the back of the room. "I found a letter hidden in my laptop the day my mother died. It turns out she figured her day was coming and passed a secret onto me. For years she had been smuggling money away from Jacobs big safe and stashing it for me, just in case I was able to find a time to get away."
"So why didn't you just leave?" Kuwabara asked confused.
She shook her head. "Because he has people watching this house. If I walk out anytime other than to go to school or if Jacob sent me somewhere one of them picks me up and holds me till Jacob can get there. That's another experience I only did once."
She could see the question in their face, they didn't want to ask and offend her. She made herself smile a little. "It turns out he was having a party. All of the guest were either from Jacobs group of friends or similar groups." She looked back up at the clock as she reached for the face. "I wasn't able to walk for almost two weeks."
The anger from the boys after she said that was so thick in the room she could almost taste it. The boys all looked at the man laying on the floor as Alea pulled the face of the clock open. A similar urge to kill the bastard running through them all.
Kurama. Hiei's voice in his head caused Kurama to look over.
Yes Hiei? He asked.
Her mind isn't normal for a human.
Kurama frowned. What do you mean?
She has a barrier around her mind. If I concentrate strongly with the Jagan I can get whispers of feelings, nothing else.
That's different. I wonder how. Kurama added it to his list of things to ask her.
Alea managed to get the face opened by stretching up on her tiptoes. She knew there was no way she was going to be able to reach anything without something to stand on. She looked around the living room than walked over to the foot stool sitting in front of the couch. She grabbed it with her good arm and started dragging it before the boys noticed what she was doing and Yusuke moved her out of the way and pulled it all the way over in front of the clock.
She smiled her thanks and stood on the stool. She smiled when she saw the bag hidden in the back. She reached in and pulled it out. Sitting down on the stool she opened it and her smile got even bigger. She pulled the string closed. "Thanks mama, I love you." She said softly to herself.
"Ok, just Jacobs big safe left." She said cheerfully as she stood up. "Would you carry this for me Kurama?"
He nodded and tucked the bag into one of his pockets. They followed her through another doorway into an office. Alea went straight over to one of the paintings and pointed up at it. "I'm gonna need one of you to get this down for me." She said with a sigh. "I'm so useless like this." She muttered.
Kuwabara walked over and pulled the painting down and set it on the ground. A big wall safe was revealed. Yusuke whistled dramatically. "That looks like something from a gang movie."
Alea laughed. "Ya, that's where he got the idea for it." She quickly turned the dial.
"How do you know the combo?" Kuwabara asked scratching his head.
"He sent me to get things out of it all the time for him. It was another way of proving just how helpless I was under his control. I had complete access to his money, but it did me no good. He got a kick out of it." The door swung open and this time Kuwabara joined Yusuke in the whistle.
There were many drawers, all were labeled. The boys all walked forward a little to read what they said as Alea hunted down something to put every thing in.
"Guys, look." Yusuke said softly pointing to one of the drawers. It read "Alea's whoring"
"That bastard deserves a lot. I wonder why she hasn't killed him." Kuwabara said softly, glaring at the bastard under discussion.
They moved out of Alea's way when she came back from another room with a small backpack. "Found my moms old backpack purse hidden in a corner of their closet." She said proudly. She started opening the drawers and they boys couldn't help staring at the amount of money she was pulling out.
"Do you think Koenma has the ability to empty his bank accounts?" Alea asked thoughtfully as she closed the bag after putting everything in it.
Yusuke grinned. "You weren't kidding about not leaving him anything were you?"
Alea raised an eyebrow with a smile. "Would you?"
She got a dark chuckle out of him. "You're a lot more forgiving than I would be." He said, glaring at the still unconscious Jacob.
"Hn, human weakness." Hiei growled from his position of leaning against the wall.
Alea smiled at him. "Ya, I know." Hiei blinked.
"I think I have about everything." She said, than was interrupted by a loud curse in the living room. She sighed. "Great, I was hoping he would stay out for a little longer."
They followed her and jumped in front of her when they saw that Jacob had managed to get over to the table next to the couch. He was in the process of cutting through his bonds. On the ground in front of him was a remote with one button that was flashing.
Alea gasped when she saw it. "Oh no! Guys that remote was an alarm system. All of his friends carry an alarm receiver. They will be here any second!"
"I knew we should have killed this bastard earlier." Yusuke growled.
Suddenly Alea darted out of the room. "Where are you going?" Kuwabara yelled after her.