Always Be There For You
Chapter 7
PG 13 or R for Violence
Matthew opened the door, and walked inside the room. He looked at Elizabeth who was strap to the exam table that was in the room. He walked up to her and smiled. "Oh Elizabeth, it's time to teach you a lesson."
"What are you going to do to me?" Elizabeth asked with this afraid look on her face.
"No asking questions remember, Elizabeth?" he said, as he pulled the duct tape out of her pocket and placed it over her mouth. He then put a blindfold over her eyes.
Matthew grabbed the chains that were on the table, and he started to hit her legs over and over again with the chains. He then went up to her chest, and did the same thing there too. This would teach her to run away from him. He then suddenly stopped, and took the duct tape and blindfold off. She looked at Matthew in horror. "You're sick. I don't know how I ever thought that I loved you." she said.
"You never loved me, and you know it," he said, as he touched her face. "Now you rest, you have been a lot today. "I'll be back to see you later on." he said, as he walked out of the room, and locked the door behind him.
Elizabeth was in a lot of pain, but she didn't care about herself, all she cared about was getting out of here, and finding Cameron. She knew that it wasn't going to be an easy job, but she had to keep Cameron safe from Matthew, if that is the last thing she would do. She would risk her life if he meant saving his.
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An hour later,
Lucky was looking through the files that that they had on Matthew, where he lives, his job, anything that they think that could help them find where he has taken Elizabeth and Cameron but so far they have had no luck.
"Lucky," said a voice. He looked up and saw Nikolas standing in front of him. "I just wanted to come by and seeing how you are doing."
"How do you think I'm doing, Nik?" Lucky said. Nikolas sighed. "I know how hard this is for, if anything happened to Emily, I don't know what I would do." he said, as he placed a hand on Lucky's shoulder. "We're going to find her, I know it."
Lucky nodded. "Of course we are." he said. Mac then comes up to Lucky and Nikolas. "Lucky, there is a package for you. We opened it, and it's a videotape."
"From Matthew?" Lucky asked.
Mac nodded. "I don't think you should watch this. You shouldn't do this to yourself. There is nothing on the video that can help us."
"I need to see it," Lucky said, as he looked at Mac. "There might be something in there, that we are missing, that is going to help us find them."
"I don't think that is a good idea, Lucky." Mac replied. Lucky looked at Mac. "I'm going to look at it, whether you want me to or not."
Mac sighed "Fine," he said. "We can go into the conference room and watch it there."
Nikolas looked at Lucky. "I'm coming with you."
"This is police business, Nik." Lucky responded. Nikolas looked at Lucky. "There is no way that I'm letting you see a video by yourself. I'm not taking no for an answer.
Lucky sighed. "Do whatever you want," he said, as he walked away from Nikolas and followed Mac towards the conference room, Nikolas followed Lucky too.
They all walked into the conference room, and Mac placed the video into the VCR and pressed play.
"Well hello Lucky." Matthew said, with a grin on his face. "By now you know that I have your precious Elizabeth and her son. It was so easy to get to them, all it took was hitting you over the head, and you were out for hours. How does it feel to know that you are the reason that they got kidnapped?
Nikolas placed his hand on Lucky's shoulder. "He's just trying to get you upset." he said, trying to reassure Lucky.
You never going to see them
ever again, you can try as hard as you want to find me, but you never
will. She's mine forever. It's pretty funny to think that she
loves you with all of her heart, but I'm the one that she is going
to spend the rest of her live with. Pretty irony. Matthew
then step away and Elizabeth
Lucky looked in horror of Elizabeth sitting in the chair, all tie up. This was his entire fault because he couldn't keep her safe.
Elizabeth
looked at
the screen with this scared look on her face. "Lucky, it's not
your fault.. I don't blame you. He has Cameron too. I love
you." Matthew then walked up to Elizabeth "Lucky will find me, I
know," Elizabeth said. Matthew then grabbed a hold of her hair. "
No." Elizabeth
Mac then turned the VCR off. He looked at Lucky. "Why don't you take a break for a few minutes" he said.
Lucky then suddenly collapsed, and Nikolas grabbed a hold of him. Mac walked up to Lucky.
"Lucky, wake up!" he yelled.
"Lucky, can you hear me? " Nikolas asked with this worried look on his face.
"I'm fine," Lucky said, as he stood up. Nikolas hugged his brother tightly. "You scared me there for a second."
Lucky looked at Nikolas. "I just fainted, it was nothing." he said. Mac then looked at Lucky. "I think you need to take the rest of the day off. We'll keep on looking and you can come back tomorrow."
Lucky shake his head. "I'm not going home until we find Elizabeth and Cameron."
Mac looked at Lucky. "I know that they mean a lot to you, but you're not going to do any good for them if you aren't well."
"I just fainted because I saw the woman that I love being tie up and going through god knows what. She doesn't deserve this. It has nothing to do because I'm not well, I'm not going to faint again. I have to stay here and work on this. Or I can go and search by myself, but you wouldn't really want me to do that, would you, Mac?" he asked.
Mac sighed. "Fine, if you faint again. I want you to go home." Lucky nodded. "I'm not going to faint again." Lucky said, as he walked out of the conference room, Nikolas followed him. "Are you sure you are up to this. Maybe you should go home for a while."
"I'm not going home," Lucky yelled at Nikolas. "Now let me do my job," Lucky said, as he sat down on his chair.
Nikolas just sighed, as he walked away, he turned around and looked at Lucky, he knew that Lucky love Elizabeth so much, and that he would do anything for her, but he was so worried about his brother and how he was going to handle this all. Nikolas was going to be there for his brother as much as he would let him, he wasn't going to let him deal with this on his own.
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Elizabeth was walking as fast as she could down the hallway, she couldn't believe that one of Matthew's people, untie her from the exam table, and let her go, telling her to get away now as fast as she can. Elizabeth's whole body ached so bad from what Matthew did to her earlier, but she didn't care, all she cared about was finding Cameron, and getting them out of there as fast as she could.
But then suddenly she started to feel dizzy and then suddenly she collapsed onto the floor. Matthew then quietly walked up to her. "Oh Elizabeth, when will you learn?" he said, as he grabbed a hold of her, and took her back to her room.
Half an hour later,
Elizabeth woke up and saw that she was chained back to the wall, but this time she was standing up, where before she was sitting down. She then looked down and saw that she had the chains around her waist again, and shackles back on her ankles, but this time there was a chain over the shackles too.
"Why do I have the shackles back on?" she asked.
"Because you escape." Matthew said. "If you look down on your ankles, there is a special chain around the shackles, with a lock in them, and I only have the key to open it to free you. So if any one of my people decides to let you go, they can't."
Elizabeth then looked at Matthew with this scared look on her face. "Why didn't you send me to that room again? I escape from you." Elizabeth said.
Matthew grinned. "I know it wasn't all your fault, Jack let you go, so I couldn't blame it all on you," Matthew said. "But like I said there is no way that you can escape. So you have nothing to worry about."
Elizabeth sighed. "Where's Cameron? What have you done with him?"
Matthew shakes his head. "Why are you always asking about him? I told you that you are never going to see him again."
"He's my son… don't you hurt him."
Matthew touched Elizabeth's face. "I don't know why you want to have him as your son. He's a bratty kid that cries all the time."
"Don't you dare talk about my son like that?" Elizabeth said.
"There isn't anything you can do about that, is there?" Matthew said, with a laugh. He then walked out of the room, and come back with some food on a tray. He walked up to Elizabeth. "I thought you might be hungry," he said.
"I got some soup and some juice." he said, as he fed her the soup. She wasn't sure if she could trust that he didn't drug her food, but why would want to do that, she was already chained to a wall, there was nowhere she was going and she was starving. So she ate the soup.
He then pours the juice down her throat. He smiled at her. "Well you have a long day today, I think you need to get some sleep," he said, as he placed the empty bowl and glass on the tray.
She looked at him with this mad look on her face. "How am I going to sleep when I'm not only chained to a wall, but I'm also standing, you trying sleeping like that?"
Matthew shakes his head. "I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but that is the way it has to be. Now and always," he said, as he walked over to the light switch and turned the light off, and then walked out of the room.
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A few hours later,
Matthew was walking towards Elizabeth's room when he saw his partner. "Did you get rid of Jack?"
"Yes sir." Jonathan, Matthew's partner said. Matthew nodded. "I thought I could trust him, but I was wrong, but I can trust you right?"
"Of course you can trust me. I would never do what Jack did to you." Matthew's partner. Matthew placed his hand on the guy's shoulder. "That's good to know, Jonathan, I need someone that can trust. So do you know if Lucky received my gift?"
Jonathan grinned at Matthew. "He got it and looked at it. It seems like he collapsed after seeing it."
Matthew smiled at Jonathan with a smirk. "Exactly how I wanted it to go." Matthew said, as Jonathan walked away from him, and Matthew walked into the room, and saw that Elizabeth had her eyes closed. "Time to wake up." he said.
She looked at him, with this fear in her eyes. She never knew what he was going to do next, that scared her so much. He then walked up to her. "I got a surprise for you." he said, as he picked up his cell phone and dialed a number.
He then held the phone against her face. "Hello?" she said, through the phone.
"Liz." Lucky said. She couldn't believe that she was hearing Lucky's voice. Matthew must be playing a trick on her, it couldn't really be him. "Is that really you?" she asked.
"It's me." Lucky said. "Where is he keeping you?"
"I don't know, Lucky. The room is like a cell." Elizabeth explained. "I lo…" but before she could say anymore Matthew grabbed the phone away from her.
"How did it feel to hear your precious Elizabeth's voice, because that is the last time you are ever going to hear from her? You're never going to find them. You can try, but you won't." Matthew laughed, as he hung up the phone.
Elizabeth looked at Matthew. "Why would you do that?" she asked.
He looked at her. "Because I can."
"You are twisted." Elizabeth said. He then touched her face. "But there is nothing you can do about it. You should be happy that I let you talk to Lucky as long as I did. Like I said, you are never going to hear his voice again. You should treasure that moment, because that's the only time, you're ever going to hear his voice; it was a one time deal. You should thank me."
Elizabeth laughed. "I don't think so. Why don't you just kill me because that is what you want to do?"
"Oh Elizabeth, how many times do I need to tell you, I don't want to kill you."
"No you want me to love you?" she said.
Matthew shakes his head. "I don't ever want that, Elizabeth. I just can't have you being with anybody else, and I have to make you pay for everything that you did to me. You lied to me, and told me that we have a future together, that you love me, and you want to be with me forever, but that was never true.
He then sat down on the stool. "I was going to ask you to marry me a few months ago, but I heard an interesting conversation with you and Emily. She asked you if you still loved Lucky, and you told her that you don't think you still love Lucky, but there is always a part in your heart for Lucky."
Elizabeth was about to say something when Matthew put his hand over her mouth. "Let me finish," he said.
"So when I first heard that, I was okay with it. I thought Lucky was your first love, that there will always be a connection between the two of you. But then one day I come home and Lucky was there playing with Cameron and you were smiling and laughing with him. You have your hand around him, like you were together. You didn't care about me, you never did."
"So that is when you decide to start drinking and start to hit me?" Elizabeth said.
"You deserve it. I loved you, with all my heart but after that day, I realize that your heart would always be with Lucky. I couldn't have that, and then when you told me that you were leaving me, well that was just it. I had to make you pay for everything that you did to me."
"This is not you, Matthew. You are a great person, you are an amazing lawyer, you don't want to be doing this. Just let me go, and I'll say that you didn't know what you were doing, and that you didn't mean to hurt me."
Matthew laughed, as he touched her face. "Don't try and make out that you love me, I know you don't, and you are never going to leave."
"So what you are going to keep me here forever." Elizabeth said.
Matthew shakes his head. "Of course not, this is just your temporary home until your permanent home is ready." Matthew said with a grin." I made it especially for you, Elizabeth."
"Matthew! Don't do this. Turn yourself in." Elizabeth pleaded with him. She looked at him. "I remember the first time I meet you, you were so sweet to me."
"Stop it right now, Elizabeth; I don't want you to pretend that you love me, because you don't. I know you never will. So stop trying to get me to let you go because that isn't happening, not now or ever. This wouldn't be happening if you didn't leave me, but you had to leave me." he said.
"You're been planning this since the day that you left the apartment?" she asked. Matthew nodded. "Well someone had to make you pay."
"Why Cameron then?" she asked. Matthew smiled. "Because I can."
"I'm sorry that I hurt you, Matthew, but this is just sick," she said. Matthew grabbed the chain that was on the table and hit her feet over and over again with the chains. "Don't you talk to me, like that?" he yelled. He then touched her face. "I think you need to be taught a lesson," he said, as he pulled out the needle.
She looked at him horror. "Don't, Matthew."
He put the needle into her arm, and then suddenly she started to close her eyes. He then touched her face. "Wait until you see what I have planned for you. You're going to love your new home." he said, as he turned the lights off and walked out of the room.
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Lucky was sitting outside on the steps of the police station when he heard someone call his name. He turned around and saw Audrey standing in front of him. He stood up and hugged her. "I'm so sorry."
Audrey looked at Lucky. "I can't believe this is happening to Elizabeth and Cameron."
Lucky looked at Audrey. "I'm so sorry that this happened. I should have protected them better."
Audrey sat down on the steps and Lucky sat down next to her. She turned to Lucky. "You didn't nothing wrong, I know that you protect them as best as you could, I know how much you love them, and that you would do anything for him. You were there for Elizabeth during the hardest time in her life, that's why when Elizabeth told me that you move in with her, I knew that she was going to be safe."
"But she wasn't."
Audrey looked at Lucky. "It was nothing that you could have done to stop it. Matthew wanted to do this; I don't think he would let you stop him from doing it."
"But we will never know that." Lucky said, looking down on the ground. "I love Elizabeth more than life itself, if I could trade places with her, I would."
Audrey smiled slightly. "I always knew that the two of you would find your way back to each other. You are her true love, and nothing can destroy that."
Lucky nodded. "I would do whatever I have to, to find Elizabeth and Cameron; I wouldn't stop until they are safely home."
"I know," Audrey said, as she hugged Lucky. She then looked at Lucky. "It looks like you need to go home."
Lucky shake his head. "I'm not going home until they are safely back home."
Audrey smiled. "I thought you would say, "she said, as she walked over to where her bag was and pulled something out of it.
"Here's something to eat. I thought you might be hungry."
Lucky smiled. "Thanks," he said. Audrey nodded. "It's no problem. Well I have to get to the hospital now; it's the only thing that can keep me from going crazy thinking of Elizabeth and Cameron. You'll call me if you find out any news."
"Of course." Lucky said, as he waved goodbye to Audrey as she walked away.
He sat on the steps, and put his hands on his face, and started to cry, everything was flashing back to him that happened today, seeing the video, and hearing her voice on the phone.
He loves her with all of his heart, and he wasn't going to stop until he found the both of them, and that was a promise.
To be continued!