ch.7
TW: mentions of torture and violence.
Gail was semi catatonic after she was all cried out. Steve told Chris to drive Gail to her apartment and to stay with her.
Traci talked with the morgue security and had them copy all of the security footage for the parking garage and took it with her back to the station.
Sargent Best called a meeting for all officers and detectives.
Everyone walked into the briefing room and chatted amongst themselves as they waited for Best to start.
Best cleared his throat, "For those of you who don't know Division 15 and 27's pathologist Holly Stewart has been abducted from the morgue parking lot."
Some gasped and some murmured, "What?"
Best raised his hand to silence everyone, "As of right now her location is unknown, we are reviewing the security footage and talking to all who might have seen anything. We have reason to believe that the ones of took Dr. Stewart also murdered, six other women. The suspects were driving a black utility van, find it." He took a breath and said, "Dr. Stewart is one of us; she is a part of this team, lets find her and bring her home. Stay safe out there, be smart, be alert. Dismissed."
The officers stood and went back to work.
Traci, Steve, Dov, Chloe, and Andy all stayed behind to talk with Best.
Best sat down and sighed, "How is Gail?"
Steve shook his head and quietly said, "Not good."
Best nodded and said, "I don't think I need to tell you but she needs to keep her distance on this. I can't have the DA saying something isn't admissible, or that there was a conflict of interest."
They all nodded, "Chris is at the apartment with her now. But you know she isn't going to be away long, she is going to want to be here to help get Holly back." said Traci.
Best nodded and said, "I know. But she is chained to a desk unless I give permission, understood?" Everyone nodded, "Good. What do we have so far?"
Traci sighed, "Not much. We know that whatever is going on has something to do with Gail and Steve and their high school pasts. All of the victims are the girlfriends with someone both Gail and Steve went to high school with. The bodies have been dumped within a walking distance of the high school where Steve and Gail attended. When talking to the victims boyfriends they all said they received an invitation to the Regional High School concert so they could receive awards. We believe that our killers are the ones sent the invitations. We also believe the killers want revenge for something, we are still working out the connections."
Best nodded and asked, "Alright do we have any idea who our killers might be?"
Steve shook his head, "We might have a lead, we were checking when we got called to the morgue about Holly."
Andy chimed in, "I think Gail was onto something. She said that the all of the victims boyfriends that knew Steve were on the same soccer team. She thought it was someone who they had hazed and didn't make the team. We never got a chance to ask Gail about her relationship with the boyfriends."
Best nodded but before he could say anything Steve got a call from Chris, "Hey, is she ok? what's wrong?"
Chris quickly said, "We are on our way to the station, Gail was looking through her High School year books and said she thinks she knows who our killers are."
Steve said, "Alright, be safe. And don't let her out of your sight. Come straight to the station."
Chris quickly said, "Ok" and hung up.
Steve looked at everyone and said, "Gail thinks she knows who the killers are"
Holly is tired, so tired. She doesn't know how long she has been hanging there but her shoulders and wrists are aching.
Holly's head is down when the cellar doors creak open. Austin enters with a lantern and a wooden chair while Justin holds something over his shoulder.
Holly looks up to see them both put their supplies on the ground.
Austin walks over to her and grabs her around the legs and lifts her off of the hook. Holly waits until her arms are off the hook and her feet are on the ground, ignoring the pain, she clasps her hands together making a tight fist and swings. She hits Austin square in the nose, she can hear the bones breaking under the impact of her hands and the chains that are still around her wrists.
Austin screams in pain and falls to the ground clutching his bloody nose.
Jeremy ignores Holly and goes to check on Austin.
Holly runs for the cellar door and scream out, "HELP!" but just as she is about to reach the top step Jeremy grabs the back of her shirt and yanks her down. Causing her to tumble backwards down the stairs.
Holly protects her head as she falls, her body taking the brunt of the impact. Holly groans when she hits the bottom.
Jeremy is waiting for Austin's orders. Austin finally gets up and walks over to Holly and Jeremy. He reaches into his pocket and takes out his phone.
Austin hands Jeremy the phone and says, "Record."
Jeremy does as he is told and shakily opens the camera. He gives Austin a slight nod letting him know he is recording.
Austin kicks Holly multiple times in the ribs with his boot. Holly screams in pain and curls into herself trying to protect her head and body.
Austin just walks to her other side and gets one good punch in on her ribs. Austin then picks Holly up and throws her into the chair and chains her to the chair legs. Before he undoes the chains on her hands he pulls a knife for the holster, that he has on his belt, he puts the tip to Holly's neck and says, "I am going to undo your hands. You aren't going to do anything stupid are you Doctor?" Austin presses the knife in a little harder nicking Holly's neck. Holly whimpers and carefully shakes her head. Austin holds the knife a few seconds longer and says, "Good. I would hate to have to kill you early"
Holly has tears streaming down her face.
Austin undoes Holly's chains only to re-chain her arms to the arm rests on the chair.
Austin watches the tear fall from Holly's eyes and shh's her, "Shhh.. no need for tears" Austin looks right at the camera and smirks before licking Holly's face, removing the tear.
Holly squeezes her eyes and tries to turn her head away. Austin grabs her chin and says, "Look at the camera, let Gail and Steve know this is their doing. That if they had just thought about others opposed to themselves, maybe people would still be alive."
Austin's grip tightened and Holly reluctantly opened her eyes, she blinked and stared at the camera. Holly hoped her message got to Gail, she knew she would be the only one to understand.
A/N: Hope people are still enjoying this story. Going to be rescuing Holly, not sure what is after that exactly. Any suggestions? Please review or PM me! I really appreciate your reviews! Thanks!
