Hello! I, Teen-Idol, wrote this chapter and I hope you guys like it! Happy belated New Year on my part! I hope your 2015 will be happy, healthy, and full of lots of laughs!

R54EverAuslly and I do NOT own Austin & Ally. We do own the story line and some made up characters.

Chapter 9—No Turning Back

Things were a bit chaotic after that, to say the least.

Before Ally or Austin even had a chance to question Penny on what she meant by "It's happening", they were distracted by texts and calls from Trish and Dez, asking what in the world happened and why the two of them were no longer in school.

"You handle Trish, and I'll talk to Dez." Austin offered, after missing yet another call from the persistent redhead.

"Okay." Ally nodded, making her way out of the room and into the kitchen. She couldn't help but feel nervous. Her body was still shaken up from her situation with Dallas in the janitor's closet, her near kidnapping experience, and the massive red cheek she had from when his hand made contact with her.

"Hey Trish." She finally picked up the Latina's call, her voice coming out nowhere near the confidence she envisioned it with.

"You're gone for the entire day, Dez and I are worried sick here, you don't answer any of my other calls or texts, and now that you finally do, all you have to say for yourself is a measly 'Hey Trish'?! What is wrong with you?!"

"I'm sorry. A lot just happened and I-." Ally spoke nervously, before being cut off over the phone.

"Wait, what? Who's he? What did he do? Dez, what did Austin just tell you?!" Trish asked the on the other line and the brunette understood she was addressing the redhead. "Ally, tell me what happened. Now." She commanded, not sounding pleased.

"I ….. I …." She couldn't bring herself to speak, her cell phone quivering in her hand.

"Ally, tell me what happened. Who was the he Dez was referring to, and what did he do?"

"T-the he was Dallas." The brunette finally had the strength to say. "It was Dallas."

"What did he do Ally?" The Latina asked, her own voice quivering now. "Dez looks horrified with whatever Austin is telling him and I want to know what he did. Tell me. Please."

"H-he tried to r-ra-ra-." The words couldn't come out of Ally's mouth as a sob caught in her throat. Trish would be absolutely devastated. No, she would be more than that, she would be utterly livid. She would want to murder the boy and everyone else around her, in order to get vengeance. She wouldn't stop until she felt that her best friend was avenged and that Dallas had learned his lesson.

"Ally, what he did he do to you?" Trish questioned desperately. "Please, tell me… I want to know."

"I-I …" She paused, not being able to finish the sentence as tears formed in her eyes and she began crying.

"Ally! Ally, are you okay?! Are you crying? What did Dallas do to you?" The phone buzzed in her hand, but she didn't have the will to answer her best friend.

She's your best friend. You should tell her. Be strong. You can trust her. She's here for you.

Ally swallowed hard, bringing the phone back up to her ear. The Latina did deserve to know the course of the day's events and she had to be strong. "H-he tried to rape me in the janitor's closet."

"H-he what?" Trish questioned, appalled. "I am going t-."

"T-that's not all, Trish." Ally quickly cut her off before she went on an angry rampage. There was more to tell and she did want Trish to know all of it, no matter how hard it was to retell. "I-I tried to stop him, but he hit me and I fell to the ground."

"That bastard." The raven haired girl hissed, her voice shaking while tears stung her eyes. "He's so dead."

"I asked to be excused fourth period, during Music class, and I was walking down the hallway to the bathroom, w-when I think he tried to kidnap me. I-I'm not really sure if it was him, but someone grabbed me and put something in my mouth and a bag over my head before they dragged me outside. I wasn't sure of what was going on until I heard the sound of a van's door opening and I realized I really needed to get out of there. I kicked and wriggled until the man or whoever he was finally let me go. And then I ran."

"Oh my god." The Latina whispered on the other end. The line was silent for a few tense seconds. "Ally, I'm so sorry."

"Trish, don't cry, please." Ally spoke, her own voice breaking. With the Latina crying, she would start too, and once she began, she wouldn't stop.

"Ally, are you okay? Did they hurt you? Do you have any bruises? If you do, so help me God, I will kill them all. Just let Dallas run into me. I swear, he won't know what hit him." Trish snapped through her tears.

"Trish." Ally cried, feeling the sting of tears forming in her own eyes as she blinked them away.

"It's okay." She jumped at the voice behind her, relaxing instantlu once she saw it was the blonde. "Come here." Austin said, holding out his arms, having finished his own conversation with Dez. The redhead had surprisingly seemed to comprehend everything.

"Austin." Ally breathed, running into his awaiting arms and letting them embrace her, enjoying the feeling she got being so close to him. It made her feel safe. Just like he had that day during the flight.

"Shhhhhhhh. It's all right. I'm right here." He comforted her, picking her up, carrying her back into the living room and taking a seat on the couch, placing her on his lap gently. Ally snuggled up against his chest.

She brought the phone back up to her ear, only to hear Trish in the middle speaking. "…I-I'm going over there right now Ally, okay? And I'm taking Dez with me." Her strong and resilient demeanor failing to conceal the fact that she was very much scared and upset.

"But what about-."

"I don't care about school Ally. Not right now, after everything's that happened to you. I need to be there. You shouldn't deal with this on your own, and as one of your best friends, it's my job to be by your side."

Before Ally could even utter another word of protest, the line went dead.

"So Trish and Dez are on their way here?" Austin questioned, having overheard the conversation.

"Yeah." Ally nodded, resting her head back on his chest, crying silently. The entire day had all been too much for her and she was struggling to cope with all of it internally.

"Alls, its okay. I'm right here. I got you." The blonde stroked her hair, hugging her closer. "I'm so glad you're okay. I don't know what I would do with myself if something happened to you." He kissed the top of her head.

"Austin." She started to protest.

"It's true. I was so scared when you didn't come back to Music. I knew something was wrong, I just didn't know what."

"I-I was so scared. I thought I wasn't going to be able to escape their grasp. I thought I was going to die….. I-it was horrible." Ally whispered, new tears forming as she wrapped her arms around the blonde.

"I'm so unbelievably sorry you had to go through that, sweetie." Penny finally spoke up from her position by the wall. She had been standing there since Trish and Dez had begun calling the two teenagers, her brow furrowed in concentration as she had been encased in deep thought. "Your father and I never wanted this to happen to you."

"Wait, dad? He has something to do with this?" Ally questioned, sitting up and pushing away from Austin at the mention of her father.

"No. Not exactly. It's very complicated. You see he tried to prevent this. It's just neither he nor I knew that this would happen if he tried to save you. His death brought this along unintentionally. I should've known you weren't safe coming back here. I should've sent you back to live with my sister the second you came back. This wouldn't have happened then. He would've never found you or tried to hurt you." Penny spoke, mostly to herself than to the two concerned teens.

"Who mum? Who are you talking about? Who's trying to find me? And why?"

"I-I think it's best to hold off until Trish and Dez get here." The older woman simply answered. "They deserve to know as well, since they're caught up in it as well now….. I just hope it doesn't put all of you in danger." Penny muttered the last part to herself.


The room was filled with an anxious silence for the next half hour, as the three of them all restlessly awaited the arrival of Trish and Dez.

Austin was pacing around the room, his hand consistently running through his hair. Ally was on the couch; apprehensively biting her nails as she stood up from her position every other second to check if the Latina and redhead had arrived. Penny had gone off to the kitchen, asking if the two wanted anything, but left before they even had a chance to answer.

Ally was pretty certain that all of them were going to explode if the two others didn't come anytime soon. Austin looked as if he was prepared to rip out of all of his hair, she herself had bitten all of her nails to the core, and her mother was doing God knows what in the kitchen,

"We're here!" Dez announced as he opened the front door.

"Oh my god, Ally!" Trish exclaimed, running over to hug her best friend.

"Trish!" Ally said, embracing her tightly.

"Thank god you're okay. I don't know what I would do to that asshole if he hurt a single hair on you."

"I was already going to; with you help or not. Maybe I could do a number on him when we go back to school and you can do another one, ay Trish?" Austin stated, wrapping his arms around the embracing girls.

"No." The brunette said, coming away from the embrace. "Neither of you are going to do anything."

Penny walked into the room cautiously, looking outside of the windows and locking the front door before taking a seat in the armchair, allowing the teenagers to have their moment.

"I'm so happy you're alright, Ally." Dez decided to say, changing the subject, joining everyone in the group hug again. "And that you two finally made up from that stupid and pointless fight."

"Hey!" Austin and Ally both exclaimed, but dropped the topic seeing as it was unnecessary.

Once the four of them had settled down in the living room, Penny stood up from the armchair, wringing her hands in trepidation. "I didn't want to begin until you, Trish and Dez, joined us. It wouldn't be right to keep this from you since you've been nothing but wonderful to Ally since she came back and you've helped her adapt to Miami. It's only right to inform you as well."

"W-we appreciate it Ms. Dawson." Dez nodded politely.

"Ally's the best friend anyone could ever ask for." Trish added, smiling at the brunette seated next to her.

The older woman sighed, pacing around the room. "Where should I begin?" She laughed nervously. "Um …. Well this all started long before any of you were born. Many years ago. ….Ally, your father was part of this gang before he met me, back in high school."

"Wait, what?" The four teens all exclaimed.

"At first, I was mad at Lester when he told me, because I thought me made the entire thing up. But one night, back when we were still dating, he took me to the warehouse where they had their weekly meetings and he showed me around. I knew he wasn't joking then. Plus, it seemed, his claim be too elaborate and detailed to not be real."

"So then, what do I have to do with this gang?" Ally questioned.

"T-they all took an oath when they started off. It forbade any women of knowing about the crew or ever joining. Your father, of course, had broken that when he showed me the warehouse, but he would do anything for love. And he wanted to prove himself to me. He didn't care about risking his life as long as I believed him." Penny paused. "They, the members, also promised that if they had children, it would have to be boy, to continue on the legacy. If it was a girl, she would have to be killed right after she was born."

"What?" They all gasped.

"It's true." The older woman nodded. "I don't know their reasoning for not wanting a girl, all I do know is that they didn't want to have any female interference in the workings of the gang." She paused momentarily. "But when your father found out that I was pregnant with you, he knew he didn't want to kill you. He couldn't. And so he decided to leave the gang, in order not to have to kill you and also because he didn't want to be a part of it anymore. But when he announced it to them during one of their meetings, the group didn't take it well. Especially not Randy, the leader. He wanted to keep the legacy going, and he could as he was expecting his own son that year too."

"Who's his son?" Ally questioned.

Penny looked at her daughter with sad eyes, before answering, "Dallas."

"I should've guessed.." The brunette said sadly, more tears escaping her doe eyes.

"Its okay," Austin said, rubbing her back. "Its going to be okay."

"So is Dallas part of the gang then, too?"

"I-I don't know. But I am certain that Randy was the one who told him to kidnap you."

"But why? What does he want from me?"

"Y-your father and him made a deal. He had to get Randy one million dollars by the time you turned sixteen."

"But you sent me away when I was fourteen! Why?" Ally interrupted.

"I had just found out about the deal from your father myself. He had thought that he would be able to save the money on his own without me ever knowing by then, but he realized he couldn't and he had to tell me. We knew that the only way to protect you would to be if Randy never found you. I had no choice but to send you away. I'm sorry."

"A-and his death? It wasn't an accident, was it?" The brunette asked, her eyes watering.

"I-I'm afraid not." Penny shook her head, shedding tears of her own. "I have no proof, but I'm almost positive that Randy ordered him killed once he found out about your disappearance. In his eyes, your father had betrayed him and there was only one response to betrayal."

"A-and you? Why didn't he kill you?" Ally inquired, crying.

"Because, I hid after Lester's death. Your fathers friend found me a hotel to live in until everything died down. He watched the house and made sure nothing happened to it. I only moved back in a few months ago, once he was certain that Randy wasn't looking for me. I owe my life to him and so do you, even if you don't know him."

"So, basically, we need to find one million dollars or they're going to kidnap Alls again?." Austin spoke up. The poor boy was so worried, he'd blame himself if Ally got hurt. He said he'd always be by her side—and that's not a lie now.

"No, no money." Penny answered.

"Then what do they want?" Dez finally asked.

"And how does everything that happened today tie into all of this?" Trish questioned.

"I'm not sure, but since Ally's turned sixteen recently, I think Randy wants her and he's gotten Dallas to do the dirty work for him."

"S-so Dallas was just tricking me this entire time? He never really loved me?" Ally asked, her voice shaking once more.

"I'm afraid not, sweetie. I'm really sorry." Penny shook her head, sending an apologetic smile to her daughter. She placed her hand on the brunette's shoulder.

"I-I can't believe it. How could I've been so stupid?"

"You're not stupid Ally. You just really liked him. It's not your fault." Trish comforted her.

"You guys warned me about him and I didn't listen, and look what happened. I'm so sorry Trish, Dez. And I'm especially sorry to you Austin. I overreacted when you were only trying to protect me."

"I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have been so controlling." Austin said, hugging her.

"I'm such an idiot. Why didn't I see it earlier?"

"You're not an idiot Ally. It really isn't your fault. Dallas tricked you and you shouldn't blame yourself for it. He played with your emotions, there was no way you couldn't fall for him." Dez said, patting her knee.

"Mum, what does this mean now?" Ally looked up at the older woman. "I mean, what's going to happen to me?"

"I wasn't sure of it until now, with what you've told me, but this isn't good. The man who's been helping me said he hasn't heard anything of Randy wanting you, but I think Randy's trying to be as quiet as possible about all of this."

Ally shook her head. "Who is this man, mum? You said yourself that we have to be careful with who we trust. What if ...what if he is just like the others and tries to get me?" She whispered the last part as the thought terrified her.

"I assure you Ally, you have nothing to worry about with this man."

"How do you know?" The brunette played.

Penny looked her daughter straight in the eyes, "I just do."

After taking a few deep breaths, Ally finally asked the one question she wanted to know, they all did. "Will they find me?"

"No. If they do," Penny said, pausing after. "Ill kill them all myself. They have already made me loose one person, if I loose you ...I will have no one."

"Is there anything else I need to know? You might as well let it all out." Ally said exhaustedly.

Penny went to explain further, but got cut off. "I—"

But just as she was about to continue elaborating on what she knew and believed was going on, there was a knock at the front door.

"I'll get it." The brunette offered, standing up. "It's probably a delivery or something."


"Hello?" She answered the door.

The tall, gruff man towering over her just stared her down, not saying a word.

"M-may I help you?" Ally asked, seeing no package in his hand.

That was when he grabbed her shoulders, attempting to take her with him out of the house.

"AHH-!" Her scream was muffled by his gloved hand, as he pulled her over on her side and held her by his hip. Ally kicked frantically, screaming even though her shouts were barely audible. Her eyes were wide in fear as she desperately struggled to get out of his grasp.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" A voice from inside the house caused the man to turn around from the door.

Ally's eyes widened in hope as she saw that it was Austin.

"Let her go."

The man didn't listen, instead turning back around.

"I said, let her go." The blonde yelled before catching up to the offender and jumping on his back.

Shocked from the sudden weight, the man stumbled forward, letting go of Ally meanwhile. Regaining his posture quickly, he turned on his heels, fuming. His anger was directed at the blonde as he swung his hand forward quickly. Austin ducked the punch just in time before it struck him square in the jaw. Using the fact that the man was momentarily off balance, he swung his own punch, successfully connecting with his jaw. Before he could even respond, Austin kicked him in the groin.

The man groaned out in agony, doubling over and landing on his knees. "You bastard." He hissed through gritted teeth, rocking back and forth.

"Come on Ally." Austin grabbed her hand, quickly pulling the both of them inside, before the offender could get up.

"Oh my god Austin, are you okay!?" Ally said in awe as the blonde locked the door tightly, making sure the man was out of sight, and ushering them both into the foyer. "Thank you!" She exclaimed hugging him.

"I don't know what I would've done to myself if he actually took you and I did nothing to stop it." He replied, wrapping his arms around her tightly.

"Oh my god, are you guys alright? What happened?!" Penny, Trish, and Dez raced into the hall.

"S-someone tried to take me again. But Austin attacked him and helped me escape."

"What? Are you okay? Oh my god!" Trish hugged her tightly.

"Y-you have to go away." Penny said immediately, looking out the window and walking briskly across the wooden floor.

"What?" Ally turned to her mother.

"They're looking for you. He sent them."

"Who? What? Why?"

"You have to go away for a few weeks."

"Why?!"

"It's a matter of life or death, Ally!"

"What do you mean mum!?"

"Randy wants you Ally. Since he didn't get his money, he has to fulfill the other part of the bargain he made with your father. The part I didn't get to finish telling you about."

"Which is?" Ally questioned, knowing full well she wouldn't like the answer.

"He wants to kill you."