7. What did you really expect?
Molly POV
Light filled the flat as the rest of the corrugated iron was pulled off to let whoever my mom had pissed off in. The light revealed the true grime of the place; it couldn't have been cleaned in years and was full of bugs and crap.
"What have you done? Why are they after you?!" I hissed as I tried desperately to move my feet which had become stuck to the floor by fear (and possibly some old, sticky vomit), how badly had she pissed them off?
"I'm sorry." She just kept repeating over and over again.
"Kerrie!" The angry male voice screamed as he walked into the room, he was flagged by two heavies and that they certainly were they looked more like mountains then men. Both looked scarily alike with the same buzz cut, no neck and muscular chests. The man himself was slightly familiar for some reason. He was small, only slightly taller then me with greasy black hair and an expensive, pinstripe suit. His eyes widened in surprise and delight when he saw me there. "Well, well, well Kerrie who is your little friend?"
"M...my...my...daughter, Jimmy. Please don't hurt me!" She raced towards him and through herself onto the floor by his feet to beg for his forgiveness. He grabbed hold of her hair and yanked her up onto her feet.
"Where is my money, Kerrie?" He growled as his heavies moved to stand on either side of her.
"I don't have it yet! Please I'll do anything just don't hurt me!" She begged as tears and snot fell down her face.
"Anything?" The mean glint was back in his eyes as he worked out a plan.
"Yes, anything whatever you want of me!"
"Your daughter is a very pretty girl. What is her name?" The sick knot in my stomach told me I'd worked out exactly what he wanted of my mother or more specifically me.
"Molly, her name's Molly." She stuttered and I could tell that she had also worked out what he wanted of me and that she felt it was a price worth paying to keep herself safe.
"Give me thirty minutes alone with your daughter and then we can forget the debt. What do you say?"
"The debt would be ALL gone?" She specified.
"No." I whispered. She wouldn't let him do this. No matter how crap a mom she was she wouldn't let this happen, would she?
"All gone." He smirked as he watched the horror on my face. "I wouldn't try running if I were you, Molly. So what do you say Kerrie?"
"Yes." She didn't seem bothered by what he was asking like a proper mother would but not her, she was quite happy to let him rape me to save her own skin.
"HOW COULD YOU?! I'M YOUR DAUGHTER, YOU SHOULD LOVE ME AND NOT LET ANYONE HURT ME!" I screamed as I finally got back the use of legs and made a bolt for the door. One of his heavies punched me in the stomach and I fell to the floor gasping for breath. Why did I tell Abigail not to call Dom for ten minutes and then not the police until after he arrived? It would be too late by the time Dom got here.
"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" Several police men came bursting into the flat with guns raised at the heavies who instantly ran at the police. The bang of the gun reverberated around the flat as one of the heavies fell on the floor, gasping in agony as he clutched at the hole in his shoulder. The other heavy did what he was told and put his hands up like Jimmy. Kerrie gave a shriek before fainting at my feet; I had to take a step back so I wouldn't be tempted to kick her. A young policewomen came towards me with a confused look on her face as if she couldn't work out why I was here- I was poor but even I didn't look like I belonged with these scum.
"Please get me out of here. I want to go home." I managed to stutter and it was at that point that I realised I was crying, no sobbing hysterically was a better description.
"It's ok we'll get you out of here." I tried to take a step towards the friendly policewomen but my legs refused to take my weight and I collapsed onto the floor. Several of the police officers raced over to me and checked I was all right. The nice blonde women who had spoken to me earlier wrapped her arms around me. "Did he hurt you?"
"No, he was going to." The true horror of what could have happened to me if they hadn't turned up made me start crying even more hysterically.
"It's ok. We're going to take you to the hospital now. Do you know that lady?" She pointed to Kerrie and I shook my head.
"No, she's no one." The female policewomen nodded and allowed a big muscular policeman to pick me up and carry me out of the tower block. I felt safe in his strong arms even if it was kind of embarrassing as his uniform got covered in snot and tears. As he carried me out into the street and towards a waiting ambulance I heard a familiar voice call out.
"Molly! Molly! For God sake get off me she's my sister!" Dom was screaming and I turned to see a policeman trying to hold him back. The entire building was swarmed by police officers and a crowd of rough people off the estate was watching what was going off, and at the front were Dom, Abigail and Steve.
"Dom." I croaked, desperate to have my brother near me.
"Oi, Ricky let him through." The man holding me called to the person holding back my brother. Ricky obliged and Dom came running towards me followed by Abigail and Steve who must have been able to slip through with my brother. Dom reached me and pulled me out of the policeman's arms and into his.
"Dom!" I cried as I buried my head in his chest and breathed in the familiar scent of home.
"It's ok I'm here now." He kissed my head as he carried me the short distance to the ambulance. When we got into the ambulance Dom tried to put me down on the stretcher in there but I held on to him, I needed to be held right now. In the end Dom sat on the bed and held me on his lap like Gran used to when we hurt ourselves falling over. I felt Abigail and Steve sit on either side of us before the doors were shut and the ambulance began moving. As it moved off the paramedic who was riding in the back with us began checking me over.
"Are you ok, Molly?" Abigail wrapped her arms around me. "If only I'd come in with you!"
"No, it's good you didn't. When did you call Dom?" I asked.
"As soon as you left me, something felt wrong. Then as soon as Clay turned up I called the police."
"Clay?" I asked, I felt groggy and my mind refused to process what was going on, I could barely keep my mind focused on the conversation.
"Jimmy Clay, the loan shark, the police have wanted him for ages but he always slips through the net. He was on crime stoppers last night." So that's where I remembered him from, Jimmy was an infamous loan shark and Kerrie just had to get involved with him!
"If he laid one finger on you I'll kill him." Dom hissed angrily.
"No, he didn't. One of his cronies punched me in the stomach when I tried to make a run for it." He kissed the top of my head and wrapped his arms closer around me.
"Wonder where Kerrie is?" His voice took on a hard edge.
"Don't know, don't care." My voice mirrored his which seemed to shock the others. "She was willing to let him rape me so he would alleviate her debt." There was a shocked silence inside the ambulance, even the paramedic who had seemed absorbed in cheeking me over for injuries froze for a split second.
"I'll kill her!" Dom yelled angrily causing me to almost fall off his laps.
"Dom, calm down. We'll never see her again." I doubted she would come back after this although with Kerrie you never knew.
"God because if I ever see her again, I'll kill her."
"So will I." Abigail and Steve said together.
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"Molly!" Gran called as she and Granddad came racing down the ward of the hospital. The police had phoned them as soon as I'd given my statement. They reckoned it would be enough to send him down as Kerrie had done a runner as per usual.
"They told us everything!" My Granddad hugged me close to his chest before Gran kissed me and wrapped her arms around me.
"If anything had happened to you!" She was crying and I felt guilty for putting them through all this. I groaned as I felt a vision coming on, just what I needed now.
There was a pale skinned man with long brown hair leaning over Kerrie's unmoving body. It looked like he was kissing her but wait, no, he was drinking her blood!
"James come on, we have to find the others." A red haired woman called to him. He nodded in agreement, stood up and kissed her.
"We'll show the Cullen's not to mess with us." With that they left running at lightning fast speed, leaving Kerrie's corpse alone in the street.
And I knew they were coming for us...
