Chapter 10: Hole is where the heart is

As Jack Tyler walked down the many stairs of his mansion, sleepily, he wondered where his son was, but smiled thinking that he was with 'that Danny boy', yes, Jack was fond of him. He won his boy over, and Jack knew that he'd make a great son-in-law.
He walked over to the door saw one letter, no handwriting, obviously typed. Once he'd opened it at first he shunned the spelling, and then focussed on what it said:
"If you ever want to see that pretty-boy son of yours again, pay £1, 00000 on Sunday the 28th Feb. Meet us at the train station and we'll discuss Jeremy's 'safe return'."
Tears found their way down the man's crumpled face and onto the page in his shaking hands. He sat right where he was standing, didn't bother to get up for ten minutes, when the doorbell rang.
"Hello, Jack! Is Jez in me brought him chocolate!" Danny said brightly, wearing his best clothes, well Jezs' favourite outfit of his "Why are you crying? Is Jez okay?" Now full of concern
"Um... You'd better sit down Danny... I've got something to tell you."
"What? Jez is okay, right?"
"I don't know!" Jack cried "He's been kidnapped..."
"Kidnapped?" Danny whispered, crying with Jack.
He started to shake crying, whispering 'no' over and over again, finally it all got too much and he collapsed.

"Hello, Mr. Miller, you've had a seizure, we had to swap you're very nice, smart clothes for your hospital gown, what's the occasion?" Smiled the plump nurse, checking his temperature
"Oh..." Danny started crying "Um, I was gonna propose... but..."
"What a very lucky lady!" Grinned the nurse
"Um... but something happened to... him."Danny sniffed, emphasizing the word 'him'
"Oh! That was unexpected! I'm sorry, but nosey... what happened?"
"Um, he..." Danny cried harder as he continued, "Was kidnapped."
"Like the boy on the news? Jeremy Tyler?"
"That's him! The news? Of course! Poor Jez, with a famous Dad it can't be easy!"
"I feel sorry for you and his dad, of course. I'll give you time to grieve." The nurse said solemnly, turning to leave as Danny said
"Don't say that! He's still alive!" Danny cried, as the nurse left.

At Mrs Troy's house two days later Danny, who had just been discharged, he let himself in around two in the afternoon, expecting everyone to be in school
"Danny! Oh my God! We heard... on the TV, do you miss Jez badly?" BB couldn't help but ask, being a protective best friend
"BB, he's crying, he collapsed, of course he misses Jez! We all do!" Lauren wailed
"I want Jez back, there's nobody to make sense!" Lola sniffed

The whole house avoided the subject of Jez for a while and mindlessly watched TV, which is until Danny yelled "Do you people even care that there's someone who could be dying? ONE OF OUR FRIENDS!?" he started sobbing uncontrollably
"We do care, Danny! It just... hurts, you know?"Lauren said, trying to keep the peace
"Not talking about it isn't gonna make that pain go away! I know I'm hurting more than all of you; we all do, but... The day I found out – we all know how dressed up and happy I was – it's just... I was planning to propose to him!"
The other occupants in that room gasped, many were crying, BB was holding Lauren but couldn't stay strong for her.

Jez was afraid, shivering, hurting, crying
"Please... just don't hurt me again..." Jez whimpered, cowering at the sight of a shadow being cast over him. He had two kidnappers, one good (the one he had a conversation with in the truck) and one bad, pure evil
"Hey, hey, it's me... Oh my God! That brother of mine! Does that leg hurt, it's broken... by the looks of it." Said the nice (female) kidnapper
"I can't feel it!" Jez cried, waiting in comfortable silence before saying "I miss Danny... real bad." It wasn't aimed at anyone, he was talking to himself but the nice kidnapper (Judy) was reassuring him that his Dad would pay up when her brother met with him... tomorrow

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A/N: Sorry! I didn't want Jez to be kidnapped for too long, but should I leave it another chapter before I bring him back? I just didn't want this to be a big ball of fluff... even though I love fluff