Hope all is well and that you're enjoying this story. Here's chapter 10 of Something to Somebody Else!
"I'm driving?!" he shouted excitedly as his brother stuffed Sam into the back seat. "Just get in and go already, would ya? The goal is to get away before someone see's us." He sassed him as he got into the passenger's seat. Felix hopped into the car, started it and sped off.
Juice parked his motorcycle in the designated bike spot outside of Saint Thomas. Checking his phone, he saw it was 7:58am.
Right on time.
He took his helmet off and put it on top of his bike and began to walk into the hospital. Pep in his step, nothing could take away his cheery mood. He even smiled at the old people in wheelchairs who gave him dirty looks because of his MC cut. Walking up the hallway where Sam's room was, he saw Tara and a few other doctors standing together outside of her door. Confused, he walked up and pulled Tara aside.
"What's going on here, Tara?" he folded his arms across his chest in concern and worry. Tara looked down and sighed, then back up at Juice.
"Somewhere between 4 and 7am, something happened and Sam's not here."
He paused for a second and peeked into Sam's now empty room. "What do you mean she's not here? Where did she go? Isn't it YOUR job here at a hospital to keep her safe? To check in on her? What do you mean she's not here?!"
He realized he had been shouting, but half of him didn't even care. Tara had taken a step back, and glanced around again before speaking. "Her nurse went in at 4am, and she was sound asleep. Shift changes are at 7, and when the new nurse went in to check up on her, she was gone. We've searched every room, bathroom, hallway, and stairway and she's nowhere to be found. We're working on pulling security footage right now. Juice I'm so sorr-"
"Get me to the security office, now." He said harshly as she nodded and spun on her heal towards the security room. Following her down the hallway, they went behind the service desk into a room labeled SECURITY. When she opened the door, there had been a cop in there with another nurse, going through footage on 4 big screens connected to a keyboard.
"This is 6:15am, she's standing outside of the ICU unit." The other nurse said, pointing to the screen.
"Yeah, her friend ended up in there." Juice mumbled, not really caring about this part of the footage. "Wait, who is that?" he pointed to a young kid in a wheelchair.
"Uhm…I don't know. He wasn't a patient here. I'm positive of that." Tara said, as the other nurse agreed with her. They all watched as the kid in the wheelchair lured Sam out of the building.
"The part of the building where they had been sitting or hanging out by, is the only part of the building that doesn't have a camera that stays on that spot. This one moves side to side. So we only get a glimpse of what went down." The security guard said, slowly fast forwarding the footage. There was a spot where Sam was sitting at a table with the kid in a wheel chair, then a spot where another guy was sitting with them. Then they were eating, and then Sam was being carted off unconscious by the two kids.
"Can we ID them? Snag a license plate number?" Juice asked frantic, Tara had noticed his body tense up when Sam had been carried to the car. The security guard mumbled an 'I can try' and Juice reached for his phone and paced out of the room. He dialed up Jax, they had to do something.
Groggily, Sam began to wake up. She groaned, blinking a few times. Looking around, she noticed she hadn't seen the place she was in before.
Where am I?
She went to rub her eyes when she realized her hands had been tied in front of her chest. Panicking, she had tried to stretch her legs out only to see they too had been bound tightly together at her ankles.
"What the fuck?!" She grunted as she almost wiggled off the side of the maroon wrap around couch she had been placed on. Looking around, she saw there was a big TV stand with a flat screen on it, with DVD's on each side of the stand. The carpet was eggshell white, and there had been 3 big windows with maroon curtains that had blocked out the sun. To the left of the windows was a door, and a few pairs of sneakers had been placed near the door.
Must be the front door. I need to get to that door. If I could get out into the street or even the sidewalk, someone will see me and stop to help or call the police.
Taking a deep breathe, she used all her might to rip her wrists free but couldn't and muttered out a few bad words in frustration. Having an idea, she swung her legs off the couch and wound up in a sitting position. Pushing off the couch, she was standing and tried to hop to the door. She had hopped a few times, and had been only one hop away from the door. Going for it, she hopped and fell over on her back causing a loud thump.
Okay, ow.
She tried to get back up but couldn't. Footsteps upstairs had been on their way down to come check out the sound. Her heart raced as she tried again and again to get back on her feet but couldn't.
"Well, look what we got here." Felix said, crouching down next to Sam's body. Sabastian did the same, only on her left side.
"You-you're not in a wheelchair…." She whispered, looking him up and down as she remembered little by little, images of the two people she met at the hospital that morning.
"Yeah…..that wasn't the whole truth. But you bought it." Felix said with a smirk. Sam sighed and looked away.
"Don't be so bummed out." Sabastian said, grabbing her left arm as Felix grabbed her right, and they stood her up. Their grips tightened as she thrashed rapidly. "Let go of me!" she shouted, but the boys ignored her. They carried her to the room left of the living room, which seemed to be a dining room and placed her in a chair.
"I can't believe I actually felt sorry for you, you're pathetic." Sam spat to Felix, true hatred in the tone of her voice.
"Yeah yeah yeah. You're not a walk in the park either." Felix rolled his eyes and she glared.
Sebastian spoke up this time. "Look, we don't wanna hurt y-"
Sam chimed in before he could finish with where that was going. "That is SO typical kidnapper talk. Don't wanna hurt you, will hurt you if I have to. Though, I didn't do anything to land myself in this current situation to be used as a hostage or bait or whatever. Lemme guess, you wanna hurt my brother or you want something from the Son's."
The boys were speechless, glancing between her and each other.
"Well…yeah. Your brother has our brother, we just want him back." Sebastian said softly.
She looked up from the floor to the two kidnappers standing in front of her.
"Your brother is Mario?" The boys nodded in unison. Sam smirked sarcastically to herself.
Great.
"You do realize Mario had DRUGGED AND KIDNAPPED ME at a party, right? So you know my brother, and the Son's, are royally pissed the hell off with him. You won't be getting him back. In one piece that is. You should've known that." She said, blowing the strands of hair out of her face.
Felix looked down, knowing she was right.
"He's probably already dead…" he mumbled.
"If he's dead, she's dead." Sabastian said lowly, pulling a black handgun out from his back pocket and placing it on the table and walked into what seemed to be the kitchen. Sam stared at the gun on the table and her eyes widened.
"Jax just wants Alvarez. That's all he wants, is to know where he is." She whispered. "He and Alvarez have some weird issues right now and Mario and I seemed to be caught up in the middle of them. If you know where he is, I can call Jax and I can get you Mario back. I can save his life if you can tell me where he is. Then you don't have to actually use that thing." She nodded towards the gun then stared at Felix, her eyes glossy and her face innocent.
Felix pondered the thought. "I-I don't know if Sabastian will go for that."
He's going to be the easier brother to convince, I can already tell. The other one seems to be the tough guy.
"If I'll go for what?" Sabastian asked, walking back into the room with a cold bottled water.
Felix sighed and turned to his brother. "Teller just wants Alvarez. We tell him where he is, we get Mario back and they can have her back."
Sabastian shook his head. "No. We're not doing that, no."
"But it could possibly save Mario's life! Isn't that what you want? Cause I know that's what I want."
"I'm not gonna sell out Alvarez. You heard her, he had Mario drug and kidnap her to get an upper hand on her brother! I am not going to be the one Alvarez or his crew comes looking for once the Teller kid goes knocking on his door. Hell no."
"But if we get Mario and we take off, we'll be fine! No one will ever hear from us again and we could save him not only from the Son's but from Alvarez. You know that guy took him in and has him doing some stupid dirty work, we could save him from that. We could ya know…be a family again." Felix's voice trailed off.
"You really think us getting Mario back will save him from Alvarez? That guys poison. He's got Mario thinking you need to be a thug to make it in this world. You think Alvarez is dumb? He knows Mario's a shitty thug, he just has him doing his dirty work. Mario is just a pawn in Alvarez's game. He's replaceable. But Mario doesn't see that. That's why the Charming Prince is still searching for Alvarez, because Mario won't give him up. He's too loyal to the wrong dude."
Felix's head hung low. "There's gotta be something we can do, to save him and not have to kill her."
Sam spoke up this time. "You don't have to kill me, just let me talk to Jax. I can figure this out and we can all win, I just need to talk to him." Her voice soft this time, sort of shaky.
Sabastian scoffed. "When he doesn't get Alvarez I don't think he'll be very understanding."
"You have to work with me here. You can't expect to get exactly what you want by not giving in a little. You want Mario? He wants Alvarez, it's that simple." Sam had leaned forward in her chair, as if she was going to stand up and get her point across.
Sabastian picked the gun up off the table and crouched down in front of her, pressing the barrel of the gun to her forehead. "Pulling the trigger if I don't get Mario back is that simple."
His voice sent shivers down her spine.
"Hey, lay off." Felix said, pulling Sabastian away. "We'll figure something out, go take a deep breath or something. Okay?"
"She doesn't walk out alive if we don't get Mario back. End of story." Sabastian muttered, shrugging off his brother's grip as he placed the gun back in his pocket and walked upstairs. Felix sighed a breath of relief.
"I don't know what we're going to do." He said, taking a seat next to her.
"Do you know where Alvarez is?" She asked quietly, looking at the floor.
"In total honesty, I don't. Mario doesn't really talk about him because he knows how much we don't like him being a part of all of this. It causes it a lot of fights, especially between him and Sabastian."
She sighed. "I promise if you let me talk to Jax before this escalates, I can figure something out. You have to let me try before your brother goes postal."
Felix bit the corner of his lip. "I-I don't know… I don't wanna go against Sabastian like that. He'd be really mad if I made a game changing move like that and he didn't agree on it."
"You know that if you go up and try and to talk to him about this, he's going to freak out and tell you no, that you're not doing that. But you know I'm right. Letting me talk to Jax first could save your brother's life. You know how the gang stuff works, once a hostage becomes useless, they get taken care of."
He sighed. "I know…" he mumbled. "If I untie your hands and you do something stupid like try and fight me or take off, we're going to have a problem. Got it?"
She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, because I just spent the last 10 minutes or so trying to convince you to let me save Mario's life JUST so I can punch you in the mouth and then run. With my legs that are still tied together. You caught me." She said sarcastically.
"Watch the 'tude." He reached for his phone and placed it on the table, then took her wrists into his hands and undid the knots. Sam rubbed the red marks the ropes had left, and then reached for his phone. She dialed Jax's number and it rang and rang and went to voicemail. Sighing, she hung up and tried again, but got his voicemail again.
"He's not answering me. Which is a bad sign."
Felix rubbed his face and stared at her. "Try again. You can't just give up."
"I'm not giving up, I'm trying to think. By now they know someone connected to Alvarez has me. One of the Son's was going to pick me up at 8 this morning before I was rudely abducted. Again. Jax not answering me means the Son's are on the hunt to find me or Alvarez. Someone is going to die I don't get in touch with Jax ASAP."
"Well isn't there someone else you can call?"
Juice.
Not even verbally replying to Felix, she dialed Juice's number and heard it begin to ring.
Please answer. Dear God please let him pick up the phone.
After the third ring, a confused 'hello' buzzed through her ear.
"Juice?!" She shouted in excitement as Felix hushed her and pointed upwards towards Sabastian. The sound of his voice made her feel safe and she wanted to be with him now more than anything.
"Sam?! Where are you, are you okay?! I went by this morning and you were missing and no one-"
"I'm okay! Juice you have to find Jax and put him on the phone, it's really important. I tried calling but he didn't answer. "
"What's going on? Where are you, Sam?" he was worried. She could hear it in his voice and it almost made her cry.
"I don't know where I am, but I'm safe. Where's Mario? The guys who took me are his brother's but they don't wanna hurt me, they just want him back. Please don't let Jax hurt him, it's the only way to solve this and not have anyone get hurt. Please, you have to find Jax and let me talk to him!"
Her heart was racing, suddenly this seemed more important to her than it originally was. A couple days ago Mario had just been some guy who had done something incredibly stupid for Alvarez. Now she was trying to save his life? This was insane.
Juice stammered. "I-I- don't know where he is, I'm- I'm not with him. I've been searching all over for Alvarez. They're going to trade us you for Mario? That's all they want?"
"Yeah, they want him back alive and if I can get Jax to call me back on this number I can get everything set up. I just need to know it's not too late..." She let her voice trail off.
"I'll start calling the guys, can I call you back on this line?" He sounded confused.
"Yes."
"Alright, bye." He said, hanging up.
Felix swallowed hard. "I'm so nervous, I just want this to be over."
She sighed. "Yeah, you and me both."
Footsteps from upstairs were loud, making their way back down stairs and Felix quickly retied Sam's hands and they acted as if they had been just sitting there.
"Alright, I've calmed down and I've decided on our next move."
Sam and Felix's heads shot up, desperately waiting on Sabastian's answer when there was a knock at the door.
Everyone glanced at the door in confusion as Sabastian walked over and opened it slightly, not letting whoever it was fully in. Two buff guys in Mayan cuts had been standing on the porch. "Can I help you?" Sabastian asked confused.
"We're here for the girl, Alvarez sent us." The one on the left said.
Felix and Sam's facial expressions quickly changed to a bright shade of panic.
