Chapter 10
Here's chapter 10. It's a bit longer then the rest so enjoy!
Luke walked in closing the door behind him.
"Close the blinds," He told Tony. Tony did exactly what he said; he was still coming to terms with everything. Luke and Jamie had killed Carrie and he could guess it was something to do with Jamie and Michelle but he didn't know exactly what or how Luke was involved.
"Both of you sit down and keep quiet," Luke told them as he came closer still pointing the gun at them. They both did as he said and looked at him; they were going to have to wait for him to make the first move especially as they still weren't completely sure what was going on.
"Luke why are you doing?" Michelle asked she needed to know what was happening.
"Just shut up and do as I say then you won't get hurt," He told Michelle. He then turned to Tony pointing the gun at his head, "But I don't need you so I may as well just kill you now," He told them.
"NO!" Michelle screamed although only for a few seconds before Luke grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth.
"I told you to shut up," He told her still pointing the gun at Tony.
"I don't think that's a good idea, if you shoot me everyone will hear and you'll never get out of here which is what you want," Tony told him and he nodded. He threw Michelle towards Tony who barely managed to catch her before she fell to the floor.
"If she speaks she gets hurt," Luke told him and took out his cell phone. Tony just held onto Michelle.
"You ok?" He asked and she nodded to afraid to speak.
"What do they want?" She whispered just loud enough for Tony to hear.
"I don't know," Tony lied; he already had a pretty good idea about what was going to happen.
"Jamie wants me doesn't he," She said and Tony nodded his head with tears welling in his eyes.
"Why?" She asked crying.
"I don't know his mind is twisted and he's got Luke to do as he says but he thinks he can be with you," Tony told her and he felt her shudder as the thought crossed her mind.
"You don't think he'd…" Michelle started but from the tears flowing from Tony's eyes she guessed.
"He killed Carrie because she was giving you a hard time who knows what he'll do," Tony told her.
"I'm sure it won't be dinner and a movie," She told him.
"It'll be ok, we've had worse," Tony told her and kissed her passionately. Jamie turned round to see them.
"Stop it!" He yelled at them and then went back to his call, "What shall I do with him? …yeah are you sure? ...I won't…yeah I'll be out in a few minutes," He said and hung up.
He looked straight at Tony and Michelle. Neither of them spoke but waited for him.
"Right do exactly as I say and you won't get hurt," He told Michelle. Michelle nodded but she knew she had to do something because as soon as they were away from CTU things would get a lot worse.
"Jamie's waiting in the car park in his car. Go down and when you get there he'll call me back. If you try anything then I'll kill him so you better be quick. If you take to long then I'll kill him and if you try to tell anyone I'll kill him" He told her.
"Why are you doing this?" Michelle asked she had to know.
"Jamie loves you and he is so much better then Tony why can't you see that? He just wants to be with you but you just ignore him and laugh at him," Luke explained.
"How does this involve you then?" Tony asked angrily.
"It doesn't concern you," Luke told him.
"Well surely I have a right to know," Michelle said assertively. Tony knew just like him she was completely terrified inside but they both had to be confident right now and not show it. Luke looked from one to the other trying to make his mind up.
"Jamie and I have been best friends for years. I mean do you know how many hours I've heard him complain and moan about you. This plan was the only way to stop him driving me insane. He loves you Michelle but you just ignore him and treat him as if he's nothing just like you treat me. You both think you're so much better then the rest of us, you don't even realise how much work we do because you're so wrapped up with each other," Luke explained.
"So let me get this right. You killed Carrie because she was making Michelle's life hell and you wanted to prove that what…" Tony asked.
"Jamie did it to prove how much he cared about Michelle," Luke explained.
"That's how you show someone you care about them? You're SICK!" Tony yelled at him. Michelle couldn't speak; it was her fault Carrie was dead.
"Shut Up!" Luke yelled as he hit Tony round the head with the gun causing Tony to fall to the floor. The blow to his head felt exactly the same as before except this time he didn't get knocked unconscious.
"No!" Michelle screamed and Luke came to hit her but Tony grabbed his legs pulling him to the floor. This was one of the only chances they'd have to escape so quickly Michelle went for the gun. Both Michelle and Luke scrambled for it and just as Michelle was about to pick it up Luke grabbed it and pointed at her head.
"Don't try it!" He told her. Quickly he turned round to see Tony on the floor still recovering from the blow to his head.
"Get over there," Luke told her and motioned to Tony with the gun. Michelle quickly crawled over to Tony and knelt by his side.
"You want to know why I'm doing this. It's because you treat me like complete crap, I work my ass off but get no thanks. Tony hardly does anything and is hailed as a hero! Jamie was right you don't see anything. After all he's done for you Michelle and you'd still rather be with Tony," Luke said.
"Well Tony's not a psycho!" She yelled at him. Luke clenched his empty fist and she could see he was gripping the gun very tightly his finger only a millimetre from the trigger.
"If only Jamie didn't like you so much. I'd be happy just to kill you both right here right now but no he has to take you out and show you what you're missing!" Luke said. Michelle just looked at him she had Tony's head on her lap and was stroking his hair. Tony was trying his hardest to stay awake but he was in so much pain. Suddenly Luke's phone went again.
"Yeah she's coming now," Luke said and hung up, "Get up," He said to Michelle.
"NO!" She said.
"I said get up!" He yelled at her pointing the gun straight at her head.
"Make me!" She told him assertively, she was not going to go anywhere without a fight.
"Fine!" Luke said and grabbed her hair pulling her up forcing her to stand.
"Michelle," Tony called out, he couldn't let her go he had to protect her. Luke pushed Michelle towards the door.
"Now go or do I have to start hurting him?" Luke asked. Michelle slowly walked towards the door.
"Michelle don't go," Tony yelled. Luke turned back to him pointing the gun at his head obviously not happy about his outbursts.
"Don't worry," She said as she checked her watch and then looked straight at Tony, "I'll be fine," Tony knew she now had a plan but he had no idea what and if he put much thought into anything it made the pain in his head unbearable, he was tempted to just let himself pass out but he couldn't until he knew Michelle was alright.
Luke turned round, "Get going and you better be quick or you won't see Tony again," Luke told her, "Remember I'll be watching," Michelle just tried to ignore him and the thoughts of what he might do to Tony as she walked down the stairs. As she walked across the floor she checked her watch again and just as she predicted as she passed her station she saw Jack enter. Straight away Jack saw Michelle and headed towards her.
"Michelle what's going on?" Jack asked as they both stopped in the middle of the floor.
"I can't talk now Jack but I know Tony really needs to see you," She told him and started to walk away. Jack grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "Michelle wait," Jack said. He looked at her and then at Tony's office, the blinds were drawn, the only reason he'd ever seen Tony have the blinds closed was when he was with Michelle.
"I've gotta go Jack," Michelle told him. He could see there was something wrong Michelle was nervous, he could tell from the tone in her voice. Again she started to walk away.
"Michelle wait, what's wrong?" Jack asked.
"Just go and see Tony, he'll explain," She told him and headed off to the car park praying she hadn't taken to long and Luke hadn't realised what she was telling Jack. He had got the idea straight away, Tony was in trouble and Jack knew he would help. Michelle was so thankful that Jack hadn't taken to long to come in because if it was anyone else she would have had to spell it out to them but Jack knew exactly what he needed to do.
As fast as he could with out making it look suspicious Jack went up to Tony's office. Just before he opened the door he took out his gun, keeping it out of sight and made sure it was loaded, he was certain this wouldn't be resolved peacefully. Jack knocked on the door, "Tony!" he said acting casual as if nothing was wrong.
"Yeah come in," Tony said and Jack could hear he was in pain. Carefully Jack opened the door keeping his gun just out of sight. He walked in to see Tony in his chair with Luke opposite him. Jack was slightly shocked, there didn't appear to be anything wrong with him apart from the cut on his head.
"Tony what's going on? What happened?" Jack asked as he came closer in shutting the door behind him, and hiding the gun.
"Nothing, look why don't you wait down stairs and I'll come and find you in a bit once I'm finished here," Tony told him.
"Chappelle said it was urgent," Jack told him as his eyes scanned Luke.
"Look we've just got some information so the sooner you let us go through it the sooner he can come and talk to you," Luke snapped.
"Look Tony can I have a word in private," Jack asked he didn't know exactly was going on but he knew he needed to talk to Tony alone. Tony looked at Luke and then back at Jack.
"I'll be down soon," Tony told him. Jack stared at Luke who stared back at him; something was definitely wrong Tony wouldn't call him in and then just blow him off. For a second Jack broke his eye contact with Luke and saw Tony nod towards Luke's side. Jack looked down and could tell he had a gun.
Slowly Michelle approached Jamie's car trying to give Jack as much time as possible to free Tony. She knew she couldn't let Jamie take her and that she should run away but she couldn't, not until she knew Tony was ok. She walked as slowly as possible just waiting to hear Tony or Jack's footsteps coming to help her but there was nothing, nothing but silence. By the time she focused she was within a meter of Jamie's car but she couldn't see anyone inside it. Unfortunately she couldn't control her curiosity and moved closer trying to see if anyone was in there. Her brain was telling her to run, run and get help as Jack would have been able to free Tony by now but her legs wouldn't stop moving and before she knew it she was at the car.
She peered through the glass but there was no one there. For a moment she let a sigh of relief escape her mouth but then her brain started working again and she knew it was a trap, like she'd told Tony he was a genius.
"Get in," Jamie told her as she felt the gun hover by her head.
"How did…" Michelle started.
"Michelle I know you so well and you just can't help having to know everything. As soon as you couldn't see me you just had to look and find out what had happened to me," Jamie told her.
"So you knew I'd try and run," Michelle said.
"Of course. At the moment you still think you love Tony but I can prove that you don't, you just need someone to be there for you. Tony just happened to be in the right place at the right time but now I can be there for you," Jamie explained.
"You're wrong they'll find you! They'll stop you! Tony will stop you!" She told him.
"Tony's lucky I'll give him that but there's no way he'll find us," Jamie told her. Before Michelle could stoop herself she blurted out the only thing that may save her.
"They've got Luke, he knows where we're going, and he'll tell them you won't get far!" She yelled.
"Michelle I know I'm not stupid, of course I knew they'd get Luke but he doesn't know anything well nothing that will help," Jamie told her.
"But…" Michelle asked.
"I knew the only the way I would get you to come was if I could use Tony against you that's why I couldn't kill him earlier but like you said they've probably got Luke by now so we better leave." Jamie told her.
"NO!" She screamed, "There's no way I'm going anywhere with you,"
"Look I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have to," He told her. Suddenly Michelle started crying, sure he was a genius when it came to avoiding being caught and making plans but he had one weakness, one weakness she could exploit, her.
"Tony it won't take long I just need a second," Jack persisted as he came closer to them. Again Tony looked to Luke. This had been going on for the past couple of minutes, Jack insisted he needed to speak to Tony immediately and Luke would get more impatient when telling Jack to leave.
"Why don't you just go and wait downstairs like he told you to?" Luke told him angrily and then turned back to face Tony. Quickly Jack crept up to Luke and pulled out his gun. Just as Luke was about to turn back to face Jack he felt the metal pressing against his temple.
"Don't move" Jack told him. Luke just stared at Tony, "Drop it!" Jack yelled at him. Luke didn't do anything but instead kept constant eye contact with Tony. He looked at the clock and then back at Tony smiling.
"I said drop it!" Jack yelled at him. Suddenly Luke's phone went.
"You're too late," Luke laughed and dropped the gun.
"What do you mean?" Jack yelled as he picked up Luke's gun.
"Michelle!" Tony exclaimed and ran to the door.
"Tony wait!" Jack yelled. Tony turned to face Jack, "Jamie's got Michelle!" Tony yelled.
"Here!" Jack said and threw him Luke's gun. Tony caught it and ran off to the car park. Jack wanted to follow and help but he couldn't leave until he secured Luke. He found some cuffs in one of the cupboards and cuffed Luke to the chair so he couldn't get out. As Jack ran after Tony he called Chappelle and explained as much as he knew. Chappelle wanted more information but Jack hung up and chased after Tony.
Jamie didn't know what to do; she'd just suddenly started crying.
"Michelle," Jamie said, "What's wrong?"
"It's just I thought you were different I can't believe you'd hurt me," She sobbed and it worked just as she'd planned, she couldn't believe how easy it was. Jamie can closer to her and put his arms round her so the gun was no longer an immediate threat. It made her feel sick that he was touching her but she had to bare it. She put her arms on his shoulder, getting herself into position and then with all her strength she thrust her knee into his groin causing him to wail in pain and drop the gun. She made to get it but he kicked it under the car still trying to get over the pain. Michelle kicked him again and then quickly dropped to the floor. She knew she had to get the gun as it would give her the upper hand. After what seemed eventually she grabbed the gun and pulled herself out from under the car.
Jamie was still taking deep breaths and not moving much. She knew she needed to just go back and get help so she did what her brain had told her to do for so long and ran towards the entrance to the office. Only inches from the door she heard Jamie telling her to stop. She turned her head and saw he had another gun pointing at her.
"Michelle I really don't want to hurt you but unless you come back right now I'll have to," Jamie yelled. Michelle didn't know what to do; maybe she could make it to the door maybe he wouldn't shoot her but she knew she couldn't go anywhere with him. "Michelle!" He yelled. Still she didn't move, "I'm sorry," he said and with that she heard the shot but before she could do anything she felt it pierce her skin and a second later she could feel warm blood pouring down her. Instinctively she used her hand to cover the small hole causing her excruciating pain, more pain then she'd ever experienced before. As she looked at her hand she could see it was already a new bright shade of red. The blood seemed to keep pouring out of her and before she knew it she collapsed on the floor.
Tony ran down the corridor he couldn't believe how long it had taken to get through the corridor, it seemed that everyone had taken that time to go and get coffee. He could hear Jack was right behind him as he entered the car park. There was no one there, deserted but he still had hope that Michelle would be there. Jack came to a halt just behind Tony. Tony tried everything to remember what Jamie's car looked like but he couldn't. He scanned the lot but there were hundreds of cars, it would take forever to check them all and what if Jamie had already taken Michelle then he'd be wasting time.
"Tony," Jack called. Tony suddenly snapped out of his trance and looked at Jack; he was crouched down on the floor.
"What?" Tony asked as he came to stand over Jack and peered down to see what Jack had found, "Blood," Tony said, panic started coursing through his body. He looked forward and saw that the blood continued. Jack seemed to notice at the same time and stood up to follow it. They followed the trail until they reached the white line which outlined a parking space where it stopped except there was no car.
"He's hurt her," Tony said holding back his desire to punch something.
"We don't know that," Jack said trying to keep him calm.
"Of course we do why the hell would there be blood unless he hurt her. If she'd hurt him then she'd be here or she would have come back to get help! I swear when I find that some of a bitch I'll kill him!" Tony yelled.
"Tony clam down we just need to find out where he's taken her," Jack said and Tony nodded. A second later Tony ran back inside.
"Tony!" Jack called but Tony didn't stop so Jack ran after him. He was sure this wasn't exactly what his doctor had meant when he said take it easy. The most he was supposed to do was walk but Jack knew he could handle it. Tony saw Chappelle and ran towards him.
"Where is he?" Tony asked trying to catch his breath.
"First you tell me what the hell is going on. Jack calls me saying that Luke was going to kill you but he stopped him and tied him up in your office. Then he tells me Jamie is still alive and he has Michelle and that you've gone after him." Chappelle said angrily, he didn't like being kept out of the loop.
"Jamie killed Carrie because he likes Michelle he then got Luke to help him fake his own death so we didn't suspect him except Michelle figured it out. Luke held both of us hostage and told Michelle to go to Jamie otherwise he'd kill me, she did but she warned Jack on the way. Jack saved me and we went to find Michelle but he's taken her and there's a trail of blood, so she's injured. Now tell me where he is!" Tony yelled.
"Holding room 2," Chappelle told him and with that Tony was gone. Tony reached the door and was just about to enter when Jack and Chappelle caught up with him. Chappelle blocked the door.
"Ryan what the hell are you doing?" Tony yelled in outrage.
"You're involved, there is no way in hell I'm letting you in there," Chappelle told him and Jack could Tony was about to punch Chappelle so he stepped in between them.
"What if both Tony and I go in?" Jack asked Chappelle, "You know I'll break him quicker then anyone else,"
"Yeah but I worried if he'll still be alive after you're done," Chappelle said.
"Come on Ryan," Jack pleaded. Chappelle took a moment and didn't look happy.
"Fine but keep it professional!" Chappelle said as Tony and Jack entered.
They both stopped just inside the door and stared at Luke who was chained to a chair.
"I guess she's gone then, there's no way you'll find them," Luke laughed. For a moment Tony just stood staring at him but then he couldn't stop himself. He charged at Luke and punched him as hard as possible over and over again yelling at him until Jack finally managed to pull him off. He pushed Tony back against the wall until he stopped struggling.
"Tell me where she is you son of a bitch!" Tony yelled again at him.
"Tony calm down!" Jack told him. Jack looked at Luke just in time to see him spit a mouthful of blood on the ground. His face was bloody and Jack was sure he'd have a broken nose. Tony just stood against the wall, if he was alone with Luke he'd just beat it out of him but Jack wasn't going to let that happen. Jack walked over to Luke and knelt down beside him.
"Luke we don't have much time and I will do anything to get this information from you so your best option is to tell me where Jamie's taking Michelle now. If you don't then things will get very painful very quickly. Do you understand?" Jack asked and Luke nodded.
"Do you really think I'm gonna tell you?" Luke said.
"Luke you have no fucking field training, you're just a computer tech do you really think you can handle what we'll do to you?" Tony yelled. Luke didn't say anything.
"Luke I know people like you, you think you can take anything but you'll break very easily compared to me, Tony, even Michelle would take longer to break then you so I'll give you one more chance to tell me where she is," Jack told him but Luke just shook his head.
"Fine but just remember I don't have much time so I can't start off with the drugs because they'll take to long and I can't shock you because I need you to stay conscious and it'll take time to get set up so really the quickest way to do this will be to use what we have here," Jack told him.
"I don't care," Luke said trying to act tough but Jack and Tony could both see right through it.
"Tony," Jack said as he stood up.
"Yeah," Tony said.
"You got your gun?" Jack asked.
"I've got his," Tony said pulling out the gun and holding it out to Jack.
"Shoot him," Jack said calmly moving backwards out of the way.
"What?" Both Tony and Luke echoed together.
"Shoot him," Jack said, "In the leg,"
"What you've gotta be kidding you can't do this!" Luke screamed.
"Just watch me," Jack said as Tony raised his gun, took aim and pulled the trigger. He knew he'd hit his target as he heard Luke scream in pain. Luke winced which made more blood drop from his face. Jack walked back to Luke.
"Nice shot," Jack told Tony as he examined his handy work. Tony still had his finger resting on the trigger, he was so tempted to pull it again but he knew he needed Luke to tell them where Michelle was first. Again Jack knelt down by Luke who was still screaming in pain.
"Tell me where she is," Jack said calmly, he could see Luke wouldn't last much longer but Luke wouldn't say anything. Tony moved over and squeezed Luke's leg where the wound was.
"Tell me where she is!" Tony yelled but all Luke did was scream in pain again. Tony squeezed it harder causing blood to spill out of it. After a minute Jack pushed Tony's hand away to stop him.
"Call Chappelle tell him to put one of the kits in your car," Jack told Tony.
"Why?" Tony asked.
"We need to be ready," Jack told him. After a second Tony got up and did as Jack said. Sure he could probably break Luke himself but Jack was a field agent and even though he'd been a marine and had substantial time in the field himself Jack was the best at his job so he would do as he said.
"Luke this is only going to get worse but you can stop it all you've got to tell me is where Michelle is," Jack told him.
"I'm not telling you anything," Luke told him. Tony watched while talking to Chappelle on his phone. He saw Jack grab Luke's hand and start breaking his fingers one by one. Again Luke screamed in pain.
"What the hell's going on?" Chappelle yelled.
"Don't worry just put the kit in my car the keys are on my desk, leave the keys in the car and we'll be out soon," Tony told him and hung up. Jack looked at Luke he'd broken 4 of his fingers and he knew he was so close to breaking him but this just wasn't working, it was taking to long.
"Tony," Jack called.
"Yeah," Tony said.
"Shoot him again…in the other leg," Jack told him as he moved out the way.
"NO! No you can't do this!" Luke protested.
"Tell me where she is and I won't," Jack told him but Luke just shook his head. Again Tony raised his gun and took aim, he lingered a minute which Luke noticed; he couldn't stand the pain any more.
"Fine, I'll tell you, I'll tell you where she is," Luke said. Tony dropped his gun to his side and sighed in relief.
"Where?" Tony asked.
"He's taking her to 225 Elm grove drive," Luke said. Jack quickly wrote it down.
"What's there?" Tony asked.
"It was his parent's house before they died," Luke told him.
"Tony come on," Jack said and with that they both ran out towards the car park.
Meanwhile Michelle suddenly felt the car stop; she found it hard to open her eyes and knew she'd passed out. She looked down at her wound and knew it wasn't good, she'd lost a lot of blood, she couldn't believe how much. The seat and her clothes both contained her dry blood. She looked around and saw Jamie had pulled to the side of a road. She turned to the door but it was locked even if it wasn't she wouldn't get very far; she felt weak and knew she'd pass out again soon. Jamie was searching the backseat of his car for something. He pulled back a medical box and opened it up; he pulled out some bandages and pads. He then put the pads on her wound and she couldn't help but scream. The bullet had passed through her arm and she'd lost a lot of blood. She was sure it must have hit an artery. Jamie pushed the pads against her arm and then wrapped the bandage around it as tight as possible. He put the box back when he finished.
"Don't worry we'll be there soon, you can get cleaned up then," Jamie told her.
10 minutes later he parked the car and got out. He opened the door for her and led her inside. Inside the building he called the lift and pushed her inside then he pressed the 4 button. Michelle couldn't keep her eyes open but from what she did see she was sure she recognised the place where she was. Once the lift stopped he led her out and to an apartment door. There were two plants by the door. He bent down to the smaller on and lifted it up to unveil a small silver key. He picked it up and unlocked the door. Michelle entered first and as soon as they were both inside he locked the door. She looked around, she was becoming more conscious and she recognised the pile of plates in the sink, the books and magazines scattered around the living room and the unopened mail on the table. This was her apartment why the hell had he brought he here?