* Please Review! VeritasKym: Marco moving in without asking, just making himself at home, just seemed like something he would do. He is used to getting whatever he wants. I didn't think he'd know what a Velvet was because I think the women would have made up the title and He wouldn't pay attention to what they said.

Leon held up a note as he stared at Marco's dark face. Marco's eyes flicked to the note then back to Leon's face. Everyone in the room was tense. The other Vipers were waiting, watching, knowing they would react how Marco reacted. If he let Leon go, they wouldn't touch him until Marco gave the word. If he attacked Leon, they would jump in. That was how it was. Marco set the tone and actions for everyone else.

" What does it say?" Marco snapped.

" Read it." Leon said. Marco narrowed his eyes and didn't move. " Have your guys check me for weapons, I'm clean. But make up your mind because I don't think we have much time." Marco snatched up the note and stepped away from Leon.

' Leon,

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry about everything. I'm sorry I can't be like you. Tell Bets I'm sorry for scaring her and hurting her. I can't stay here. I'm going after Elizabeth. I know Marco won't leave her alone so I went after Philly. He'll be busy with his cousin so I'm going to take her. I know deep down inside her she wants to be with me. She wants a good guy, not Marco. She can't see what he is really like. She can't understand that he isn't the guy he used to be but I'm going to help her to understand. I'm going to show her what he is really like. I'm going to show her that everything he touches he turns into trash then her and I are going to build a life together.

I love you, Leon.

Bobby'

Marco crumpled the note up in his fist but didn't speak. He stared at his fist with his heart slamming. He was breathing slow and deep. The tension in the room was tight. All eyes were glued on Marco. Everyone was waiting for him to move or say...something. Even Leon was tense and waiting. Marco's jaw was working back and forth as his mind raced.

" Where would he take her?" Marco asked quietly. " Where would he take my Elizabeth?"

" To the junk yard, by the dock." Leon said. Marco looked up at him in surprise. " Bobby loves the junk yard. He knows it like the back of his hand. He goes there every week to find car parts for the cars he rebuilds."

" Why would he take her there?" Marco asked.

" Because it's huge and he can hide. He could hide them there for days or he could steal a boat and take off with her." Leon said. Marco turned to his guys.

" Get everything you can carry. We're rolling out in three minutes." He said.

" I don't want him dead." Leon said, pulling Marco's eyes to his face again.

" He choked my woman to the point where she passed out and could have died. According to his own note, he did something to Betsey to hurt her. He has kidnapped Elizabeth and you think I'm going to just let him walk away from this?" Marco snapped.

" He's my brother." Leon said quietly.

" And he's dangerous. He KILLED Debbie and everyone knows it. He's unhinged, Leon, and it's about time you realize it. He choked Elizabeth in the same way he did Debbie." Marco said.

" I just can't let you kill him." Leon said. Marco looked away, shook his head and laughed. He brought his right hand to his chin and started to stroke his goatee.

" He just can't let me kill him." He laughed. The other Vipers laughed nervously, just following after their boss. " I'll make you a deal, Leon." Marco started as he faced Leon fully. " We find her, and she's alive and unhurt, Bobby lives. Elizabeth and I were planning on leaving town, so we'll just leave sooner but...if she's got one extra bruise on her, if she's hurt in anyway, he's mine. You get two minutes to tell him you love him then he's mine to do whatever I want with. If she's dead," Marco paused to shake his head slowly. " He's get a bullet to his brain without a word spoken to him."

" He won't kill her." Leon said. Marco laughed again.

" Yeah, I'm sure that's what Debbie thought too." He turned back to his Vipers and started barking out orders.

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Elizabeth's wrists were bound together by duct tape and there was duct tape across her mouth. Silent tears were streaking down her face as Bobby led her through the darken passages of the junkyard. He had a tight grip on her wrists and was pulling her hard. When Elizabeth stumbled, Bobby would yank her up.

" Be careful." Bobby grumbled. She muttered something that he couldn't understand, not that he cared what she had to say. Bobby moved to her side and put his arm around her. " Don't worry, Elizabeth. Everything is going to be fine now, you'll see. We are going far away from here. We're going where the Deuces and the Vipers can't bother us anymore. It's going to be great." He said into her hair. Elizabeth muttered again, making Bobby stop. He turned and looked at her. He gave her a small smile as he brought his hands to her face. " Don't be upset, okay? What happen before, it won't happen again, I promise. I know you don't love me but you will. You have to just trust me, alright? Once we are away from Marco you will see." He bent down to brush his lips against her cheek.

" Bobby!" Leon's voice rang out, making Bobby stand up straight.

" Shit." He whispered in a panic. " It's okay, Elizabeth. We just need to speed up." He took a hold of her arm and started pulling her deeper into the junk yard.

" Bobby! Come on!" Leon yelled. Elizabeth wrenched away from Bobby and started screaming.

" Shut up!" Bobby yelled as she fell into a shelve of mufflers. They crashed onto the ground, only missing her because Bobby yanked her again. " Look what you did!" He yelled. " We have to run now!"

Bobby hauled her over his shoulder and started running. Elizabeth started kicking while she screamed the best she could. Bobby was weaving through the junkyard, taking so many twists and turns that Elizabeth wasn't sure Leon would be able to find them. Her screams were echoing and going in different directions. Bobby was yelling at her to shut up but Elizabeth knew better. If she was quiet, she was a good as dead.

Marco had to give it to his guys. They were quiet as they ran. He wasn't even sure where they all fanned out too. He, himself, was sprinting through the junk yard with a gun in one hand and a knife in the other. He didn't want to shot at Bobby because chances were, he'd have Elizabeth close to or in front of him. Marco won't risk hitting her. Besides, a big part of him wanted the satisfaction of feeling his knife slice into the guy's body.

The back part of the junk yard opened to the docks. When the junk yard had too much stuff, the owner would sell off what he didn't want and have it hauled away by either trucks or the junk boats. As soon as Bobby hit the docks, he yanked a gun out of his waist band and slowed his pace. He aimed it at a guy standing by a small boat.

" Get away from it!" Bobby yelled.

" Don't hurt me, man!" The guy said quickly.

" Get away from the boat!" Bobby yelled. The guy put his hands up and started inching to the side.

" No problem." He said.

" Bobby, stop!" Leon yelled as he bust out of the junk yard. Bobby whirled around with his gun pointed. The man took off running. Bobby dropped Elizabeth down and pulled her against his chest. He put the gun to the side of her head.

" Go away, Leon!" He yelled. Leon slowed down but didn't stop moving.

" You don't have to do this, Bobby." He said.

" Yes, I do, don't you see why? I have to take her away from Marco. He is just going to hurt her." Bobby said.

" That's rich." Marco said as he stepped out from the shadows. " You say I'm going to hurt her but you have choked her out, kidnapped her and now have a gun to her head. I haven't done anything like that." Unlike Leon's slow and steady steps, Marco was walking casually. He looked completely relaxed and in control. Bobby put one arm around her waist as he tugged her into him more.

" You can't have her!" He yelled as he started back up again.

" I think that should be up to her." Marco said. One by one his Vipers were coming out of the junk yard. Bobby's eyes widen as he took everyone in. " Give her to me and you can walk away from this." Bobby's laugh was bitter.

" You think I really believe that? How dumb do you think I am? You're going to kill me for taking her."

" No, Bobby, he isn't. Marco and I made a deal." Leon said as he and Marco stepped out onto the dock.

" You made a deal with him? That's funny. You know you can't trust him!" Bobby yelled as he backed up onto the boat.

" Can't trust me? You're the one who killed one of your girlfriends. You set me up and had me arrested and made up all that shit about Elizabeth." Marco said.

" I had to do all that! Can't you see that!" Bobby yelled.

" Why?" Leon asked gently.

" Marco has everything! I have nothing! I'm just your little brother and that's all I will ever be! I want more though! I want what he has! Why should he get all the friends and the women? Everyone just looks at me like I'm still a kid and I'm sick of it! Even you treat me like I'm a kid! You and him own this town but I have had enough!" Bobby was still yelling.

" So you're jealous of me?" Marco asked.

" No! Yes! I don't know!" Bobby confessed. " I want people to be scared of me like they are you! I want women to want me too! I want them to hang all over me like they did you! I want to control people!"

" It will never happen and you know why?" Marco started. " You're pathetic and everyone knows it. Women don't want a pathetic kid. They want a man, a real man and you will never be a real man."

" Shut up!" Bobby yelled.

" It's true." Marco said as he shrugged. He meant to piss Bobby off. " They want a man who can make them go wild in bed and protect them on the street. Have you even see a woman naked? I'm talking about a real woman, not a picture of one." If he pissed Bobby off enough, the guy would let go of Elizabeth and charge Marco.

" Marco!" Leon warned. Marco grinned as he continued forward.

" You haven't. I'm sure of it. I have never seen you with a woman before. You're always tagging along Leon and Betsey and that's all you're going to be. A tag along. No woman is going to wet your dick when you're just a tag along."

His plan worked. Bobby screamed and pushed Elizabeth away. But instead of pushing her to the dock of the boat, he pushed her overboard then launched himself towards Marco. Marco yelled and started running as he fired his gun. Leon yelled for Marco and his brother. The Vipers started running. Bobby was rocked by Marco's gun shots. He fell flat back on the boat, staring straight into the sky without seeing anything. Marco jumped onto the boat and over the edge, plunging himself into the dark water.

Elizabeth didn't know how to swim. She had never learned. When they went to the lake as kids, she never went in pass her ankles save for a few times Marco put her on his back and swam around. He tried to teach her how to swim. He had made her jump in with him a few times but she never got the hang of it, As a teen and adult, she never took lessons she had told him. Now she was under the water, in the dark, with her wrists taped together and tape over her mouth.