AN: I know I said that I might be able to update sooner because of the holiday but it looks like its a pretty jam packed one. :( As well, stress and depression are building up on me, there might not be an update on Friday or Saturday next week so sorry. But lifes busy, life takes control so we'll see. An way, this chapter is written pretty craply (it's now a word) because it is currently 4 am and I'm not even tired (that doesn't make sense.) But please enjoy this chapter and I'd love to hear what you think so please review this chapter and tell me what you think, even if you didn't like it, tell me what it is you don't like or how I could make my next chapter batter. :D

Chapter 14: Going into a jungle.

29th January 2012.

Patrick had eventually gotten them both out of the van and had them in handcuffs, cuffed to each other as they walked at a fast pace in front of him. They were walking through a forest that was way over grown and needed to be cut down to a decent size. It was dark and neither of the women could see where they were going very well and tripped over, together, every 5 minutes or so.

Emily had figured out that it had gone past midnight by now and they had been walking for over an hour. She held her head high to not show Patrick any fear but really, she wanted to scream. They kept stumbling and grunting as they hit the floor and all Patrick did was laugh at them when they did so and waited for them to get up for themselves.

Both of them were shivering from the cold finally getting to them and were wobbly on their feet. Since Emily only really had a t-shirt on and bare feet, she was almost collapsing under herself.

"Hey, can't you blooming see how cold Emily is? All you've given her is a shirt and you expect her to walk for hours in the freezing cold. I know that she hasn't said anything, but I'm pretty sure she's beginning to get frost bite!" Ruby was tempted to scream as they stopped in their tracks and to back up her point, Emily's knees almost gave in under her weight so she was crouching slightly.

"Well then, I guess we have no choice. I guess I'll have to carry you." Patrick told them looking amused approaching Emily slowly as she tried to back away.

"No, I'm fin-" Emily started to say as he grabbed her by her waist. "Noooo, get your slimy hands off of me!" She shrieked out of his touch breathless and quivering.

"She's fine, let's move on." He told Ruby with a glare.

"OMG, please let him carry you Emily, I don't want you to die out here!" Ruby told her, grabbing her wrists tightly, looking into her eyes.

"For fucks sake . . . Fine." She told him with a grunt and a huff. Quickly glaring at him.

"I guess I'll have to undo your cuffs, but Ruby, if you try to make a run for it . . . Emily's not going to be around anymore." He explained, getting out the key from his back pocket and unlocking the two women.

Grabbing Emily for the second time, he lifted her with a heave. One arm under her knees and the other under her back. She shivered quickly but leant back into him only because he was so much warmer than the cold winter air.

"Ha! You were right, she's freezing, better get a move on then." He told Ruby with a chuckle.

As they carried on walking through the forest, Emily felt herself to begin to fall asleep and realised it must have been from her concussion from the day before. But Emily wouldn't let herself because she was scared of him. She wouldn't show it, or say it, but it was there. She wasn't completely terrified of him and would still put up a fight, but fear remained there.

She was worried that he was going to abuse her more than he already had done and shook with fear if she thought of the idea of him doing it again.

"Where the hell are you taking us anyway, we're in a bloody 'jungle.' How do you even know where you're going?" Emily asked Patrick, keeping her eyes forward into the night.

"Well my lovely." He started as he placed a kiss on her head which made her whimper. "This place is somewhere very special to me and it's the perfect place for getting away from your colleagues. You'll see when we get there. It's not that far away actually. And to your other question, I thought that you, a profiler would notice an engraved symbol on every second tree we have passed." He told her with a smirk pointing with his hand to the next tree they passed. The symbol looked like a heart with the initials P+O on the inside of it when Emily squinted her eyes. Shaking her head, she realised that it must have meant Patrick and his deceased wife.

Walking for another 10 minutes or so, Ruby's feet ached like mad.

"Almost there ladies, isn't this exciting? . . Look, you can just about make it out." He told them, frowning a bit as he saw the outline of a building in mid view. "Welcome to my home. Time to get up Emily, in a minute, I need to go and fetch the boys." Shaking her a little, he placed her wobbly on the ground and her head spun.

Patrick went up to the door with Emily and Ruby following behind and grabbed a key from his pocket. Unlocking the stiff door, he walked inside and straight to the left where what looked like a kitchen in the cottage. Opening a door to one of the cupboards, he grabbed a dusty match box and blew on the top.

A few moments later, he struck a match and it lit up a small amount of the room. He walked over to a candle on the wall and lit it with a small smile. He did the same with a few other candles on the walls and lit up the rest of the kitchen and the living room.

"Come on in then, take a look around." He told them dully. Emily and Ruby looked at each other and nodded. Emily walked in first slowly taking in the new surroundings. Patrick came up behind them once they were both in and locked the door again making them jump.

He went all around the rest of the house and lit all of the candles in the dusty house as Emily and Ruby stood in silence. He came back down the stairs humming to himself but with a bored expression on his face.

"Look ladies, I need to go and get the boys, so if either of you try to leave, then they are dead basically." Trying to explain to them as he unlocked and stepped out of the door. Locking it again once he had left.

"W-what do we do now?" Ruby asked Emily wearily, looking up to the older woman.

"We wait. I mean, we can't exactly make a run for it. I'm 99% sure that he won't touch the boys even if we aren't here when he gets back, but I can't leave them alone with him. Who knows what he'll do to them if he doesn't have me to play with anymore. But I also can't leave them. Even if I can't save myself, I promised those boys that I would protect them from Patrick and I'll also protect you from him as well. . . Actually, that gives me an idea. But first, let's have a look around and see where exactly he can keep us. I'm sure a little cottage like this doesn't have anything to put us in but a bedroom which would be easy to get out of. I don't expect that there will be a dungeon or basement that he could keep us in. He's going to be pretty beat when he gets Jack and Henry down here because they'll probably fall asleep and he'll have to carry them. So, he might just go straight to sleep when he gets here. That's when we would make our escape, follow the tree trail and actually, we need to find out where he puts his van keys. . ." Emily tries to explain to Ruby who only looked confused but agreed to what she was saying.

They looked all around the ground floor, in drawers, cupboards and everywhere else ad found some more matches, a torch with batteries, a few spare candles and a sharp knife that had a cap on so Ruby stuffed them in her coat pockets which luckily zipped up.

Also, to their relief, they luckily didn't find a basement door wherever they looked. Then, they moved onto the first floor and had a look around the 2 bedrooms and bathroom. Again, they looked everywhere, through drawers, cupboards and everywhere else. This time, Ruby stashed some paracetamol tablets in her pocket and indigestion tablets. Before she did that thought, Emily quickly swallowed two paracetamol tables without water because she didn't trust it to be clean.

Thankfully, the cottage didn't have an attic so they carried on back downstairs and searched the kitchen cupboards for food that was still in date. They reckoned that Patrick had been gone for just about over an hour so estimated that they still had about an hour left before he got to the cottage with the boys. That is if they came quietly.

Both of them carried on talking to each other to try and cover up the silence that was around them. Surprisingly, they had found quite a bit of food that was still in date so came to the conclusion that Patrick had recently visited the cottage. They decided to open a tin of baked beans, partly because it was one of the only things that they didn't have to cook and there were about 5 other tins in the cupboard.

To save time, they used a can opener and rinsed it out before grabbing two spoons and settling softly down on the sofa in the living room. They started to eat the baked beans rapidly because of the lack of food in their stomachs. In no more than 10 minutes, they had finished the tin and craved more but daren't open another tin because if Patrick found out, he'd probably make them spit them back up. They rinsed the spoons under the tap, tried them and placed them back into the drawer with the rest. Throwing the can in the bin, they went back to the sofa and snuggled together to keep warm.

To their surprise, Patrick had brought back Jack and Henry in the past 40 minutes so welcomed the two boys with open arms. They were both really sleepy and told Emily and Ruby how he carried them all the way there quickly as they had a short nap.

"Well then, you girls probably already know this, but there are two bedrooms upstairs and you four will have to share one and share that bed. Obviously, you'll have to share the guest room which will have a lock on it. So, if you would like to make your way up the stairs. . ." He told them and they slowly moved to the stairs and Emily carried Henry up them as he was falling asleep on her shoulder.

They made it to the top and Patrick squeezed past them and opened the guest room door for them to go in. Ruby went in first, followed by Ruby and finally Emily and Henry. Patrick held up a padlock and a key and walked into the room with them. "Emily, once you have put the children to bed, come and join me in my bedroom." He said with a purr as he leaned against the door frame.

"I would rather stay here thank you."

"It wasn't a question, it was an order. Put this into place as you leave and lock it then bring the key to me. See you soon."

A shiver was sent through Emily's spine as she placed Henry down on the double bed.

"Emily, you can't go to him, he'll rape you. Please stay here, I'm scared." Ruby told her whilst shaking. Emily shushed her and pushed her lightly into bed with the two boys. Ruby was on the far right by the window with Henry in the middle and Jack on the other side by the door. The boyd woke up a bit after hearing Ruby say those words.

"Look Ruby, I've told you this before. Don't worry about me, worry about yourself. And by the way, do you really think I'm going to lock the door probably? After around 10 minutes, no matter what you ear coming from that door, I want you to get the boys out of here. There's got to be a key from the front door somewhere downstairs so look for it and run. I'm trusting you. Also, he left his van keys on the kitchen table downstairs so check all around there. I mean, have you had any driving lessons?" She asked as Ruby quickly nodded her head. "Good, see if you can drive that van as far as you can away from here to get help. Okay?" Emily asked the shaking teen.

"O-okay."

"Alright, boys, trust Ruby she's going to try and get you three out of here but that's only going to happen if you both do as he say and be as quiet as mouse's are. See you."

Emily left the room hurriedly so that the children didn't see the tear that escaped her eye. She placed the padlock on and locked it and then slowly unlocked it again so that even she couldn't hear it and gave out a sigh of relief as she made her way to Patrick's bedroom.