Missing

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A/N: Now not every chapter's going to be exciting XD, it's all a part of a story though. College semester's starting up, and everyone's heading back to classes. Here's your honorary chapter, do enjoy! haha.

Chapter 20 (Plans Asunder)

"You've not gone in to work for the last few days." Andre's gaze slanted on Gary and his nostrils flared. Cat was to his right and Robbie to his left. Gary and Holly were across the table. "And your car. Where is it?"

Gary lowered his spoon to his sou. "The shop." He shut his eyes and felt Cat's hand on his knee. "And I'm off work for a little while, Holly needs me to focus on some stuff." His mouth tightened and anger rushed through him. "Why so curious Andre?"

"No reason. Just noticed you were in the house a lot more lately." He was getting anxious, and now he had absolutely no idea what to do. The police were supposed to follow Gary home from work, that was the whole point of the `photograph. At this rate, he was going to have to take matters into his own hands.

Robbie stood from the table and took his empty plate to the sink. "Andre? Can I talk to you in the other room?" Andre's response was a grunt, so Robbie repeated himself more firmly. Sensing the urgency, Andre got up and followed him out.

"What's the problem, Shapiro?" He was having difficulty focusing on anything other than what happened the other night with Jesse. Part of him thought he could have at least let it be known that he was helping, because he knew it would get back to Tori, and Tori was going to be devastated. The two of them had been closer than anyone else in that group was with her.

"Things are getting worse. Way worse." Robbie was sweating and looking in the direction of the kitchen. His voice was hushed and he was wringing his hands. "I've been sitting on this, but I have to bring it up."

"Nothing ever seems to." He rolled his head to the right and rubbed his neck where a painful sensation was bothering him. "I expect things are going to get worse since Holly went in for questioning. The woman seems like she's been pissed ever since she got back."

"Yeah. Would you like to know why?"

"I know why. Tori suspects her. Learned a couple other things too…Tori knows damn well you were the one that took her sister." Robbie's eyes widened and he quickly shook his head.

"Not important right now!" Andre crossed his arms and leaned his head back to peer down his nose at the man.

"I really don't want to talk to you, man."

"Come on, hear me out." He turned his back to Robbie and started for the other room, stopping to listen to Robbie. "You took Trina out for the day, I had to go with Holly. Would you like to hear what Holly was doing? Because she doesn't want you knowing yet, and I'm trying to throw you a goddamn bone here. So for once, forget about our fucking feud and listen to me, asshole!"

"I'll bite." Robbie motioned for him to follow and guided him up to his own room. "Why are we in my room?" The man struck the television and shifted to the news channel.

He took a slow step forward and studied the headlines. There'd been recent prison escapes from prisons all over Los Angeles and down to parts of Mexico. Pain spread over Andre's chest as he tried to figure out what all this meant, but clearly much of the escapees came were on the same day, and that was last Saturday.

"What the fuck is this, Robbie?" If Holly was behind these criminals still at large, what was the plan? It looked as though she were trying to amass an army of convicts. "Is she helping prisoners to escape? Is that what she's doing, Robert?" His fingers trembled and a bead of sweat ran along the side of his face.

"She's getting help, but not all of them are from prisons. She contacted known former criminals from our past, and even members of some old broken gang wanting to hit their old leader. She knows Tori and the others are coming, and she wants to fight. When they get here…they're going to be overpowered."

"Shit!" He grabbed Robbie by the shirt collar and slammed the man up against the wall. Robbie cried out in pain as Andre flexed his muscles and leaned in close. "I want a list of names and I want them now. I want to know who the fuck is on Holly's payroll and how many people there are, and I want to know this minute."

Robbie squirmed and brought his hands up to Andre's wrist. He coughed and turned his head away. "Okay, okay man, just relax!"

"Don't fucking tell me to relax. How many are there? How many?"

"Not that many, just enough to overwhelm a small group of police officers. Holly knows that if they find out where she's at, they're going to arrest her and raid the mansion."

"Tori will tear this place apart to find her sister, Robbie. Of course the bitch in the other room knows that."

"Yeah, try to think just how far Holly will go to keep Trina imprisoned." He didn't have to think, he already knew. It was difficult to swallow because the way Holly spoke of Tori had always been that of a motherly love. "Tori's the one person Holly genuinely cares about in this world, but she's crazy and psychotic. She'll end up killing that one person if it means getting away with her own crime."

"I don't believe this."

"I know." Tears poured down Robbie's face, so Andre released the man and let him fall back onto the bed. "You weren't there. You didn't see or hear the things she said-the things she did."

His rage was flaring out of control, and to the point it was taking all his energy just to stop from taking out his anger on Robbie. "Just tell me what I need to know."

"What good will it do man? We're never getting out of here!"

"Enough of that." He raised his voice and threw his fist into Robbie's jaw. Robbie fell back and clutched his face, then looked up with wide eyes. "I will find a way. Those girls will get out of here."

"You can't do anything, Andre. They'll kill your family, they'll kill everyone."

"My family is already dead." Robbie cupped his hand over his mouth and Andre turned partially to him, growling dangerously. "I'm already dead."

"Your family-they're dead?"

"I made Gary drive me out to the cemetery. My grandma, my mother, my sister…all of them are buried there. Of course you remember my father and brothers are long gone. You think I'm afraid of Holly or Gary right now?" He had to protect Trina more now, but what he really wanted were those names and any possible location. "Surely Holly made a list of names."

"Y-Yeah, she was going to contact them when the time is right."

"How?"

"Most have phones, she was going to send a mass text. The ones that don't have phones are staying with someone that does." Robbie sat up, still rubbing his jaw. "She put the list in her computer desk. It's in the computer room."

"Okay. Good." Of course Robbie wasn't expected to know every name, so this list was crucial to find. "If anything, I can cut this list in half."

"What? What are you going to do?"

"I'm thinking, nitwit." He paced the floor hurriedly and scratched his chin. If Holly wanted a war, he could ensure that. He had to steal that list and make a copy of it, then he needed to find a way to alert the police-to alert Tori. Yet if Holly figured it out, which she most likely would if he wasn't careful, it could put Trina or Cat at risk.

Perhaps he could do something else with that list. Holly likely had the hideouts down, he could take matters into his own hands if need be. It was a risky move, but something had to give.

"I'll keep them from this place. If I have to kill them, I will."

"Murder is beneath you."

He stopped pacing and rolled his eyes. "Nothing is beneath me, Robbie." Not when it could be the very thing he had to do to protect those girls. "It's not something I want to do, but if it keeps Trina and Cat from harm, then I'll do whatever it takes to ensure their safety."

"Why not just kill the people holding us all captive? You know, take it from the source."

"Because. I want them to face justice. The world needs to know what those motherfuckers have done." Andre turned his eyes to the doorway and his vehement growls increased. "They need to be ridiculed, they need to be tortured. They need to feel what that woman in the basement has felt for nine years. Killing them would be easy…too easy."

"And what do you propose we do in the meantime?"

"So far Holly's done nothing to Trina." Trina was fiery, most times Holly struck her was because the girl would mouth off at her. For now, Andre convinced Trina to at least remain reserved. "I'll watch that bitch, make sure she doesn't get pissed and take it out on Trina. If and when she does…I'll be there."

"But-"

"Like I said. My family's dead. Holly has nothing on me. I'm useful to them too because I'm the muscle."

"How useful, Andre? Now that they've got like fifty people or whatever, they can replace-" He spun around and grabbed Andre by the throat, flaring his nostrils and glaring into the man's eyes. His voice lashed out as a fire rose up inside.

"Fifty?"

Robbie threw his hands up to Andre's wrist, gagging as his grip tightened. "T-That may be a bit much. I think the number is less than that, closer to twenty or thirty."

"You were exaggerating then?"

"Can't breathe."

"Here's what you're going to do for me, Robbie." His face darkened and his lips slid into a cold smirk. Robbie started to whimper and squirm. "You're going to break into that computer room tonight after everyone's gone to bed, you're going to find that list, and you're going to make a copy of it." He watched the tears in Robbie's eyes and loosened his grip momentarily. "Then you're returning the list and bringing me the copy of that list."

"O-Okay."

"Bring two copies! I'm using one for my own personal reference while the other I'll think of a way to get to the police." He cracked his neck and released Robbie onto the bed. "Now don't utter a word of this to anyone, got it? You do, I'll break your neck."

"No you wouldn't." Robbie rubbed his throat and Andre raised an eyebrow. "I know you wouldn't, come on man. You're just frustrated and angry, but you wouldn't sink to that level."

"Wouldn't I, Robbie? It's been nine years, and I want out of this hellhole as much as anyone else. What do you think I would do to achieve my goals?"

"I don't care what you say, I know you. I'm the one going crazy in this mess, not you. I won't squeal, though. I know why you're making me do this, and fine, but you know if I'm caught that you'll have to do it yourself."

"Obviously." He turned and stormed off. Robbie was right, he wouldn't go so far, not unless he was angry enough and the man did something to warrant it. He paused and turned to look over his shoulder. "By the way, get the hell out of my room."

So Holly's been hiring a bunch of former and escaped criminals to help should the police find her. That probably wouldn't end too well.