Trigger Warning: Non-Con (I swear, it's the last one!) and injuries from that.
Eddward grabs Kevin, jarring him awake "What on Earth is that ungodly noise?!"
Kevin was up in a shot and throwing on some clothes. "Like I know... c'mon!"
When they enter the room, Edwin and his men are standing in the middle of it. "Curious that you and your wife don't share a bed, yet she does with this maid..." he says pulling a beaten looking Marie up by her hair.
"That's really none of your business, now is it? Get out of my house!"
"No, I don't think so. I came to get what is mine" he says eyeing Eddward hungrily.
"No, fuck you, you little worm! You're not touching Eddward again!"
"That's a shame, a real shame…" Edwin says sounding hurt before tossing Marie over to his men who had Natalie. "Kill them" he orders.
"NO!" Eddward yells making them stop in mid swing of their knives. "What do you really want, Edwin? You wouldn't just come here for me."
"Ah, my little kitten has grown some claws… Don't worry, we'll fix that soon enough Edwin smirks "But you are right, I'm not just here for you. I want control of my uncle's company as well."
"So you're bribing me with the life of my wife for my father's company? Your father owned his own company that he is steadily driving into the ground! Why don't you go help him with that?!"
"He is on his deathbed, he came down with a sickness and it appears the doctors can't cure him... I'm sure that is just wonderful news for you" he says glaring "But no, I am bribing you with the life of your wife, her maid, and your child" he smirks grabbing Natalie's night dress and lifting it up revealing her round belly.
"You're a ripe piece of shit... I can't just GIVE you my father's business! If you had paid attention in your studies, you would know that there are documents and things to accomplish! Not to mention, the business is merged with her family's AND neither of the businesses are ours yet!"
"Oh. That's fine... we can wait, can't we boys?" he asks chuckling nastily, his henchmen making their way out taking the women with them. "Don't worry, we'll see ourselves out."
"No!" Kevin raced forward and grabbed one of the men that had a grip on Marie. The guy punches him, knocking him down. Before Eddward could move, Edwin had grabbed him and held a knife to his neck causing him to freeze. "Stupid boy, you left your real lover open for attack."
"Let them all go, Edwin. I've never done anything to you and neither has my family. If you want to fight, then fight me, but leave my family out of it!"
"Fuck you and your pathetic little family, you know what I want!" Edwin hisses pressing his knife to Eddward's throat, making him whimper in pain as a bead of blood drips down his neck
"No! Stop it!" he lunged at Edwin but two guys grabbed him before he could reach him. One grabbed him and the other started to punch and kick him in the torso and sides. They dropped Kevin to the floor with a solid thud and he laid there groaning in pain. All the air had left his lungs and he was having a hard time bringing air back in.
Eddward struggles against Edwin making his grip tighten "Kevin no!"
"Give him something to remember our little talk, just try not to kill him" Edwin commanded, smirking. One of the thugs grinned and pulled a knife out, sinking it deep into Kevin's stomach. Kevin cried out in pain as he laid on the floor, a pool of blood collecting under him. "Geeze, I told you to TRY to not kill him..." Edwin chuckled.
Eddward snaps and shoves his elbow deep into Edwin's stomach, making him drop the knife as the raven butler rushes forward. He ripped off his shirt and pressing it to the wound, trying to stop the bleeding. "Kevin, baby, hold on it's going to be ok..." he says trying to stay strong and not outright sob, vaguely registering Natalie's cries.
Kevin's bottom lip starts to tremble. "Take it out, take it out!" he pleaded.
"You're so pathetic... Get up, Eddward!" Edwin grabbed him by his hair and pulling him up to stand. "Move your ass! I almost can't stand to look at you! Move it!" he pushed Eddward to a guard and he grabbed the butler, holding his arms behind him.
"Nooo! Let me go, let me go!" He screams trying to get away "KEVIN!"
Kevin hears a slap and Eddward's cries cease. "Shut the hell up! God, you're so fucking annoying, you just wait until we get back to the mansion."
Kevin could do nothing but watch them push Natalie and Eddward out of the door. He tried to stop them but he wasn't fast enough. "No... no, please...!" And the door slammed close. Kevin laid on the floor, still bleeding and tears flowing onto the floor. Suddenly he heard a moan, he looked back around and sighed when he saw Marie's limp form still breathing. "M-Marie... Marie...!" he called out.
Marie looks over "Kev-in...?" she groans ou,t still dazed and in immense pain "Wh-what happened..."
"Natalie and E-Eddward are... gone... My cousin... took them... Cains..."
"What?!" She asks sitting up suddenly hissing in pain "fuck! That hurt!" She groans before looking over at him and crawling forward. She steadies herself and the young man below her before gently and quickly pulling the blade out, using Eddward's shirt to slow the bleeding.
"We h-have to get to-to my father..."
"Kevin, you're bleeding, I can't take you out like this! You'll die!" Marie says shaking her head
"There are bandages and medical supplies in every bathroom, grab them and help me patch up."
"O-ok..." she says rushing off and coming back with the supplies. With his instructions, she could do it "Can you stand?"
Kevin grunts as he slowly gets to his knees and then to his feet, leaning heavily against the wall and sweaty. "Fuck, this really hurts..."
"I don't think you can ride... we'll have to take the carriage and I'll have to drive..." she sighs.
"No, I'm taking Red and going to my father's myself. I'm fine, let's get going!" he stiffly walked to the door, leaning heavily against the frame. He could hear Red and Raven calling out and kicking a fuss. Once he made it to the stables, he called out to Red and half of the noise stopped as Red hung his strong neck over the stall door to nicker at Kevin. "I know, we'll get him. We gotta get back home to Father first" Kevin pulled himself up with a grunt and panted, still holding his bandaged abdomen. "Get on Raven... if you don't take him, he's just going to break out anyway."
She nods and gets into the black stallion who was jittery and as soon as she was on, he took off with her screaming. Red was careful to not let his rider fall off into the brush. Running up to the front, Kevin called out to Giles. He yelled until the front door opened and an angry looking head butler stood in the doorway. "Yes, Kevin?! May I help you?!"
"They took him... they took Natalie..." Kevin panted out, his body finally giving up as adrenaline leaves his body. He laid on Red's neck and groaned. "Help... me..."
"My god!" Giles says rushing forward with several staff members, helping him get the ginger off the horse and inside. Marie following him as Eddward's mother treats the ginger "What's going on? Where is my son?" she asks.
Marie limps in and sits stiffly. "Cain's... they ambushed us. Took off with Eddward and Natalie."
The woman turns white as a ghost "Oh God, have mercy on them..." she whimpers close to tears for her son and the pregnant woman.
"Kevin, how in the hell did this happen?" Giles asks urgently.
"The company... Rodrick is sick and Edwin wants the company..."
"Oh god, I'm going to wake your father" Giles says rushing out.
Kevin gazed at Elizabeth and Leonard, who was helping her. "I'm sorry... I t-tried to save him... I didn't want... this to hap-pen again..."
"Hush Young Master, don't speak" Leonard says gently "We know you did everything you could."
Kevin felt some tears fall down his face as his father and Giles come bursting into the room. William wrapped Kevin into a hug as he clung to the older man. "I tried... I'm so sorry..." Kevin hiccupped.
"Shhhhh, it's ok, son, you did your best. It's not like you sat there and watched it all happen and did nothing about it" he says gently.
"H-he had Natalie... he had a knife to her stomach... I couldn't l-let him hurt the baby... I-I tried to get them away but then they grabbed Eddward a-and stabbed me... I couldn't do anything..."
"It's ok, they took you by surprise" William says hushing him "We will get them back."
"He wants the company, he wants everything..." Kevin released his grip slightly and slowly relaxed into the bed, tears still threatening to fall.
William sighs deeply "well that's it then…"
"...what's it?" Kevin panted.
"Well we either get them out or we give him the company."
"I'm coming with you" Kevin started to slowly sit up.
"No you can't" William objects.
"Dad, I can't l-leave Eddward there... I promised him that I would rescue him!"
"Kevin, you're bleeding out! And you can barely move!" William says sternly.
"Let me come with! You have to! If Giles was there, you wouldn't let me go by myself!"
"I won't be going by myself. Giles and a few of the other heads of staff are going with me... you can't even stand, what will happen if a fight breaks out?"
"I'm going to burn the Cain Estate to the ground."
William sighs "There is no convincing you to stay here, is there?"
"No. And don't tell me you wouldn't go, it's a god damn lie."
"He's right William, you would go no matter your injuries" the salt and peppered haired butler interjects, helping Elizabeth wrap Kevin's stomach tightly.
"I have to go. I'm taking Edwin down. I'm going to burn the Cain Estate to the ground before morning" Kevin promised darkly.
William nods grimly and grasps his son's hands pulling him up gently "Let's get you dressed and get going then."
Kevin made it to his feet even with a grunt of pain. "Are you really going to give up the business? You would be broke... it's your life's work!" Kevin asked his father
"Hopefully we won't need to do that but if it's the only way... I have money stashed here and there so we can easily live a comfortable life with that" he informs supporting his injured son.
"I'll be okay to stand on my own. How are we going to get Eddward and Natalie back?"
"We force our way in" William says determined Giles rounds up their team.
"How are we just going to force our way in? No one knows that mansion like Eddward does!"
"I do" Leonard says stepping up "I would be very grateful to help."
"You can get us in and out undetected?" Giles asked while gathering some pistols and knives, 'just in case...'
"Yes, I believe I can" Leonard says confidently "My son and a pregnant woman are in danger but I fear we may only get the pregnant woman out..."
"No, we are getting them both out. I'm not leaving until I get Eddward out" Kevin promised darkly, mounting Red with a grunt but keeping an arm around his stomach.
The older version of Eddward nods and sighs "Just be prepared, Eddward will likely be in one of Edwin's rooms" he says grimly.
"Then that will be the first place I go..."
And with those last words, the men fall silent until they get to the mansion "I suggest you kill on sight, the men Edwin hires are pirates he saved from the gallows" Leonard suggests.
"Then how did he end up with you and Elizabeth?" Kevin wondered out loud.
"That was Roderick's doing, Edwin is the one that hires the staff now" Leonard explains.
Kevin's pain had gone down as his adrenaline and anger went up. He was going to rip everyone apart that even thought about touching what was his and his alone. First and foremost, they had to get Natalie and the baby safely out. Once he was sure they would get out safe, he would go and save Eddward with guns blazing.
Leonard leads them in with Kevin at the center of the formation. The gardener points to a door with three guards standing by it.
"What is that leading us into?"
"Natalie I'm sure of it. It's too quiet to lead to Eddward" he says sadly.
"Quiet..." Kevin muttered as his blood boiled. "Get Natalie out, I gotta find Eddward!" Kevin hissed towards Giles.
William pulls him back "If you go by yourself, it will be a suicide mission and you're no good to him, Natalie, or that baby dead" he says calmly though he was raging internally.
"Then split up... give me two and you and Marie take the rest. We can get in and get out at one time. Once we grab Natalie, the entire house is going to be on top guard! We need to grab both of them, now!"
William nods and they split up, Leonard once again taking the lead it wasn't long before they began hearing screams of what seemed to be pure agony.
Kevin began following the screams, checking rooms but find them all locked. He resisted the urge to call out to Eddward, he didn't want to alert anyone to where they were if they were not already discovered. "Where is he?!" Kevin asked Leonard frantically. "All these doors are locked!"
Leonard looks around the corner and points to a door with faint light coming from under it, flinching as he hears his son's cries for mercy and a loud sickening crack of a fist connecting to skin.
"Shut the fuck up you filthy little bitch!" they hear Edwin taunt loudly. "Did you really think you could get away from me that easily?" he asks quieter getting a muffled sobbing response from Eddward.
"Please, no more, I can't take it. Make them stop…!"
This elicits a cackle from Edwin "You like having sex with other people, I figured you'd like this!" Edwin spits nastily.
"No... plea-" the Raven butler tries to speak but is muffled once more by something. Unable to take anymore, Kevin aims his pistol at the door handle before a barrel was pressed to Kevin's temple.
"Good to see you, boy. Did you miss this dungeon so much?" Rodrick asked, leaning heavily on his cane as the sickness wracked his body. "I have your father and all of his company already down there. Why don't you join them?" Kevin couldn't respond as his gun was ripped from his hands and he was led downstairs with Leonard. They were pushed inside one cell and the door slammed shut.
"We shouldn't have split up, damn…" Leonard says quietly tearing up feeling sick for his son.
Kevin slammed against the bars of the door. Giving one final push, he fell to the ground with a frustrated sigh. "I'm sorry... I thought this was what was best..."
"Where is the young maid?" Leonard asks quietly.
"They took her away when we got caught" Giles says sadly, fearing the worst for Marie.
Kevin pulled his knees up and rested his elbows on them, raising his arms to press his hands against his head. His eyes stung with unshed tears. It he knew that crying wasn't going to help Eddward but he just didn't know how!
Eventually, they hear the telltale sounds of someone unlocking the basement door and something being dragged down the stairs, making sickening thuds as it hits each stair. Edwin appears at the bars to the cell and one of his men unlock and open it only for him to throw a pale heap in next to Kevin. "Eddward…?" Kevin eyed the naked form in front of him, praying it was not who he knew it was. Eddward was broken, bloodied and covered in welts and bruises.
"He passed out on us. It's not fun when he isn't screaming, we'll be back for him later" Edwin cackles as he and his men walk out, locking the cell door after them. "Besides we have a new toy to play with for a while. Thank you for delivering her to us" Edwin calls back behind him.
Kevin quickly crawls over and tries to wake Eddward up, anger boiling up again. He took his shirt off and tried to clean and cover Eddward as much as possible. "C'mon, Eddward... please wake up..." Giles crawls over and assesses Eddward's injuries.
The Raven butler however stays limp, fresh cuts cover his body. Hand prints of varying sizes have bruised his throat, his mouth was bleeding and lips swollen, one of his hips appeared to have been popped out of socket so he couldn't struggle. Not to mention, multiple places had several friction burns, as if someone had rubbed him raw. The sight made several of the men sick with pain and sympathy for the young butler and his lover.
Kevin kept trying to gently wake Eddward up. He was scared to touch him, he didn't want to hurt him more. He leaned down and started to whisper apologies into his dark hair.
Eventually, a soft groan comes from the Raven butler and then the tears start falling "No… more…please...!" he rasps trying to get away from the arms around him.
Kevin instantly let him go as to not freak him out anymore. He held his hands out "It's okay, Eddward. It's just me."
Eddward sobs openly and reaches a shaky hand out "Kev- in…?"
Kevin gently grasped his hand and pressed it to his face. "It's okay. I'm here, I'm sorry it took too long but I had to get reinforcements" he cocked his head slightly to the side, towards their group of friends and family.
Eddward looks away in shame "There were so many, I tried to fight them."
"It's not your fault, no one blames you. I know you did your best. It's okay. I love you" Kevin cooed softly in his ear. Eddward just shakes his head feeling worthless.
"I'm so glad your back in my arms. I'm gonna get you out of here and we are leaving the country to relax for as long as you want. You just gotta help me get you out of here, ok?"
"I cannot even walk, how do you expect me to help you get out of here?" Eddward asks bitterly.
"Giles, can you fix his hip?"
Giles walks forward with a nod but Eddward flinches back. Giles stopped and backed up holding his hands up "Not if he won't let me touch him."
"Eddward, please... you gotta let Giles fix you so you can walk" Kevin pleaded.
Eddward swallows and nods just before the door to the dungeon opens again and Edwin's men appear, throwing Marie in. "Oh good, he's awake! Hand him over, the boss wants him" one of the men say.
"No! Leave him alone!" Kevin cried out as he pulled Eddward closer, trying to keep him safe. Charles and Michael dashed from the corner, tackling the two guards against the wall and fighting with them. They both fell to the ground in an unconscious heap and Leonard and William stripped them down and took hold of their weapons. Leonard tossed a pair of pants and shirt to Giles and cocked the gun. "Get to work on Eddward, we won't have much time."
Eddward pales and backs away, beginning to panic "Oh God it's going to be bad when he finds out, I'll be punished for this."
"I'm not going to let him touch you again, okay? I promise you that! I'll die before I'll let that happen again! You gotta be still, baby, please..." Kevin begged as he held into him tightly.
Eddward shakes his head "I don't want you to die..." he sobs while Giles sneaks up and pops his hip back into place making him scream in shock and pain.
"Get dressed and no one has to. We're getting you and Marie out of here" Kevin helped him dress quickly while Giles helped get Marie covered as much as possible in Williams oversized coat. "Take them out of here, we will continue to search for Natalie" William offered.
"She's locked in the kitchen" Eddward says quietly "Edwin knew you wouldn't look there."
"I will take your father and Charles to retrieve her and will meet you back at the Barr Estate" Leonard offered with a nod from William.
A voice from behind Kevin made everyone jump. "Looking for something?" Edwin's voice rang out loudly, a chuckling yet sickly looking Rodrick by his side. Between them knelt Natalie with a knife to her throat. "No one moves or she and the brat die."