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"Carlitos." Logan said quietly, shifting uncomfortably. From across the room, Carlos's dark gaze flickered over to Logan's chocolate eyes. Logan used a slight jerk of his head to gesture for the Latino to come over to him. Carlos sadly set his helmet down on the counter and padded over to his friend.
"Can you take her for a moment?" Logan asked, his voice a mere whisper. "I need to go to Mama Knight." he said.
Carlos just nodded, sitting down directly beside Logan on the couch. Gently and slowly, Logan picked Katie up off of his lap and placed her on Carlos's lap instead.
Carlos held out his arms, gently cradling Katie's semi-conscious form to his chest as she snuggled up to him and buried her face against his neck. Logan got up and stretched his legs before walking over to Mrs. Knight and the police officers in the kitchen.
"It's going to be all right, Katie." Carlos whispered, gingerly stroking her hair as she drifted off to sleep.
Logan sadly stood next to Mrs. Knight, watching sympathetically as she wiped at the constant stream of tears running down her face as she spoke to the police. "Please, just find my babies." Mrs. Knight whispered.
The officers had nothing but grief and sympathy in their facial expressions as they nodded. "I promise you, we're doing everything we can to find your children." the lieutenant officer said, putting a consoling hand on Mrs. Knight's shoulder.
Logan nodded towards the man in thanks, helping his Mama Knight out as she couldn't even get words formed. The officers silently left, leaving the four grief-stricken family members with little hope.
Kendall flinched, reflexively pulling both James and Camille closer to him. "What do you want from us?" demanded Kendall, tired of beating around the bush. Jonathan stormed towards the three figures curled up against each other in the corner, "I just want my revenge." he stated.
Camille's mouthed formed a small "o" as Jonathan pointed to Kendall, but she didn't say anything. Kendall didn't seemed overly bothered by Jonathan's comment, though. "Why?" Kendall exclaimed, sounding impatient. Jonathan let out an exasperated sigh, "Let me tell you a little story." he said. Camille's eyebrows furrowed, he had sounded a lot like The Joker from The Dark Knight movie just then. Jonathan paced in front of the three of them, and James pretended to be asleep, but Kendall could still feel him shaking against him.
"Your father was a lawyer, correct?" Jonathan sneered. Kendall's breath hitched in his throat. Where is this going?
Kendall just nodded, and Jonathan continued "I had a brother…he and I were extremely close in our…business." Kendall rolled his eyes, knowing that "business" more than likely meant drug dealing.
"Your father caught my brother, and after a long fight in the courtroom, my brother was sentenced to life in jail." Jonathan said, his pacing becoming angrier and angrier as he continued. Kendall gulped, he didn't like where this was going.
"Two months later, my brother was killed in prison. He was the ONLY FAMILY THAT I HAD LEFT!" bellowed Jonathan. Camille flinched and buried herself against Kendall's side.
Kendall bravely spoke up, "Why me? Why punish me for what my father did… rightly, might I add". Camille shook her head, Kendall's attitude was going to get him into so much trouble. Sure enough, Jonathan lunged forward and dragged Kendall out of the corner and to the middle of the room.
"Because your father managed to get himself killed in a dumb car accident before I could kill him myself! And you and your friends," Jonathan gestured maniacally over to Camille and James, "are the next best thing". Kendall paled, he thought this was about some sort of ransom, not murder.
"The cops are onto me, so it's time for me to clean up and leave." Jonathan said. Jonathan sent a rough, swift kick to Kendall's ribs. Kendall hissed in pain and balanced himself on the palms of his hands, trying to get off the floor. Before Kendall could successfully lift himself up, Jonathan sent enough field goal-worthy kick to Kendall's abdomen, sending Kendall a foot across the floor and onto his back.
"Please, just leave him alone. He didn't do anything!" Camille exclaimed, helplessly watching as Jonathan continued to beat Kendall to a pulp.
Jonathan completely ignored Camille, grabbing a fistful of the front of Kendall's plaid shirt and throwing a punch to Kendall's perfectly chiseled jaw. Camille winced and closed her eyes. "Please" she begged, but it was barely audible. Jonathan grabbed the back of Kendall's hair, once again. Kendall cried out, weakly struggling as he was unceremoniously dragged back to the middle of the room.
Camille saw the faint glint of a revolver inside the band of Jonathan's jeans as he kicked Kendall once more. Her heart sped up, and her thoughts began to race. She needed to figure out what to do - and quickly. Kendall groaned, closing his eyes and wrapping one lanky arm around his abused abdomen.
That was it, Camille couldn't watch this anymore. "Don't' move, James." she whispered against James' ear, gently stroking his hair back. James looked up with wide, frightened eyes, silently asking what she was about to do. Without a second thought, Camille hopped up onto her feet and threw herself at Jonathan, who was currently preoccupied with using Kendall's face as a punching bag.
Luckily, Camille was light enough on her feet that she managed to land on Jonathan's back. "What the?" Jonathan exclaimed, scrambling and grabbing at her. It was useless, though - Camille was holding onto him for dear life, easily avoiding his grabby hands.
Kendall looked like a deer in the headlights as he watched as his girlfriend tried to strangle their captor. The realization that she was trying to distract Jonathan hit Kendall and he painfully got to his feet. Camille, happy that Kendall finally was standing erect once more, let go of Jonathan with one hand and grabbed the revolver, knocking it to the floor.
Camille lost her balance, and tumbled to the floor, crying out as the she scraped her knees against the cement. Camille flipped her hair out of her face, looking abruptly over her shoulder as sudden, eerie silence took over the room. Jonathan was standing still, just a few feet away from Kendall, who was now pointing the revolver at said captor.
"Don't. Move." Kendall ordered, his voice uneven. Jonathan teasingly took one step forward, and Kendall locked both of his elbows, holding the gun directly in front of him with violently shaking arms.
"You're not really going to pull the trigger, kid." Jonathan sneered, taking another step forward.
"I don't want to, so j-just let us go." Kendall pleaded. Jonathan smiled maniacally and took another step forward.
Kendall took one step back in sync with Jonathan's move, and cocked the revolver. Camille's heart was racing at an immeasurable pace as she watched Kendall. Her boyfriend didn't want to shoot anyone, he just couldn't.
"Pl-please" Kendall begged, his voice shaking as violently as his lanky arms. Silent tears began to slip down his cheeks, mixing with the blood from the cuts on his face as he begged Jonathan to stop.
Jonathan's gaze flickered casually over to James' cowering figure in the corner, and an evil smile crossed Jonathan's lips. This, however, didn't go unnoticed by Kendall, despite his current state. Jonathan was going to lunge for James, and then Kendall would be forced to surrender.
"Please, don't do it." Kendall pleaded with their captor once more. Jonathan just smiled, lifting his foot slightly to take a step in the direction of James. It was simple as that, the minute Jonathan got a hold of James it would all be over. There would be no escape, and Jonathan would kill the three of them, he just knew it…
Kendall pulled the trigger.
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