Chapter 26:

A Dark Spiral

Emma lost track of time since she had been down in the basement, so she had no idea how long she had been gone or if Raye and the others had even noticed she was gone yet, but to say she was terrified was a major understatement. All she really wanted to do was just be by her sister's side while they watched Matt and Jeff do something incredibly stupid.

The man walks down into the room. "Hello Lamb. Have you considered giving me the money you owe me yet? You just hand over the money and I will let you go, easy as that." He said.

I haven't had to consider anything because we don't have the money!" Emma tells him with a glare. She was determined to keep to that story and not waver from it. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if Raye got hurt again.

"I guess you do want your sister to be harmed. We could have her here in a separate room." He said in a taunting voice.

"You put one slimy finger on my sister and I swear I will kill you myself." Emma practically snarls. She's very protective of Raye.

"Then admit you have the money." He snaps.

"No, because we don't have it." Emma lies again, but her heart is beating so loudly in her chest that she's afraid that the kidnapper is going to hear it.

"Then where did it go? The sooner we get the money you owe us, the sooner you get to go free lamb." He sneered.

"I don't know where the stupid money that you so desperately want is. We never saw it because our foster parents hated us."

"Don't lie to me. I have had my men watch you. I know you have my money."

"Oh, so you're a stalker now are you?" Emma asks sarcastically. It's her defense mechanism. That way people couldn't tell that she was scared out of her mind.

He pulls a sandwich from his pocket, knowing she hadn't eaten in awhile. "Hungry?" He sneers.

"No." Emma says stubbornly. She didn't trust him. For all she knew, he could have drugged the food.

"Ah but your stomach tells me otherwise." He said as her stomach growled for the food. "I know you want it."

"Well, I'm not taking it." Emma says as she looks at anything in the room but him.

He makes her look at him. "Fine starve. I was trying to be nice." He said and tossed the wrapped sandwich at her feet and heads for the stairs.

'Kidnappers are never nice. I'm not naive.' Emma thinks to herself as she glares at his retreating back.

He locks the door behind him. He knew sooner or later she would have to eat and then the truth drug would take effect.

Emma shakes her head and looks down at the sandwich. In truth, she was starving but she was not going to do anything stupid, like eat any of the food that he gave her. She knew better than that.

The man ignored her for awhile. He wanted her to suffer down there on her own.

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Raye stares out the window, worry on her face.

It had been a couple of hours since the cops had been there and she had been in her room the whole time. The only time she came out was the few times she had to go to the bathroom. She wouldn't talk to Matt and Jeff either. She had been totally silent.

She had taken to staring out the window of her room, hoping Emma would just walk home. She looks up as Jeff walked in with a plate of spaghetti that he made. She hadn't been eating much either.

Jeff gives her a look of worry as he puts the plate down on the table that was sitting in her room.

Ray eats a few bites but that was it. She looked so sad.

Jeff sits down on her bed. He had been wanting to talk to Raye but every time he tried, she either ignored him or just gave him a sad look.

Raye looks at her bass and she let a tear fall.

Jeff sees it and sighs sadly. He wasn't sure what to talk to her about now.

Raye moves herself to his lap and clings to him. She starts to cry.

Jeff wraps his arms around her and just holds her. He can feel her tears soaking through his shirt but he doesn't mind. He just gently rubs her back.

She sniffles as she cries. "I want Em back." She whispers.

"Yeah well all do." Jeff says softly.

"Make her come back." Raye says as she sobs.

"Me and Matt are doing everything we can to make her come back home hun."

Raye nods and cling to Jeff. "God if I could walk I would go find her."

"Me and Matt wouldn't let you. We can't lose either one of you." Jeff tells her firmly.

"You know I am tough Jeff." said raye.

"And we know that too. But we will find Emma. I swear it." Jeff tells her.

Raye nods and clings to her brother. She was taking Em being gone hard.

Jeff hugs his sister, wishing that Emma was there.

"Jeff, why do bad things keep happening to us?"

Jeff shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know. Bad things just happen to good people I guess."

"It is not fair." Snapped Raye.

"I know it's not." Jeff says soothingly.

Raye hugs the bear Em got her. It seemed she drew a lot of comfort from it.

Jeff lets her grab it before he sighs sadly and starts to stand up as he stretches.

Raye watches him, staying silent.

"If you want to talk, you know both me and Matt will be there for you. But you have to come to us. We can't read your mind." Jeff says gently before he walks out of the room.

Raye gets in her wheelchair and goes back to looking out her window.
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Emma had been staring at the sandwich for the past hour it felt like but in reality it had only been about 10 minutes. She was really tense but she wasn't going to relax until she got home and saw Raye and her brothers again.

A couple of men talk into the room. One of them ties a piece of cloth around her right arm. He ties it tight and feels for a vein as the other guy fills a needle with an amber colored substance.

Emma immediately begins to struggle. She already knew what they were trying to do to her and she really didn't want it to happen. Emma already knew that it was very addictive and once you started you wouldn't be able to stop on your own. She didn't want her family or Gerard to see her like that but she couldn't break free from the men that were holding her.

The second man smirks" This will help you relax." He said and injected her with the drug. He unties the cloth and watches her.

Emma started to feel the effects almost immediately. Since it was the first time that she had done it, although it wasn't by her own free will, she felt like she was floating. She started to image that she was safe and sound with her family and didn't have a care in the world. She giggles slightly at that thought. She just started to talk gibberish too, which was apparently funny to her because she kept laughing.

The first man freed her hands and gave her the sandwich. "Eat you must be hungry"

Emma giggled and looked up at him. "What?" She asked with a smile on her face. Her eyelids were halfway shut but she was wide awake.

"Eat." He said in a commanding tone.

"You're funny looking." Emma says before she proceeds to laugh her ass off.

He shoves the sandwich in her mouth. He had orders to make sure she ate and was relaxed.

Emma chokes a little bit before slowly chewing on the sandwich that had been shoved in her mouth.

He makes sure she eats all of it. "Feel better?" He asked

Emma nods her head with a goofy smile on her face.

The men head upstairs and not long after the main kidnapper comes down. "Ready to tell where the money is Emma?"

Emma nods her head.

"Well tell me where it is." He said gruffly.

"It's at my house." Emma tells him. The drug had already begun to take effect.

"Where in the house? Keep being a good girl and tell me."

"Matt put it in the safe that we have hidden away in the house."

"Good girl. For that I will release your arms and legs but you must stay down here." He said and undid the rest of the straps. He chains her ankle to the wall. "To make sure you don't run off."

Emma didn't say anything as she watched him. She was going to be pretty much out of it for a while because of the drugs that he had given her.

The man heads upstairs and locks the door. He pulls out his cell and calls Matt's house.

"Hello?" Matt questions quickly. He hadn't even bothered to check the caller I.D before he had picked up the phone.

"Mr. Hardy I presume. I know you miss your dear Emma. Well lets arrange a trade. My money for her safety."

"Who are you? Where's my sister?" Matt demands.

"Tsk Tsk Mr. Hardy. Your sister is fine. Just give me my money and she will be returned."

Matt glares at air for a minute, "Fine, where do you want to meet at?"

"Tomorrow in the back lot of Wal Mart and 5 pm. Make sure to have our money." He said.

"Fine. Make sure you have my sister in one piece." Matt sneers.

"I will." He said and hangs up. One of his goons heads downstairs to check on Emma.

He finds her just sitting there staring at the ceiling muttering to herself. Every once in awhile she would laugh. She ignored him when he walked into the room; it was like she hadn't even heard him in the first place.

"Hey, you okay?" He snaps.

Emma doesn't answer him, she just continues to sit there and do what she was doing when he walked in.

He starts to beat her. "Answer me bitch!"

Emma cries out in pain but she doesn't answer him.

He beats her senseless and goes back upstairs.

"What were you just doing downstairs?" The main kidnapper asked him with a stern look on his face.

"Just checking on the prisoner." He said with a shrug.

"If you did anything to mess this up, don't doubt for one second that I'll give you any mercy." The main kidnapper warns him.

He nods and sits the the main guy goes down to check on Emma.

When he sees the condition that she's in, he gets pissed and storms back upstairs, "Just checking on the prisoner my ass!"

The goon shrugs. "She didn't answer me and I lost my temper"

"Of course she didn't answer you, you dumbass! Now do you realize how hard it's going to be to get the money and get away once they see the condition she's in?!"

"Put make makeup on her and she will be fine." He said.

The main guy gives him a deadly glare and smacks him upside the head as hard as he can when he walks by him. "We don't have any makeup in the house moron!" He says loudly as he walks out of the room.

"You could get some." He said. "Or give her pain pills."

"I'm giving her the pain pills. I'm a grown man. I would look dumb getting makeup."

He nods and the main guy comes down stairs. "Emma do you want something for the pain?"

Emma just nods her head.

The man gives her some pain pills and water. "Here"

Emma raises her arm slowly and takes the stuff from him. She's aware of him watching her as she takes the pills that he gave her.

"That should help with the pain." He said. "You should get some rest."

"Kay," Emma mumbles. She didn't even question what he had given her because she couldn't think straight.

He heads back upstairs and locks the door.

*********Scene Change******************

Raye sighs as she wheels herself into the kitchen for some food. She still did not look happy.

She really wanted her sister to be back with her and their brothers but so far, the cops hadn't been able to find anything that would them any clues as to where Emma was. And it was driving Raye insane with worry.

She grabs a cup of sweet tea and a peanut butter sandwich. She joins Matt in the living room to watch the news.

They were playing a report about Emma being missing. The picture that they had was a picture of her at the birthday party that everyone had thrown for them.

Raye kept her face blank, but inside she was sobbing. She just eats and drinks slowly. Her blank expression worried Matt.

He wasn't too sure about what to do about her. It seemed like the longer that Emma was gone (which had only been about a few days at the most), the more detached Raye would be. The only solution that Matt had was to get Emma back home safe and sound.

Raye finishes up her food and drink and put her plate and cup in the sink. She then goes back to her room and lays down. She sobs herself to sleep.

****************************Author's Note*****************************

Well, I'm glad that we got that finished. We haven't update in a couple of months. I think the readers were starting to get restless.

We are both to blame. I have a job now that makes me work crazy ass hours.

And I'm officially a senior in high school. Which I'm really excited about.

Enjoy that last year. It will be hectic. And I just thought of something. We started this fic when you were a freshman. Four years man.

Holy crap, I never thought of that. God, I think this is the longest I've ever worked on a story before. I normally get bored and then just stop writing.

You almost did with this story till you listened to Demi. She saved our story.

Yes so we can thank Demi Lovato for coming up with the song Skyscraper then :) Btw, it's a really good song.

Like I said, depending on the hours I am working, we might be able to do more chapters. I am so sorry for the long ass wait.

Yeah hopefully we can get them out quicker. I'm in a lot of easy classes, so that I won't be busy constantly with school.

Wait till you have a job. *Sighs* Anyway. Your reviews are much loved and wanted. It makes us feel all warm and snuggly when we read them. But not the creepy kind of warm and snuggly.

Well I gotta get my temps first. Anyway, this is WWE-Little-Angel saying peace out peeps!

And this is the ever work tired Heartbreak Girl and I have left the building.