Esha Napoleon and cathy: Thank you jadeMK11: I know, it's horrible. The whole thing is just sickening really. Ilse'sPurpleSummer: Hopefully she can. The guy's pissed though now so things are not looking good at all…

"Jamie no!" Mindy cried out as she grabbed on to his wrists to keep him from clawing at his neck. Usually she was the one that woke him up with night terrors but tonight it was him that had woke her up instead. She had put Elizabeth in her bassinet and was trying her best to wake James up. "Jamie wake up!" She kissed his face frantically, shaking her head as he cried and whimpered. "Jamie!"

James's eyes snapped open and he looked around wildly and fearfully until he realized the only people in the room were him, Mindy and Elizabeth. He let out a shaky breath and snuggled up to Mindy, who hugged him tightly and petted his hair gently. "Mommy and the hanger again?" she asked even though she already knew the answer.

He nodded and buried his face against her as much as he could. His first memory ever was Caroline trying to kill him with the wire hanger when he was just three years old and it was recurrent nightmare. No matter how much time passed and how hard he tried to will it away, it lingered with him, usually coming back to him in full force when he was asleep because he was just so vulnerable then. It really felt like it was happening all over again. He could feel her grabbing him, digging the sharp metal into his flesh and trying to drag it across his jugular as he struggled and cried, barely able to break free in time…

"Jamie darling she's dead" Mindy reminded him as she continued to cradle him in her arms. The size difference between them was absolutely ridiculous and she couldn't remotely hold all of him the way she tried to but that didn't stop her from hanging on tight and rocking him gently. "She's dead remember? You killed her and chopped her up and made her go away forever and ever. She can't hurt you again."

"She's in my head though," he said, looking up at her with wide eyes. "I can't fucking make her go away Baby Doll. I try I do but she won't leave me be-"

She quickly kissed him to cut him off and he kissed her back eagerly. When he was like this he couldn't be allowed to dwell on it for longer than he already had. The more he thought about Caroline, the more shit that would come back into his head and make him even more upset. And Mindy was not about to let that shit happen. Caroline hurt him enough as it was and she wouldn't ever do it again if she got a say in the matter.

James had absolutely no idea how he got to the hospital at all. He remembered throwing up in the bathroom and stumbling out of the motel and that was where things got hazy for him. He wasn't sure whether the blackout had happened because he was in such a rage (which had happened before) or whether maybe it was because his mind was trying to save himself from literally going insane. The contents on that tape…it made him stop and throw up again when his brain even approached the subject. He couldn't handle it. His Baby Doll…his Baby Doll was being…no. He couldn't even think it. He just kept going, pulling up to the hospital Amber was staying at and running right into another media circus. It was just like the day Elizabeth had been taken but even worse since it was Mindy herself who was gone this time. They swarmed him as he got out of the car, throwing questions at him in rapid succession, snapping pictures and shoving shit towards his face. He scowled at all of them, thankfully not even hearing what they were saying clearly because he couldn't concentrate properly. He was just pushing and shoving his way through the crowd as violently as he possibly could, knocking several people down in the process. The cops were all coming out and trying to regain some sense of order but James shot right past them and went into the hospital.

He blinked as he stepped inside, the bright light and the smell that only existed in hospitals and nursing homes assaulting him and making him shake his head. There were people all around him but he barely gave any of them a second glance. His feet were moving on their own accord and he was looking around wildly, not really seeing anyone else that was there. His mind was starting to replay the tape and he saw Mindy everywhere, getting tortured and raped by that guy and it was driving him even more up the wall. He needed to black out again. He needed to just fucking blackout again to spare him from this shit but of course now he couldn't do it. Now he was trapped in replaying the video over and over again while imagining just what else his Baby Doll and Lizzie Bear were going through.

"Daddy Chelsea isn't sharing the popcorn," Connor complained. They were having a little family movie night and the kids were all sitting on the floor while Cooper had made himself comfortable on the chair and Mindy and James had taken the couch, James cradling the recently brought home Elizabeth in his arms while snuggling with Mindy.

"Chelsea don't ever like to share the snacks," Tryg informed the pouting Connor. "See?" He reached over and tapped Chelsea's shoulder.

"What?" Chelsea said, moving the popcorn away from Tryg.

"Well bah humbug to her," Connor said with a shake of his head. "See if I ever share anything with her ever again."

"What are you talking about Connor?" Amber asked incredulously. "You don't share now!"

"So? What's your point?"

As Cooper smacked Connor on the back of his head for that comment, James and Mindy were busy fussing over Elizabeth, which was what they had spent the majority of their time doing ever since she had been brought home.

"Is she real?" Mindy asked as she nuzzled James's neck.

James nodded and kissed her. "Of course." Even as he reassured her though he had to pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming or anything. He really was sitting there with his beautiful wife, holding the beautiful daughter they had made together with all their other kids who he did adore so much…if this was a dream he never wanted to wake up. Not ever. This was all so perfect he couldn't even imagine it being any other way.

"I love you Jamie," Mindy said as she kissed him hard.

"I love you more Baby Doll."

James snapped out of the memory as he found himself stepping off the elevator and storming down the hallway, looking into every room he could before finally finding Amber's room. Thorn, Scarlett and Chelsea were all on the bed with Amber, the older three looking distraught while Chelsea just stared at the TV blankly until she turned her head towards him and her whole face brightened instantly.

"Daddy!"

Cooper and Steve, who had both been talking to a doctor and a police officer, both paled beyond the telling of it as they whirled around and saw James there. Amber, Thorn and Scarlett all exchanged looks. They had never seen James look like that ever, not even Amber when she had gone hunting with him. He had lost a noticeable amount of weight, which made his face very pale and gaunt. He had giant black circles under his eyes and his eyes themselves were completely bloodshot and crazed looking. It was really quite frightening-well, to everyone but Chelsea that was. All she saw was her daddy and didn't get how the shit was going to hit the fan now.

"Mr. Lawson-" The doctor never got to finish his sentence. James had bulldozed through him and the officer so he could snatch both Cooper and Steve by the throat and throttle them. He didn't have near the strength he normally did because of his extreme lack of eating but he managed to choke the fuck out of the both of them, letting the adrenaline rush he was getting from his rage give him the strength he needed.

"WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING?" He pushed them back up against the wall and dug his fingernails into their flesh, wanting to just rip their throats out with his bare hand. "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING HER! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING WATCHING HER HE HAS HER HE HAS HER HE FUCKING HAS HER!"

"Mr. Lawson!" the officer shouted. He was doing his best to try to pull James off of Steve and Cooper while the doctor went to get more help.

James snarled and barred his teeth at the annoying officer while refusing to let go. Cooper and Steve were both trying to pry his fingers off so they could breathe again but he didn't want them to succeed. They were supposed to be looking after Mindy and did they fucking do that? No! They fucking sat on their asses and neglected her and let her get taken. "Do you know what he's doing to her? Huh? Do you fucking know? Because he sure as hell made sure I found out!"

Several more officers and a few more doctors came running, all grabbing a hold of James and managing to pull him off of Steve and Cooper, who both put their hands up to their throats and gasped and coughed for breath. "LET ME GO!" James screamed, doing his best to fight off everyone that was dragging him back. "LET ME GO LET ME GO LET ME GO!"

Amber and the twins watched with wide eyes as James was dragged back, too shocked to even say anything. Chelsea on the other hand, was not about to sit there and say nothing. They were taking Daddy away and she was not going to stand for that. She got off the bed and marched right up to the people trying to take James away and started kicking them right in the shins. "NO!" she screamed. "That's MY daddy! NO NO NO NO!"

Her screaming was enough to get them to stop and James wriggled free from their grip and scooped Chelsea up into his arms and hugged her tight. He couldn't even speak at the moment. He just kept hugging her, letting her hug him back and put her hands all over his face while stumbling over to the chair by Amber's bed and collapsing down into it.

"Daddy?" Thorn and Scarlett both stared at James until he extended his arm and let them crawl on to his lap as well. Chelsea gave her sisters a disgruntled look for now having to share her daddy time but James gave her a kiss on the top of her head to soothe her once more.

"Daddy, why did the bad man take Mommy?" Scarlett asked innocently.

James shook his head. "He's…he's just bad." That was about all he could really get out at the moment. He looked into Amber's eyes and he knew that she could tell that the situation was much more dire than what he was trying to let on.

"You'll get him though, right Daddy?" Thorn asked. She was whispering so that none of the people around them could hear her. "You'll get him and make him pay, right?"

A frightening look crossed over James's face and that answered that question without a word even needing to be said.

The sun was beating down straight on Elizabeth as she sat there, alone and crying on the side of the road. "Ma-my!" she called out, crying and coughing when Mindy was nowhere to be found. The sun was beating down so hard on her that she was drenched in sweat and she didn't feel good at all. The pavement below her was starting to get scorching hot, which would soon burn the hell out of her if she stayed sitting there much longer. "Da-dy?" She sniffled and coughed as she looked around. "Da-dy? Ma-my?"

Something shot out from the bushes nearby and her attention went to it. It was a little jack rabbit and she started trying to crawl after it. "Hop! Hop hop-" The rabbit quickly disappeared from her line of sight and her face crumpled instantly and she began to cry, which just fueled her whooping cough, which only made her cry more. "DA-DY! MA-MY!"

"Honey are you sure you even know where you're going?" Sixty year old Edith Brown asked her husband Larry as he tried to drive and look at his map at the same time.

"Of course I know where I'm going," Larry snapped irritably. "I'm on the road the map says we have to be on."

"But we should have been there almost two hours ago," she pointed out. They were on their way to their son's house to meet his fiancé but they were having quite a few issues in even getting there. "I told you that we should have asked the nice boys at the gas station which way to go."

Larry snorted loudly. "What would they have known?"

"Well they live here so they have to know these roads better than we do."

"Oh just be quiet you. Don't you have any more of those soap opera magazines to read?"

"I read them already," she replied. "I wasn't expecting to be LOST-"

"We are not lost!"

"We are too and you want to know why we are? Because you don't listen to me! You never listen to me and look where it gets you!"

Larry tightened his grip on the steering wheel and took a deep breath. "Lord give me strength…what the HELL?"

Edith let out a short scream of surprise as Larry slammed on the brakes. "What are you doing?" she asked incredulously. "Have you lost your mind?"

Larry didn't answer her. He just got out of the car so she did the same and that was when she saw the young baby in the middle of the road that they had come literally inches from running over. "Oh my GOD!" She watched as Larry scooped the child up into his arms and that was when she recognized her. Her face was usually splashed on magazines and the TV, and especially now ever since she had been taken. "That's Mindy Stratus's little daughter! Remember Larry? The one that got taken!"

He was well aware of that, but only because the kidnapping of Elizabeth and now Mindy was the biggest news story in the country. "Jumpin' Christ on a cross," he muttered under his breath as he quickly got Elizabeth into the car so she could be in the air conditioning. She was so skinny that it was actually emotionally painful just to hold her because it was obvious just how much she had been neglected. Her face was stained with tears and she kept coughing in a way that was just not good at all.

"Here, see if you can get her to drink from this," Edith said as she got back in the car and handed over her bottle of water. "I'll call 911."

"Tell them she needs a hospital." Larry unscrewed the bottle cap and tossed it aside before putting the bottle up to Elizabeth's lips to see if he could help her get any kind of fluids in her at all. "Come on little girl come on. Just a little bit…that's good…careful don't choke…good girl. It's going to be alright. We'll get you taken care of and it's going to be alright.