This chapter has been reviewed by Sarah.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own words and surely the mistakes. These two characters were created by James Duff for The Closer/Major Crimes, I just borrowed them for my story.

It's a fictional story that possibly violates all reasonable concepts of what these two would actually do, but that's the fun of writing a fanfiction.

When Sharon woke up the room was dark again. She was still hanging on a hook and her entire body was aching. It was the pain that woke her up; she must have fainted after the third or fourth pressure from the red-hot iron.

The first thing she noticed was that the body of the man was gone. There wasn't even a bed anymore or a chair. Only that single window from which she could hear the rain. Some drops were falling inside. It took her a few seconds to turn and find Melody next to her smiling.

"Welcome back to the world of the living, sweetheart. Did you have a good sleep?" Sharon tried speaking but something was blocking her voice from coming out and her tongue to move. She had a gag on her mouth. "You wouldn't stop screaming and it was honestly bothering me too much," Melody put down the red-hot iron and put her hands behind Sharon's head. "I will take it off if you promise to stop screaming. I told you once already that nobody can hear us; now, you are just irritating me."

Sharon nodded and when the gag was taken out she breathed heavily, "I'm thirsty!" Melody gave her a glass of water to sip with a straw.

"Andy seemed really impressed on the phone. I think he is starting to really feel something for me," she was smiling and happy. Sharon didn't know this woman, but she could understand the deep level of madness that she was living through. Her mental disorder was so serious that she really believed Andy had been happily impressed by her torturing Sharon at the phone.

She also understood that she had been held captive for two days, and her modus operandi had previously been to keep her victims for three days and torture them then kill them. Sharon's life was rapidly coming to an end. She had so many things left to do and so much to live for, but all she could do was think about her children and how she wasn't going to them anymore.

Sharon wanted to cry, but Melody didn't leave her much time before to start torturing her again. "You don't think he likes me, do you?" She threatened her with the red-hot iron but Sharon was impassive. Melody hit her once and then twice and even three times with it, and Sharon muffled the screams and the tears. She bit her lips instead.

When Melody finished, Sharon lifted her head and looked straight into her eyes. "He will shoot you, as soon as he finds you." Melody screamed and hit her again. Sharon let out a suffered laugh, "he will never love you. He loves me and me only. And he will have no mercy for you!"

She was expecting to be burnt again, but Melody surprised her instead and this time Sharon couldn't contain a scream. She had been tied to a hook that was attached to a series of pulleys and when Melody turned a wheel attached to the wall, Sharon felt the bones of her shoulders stretching into painful cracks.

All she could still feeling was her heart beat into her chest. It beat faster and faster; almost as if it were going to be sucked into her throat.

"You are pretty stupid to talk to me this way," suddenly Melody's voice had turned lower and calmer. "I could kill you!"

"Wasn't this your plan since the beginning?" Sharon coughed. "You have gotten rid of all women of his life, all women that he had a story with, all women that you thought could potentially be a threat to your story."

Melody grinned. "I was wrong; you are smart!"

"My life ended the moment you electrocuted me. You had already decided to kill me. But you want Andy to find you, you want him to see!" Sharon finally let go of her tears.

"You are very right, but it's not only Andy that I want to see. Someone else too." Melody walked out and left the door open. A door that Sharon had hoped to see open before, that she had hoped to take and leave and save her life. But that moment had gone and so it was going to be her life too.

Melody entered pushing someone.

Two hours before…

Beth entered her house with the shopping bags still in her hands. It had been raining all day, and was getting dark outside.

When she turned on the lights she startled.

"Hello sister!" Melody was sitting on the sofa waiting for her. She smiled and stood up as Beth entered, walking to her. She wrapped her arms around a still shocked Beth and kissed her cheeks. "It's been a long time since sis," Melody was smiling sarcastically.

Beth had no words. Last she heard from her sister it had been years before, and when she had gone to Ohio, they had told her they had no idea where she was going after escaping. How could that place be her sister's house? Wouldn't that be the first place they would look for her?

"It seems like you saw a ghost Beth, it's just me. Your sister. You may have forgotten about me but I didn't forget about you." Melody started to wander around the room and grab every picture frame she found to have a look at it. "I always think about you. My beloved sister, who has no time to call, or visit. This is not how you treat family," she shook her finger to her mouth, trying to silence any word Beth could say. "You don't need to say anything. I am actually not here to talk about us. I want to show you something I'm working on, something I have been busy with for the past two days." She stopped in front of a picture of Beth and her husband. "Which is the reason why I am coming to visit now, would you like to see it?"

Beth finally found the courage to speak and walked faster and closer to her sister. "You don't have anything to do with the kidnapping of that police officer, do you?" Beth knew the answer, but in her heart she hoped it was all a big mistake and that her sister hadn't escaped the psychiatric facility to come to Los Angeles to kill people and kidnap police officers.

Melody started laughing and put a hand to her mouth, "guilty!" She burst into a laughter again. She sounded evil and proud of what she had done. "But that's not all the story…"

Before Beth could turn to ask for an explanation, she saw a bat hitting her forehead and fell to the ground. "You have to wait to see the best part!" Melody whispered with satisfaction in her voice. She started to drag her unconscious sister by her arms, out of the door and into her car; she had arrived there in a stolen car but it would have been traced soon, so she had decided to use her sister's.

The moment she started the engine, the tracker Tao had placed on Beth's car started to beep and turn on his computer. It was the sweetest sound Andy had ever heard.

Now…

Beth was pushed inside the room, conscious and scared. A gag had been put in her mouth and her hands were tight with a rope. She looked at Sharon, her eyes were filled with terror.

"We have a guest, Sharon. Be more welcoming and say hello to my sister!" Melody closed the door behind her.

"Hello," Sharon was crying and scared. She had not thought about someone else being trapped in that place with her; she thought she was going to die alone.

Melody walked out the door again to come back a few seconds later with a chair, "sit!" She forced Beth to sit on and bent on her knees to tie her to it.

Sharon tried twisting and turning from the rope, ignoring the pain shooting through her arms. The door was open and it was her best chance to try and escape; but Melody noticed it and punished her turning the wheel again. This time Sharon heard the distinct crack of her left shoulder bones breaking.

"You see what you made me do, sister? None of this wouldn't have happened if you had believed me," Melody had finished tying her to the chair and removed the gag from her mouth.

"What… what are you talking about?" Beth was crying now. She was terrified, not knowing what had happened or would happen to her.

"Father…"

"That's an old story, Melody. You wrongly accused him."

"HE WAS GUILTY!" She shouted and pointed a gun to Beth's head. "He abused me for years, in our bedroom. And you didn't say a word. Mother didn't say a word. And then you left me. You parked me in that place and built your life, with your husband, and your friends and you forgot about me."

"I came to visit every time I could but you were always unconscious, so you don't remember it,"

"And then Andy, oh… you couldn't leave me some happiness with him. You had to take him from me too!"

"I didn't take Andy from you, I didn't even-"

"SAY IT! You wanted him for you and you never let him meet me then you let him go and he found her," she pointed to Sharon with the gun.

"Beth," Sharon interrupted. "Admit it! You didn't want her around so you left her behind. Admit it and apologize!" The situation wasn't going to change and it was falling quickly into a potential mess. Sharon had tried to make Beth admit of her mistakes, to make Melody happy , and hopefully she would have leave them alone for the rest of the night.

"SAY IT!" Melody shouted and pointed the gun to Beth's head again, and she couldn't do anything else but admit all that her sister had accused her for. "Thank you!" After hearing her apologies, she put down the gun and turned to Sharon. "Your turn now!"

Sharon swallowed loudly, "you are right. Andy noticed you. And he likes you. You have been the reason why we have fought lately and I was home alone. I mean nothing to him, because he wants you only."

Melody smiled and breathed heavily, "perfect!" She then turned to her sister, "say bye bye Beth!"

"What? No," the thunder of the shot echoed into Sharon's ears. She was still in shock watching the woman in front of her: little, blonde and dead with a hole in her forehead.

Her time was over. Melody had just killed her sister, her own blood, her family. How much of a chance did she have to survive now? She knew that Melody hadn't believed her lies, just like she hadn't meant them.

"One less," Melody turned to Sharon with a happy face. "We are left alone. Let me call Andy to tell him the good news."

"Tell me about it, I'll personally forward the message!" Before Melody could grab her phone, FBI Agent Fritzh Howard entered the room, pointing his gun at her. He was then followed by three other FBI agents and the Major Crimes division. But Andy wasn't among them!

Sharon started crying, she had never been happier to see the FBI before. "Melody Bronson you are under arrest for the murder of…" She heard him saying the Miranda Rights and just in that moment Andy finally entered the room, wearing a vest and unarmed. He ran to Sharon but stopped at the door just as Melody was being escorted out in handcuffs.

Julio and Tao were helping him to let her down. "Slow, slow!" She fell into his arms. "I got you. I got you. Hey," Andy moved away the hair from her face and saw a little smile on her face, before he kissed her lips softly. "I found you, babe!" Sharon collapsed into his arms. She was tired and visibly hurt, Melody had kept her hydrated but little else. She was too weak to remain conscious.

The last thing she heard was Andy shouting for an ambulance and his reassuring words on the wat to the hospital, "I am here. I won't leave you. I love you!"