Aaliyah woke slowly, as she moved her hands to wipe her eyes she realised one of the was handcuffed to a pipe just above her head. She could see she was in some kind of barn, she could hear dripping water and the smell was vile.
Aaliyah looked down and saw she was sat on an old mattress. "Your awake then?" a familiar voice asked her. Aaliyah looked up and was horrified to see Scott stood on front of her.
"Please, why are you doing this?" Aaliyah begged as she tried to get her hand free.
"It's nothing personal Aaliyah, I'm just doing what I was told to do" Scott replied coldly.
"Please Scotty" Aaliyah rested her free hand on top of her bump. "Who told you to do this?"
"He'll be here soon" Scott said coldly. Aaliyah couldn't believe her one time best friend was capable of this.
"Who will?" Aaliyah replied.
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Brax, Heath and Casey had spent the last few hours searching all the places they could think of looking for Aaliyah. Aden stayed at the house with Riley and Frank made some phone calls.
"Is there anyone who knows where she could be?" Brax said looking at Casey.
"I don't know" Casey spat he was extremely angry with himself that he didn't know anything.
"Scott?" Heath Remembered the last time Aaliyah was kidnapped.
"What?" Brax turned to look at Heath.
"It's a long shot I know but…" Heath started before being interrupted.
"Do you think he'd be that stupid?" Brax exclaimed, Heath shrugged.
"No hang on Heath's got a point, I mean we have nothing so far, at least this is something" Casey added. All three of them agreed to start searching for Scott, Brax called Aden.
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Aden was sat with Riley watching a DVD when the house phone rang; he picked it up quickly hoping it was news on Aaliyah "Hello" he said hopefully.
"Hi it's Brax, is there an address book by Aaliyah's phone?" Aden looked to see if could see one. As he opened the drawer he saw a purple notebook marked addresses.
"Got it" Aden said as he took it out and put it on the table next to the phone.
"Ok we need an address for Scott" Brax asked, Aden flicked through the book and saw an address and phone number for Scott and Kelly Harris. As Aden gave the number to Brax, Brax scribbled it on a napkin.
"Keep me posted yeah" was all Aden said before hanging up.
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Brax pulled up slowly outside a very nice looking house. All three Braxton's got out of the car and headed to the front door. As Casey knocked they could hear children playing. A young woman came to the door. She looked a little nervous when she saw all three men stood there.
"Can I help you?" she stuttered. Casey stepped forward,
"Aaliyah's gone missing and we think Scott might be behind it" Casey didn't waste any time.
"I don't know what you are talking about" Kelly said as she tried to close the door, Casey stopped her.
"Don't play games with me, he's not here is he and I bet you have no idea where he is do you?" Casey's voice had risen slightly, which shocked Brax and Heath a little. They had never see there brother lose his cool like this. He was always the calmer one out of the three.
Kelly paused for a moment, she looked scared and confused "Who are you?" she asked curiously.
"My name is Casey, I'm Aaliyah's boyfriend and the father of her baby" Kelly's eyes widened.
"Ali's pregnant, he didn't tell me that" Kelly exclaimed, she realised instantly what she had done.
"So you do know where he is?" Heath started to get as little impatient.
"Please, She's 8 months pregnant, I need to know if she is safe" Casey's calm tone relaxed Kelly again.
"There's an old barn Scott uses to hide stuff, I can give you the address, but you didn't get it from me" Kelly disappeared into her house and reappeared with a piece of paper. She gave it to Brax who stuffed it into his pocket and headed back to the car. Casey and Heath followed.
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Aaliyah waited patiently for Scott's answer to her question; while she was waiting she had gone through every person in her head who could have possibly asked him to do this.
"I don't understand he should be here by now" Scott spoke finally.
"Who should?" Aaliyah tried again for an answer "Scott please" Aaliyah gasped, she had been feeling pains across her stomach for a while, but now they were getting worse.
"Greg" Aaliyah's jaw dropped when Scott finally told her, why the hell did her step father want Scott to kidnap her?
"I don't understand" Aaliyah winced as she tried to breath through another contraction.
"Are you ok?" Scott asked as he realised she was in pain.
"It's the baby, please let me go" she pleaded, Scoot just looked at her with a grim expression on his face.
"I'm sorry I can't it's more than my life's worth. Greg wants you to pay for Lexi's death" Scott started to explain the reason.
"It was an accident" Aaliyah replied, she was still holding her stomach.
"Yes, but that's not the only reason, Greg discovered your mother has been having an affair with Frank. He's lost his daughter and he wants to make them pay by taking theirs" Aaliyah's eyes filled with tears.
"He wants you to kill me?" She cried.
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Brax had never driven so fast in his life; he decided that picking Dr Walker up long the way would be a good idea. It was a 30 minute drive to the address Kelly had given them. And to be honest they weren't holding out much hope on finding Aaliyah when they got there.
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Aaliyah screamed out in pain, she felt a gush between her legs. "What's that?" Scott asked nervously.
"My water broke, please Scotty help me" Aaliyah cried. Scott heard a car pulling up outside the barn as he looked he saw it was Greg.
"He's here" Scott said as he rushed back to Aaliyah.
Aaliyah punched him in the face causing him to stagger backwards. Aaliyah had some how managed to free her hand while she was talking to Scott, she wasn't sure where the energy came from but boy did she need it. As Scott fell to the ground, Aaliyah clambered to her feet and hurried out of the back door. She ran deeper into the bush as fast as she could manage.
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Greg was furious as he walked through the door and saw Aaliyah wasn't there, he saw Scott sat on the ground nursing his bloody nose. "Where is she?" Greg yelled, he noticed the back door was open and started to run after her. Aaliyah was praying she had put enough distance between them for now, because her body was telling her to stop. She slumped against a tree. The pain was now excruciating. Aaliyah took some deep breaths, she wanted to scream out but she knew she couldn't so she bit her lip and carried on breathing.
Scott had now followed Greg into the bush; he desperately didn't want Greg to find Aaliyah. For some reason his loyalty to Johnny had now kicked in.
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Brax pulled up outside the barn, he could see a car parked just outside. The men got out of the car and headed towards the barn.
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Aaliyah could hear footsteps running towards her, she tried to scream as she felt a hand over her mouth from behind "Shh, it's me" Aaliyah relaxed when she recognised the voice, as she looked round she saw Scott knelt beside her, Aaliyah's skin was clammy and cold and she didn't seem with it.
"Ali, look at me we need to get out of here can you move" Scott whispered as he tried. Aaliyah shook her head.
"No, this baby's coming now" she said as quietly as she could, she was still having strong contractions.
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Heath, Brax, Casey and Sid all ran as fast as they could through the trees. None of them understood why Scott's wife had come forward and told them where Aaliyah was but right now they didn't care. Casey was now at the front, he slowed down as he reached the door of the barn. He swung it open and was horrified by what he saw. Brax, Heath and Sid had also arrived to see the devastating sight.
On the floor was an old mattress and a white sheet. There was a rope on the floor and a set of handcuffs hanging from a pipe. But there was no sign of Aaliyah. The men weren't sure if this was a good thing or bad thing.
Casey's heart stopped when he saw something on the sheet "What's that?" he said pointing to what looked like watery blood. Sid walked towards the sheet "It looks like Amniotic Fluid" he replied grimly. Casey threw him a look.
"What does that mean?" Casey was frantic.
"It means Aaliyah's waters have broken and judging by the colour of this, both her and the baby could be distressed. We have to find them and fast" Sid explained to the horrified Braxton Brothers.
All three of them headed through the back door and into the bush. Brax was still unnerved by the extra car so he told the men to look for Aaliyah quietly, Heath and Brax went one way and Casey and Sid followed a trail of what looked to be blood.
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"Scott, it hurts so much" Aaliyah cried as she gripped Scott's hand tightly.
"I know I'm so sorry I should never have done this to you, I was just so scared by what he threatened, and he didn't give me a choice" Scott was remorseful for his previous actions.
"It's ok" Aaliyah whispered, before closing her eyes and going limp. Scott grabbed her and shook her frantically.
"Ali, wake up" he whispered. "Ali" Scott was still looking around for Greg. He was horrified when he heard rustling in the trees. Someone was coming towards them, and he couldn't do a thing. Scott wasn't about to just leave her so he waited anxiously for the person to show themselves.
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Brax and Heath had no idea where they were headed, but they noticed the figure of a man through the trees in the distance. They cautiously took a few steps closer.
Suddenly a gunshot was fired.
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Sid and Casey both threw eachother a worried glance as they heard the gunshot "Ali" Casey cried and he ran through the bush Sid following closely behind him.
Both men were horrified when they found Aaliyah and Scott….
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Brax and Heath looked at eachother, neither of them was sure if the other had been shot.
Just thought I would end on a cliff hanger. So who do you think has been shot?
As always please R & R much love nikki x x x
Coming up-
Who has been shot?
Will Aaliyah and her baby survive?
