Russo pulls up to the house parking the van.
"Okay, everyone out." Silas says opening the door.
"Kyle, babe, come on." Roderick says shaking him awake. Aleister steps out of the car, Russo coming in between him and Tom Philips pushing Philips back into the car.
"You stay here." Russo says.
"What the fuck? You can't just leave him in there!" Murphy shouts.
"He won't be in there for long." Silas says.
"You promise?" Johnny asks.
"Yes." Silas says. Russo opens the door. He only saw Martini which seemed a bit suspicious to him. "Go on. In."
"Shit, Trent, what the hell happened?" Zack asks walking into the room seeing Trent with a bag of ice against his cheek.
"My mouth got me in trouble." Trent says.
"Brandon, sit down, you are making me anxious." Janela says.
"Sorry." Brandon says sitting down next to him.
"How…how are you guys doing?" Heath asks.
"Horrible." Marko says. "If I'm being honest."
"I understand. Who else is involved?" Aleister asks.
"Nash, Hall, DeMott and Gage. Plus the rest of the others that got fired…" Brandon says.
"Gage?" Roderick asks.
"Yeah. There's another one but…um…he's not here. We've only heard him over the phone." Page says. "Come sit down."
"Philips is out in the van." Aleister says.
"Tom?" Shawn asks. "What would they want with him?"
"Russo wants to trade him in for Cole." Roderick says.
"What's out back?" Ricochet asks looking out the back door.
"Trev, sit down." Trent says.
"It's a shed out back, boat house a couple miles away as well." Silas says.
"So we are close to water?" Aleister asks.
"Does it matter?" Silas asks. "There's no way of escaping." Murphy is sitting closest to the kitchen door against the wall and a wine cabinet. The group of men jumps when the door to the kitchen is thrust open with force hitting the wall rattling the wine glasses. Murphy scrambles to his feet staggering backward catching Gage's attention.
"What about this one? Why do we need this one?" Gage asks, grabbing Murphy by the shirt, his hand hovering over Murphy's neck. Hawkins and Aleister both come in between the two of them, Curt shoving Murphy backward behind him.
"You stay the hell away from him." Hawkins says angrily.
"He was the reason…the incident that got us fired." Hayes says.
"You locked him inside a travel case!" Aleister shouts.
"Fine. Philips it is." Gage says. "Who wants to handle him?"
"I'll do it." Luger says. Gage nods going over to the cabinet opening a drawer pulling out a silk blindfold and satin ties.
"Tie these around his wrists and drag him behind you, make sure that his eyes are covered the entire time." Gage says.
"You don't have any rope? These don't look very strong." Luger says tugging at the satin ties.
"Would you rather have rope?" Gage asks. Luger nods. Gage tosses Luger some soft rope. "Better?"
"Better." Luger says. He takes the keys off of the desk walking out the door. The rest of the kidnappers walk into the kitchen. Silas is still in the room with the kidnapped.
"You know, we are going to have to double up on room's right? At least two of them." Hayes says.
"Kyle shouldn't be alone." Russo says. "Just in case."
"We aren't putting Roderick with him." Scott says.
"Why the fuck not? He's the one that knows what to do in an emergency!" Russo shouts.
"Well, what about Page? He knows him." DeMott asks.
"Or Aleister, he's smart and knows what to do in a crisis." Martini says.
"Page did spend time with him in Ring of Honor though." MVP says.
"I vote Page." Hall says.
"Me too." Nash says.
"Page and Kyle it is. What about the other room?" Hayes asks.
"Janela and Cutler." Martini answers quickly.
"You just want both of your pets in the same room." Nash says rolling his eyes.
"Well, yes, that is the idea." MVP says.
"What are we gonna do about Cole then?" Russo asks.
"Well, we can't leave. We might have to ask for outside help." Gage says.
"From who?" Hayes asks.
"Foley?" DeMott asks.
"We'll reach out." Hall says.
"We should let them settle into their rooms." Hayes says.
"How are we going to handle dinner?" Russo asks.
"For tonight we'll do it in groups but after that it'll be based on behavior." Gage says. "Except for Kyle, we'll have to think of another way to punish him. We'll discuss more tonight when they are asleep."
"We can just tell Marko and Brandon to go to their rooms and escort the others to theirs' right?" MVP asks.
"Don't see why not." Gage says. "Seems you and Martini have Brandon well trained."
"It was easier than we thought." Martini says. Gage opens the kitchen door allowing the others to exit before him. "Brandon, why don't you take Janela up to your room?"
"Okay, yes, sir." Brandon says.
"Marko, go upstairs with them to yours as well." Nash orders. Marko stands up following after Brandon who is holding onto Joey tightly.
"Just walk, Joey." Brandon says.
"Gage has a temper on him." Janela says.
"That's an understatement." Marko says. "I got to go this way. I'm sure I'll see you later."
"For laundry probably." Brandon says. "Try to rest up?"
"I'll try." Marko says.
"Brandon…" Janela starts to ask. Brandon just puts up his hand stopping him.
"Not here." Brandon says. He takes off the necklace putting the key into the room.
"They gave you a key?" Janela asks.
"Martini said he wanted me to have my privacy." Brandon says shrugging.
"You allowed to change?" Janela asks.
"Not yet. Not until after dinner." Brandon says. Janela sighs looking around the room. It looks like a normal room in any cabin. There was a bed in the middle of the room, a chair on the opposite side of the bed.
"B…are you okay?" Janela asks, sitting down on the chair.
"I haven't really had time to process it." Brandon says lying on the bed. "It's like I'm being thrown in every direction and I'm getting whiplash and in a state of shock."
"That can happen during traumatic events. Stupid question but I have to ask but have they hurt you?" Janela asks. "You don't have to go into detail."
"Yeah, they've hurt both of us." Brandon says. "A lot."
It was at this moment that Janela wishes he had befriended Brandon a bit more. At least then he would be more open to talk to him. He knew that he had to be stressed from everything going on and feuding with his partner can't be easy.
Silas takes Johnny, Roderick and Ricochet upstairs first taking the keys off the holders veering left.
"Roddy, you'll be Marko's neighbor across the way." He says opening the door.
"You just expect me to walk in?" Roderick asks.
"Don't make this any harder than it needs to be, Roderick." Silas says. Roderick sighs entering the room watching as Silas closes the door. He almost instantly goes to check it but it is locked. "Very end of the hall, Trevor." Ricochet starts to walk to the end of the hallway stopping at the wall.
"How many rooms does this place have?" Johnny asks looking back behind him down the hallway.
"There's a lot." Silas says.
"Can't say I'm surprised." Ricochet says. "Place is huge." He walks into the room.
"You'll have to share a bathroom with your neighbor, whoever that is." Silas says. "I'll come get you for dinner later tonight." Ricochet nods walking around the room inspecting it. The window looked to have been bolted to where it could only be opened a certain amount. He goes over to the closet completely empty. He enters the bathroom searching the drawers. Extra bars of soap and shampoo, electric razor, toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss. He could try to use the floss but he wasn't sure if that would work on screws. It couldn't hurt to try. He goes to go back into his room when he hears a commotion from the other room.
"Touch me one more fucking time, I dare you!"
"Silver, just leave it!" Shawn shouts. Silver screams in anger kicking something.
"Fuck!" Silver screams. Ricochet opens the bathroom door slowly.
"Um…you okay?" Ricochet asks. "We share a bathroom so our rooms are connected."
"You are Scorpio's brother, right?" Silver asks sitting on the bed taking off his sock wincing.
"Yup, that would be me." Ricochet says chuckling. "I'm Trevor."
"John Silver Daniels Kazarian." Silver says.
"You are Christopher and Kaz's son? How have we never met?" Ricochet asks.
"I know." Silver says laughing. "Takes something like this for us to meet."
"What happened to your wrists?" Ricochet asks, seeing the bandages around them.
"Was tied up for quite a while, was trying to get out and the plastic just dug in." Silver says. "I think I made some enemies."
"What do you mean?" Ricochet asks.
"Nash and Hall seem to be kind of obsessed with me." Silver says. Ricochet sighs nodding.
"Hey, I'm sure it's gonna be fine." Ricochet says.
"You always this positive?" Silver asks.
"Try to be." Ricochet says shrugging.
Sammy jumps when there's a knock at his bedroom door.
"Hey, it's time for dinner. Didn't really want to barge in on you." Brandon says.
"Sure, who's all coming?" Sammy asks.
"Cassidy, Trent, Page, Gargano, Slater, Roderick, and Buddy." Brandon says. "You just have the room closest to the stairs."
"Got it." Sammy says. "How...how are you doing?" Brandon just shrugs in response.
"It's better if I don't talk about it." Brandon says. "It still doesn't seem real."
"But they let you have free reign of the house. They must trust you enough to not run away." Sammy says.
"Not for the lack of trying." Brandon says.
"So you did try?" Sammy asks, stopping in front of a door resting up against the wall.
"Of course I did." Brandon says. "Hey, Roderick, dinner is ready. I just don't think it is worth it, Sammy."
"Right and I mean we are in the middle of the forest." Sammy says. They stop at all the rooms picking up all the men slowly making their way downstairs.
"What would you like to drink?" Brandon asks.
"I'll just have water." Roderick says.
"You want a beer or some wine?" Luger asks. Luger puts his hand up to Brandon's face. "One glass ain't gonna kill 'em."
"I don't know." Page says. Luger hits the table angrily.
"Boys, I am trying to be hospitable." Luger says. "I'll make sure Brandon is in charge of giving it to ya."
"I guess I'll have a beer." Page says nervously.
"I'll have a glass of wine." Gargano says. Brandon nods pulling out a beer opening the top with a bottle opener.
"It's safe." Brandon says putting it in front of Page's place at the table. "Johnny, I...I don't know what kind of wine you like so do you maybe want to pick? Is that okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine." Luger says nodding.
"Okay, I got meatless spaghetti, tofu spaghetti and just regular spaghetti with the ground beef." Silas says.
"Is there any mushrooms in any of them?" Murphy asks.
"Picky eater?" Silas asks.
"Kinda." Murphy says.
"Meatless doesn't have any." Silas says.
"Cool, I'll have that then." Murphy says.
Dinner ended without any problems.
"Brandon, finish your chores and then you can watch TV in the living room. Don't come up to the room until we come to get you." Martini orders.
"Can I take dinner to the guy out in the boat house? Does he even have a bed?" Brandon asks
"I don't know, Brandon. You'll have to ask Gage about that. But I don't see a problem with it if he doesn't." Martini says. Brandon sighs but nods. He hated dealing with Gage but he didn't want the guy to starve or be uncomfortable. He figures he could ask after he is done with the dishes. As he is halfway through he feels hands on his hips and he freezes.
"For fucks sake, DeMott, he's not going to be able to get them done if you bother him. Leave him be." Russo says. DeMott growls softly but retreats away from Brandon. "You okay?"
"Fine, thanks." Brandon says.
"I can finish if you want. Go check with Gage about Tom." Russo says. "I know you are probably worried."
"Thank you, sir." Brandon says. Brandon walks past the kitchen down the hallway to Gage's office knocking on the door.
"Come in." Gage says. Brandon opens the door nervously walking in.
"Um...I was just wondering if I could bring Tom some dinner and maybe a blanket? Does he have a bed in the boat house, Mr. Gage?" Brandon asks.
"He has a bed, Brandon." Gage says. "Sure, we can bring him some food and water. Grab a basket."
"A basket?" Brandon asks.
"The boathouse is massive. It's basically it's own house. Full kitchen, bathroom, living room, and a bedroom." Gage says. "I'll grab a laundry basket, you grab one too, stock it with things for the fridge, and maybe some fruit from the cupboards?"
"Sure. Thank you, Mr. Gage." Brandon says turning to exit the room quickly. He hadn't realized that he was holding his breath. That man could flip within a second and it scared him shitless.
Meanwhile Janela is startled by the opening of the door.
"I see you found the IPad." Martini says. "Are you enjoying it?"
"Would be better if it had the internet." Janela says.
"What so you could contact your friends? No way. We aren't that stupid." MVP says.
"Could have fooled me." Janela says.
"I see this one is going to be a troublemaker." MVP says.
"Montel, why don't you pick out some outfits? Shoes included." Martini says. "Come." Janela reluctantly stands from the bed following after Martini. He hadn't been able to properly search the bathroom. It was fairly large, the toilet on the left, bathtub and shower on the right. There looks to be a closet on the end of the bathroom. Martini opens the closet and drags a chair out along with a few towels. Martini sets the chair in front of the bathtub. "Take off your shirt."
"Why?" Janela asks. Martini sighs.
"Because we are washing your hair and we don't want your shirt to get wet now do we?" Martini asks. Janela takes off his shirt sitting down. "Lean back." Martini says pushing Joey to where his head is inside the shower. He reaches up to grab the shower head. He turns on the water waiting for it to warm up. "Let me know if it is too warm, okay?"
"Sure." Janela says. His instincts were on high alert, he had to be ready for anything.
"Relax, Joseph." Martini says. Martini can't ignore the instant flinch and grimace from the man. "Do you not like that name?"
"No, not really." Janela says.
"How about JJ?" Martini asks.
"Nobody has ever called me that before." Janela says. Martini nods as he starts to spray down Janela's hair.
"Is it alright if I call you it?" Martini asks.
"Yeah, I guess. It's better than Joseph and boring Joey." Janela says.
"I think I may braid your hair." Martini says leaning over to the sink grabbing the shampoo. He starts to rub it into Janela's hair.
"Braids?" Janela asks.
"Yeah, I can finally have fun with your hair. Not that there's anything wrong with Brandon. He has his positives." Martini says. Janela has his hands gripping the chair. Martini puts his hand on Janela's chest while he is rinsing his hair out. It felt wrong and predatory. But before long the hand is off his chest. Martini puts the conditioner into Janela's hair and rinses it out. "Alright, all set."
"Are we going to make him put it on now or wait until later?" MVP asks.
"Later." Martini says. "It's getting late anyways. I know Brandon will want to change soon."
"Come on then." MVP says. "Sit." MVP tosses Janela a plain black t-shirt.
Martini comes down the stairs into the living room.
"Russo, where's Brandon?" Martini asks.
"He was headed to the boat house with Gage but that was like 30 minutes ago." Russo says.
"Nobody went with them?!" Martini asks angrily rushing out the back door. Martini sees the light in the shed is on and makes his way towards it. The curtains are closed making him even more anxious than before. He tries the door but it is locked. He knocks on the door softly at first. "Gage, cut the bullshit I know you are in there. Open the fucking door." He hears the lock click and he opens the door walking inside. Brandon is visibly shaking in fear backed against the far wall of the shed, the only wall that wasn't covered in Gage's so called 'toys'. "Go inside, darling. Now. Montel is upstairs with Janela and he'll sort the two of you out."
"Th-thank you." Brandon says maneuvering away from Gage, Martini pushing him out the door. Brandon takes a shaky breath and goes to leave but can overhear the conversation happening in the shed.
"Leave him alone." Martini says. "I warned you before."
"He's just so fun to play with." Gage says.
"I don't care, find your own person to play with and leave Brandon alone." Martini says.
"And what if I don't?" Gage asks.
"Then you'll see how serious I can get." Martini says. He turns to leave shutting the door behind him. He sighs he knew he wasn't going to get rid of Gage that easily but he had to stop him from messing with his Brandon.