A Strong Family Chapter 10: Captured, a speed racer fanfic

Chapter 10: Captured

Speed was holding Trixie in a protective embrace as he thanked God for finding her. His hand had just moved to caress where their baby was when seconds later, he felt his wife tighten her grip on him. He knew her tighter grip on him was because of the sound of the front door slamming shut.

"It's alright," he whispered as he held her close to him trying to comfort her. "It's very windy outside today and I left the door open. It just got blown shut," he said assuming that Zain was still at the race.

Relieved, Trixie leaned all of her weight on to Speed and said, "How did you find me? I thought you were in the race."

Speed loosened his tight embrace on his wife so that he could look at her. "I'll explain everything later, but I'll at least tell you now that Sparky took my place."

"Oh, my," Trixie said smiling as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "I hope he can control the Mach 5 with its power."

"Don't remind me," Speed said trying to forget the strength of the Mach 5. "Are you feeling okay?"

She knew his concern was for their baby too. "Yes," she said looking down at herself and then rubbing her unborn child with her hand. "The first time I really went absolutely crazy with panic was just now right before you showed up. I had thought it was Zain coming into the room."

Speed got mad just hearing Zain's name but fought not to show it. He didn't want to upset Trixie further. "Listen," he said holding her face in his hands. "Are you sure that you feel fine?" The first thing he planned on doing when they got back home was to bring Trixie to the doctor's office for a check up.

"Yes. I'm much better now," she said as her fingers moved to Speed's neck to gently tug on the end of the red sash.

"If anything else should happen, you have to stay calm no matter what," Speed said worried about her and the baby. "Just stay calm."

"I know. I knew it before. I just lost it for a minute," she said remembering being so happy when she was about to escape until she thought that Zain had come back. Her emotions went wild when she thought she was trapped after being so close to escaping. "No matter what I refuse to let anything happen to this baby," she said bravely as her eyes locked with Speed's blue ones.

Her husband gave her a little smile as he looked back at her. He then pushed her hair behind her ear staring into her hopeful green ones. "Before we get out of here, I have to do this," he said just before moving his face closer to hers, letting his lips touch hers. They both knew it was crazy to kiss now and in a dangerous place, but neither one of them could help it. After the affectionate kiss, Speed said, "Let's ditch this place."

Suddenly a deep, familiar voice said, "No way in hell are you leaving."

Speed saw the stunned look on Trixie's face just before he turned to see Zain standing in the doorway. Zain looked more than upset with Conrad standing there behind him. Looking back at Trixie, Speed said, "Please. Stay calm."

"Look at me, Speed," Zain demanded and Speed only turned his head to look at the mad man. "You were wrong about the wind shutting the front door. I did. And because I sensed that something wasn't right, we snuck down the hall. I then stood where I couldn't be seen and I heard your whole conversation. I really don't know how I didn't say anything when you kissed her." Zain truly thought Trixie belonged to him now as he took steps into the room with Conrad close behind him.

Speed then stood up in front of Trixie. She in turn stood up close behind her husband. Speed hated the circumstances they were in. There had been so many times in the past when he could look at Trixie and they could read each other's minds, knowing what to do. If she wasn't pregnant, he would have grabbed Zain and Trixie would have at least kicked Conrad until Speed could get to him. Her condition stopped their old way out, fast.

Suddenly, Zain began to smile at the both of them.

"I should kill you," Speed said still severely upset over Zain taking his wife and that the man could now stand here and smile over it.

"Let me tell you something," Zain said, "I'm smiling because you have made this easier on me."

"Made what easier on you?" Speed demanded with anger in his voice.

"I don't have to wait till the race is over to complete my new plan," Zain said as Conrad and he looked at each other laughing.

"Your sick plans are over," Speed said furious beyond belief.

"Oh really? Don't you even want to hear the new plan?" Zain asked folding his arms behind his back.

Speed didn't answer him. He really only wanted to pound Zain and the other guy's face in, but not wanting Trixie to get even more nervous kept him from doing so.

"Okay," Zain said blowing off Speed's angry stare. "I'll just tell you my new plan whether you want to hear it or not. I'm going to kill you, Speed."

"No," Trixie said evident that she was starting to cry.

"Not if I kill you first," Speed said not looking scared at all. Trixie had never heard Speed's voice this way before. It was filled with total hate; showing no fear of Zain at all.

This got to Zain a bit but he shook it off. "I'm going to kill you so I can marry Trixie and be the father of that baby."

Speed realized that he had been absolutely right about Zain falling in love with Trixie. How can this sick man think that he's going to take away the two most precious people in my life? Speed thought furiously. "Trixie is my wife and the baby is ours, not yours!"

"Oh, really!" Zain roared pulling a gun out from the back of his pants and then pointing it at Speed.

Conrad pulled a gun out and pointed it at Speed as well. "Maybe we could both waste him at the same time," Conrad said as Trixie gasped.

"That would be too easy," Zain said just before noticing how upset Trixie was. He walked closer to Speed and Trixie and said in a gentle voice to her, "I'm not going to hurt you, Dear. I told you that before."

"If you hurt him, you hurt me," Trixie said holding on to Speed's arm.

Loving his wife just as much, Speed angled himself to where he made it harder for Zain to see her.

"I don't want you to get upset. The baby can't come yet. It still needs more time inside of you," Zain said as if it was really his. "Now come here, Darling."

"No," Trixie said shaking her head no as well.

"I'm going to say this calmly one more time," Zain said. "Come here or I'll blow Speed's head off right now."

"No, Trixie," Speed said calmly. "He's bluffing."

"You think so?" Zain asked with a laugh.

"Okay. Okay. I'm coming," Trixie said remembering how scared Tim sounded when he was so sure that Zain would kill him if he found him. She unwillingly walked away from Speed and to Zain.

"Conrad," Zain said looking at Speed. "Get me a chair and the rope we were going to originally use for Trixie."

A minute later, Conrad returned with a chair and the rope.

"Now sit in the chair," Zain said looking at Speed as he pushed the point of the gun on to Speed's head.

"Zain…please," Trixie said distressed.

"Trixie Dear. Calm down. Remember the baby. I just don't want Speed to try anything."

Speed sat in the chair and then let Conrad tie his hands behind it. Conrad even tied Speed's legs to the legs of the chair.

"Good, Conrad. Now I want to talk to Speed alone," Zain said with a smile.

"No," Trixie said scared for Speed's life.

Zain let out a breath and then said calmly, "I promise not to kill him…unless you don't give us a minute alone."

Trixie looked defeated as she walked to Conrad looking at her husband with helplessness in her eyes.

Zain then looked at Conrad and said, "Take her into the den."

"He better not hurt her," Speed said when he and Zain were alone. "Don't worry. He knows better," Zain said as if he and Speed were on the same team; both wanting to protect Trixie.

Zain then closed the door and put the gun down on the nightstand next to Speed.

Speed stared at the gun for a couple of seconds.

"I don't think you can get to it right now," Zain said again enjoying torturing Speed.

Speed looked back at Zain as he tried to free his hands that were tied behind the chair, but the knots were extremely tight.

"Who is driving the Mach 5?" Zain asked puzzled.

Knowing it would be on the TV soon enough, Speed said, "My mechanic and friend, Sparky."

"Didn't I tell you not to bring anyone in on this?"

"He doesn't know anything. As my good friend, he just did what I asked not needing a reason."

Zain wanted to believe him because he didn't want the police to be bursting in through the door. "Does he know where you are?"

Still looking extremely mad, Speed said, "No. I wasn't even sure where I was going."

"How did you find us?" Zain asked now very interested.

There was no way that Speed was going to say a word about Racer X. "I just guessed it being that it only took about an hour for Trixie to get here the night you kidnapped her."

"Oh, yes," Zain said thinking that Speed was sharp. "I remember telling you that she was almost here the first time I called you. So you too figured that the woods would be a nice secluded place as did I."

Speed didn't answer as he just looked at Zain with hate in his eyes.

"Well, Speed. I planned on ending your life tonight but I'm afraid that Trixie might go into labor too early from being upset if I did that."

"I am her husband. I guess she would be upset if you killed me. You really are totally insane!" Speed said forgetting about the gun on the nightstand.

Zain backhanded Speed across his face making Speed's face turn to the side. "You won't be her husband for long and you're not the father of that baby!"

Speed turned his head back to Zain, furious at what Zain had said. "That baby was conceived by Trixie and me. She and I made love to each other."

This time Zain backed handed Speed with his other hand across the other side of Speed's face.

Speed again turned his face back to look at Zain wishing he wasn't tied down to a chair.

Beyond furious, Zain said, "I don't want to hear of Trixie's mistakes again."

Speed's eyes widened. "Our marriage if far from a mistake! You have no idea what we have been through together," Speed said thinking of all the crazy races they had been in together before they had even gotten married. After the image of a couple of the races flashed through his mind, he said, "I thought you only wanted me to lose the race."

Zain's face calmed down as he thought about how he was going to answer Speed. "At first I did only want you to lose the race but then I met her." Zain smiled as he remembered having dinner with Trixie just the other night, before he continued. "I pulled out some old magazines and read a couple of articles about the two of you. I especially liked the parts about Trixie. How intriguing she is."

"You can't take someone else's wife," Speed stated like Zain was crazy.

"She'll be a widow when I take her," Zain said with that agonizing chuckle Speed had heard so many times over the phone.

"You said yourself that you can't kill me because Trixie might go into labor and put the baby's life in danger," Speed said calmly trying to reason with Zain.

"I know," Zain said very low with disappointment in his voice. "I guess I'll let you hang around a little longer and then I'll kill you after the child is born."

"Let me ask you something. After you kill me. Do you think Trixie will just fall in love with you?" Making sure he kept a calm tone to his voice, Speed added, "She loves me. I think killing me will really make her hate you."

Realizing that Speed could be right, Zain felt his hands turn to fist at his sides. "Even though I can't kill you yet, I still want to hurt you."

"Go ahead," Speed said. "Trixie will really fall for you if you attack me!"

Zain closed his eyes and thought, I have to make sure that Trixie stays calm because of the baby. I can make her fall in love with me after the child is born. Picking the gun up from the nightstand, Zain walked to the door.

"Wait," Speed said trying to hide the sudden panic he felt. "Where are you going to keep Trixie now?"

Zain didn't answer him as he turned to walk down the hall. He just knew that for now, Trixie had to go back to Speed so that her life and the baby's wouldn't be in danger.

Within about a minute, Conrad entered the room with Speed. Speed looked at Conrad and demanded, "Why are you helping Zain? He's trying to take my wife and child from me!"

Conrad ignored what Speed was saying as if he couldn't hear him. He then smiled and said, "Weren't you wondering why Zain instructed me to tie you to that chair?" Conrad didn't give Speed time to answer before saying, "I get to knock you around a bit."

"It should be easy since I'm tied down," Speed said as if Conrad was a coward.

"Too bad I can't kill you…yet," Conrad said walking over to Speed ready to throw his first punch.

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About an hour and a half away, the race ended with Doug being in first place.

Pops made a growling sound as he said, "I don't even see the Mach 5." He had lost contact with it some time ago and had no idea that Sparky had been insulted by his remarks so the mechanic turned Pop's voice off.

About thirty cars had finished by now. "There it is!" Pops exclaimed seeing the Mach 5 appear on to the end of the course.

Racer X had been listening to the race over his radio as he drove through the woods. Of course he wasn't surprised that Speed lost. However, he was surprised that Speed let himself lose so badly.

"Speed," Pops said rolling up his sleeves as he walked towards the Mach 5, which had just stopped.

"Honey," Mom Racer said behind him. "Calm down."

"Don't worry. I'm not going to kill him," Pops said trying ever so hard to remain calm. "I just want to know why he threw the race."

Sparky only had one foot out of the car when Pops yanked the rest of him out. "Speed," Pops said in a fake, nice voice with a fake smile. "Why did you drive so…well today?"

Sparky didn't answer as he decided that he didn't like being Speed anymore.

Mom Racer was staring at her son, or thought she was till she realized who it was. "Sparky," she said like a mother scolding her child. "Take off that helmet now!"

"What?" Pops asked looking closer because his sweat was blocking his eyes a bit.

Once the helmet was off, Pops, Mom, and other people that were near enough to see, stared at Sparky in surprise.

"Where is my son!" Pops demanded while pulling Sparky by the collar of his shirt almost off the ground.

"I don't know," Sparky said looking nothing short than scared.

"What do you mean you don't know!" Mom Racer shot back ready to shake Sparky till the information they wanted fell out of the mechanic's mouth.

Sparky didn't like this side of Mom Racer but he wasn't surprised to see it come out over her precious son being missing.

Back in the room in the cabin, Conrad was punching Speed's abdomen over and over. Speed tried to tighten his stomach muscles hoping to ease the pain but he was finding it hard to breathe after a while.

"Sparky," Pops said trying to compose himself but obviously still very angry. "Tell me where Speed is and why you are driving the Mach 5."

Quivering, Sparky said, "Speed...asked...me to...drive in...the race."

"Why would he want you to drive? Now where is he!" Pops demanded again staring at Sparky.

Racer X was just about to turn his radio off when he heard that the Go Team was experiencing a disturbance. He felt beside himself when he heard that Speed hadn't been in the race, and the Masked Racer realized that his little brother had been out looking for his wife. Luckily there was only one cabin left for Racer X to check out and he hoped Trixie was there. "Oh, little brother," Racer X said hoping that both Speed and Trixie were okay.

When the punching finally stopped, Speed let out a breath as he tried to gain his composure.

"Wait," Conrad said remembering Zain telling him not to punch Speed's face because it would upset Trixie to see how hurt her husband was. "Sorry, Zain. Just one," Conrad said and he then swung hard and punched a very weak Speed across the face. In an evil voice, Conrad said just before walking through the door to leave, "Like I care if Zain takes your wife and child."

Still tied to the chair, Speed was trying to tell himself that it didn't hurt that much. He had to focus on getting his pregnant wife out of there.

He was breathing easier by the time Trixie was lead in by Zain. Zain only smiled at Speed before releasing Trixie's arm. The mad man then closed and locked the door leaving the two of them alone.

"Oh, Speed," Trixie cried moving over to him. "What did that jerk do to you?"

Speed tried to act as if nothing had happened, "I'm fine. Really."

Trixie put her hand on Speed's face and her eyes searched his as if to see if he was telling the truth about being fine. There was a slow trickle of blood coming from a very small cut by the corner of his eye.

Trixie wiped it away with her thumb and then kissed him there. "I have to get you untied," she said moving to the back of Speed to fool with the rope that was in a tight knot. It took her some time to get it done but she was successful at freeing his hands.

When the ropes fell freely from Speed, he very, very carefully bent down and started to untie his legs. When he finished, he ever so slowly stood up.

Trixie moved to hug him and he unintentionally winced when her arms went around him.

"You're hurting," she said looking worried as she saw yet another small trickle of blood in the same spot, by his eye.

"No. I'll be fine," Speed said forcing himself not to act like he really felt. He didn't want her to worry about him as he sat down on the bed. He also couldn't tell her that there was a possibility of Racer X finding them. What if the room was bugged for Zain to hear? Worse, what if he was wrong about Racer X finding them?