Her eyes focused on a figure coming towards her. The footsteps grew closer
as a man dressed in black crossed the distance of the room coming in her
direction. There was a faint light from the street lamp that illuminated
the figure heading for her. The figure was wearing a black sweater and what
appeared to be black denim jeans. She noticed the man headed towards her
was very well built muscularly, evident by the way his muscles bulged
underneath his clothing. He stood before her enjoying the sight of her at
his mercy. He took his right hand and placed it under her chin, raising her
head till she was looking into his eyes. He leaned close to her right ear
and said tauntingly, "Well, Well. We meet again I see.", the scent of his
cologne filling her nostrils.
"Oh god, where am I?" Kim said to herself as her eyes darted around the room, picking up on the familiar odor.
Her captor began to walk around her chair, finally stopping in front of her and said, "I believe you and I will get to know each other quite well while you're here." He sneered as he began to stroke her cheek. Kim jerked her head away as the mans hand touched her cheek.
"Tsk Tsk." he said as he clenched her chin, his grasp immobilizing her head.
"Fiery one are you?" he asked mockingly, his right hand tracing her collarbone watching her reaction with a smirk on his face.
She felt her skin crawl as his hand traced along her collarbone, looking at the disgusting smirk he wore on his face. In her mind she called out for Bobby, hoping this wasn't actually happening, that it was just a bad dream or something. She fought against the restraints he'd put on her hoping she could break free, once the actuality of the situation sunk in.
"I don't think you're going anywhere anytime soon," the harsh voice of the man before her said, squeezing her thigh with his hand.
She tried to kick at him but couldn't due to the tape that had been applied to her ankles, keeping them securely fastened to the legs of the chair she was in. She felt a sense of relief when she saw the figure move off into the shadows, which gave her the opportunity to try and figure a way out of this situation.
"Where have I smelled that cologne before?" she asked herself, wracking her brain to remember where she knew the odor from to possible help identify the person who'd kidnapped her.
Meanwhile, Bobby had fallen asleep by the phone when he was awakened by the image of Kim being kidnapped flashed into his brain. He woke up drenched in sweat and eyes wide, full of fear. He quickly grabbed the phone and called her apartment. When he got no answer he began to panic and called Kim's mother to see if she had heard from her. Her mother hadn't heard from her either and was worried because she was supposed to have picked up Joey after work. Frantically, Bobby called Alex to see if she had seen her. Alex hadn't seen Kim since before she left the station at the end of her shift.
By now fear had consumed Bobby's mind. He decided to head to the firehouse and retrace the steps Kim normally took to get to her complex after work. Half way to where she lived, he accidentally kicked something on the sidewalk. He looked down but couldn't see anything since it was dark, but something told him to kneel down and check it out anyway. As his hand touched the ground, he felt something made out of nylon. As he picked up the object and held it closer to the light, he realized he was holding the bag Kim always carried with her to work. Tears began to flow down his face in anguish at the thought of not knowing whether she was ok.
Bobby called Alex back, since she'd asked him to if he found anything out. As she listened to what Bobby said, she felt as if she'd been hit in the stomach. The fact that her best friend was missing was almost too much for her to take. As Alex hung up the phone after talking to Bobby, she could no longer hold back the tears that had formed as her body became wracked with sobs. Having heard muffled sobs coming from the living room of his apartment, Ty quietly got up and found Alex crying.
"What's wrong?" Ty asked as he placed a strong arm around her shoulders.
"Bobby called. Kim never made it home from work last night so he went to the firehouse to retrace the steps she would have taken to get home and found her bag on the ground in the shadows, not even half way from her apartment complex. Somebody had to have kidnapped her." Alex cried as she broke down in Ty's arms.
"Lemme go call Sully, Faith and Bosco and we'll start looking for her." Ty said softly, as he rubbed Alex's back as she cried on his shoulder.
Minutes later the four officers met at the firehouse and headed out to find Kim. Bobby headed back to his place, unable to believe that someone had kidnapped Kim. He prayed she was ok, hoping that everything would soon be back to normal.
Meanwhile, Kim's mind raced, wondering if anyone had noticed she was missing. While her captor slept, she quietly tugged and worked the tape trying to loosen it. If she could loosen it enough she could reach her cell phone in her back pocket. All night long she worked at the tape that bound her to the chair. The next morning her captor awoke and found her trying to sleep, but regardless of what she did, she couldn't drift off to sleep. Next thing she knew, her captor had come around behind her and jerked her head back by her hair. Forgetting to change his voice, he looked her straight in the eye and said menacingly, "By the time I'm done with you, you'll wish you'd never gotten involved."
Just then the terrifying realization hit of who had kidnapped her.
"Oh god, this can't be happening again." she screamed in her mind; "Please Bobby, please find me," she pleaded to herself as a tear slid down her cheek.
Her captor released her hair and stormed out of the building. Kim frantically began to work on freeing one of her hands, knowing that time was of the essence. Finally she freed her left hand and reached for her cell phone. She quickly put the phone in her lap and removed the tape from her mouth and breathed air into her burning lungs. As soon as she could speak, she called Bobby.
"Hello." came a groggy voice.
"Oh god Bobby, please help me," She cried.
"Where are you?" Bobby asked as fear traumatized his mind at the sound of the panic and sheer terror in her voice.
"I don't know, I'm in an abandoned building tied up. I was able to loosen the tape on my left arm to get to my cell phone," she said as she forced herself to calm down.
"Do you know who kidnapped you?" he asked.
"I think I just figured it out, thanks to something he said before he stormed out of the building." she replied.
"What did he say?" Bobby asked as a knot of fear built up in his stomach.
"He told me that by the time he's done with me I'll wish I'd never gotten involved in all of this." she replied quietly.
Just then, it hit Bobby who had kidnapped Kim.
"Oh god, he's coming back. I've got to go," she said frantically; "I'll call again next chance I can."
"Ok, I love you Kim. Please stay safe." Bobby said softly.
"I love you to Bobby." She replied as tears began to slip down her face, as she silently prayed she'd see him again.
She quickly hung up the phone and slipped it back into her pocket and tried to free her right arm and legs before her captor came back into the room. Just as she freed herself and stood up, her captor walked through the door.
"Just what do you think your doing you little bitch!" came her captor's booming voice as a look of anger appeared in his eyes.
"Getting the hell away from you." she growled.
Just then, her captor charged and lunged at her. Kim managed to elude his grasp and ran for the door. She was almost there when she felt herself being jerked backwards. Her captor spun her around to face him, but at the same moment Kim took her free hand and ripped the mask off of her captor's face.
"Did you miss me?" came his booming voice again as he forcefully kissed Kim's mouth.
Her eyes were wide with fear as she stared at the face of her kidnapper. His sinister smile and sudden burst of angry words made her wonder if she'd ever see Bobby again.
"You'll wish you'd never done that!" Matty roared as he backhanded Kim across the face, sending her flying backward onto the floor.
She slowly tried to get up but was pinned to the floor by Matty.
"I see what my brother sees in you, too bad he'll never see you again." Matty snarled in her face.
Pure undefiled rage grew inside Kim at the thought of Matty keeping her from Bobby and Joey. She mustered all the strength she could and began to writhe around beneath Matty praying he released one of her arms. Finally he did, placing one hand on her stomach to keep her from moving around beneath him. She managed to free her right arm and balled it into a fist and punched Matty in the face, sending him rolling off of her. She got to her feet and scrambled to the door as adrenaline surged through her. She reached the stairs and realized she was almost free from her night in hell. When she stepped into the light outside, she realized where she was and took off to the closest building she knew of that was near the location of where she was at, the firehouse. Matty saw her running and gave chase but was quite a was behind her. She grabbed her cell phone from her pocket and called Bobby as she ran and told him to meet her at the firehouse. Bobby called Ty and relayed the meeting spot to the rest of the officers. Kim ran as hard as she could to get to the firehouse, her lungs burned, screaming for her to stop, but she was determined to live, for her son's sake as well as for Bobby.
As she entered the firehouse, she ducked behind one of the fire trucks, gasping for air. When she saw Matty coming towards her, she sprinted towards the staircase that led to the roof of the station. Hearing movement, Matty ran after the noise not knowing if it was Kim or one of the firefighters. Bobby and the officers entered just as Matty took off after Kim. They heard footsteps running on the stairs and immediately followed in pursuit. When Kim reached the roof, she fell to the ground but got right back up, just as Matty stepped onto the roof.
"Damn it! I can't take this anymore! Someone help me!" She screamed, wondering why she hadn't seen any of the fire fighters when she was running for the roof.
Kim stared at Matty and he stared back at her as they waited for the other to make a move. Matty then lunged at her and managed to grab a hold of her arm before she could move out of the way.
"For that little stunt, you are going to pay dearly." He sneered, grabbing her by the throat and slamming her already weak body into a brick wall.
As the wind was knocked from her body, she became dazed for a bit until she heard Bobby's voice as he came up to the roof. When she heard Bobby's voice she called out to him hoarsely, praying he heard her. Matty tightened his grip on her throat as he slammed her to the ground. The force of her head hitting the ground gave Matty time to pin her down beneath his massive weight, rendering her helpless. A short scream escaped her lips as Matty slammed her to the roof.
"You'll pay for trying to escape from me," he said full of rage as he punched her repeatedly in her face, chest and stomach.
Having heard her scream, a sense of urgency built up in Bobby as they followed the direction her scream had come from. Bobby began to sneak up on his brother who had his back turned to him. Before Matty knew what had hit him, Bobby had ripped him off of Kim and threw him backward onto the ground. He then turned back and helped her battered body to stand. As Kim wiped a trickle of blood from her mouth, Matty began to charge at Bobby, but he moved out of the way as Matty slammed into the same wall he'd thrown Kim into. Bobby put his arm around Kim and helped her back to where the police officers were standing. She felt something wasn't right and looked back over her shoulder just as Matty pulled out a gun and aimed it at Bobby's back. She screamed as she watched him pull the trigger and instinctively shoved Bobby out of the way as the bullet entered her right shoulder.
As soon as the officers had a clear shot, the four of them returned fire at Matty. As Bobby slowly got to his feet, he noticed Kim lying motionless on the ground. He ran over to where she lay and knelt down beside her. Faith and Bosco ran to get the medics while Sully checked to see if Matty was still alive. Bobby found a pulse on Kim's neck and knew she was alive, but was barely holding on.
"Bobby, what can I help do?" Ty Davis asked.
"Help me roll her so I can see if there is an exit wound, I'm afraid the bullet might have hit the subclavian artery which is the main artery leading into the arm." Bobby said as he held pressure over the entry wound.
The two men carefully rolled her onto her left side and saw no exit wound, which meant the bullet was still inside her body. Just as they were about ready to lay her flat, Alex and Carlos came running with supplies and a backboard. Ty and Bobby stepped back and let there two friends take over and prepared Kim for transport to Angel of Mercy hospital. Bobby went over to the body of his dead brother and said several sentences in Spanish and left to go to the hospital to be with Kim. Sully and Davis placed a tarp over Matty and watched as the ambulance below sped away.
Bobby sat in the waiting area of the hospital with the rest of firehouse 55 as the waited to hear about Kim's condition.
"Oh god, where am I?" Kim said to herself as her eyes darted around the room, picking up on the familiar odor.
Her captor began to walk around her chair, finally stopping in front of her and said, "I believe you and I will get to know each other quite well while you're here." He sneered as he began to stroke her cheek. Kim jerked her head away as the mans hand touched her cheek.
"Tsk Tsk." he said as he clenched her chin, his grasp immobilizing her head.
"Fiery one are you?" he asked mockingly, his right hand tracing her collarbone watching her reaction with a smirk on his face.
She felt her skin crawl as his hand traced along her collarbone, looking at the disgusting smirk he wore on his face. In her mind she called out for Bobby, hoping this wasn't actually happening, that it was just a bad dream or something. She fought against the restraints he'd put on her hoping she could break free, once the actuality of the situation sunk in.
"I don't think you're going anywhere anytime soon," the harsh voice of the man before her said, squeezing her thigh with his hand.
She tried to kick at him but couldn't due to the tape that had been applied to her ankles, keeping them securely fastened to the legs of the chair she was in. She felt a sense of relief when she saw the figure move off into the shadows, which gave her the opportunity to try and figure a way out of this situation.
"Where have I smelled that cologne before?" she asked herself, wracking her brain to remember where she knew the odor from to possible help identify the person who'd kidnapped her.
Meanwhile, Bobby had fallen asleep by the phone when he was awakened by the image of Kim being kidnapped flashed into his brain. He woke up drenched in sweat and eyes wide, full of fear. He quickly grabbed the phone and called her apartment. When he got no answer he began to panic and called Kim's mother to see if she had heard from her. Her mother hadn't heard from her either and was worried because she was supposed to have picked up Joey after work. Frantically, Bobby called Alex to see if she had seen her. Alex hadn't seen Kim since before she left the station at the end of her shift.
By now fear had consumed Bobby's mind. He decided to head to the firehouse and retrace the steps Kim normally took to get to her complex after work. Half way to where she lived, he accidentally kicked something on the sidewalk. He looked down but couldn't see anything since it was dark, but something told him to kneel down and check it out anyway. As his hand touched the ground, he felt something made out of nylon. As he picked up the object and held it closer to the light, he realized he was holding the bag Kim always carried with her to work. Tears began to flow down his face in anguish at the thought of not knowing whether she was ok.
Bobby called Alex back, since she'd asked him to if he found anything out. As she listened to what Bobby said, she felt as if she'd been hit in the stomach. The fact that her best friend was missing was almost too much for her to take. As Alex hung up the phone after talking to Bobby, she could no longer hold back the tears that had formed as her body became wracked with sobs. Having heard muffled sobs coming from the living room of his apartment, Ty quietly got up and found Alex crying.
"What's wrong?" Ty asked as he placed a strong arm around her shoulders.
"Bobby called. Kim never made it home from work last night so he went to the firehouse to retrace the steps she would have taken to get home and found her bag on the ground in the shadows, not even half way from her apartment complex. Somebody had to have kidnapped her." Alex cried as she broke down in Ty's arms.
"Lemme go call Sully, Faith and Bosco and we'll start looking for her." Ty said softly, as he rubbed Alex's back as she cried on his shoulder.
Minutes later the four officers met at the firehouse and headed out to find Kim. Bobby headed back to his place, unable to believe that someone had kidnapped Kim. He prayed she was ok, hoping that everything would soon be back to normal.
Meanwhile, Kim's mind raced, wondering if anyone had noticed she was missing. While her captor slept, she quietly tugged and worked the tape trying to loosen it. If she could loosen it enough she could reach her cell phone in her back pocket. All night long she worked at the tape that bound her to the chair. The next morning her captor awoke and found her trying to sleep, but regardless of what she did, she couldn't drift off to sleep. Next thing she knew, her captor had come around behind her and jerked her head back by her hair. Forgetting to change his voice, he looked her straight in the eye and said menacingly, "By the time I'm done with you, you'll wish you'd never gotten involved."
Just then the terrifying realization hit of who had kidnapped her.
"Oh god, this can't be happening again." she screamed in her mind; "Please Bobby, please find me," she pleaded to herself as a tear slid down her cheek.
Her captor released her hair and stormed out of the building. Kim frantically began to work on freeing one of her hands, knowing that time was of the essence. Finally she freed her left hand and reached for her cell phone. She quickly put the phone in her lap and removed the tape from her mouth and breathed air into her burning lungs. As soon as she could speak, she called Bobby.
"Hello." came a groggy voice.
"Oh god Bobby, please help me," She cried.
"Where are you?" Bobby asked as fear traumatized his mind at the sound of the panic and sheer terror in her voice.
"I don't know, I'm in an abandoned building tied up. I was able to loosen the tape on my left arm to get to my cell phone," she said as she forced herself to calm down.
"Do you know who kidnapped you?" he asked.
"I think I just figured it out, thanks to something he said before he stormed out of the building." she replied.
"What did he say?" Bobby asked as a knot of fear built up in his stomach.
"He told me that by the time he's done with me I'll wish I'd never gotten involved in all of this." she replied quietly.
Just then, it hit Bobby who had kidnapped Kim.
"Oh god, he's coming back. I've got to go," she said frantically; "I'll call again next chance I can."
"Ok, I love you Kim. Please stay safe." Bobby said softly.
"I love you to Bobby." She replied as tears began to slip down her face, as she silently prayed she'd see him again.
She quickly hung up the phone and slipped it back into her pocket and tried to free her right arm and legs before her captor came back into the room. Just as she freed herself and stood up, her captor walked through the door.
"Just what do you think your doing you little bitch!" came her captor's booming voice as a look of anger appeared in his eyes.
"Getting the hell away from you." she growled.
Just then, her captor charged and lunged at her. Kim managed to elude his grasp and ran for the door. She was almost there when she felt herself being jerked backwards. Her captor spun her around to face him, but at the same moment Kim took her free hand and ripped the mask off of her captor's face.
"Did you miss me?" came his booming voice again as he forcefully kissed Kim's mouth.
Her eyes were wide with fear as she stared at the face of her kidnapper. His sinister smile and sudden burst of angry words made her wonder if she'd ever see Bobby again.
"You'll wish you'd never done that!" Matty roared as he backhanded Kim across the face, sending her flying backward onto the floor.
She slowly tried to get up but was pinned to the floor by Matty.
"I see what my brother sees in you, too bad he'll never see you again." Matty snarled in her face.
Pure undefiled rage grew inside Kim at the thought of Matty keeping her from Bobby and Joey. She mustered all the strength she could and began to writhe around beneath Matty praying he released one of her arms. Finally he did, placing one hand on her stomach to keep her from moving around beneath him. She managed to free her right arm and balled it into a fist and punched Matty in the face, sending him rolling off of her. She got to her feet and scrambled to the door as adrenaline surged through her. She reached the stairs and realized she was almost free from her night in hell. When she stepped into the light outside, she realized where she was and took off to the closest building she knew of that was near the location of where she was at, the firehouse. Matty saw her running and gave chase but was quite a was behind her. She grabbed her cell phone from her pocket and called Bobby as she ran and told him to meet her at the firehouse. Bobby called Ty and relayed the meeting spot to the rest of the officers. Kim ran as hard as she could to get to the firehouse, her lungs burned, screaming for her to stop, but she was determined to live, for her son's sake as well as for Bobby.
As she entered the firehouse, she ducked behind one of the fire trucks, gasping for air. When she saw Matty coming towards her, she sprinted towards the staircase that led to the roof of the station. Hearing movement, Matty ran after the noise not knowing if it was Kim or one of the firefighters. Bobby and the officers entered just as Matty took off after Kim. They heard footsteps running on the stairs and immediately followed in pursuit. When Kim reached the roof, she fell to the ground but got right back up, just as Matty stepped onto the roof.
"Damn it! I can't take this anymore! Someone help me!" She screamed, wondering why she hadn't seen any of the fire fighters when she was running for the roof.
Kim stared at Matty and he stared back at her as they waited for the other to make a move. Matty then lunged at her and managed to grab a hold of her arm before she could move out of the way.
"For that little stunt, you are going to pay dearly." He sneered, grabbing her by the throat and slamming her already weak body into a brick wall.
As the wind was knocked from her body, she became dazed for a bit until she heard Bobby's voice as he came up to the roof. When she heard Bobby's voice she called out to him hoarsely, praying he heard her. Matty tightened his grip on her throat as he slammed her to the ground. The force of her head hitting the ground gave Matty time to pin her down beneath his massive weight, rendering her helpless. A short scream escaped her lips as Matty slammed her to the roof.
"You'll pay for trying to escape from me," he said full of rage as he punched her repeatedly in her face, chest and stomach.
Having heard her scream, a sense of urgency built up in Bobby as they followed the direction her scream had come from. Bobby began to sneak up on his brother who had his back turned to him. Before Matty knew what had hit him, Bobby had ripped him off of Kim and threw him backward onto the ground. He then turned back and helped her battered body to stand. As Kim wiped a trickle of blood from her mouth, Matty began to charge at Bobby, but he moved out of the way as Matty slammed into the same wall he'd thrown Kim into. Bobby put his arm around Kim and helped her back to where the police officers were standing. She felt something wasn't right and looked back over her shoulder just as Matty pulled out a gun and aimed it at Bobby's back. She screamed as she watched him pull the trigger and instinctively shoved Bobby out of the way as the bullet entered her right shoulder.
As soon as the officers had a clear shot, the four of them returned fire at Matty. As Bobby slowly got to his feet, he noticed Kim lying motionless on the ground. He ran over to where she lay and knelt down beside her. Faith and Bosco ran to get the medics while Sully checked to see if Matty was still alive. Bobby found a pulse on Kim's neck and knew she was alive, but was barely holding on.
"Bobby, what can I help do?" Ty Davis asked.
"Help me roll her so I can see if there is an exit wound, I'm afraid the bullet might have hit the subclavian artery which is the main artery leading into the arm." Bobby said as he held pressure over the entry wound.
The two men carefully rolled her onto her left side and saw no exit wound, which meant the bullet was still inside her body. Just as they were about ready to lay her flat, Alex and Carlos came running with supplies and a backboard. Ty and Bobby stepped back and let there two friends take over and prepared Kim for transport to Angel of Mercy hospital. Bobby went over to the body of his dead brother and said several sentences in Spanish and left to go to the hospital to be with Kim. Sully and Davis placed a tarp over Matty and watched as the ambulance below sped away.
Bobby sat in the waiting area of the hospital with the rest of firehouse 55 as the waited to hear about Kim's condition.