Chapter 49
[Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I had a major patch of writers block. How is it going so far? I can't believe this has gone on so long. I didn't think I could be patient enough myself to do such a long story. I hope it isn't boring you, it should be over at chapter 50.]
He couldn't stop his feet if he tried, even Nick and Hogan couldn't hold him this time. "SARA!" He shouted after hearing her scream his name from a window at the side of the house. A light flickered and his eyes stopped on a window overlooking the small wood they were hiding behind.
"Gil!" Catherine tried to get his attention as he continued to walk up the road. "You can't go up there Gil!" She tried again.
Grissom turned as her words registered. "She must know I'm here, Catherine. Why else would she call for me?"
"Perhaps she doesn't know." Hogan tested the waters carefully, but backed up when Grissom glared at him. "Jake might be using her."
Shaking his head, he sighed. "No. Jake's going to lash out if I'm even thought about. Sara knows that and she'll make sure Kate knows that too."
Commotion from a few yards away caught everyone's attention as a police office came running down the road. "He's asking for you Dr. Grissom."
Everyone turned confused and worried eyes on Grissom as he stared at the officer in shock and disbelief. "He asked for me?" He stammered. As the officer nodded, Grissom started moving again, but stopped when Nick pulled out his weapon and checked it. He then knelt down beside Grissom and lifted his pant leg.
"He's not going to think to look here Griss. You're not exactly in any state to fight back and he'll use that." Nick told him as he stuffed the small firearm into his friends sock. He stood and nodded. "Go get them back Griss."
Grissom looked at Catherine, then back at Nick before nodding and turning to follow the officer.
~*^*^*~
Jake stared at Kate and sighed. She was blind folded, but her ears weren't covered. He couldn't shove her in a cupboard, but that wouldn't exactly be showing his fatherly side, would it? She's gagged, but that's about it. She's tied to the chair, but safe from harm. She can't get hurt, she can't attract attention if things get more intense. All he's got to do, is get Grissom to listen to Sara and everything will be fine. The cops will go and they can get back to being a family.
Without Grissom.
~*^*^*~
Grissom stood at the end of the path, looking up at the house. Barely a light could be seen now. Jake was obviously thinking about this and taking precautions. This could make it safer on Sara and Kate, but it was more difficult for the police to track Jake's movements.
Well, here it goes.
"Jake!"
Before he could shout out again, the door opened and Jake's voice could be heard. "You packing?"
"No."
"I wouldn't lie to me, Doc."
Grissom sighed and held his arms up the best he could and turned, pulling his jacket open slightly. "See?"
"Not like you'd be able to do anything in your state, Doc. Figured you'd be dead by now."
"I must have someone looking out for me." Grissom suggested, thinking about Gavin and why they hadn't heard anything from him yet. It wasn't supposed to go this way. Gavin said he'd help and no one would be hurt, where was he?
"Walk up here slowly, keeping your arms out. Not tricks, Doc."
Grissom scoffed. "Like I could manage a trick, Jake."
"Just making sure."
~*^*^*~
Sara watched from the far corner of the living room. Jake had turned out all the lights and they were sitting in darkness. Only a few hours until light and everything would be over, but whether it be for the better, she didn't know.
She had told Jake that she would tell Grissom the truth, but what was Jake's truth? Was he expecting her to know? The only truth she knew was that she loves Grissom, but if Jake wants a truth she doesn't know, what will he do? He said he wouldn't hurt Kate or Grissom, that's all she needed to here. Now, all she needed to figure out was what Jake's version of the truth was.
~*^*^*~
Kate could hear everything, including Jake's ramblings. She hadn't felt so scared in her life, but now she didn't know what to feel, she couldn't see or move, which brought a sense of security. She knew she couldn't upset Jake this way, but she didn't like it. She wanted to go home, be with her family and friends, like this never happened.
~*^*^*~
As Grissom approached the door, he had to control himself, keep his already tattered emotions locked up, so he didn't spook Jake into doing something stupid.
But that logic went out the window as Jake grabbed his injured arm and pulled him into the house with an angry strength and pushed him off balance. "Fucking Bastard!"
"Jake! You said you wouldn't hurt him." Sara's voice floated to Grissom's ears, filling his heart with hope that everything could be alright.
Jake growled in frustration and gave a final push on Grissom's already bruised and battered body, watching him fall against the wall and brace himself on the windowsill. "Just, fucking sit down."
Grissom's eyes were already scanning the darkened room. The only thing he could make out was the couch and a body laying across it. It was Gavin. He could see the 6ft tall male, sprawled out. "What happened to Gavin?"
Jake spun around and stared at Grissom with fiery eyes. "I didn't say you could talk." Giving Grissom the once over with his eyes, he smirked. "It hurt?"
Looking up at him, Grissom nodded. "Yeah."
"Good."
"Jake?" Sara asked. When she had his attention, she tried so hard to keep her eyes from straying to find the blue ones she desperately wanted to see. "You said I had to say something."
"Don't act all coy, honey." Jake chuckled and brandished the gun in his hand as he cross the room to kneel beside Sara's limp form leaning against the wall. "All you got to do is tell him the truth about all the times you came home angry and all the things we used to talk about."
Sara's eyes instantly widened as she registered exactly what he was talking about. She began to shake her head, but Jake reached up and painfully held her jaw in his hand. "Don't lie, tell the truth." His voice was gruff and firm.
Grissom watched as Jake hauled Sara to stand. His eyes did a quick scan for Kate, but he still couldn't see her. His heart was hanging heavily as he continued to search, but still couldn't find her. His attention was quickly soaked up as Sara was forced to kneel in front of him. He held the smile that threatened to show. God, It was good to see her! He tried to tell her with his eyes, but she wouldn't look at him.
"Sa-" He tried to speak, but Jake held the gun to her head.
"No speaking. My wife has something's to tell you." Jake grinned.
The fact that Jake had called her 'his wife' didn't go unnoticed by Grissom, nor did the state of Sara's body. She looked so tired. Her face was bruised and her lip was bleeding from obvious blows of Jake's backhand. Her body looked so thin and frail, like she hadn't eaten. But none of that properly registered, the only thing that mattered the most was that she wasn't meeting his eyes.
Sara swallowed hard and tried to find her voice. It was so easy a few moments ago, but now, it was so hard. She'd never really told him this. It didn't seem important anymore, not after they were together. She couldn't look into his eyes, she knew she'd be unable to tell him this if she had to see his pained eyes.
Taking a deep breath, she let it out slowly, staring at the carpet between them. There was only a matter of inches between where their hands rested. Jake's pressure on the gun, dug into her head and she winced. "Tell him what you told me." He growled.
"You... have to-understand...-" She began, but Jake rolled his eyes and smacked her head.
He grabbed her hair and hissed into her ear. "No pleasantries are needed, sweetheart. The truth tells all."
Finding it more and more difficult to find the words, she just opened her mouth and the words came flowing out. "You were ignoring me. For years, you avoided me." She cringed and practically sank lower. "I use to go home and cry because you were so angry with me."
Jake grinned. It was going to be a blast, seeing Grissom break before his eyes. "More. Tell him what you told me."
"I am!" She snapped.
"Hey, I'm the good guy here." Jake teased with an evil grin.
Sara sighed and pushed on the carpet with her fingertips, feeling the burning beneath her skin. "I used to curse you. I-I-I hated you so much."
"Uhuh. The truth." Jake pressed.
Tears were already streaming down her face as she dug her fingers into the carpet. "I hate you so much for what you did to me. I wish I never met you."
Grissom's eyes were clouding with tears as he watched her tears and her hand, not so far from his. He saw her fingers digging into the carpet, wanting to reach out and stop her, but Jake held the gun tightly and Sara was still speaking. Her words were hitting his heart so hard.
It was so difficult to let her in when he first met her, when he asked her to work for him, but it didn't seem to matter anymore.
He was so confused.
"I think he's got the point." Jake chuckled sickly, pulling the gun back to retreat into the darkness.
Sara's eyes were closed, but she felt familiar warmth fill her, causing her eyes to lock with glistening blues. She registered the burning on her fingertips, but the warmth enclosed around her hand, filled her heart. When she looked up, she saw his small smile and his eyes. He was waiting for something, some kind of reassurance. She squeezed his hand and watched his mouth as his smile faded and his lips moved.
'I love you.'
Jake's movements broke their connection. "Ok. Now for the next confession."
"Kat-" Grissom's voice trailed off when Jake set the chair Kate was tied to, a few metres ahead of them.
Jake sighed. "Can't you shut up?" He untied the blindfold and before he pulled the gag off, he crouched in front of Kate, staring her in the eyes. "You even think about it, sweetheart, and you'll not see daylight for a while." He warned.
Kate nodded, but opened her mouth to speak as soon as her gag was removed.
Grissom shook his head and watched Jake. "Why don't you let Kate go? She's got nothing to do with this."
"She's got everything to do with this! If you hadn't interfered in the first place, she would know who I am and she would never have heard of you!" Jake yelled.
"Ok." Grissom tried to calm Jake down, as he started pacing. "That probably would have happened, but it didn't."
"Because of you!"
"Because of you, Jake!" Sara blurted out before she could stop herself.
Jake's black eyes turned on her in a second. "I did nothing!"
"You did everything to pull our marriage apart." Sara counted.
Grissom tried to reach for Sara, to stop her, but she pushed herself up.
Jake's whole attention was on Sara. "What the hell are you doing!?" He couldn't believe the gall of the woman. "Sit the fuck down, you whore!"
"No." Sara clenched her fists and stood her ground. "I'm sick and tired of being you're punching bag. You're nothing but a bully. And I'm Not Scared Of You Any More!" She yelled, taking a step forward.
Jake raised the gun to point it directly at her chest. "Fucking Whore! You Know Nothing! The Hell I've Been Through!"
"Hell!? Hell!? You are my hell!" She screamed, the barrel of the gun was almost touching her chest now.
Grissom pulled his legs under him slowly and reached down cautiously to his sock. Jake and Sara were yelling more loudly and Grissom's eyes were darting back and forth between the gun, Jake, Sara and Kate, but the gun seemed to be more important as Jake flicked off the safety.
"You Ruined My Life!" Sara managed to shout past the terrified lump in her throat. She may be trying to act not scared of him, but she was past that on many levels.
Kate was crying and shouting out to Grissom, calling on him to stop them. Grissom managed to pull the gun and point it at Jake quicker than he thought he would, but Jake had already pulled the trigger.
"No!" Kate cried, turning her head away.
Grissom's voice was louder and against his battered body, he managed to get to his feet and stand directly behind Sara. "Sara!"
Everything was happening in slow motion.
TBC
[Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I had a major patch of writers block. How is it going so far? I can't believe this has gone on so long. I didn't think I could be patient enough myself to do such a long story. I hope it isn't boring you, it should be over at chapter 50.]
He couldn't stop his feet if he tried, even Nick and Hogan couldn't hold him this time. "SARA!" He shouted after hearing her scream his name from a window at the side of the house. A light flickered and his eyes stopped on a window overlooking the small wood they were hiding behind.
"Gil!" Catherine tried to get his attention as he continued to walk up the road. "You can't go up there Gil!" She tried again.
Grissom turned as her words registered. "She must know I'm here, Catherine. Why else would she call for me?"
"Perhaps she doesn't know." Hogan tested the waters carefully, but backed up when Grissom glared at him. "Jake might be using her."
Shaking his head, he sighed. "No. Jake's going to lash out if I'm even thought about. Sara knows that and she'll make sure Kate knows that too."
Commotion from a few yards away caught everyone's attention as a police office came running down the road. "He's asking for you Dr. Grissom."
Everyone turned confused and worried eyes on Grissom as he stared at the officer in shock and disbelief. "He asked for me?" He stammered. As the officer nodded, Grissom started moving again, but stopped when Nick pulled out his weapon and checked it. He then knelt down beside Grissom and lifted his pant leg.
"He's not going to think to look here Griss. You're not exactly in any state to fight back and he'll use that." Nick told him as he stuffed the small firearm into his friends sock. He stood and nodded. "Go get them back Griss."
Grissom looked at Catherine, then back at Nick before nodding and turning to follow the officer.
~*^*^*~
Jake stared at Kate and sighed. She was blind folded, but her ears weren't covered. He couldn't shove her in a cupboard, but that wouldn't exactly be showing his fatherly side, would it? She's gagged, but that's about it. She's tied to the chair, but safe from harm. She can't get hurt, she can't attract attention if things get more intense. All he's got to do, is get Grissom to listen to Sara and everything will be fine. The cops will go and they can get back to being a family.
Without Grissom.
~*^*^*~
Grissom stood at the end of the path, looking up at the house. Barely a light could be seen now. Jake was obviously thinking about this and taking precautions. This could make it safer on Sara and Kate, but it was more difficult for the police to track Jake's movements.
Well, here it goes.
"Jake!"
Before he could shout out again, the door opened and Jake's voice could be heard. "You packing?"
"No."
"I wouldn't lie to me, Doc."
Grissom sighed and held his arms up the best he could and turned, pulling his jacket open slightly. "See?"
"Not like you'd be able to do anything in your state, Doc. Figured you'd be dead by now."
"I must have someone looking out for me." Grissom suggested, thinking about Gavin and why they hadn't heard anything from him yet. It wasn't supposed to go this way. Gavin said he'd help and no one would be hurt, where was he?
"Walk up here slowly, keeping your arms out. Not tricks, Doc."
Grissom scoffed. "Like I could manage a trick, Jake."
"Just making sure."
~*^*^*~
Sara watched from the far corner of the living room. Jake had turned out all the lights and they were sitting in darkness. Only a few hours until light and everything would be over, but whether it be for the better, she didn't know.
She had told Jake that she would tell Grissom the truth, but what was Jake's truth? Was he expecting her to know? The only truth she knew was that she loves Grissom, but if Jake wants a truth she doesn't know, what will he do? He said he wouldn't hurt Kate or Grissom, that's all she needed to here. Now, all she needed to figure out was what Jake's version of the truth was.
~*^*^*~
Kate could hear everything, including Jake's ramblings. She hadn't felt so scared in her life, but now she didn't know what to feel, she couldn't see or move, which brought a sense of security. She knew she couldn't upset Jake this way, but she didn't like it. She wanted to go home, be with her family and friends, like this never happened.
~*^*^*~
As Grissom approached the door, he had to control himself, keep his already tattered emotions locked up, so he didn't spook Jake into doing something stupid.
But that logic went out the window as Jake grabbed his injured arm and pulled him into the house with an angry strength and pushed him off balance. "Fucking Bastard!"
"Jake! You said you wouldn't hurt him." Sara's voice floated to Grissom's ears, filling his heart with hope that everything could be alright.
Jake growled in frustration and gave a final push on Grissom's already bruised and battered body, watching him fall against the wall and brace himself on the windowsill. "Just, fucking sit down."
Grissom's eyes were already scanning the darkened room. The only thing he could make out was the couch and a body laying across it. It was Gavin. He could see the 6ft tall male, sprawled out. "What happened to Gavin?"
Jake spun around and stared at Grissom with fiery eyes. "I didn't say you could talk." Giving Grissom the once over with his eyes, he smirked. "It hurt?"
Looking up at him, Grissom nodded. "Yeah."
"Good."
"Jake?" Sara asked. When she had his attention, she tried so hard to keep her eyes from straying to find the blue ones she desperately wanted to see. "You said I had to say something."
"Don't act all coy, honey." Jake chuckled and brandished the gun in his hand as he cross the room to kneel beside Sara's limp form leaning against the wall. "All you got to do is tell him the truth about all the times you came home angry and all the things we used to talk about."
Sara's eyes instantly widened as she registered exactly what he was talking about. She began to shake her head, but Jake reached up and painfully held her jaw in his hand. "Don't lie, tell the truth." His voice was gruff and firm.
Grissom watched as Jake hauled Sara to stand. His eyes did a quick scan for Kate, but he still couldn't see her. His heart was hanging heavily as he continued to search, but still couldn't find her. His attention was quickly soaked up as Sara was forced to kneel in front of him. He held the smile that threatened to show. God, It was good to see her! He tried to tell her with his eyes, but she wouldn't look at him.
"Sa-" He tried to speak, but Jake held the gun to her head.
"No speaking. My wife has something's to tell you." Jake grinned.
The fact that Jake had called her 'his wife' didn't go unnoticed by Grissom, nor did the state of Sara's body. She looked so tired. Her face was bruised and her lip was bleeding from obvious blows of Jake's backhand. Her body looked so thin and frail, like she hadn't eaten. But none of that properly registered, the only thing that mattered the most was that she wasn't meeting his eyes.
Sara swallowed hard and tried to find her voice. It was so easy a few moments ago, but now, it was so hard. She'd never really told him this. It didn't seem important anymore, not after they were together. She couldn't look into his eyes, she knew she'd be unable to tell him this if she had to see his pained eyes.
Taking a deep breath, she let it out slowly, staring at the carpet between them. There was only a matter of inches between where their hands rested. Jake's pressure on the gun, dug into her head and she winced. "Tell him what you told me." He growled.
"You... have to-understand...-" She began, but Jake rolled his eyes and smacked her head.
He grabbed her hair and hissed into her ear. "No pleasantries are needed, sweetheart. The truth tells all."
Finding it more and more difficult to find the words, she just opened her mouth and the words came flowing out. "You were ignoring me. For years, you avoided me." She cringed and practically sank lower. "I use to go home and cry because you were so angry with me."
Jake grinned. It was going to be a blast, seeing Grissom break before his eyes. "More. Tell him what you told me."
"I am!" She snapped.
"Hey, I'm the good guy here." Jake teased with an evil grin.
Sara sighed and pushed on the carpet with her fingertips, feeling the burning beneath her skin. "I used to curse you. I-I-I hated you so much."
"Uhuh. The truth." Jake pressed.
Tears were already streaming down her face as she dug her fingers into the carpet. "I hate you so much for what you did to me. I wish I never met you."
Grissom's eyes were clouding with tears as he watched her tears and her hand, not so far from his. He saw her fingers digging into the carpet, wanting to reach out and stop her, but Jake held the gun tightly and Sara was still speaking. Her words were hitting his heart so hard.
It was so difficult to let her in when he first met her, when he asked her to work for him, but it didn't seem to matter anymore.
He was so confused.
"I think he's got the point." Jake chuckled sickly, pulling the gun back to retreat into the darkness.
Sara's eyes were closed, but she felt familiar warmth fill her, causing her eyes to lock with glistening blues. She registered the burning on her fingertips, but the warmth enclosed around her hand, filled her heart. When she looked up, she saw his small smile and his eyes. He was waiting for something, some kind of reassurance. She squeezed his hand and watched his mouth as his smile faded and his lips moved.
'I love you.'
Jake's movements broke their connection. "Ok. Now for the next confession."
"Kat-" Grissom's voice trailed off when Jake set the chair Kate was tied to, a few metres ahead of them.
Jake sighed. "Can't you shut up?" He untied the blindfold and before he pulled the gag off, he crouched in front of Kate, staring her in the eyes. "You even think about it, sweetheart, and you'll not see daylight for a while." He warned.
Kate nodded, but opened her mouth to speak as soon as her gag was removed.
Grissom shook his head and watched Jake. "Why don't you let Kate go? She's got nothing to do with this."
"She's got everything to do with this! If you hadn't interfered in the first place, she would know who I am and she would never have heard of you!" Jake yelled.
"Ok." Grissom tried to calm Jake down, as he started pacing. "That probably would have happened, but it didn't."
"Because of you!"
"Because of you, Jake!" Sara blurted out before she could stop herself.
Jake's black eyes turned on her in a second. "I did nothing!"
"You did everything to pull our marriage apart." Sara counted.
Grissom tried to reach for Sara, to stop her, but she pushed herself up.
Jake's whole attention was on Sara. "What the hell are you doing!?" He couldn't believe the gall of the woman. "Sit the fuck down, you whore!"
"No." Sara clenched her fists and stood her ground. "I'm sick and tired of being you're punching bag. You're nothing but a bully. And I'm Not Scared Of You Any More!" She yelled, taking a step forward.
Jake raised the gun to point it directly at her chest. "Fucking Whore! You Know Nothing! The Hell I've Been Through!"
"Hell!? Hell!? You are my hell!" She screamed, the barrel of the gun was almost touching her chest now.
Grissom pulled his legs under him slowly and reached down cautiously to his sock. Jake and Sara were yelling more loudly and Grissom's eyes were darting back and forth between the gun, Jake, Sara and Kate, but the gun seemed to be more important as Jake flicked off the safety.
"You Ruined My Life!" Sara managed to shout past the terrified lump in her throat. She may be trying to act not scared of him, but she was past that on many levels.
Kate was crying and shouting out to Grissom, calling on him to stop them. Grissom managed to pull the gun and point it at Jake quicker than he thought he would, but Jake had already pulled the trigger.
"No!" Kate cried, turning her head away.
Grissom's voice was louder and against his battered body, he managed to get to his feet and stand directly behind Sara. "Sara!"
Everything was happening in slow motion.
TBC