Chapter 4

A feeling of cold and numbness woke Danny, oh boy was he cold. The bastards had taken his shirt or what was left of it after the beatings and threw it out. How many days or hours has it been since he saw daylight?

He didn´t remember. He tried to change to a more comfortable position, but his body hurt from head to feet.

Tim Rascone looked at his prisoner in the window/mirror, he drank some water while he was thinking what to do next. "Danny McCoy, what a challenge he proved to be."

The kid was holding up pretty nicely, it was a little annoying that nothing seem to break him. Tim had tried the water torturing: ask the prisoner if he was thirst and if he was, then give him so much he nearly drown. The kid had learned fast.

Then they tried to do the revers psychology, be nice and make Danny think that he was safe and that they wasn´t out to hurt him. Tim had gotten his own shiner from that experiment, the kid wasn´t that dumb. But his next step was something very exciting........

Ed was devastated, he didn´t know what to do. It was two days ago he got the letter with the picture and the keys. He looked at the tape in his hands, they found it in Danny´s car. The car was found outside a gas station, with this tape. He had watched it by himself, the others wanted to see it but he couldn´t let them do it.It was hard to see, knowing that what happened to Danny on the tape was all his fault. In the tape Danny had been "watered", beaten senseless but he never ask them to stop, never cried for help. Ed knew that the kid was tough but not this tough. His phone rang. "Ed Deline here." "Hello, my friend. How did you like the tape?" "Tim! I´m gonna kill you for this!" "Oh no, you really scaring me." Tim laughed out loud. " If you are not nice to me, I´m not letting you talk to the little Danny boy." "Ok, I will try to be nice if I can speak to him." Ed said with a tired voice. "Oki doki, here he comes" Ed heard the phone being carried and then some muffled voices. "Danny, can you hear me?"

"Ed?"

"Yes kid, it´s me. How are you holding up?"

"I´m pretty ok, but I will never stay in this hotel again, so scratch it of the list." Danny's voice broke and he heard him cough.

"Ok kid, we are coming to get you soon."

"What is he worth to you?" The phone had switch speaker again.

"What do you want?" Ed asked with a strained voice.

"Oh, I don´t know. You dead, maybe. Or a lot of cash."

"I can´t promise that you will see me dead because if I come near you, you surely will die!"

"Oh, feisty little fellow you are. Maybe we can meet, so you can see the little one and we can make a deal?"

"Name the time and place..."

"The gas station you found the car, time around midnight, and Ed....."

"Yes"

"Take only two dates with you and no guns! If you do, Danny would scream a lot, you know what I mean?"

"Ok, I understand"

Ed hung up, took a deep breath closed his eyes. Finding himself again he looked up and then began making his phone calls, it was 6 hours until midnight. Let the game begin.

Danny watched Tim close Danny´s cell phone. He were lying on the floor when Tim and his goons had come in the room. They had sat him up in a chair, his hands was still tied. He wondered what would be happening next.

"Try to find a shirt for the kid, we are going out." Tim said walking out the door.

"Yes, boss." Frank and Steve answered.

"I will go and get a shirt for him, you watch him and don´t go near him!" Frank said also walking out of the door.

"How long have you two been married?" Danny asked with a smirk. "I don´t have to ask who is the man in your relationship anyway."

"Shut your mouth. I´m not gonna let you talk to me like that." Steve was getting angry, Frank always pushed him around and this kid was getting on his nerves.

"Oh, are you afraid of me now that we are alone. Afraid that I´m going to kick your as?"

"You bastard!"

Steve jumped at Danny, sending the both of them gliding on the floor. They were fighting and Danny kicked Steve in the stomach repeatedly, but was getting tired fast. Then got a real nice kick between Steves legs, we can say that Steve stayed down after that kick. Danny was almost out the door when Frank came in, they stared at each other for a moment. Danny tried to get past Frank but he was really tired after the fight and the beatings. Frank punched him in his black and blue chest, Danny tried to put up a fight, but it was to much. He went down, again, on the hard and cold floor.

"I can´t leave you two a minute alone! Steve get up now!" Frank yelled, grabbing Danny and dragged him a bit. Steve got up, walked up to Frank and kicked Danny in the ribcage.

"That stupid kid, kicked me in the holy place! "

"Shut up you big baby! Hold him down so we can loosen his hands and put this sweater on him." Frank was hoping that this "kidnapping drama" would end soon. He was pretty tired of babysitting, he wanted his money now.

AN: Not very good writing, but hopefully somone like it.

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