Chapter 12 – Escaping.

Dom's P.O.V

I walked in to the house to see Tej, Suki, Roman, and Jordan standing in the living room. Mia was holding Junior. "What's going on?" I asked.

"We heard about Stacey" Tej began.

"And we wanna help" Suki finished for him.

"And she left me this message" Roman said holding up an answering machine tape. I lunged at him snatching the tape from him. I ran to the answering machine and threw out our tape. I put in Roman's tape and pushed play.

"Roman, it's me Stacey. I need your help. Johnny Tran has taken me, he wants Dom here. He's looking for Dom, and I don't know where I am. All I can tell you is I'm in some kind of hotel or apartment building, on the 4th or 5th floor, the curtains are drawn, there are two big guys guarding the door. Rome, I'm scared I need your help. Don't call this number, trace it or take it to Dom. Please help me. Make sure Junior's safe!"

"You should show it to Bilkins" Brian announced.

"Can you trace the number?" I asked urgently. She was ok, I knew that now, but things could change so fast. We had our chance to find her; we had to do it now.

"Not from an answering machine no, but if you got the number we can find it that way" he said looking at Roman.

"I didn't think; I just raced over here." Roman told us.

"You better pray to god no one else has phoned you" I said walking towards him fists clenched.

"HEY FUCK YOU MAN…" Roman bellowed at me as I stood in his face. We began shouting at one another. I had no idea what I was shouting at him, I just wanted someone to blame other than myself. This was all my fault; Tran had her because of me. Tej stepped in between us. He was shorter than us both, but we both stopped shouting.

"This ain't gonna help get Baby Girl back, now cut the shit and let's do something about this" he told us both.

"Did you get in touch with Tia?" Mia asked once me and Roman had backed away from each other and I had sat on the couch.

I rubbed my hands over my head again. "Yeah, she's on her way down" I explained. "I called Bilkins too; she's getting a police escort."

All we could do now was wait, wait and wait. I was getting frustrated with waiting; everyone had gone out asking around to see if anyone knew anything. I wasn't allowed to leave the house in case he called. I got sick of flicking the TV channels, Junior was asleep. I went to the fridge and pulled out a corona taking the cap off as I turned around.

"You said you'd quit" Stacey said standing in the door way of the kitchen.

"What are you doing here? What happened? Where's Tran?" I asked not understanding what was going on.

"Sshh baby" she said as she walked over to me and took the corona from my hand. She leaned around me to put it on the kitchen counter. "Everything's ok I'm home" she added tiptoeing to kiss me. I kissed her back and it got passionate. God I had longed for this, yearned for it. She stopped kissing me and moved to kissing my neck. She was the only one that could get me hard just by kissing me. She looked in to my eyes then turned her back on me and walked to the kitchen door again, taking off her top on the way and throwing it to the floor.

"Like what you see?" she asked turning around, though it wasn't Stacey--it was Tia.

"Dom. Dom, wake up" Tia said shaking me.

"Oh shit" I said jumping up off the couch.

"Nice to see you too" she commented laughing at me.

"We've been calling you for the past half hour" Bilkins told me standing at the end of the couch. "How long have you been asleep?" he asked.

"I don't know. Last time I looked at the clock it was 7:45" I explained looking at the clock. It now read 10:13.

"If you didn't hear our calls maybe you missed Tran's too" Bilkins suggested. God I'm such a screw up. I can't even wait for a phone call properly. Stacey could be dead cause I didn't answer that phone.

"Do you know where he might be?" I asked looking at Tia.

"The only place I can think of is the apartment building my dad owns" she explained.

"It's worth a try" Bilkins announced. "You and Tia stay here, if Tran sees you he might do something stupid" he said.

I called Mia and told her to come home cause they had a lead and I didn't need anyone else going missing right now. They all came home, but stayed out of mine and Tia's way. Leaving us alone.

I felt wrong being with Tia, like I was betraying Stacey all over again, but it was the only thing I could think of to get her back. We had been quiet most of the time just watching TV. "So why do you wanna help?" I asked randomly.

"She's my friend" she told me.

"Ex friend" I corrected her.

"No, she's my friend. When she got pregnant with Junior she called me, didn't know who else to call, and I moved to Mexico to help her out. We got close again, like we use to be. When you came to Mexico after the last heist, Junior was with me. I didn't come round the house cause it wouldn't have been right. Stacey's mind was screwed up enough with out me being there with you so I stayed away."

Stacey's P.O.V

God I hoped Roman had got my message. If my hands weren't cuffed behind my back I would have prayed. Tran was beginning to worry me, he had been talking about back in the day when he use to fancy me for about half hour now and as the minutes went by it began to sound more sinister and perverted. He began telling me about fantasies he use to have about me and how Dom was never good enough for me and if I was with him he would treat me like a princess. It was like he had this sick obsession with me, it was weird.

"Remember just after you found out about Dom and Tia, you came around to say thanks for telling you…" he began. Fuck I was hoping he wasn't going to mention this. "We sat on my couch talking and I kissed you."

"Yeah I remember" I told him rolling my eyes.

"What do you think would have happened if Lance hadn't have come in?" he asked me. I would have kicked you in the nuts and left you, fucking psycho! That's what I wanted to scream at him but I couldn't.

"I don't know but I guess we'll never know" I told him trying to smile and not sound sarcastic.

"Well we're here now, no interruptions, just me and you" he began climbing on to the bed besides me.

"No, Tran no" I said shuffling myself off the bed. "You've already got kidnapping on your record. You want rape on there too?"

"You really think he's coming for you don't you?" Tran chuckled getting off the bed. "He's not coming to save you. You know he's called Tia don't you. As soon as you were out of the picture, he called Tia."

"That's not true" I said defensively. "He's coming for me Tran. You'll see."

"He's not coming for you" he told me walking towards me. "I could do anything to you right now and no one could stop me" he said putting his hand on my face. I began to back up. He followed me. I hit the window, I was trapped. He leaned in to kiss me, and I tried to wriggle away from him, but he grabbed my face and held me still.

"What good to you am I tied up?" I asked him breathing heavily, he probably thought it was cause I was turned on but it was cause I felt like I was gonna vomit.

"What? You mean you want to?" he asked his eyes widening.

"Yeah" I said "but I wanna do this properly" I said to him trying to be seductive.

"Sure, anything" he said pulling the tiny key out of his pocket. I turned around so he could take the cuffs off.

"You don't know how long I've been waiting for this" he said excitedly. He couldn't get the cuffs off quick enough. I rubbed my wrists where the cuffs had been. There were red sore rings where they had been. He came at me again trying to kiss me.

"Whoa. Slow down, just sit back and relax" I said pushing him towards the bed. He literally ran to the hotel door and opened it.

"Take a break guys, in fact take the rest of the day" he told the guards. I wasn't counting on that but hey it would make this easier. He ran like a little kid across the room and jumped on to the bed. He lay on the bed with his arms behind his head looking like a smug bastard. I wanted nothing more than to shoot him in the head and leave but I didn't have it in me to kill someone, not unless they had put my life in danger. And, fair enough, he had taken me, but not for one second did I think he was gonna hurt me.

I threw the handcuffs on to him landing them on his chest.

"Put them on" I said standing beside the bed.

"You're joking right?" he asked smiling.

"Didn't Dom tell you I like it kinky?" I asked him.

"I'm not putting them on" he said.

"Fine" I said "let's just do this."

…I waited till Tran was asleep then cuffed him to the bed as quietly and softly as I could. He had left the gun on the night stand beside the bed; I put it in the back of my trousers when I had dressed. He started to stir, he tried to turn over and when he couldn't he was wide awake.

I stood at the bottom of the bed pointing the gun at him.

"You bitch. You're gonna pay for this" he said.

"I have no doubt that I will" I told him backing towards the door still aiming the gun at him. I looked through the spy hole to make sure the guys were gone and they were. I opened the door, blew Tran a kiss. "See you round baby" I said before walking out and closing the door. I heard him begin to shout and scream so I ran.

I decided to take the stairs. If somehow he did contact his helpers, they would no doubt use the lift. And I didn't need to get caught again cause if I did Tran would definitely kill me. I ran as fast as I could jumping the last three stairs on each flight.

I managed to get to the ground floor and I ran through the lobby of the apartment building not looking at anyone or stopping to ask where I was. I just wanted to get out of there. It was dark outside; I didn't know where I was so there was no way I would make it far running. There was a cab across the road; I could see the driver was reading a paper as I approached.

I knocked on the window, he looked up and before I could speak he told me to get in. The expression on my face must have said everything for me.

He drove me to the Toretto house. I knew Junior would be there, and all I wanted to do was hold him in my arms.

"What time is it?" I asked the cabby.

"12:40" he told me. I had been missing for like 24 hours, but it felt like a week.

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