Whee! So many reviews! I love all you guys! Well, here's the second chapter, and things don't really get any better for any of them...ah well.
DarkLightJak: Well...he popped unbidden from my mind at about 11:30 at night. I don't know why, but I seem to be pretty good at inventing psychoes...
Mei Kimari: Whoops! Sorry. I didn't stop to think that that was an exclusively English thing. A balaclava is like a hat, only it covers down to your neck and usually has holes in it for the eyes. Basically, thugs buy big hats and cut eyeholes in them so they can't be identified in security footage...
ray-is-sexy: Ah, Brad's going to do some pretty cacky things to Rei before he gets pulled up for it. But will he be convicted? MAybe. Or I might do an accurate representation of the justice system in this country and let him get away with it...
The-Ultimate-Reader: I'm glad you like it, here's the update!
darkangelintheshadows: OMG indeed.
Arsinen: Oh, there'll be a lot of Rei-torture. I'm still deciding on the happy ending...
lady-nikki: Don't worry, I don't expect to stop writing for a long time yet! There'll be a bit of a gap in a few days since I'm going on holiday, so I might have to post a few chapters of this at once, but rest assured there'll always be more to be posted!
tntiggris: I'm gald you like it!
Prozacfairy: Maybe...or maybe not...you'll just have to wait until the rest of the fic is up.
Ropponmatsu III: It's going thataway! Quick follow it!
Ellen: Depending on what parings you like, you might or might not hate the ending of HBP. JK makes some pairings (most of which I HATE) canon. And Kai was just tired at the beginning, but now he's worried. Bless him.
bloody brandy: Thank you and here it is!
Little-Purple-Phoenix: You might want to murder Brad in his sleep, but down the page is a little more Rei-torture!
Platinum Rei: Wait no longer!
Hanishi: Glad you like it, here's the update!
WildChipmunkofYonder: I love your name! And I'm still debating about whether or not to have Kai save the day...
Jen Sweden: Here's the update, I hope you like this chapter as much as the last one!
devilburns: Wait no longer, the update is here!
Shin Rigel: Thank you for your wonderful review, and please can I have the link to the livejournal community? I love writing things like this. I did one a while back with Boris, but this time I wanted to create my own madman. I'm actually quite attatched to crazy Brad now...in a strange kind of way...
Hannah: Mariah would make a good kidnapper, but to be honest I think Rei would easily overpower her. Brad's taller and heavier, so Rei would have a harder time getting away. Oh, and Brad's insane. That has a lot to do with it.
Ashley: Feel free to flatter me, but you don't have to get on your hands and knees to get me to update! I'm so impatient I always update quickly anyway...
drunk person: Hurried and posted, and I hope you like it.
MoonLightObession: Thank'ee very much. Here's the update.
Hyperness: Hm. Usually when I post things, they're already written and they go through rigorous tweaking processes while I'm posting other things. To be honest, you stole the words right out of this chapter's mouth. I felt a need to use those words because I sang that song at my leaver's assembly and it means a lot to me now. Rei can't get out because Brad keeps locking doors on him, and Brad is stronger and heavier anyway. Kai was just plain old tired, and you'll have to see what happens on the relationship front. Although it must be noted that I am a dedicated slash author.
Yumi-Ulrich4ever: Your review made me positively beam! Thank you for being so nice!
Echo in the Dark: Glad you're liking it so far!
miriam906: Thanks, and here's the update!
Celestial-Dragon-Demon: I read one called intoxication before where Bryan locks Rei in his house...is that the one?
animeobsession: I'm not sure if I will or I won't...but I'm not going to let him escape scot-free even if I don't kill him.
And now the chapter!
Kai sat in a daze, watching Tyson and Max pace around and Kenny retreat into his laptop. So Rei had been kidnapped... Mr. Dickenson had had the entire building searched, but no-one had been able to find Rei. The car park, the nearby hotels and coffee shops all yielded nothing. Kai sighed heavily, closing his eyes. Rei had only been gone a few hours and it felt like days...
"Rei?" Rei closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep as the door clicked open and footsteps came into the room. "Rei?" A hand stroked Rei's backside and he shivered. "Rei...wake up..." Rei faked a sleepy groan.
"Unh?"
"Rei, wake up!"
"What?"
"Make me some breakfast." Rei blinked, then sat up.
"I'm still here, aren't I?" He asked, depressed. Brad grinned.
"Of course you're here baby, you're mine now. Now get up and make me some breakfast. I want pancakes!"
Rei closed his eyes again, sighing. He'd thought he'd been having a dream...this couldn't be real. He couldn't be sat in a small room in the flat of a madman. A mad -fan-, who wanted him to sleep with him and cook for him. Rei had no problems with the latter, but the former...
His hand clamped down on the hand that trailed over his thigh, towards his crotch. "Don't-AGH!" Brad slapped him and forced him down to the bed.
"I'll touch you if I want because you're mine! Your thigh is MY thigh and I'll touch it whenever I like!" To prove his point, Brad reached down and squeezed Rei's thigh hard, making the neko-jin gasp with pain and try to struggle free.
"G-Get off me!"
"No." Brad flopped down over him, pinning him tightly. Rei shuddered, feeling mattress springs pressing into his back and rear end, and Brad's heavy body pressing down on top of him. He couldn't stop a whimper from escaping his lips as Brad pressed closer. "Please...get off me..."
"But you love me, Rei, don't you? Don't you want to be close to me like this?"
"NO!" Rei cried, struggling. "GET OFF ME! GET -OFF- ME!" He screamed, panicking. It was wrong, he wanted to be home, he didn't like this horrible perverted man, he just wanted to be home...
"Baby, you make it sound like I'm raping you. Calm down, it's okay, because we love each other, right? So we can touch each other like this. Do you want to touch me?"
"No!"
"Don't be so shy, little Rei. It's okay. I'll let you touch me. I don't mind. I'd -like- you to." Rei felt his mouth go dry. He was locked up with a psycho who seemed to be in love with him, and seemed to think that Rei loved him back... "Please, let me go...please...I don't love you...get off me! Let me go home!"
"Rei, it's okay, I know you're scared."
"Of course I am! B-Because-"
"Because it's scary, touching and being touched, especially when you're a gorgeous little virgin like you...I know. People might not think it's okay for us to be together, because you're only fifteen baby, and I'm thirty-four, but that doesn't matter because love doesn't pay attention to age or nationality...look at you with your beautiful..." Brad leaned down and kissed Rei tenderly, making Rei tense and want to gag. "Beautiful lips...and beautiful skin...and your eyes..." Rei closed those eyes in despair.
That same morning, Kai woke with a start. He sat up, looked over at the empty bed that had previously been Rei's, and bit his lip. He could feel paranoia twanging in his mind- it had been there since he'd realised Rei was gone and it wasn't letting up any. Rei was a pretty young boy with girlish looks, so...he would obviously attract... Kai couldn't say it, even in his mind. He stood up and stared at the bedclothes of the bed on the other side of the room. They were still a bit crumpled from where Rei had sat down on them before going out.
As he stood there, Tyson walked in. "Do you think we'll ever find him?" Kai closed his eyes.
"I'd like to think we could." He said, voice low and slightly hoarse. "It seems strange, doesn't it? That he's...gone..."
"'Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?'. Gramps taught me that song a while back, and it's true. Must be weird being on your own in here, huh?" Kai nodded, too absorbed in his worrying to snipe at Tyson. "Heh, I guess I'll have to make my own breakfast..."
"Is that all you ever care about?" Asked Kai sharply. "Your stomach? He could be dead, Tyson, and all you can think about is your next meal!"
"Hey, that's not fair!"
"Oh just go away."
"Kai-"
"Go away."
Tyson left, and Kai sat down on Rei's empty bed, fingers curling in the fabric. He was surprised by how much Rei's disappearance had affected him, if he was honest. He had always prided himself on being cold and serious, but when he thought about Rei...being forced to stay with someone, forced to do their washing and clean for them, to be their personal slave...
He shivered and laid down, imagining a look of desperate fear on Rei's face.
Rei looked up at Brad as he finished his pancakes, smiling nervously. "So...can I go and see my friends now?" He asked hopefully. Brad looked up, licking his lips.
"No."
"Then...can I send them a message?"
"I don't have any paper."
"A video recorder then?" Brad shook his head, then smiled suddenly.
"I'll go and buy you one, baby, and you can tell your friends that they won't be seeing you any more!"
Rei almost sang. "Great!"
"I'll go now." Yes! Halleluiah! He could find a way out while Brad was gone- "But you'll have to go back into your bedroom so I can lock you in. Someone might steal you, babes, and I wouldn't want that now would I?" Brad laughed, standing up and grabbing Rei's shoulder, hoisting him up and shoving him hard, so hard that he sprawled back into the tiny room he'd woken up in. Something clicked in the lock and he stared at it, lip quivering. Trapped.
He looked around the plain cream-coloured walls and shivered. Trapped. Trapped, and the window was far too small for him to be able to get out of. He got up and sat on the bed, but that just brought back painful memories of Brad being pressed against him and he started to cry, fat tears rolling down his cheeks. He rolled over onto his front and sobbed, weak with fear and claustrophobia. He clasped his hands and started to pray. "I never believed in any gods or goddesses...but if any of you exist, please...let him leave me alone. Let someone find me. Let me get out of here alive and...pure. Please don't let him rape me. Please don't let him kill me. Please protect me, I swear I'll be your most loyal follower if you stop him from hurting me..." And so he went on. "Poseidon, Zeus, Thor, God, Buddha, Ganesh, Allah, anyone! Please just let me be okay...let him leave me alone..."
"Kai?" Someone shook Kai's shoulder gently. "Kai? Mr. D's here..." Kai muttered something and snuggled deeper into the blanket, breathing in the scent Rei had left ingrained in it. He smelt of...spice and summer... "Kai?" Another gentle shake and Kai opened his eyes to find Max hovering over him, looking concerned. "Kai, are you okay?"
"...I'm fine." Kai sat up, blinking slightly. "Mr. D's here?" Max barely had time to nod before Kai leapt up and ran past him, leaping down the stairs.
Kai ran into the living room and skidded to a halt in front of a solemn looking Mr. Dickenson. "Is he-? Have you found him?"
"I'm afraid not, Kai." Kai swallowed, trying to ignore the feeling of despair that settled in his stomach. He looked over at Tyson and saw that he was crying, head in his hands. "I think we have to face the fact that we don't have a very good chance of finding him." Continued Mr Dickenson, seriously. Kai stared for a second, the dragged his attention back to the matter in hand.
"If he's been kidnapped there may be some kind of ransom note on the way. You can't just give up on him!" Kai yelled.
"Kai, we have no idea where he might be. We have no way of knowing, because he was gone for so long before anyone realised."
"Then it's my fault, is it?"
"Kai, that's not what I said-"
"He could be being raped or beaten or anything and you don't even care!" Kai yelled, usual calm exterior gone. He couldn't explain why, but everything was wrong without Rei there. They had to find him. They had to. They couldn't just leave him as a question mark in crime figures, they couldn't just give up on someone who would never give up on any of them!
"Kai, that's ridiculous. Of course I care. We're not giving up on him, we're still searching around the hotel, and we're advertising on television and radio for news about him. But I'm trying to tell you that it doesn't look good." Mr. Dickenson laid a fatherly hand on Kai's shoulder. "You have to face the fact that we might never find him. And even if we do, he might not...be alive."
Kai closed his eyes. "I know."
Next chapter: You will wish to murder Brad in many horrible ways. That's all I'm saying.
R&R please! It sounds shameless, but it does help me edit faster...