Through Thick and Thin

Chapter 4

Ric froze when he heard Elizabeth's voice. No, she isn't supposed to be here! She is going to ruin my whole plan. Courtney looked up at Ric, and could see that he was shocked at Elizabeth's presence. Suddenly Courtney realized that this was her way to get help.

"Help me," she screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping that Elizabeth would hear it and come in. Ric turned around.

"Shut up," he said with an evil look on his face.

"Elizabeth doesn't care what happens to you," he said as he hit Courtney making her stummble back.

"Ric….. Are you there?" Elizabeth said, as she started to open the door. Ric quickly put a gag in Courtney's mouth to shut her up. He ran to the door, and opened it.

"What are you doing here?" he asked as he shut the door. Elizabeth looked up at him with a surprised look on her face.

"I thought we had plans… is everything okay?" she asked as she hugged Ric.

"I could swear that I heard somebody screaming inside." Ric looked down at her and shook his head slightly.

"I was watching a horror movie," he said, hoping that she believe him, as he couldn't have anything go wrong with his plan, he was going to get revenge on Sonny for everything that he done to his family.

"I really wish that I could do something with you, but I am really busy with work," he said as he smiled at her.

"Maybe we can do something another day," he said. Elizabeth smiled.

"Okay," she said as she leaned over and kissed him.

"You aren't hiding anything from me are you?"

"Of course not," he said as he held her tightly.

"I really wish that I could spend time with you, but I'm so busy, that we wouldn't have any time to do anything," Elizabeth looked up at him.

"Okay, I'll see you later," she said as she walked away from Ric. He then walked back into the apartment, and saw that Courntey was gone.

"Damn it," he said aloud to himself, as he looked over the apartment. How could she have escaped? He then saw that she was on the balcony, hurrying down the fire exit. He rushed out to grab her.

"What do you think you are doing?" Ric asked. Courtney jumped.

"There is no way that you are escaping," Ric said as he pulled out his gun, and put it behind her back.

"You are going to walk slowly back inside, if you don't. I will have to shoot you," Courtney did exactly what he said, as she didn't know what else to do. They walked back into the apartment.

"Sit," he said as he shoved her onto the couch.

"Don't even think about escaping this time," Courtney didn't say anything to Ric. She was so scared and didn't know how to respond.

Five minutes later, Ric grabbed a hold of Courtney,

"Come on,"

"Where are we going?" she asked, afraid.

"Away from here," Ric said as he and Courtney left the apartment. She looked back.

"I love you Jason, please save me," she whispered as they walked out of the apartment.

**

Jason was waiting impatiently at Sonny's penthouse, when Sonny entered.

"What did you find out?" asked Jason as he got up from the couch.

"Ric has Courtney, but I couldn't find where he took her," explained Sonny. Jason looked up at Sonny with this very angry look on his face.

"We have to find her now, if Ric has hurt her, I'm going to kill him." Jason angrily as he grabbed his jacket.

"I'm going to find her," he said as he started walking out of the penthouse. Suddenly the phone, Sonny grabbed the phone. Right away Sonny knew exactly who it was.

"Wait Jason," Sonny said, before Jason went onto the elevator.

"Do you want your sister to live?" Ric questioned. He knew that Sonny would do anything for his family.

"If you have hurt my sister, you are dead," Sonny said bitterly into the phone.

"Is that really how you should talk to the person who has your sister's life in his hands?" Ric asked with a smirk.

"Just tell me what you want?" Sonny asked, getting impatient with Ric.

"Meet me at the pier in half an hour," Ric said as he hung up the phone. Sonny turned to face Jason.

"Ric wants to meet us at the pier in half an hour,"

"Come on, let's go," said Jason as they left the penthouse. Both Sonny and Jason looked at each other, thinking the same thing, hoping that Courtney was okay.

***

Sonny and Jason showed up at the pier, Ric was waiting for them.

"I see you brought Jason, I guess you want to know where your precious Courtney is, but she isn't here, and I'm not going to tell you where she is," laughed Ric. Jason had to hold himself back from killing Ric, but he knew that if he killed Ric, he would never know where she is.

"You tell us right now where she is," demanded Sonny.

"Why did you summon me here if you not going to tell me where my sister" Sonny looked up at Ric, and started to get really furious. "If you have hurt my sister, you are dead."

"Is that a threat?" Ric asked.

"I can find ways that nobody can even find you ever again," Sonny said seriously.

"Tell me where Courtney is," he said as he shoved the gun in Ric's stomach.

"Don't you want to know why I'm doing this," Ric asked.

"If you kill me you'll never know," Ric said with an evil grin on his face. Sonny put his gun down for now.

"I won't kill you right now, but it doesn't mean I won't later,"

"If you tell me where Courtney is first," Sonny said.

"No way… she is my revenge for my sister's death. You are going to feel what it is like to lose a sibling." Ric said angrily. Sonny and Jason started to walk away from Ric. Ric watched them walk away from him. He had to tell Sonny who he was before it was too late.

"I'm Lilly's brother," Both Jason and Sonny looked back at Ric, shocked at his news, but was he telling the truth?

To be continued!!!

Author's Note: I would like to thank everybody that has reviewed this story, it means a lot to me. I also would like to thank tydavislover for reading it over for me. I hope you like this chapter, there is going to be more twists and turns come up in the next few chapters. I know on the show that Ric is Sonny's half brother, but for my story that is what he is going be!