Chapter Thirteen

So Far From You

Black umbrellas. Black suits. Black dresses. Black cars. One black car with black curtains. Black clouds that rolled in with the thunder and brought down droplets of rain that caught every black object in them, mirroring the sadness on grass blades at their feet.

Tori just stood there as they lowered the black box into the ground, the prayer done and over with. The few people around her started to disperse, but few stayed. Three to be exact. Her foster mother's own two children who were already grown up and out of the house, along with her ex-husband.

Her young daughter was crying, while her brother and father just stood there, looking indifferent and out of place. Tori couldn't help but feel that same twinge of guilt in her stomach as she stared at them. They had only met a few times. However, this was the first time Tori had ever seen her ex-husband. The only way she knew it was he was by the same expression he wore now as he did in their wedding picture. That same indifferent expression.

It made her shiver.

When they finally left, Tori raised her head up to the sky and closed her eyes. She felt like drowning in the rain, wishing it would cleanse her. Make her pure again.

But she could never go back to that time. It was too long ago.

She sunk to the ground and just sat there with her knees drawn up to her chest. The rain pounded hard against the ground around her and on her. It became so heavy that she could barely see three feet in front of her.

Which is why she was surprised to find a pair of hands around each arm and pulling her off the wet ground. Her soaking wet body was pulled into an equally wet one. But she found warmth in it.

"Wufei…" She whispered his name as she hugged him tighter.

"Come on, let's go." He told her.

She just nodded her head and let him drag her away.

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It was late. Everything was quiet, except for the air conditioner. Wufei was asleep, but Tori was wide-awake with an energy inside of her that she couldn't explain. All she knew was that she had to get out of the apartment and do something before she went mad.

What she was going to do once she got out of the apartment, she had no idea.

The window squeaked loudly as Tori opened it up. She bit her lip and froze. After hearing no stirring from the other room, she continued to open it. It creaked the entire time until it was finally open wide enough for her to get through.

Once on the windowsill, she jumped down, completely forgetting about the prickly bushes beneath her window.

"OWWWW!" She yelled as she jumped onto the sidewalk.

"Crap, if that didn't wake him up, then I don't know what will!"

She closed her window and ran down the sidewalk towards the street. A few minutes later, the front door opened to their apartment and Wufei saw nothing but darkness. He slammed the door shut and went to go check her room.

But the door was locked.

He cursed under his breath as he knocked on the door. No answer came. He started to bang on it before he walked into the kitchen, grabbed a knife and proceeded to pick the lock on her door.

By the time he opened it and saw that she wasn't in there, she was already a mile away, having run the entire time.

He picked up a shirt from his room, threw it on and grabbed his car keys. She was going to be in big trouble when he found her.

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There were many things that Tori hated or disliked. She hated not getting her way. She felt like a spoiled child at times, but she was about to go crazy with all these confusing emotions swirling about in her head that she didn't really care at the moment. Frustration was about to be added to them if she didn't find something to do soon.

She thought that by now, someone would have tried to attack her. I mean she looked like a helpless teenage girl walking the dark streets late at night, all alone. Shouldn't someone try to kidnap her or… do something! She was about to give up and just go home when she heard footsteps behind her.

She slowed down her pace and turned into a dark ally. Tori was going to wait for her new "friend" to turn the corner and lure him further down so she could beat him up without any other distractions. What she wasn't expecting were the three other men in the ally with her.

Both of her arms were pulled roughly behind her. She tried to get out of the man's grasp, but he twisted her arms painfully. Tori let out a cry at the pain before her mouth was covered up by another man's hand. She bit down on it, the taste of blood filling her mouth.

Another hand struck her hard across the back of her neck and a cold, prickly sensation swept through her body before she went limp in the man's arms.

"Dammit, what is she? A freaking dog?" The man with the bleeding hand said as wiped the blood on a handkerchief.

"Just shut up and take her to the car. She'll wake up soon and the boss wants to see her as soon as possible, so let's go." The man who had given the blow said. The other two men nodded and picked her up.

The fourth man who had been following her met up with the other three men and got into the car with them. They drove off.

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Wufei was driving down the street, an annoyed look on his face. He was cursing loudly to himself at the stupidity of "that woman".

"When I find her, I'm going to strangle her." He said as he turned down another street, looking back and forth out his windows for her. He didn't see her.

Wufei was out all night, turning down various streets and roads to find all of them empty. No Tori on any of them. He couldn't find her anywhere.

At eight in the morning, he pulled into a space in front of their apartment and ran inside. He searched every room, but didn't find her. No Tori, no note, no nothing.

She didn't even have her car keys or her cell phone with her.

Wufei got a sinking feeling in his stomach as he searched the apartment fruitlessly. He finally gave up and went straight to headquarters. Maybe she was there, or someone knew where she was.

The feeling was getting worse, and he didn't like the situation one bit.

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Tori's eyes opened slowly as a dull throb met the back of her head. She moaned at the pain, but couldn't be heard. A piece of cloth had been wrapped around her mouth to muffle out any noise she made. She looked around the dully-lit room and saw that she was facing a window. She couldn't see anything outside of it, seeing as it was still dark outside.

She cursed under her breath at her own stupidity. If she ever saw Wufei again, she would never hear the end of it. He would throw a big fit and she wouldn't be able to defend herself at all. She still couldn't believe that she had been caught.

Whoever it was that had her had this whole thing planned out. They must have been watching her for a couple of days. She had a feeling that she knew who it was, but she didn't want to think about it at the moment. She didn't need to panic. She just needed to figure a way out of this.

Before somebody killed her, or worse, Wufei finding her before they were finished with her.

Tori began to move around a bit, noticing for the first time that her hands were tied behind her back through the bars of the chair she sat in. Each leg was tied to the front legs of the chair and she couldn't even make them budge an inch.

Great, She thought to herself.

She tried to wriggle out of the ones on her wrists, but they were tied so tightly that when she moved she could feel the rope burn into her skin. She winced, but kept on trying to get out of them.

The sound of a door opening behind her made her stop and take a deep breath. She could hear footsteps coming towards her, the door being closed and locked. She gulped silently as she heard the footsteps come closer.

She could only hear one pair of them and took another deep breath. At least it was only one person. Although, she knew she didn't want to see this person as much as they wanted to see her.

A hand pushed through her hair at the back of her neck and wrapped around it gently. Fingers pressed against her throat lightly, as another hand removed the cloth around her mouth. After throwing it onto the floor, the hand turned to her hair and started to run its fingers through it. As she took another gulp, the fingers moved with it. Tori suddenly felt the hand wrap around her throat tighter, the fingernails digging into her pale skin.

She gasped at her lack of air, tears forming in her eyes. The voice that came from the other person in the room was calm and filled with pleasure.

"How nice to see you again, Victoria." He said.

Tori's face was starting to turn red as she fought for air. She was fidgeting fitfully in the chair, trying to move her arms, her legs, anything so she could get out of his crushing grasp.

The hand left her throat and she sucked in air and coughed loudly.

She barely had time to breathe in another mouthful of air as the other hand that had been playing with her hair grabbed a big chunk of it and forced her head back. She stared up at the same face that she had imagined she would see if she didn't escape. But it was too late now. He had her and she had no way of breaking out. The look in his eyes told her that he knew this. That he had her just where he wanted her.

"What? Can't even say hello to your old boss?" His voice sneered at her.

"Hello, Simon…" She said, even though she already knew it was him that had kidnapped her when she had woken up.

"Hmm, good girl." He threw her head forward, still holding onto the back of her hair. He ripped his hand away violently, taking a few strands of hair with him. Tori shrieked in protest, but soon found herself lying on the floor, still tied to the chair. Simon's hand was around her mouth, and for the first time in her life, she was afraid to fight back.

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Yeah… I have no idea what just happened or what I wrote. It just sorta… happened. Maybe it's the alcohol talking. Who knows? Anyway, hope you enjoyed and don't forget to review or I'll do something really mean like… kill Tori, or something evil to Wufei.

Hmm… what to do? What to do?

Review!

Love you all,

Robin