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WARNING: The rating of this fic will now be changed to M because of some small smut scenes coming up in the future. If you don't like smut then I suggest you skip that part or stick with theT rated stories. This is a warning.
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Chapter 25: Miriam's Pain, Spring Helps, and Taken
Normal P.O.V
A boy with two-toned hair woke up, in cold sweat. He looked around his surroundings trying to remember where he was.
He sat up on his hospital bed and ran a hand through his hair. He was about to swing his legs over the left side of the bed and get up when he stopped and noticed that Paree was there.
She had pulled the hospital chair closer to the bed and had placed her arms on the bed with her head on her arms.
'What's she still doing here? She's going to have a sore back in the morning. I should move her.' He thought, before getting off the bed
His wound had now been bandaged and he could move his arm around without opening the wound.
Kai stretched a little before going into the bathroom and splashing some water onto his face. He walked back out into the room and patted his face dry with one of the face towels lying on a table.
This room was not the same one he had been placed in earlier that evening. Kai and Rei had been transferred into separate rooms. This room was smaller than the previous one, but just as cozy.
Kai, careful of his wound, placed his arms around Paree and lifted her to place her properly on the chair. She didn't make a sound or wake up while he did this. Once she was sitting properly, he reclined the chair back, so that it resembled a bed in a way.
He got a blanket out of the closet and moved around his bed, back towards Paree's chair. He had just placed the blanket around her and was about to turn away when he felt a small hand grasp his wrist.
He turned around to see a sleepy looking Paree staring up at him. She tugged his wrist towards her a little and Kai moved closer without saying anything.
She pushed the blanket off her and got up, so she was now standing directly in front of him. She pushed some hair out of Kai's face and just watched him for a moment.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Paree said finally.
"I couldn't sleep." Kai replied, in a monotone voice.
"Did you have a nightmare?" Paree asked softly.
Kai shook his head, no. He saw Paree raise her eyebrows at him as though repeating her question. This time, Kai nodded, yes, and looked down at the tiles on the hospital floor.
Paree moved her hand from Kai's wrist and entwined her fingers into his own. Taking his hand she moved towards his bed and sat down, and patted the space beside her, motioning for him to sit down as well.
Kai sat down, without looking at her, and leaned back against his pillows. Paree leaned against his chest comfortably.
"What happened?" She asked after a few minutes of silence.
Kai looked thoughtful for a moment as he tried remembering his dream.
"Torture. Someone was being tortured. Drake and Rio were there. They looked a little different though. They said something to the man torturing the victim, and he stopped. Then, I was sitting in a dark place. Rei, Tala and Ozuma were there too. Then, you and the other girls were climbing something, a wall…I think. One of you was shot." Kai stopped, and Paree felt him tense up.
She moved so she could see his face properly. He looked back with no emotion in his eyes, but Paree could practically feel concern and fear radiating off of him.
"Who was it?" Paree asked after heaving a hesitating sigh.
She saw Kai turn his head away. He looked thoughtful for a moment, as though arguing with himself about whether or not he should tell her.
"Kai? Tell me. Who was it? Where were they shot?" Paree asked, now concerned as to why Kai wasn't answering her.
"It looked like they were shot in the back, but it could've been they arm too. It was…it was you." Kai told her, and Paree felt him tense up once more.
Kai squeezed her hand in his reassuringly, when he saw the fear and shock on her face after hearing this.
Paree seemed to be in a trance as she slid back into a laying position next to Kai.
"Me?" She said after a moment, looking at Kai as if he was joking.
"Yes, you. But…it was just a dream. I'm sure it doesn't mean anything. So, relax." Kai mumbled into Paree's ear, as he ran a comforting hand up and down her back.
He felt the tension leave Paree's body, after a moment.
"You…You're right. Just a dream." Paree said, giving Kai a weak smile as she moved up to give him a kiss on the cheek.
Kai moved so that he and Paree were now facing each other. He moved some hair from her face, before tilting his head closer to hers, and placing a kiss on her lips.
She responded and kissed him back. The kiss quickly turned into a more passionate kiss. Paree moaned against Kai's lips as he slid his tongue into her mouth, to explore every inch of her mouth.
Kai and Paree reluctantly pulled away and looked at each while trying to catch their breath. Paree bit her bottom to hold in her moan, as Kai moved towards her and started placing kisses along her collarbone and neck, before coming back to capture her lips in another ravishing kiss.
They stopped when they heard the bed give a loud squeak. They waited silently, as though expecting the bed to collapse under them.
"Maybe, we should go to sleep, just in case the bed decides to give away, under our weight." Paree whispered to Kai with a sheepish smile.
Kai just rolled his eyes a little before moving back into a laying down position with Paree beside him.
"Goodnight." They both whispered to one another before drifting off into sleep.
School had just finished and the students of Takachi High School were now on there way to enjoying the two weeks of spring break they had.
Ozuma and Miriam had gone home to change their clothes before going to meet their friends for dinner at the Icecream Parlour.
As they drove past a small motel they heard a strange noise. Ozuma stopped the car and got out to see what the problem was.
"Oh shit!" He exclaimed after seeing that one of the back tires had gone flat.
"What happened?" Miriam asked coming to stand by Ozuma.
"We have a flat tire. I think it got caught on some broken glass or something." Ozuma answered as he bent down to examine the tire.
"Why don't you ask someone at that gas station if they have any spare tires or something?" Miriam suggested pointing to a small gas station beside the hotel.
"Yea, I will. Do you want to wait here or come with me?" Ozuma asked.
"I'm going to go use a bathroom in the motel. I'll meet you back here in a few minutes." Miriam answered taking her purse out of the car.
Miriam walked towards the motel while Ozuma went towards the gas station.
Miriam went to the bathroom and fixed up her make up and hair a little before going back towards the car.
She saw that Ozuma had managed to find a spare tire and had replaced the flat one with it.
Just as Miriam stepped out of the shadows of the motel she was grabbed around the waist.
"AAHHH!" She screamed as two men came to stand in front of her.
One of them slapped her across the face, very hard. Miriam turned her head to stare at him with wide eyes.
"Shuddap bitch! Now, be a good little girl and you won't get hurt." The man who slapped her said.
The man holding her started to run his hand up and down her body. Miriam shuddered in disgust, before she swiftly elbowed the man holding her.
"Oof!" The man gasped and held his stomach in pain.
"You going to pay for that you wench!" The man standing beside the one who had slapped her, said and lunged forwards.
Miriam dodged him but tripped in the process. The three men started to advance towards her. Miriam closed her eyes and turned her head away, when she saw one of them pull a knife out of their pockets.
"Hey!" She heard one of the men yell and opened her eyes.
Ozuma had knocked two of the men down and was now fighting the other man for the knife.
The two other men got to their feet and started helping their companion.
"Miriam run!" Ozuma yelled as he fought off the three men.
Miriam quickly got to her feet and watched helplessly as the men ganged up on Ozuma.
"Ozuma." Miriam whispered and took a step forward as though to help him.
"Miriam run! Go tell the others! Run!" Ozuma yelled as he struggled against the two men holding him.
Silent tears made their way down Miriam's face and she walked backwards slowly, keeping her eyes on Ozuma, before turning around and running towards their car.
"Miriam," She heard Ozuma yell and turned around, "I love you!"
She watched with sadness as two of the men pushed Ozuma into a black van while the other looked around.
'BO7I54' Miriam memorized the van's plate number.
The man who had stayed behind, spotted Miriam and started running towards her.
Miriam quickly opened the door of the car and got in, locking the doors.
Ozuma had left the keys in the car, so Miriam started the car and drove away from the parking lot. Soon enough she was on the highway and driving fast towards the Mariano mansion.
'He said he loved me. Why didn't I do anything to help?' Miriam thought as she drove, tears streaming down her face.
Miriam drove through the large gates of the mansion and parked in front of the doors.
She got out of the car, walked up the front steps and slammed the front doors open. Ozuma's mother was descending the stairs and looked up when the doors slammed open.
She watched Miriam in shock before a look of concern came over her face.
Miriam watched through blurry eyes as Mrs. Mariano came down the stairs.
"Miriam? Honey, what's wrong? Where's Ozuma?" The older lady asked as she made her way towards Miriam.
"He's gone. They've taken him. He's gone. Ozuma's gone." Miriam whispered before sliding down and slumping against the large door, her body shaking with silent sobs.
Ozuma's mother looked at her with incredible shock and horror on her face. She bent down and helped Miriam up, leading her into the living room and getting her to sit down.
"Honey, are you sure? Who took Ozuma?" She asked kindly as her own tears slipped down her face.
"Yes, Mum." Miriam said. She had started addressing her as Mum after she had moved in.
The two women held each other and cried into each other's shoulders. After a few minutes Ozuma's mother wiped away her own and Miriam's tears.
"Miriam, dear, maybe you should go to bed. I'll tell your friends and the others. You look tired and it would be good for you to get some rest. Go on." Mrs. Mariano said and gestured for Miriam to go to her room.
Miriam went to her and Ozuma's room and took a quick shower before changing and getting into bed.
She shook with silent sobs and soon fell asleep.
Kai, Paree, Tala, Aaliyah, Rei, and Mariah had been informed by Ozuma's mother that he had been taken.
Paree, Mariah, and Aaliyah felt that they should be there for Miriam and immediately went to the Mariano mansion.
"Miriam!" Paree called as she walked into the house.
The others looked in the living rooms and the kitchen but came back with confused looks on their faces.
"I wonder where she could have gone?" Mariah said with a concerned look on her face.
"Maybe she's in her ro-" Paree started but was cut off by an ear piercing scream.
"Miriam!" The three girls shouted before running up the staircase towards Miriam's room.
Kai pushed the door to Miriam and Ozuma's room wide open and he and his companions watched in terror as Miriam screamed and writhed on the bed in pain.
"What's wrong with her?" Mariah asked in a panicked tone.
"We should wake her up." Aaliyah said.
The blue and black haired girl went over to her navy haired friend and started to gently shake her to try and wake her up.
"Miriam, dude wake up your scaring us." Paree whispered from her spot beside Aaliyah.
Finally Miriam's screaming ceased and her eyes fluttered open. She sat up and gasped to catch her breath acting as though she had just run a mile.
"Ozuma…they're torturing him. He's in pain. I was in pain too." Miriam mumbled and the others barely heard her, they were staring a spots on Miriam's shoulder and back where her t-shirt had ripped and red whip marks were visible.
"Oh my god." Mariah whispered and she reached out a hand to touch one of the marks. Miriam winced visibly as Mariah's fingers made contact with the bruised skin.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Mariah said noticing Miriam's reaction, "So, do you think they're whipping Ozuma?" she asked.
"I saw it. At first, I was dreaming of Ozuma being captured and then I saw him in a dark cell. Then he was taken into a really cold room. They made him lie down on his stomach, on a large block of ice. He resisted and they hit him. Then they asked him a few questions about his bonded spirit. He didn't say anything and they started to whip him. It was like I could feel, and see everything through him." Miriam explained, as silent tears streamed down her face.
Everyone was silent for a moment before the bedroom door opened once more and Ozuma's parents came in.
"Miriam? Honey, what's wrong? We heard you scream." Ozuma's mother said worriedly.
"Mum, they're hurting Ozuma. I felt it. I saw it." Miriam said before turning around and showing the elder lady the whip marks on her back.
Ozuma's mother gasped and sat down to have a better look and the wounds and bruises on Miriam's back.
"I'll contact Drake and Leo and ask if they can do anything to stop Boris from torturing him. Meanwhile, you should bandage up Miriam's wounds. If Miriam can have wounds and bruises in the same form Ozuma has them, maybe Ozuma's wounds can heal while Miriam's do." Diego Mariano said before giving Miriam an encouraging smile and walking out.
"Dad, that van they took Ozuma in. It's plate number was BO7 ...uh... I54. Just in case it helps." Miriam told Ozuma's father as he stood at the door
"Thank you Miriam." He said with a weak smile.
"My poor babies." Ozuma's mother whispered.
It had now been about two days since Ozuma's capture.
They hadn't heard much from Drake, Leo, Julie, and Rio except that Ozuma wasn't being physically tortured anymore.
Kai and Paree had grown closer over the first few days of spring break. This seemed to come as a bit of a relief to the elders.
The two walked through the park where they had come to play when they were younger. Paulo walked along in front of them and went to play in the sandbox.
"Did your grandfather tell you anything when you went to visit yesterday?" Kai asked as they walked.
"No. I tried to get him to talk but it didn't work." Paree replied.
Kai snorted at this and Paree shot him an annoyed look.
"What about you? I doubt you had any luck." Paree said.
"Well, actually I had better luck than you. Boris is planning to capture another one of us. We're just not sure how he plans to do it. Or who he plans to capture next. If you had been more convincing your grandfather would have told you this. But, you do lack a brain so it's no wonder that you couldn't pull off such an easy job." Kai said with a smirk.
"Shut up! I doubt you have much of a brain, either. You don't even know how to talk to a girl." Paree said sitting down on a wooden bench and looking up at Kai, who was still standing.
"Yes, I do!" Kai retaliated, looking offended by Paree's comment.
"Fine. Show me then. What do you say to girls?" Paree said crossing her arms over her chest and looking up at him expectantly.
"Um…Hi. How are you?…and…uh" He stopped and looked thoughtful for a moment.
"And?" Paree asked.
"Bye! Yea, that's it bye." Kai said looking proud of himself.
"Bye?" Paree asked in a disbelieving tone, and raising her eyebrows in question.
"Yea, bye. What?" Kai asked noticing Paree's look.
"Okay then. Bye. I'm going." Paree said before walking off, towards a tree on a small grassy hill.
Kai caught up with her and turned her around, so she was facing him.
"What's wrong?" Kai asked with a confused look on his face.
"YOU! You have no manners at all!" Paree said, hiding her smile, and proceeding to go and sit under the tree.
Kai stood there in shock and confusion for a second before he followed her.
"Of course I do!" He said, finally coming to his senses, and walking to her.
"Nuh uh!" Paree said childishly before sticking her tongue out at him.
Kai ran a hand through his hair and then sat down next to her.
"I'd rather use actions than words." He whispered in Paree's ear, before picking her up and setting her back down in his lap instead of on the grass.
Paree rolled her eyes at him before turning around in his lap and smirking at him.
"Oh yea? Care to show me how?" Paree asked quirking an eyebrow and looking up at him with an innocent look on her face, as she wriggled in Kai's lap.
Kai growled a little before capturing her lips with his and kissing her lips hard. He pulled her closer to him as if he couldn't get enough and she responded eagerly. Paree moaned as Kai slipped his tongue past her lips and into her mouth, exploring every little turn and crevice.
He moved his mouth down to her neck and started sucking on the spot between her neck and shoulder. Paree whimpered as he nibbled on her ear lobe before returning to capture her lips once again.
Kai couldn't help the moan that escaped him as Paree wriggled around some more in his lap before she placed her arms around his neck. Kai placed his hand under Paree's shirt and massaged her stomach gently before moving it up to cup her right breast and massage it through the flimsy fabric of her bra.
"Kai…"Paree moaned and arched at his touch. Kai took advantage on Paree's exposed neck and started placing kisses along it once again.
"GET A ROOM!" Two very familiar voices shouted at once, and Kai and Paree quickly jumped away from one another.
They glared at the smirking figures of Rei and Mariah.
"We wanted to get back at you for a while now. And this seemed like the perfect timing." Mariah said with a smirk.
"Looks like Spring really helped you two." Rei laughed.
Kai and Paree just kept glaring at them menacingly.
Tala and Aaliyah had just finished some grocery shopping and were now standing at their car with their arms full of grocery bags.
Aaliyah opened the trunk of the car and started placing the bags in it.
"I never knew grocery shopping was so…boring." Tala said as he helped her.
"Yea, well it's something that has to be done. I mean you have to cut the maids and chef some slack. They work 24/7 and to go grocery shopping too. Oh well, this is enough to last a few weeks." Aaliyah said.
They heard some bangs and all of a sudden the cars around them had bullets in them.
"Aaliyah get in the car!" Tala shouted as, he spotted the men who were shooting.
Tala pulled out a gun of his own and started shooting back while Aaliyah started the car and drove up to the spot where he was shooting from.
As he was getting in Tala was shot on the arm twice.
"Tala! You're losing so much blood!" Aaliyah said trying to stop the blood flow and drive at the same time.
"Ahh! I know! Just drive! I'll try and stop the blood. Go to the hospital." Tala directed as he wiped away some blood.
"No, I wasn't going to take you to the hospital, I was going to take you to the zoo!" Aaliyah mumbled sarcastically.
Kai and Paree had come from the park a while back and were now getting ready for bed.
"Goodnight baby." Paree whispered as she tucked Paulo in his crib.
She let her hair out of the messy bun she had put it in and walked into the bathroom to get changed for bed.
She walked over to her bed and sat down before quickly standing up again and looking down at the person she had sat on, which was Kai.
"Kai, get over to your side of the bed." Paree mumbled with an annoyed look.
"No." Kai replied before pulling Paree down by the waist and rolling over so that he was on top of her.
"What are you doing?" Paree whispered, and held in her gasp as she brushed her hand over Kai's hard stomach.
"Well, think about it. This is our room. This is our bed. Paulo's asleep. And best of all no meddling friends. What does this equation add to?" Kai asked with a smirk.
Paree decided to try playing innocent and looked up at Kai with a confused look on her face.
Kai started placing butterfly kisses along Paree's jaw line and neck before moving to nibble on her ear.
"Do you know what I'm talking about?" He whispered.
Paree just whimpered slightly and nodded before pulling Kai's body closer to her own.
"You sure move fast don't you? But don't get your hopes too high." Paree whispered in his ear with a smirk before moving to kiss him.
Kai and Paree's lips were locked in a passionate, hungry kiss when…the phone rang.
Kai moaned in protest as Paree sat up to answer the phone.
"Hello?" She answered, holding in her moan as Kai kissed her neck from behind.
"Paree? It's Aaliyah. Tala's been shot." Aaliyah panicked voice came.
"What? When?" Paree asked, as her hand gripped Kai's tightly.
Kai stopped nuzzling Paree's neck and looked at her in question.
"Earlier tonight. When we were out grocery shopping. Someone started shooting and he started shooting back but he got shot twice on the arm." Aaliyah replied.
"Shot twice? You're at the hospital right?" Paree asked.
As soon as Kai heard Paree say 'shot twice' he had gotten off the bed and put on a pair of pants and was now throwing on a sweatshirt.
"Yea, room 5b on the first floor." Came the reply.
" 'Kay we're coming. Bye." Paree said hanging up and walking over to where Kai was and pulling out a sweater and a pair of pants.
She took off her pajama bottoms and her silk tank top and threw them on the bed.
She placed her pants on and zipped up her sweater over her bra.
She turned around and saw Kai simply smirking at her.
"That was nothing. You've seen me in a bikini before anyways. Besides, with us being soul mates and all I'm going to have to strip for you sooner or later." Paree said winking at Kai before grabbing his car keys and heading out the door.
"Damn you bitch." Kai mumbled feeling that his pants seemed kind of tight now.
Aaliyah paced around outside Tala's room, while she waited for the others to come.
"Hey, how's Tala?" Mariah asked walking up to her. Rei, Kai, Paree, and Miriam followed behind.
"The doctors got the bullets out and bandaged him up but he needs to rest, because he lost a lot of blood. I was told I could go into the roomfive minutes ago but I thought I'd wait for you guys." Aaliyah replied and opened the door to the room.
"Tala, the others are here." Aaliyah said as she walked in. The curtains around his bed were closed shut. Aaliyah pulled them away and gasped when she saw that Tala wasn't there.
"Look," Rei said pointing towards the bed.
There was a note there. Aaliyah picked it up and read it aloud:
Two down and you'll be next.
Boris
There was silence for a few moments and then a THUD as Aaliyah fainted.
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