Truth be told, Sandy Cohen was convinced it was not going to be ok. But he had to give his daughter hope. He was going to do everything in his power, but he wasn't sure that would be enough.
Sandy and Kelly walked up to Kirsten's room in the hospital, she was now awake and lying and waiting for them. When they entered the room she looked up and smiled.
"There you are! I was just wondering. What's wrong?" she said, first sounding happy to see them, then serious because of the looks on their faces. Kelly and Sandy looked quickly at each other, that was enough for both of them to decide they have to tell Kirsten what had happened, they couldn't lie to her, not about this kind of thing.
"Mum, Ryan's been kidnapped by Logan. I'm so sorry" Kelly sadly said. Kirsten froze, not Ryan too. Her hands began to shake. Sandy took one of her hands in his, Kelly took the other hand in hers.
"We're going to find both of them. I promise" Sandy said, trying to sound sincere, he did well, cause Kirsten smiled weakly at him.
"They are going to let me go home today"
A few hours later Sandy were helping Kirsten through the door and then up the stairs to their room, cause Kirsten needed to rest. Kelly sat down on the living room couch and sighed. She was seriously considering to tell Logan yes, just wanting to put and end to this terror. She knew if she married him she was going to be hit, used and treated like trash, but she actually preferred that than to see her family being terrorized.
Upstairs, Sandy helped Kirsten get down on the bed, he fixed her pillows and lay a blanket over her body. She smiled at him.
"You're sweet." She said. He sat down beside her, he wasn't smiling.
"Honey, I know the reason why Logan is doing this to us. Kelly told me this morning" he said, she had to know. She looked at him, now she wasn't smiling anymore.
"So? What did she tell you?" she asked, not sure if she wanted to hear this. Sandy told her everything he knew. When he was finished, Kirsten just stared at him, unable to believe what she had just heard.
"He purposed to her after only a few months?" she whispered. "It took at least a year for you to purpose to me" she added.
"Yeah, but if you would have said no I wouldn't have raped you, just so you know" he teased.
"So now you're telling me that? You could have told me twenty years ago when I decided to get stuck with you for the rest of my life"she joked back and kissed him.
"What I am more curious about is why she never mentioned to us that she had a boyfriend." Sandy said, getting serious again. That was just one of the things that had been running through his head since that morning.
"Actually, she told me once she had a boyfriend, but she also said that he didn't want to meet her family, he thought it was too soon" Kirsten said as she remembered.
"Like he's the one talking about too soon" Sandy replied.
"What are we going to do? He's not going to stop until she marries him, which I know never will happen" Kirsten sighed.
"Unless…" Sandy began, an awful thought just hit him.
"Unless what, Sandy?" Kirsten said and took his hand. He looked at her.
"Unless she decides to marry him just to make him stop hurting us" Sandy said, breathless of fear. Kirsten slowly realized what he had just said.
"You mean she might give up her life to have her family safe?" she said, feeling a cold shiver up her spine when he nodded.
"Yes, I'm positive to that she would do that"
"We have to stop her! We have to find another way to solve this. Please, Sandy. Don't let this happen." She begged, then she screamed "Ouch!" and clutched her stomach. Sandy quickly moved himself closer to her.
"Honey, what's wrong?" he said, worried about her. She calmed down a bit and took a deep breath.
"I…I'm ok. It's just my stomach" she explained, trying to convince both herself and Sandy that she was ok. He didn't buy it.
"Maybe you left the hospital too soon, you should have stayed." He said, kicking himself for not making sure she really was ok, she just didn't want him too worry about her.
"The doctors said I could go home and take the medications here" she defended herself. "Plus, I don't want to be alone. At least you'll be here" She really needed Sandy right know, needed him to understand. He looked down.
"I'm sorry. I should have understood that you didn't what to be alone" he apologised. She opened her mouth to say something, but got interrupted by the ringing doorbell.
"I'll get it!" they heard Kelly shout from the living room. They heard the front door open. They heard Kelly scream.
Sandy and Kirsten looked at each other in shock, then Sandy jumped to his feet and ran out of the room and down the stairs.
"Kelly!" he shouted. She stood frozen in the doorway, staring at something. He quickly walked over to her.
"What's wrong…" he said no more. He saw what she saw.
Ryan was lying outside the door, covered in blood.
