"Ryan!" Kelly screamed as she fell to her knees next to him. She tried to find his pulse, and after a few seconds she turned to her dad. "He's alive" she said. Sandy had been holding his breath, and he finally breathed out.
"Thank God. Let's get him inside" he said and carefully lifted Ryan and carried him to the couch. Ryan slowly opened his eyes. He coughed.
"Are you alright?" Kelly asked immediately.
"I guess it looks worse than it is" Ryan said, they barely saw his face because of all the blood. Kelly started to feel sick, and Sandy, who knew what Kelly's reaction to blood could be, quickly told her to go upstairs and tell her mum that Ryan was home. She was quick to obey.
Kirsten was going crazy lying in her bed; she wanted to know what was going on downstairs.
Then she heard someone coming towards her room, 'I'm sure it's Sandy' she thought. She got a bit surprised when she saw Kelly enter the room.
"Hey Kelly. What's going on?" Kirsten asked. Kelly walked over to her mum's bed and sat down.
"It's Ryan, he's back." She simply said, still a bit shocked after his scary appearance.
"He's back? Oh thank God" Kirsten was happy, at least one of her boys was home. Kelly looked down. Kirsten noticed. "What is it sweetie?" she asked, suddenly worried, her daughter had said Ryan was back, yes, but she hadn't said if he was ok or not.
"When I opened the door, he was lying on the ground, covered in blood. But I think he's ok, he talked to us" Kelly added when she saw the look on her mothers face.
"Oh my God. Did he say what happened?" Kirsten asked as she slowly sat up in her bed.
"No, but dad's finding out" Kelly said, she had heard Sandy ask Ryan what had happened when she left. She reached out for her mother's hand and grabbed it.
"I'm so scared mum. I can't let this continue. I…I have to marry him" she whispered, her voice full of fear.
"Kelly! What the hell are you talking about? You are not going to marry that man, you can't just give up like that. We are going to find a way to put him behind bars." Kirsten was shocked her daughter even considered that option. She remembered that she and Sandy had talked about this just moments earlier, that Kelly would marry him to stop him from hurting her family.
"It's all my fault this is happening, so I'm going to have to pay the prize." Kelly just answered. Before Kirsten could say anything more, they heard footsteps coming closer.
Then Sandy entered the room, followed by Ryan.
"Ryan! Oh God are you ok?" Kirsten burst out. He smiled under the dried blood.
"I'm ok. It's not just my blood. I had to fight Logan before I could escape" Ryan said and sat down on a chair.
"Did you kill him?" Kelly quickly asked, she didn't really meant to say that, but it just came out. Ryan shook his head.
"No, but I know where he keeps Seth, I saw him, he's fine. When I saw him he was trying to have a conversation with the spiders" Ryan said and laughed a little. "He was talking about Summer"
"Where does he keep him?" Kirsten asked, she was relived to know that her son was ok. Ryan looked from Kirsten to Sandy.
"In the basement at the Newport Group." Ryan finally said and he saw the shocked looks on their faces.
"The Newport Group? You can't be serious" Sandy whispered.
"No, that would be impossible. We have both alarm and security guards, there is no way he's keeping Seth there" Kirsten said. Kelly let go of her mother's hand and walked away from the bed.
"No I'm sure, and there is a door on the back of the building leading down to the basement from the outside. He told me that door had been forgotten, no locks no alarm." Ryan explained.
"Are you saying that Logan can get into the Newport Group without getting caught?" Sandy asked as he sat down on the bed next to Kirsten. Kirsten looked up at him.
"Well, he's in the basement, but he cannot get to the offices because the door leading to the building itself is locked and alarmed." Ryan said.
"Now that you mention it, I don't think anyone has been down there for years, the door is being blocked by a coffee table." Kirsten said as she remembered. "At least he can't steal anything, so that's good"
"So let's go to the Newport Group then" Kelly said from across the room, she had been standing and looking out through the window. The others looked at her.
"What do you mean? We'll just call the police and let them handle it" Sandy said, he knew Kelly wanted to deal with this by herself, but there was no way Sandy would agree to that.
"I don't want the cops involved; I'm going to tell him yes. This is the only way besides killing him that we can get Seth back and stop this torture" Kelly said as tears started to run down her cheeks.
"No Kelly, we've already been though this. You can't do it" Kirsten almost shouted and she tried to sit up, but immediately sank back on the bed. She screwed up her face in pain.
Kelly slowly walked over to her parents; Sandy looked at her in disbelief.
"See mom? It's his fault you're in such pain, and to see you hurt hurts me even more. I cannot let this continue" she said and closed her eyes as a few tears escaped from underneath her eyelids.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kirsten asked silently, she knew there was no point in arguing with her, she was just as stubborn as her father. Kelly shook her head.
"No, I don't want to do this, but what choice do I have?" she replied.
"You can't do this, don't give up your life like this!" Sandy said angrily.
"Dad, I've made up my mind and nothing you can say can make me chance my choice." Kelly said as she was crying silently. She looked at her parents one last time before she walked out of their room and into her own.
Kirsten grabbed Sandy's hand when he was about to follow his daughter.
"No Sandy. You and Ryan go with her to the Newport Group and bring Seth home" Kirsten said as a few tears ran down her cheeks. Now Sandy was on the verge of tears too.
"No, you can't mean it. We can't let her go, she has just gotten home. I'm not ready to lose her yet" Sandy said sadly as one single tear found its way down his face, Kirsten slowly wiped it away.
"I know me either." She just said and Sandy leaned down to hug her.
Kelly was in her room looking at a photo of her family; it had been taken last year. They were sitting on the stairs that lead up to the front door. Kirsten was sitting to the left, she had her arm around a smiling Seth and beside Seth were Kelly, and then Sandy who had both his arms wrapped around her. They were all looking so happy. She looked at another photo of her and Kirsten, from when Kelly was five and she was sitting in her mother's lap. Then she looked at her parents wedding photo. She putted all the pictures back in the box and turned away as she had suddenly stopped crying. She knew what she was going to do. She just had to find that damn gun…
