Bad Blood

Part 9

Rated: R

Author's note: Once again, warning for the bizarreness that is this chapter, but it'll be a good one, I hope. So enjoy! This isn't the last chapter, there will be more, even when they are out of danger there is still coping and counseling and well you get the idea. I want to keep this one going as long as I can without it getting boring so as soon as it gets boring someone let me know and I'll end it! Thanks!

They made their way down the stairs, both of them were holding small black bags in their hands. Olivia stood up with a little help from Elliot and they both moved so they were in front of Krista. Krista, of course, had no idea what was going on but she still curled up and tried to remain in the corner. Liz looked at James and laughed slightly. She unzipped her bag and took out a syringe and a bottle of medication. Olivia and Elliot stood their ground. Liz shrugged and started to fill the needle with the liquid while James watched her. After she was finished she got down by Krista and injected it into her arm.

"What the hell was that?" Krista squealed and then rubbed her arm.

"Stimulant, so you won't pass out due to shock…" Liz replied smugly and it didn't look like she was going to give much more of an explanation then that. She backed away and looked at James, most likely to see how he was going to handle the situation.

"If you two are going to get in the way then I'll have to take care of that." James said and then pulled a gun from behind his back. Olivia looked at Elliot, she was thinking about stepping down, not because she wanted to but with the way her head and face were throbbing she wouldn't have enough energy to fight. Elliot gently moved Olivia behind him and took another step forward. Olivia stayed standing though and turned to look at Krista who was once again close to tears.

"You're going to have to kill me before you kill her." Elliot growled and got right in James's face. James raised the gun slowly, but Elliot stayed his ground. It took Krista a moment to register that she was the one about to be killed but once it hit her she started to freak out. She screamed and grabbed Olivia's leg and hugged it as tight as she could.

"El, you promised me I wouldn't die, YOU PROMISED!" Krista yelled, Olivia had never heard that promise but Elliot remembered. On the first day that they were captured Elliot did promise Krista that she would not die, and he wasn't going to go back on that promise. Olivia was realizing how much Krista was loosing it. One minute she was stable and the next she was an emotional wreck. Olivia sighed and looked down at Krista.

"You aren't going to die." Olivia said even though she had no authority to promise that, what she did know was she would take the bullet before Krista. She didn't know why she thought that but she was more then willing to die to protect a young woman. James continued to raise the gun and he brought it up to Elliot's throat, they were both locked in an evil staring contest.

"I don't plan on shooting you, I'll shoot her," James said and then motioned to Olivia, "And I'll shoot her somewhere where it won't cause her to die, just bleed a hell of a lot, not to mention the pain…do you really want that Elliot?" Elliot turned and looked at Olivia as James motioned to her with the gun. He swallowed hard. He had seen the things that they had done to Krista and Olivia before, did he really trust that James wouldn't shoot her? His hand clenched into a fist and just as he was about to swing at James Liz grabbed him by the shoulders and kneed him in the stomach. He bent over and gasped for air and Olivia came forward and grabbed Liz and punched her in the face. Liz retaliated by punching Olivia in her face, right on her broken cheek bone. Olivia didn't even have time to cry out before she lost consciousness from the pain. She fell back and Elliot put his pain aside and dove to catch her in his arms.

"You fucking bitch!" Elliot spat at her as he held Olivia in his arms. Liz rolled her eyes and grabbed Krista by her uninjured arm and started to pull her towards the stairs. Krista started screaming and crying, dragging her feet and pulling back on Liz, trying to get her to stop. Elliot laid Olivia down on the blanket carefully and then went to lunge at Liz. Then the gun went off and Elliot was startled and he fell back and onto the floor next to Olivia. The bullet had hit the floor less then an inch away from Olivia's kneecap.

"Next time I won't miss." James informed him and then grabbed Krista by her injured arm and pulled her up. She screamed even louder, in pain, and James jammed the gun into her mouth. She went silent and stared up at him with big doe eyes. "Do you want me to blow your head off?" Krista shook her head, tears ran down her face freely. "Then shut up and do as you're told!" Krista nodded and he removed the gun and shoved her forward. She started to walk up the stairs still holding the blanket around her as tightly as she could. A moment later the three of them vanished behind the basement door. Elliot left Olivia for a moment and darted up the stairs and tried to pull the door open, but it was useless.

"GOD DAMN IT!" He shouted and then pounded on the door, "DON'T YOU TOUCH HER!" He took in a deep breath and then heard a noise behind him. He turned and looked, the door that was in the actual basement that lead outside opened and Monica fell inside. He didn't think he had ever been happier to see her in his entire life. Monica got to her feet and wincing with every step she walked over to Elliot.

"I have the keys to the door, unfortunately there is a padlock on the other side and…"

"Give me the keys, if I get two of the locks open I can kick it in with or without a padlock." Elliot said to her and she tossed him the keys. He quickly unlocked the two locks that were in his way, then took a step back and got ready to kick the door in.

"Wait…" Monica cried right before he was going to kick in the door, "Here!" She pulled a large knife, the one she had gotten from the kitchen earlier, "It may not be much but it's all I got." She walked up the steps and held it out to him. He took it and looked at it for a moment, he didn't really have time to ponder how he was going to use it, he didn't have any idea how much time Krista still had.

"Go sit with Liv till I come back." Elliot instructed her and then took a step back and kicked down the door. Monica nodded and watched him for a moment before going to sit down on the blanket where Olivia was laying.

The door falling down was louder then the kick but at least it drew attention away from Krista and towards him. A door next to the basement opened and Liz came out looking surprised, Elliot grabbed her, turned her around and put the knife to her throat. As he guessed, James was soon to follow with the gun. Elliot pressed the knife into Liz's neck hard, hard enough to draw a small line of blood. James put his hands up, he didn't appear to have the gun at this point. He probably set it down when they went into the room with Krista. It was the room that he had woken up in on the first day he was there, and he was pretty sure that Krista was already strapped to the table.

"Unless you want me to slit her throat you will do as I say." Elliot ordered, he slowly started to walk Liz towards the room Krista was in. Liz whimpered and struggled slightly but it was clear she was scared that he might actually slit her throat. He got into the room and immediately noticed the gun on the counter. His grip on Liz loosened for just a moment but she took the chance and pulled away from him and went for the gun. Not thinking about it, Elliot lashed out with the knife and jammed it deep into Liz's left shoulder. She screamed and fell to the ground. Elliot grabbed the gun and aimed it at James who had come back into the room. He looked at Krista who was wide eyed and terrified, her bra was off and even though Elliot was no doctor he knew that the "Y" incision on Krista's chest and down her stomach was one used for the beginning of an autopsy. They were going to dissect her while she was awake, that's why they had given her the stimulant. "Don't fucking move!"

"At least let me help her…."

"NO! STAY THE FUCK BACK!" Elliot shouted at him, his finger on the trigger, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just shoot you….cause I could easily get off on self defense and we both know it." James nodded as he took in the information. They both knew that Elliot could kill him, and as much as he wanted to he didn't think he would pull the trigger.

"I wouldn't make you stand by and watch your daughter die." James said softly as he looked at Liz who was on the floor trying to get the knife out of her back. Elliot took in a sharp breath, Liz was James's daughter he didn't know that. Well he knew that now, and he imagined being in his shoes. He sighed slightly and nodded. James got down by Liz and rolled her onto her side.

"Don't try anything stupid." Elliot warned, James turned his head and glared at Elliot and stood up and opened one of the cabinets over the counter and pulled out a white towel. He got back down and removed the knife and pressed the towel against the wound, applying pressure to it. "Can she get up?" Liz whined slightly but it sounded like a yes.

"Why?" James asked.

"Because we are going to put you in the basement until I get back with help…" he said and then turned towards the door and called, "MONICA!" There was a pause but then he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. It was Olivia, not Monica, and she was holding the ring of keys in her hand. Her face was terribly swollen and her left eye was swelling shut. James turned to look to see who it was, he seemed surprised to hear Monica's name being yelled out.

"Monica's alive?" He asked as he helped a very lethargic Liz to her feet. Olivia handed the keys to Elliot and quickly went over to Krista and released her restraints. She picked up the blanket that was on the floor and wrapped it around her as she sat up. Krista pulled it tight and clutched it in her hand, she was shaking from whatever drug they had given her. "How the hell is she alive?"

"God." Krista said as Olivia helped her to her feet, "You son of a bitch." Olivia wrapped her arm around Krista and started to walk her out of the room. When she got to Elliot he stopped her and handed the keys back to her.

"Go downstairs and locked the door Monica came in through….why isn't she the one up here?" Elliot said and Olivia took the keys.

"She told me once she sat down again she wouldn't have the will to get back up on her ankles, they've been sliced, and she was right. Someone is going to need to carry her out of here. I'll lock the door," Olivia said to him and then turned to Krista, "You stay up here with Elliot okay?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine." She replied and offered a smile to Olivia. Olivia smiled back and then disappeared around the corner and down the stairs. Elliot waited and watched James tend to his daughter, it only took a few minutes and then Olivia was back upstairs.

"All set." Olivia said and so Elliot motioned towards the door with the gun, James looked at him and helped Liz walk towards the door. Both Elliot and Olivia ushered them into the basement and followed them down the stairs. When they got down there Monica was curled up in a fetal position on the blanket wincing ever so often in pain. Elliot handed Olivia the gun and walked over to Monica.

"Can you get up?"

"I can try but I don't think I can walk anymore." Monica replied. Elliot took her hand and pulled her up so she was on her knees. She tried getting to her feet but screamed when she put weight on them and fell into Elliot. He sighed and glared back at James for doing this to her. He picked Monica up and held her in his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and smiled, "My hero." Elliot laughed slightly and then looked at Olivia.

"Lets get out of here."

End Part 9

(There will be a part 10 so hang on)