So everything will change the dynamic of Sam and Mercedes's relationship, so I am trying to get the hang of that and these next couple of chapters will be bumpy. However, this chapter is going to be the start of all the bumpiness.

Enjoy lovebugs. ;)

When 5 o clock in the morning hit Sam was awake and jumping. He had done all his hygiene and drove to the private plane, with his parents and Sinclair following behind him in another car. He was finally going to go save his baby. With the address in his phone, and just a plane ride and a quick drive separating the two he was going to find his baby, and when he did he was going to find Will. He was going to make Will pay for all that he had done.

Mercedes didn't have a perception of day or time considering the fact that she was in the basement with no windows. She sat up and traced her body with her hands. She felt bruises, a few bite marks on her neck, and a bunch of swollen marks. Her wrists were covered in dried blood and scars due to the cuffs. She tried standing but quickly realized she was too weak to do so and sat back down.

There was nothing good of use for her to use in the basement to form her escape plan, just a few boxes but other than that there was nothing. She crawled to the door and tried opening the door but it wouldn't budge. She crawled back to her spot and then Will came into the room.

"So are you ready to apologize to me for trying to escape?" Will questioned.

"I want to go home," Mercedes said weakly.

"Oh if you are talking about your bedroom then you have some time to go. Will needs to know if you will be a good girl for him. You made bad choices and now we have to pay for that. Mercedes."

Mercedes softly said, "You are a bitch. You are a pathetic excuse of a man. You kidnap me, rape me, and hurt me to get back at my boyfriend and his parents. I hope you rot in hell. Eventually, Sam is going to find me and when he does I hope you run, I hope you run far far far away because Sam won't stop until you are begging for his mercy. I won't even have the chance to ask him to spare you because he simply won't. Sam is going to kill you Will and when he does he will find a way to make sure you are alive just for him to kill you again. Sam Evans is going to destroy you, he is going to make you wish you were never born,"

Will was about to lunge at Mercedes until he heard a loud bang followed by Sam's voice.

"MERCEDES!" He called out.

"I told you," Mercedes said as she looked at the fear in Will's eyes, "SAM,"

The door to the basement banged open and Sam saw red at what Will had done to Mercedes. He took off his coat and placed it on Mercedes before guiding her to her mother before he went back to Will.

"Sam this is all just one big misunderstanding," Will reasoned as he backed away from Sam.

"You sneak into our home, place cameras in our home, you watch her, and then you take her away from and do whatever God knows what to her and you have the balls to say it was a fucking misunderstanding," Sam spoke. Will couldn't get another word out before Sam punched his face and repeatedly beat the shit out of man. He was so angry that he didn't notice Will was bleeding profusely. The only reason he stopped is that his father rushed in and stepped in between the two.

"Let me go, dad,"

"Sam look at me, Mercedes just passed out in the ambulance, he is not worth it, you need to go make sure that she is ok. Look now all the ladies are on their way to the hospital but you know the first person Mercedes is going to want to see you when she wakes up. Leave him and go," Dwight explained. Sam nodded and raced through the room with his father behind him.

Sam was sitting in Mercedes's room by her side as she slept peacefully. The reason she passed out was due to lack of hydration, nutrients, and the amount of sexual assault had taken its toll. In fact, the paramedics didn't think they would have been able to get her vitals again but they came back. Sam stared at her face and started to let the tears leak from his eyes.

Her face was a combination of black, blue, and purple, both of her eyes were swollen, and there were bite marks on her neck, he couldn't believe that all of this happened. He knew Mercedes would wake up soon, and the moment she did he knew they were going to be in for one hell of a ride. Mercedes was broken, she was going to have nightmares, she was going to jump if someone hugged her, she was going to have PTSD. Sam could only hope that she didn't push him away and allow her to help him.

"Sammy," Mercedes whispered as she blinked her eyes.

Sam stood up and walked over to her and pressed the button for the nurse, "Hey baby, hey. The nurse will be here soon ok."

"H-How long was I gone," She said weakly.

"Three days, but we got you back, and you don't ever have to worry about Will again baby I promise. I promise once the doctors give the ok we are going to be back home. Well not home, I don't think we should go back there,"

"I don't-wait Sam what is this ring doing on my finger?" Mercedes asked. Before Sam could answer the nurse came in the room and checked Mercedes out and let her know that she would have to get tested for any STDs but she wasn't pregnant and her recovery phase would be here sooner than later. Then she left the room leaving Sam and Mercedes again.

"It's your engagement ring, I have been holding on to it for a while but I never got to ask, and since we got you now I felt there was no time like the present. I am going to go ahead and get your mom for you," Sam said as he exited the room. Mercedes sat up a little bit and took a nicer look at the ring. It was beautiful and in fact, there was nothing wrong with it but she didn't think that Sam's grand proposal would be after she was kidnapped and when she was in a hospital bed.

Her mother walked through the door and enveloped Mercedes into the sweetest hug and Mercedes instantly relaxed at her mother's warm embrace.

"Hi baby," Her mother greeted.

"Hi mommy, I missed you," Mercedes replied.

"I know sweet face I missed you so much more,"

"Did daddy come?" Mercedes knew she was beating a dead horse but you would think that logically her father would drop everything due to his only child being kidnapped by some deranged man.

"We tried getting in touch with him baby, but we never got any response back, I am sorry,"

"It isn't your fault maybe it was just wishful thinking,"

"Hmm, so would do you think about the ring?"

"I never would have expected that was a way of his proposing to me but I guess I am engaged now," Mercedes replied.

"Baby if this is all too much you know you can come back home to Nashville with me you know that right?" Sinclair remarked.

"I know mommy I can, but I want to at least try to act like everything will be ok. He did everything he could to do destroy me, and I tried my best to make sure I made it out alive but I was scared," Mercedes said as she choked up with tears. Sinclair pulled her daughter in for another hug and rubbed her head soothingly as Mercedes cried into her shirt.

"It's going to be fine baby, everything will be ok."

A few weeks later Mercedes was free to go back to Michigan and she was more than excited because being stuck in a hospital bed was weighing on her. She and Sam had made it to their condo and it looked the same nothing was out of place. She was actually doing ok in the space but that was until she saw her office. She immediately felt anxiety and she backed away from it cautiously and backed into Sam and she jumped.

"Hey it's ok, everything is fine, I am right here. Let me shut the door." Sam said soothingly. He reached around Mercedes pulled the door close and looked at her as she looked at the floor.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to,"

"Hey you have nothing to be sorry about ok, everything is fine, would you like to go and get some sleep?" Sam questioned.

"Yes please," Mercedes replied softly.

"Alright come on let's go to the room," Sam replied. He held his hand out and let Mercedes grab on to it as they made it to their bedroom. She dropped his hand put on her nighttime clothes and got in the bed with Sam doing the same.

"Can you hold me?" Mercedes asked.

"Of course baby," Sam replied. Then the two drifted off to sleep.

"Good girls deserve beds. Don't push me away when I am teaching you a lesson. You feel so good and tight."

Mercedes jolted away in her sleep when she saw Will in her dreams saying those things to her. She took a deep breath and headed to the kitchen quietly grabbing her robe to fix herself a glass of water. Her hands were shaking badly though. She reached up and grabbed a glass but because of her hands, she dropped the glass causing it shatter.

"Shit," She muttered to herself as she grabbed the broom.

"Hey baby are you ok," Sam said once he came into the room causing Mercedes to jump a little bit."

"Um, I was trying to get some water but the glass slipped from my hands. I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you," She murmured.

"Hey it's ok, I promise, you don't have to apologize," Sam stated as he grabbed the broom from her hands.

"Sam I want to move," Mercedes blurted out, "I can't stay here, I keep getting paranoid, my office is a horrid reminder, I can't stay here." Sam pulled Mercedes in close when he noticed that she started crying.

"Ok, baby we can move, I promise we can start looking tomorrow ok,"

"Ok," Mercedes cried. Mercedes pulled away and started sweeping up the mess with Sam's help before they went back to their bedroom and went back to sleep.

Mercedes knew this was going to be hard but she didn't expect everything to pile up on her so much. Being kidnapped and raped for three days was one thing, but now she was engaged she had a business that she was eventually going to have to go back to and run, she had to look for a new home, and on top of that she was going to have squeeze wedding planning in the mix.

Mercedes didn't know if she could handle it anymore.