Author's note: This chapter explores much of what happened to Ron and Roger and what the gang that kidnapped them are capable of doing.

Chapter Fourteen

Roger

After Roger was put into the car, one of the men put a hood over his head and his hands were bound together, ensuring that he would not try to escape. It was a terrifying moment that was a first of many terrifying moments.

In what seemed to be an eternity, the vehicle stopped and Roger, still blinded by the hood was lead into a building and the hood was finally taken off, and he wished that it were still on at that point. Especially since what he saw where he was scared him, a rundown building where there was multiple people in the same room, and it reminded him of stories of prisoners of war but he never thought he would see something like this in his life.

He also saw several dead people being carried out into some kind of pit and he immediately looked away as he didn't want to see anything like that ever again and hoped someone would find him soon. Unfortunately for him, he did keep seeing people die around him for a couple more months before he was finally transported to another building where gang members were waiting to see whether or not he would be able to join them.

Even though Roger didn't want to join, he reluctantly did, as he decided to bide his time until he either was rescued or found a way to escape this nightmare and he wasn't sure which was first.

As time went by, he realized that there was a possibility that people might think he was dead and might have given up looking for him. It was a crushing thought as he wondered if anyone will wonder what happened to him and if his brother was safe and moved on with his life.

He met Darin and his father and noticed that Darin was someone he would want to avoid and that even Marc, a name he learned later on, wasn't happy with his son, though he wasn't sure why. Darin was the in-between-guy with his father and a couple ringleaders, who regularly showed up with abducted children and they would decide their fate.

It was either what happened to Roger, being a gang member and shake down some people, be a laborer or they would just disappear but he had a pretty good idea what happened to them, as he believed that they were killed but he was never sure what exactly they did to them.

After fifteen years of horror and being forced to do things to innocent people, he was finally able to escape after he noticed that a door was open, which was usually guarded but the guards for some reason weren't there. He took a bag that he had prepared in case this kind of thing happened and was pretty sure that no one would remember as to whom he was but he was never sure.

Roger spent the next two years laying low under several different names and he found out about what happened to Ron and he knew that the gang got him but he had no idea if he could even find him but he tried for another few years but he couldn't go further for fear of being found out but he did look through open police reports to see if his brother was found or not but deep down he knew he wouldn't.

He eventually was able to go to college and later got a job at CalSci and he kept to himself, as he didn't want to be found out by anyone who might be associated by the gang. He became incredibly paranoid, which explained a lot of his behavior that led to the intervention.

Roger was going to a therapist that could keep his mouth shut about his past and was working through it until a man one day, calling himself Archer, told him he had some information about the gang and told him to come to the bridge and that was how he ended up there in the first place.

Ron

For the years since his brother's abduction, Ron struggled with guilt of not being able to help with his brother and became withdrawn from everything but school and never interacted with anyone but the teachers. His parents were worried but they had no idea as to how to help him but he was receiving counseling, which helped a bit but he wasn't there yet.

Just as Ron was just getting out of his shell, he was abducted by Darin's thugs, which he later found out was outside of his father's directives, as they don't usually kidnap people from the same twice, at least not unless they were desperate and they weren't at that point.

Ron's experience was different from his brother, as he was taken to a building where there were people who coming back from back breaking labor and he realized soon after that he was chosen to be a worker.

He was forced to do a lot of manual labor, which included mining out different types of rocks, though he never found out why but he figured it was for some type of building material. Ron witnessed much cruelty as guards beat up workers who couldn't work any longer because they were sick or weak and many of them died.

On one particular day he and another worker, a woman named Dana that he had become friends with, were working when a massive fight broke out. Darin and a thug that was working for him and his father were arguing about something when other workers noticed it as well.

The two got physical and, pretty soon, other people; both Thorne's thugs and other workers started fighting each other, from what he could tell. It turned out to be a great opportunity for him and Dana to escape unnoticed and they didn't look back since and went underground for a couple years.

Ron found out that the people who took him were killed the same day and the police thought he was dead as well and his body was taken. Dana Schwartz was taken five years prior, found out that her parents died in a car crash a year after she was kidnapped and her two sisters were taken in by other relatives and she didn't know how to located them.

They assumed new names and they eventually married and they have two children, who have no idea as to what had happened to their parents and they have no idea as to what they could say.

They had to leave again when that incident with Don and his team happened, and luckily for them, their children were two and four, and they were able to disappear again until several days ago when Archer contacted them about some information about the gang and they both agreed that Ron would meet with him so that maybe they can finally figure out why they were really taken and can be free to live a life without fear.