A/N: So this chapter is longer and thing are getting interesting ;)

Brian's POV

"Justin!" I shout pushing past people in the rubble of what used to be Babylon.

"Brian!" I see him but I can't get to him. I try to push past the crowd of people, but they push me away from where he is.

"Justin! Hold on I'm coming!" I yell trying to get through the crowd. Then I see him Hobbs, he gives me a ruthless grin as he walks towards Justin.

"No! Justin look out!" I rush through the crowd and I'm almost to him. I grab his arm and pull him too me. Then I feel something warm and wet I look over Justin's head and I see Hobbs with a bloody knife. No! I look at Justin and there's blood spilling from his chest. Justin slumps down and I follow I pull him into my arms cradling him.

"I-I-I wa-waited for you" he stammers as blood streams out of the corner of his mouth

"I'm sorry sunshine…I'm so sorry" I say rocking back and forth and crying

"Why? Why didn't you come f-for me?"

"I….I don't know? I meant too…please don't go Justin"

"I waited but you never came" he chokes out

"Brian! Brian wake up!"

Daphne? What? He's gone Justin's gone there's nothing left but his blood. Justin I waited too long…I'm sorry.

I wake up disoriented and hung over, I bolt up looking at my clothes, no blood it was just a dream. Fresh tears roll down my face, he's not here, Hobbs still has him. And I haven't done one fucking him to bring him back home.

"Brian! Open the Door!"

I wipe my face and go to the door. When I open it the look on Daphne's face snaps me out of the daze from my dream.

"What? What happened?"

"You really don't answer your land line do you?" she says plugging her nose "You need to shower"

"Thanks now what did I miss?"

"Ted, Emmett and Melanie were attacked last night. We need to get to the hospital" she explains

I run to the bathroom and take the fastest shower I've ever taken in my life. After I brush my teeth I throw on some jeans, a shirt and some shoes. When I get to the kitchen Daphne is holding the unopened letter from Hobbs that came with the burner phone.

"What's this?"

"A note"

"From Hobbs? When did you get this?"

"It was here when I got home along with…" I go to my old pants and fish out the phone "this"

"Cocky son of a bitch isn't he?"

"What does the note say?"

"It says 'I figured by now you'd need a new phone. You know to make sure our boyfriend's okay' asshole" she says frustrated

I grit my teeth then pull myself together, Daphne looks at the note confused

"Do you think we should give it to the cops?" I ask

"No…they didn't found anything on Justin's phone when they found it. I'm sure he didn't leave his prints or anything" she sighs "we should go"

Daphne took a cab over so she drives with me to the hospital. When we get there a nurse guides us to Emmett's room. Lindsey, Melanie, Debbie, Drew, Carl and the two officers from the other day are here.

Emmett's face is bruised he has a black eye and a few of his fingers are wrapped up. Melanie looks fine.

"Where the fuck have you been?" Debbie demands

Having nightmares and then waking up to one "had to drink myself to sleep"

"Oh"

"Yea 'Oh'. So what happened? And where's Ted?"

"We've been waiting all morning for Mr. Honeycutt to tell us that. Seeing that Mr. Schmidt is still in surgery and Miss. Marcus can't remember anything-"

"I was waiting for you, I don't want to have to go through this fucking story twice. Plus if anyone's going to actually find Justin it's you not them" he says pointing to the two officers

"Well I'm here so what happened?"

"Last night after the police were done drilling us about Hobbs we went to Woody's. Ted got really depressed, you know because of….anyway. He left to take a walk I waited a while and when he didn't come back I went looking for him. When I found him he was all bloody and it didn't look like he was breathing."

He stops to take a deep breath before continuing.

"So I knelt down next to him to see if he had a pulse. That's when I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He was about to hit me with a…I think it was a crowbar. I got a hold of the crowbar and kicked him in the leg, his grip loosened, so I yanked it from him and threw it. Then I punched him and kicked him in the chest."

He squeezes his eyes shut and takes another breath.

"I couldn't see his face but his eyes looked…surprised, like he didn't expect me to fight back. While he was lying there I went to go get the crowbar, before I could smash him with it he stabbed me"

Emmett's eyes are all glassy as he tries not to cry, Drew squeezes his hand and smiles at him encouragingly.

"I tasted blood in my mouth and… I thought I was dead. I laid there waiting for him to finish me off. Then I heard someone coming and so did he, so he hid by the wall. When Mel turned he hit her over the head, he hit her so hard I thought she was dead too. Then he sort of just…looked at her like he was trying to figure something out. Then he left."

I take a minute to soak everything in. Emmett's story tells me a few things, one the fucker is watching us. That's the only way he would've known to attack them. Hobbs isn't as dumb as I thought he was, pretty smart actually. Maybe too smart.

"Do you have any type of surveillance, outside of the station?" I ask Carl

"Yea…uh I mean it's fairly new but it should've of been recording last night"

"You think he followed us from the station?" Mel asks

"Yea I do, what about this supposed wife of his?" I ask Carl

"Uh from what I found out she's in New York visiting her mother or something. Why?"

"I don't think Hobbs is smart enough to have come up with all of this by himself"

"You think his wife helped him with this?" Lindsey asks

"It's either her or somebody else. But I think it's pretty convenient that she leaves town just as all this happens"

"Well I can ask him about it later" Carl says carefully

"What?"

"I agree that it's weird that your club gets blown up, Taylor goes missing and now both of your friends and family are getting attacked. He's a good place to start looking, so I asked him to come to the station for questioning"

"If he was guilty why would he even show up?" officer Artie the asshole asks.

"Because he thinks he'll get away with it, I mean why shouldn't he?" Mel says

"Because he'd get caught" Officer Asshole says

"He got away with it before! He fucking tried to murder sunshine with a baseball bat and he got off with a slap on the wrist!" Debbie howls

"So why should this time be any different?" Lindsey whispers clutching Melanie's hand.

The small gesture makes the pain in my chest more present. I wish I could hold Justin's hand, let him know that I'm looking. That I won't stop until I find him, until he's home with me. Suddenly I feel angry and the room turns red.

"Carl-"

"No it's a bad idea Kinney"

"I'll…behave"

"That was convincing, it's not a good idea for any of you to be there when we question Hobbs. You're all too emotional and too close to this"

I look at Daphne and her phone is open, I can't help but smile. I know exactly what she's doing.

"Is that what you're going to tell Jenifer? Because I'm pretty sure that Daphne's been letting her listen to this whole conversation. And either she's on her way here or she's going to the station"

Carl glares at Daphne who just shrugs her shoulders

"She's his mother she has a right to know" she says shamelessly

"Fine! But remember as much as you all may hate it this interview is a courtesy on Hobbs part. We don't have any physical evidence that proves he did anything"

"Which is bullshit!" Debbie says

"I'm not arguing with you. But if you guys do anything…fuck it. Look if you guys physically harm Hobbs in any way he could sue you and you'd be not use to anyone locked up" Carl says talking to everyone but looking at me.

"Got it, we'll all be on our best behavior" I say sweetly, Carl rolls his eyes.

"Yea right" Carl mumbles

Carl goes ahead of us to the station to wait for Hobbs. After he leaves I get the full medical rundown of everyone. Emmett was stabbed in the side and luckily it missed any vital organs. But he's gonna be a little tender for a while so he has to stay. Melanie has a minor concussion, Ted on the other hand has a major concussion. Plus a lot of internal bleeding, which is why he's in surgery. The doctors are trying but I can tell it's not good. Jenifer called to let us know that she's already at the station.

In the end me, Melanie, Debbie, and Daphne head to the station to wait for Hobbs. When we get there Jenifer is clearly nervous and pacing in Carl's office. She relaxes a little when she sees me, and I do the same. Which is weird and it makes me realize how close mamma Taylor and I really are. And I thought she hated me.

"Is he here yet?" I ask after she hugs me

"Not yet but Carl said he should be here any minute. I can't believe he's ruining our lives again" she mumbles angry and tired.

I feel the exact same way, we all wait in Carl's office anxiously. It's about twenty minutes until he comes in.

"He's here and I'm going to question him. Now you guys can watch in the other room, you'll be able to see me question him. But-"

"We've all seen a cop show before Carl, we get it" I say cutting off

He sighs and leads us to a cold grey room with a glass mirror which I'm guessing is two way. Then I see him, Hobbs is sitting in the chair waiting for Carl and looking smug. Seeing him makes flashes of Justin getting hit with the bat and going down assault my head. Holding Justin while he lay there bleeding and unconscious. I squeeze my eyes shut trying to shut out the memories.

"Are you okay?" Jenifer asks

"Um…yea just bad memories" I say grudgingly

Jenifer tenses but doesn't say anything. Carl walks into the room with Hobbs and you can feel the tension in the room.

"Hello Mr. Hobbs do you know why I've called you here today?"

"No not really, you just said that you needed to ask me a few questions"

"Right" Carl says looking at him skeptically "What happened to your nose?"

I look closer and notice that Hobbs nose is a little swollen. And a reluctant smile pulls at my mouth.

"What?" Daphne asks

"Fifty bucks says that Justin did that"

"Really?" Jenifer asks hopefully

"I'm sure of it"

"Got into a little fight" Hobbs says coolly

"Hmm any way, what do you know about the bombing that occurred about two days ago?"

"You mean at Babylon right"

"Yes"

"Well when I was taking my wife to the airport we heard about it on the radio. So after I dropped her off I went to the club to check things out"

"Why? Did you have any friends or family there?"

"No but I did do a bit of construction on the place when it got a new owner"

Carl stares at him dumbstruck just like the rest of us. Hobbs! Fucking Hobbs did the upgrade work at Babylon and this is how I have to find out!

"Again I have to ask why, I think it's pretty well known how you feel about…" Carl looks in a file and reads from it "Fudge packing faggots. Isn't that how you referred to the gay and lesbian community?"

Hobbs sighs stifling a smile and rakes his fingers through his hair. "I was eighteen, angry and…not at terms with who I was back then"

"Who you are?"

"Yes, see back then when the classmate I assaulted, Justin Taylor, and I were cleaning out the athletic room. We started talking about this time me and this girl…anyway things got hot and heavy. Then he gave me the best hand job of my life" he says reminiscing.

Bile rises in my throat at the look on his face and Jenifer stiffens beside me. My fists are balled up so tight my knuckles are white.

"After that day I started having sexual feelings-"

"For Taylor?"

He laughs "Him and every other hot guy I saw. Then Taylor was all out of the closet and sure of himself and so…proud. I was jealous of his confidence, which is why I picked on him so much. I got worse and worse, then at prom he has the nerve to dance with his thirty year old boyfriend. I guess I just snapped, which is no excuse."

"So what after the trial and everything you were better?"

"Nope I was still angry, took a lot of therapy to get my shit together."

"And what exactly did you get together?" Carl asks out of pure curiosity

"I go both ways"

"Which would explain the wife. Okay anyway back to Justin Taylor."

"What about him?"

"When's the last time you saw him?"

"Um….I'm not sure I can say"

"Why not?"

"Well the last time I saw Justin Taylor…he had a gun pointed at my head."

Everyone gasps shocked, everyone except Daphne.

"Is that true?" I ask her

"Well…yea but Justin didn't tell me Cody did. But since they stopped hanging out I didn't think we had anything to worry about" she says guiltily

"It's alright I mean it happened a year ago…"

"But maybe that's why he's doing this revenge?" Mel suggest

"Revenge for what? It's not like sunshine actually fired the gun" Debbie says

"Shh"

"Are you serious? Why would he do that?"

"He wanted an apology and for me to know what it felt like. To be afraid of people who hate you for something you can't change even if you wanted too"

I roll my eyes "He's good"

"You don't believe him?" Lindsey asks

"I believe that Justin put a gun to his head, what I don't believe is that he's all reformed. But everything he's saying is making him look less suspect. I mean these things are recorded. He's doing this on purpose."

"Right are you sure you want to stick with this whole I'm reformed thing?"

"Um…Yes?"

"Okay so you were just at Babylon to check out the damage because you worked at the building. Did you work on the building because you knew Justin's Boyfriend Brian Kinney now owns the club?"

Hobbs can't hide the irritation on his face when Carl says my name.

"No I didn't know that."

"Can you explain how or why rather you gave your blood to save Michael Novotny's life?"

"What!?" Debbie shouts making everyone jump

"So I saw Taylor and Kinney then I followed Kinney to the hospital. I over hear the doctor and I happened to be the right blood type. Is it a crime to do something nice?"

"Why did you follow Kinney?"

"I don't know…I just did."

"Well maybe you snapped again followed them both around and when Taylor was alone you grabbed him!"

Hobbs smiles "Oh is that what this is about? Taylor's missing, I don't have him and if you're not charging me then I think I'll go" he says getting up.

"One more thing where were you last night?"

"I was up in a little cabin that I own, while my wife is away I figured that I get a little R&R"

"Do you mind if we check this cabin of yours"

"Sure do you want to follow me and head out there now?"

"No tomorrow"

"What time?"

"Just be ready"

"Yes sir" he says leaving "oh and I really do hope you find him" he says looking directly at me.

I storm out of the room and the building and wait for Hobbs outside. He walks out with the biggest smile on his face.

"You know I think this is the first time we've even met face to face" he says turning to face me

"What the fuck was all of that in there!? Did you really expect any of us to believe that shit!?"

"You're causing a scene" he says calmly "If you want to talk then we could go have a coffee or something. I'd really like to apologize for-"

"For blowing up my club or kidnapping my fiancé?"

He leans in and whispers "Both"

It takes every ounce of strength in me not to beat the shit out of him. Right in front of the police station. He walks away and I follow until we get to some kind of diner. I follow him wordlessly, as he gets us a booth in the back. So no one will hear what we're talking about. He puts on some black gloves and orders two slices of chocolate marshmallow pie and two coffees.

Then he just sits there

"Well you wanted to talk so talk" he says

My anger ebbs "Did…did you hurt Justin?"

"Aww how cute, no I didn't hurt him. Not yet anyway"

"Why'd you take him?" I ask as the lady comes back with the food

"Honestly…because I like him a lot. I mean I got a great job and beautiful wife but I can't get him out of my head"

"I thought you saw a shrink?"

"I've seen seventeen including my wife" he says taking a bite of his pie

"I'm not even going to comment on that" I say taking a big gulp of coffee

"Wise choice"

"Why blow up the club?"

"Because I kind of- no I just plain don't like you. And as for hurting and in some case killing your and his friends. That's to get at both of you."

I try to keep my anger in check "Justin do that to your nose?"

"Yea he was pretty pissed when I told him what I did to your friends last night" he says finishing his pie.

"I'm sure he was…what exactly do you want? You won't get away with this, there's no such thing as 'the perfect kidnapping' or 'the perfect murder'. No matter how perfect or careful you thought you were you'll leave some type of evidence"

He laughs "Wow you and Justin sound exactly alike, he said the same thing. As for what I want, I want to hurt you, both of you. And I can tell that you're hurting and I just love that. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside"

"Yea laugh and crazy it up but I won't let you get away with this" while he's distracted I take the knife "and I promise that when this is all over you'll either be in jail or in the ground" I say stabbing him in the hand.

I'm extremely satisfied when he pulls his hand away with the knife sill in it. Doing that helped with a nice chunk of the anger.

"You might be paying for that sooner rather than later" he says pulling the knife out and gingerly holding his hand "I gotta go I have a lot to do. Oh and if you or anyone else tries to follow me. I'll be mailing you Justin's insides" he growls making my blood turn cold.

After he leaves I feel…weird still sad and angry. But more determined and strangely…hopeful. Hobbs is still just an angry if slightly (or full on) crazy kid I know I can save Justin but I'm definitely going to need to get Carl's help.