Today we find out if our last baby number 5 is a he or a she.
"Baby, it's gonna be a girl. I just know it. The girls have to win for the house."
"We will see Honey. We will see."
The doctor comes in and gets out and puts the goop on my belly and starts with the wand and I hold my husband's hand in anticipation.
She goes about measuring the baby. "Everything is coming along perfectly. She is being very cooperative."
"She?"
"Yes, it's a girl. Congratulations Mr. And Mrs. Sawyer."
"What did I tell you Luke? I knew it." I laugh.
"Fine. You were right I was wrong. I'm just happy she is healthy."
"nice save Daddy."
"Thank you doctor."
When we arrive home we spend the afternoon with the whole family and some friends. Christian, Gail, Jason, Kate and Elliot came over and we are having a picnic in the yard. Kirsten, Jesse and James are running around playing in the yard and I have Piper on the blanket with me. The adults are all talking to themselves so I am just relaxing with my eyes closed when I hear someone approach.
"It's your party. You better wake up." I open my eyes and look up and see familiar grey eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Not asleep. Just relaxing. Motherhood can be exhausting."
He sits down beside us and starts tickling Piper who giggles.
"She has her Mommy's giggle."
I sit up. "yeah. So how you feeling about Them?" I ask as I point to Ella and Ray.
Sighing, he says, "they look genuinely happy like you and Luke so I'm happy for them. So did you find out what this baby is today?"
"Yes. Another girl. The girls get to outnumber the boys in our house now that this is our last."
He chuckles, "How's Luke doing after his um… procedure?" I giggle.
"Much better. He was the worst. Men really are terrible with pain."
"Well with that area of the body, I can imagine why."
"True. You should go talk to Ella and Ray."
"yeah, I guess so."
"I have to go feed this one and lay her down for a nap before she falls asleep in the yard."
"Okay. I will talk to you later Ana."
I pick up Piper and walk to the house to feed her and lay her down. As I'm coming out I run into my husband who takes my hand and practically drags me into our bedroom "I've been waiting to get you alone baby."
"Mmm.. what are you gonna do now that you got me here?"
"Let me show you." He says and kisses me passionately and picks me up and lays me on the bed and ravages my body.
After we rejoin the party my Dad pulls me to the side. "Daddy?"
"Annie, I really think I'm in love with Ella. I want to move to Seattle and move her in with me."
"I'd love that Daddy. It means I'd get to see you more. You can just live in the guesthouse. We have guest rooms if anyone comes to visit. Did you ask if she would want to? I mean, you basically spend every night together out there anyways."
"She said she would. I just wanted to check before selling your childhood home."
"I'll buy it from you Daddy. That way it can stay in the family."
"If you insist, baby girl."
I give him a kiss on the cheek. "it's always good to have a backup plan. I think you and Ella will work out though."
"Thanks Annie. I love you!"
"I love you too Daddy!"
After everyone leaves and Daddy and Ella go back to the guest house, or his house as it is now, I'm alone with my immediate family and we give the kids their baths and put them to bed and I tell Luke about Daddy being in love and moving into the guesthouse with Ella and how I'm purchasing his house. He is happy about all of it. Luke has always been supportive of my choices. After making love we fall asleep but for some reason, I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep so I go to drink a tea on the back deck.
As I'm relaxing on the back deck, I suddenly feel someone put their hand over my mouth and I look up and see Jim, Ella's husband. I try to get up but he holds me down. "You are going to come with me Ana." He holds something against my stomach and I look and realize it's a gun so I just nod. "I'm going to let go of your mouth and you're going to be a good girl and shut your mouth." Again, I nod. He let's go of my mouth and stands me up and tries my hands together in front of me with cable ties and puts the gun to my back and walks me around to the front of the house. He pulls the keys to the R8 out and hits the button and shoves me into the front seat and goes around and while he is walking around I hit the panic button under the dash so my husband and security can find us. He gets in.
"Why are you doing this Jim?"
He laughs. You took my wife away, it's only fair I take someone away from your family. You just happened to be the first one I was able to get ahold of. Easiest to subdue also it turns out. I would've taken one of your brats but they wouldn't have been nearly as fun." He drives us out the front gate and we fly quickly down the road and he gets us onto the freeway and I try to just pay attention to where we are going. "I love how this car drives. We could drive forever."
"What are you going to do with me Jim?" I ask.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Quiet Ana. You ask too many questions." And he hits me over the head with the butt of the gun and I fade into unconsciousness.
Luke's POV
I wake at dawn to realize I'm in bed alone and assume Ana is downstairs already. I take a shower and shave and throw on some clothes.
When I get downstairs, I look for my wife and can't find her. I check in at the security office and look in to find it empty. I decide to check CCTV on the laptop and quickly see a notification that the panic button on the R8 was activated hours ago. Where the hell are my security? I call up Tom.
"King"
"Tom get your ass to the security office now. I can't find Ana and the panic button in the R8 was activated hours ago and no one was here to act on it."
"On my way sir."
Our security is way too lazy apparently. That is about to change.
Tom arrives 5 minutes later and we pour through CCTV and find that Ana went out onto the deck at 4:30 and within 5 minutes a man covered her mouth and took her around to the R8 and then after the panic button was activated, he drove off. We tracked the R8 to Portland. "Let's go Tom! Call for backup and let's get my wife back."
"Yes sir." We quickly get into the SUV and I make some calls. I figure I will call Christian as his security will help.
"Grey"
"Christian, it's Luke. We need your security's help. Ana was abducted a few hours ago. We tracked her R8 to Portland and are headed there now. We need backup because apparently our security is incompetent."
"Taylor and I will take Charlie Tango down and meet you. Keep us updated on their location and we will send other members to help as well in SUVs."
"We will keep you updated. Thank you for your help."
I hang up and let Ray know what's going on and have him and Ella help the nannies with the kids. I cannot believe my pregnant wife has been abducted. Who would do this?
Ana's POV
I wake up with a headache on a mattress in the back of a moving vehicle. I attempt to sit up but I realize my hands are tied to something above my head. What the hell? I just want to be in my husband's arms.
"Hey!!"
"You're awake sweetheart." He must be driving because he doesn't come into view.
"Where are we? What is going on? What happened to the car?"
"What did I tell you about the questions Ana? Do you want to go back to sleep? We had to ditch the car. I didn't want your husband and security team to be able to track us."
Great. I'm stuck in a damn nightmare. My baby. Oh no. I start crying. I can't lose my baby and I don't know what this monster wants to do with me. "What do you want Jim? Money? I can get you money."
"I have money Ana. I just want your husband to suffer like I did because of his meddling wife. No. I have big plans for you Ana. We're almost there."
Shit. I begin to sob loudly and he pulls over and climbs into the back straddling me and puts a rag over my mouth and I'm unconscious again.
Christian's POV
As I arrive in Portland I receive an alert as to the location of the R8. We go to the location and find it parked in a very rough part of town. Taylor, this is going to be harder than expected. What now?"
"We have to wait until backup arrives and search this neighborhood thoroughly. Let's just hope they are still here."
"Still here? What happens if they aren't Taylor?"
"Then we will be searching blind unless someone here saw something."
"God, please let them still be here somewhere. We have to find her Taylor."
"Sir, she is family and we won't stop until we find her."
"When this is over, you will upgrade their security yourself. I don't know details of how this happened but no one should've been able to get to her if she was home."
"Yes, sir."
An hour later, Sawyer and Tom arrives along with Ryan and Reynolds.
Taylor and I approach Sawyer. "How did this happen?"
"She got up about 4:30 and was sitting on the back deck when she was abducted. He restrained her. It appears he had a gun. I had the CCTV footage on my phone and I finally determined that the person that abducted her is Ella's husband Jim. She hit the panic button in the R8 but MY SECURITY was nowhere around until I discovered the alert when I woke up 3 hours later. Someone is getting fired."
"Okay let's search the area. Ask questions and see if anyone saw anything." Taylor says.
We all agree to this and go out in pairs of 2. I go with Ryan. We search the first 3 houses and nothing. At the fourth house a woman tells us that around 7 she saw people get out of the car and the man was carrying a woman that looked like she was sleeping with long dark hair. She is able to give a good description of the van because it had been sitting there a few days so I report back to the rest of the team.
"Taylor, we got a new lead. The lady here saw them get out of the car and the man carried Ana, unconscious into a van. She said it was parked here for days."
She gives Taylor and Sawyer a description and they run the plate number and it turns out to be registered to Jack Hyde. Damn it.
"Damn it. Is there an address for Jack?" Sawyer asks.
"Last known address is right here and we already searched and came up empty. We have to do a more thorough search. We have to put an APB out on the vehicle and work with police. It's already 11. They have a pretty big headstart."
Sawyer starts crying. I've never seen Sawyer cry. "she is 5 months pregnant T. This cannot be happening. Tom, you will help find my wife and then you and the rest of the security are out on your asses but we will get you severance after my wife is found. Taylor can you send someone to watch my kids and Ella and Ray?"
"Of course. Mr. Grey already has someone on Ella but we will send Prescott and a few others to watch them all."
I can't believe this is happening. How are going to find Ana?
"You can set up base for the search at Escala."
"Thank you Christian." Says Sawyer. "I don't want to go but I guess we don't have an option at this point. We have no idea which way she went. Can some of your men stay around and try to find new leads."
"We will keep Ryan and Reynolds around this area. We will find her Luke. We won't rest until we do."
"Thank you Jason."
Ana's POV
I wake up again cold and open my eyes and I'm in a dark cold room. I look down and realize that I'm only wearing a tank top and panties and I'm tied to a chair. I'm alone in the room and I can't make anything out except a few shadows but I don't think anyone is in the room with me.
I try to struggle to get up but whatever is restraining me cuts into my wrists. I'm feeling defeated but I cannot give up. I have to keep fighting for this baby and all my babies. For my husband.
After a while I hear a door creak and a light comes on and I have to close my eyes because it hurts my head. I slowly open my eyes again and once they adjust to the light there are 2 men standing there. "Hey!!"
"Oh look the prick tease is awake." I recognize that voice. They turn around and there stands Jack Hyde. I hang my head in defeat. I have to keep fighting. Don't give up Ana. "What's the matter Ana? Didn't think you would see me again? Guess what sweetheart? I'm back for you and Christian Grey. I hope he still gives a shit about you because if he doesn't pay us, you're not leaving here alive."
"Jack, please. I have money myself. Take me to the bank. I will clean out my accounts for you. Just let me go. My family needs me."
He backhands me. "NO Ana!! I don't want your fucking money! I want Christian's and I want his fucking life. I see he already lost his wife to his own security. Who, by the way helped to kick my ass back at SIP so I don't mind getting back at him too like Jim here." He leans down and traces my face with his finger and I try to jerk my head away. "You see, Mack and I were already planning to take out Grey when suddenly Grey's goons took out Mack so I had to try to find a way to go through with the plan alone. And then… Mack's buddy Jim here came into town pissed because you took his whore wife away so we decided to use you as collateral and have a little fun while we're at it." He grabs my face and kisses me, forcing his tongue into my mouth and I bite it. He quickly retracts and backhands me again. "You fucking whore!! You will pay for that." He unties me and drags me out of the chair and pulls me into a room and throws me down onto a dirty mattress on the floor. He cuts the cable ties off my wrists and then Jim holds my hands when I start swinging.
"Feisty bitch. This is going to be fun!" he pulls one hand up and cuffs it and pulls the other up and does the same. I look up and realize that somehow the handcuffs are attached to the wall.
They get up and go to talk about something outside the door when I look around. I realize there's also some kind of restraints coming out I'd the floor by the foot of the bed. This is a nightmare. I just have to stay alive and not give up. Do it for your family Ana. Do it for your family. Survive. Jack comes back in.
"Seems I get first dibs on you whore." He rips my shirt open and rips my panties off my body and I start sobbing and wiggling hoping anything will stop this from happening. "Hold still and shut up or I will kill this little bastard in your stomach and then go to your house and get your other kids as well." I stop fighting because I can't lose this baby.
He grabs my ankles and restrains them to the restraints at the foot of the bed and I just cry remembering not to give up and to survive for my family.
Luke's POV
It's been 2 weeks and we're still unable to locate Ana. We've been able to narrow it down to a hundred mile radius in Canada.
Ray and Ella have been especially helpful with the kids and Ray comes over regularly to help in coming up with ideas that may help find Ana. He has been filled in on details of the circumstances that led up to this including Christian's childhood up to the pimp that was recently taken care of. Wait. Mack. He was staying in Canada.
"Taylor. I have an idea."
"I'm listening."
What about the location in Canada where Mack was hiding out? Has that been searched since all this started? Something tells me they might have been working together. It can't be a coincidence that they all ended up in the same general area."
"Great idea Luke. You and I can head up there and we will have the rest of these guys work all the other angles. We're still hoping someone calls for ransom maybe. Luke, I have to warn you. Having been two weeks, there's a good chance she has been harmed so you should prepare yourself for anything."
"Trust me T. I've been preparing myself for that possibility for weeks. I just want my wife home and we can work on healing her from whatever she is going through."
"Okay. Let me brief the others and we can go."
I hope we find Ana there. I can't handle if I lose my Ana forever. Please be okay Ana.
Christian's POV
No one here has slept over an hour at a time in 2 weeks. Everyone here loves Ana and we just want her found and safe. Gail has been keeping everyone fed.
Taylor just briefed us that he and Sawyer are headed to Canada to check out Mack's place.
We've been receiving dead end tips for weeks now but so far it has led us to Canada so that's something. Hours after they left my phone rings and it's an unknown number.
"Grey"
"Well well well. If it isn't the great Christian Grey. You sound like shit."
"Jack. Where's Ana? Let me talk to her."
I signal to the other guys to trace the call.
"Now now. First things first, I need YOU and ONLY YOU to go to a location that I will text you later. No security with 15 million dollars. Ana offered her money.. but… I want your money and you because you stole my life."
"what are you talking about Jack? I didn't steal anything from you."
"Oh but you did. The Greys should've adopted me. But they chose you. I could've been you. At least I got your wife. Oh wait, she isn't yours anymore. You know, She is really special, you know. That no gag reflux thing comes in handy." He laughs. I'm livid but I've got to keep my cool.
"Let me talk to her Jack. I need to know she is okay and then I will meet you anywhere you want so you can release her."
"Fine." The line is silent for a moment.
"Christian? Luke?"
"It's Christian Ana. Are you okay?"
"I'm alive. Nothing life threatening. Tell Luke I love him and my babies. This baby is still fine."
"Ana, don't talk like we will never see you again. We will find you." I hear her sob and then I hear what sounds like someone getting hit.
"Now, Grey, we've already used up Ana so I'm sure YOU don't want HER back but.. I'm sure someone does. We need that money. Mack and I were supposed to finish YOU off months ago. Apparently you and the whore did a real number on his life but then your men took him out so I'm here to finish the job with Jim. So, I will call you back with a location but I need you to drive alone North. I have someone watching you so I will know if you're not alone or being followed. Clock's ticking. You better get moving."
He hangs up and I run over to my chest and get my R8 keys and tell them NOT to follow me. I've got to save Ana and her baby.
I'm driving up the freeway and my phone rings again and he gives me directions to where he wants me to meet him in Canada and I'm pretty sure it's the same location where Mack was found.
After several hours I arrive at a shack. I know Luke and Taylor are around here somewhere so I feel a little more confident that we may get out of this alive. I walk around the front of the shack and find the van that was described in Portland. I knock on the door and an older man opens it and grabs me and takes the bags with the money from me and restrains my hands behind my back and leads me inside and searches me. Then I hear Ana's screams. "I'm here. Why is he still hurting Ana?"
She's being too feisty. We've got to teach her who's boss. She was trained well until she talked to you again but then she started biting so she needed to be taught a lesson again."
"You son of a bitch. Take me to her."
"Eh eh eh. She is busy right now so I've got a place for you to wait."
He takes me into the basement and ties me to a chair and I can hear Ana grunting.
"She doesn't sound like it but she REALLY likes it rough." I spit at him and he punches me and shoves a rag of some sort in my mouth. "Looks like you're going to be a challenge too but not near as much fun." He smirks.
I sit there quietly trying to black out the sounds I'm hearing from Ana.
After a while Jack emerges from the room walking a naked bruised and bloody Ana with a t-shirt in her mouth into the room. She looks way too skinny but she still has the bump and he has her hands tied in front of her. I make eye contact with her and she has tear stained cheeks. She is hardly recognizable and she is choking back sobs.
He throws her down onto the chair next to me and unties her hands and ties her back up to the chair. She needs help. I hope they come for her soon. I don't even care if they save me at this point. They just need to save Ana.
"Now that we've got the family back together, let's play a little game." Jack says rubbing his hands together.
Luke's POV
We found the shack in the middle of the woods and the van is there but so is Christian's car. We call back to control center and find out about the phone call he received and how he had to come alone to save Ana. So Ana is here.
We come up with a plan to rescue them. Taylor and I are gonna sneak in with guns and trick them into letting their guard down.
Taylor leads us in the front door quietly and we hear Ana groaning behind a door and we slowly open the door and sneak down the stairs and upon sneaking a peak, we see Ana and Christian tied to chairs and Ana looks terrible. I pull back a moment to compose myself because I have to be strong for Ana and the babies. Taylor signals for us to enter. And when we enter the room fully we see that the men are taking turns burning them with cigarettes. Ana notices us and I see the panic and desperation in her vacant eyes. "Let them go!"
Taylor and I are standing with our guns drawn. Jack gets behind Ana and pulls his gun to her head and I can see she is in bad shape. She is sobbing again. Her beautiful face is a mess and she has dried blood and bruises all over her. I direct my attention back to Jack. "Glad you two could join the party. I take it you want in on this action. I would ask if you want a piece of Ana but being a whore, I assure you she is pretty used up right now."
I launch at him and his gun goes flying. I start swinging. I don't even noticed that Taylor has taken down Jim as well. I hear Taylor, "Luke, get Ana."
"Pass me the restraints." I tie up jack and run to my wife and look into her eyes and pull the shirt out of her mouth. "I've got you now Ana. We will get you out of here and get you help." She just nods and cries. I continue to untie her and take off my jacket to cover her up and carry her out letting Jason know I'm taking her to the hospital.
"Okay. Be safe I will call the cops on these 2."
"Okay.." I look back at Ana who has lost consciousness. I sit her into the SUV and check for a pulse and she is fine so I buckle her in and drive us to the hospital.
Once at the hospital, I rush her, "MY WIFE NEEDS HELP NOW!!!"
They bring me a bed to lay her on and they cover her with a sheet. I hold her hand until a nurse makes me come with her outside.
"I need to know what happened to your wife."
I explain how she was kidnapped 2 weeks ago and was held hostage and abused by 2 men and we just found her. She nods and smiles sadly.
"We're going to have to give her a thorough examination and a rape kit so we will allow you to hold her hand for now. She may need you when she wakes up."
I nod. I go back in and hold her hand while they look over her body to analyze her injuries. They put a monitor on her stomach and I hear the heartbeat of our baby. Thank God.
"We have to take her for a cat scan to search for injuries. We will keep her sedated but we will need you to wait in the waiting room sir." I nod and kiss her forehead and reluctantly head to the waiting area and pace it. What have these monsters done to my beautiful wife? I keep checking in at the nurse's station but they tell me to go back and they will let me know when they can.
After 2 hours Christian and Taylor show up. "Did you take care of those bastards?"
"They are in jail. How's Ana?"
"Not good. She is unconscious. They kicked me out hours ago to check everything out but I've heard nothing since. All I know is that the baby is fine."
He gives me a hug. "She is in good hands. We will all be here to help with her recovery."
I start crying. "I could see the look in her eyes T. This is going to take a lot to recover from. I am firing my fucking security. We could've found her a long time ago if they weren't so fucking incompetent. Fuck their severance."
"I told Taylor to upgrade your security and help you find new security. I'm so sorry this happened. They have been torturing her for weeks Sawyer. They wanted to hurt me. They were working with Mack before we made him disappear." Christian says.
I shake my head. We really need to cut ties with this son of a bitch. Twice she has been hurt because of him. I walk back to the nurses station and they direct me back to Ana's room. She is now dressed in a gown and they got her cleaned up but they have a tube down her nose and a tube in her arm. She also has a cast on her left arm. You can see the bruises marring her beautiful face clearly along with small bandages on her face and arms. I take her hand and kiss her knuckles.
"I'm so sorry this happened to you baby. I want to take away all your pain."
The doctor walks in, "Mr. Sawyer, I'd like to speak to you about your wife's injuries." I nod. "she mostly has bruises everywhere but her stomach. She was severely malnourished. She has Some cuts all over and burn Marks on her upper thighs. Now, this next part will be harder to hear, are you ready?" I nod. "she was raped and sodomized, quite violently. We did a rape kit and sent it off. Do you know what happened to the men that did this?"
"Yes. They are in jail." He nods.
"Your wife is going to need emotional support more than anything. She went through an extremely traumatic ordeal. I will release her when she wakes up and you can take her home but she is to stay on bed rest until her OBGYN clears her. The baby is fine but with the circumstances, we need to be extra vigilant in making sure she stays that way."
"Okay. Thank you doctor."
He nods and leave the room.
"Oh Ana. I love you. I wish I could undo the last 2 weeks." I lay my head down on the edge of her bed, holding her hand.
Ana's POV
I wake up from a nightmare. Jack and Jim. The same one that has been a reality for 2 weeks. Daily rapings and beatings. I knew my baby was still okay because I felt her kicking. I open my eyes expecting to still be there and my rescue to have just been a dream but I'm so happy when I realize I'm not there anymore. I look down and see my husband sleeping. "Luke?"
He looks up at me with red eyes. "Ana. I'm so glad you're awake. Are you okay? Do you need anything?"
"I just need you. Please come hold me."
"I don't want to hurt you." I scoot over and pat the bed.
"You only hurt me by not getting up here." He kicks off his shoes and climbs up onto the bed and gently wraps his arms around me. "I was so scared you wouldn't find me after I realized we changed vehicles."
"I was terrified baby. I thought I lost you. I fired the fucking security. No one even saw the SOS from the car's panic button until I got up around 7:30. That's just fucking ridiculous. We could've gotten to you before it got this far."
"I'm glad you fired them. The baby? The kids?"
"The kids are good with Ray and Ella and Heather and Susan. I haven't seen them much the last couple of weeks. We've been working with T's team to find you."
"I realized that after you showed up with Jason. I thought for sure that Christian listened and came alone and I was just going to die there."
"He did actually come alone. Jason and I were already on our way because I got the idea to check Mack's old place where they found him. Somehow Christian got here before us."
"It was a nightmare. One long nightmare. I know I have to talk to police yet so I just want to only say what happened once when I talk to them. You can be present for that unless you don't want to know."
"I'll be here. I'll be with you every step of the way baby."
"Thank you." I whisper.
About an hour later I spend over an hour explaining in detail what I remember. I catch Luke crying more than once but he refuses to leave my side as promised. He just holds my hand and runs my back and cries with me. Jason and Christian come in after the cops leave and bring me clothes.
"Thank you guys." I say unable to look them in the eyes. They saw me naked. I know Christian saw me naked before but I'm married to Luke and pregnant with his baby. They saved me. All 3 of these men. I start crying again.
"Hey, we're sorry this happened to you Ana. I wish we could've found you sooner."
"Mack and Jack were after you Christian but Jim wanted me because I took away Ella. She is safe now though." I look at my husband. "You and the kids kept me alive and then you came in and saved me. This is something they had been planning for months though. I think Jim was working with Mack too. How else did he and Jack end up together? They are all taken care of now though, right?"
"Yes. We are all safe from them now baby." I snuggle into his side.
"Again I am sorry Ana." Christian says
"Stop apologizing. It's not your fault. I don't blame you. Only them. And my incompetent staff." I look at my husband again. "I want to go home now."
"Okay. Let's get you home but you have to be on bedrest until your OBGYN clears you."
I nod. "just take me home."