Indescript Bungalow
Residence of Ryan Evans
Suburbia
Just outside Houston, Texas
6:06 p.m.
As the breadwinners of the city return home to their awaiting families, lying in wait in his Mustang GT, Theo watches with intent as he is parked across the street, under a shady tree, keeping his car cool but much more importantly making it harder for people to see him and what's he doing and most importantly, what he is about to be doing.
Theo, from the safety of his car, use a high powered monocular to peer inside. What he is seeing right now shouldn't be particularly bad, if only the two weren't related. Yet Theo has to wait for the right moment.
Theo tries to stay in focus, yet somehow at the same time tries not to focus on the fact that all he's can see through the living room window is a completely blonde's rear end sticking out straight in his direction. The girl is on her knees and elbows, while her brother's legs are slung and hanging over her shoulders.
Just as Theo finally felt like puking after watching Sharpay's head bobbing up and down for the sake of own brother's pleasure, she stopped and got up to put her clothes on. Theo breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know whether he could have taken any more.
But no matter what, Theo's only real concern was the obvious one, that every minute he lost, was a minute more likely that Miley was being murdered. He knew that Miley was going to be done in slowly and painfully, but he guessed that Ryan Evans had to be there to do it. He only hoped to God that he was right.
As the front door opened, Theo finally got to put a face to the a- he's been watching for twenty minutes. He took one look at her and…
"Man, what a waste…" Theo muttered idly, as he watched her wipe of the both edges of her lips before getting into her car.
Despite what you may think, Theo felt nothing for Sharpay, he was too concerned with Miley, but no matter what he had to do this right, so he had to wait.
Theo carefully got out of his car. Dressed in a painter's overalls and wearing sunglasses, covering his entire body he sprinted to the front of the house, but hid himself in the crevice beside the front garage. Before sprinting, he expertly changes the bandana he was wearing as a doo rag and turns it into a mask. He sprints carrying a duffel bag and a case in his pocket.
Ryan soon sprints out and gets into his car. He's late and is due to meet Troy in the 'den' Miley's being kept in. Perfect timing, and more perfect that it was Miley who made this possible (remember without the manipulation on her part, Theo would have never had gotten to Ryan without getting it out of Sharpay, wasting time he did not have and a life. He was now able to spare Sharpay)
Ryan gets in the driver's seat, puts on his sunglasses, and is just settling in when…
Suddenly the passenger seat opens and a masked Theo sits beside him confronting him with a gun to his gut…
"Ryan Evans…" Theo greeted with his Glock 9 mm.
Ryan looks at him…
"I'm a Federal agent, DEA"
"Drive" Theo replied seriously, humored yet disgusted at the same time at Ryan trying to use DEA credentials he no longer had.
Theo shoves the Glock 9mm into Ryan's temple.
A Rundown tenement
Houston's Red light district
Juxtaposed with the what Theo's going to do to Ryan
This scene will jump back and forth, in and out from Ryan's car to Miley…
"C'mon Miley, you know the deal. If you do this, I'll kill my client instead yoouuuuu," Troy exclaimed with a surprising dose of sobriety.
Miley's in Gabi's room primping herself. Still dressed in the 'Catholic schoolgirl's uniform' she now breathes in and out to what she has to do. And what she will do will take more courage than anything.
Miley's POV:
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason.
Troy thought that I was so shallow and stupid and he thinks that I actually fell for him when he gave me that offer. The offer to kill whoever hired him to kill me as long as I agreed to 'entertain him' until he grew tired of me. That could mean anything. But I have to do this, for Gabi and for her.
Referring to Taylor, now asleep but still restrained to the bed.
I open the door a crack and see Troy sitting down in such a disgusting manner. But now I'm ready, as he's sitting in the exact seat I need for him to sit for my plan to work.
"C'mon…" Troy harshly demands.
Miley disappears back into Gabi's room. She isn't sure she can do this…
Yet that insecurity disappears when she remembers Gabi blind and Taylor chained.
Miley looks at her chest. She needs to use Theo's dog tags as flashy eye candy bait for Troy's eyes. To really distract him to do what she has to during this.
Yet a part of her can't bear to use Theo's dog tags like these even though she knows that she has to use this to survive, and Theo wouldn't mind that at all…
A bigger part of her felt dirty and wrong that she was betraying not so much the tags or Theo's trust (however unrealistic that was)…
But she felt like she was betraying Theo himself…
Why…well she knew why…
So did Theo, onlyshewasn't going to pretend otherwise anymore…
She wanted to be with Theo…he made her safe
"MILEY! get you a- out here NOW"
Alright here goes…
(In Ryan's Car)
Theo had made Ryan park right beside the 'den' that Miley was being held in. We now join them as Theo is in the passenger seat and Ryan is in driver's seat with his hands taped to the steering wheel, while he was in nothing but his boxers.
Ryan has painful cut marks down his neck, inflicted by Theo, and each cut had each gotten a single piece of information for each single cut.
It took all Theo had to not break down and believe Ryan when he said that…
Miley was dead.
Killed during the kidnapping act back at the club.
An forboding silence enveloped the inside of the car.
The truth was that he meant to say 'Miley's as good as dead', but didn't correct himself.
A part of Theo knew that he himself was destined for a tragic suicide, whether spiritual or actual didn't matter.
Troy wouldn't start the 'party' until he arrived, inside the building they were now in.
The room number as well as the room key were now in Theo's possession.
Now the 'real' fun begins. Ryan watches Theo kiss Miley's butterfly clip and wear it on the outside of his shirt for Ryan to see.
"Alright, Ryan, this clip belonged to a very special, innocent someone who was targeted by whoever hired you…"
Ryan pretends not to understand. This doesn't phase Theo one bit…
"Now, I'm going to ask you a few questions, if you don't answer fully and truthfully, you'll suffer much more than you have to…"
Ryan looks at Theo. Theo pulls out Ryan's own Beretta 9mm Handgun and brandishes it in front of his face.
Theo was now a man with nothing, really nothing to lose…and that's what made him so ruthless. Much more now than ever seen before.
"Understand?"
Ryan Nodded yet somehow wasn't impressed…yet.
The Den
(A/N: Listen to the music only but only for the Miley's part: Outside Sources: Shake That by Eminem and Nate Dogg.)
Troy had lined the room with very sturdy table that Miley was going to use.
And use it she did…
She started off with a table dance. Turning up the heat, she could see Troy face changed.
At the behest of Jake, she learned moves that always turned him on. It was originally something enslaved her. Now she had the tables turned so it would liberate her.
(A/N: Use the song and picture the dance in your head…I don't think that I could do Miley justice if I wrote exactly what she did)
(The Car)
"Tell me who was involved with offing Miley?"
"I'll never tell" Ryan amazingly said defiantly.
Theo gave him a look of contempt…then with a sigh, casually shoved the handgun into the knuckle of Ryan's left ring finger…
BANG
"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH"
"And if I say pleeeease" Theo 'wonderfully' said…
Then Theo pulled out what looked like a pen cap and used it to stop the bleeding after he blew Ryan's finger off. This causes more excrutiating pain.
(The Den)
Miley tries her best to not show she was disgusted. Yet she's much more convincing than she thinks. All those years living with Jake. Troy was now in a trance. He wasn't paying as much attention
The 'Hannah strut' followed by the 'drop it like it like it's hot' move only hypnotized him even more. He had put his Magnum .357 inside his belt and was slung above his butt.
(The Car)
Ryan had just calmed down after the pain had started to subside…
"It was just us…I mean…just me and Troy…oh, oh…and the three brothers we hired…"
"Jonas brothers?"
"Yes, yes, them…they're just some freelancers we hired…you took out two of them…"
"That's all?"
"Yes, yes…that's all…all we were ordered to do" Ryan said with the tone of desperation which marked his words as authentic
"Ordered? Ordered by whom" Theo asked.
This was the million dollar question. The reason why Theo was here.
"Don't know" replied Ryan.
"Don't know?" Theo replied not believing him.
"Don't know...Don't know, DON'T…"
But it was not enough.
Theo took the handgun and shoved it into Ryan's right kneecap…
BANG
The Den
Miley had now graduated to a chair dance. Troy's chair to be more exact. And as she worked her way around it, she feigned a seductive maneuver to check under the chair while behind Troy.
The car
After Ryan had calmed down, he looked at Theo. Theo was as cold as ice and as solid as a rock, there was no way around him…
"Okay, okay! I'll give, I'll give, just don't…don't anymore…"
Theo is unfazed. Colder than ever (because of Miley's death of course)…
"Who ordered it?"
Ryan caught his breath…
"We call her 'Iris'"
"Iris, okay," Theo repeated to confirm as he wrote that down.
"Iris, iris…Troy said that she said something about where she was from…"
Theo listened as Ryan offered this to stop Theo from maiming him again.
"Said about the…the state…the state represents it or something…"
Theo was almost satisfied…
"Alright…tell me about Iris,"
Ryan looks at Theo with a stupidly confused look…
"Iris…Iris" Ryan repeated.
"Okay Iris, Iris…" Theo repeated after him.
"We don't know…"
Theo looks at him…but can tell he is telling the truth.
"Okay...I believe you…was it on Gangster's Paradise?"
Ryan frantically nodded.
This meant that it was on the internet and only his family's connections would get to this. She didn't meet in person…
And the fact that he was from a state that had 'Iris' as a type of representative was a great help.
"Hey, buddy…buddy…you think you can give me one…cigarette please…"
"Sure, sure…" Theo allowed.
Theo puts a cigarette into Ryan's mouth and lights it for him.
Theo's done with Ryan.
He steps out, meaning to leave Ryan there, meaning to spare his life…
He is almost out of the car when he stops
He goes back in and sits back down and looks at Ryan…
He takes off Ryan's sunglasses, looking into his eyes he sees…
Surreal flashbacks of
Miley…
Her smile…
Her angelic face…
Her eyes which were more beautiful than the stars that Theo saw in San Diego.
Immeadiately Theo's mood changed and Theo was quietly enraged at one of the greatest losses of his life.
"Okay, my friend…it's off to the next life for you…I guarantee you won't be lonely…"
Theo puts the handgun to the side of Ryan's temple…
Bang!
...and kills him.
Theo just walks out and enters the building. He simply forgot his resolution to spare Ryan's life.
(The Den)
Miley's now at the point of a lap dance. This is the key point that she was working up towards. She had to struggle not to vomit with his hands all over her body.
"I've wanted this from you the moment I first saw you at the club…" Troy tells her.
"Hmm hmmm" Miley responded.
Miley had a struggle to keep him entertained and distracted, because she also had to untape what she had under the seat from behind the seat.
Close…
Closer…
Closer…
"HEY!,"Troy exclaimed, now knowing that Miley is spending way too much time behind him and his chair. He suspects something's up.
Suddenly the noise of someone trying to turn in the keys catches both of them…
(Noise)
Troy looks closely…
"Oh, s-t NO!" Troy yelps.
Troy knew that wasn't Ryan.
Somehow suspecting Miley…
SMACK…
Troy knocks Miley to the ground with a backhand smack…
Exactly like Jake Ryan did (A/N: First chapter).
Enraging Miley beyond anything…she wasn't scared of either Jake or Troy anymore.
Miley's surreal POV:
I get up to my knees quickly and recover like a professional boxer.
I rip what I had hid under the chair all this time and bring it out into the open. I had to use it now, yet the only way I could think of now (because Troy taller than me and is no longer sitting down)
BOOM…(rattle)...BOOM
That was Theo on the other side, knowing only a shotgun could shoot out locks was doing exactly that, yet it was taking much more than one shot because the rounds were not specialist breaching rounds.
I hold in my hand a corner piece of what was once a full length mirror. The corner edge was safe for me to hold, but it still had a dagger shape glass blade attached to it. Very sturdy and durable and extremely sharp.
Miley sees that Troy pulled his .357 from his 'back pocket' and is standing with legs apart in only his boxers and t-shirt. His gun pointed at the door that was about to be breached open.
"Do you know who you're messing with," Troy drunkenly bellowed to the door abandoning all his reserve and common sense, "I'm a great warrior, a powerful warrior"
That's when I…
Dropped to my knees forward, quickly walk on my knees and…
SLAM THE JAGGED BLADE BETWEEN TROY'S LEGS, VICIOUSLY IMPALING, MUTILATING AND DESTROYING BOTH HIS PENIS AND TESTICLES.
I don't let go until I TWIST it with all my might and anger and yelled at him in revenge.
"Now you're a dickless warrior!"
The pain is so extreme, that it is BLINDING and strips Troy of his ability to utter a single word.
(A/N: Any guy will second this description in empathy.)
Troy simply falls forward and lets out a horrible bellow…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
(A/N: This, and anything I could write, can never to justice to the REAL scream that Troy would actually yell. So forgive me if I don't really bother with trying to write 'that')
By now I'm on the floor exhausted, yet finally relieved. But I first scramble to Troy's revolver that he has long since let go of.
Troy Bolton has been put out of commission.
BOOM
I jerk my head up and in an instant awkwardly cock the revolver while pointing it at the door.
BOOM- Slam! (Door slammed open)
Revolver cocked/Shotgun cocked.
Both fingers squeezing the trigger within a hairline of discharge.
(That second: Theo pointed his shotgun at Miley, and Miley pointed her revolver at Theo)
Both almost fired.
Luckily Miley was so startled by the door slam, she fumbled with and dropped her gun.
Yet at that moment time froze…
(Background piano music for effect)
Frozen…
Both their faces dropped. The core of both pairs of eyes were transfixed on each other.
Hell or high water couldn't break them apart.
Miley stared…as if she saw a ghost…because she really believed she was, literally, seeing a ghost.
Theo couldn't believe what he was seeing. Ryan Evans had no reason to lie. In fact the reason he didn't spare his life was all in the name of revenge and justice. Ryan Evans took a life and it seemed only fitting that he pay with his own.
Ryan should have corrected Theo. Theo would have believed him. Tragically
Theo dropped his shotgun
"No…it can't be…"
Theo slowly walked towards Miley…
He slowly reached Miley…
Suddenly a door to the right side of Miley swung open and…
Nick came out from Taylor's room and as he looked, pulled out his gun…
But Miley, who had since refingered her gun, just in case Theo's presence was the work of a tricky demon, pointed, cocked, and shot first. Theo didn't see a thing. He would have been killed if it wasn't for Miley.
So quick, Nick never had a chance.
Miley had successfully defended herself. Twice. After manipulating and finally taking control of her life again.
But there Miley still needed something to prove to her heart and soul that this was the real Theo.
Theo unclasped the butterfly hair clip from the chain that was slung from his pants pocket and laid it down in front of Miley. Just as Miley picked it up to recognize it, Theo reached out and grasped the dog tags hanging from her chest.
Both looked into each other eyes again.
Then they lunged and embraced each other faster and harder than either of them had ever done before with anyone. So hard that Miley would have fallen over if it wasn't for Theo keeping her up.
Theo was speechless and Miley was crying tears of joy.
This takes a whole hour to finish…
(One hour later…)
Miley and Theo…so far along that words aren't necessary, prepare to leave. Theo is about to leave with Miley in tow but Miley holds him back…
"Teddy, we have to help Gabi?"
"Gabi?" Theo asked, until it hit him, "where is she?"
Miley urges Theo on as he goes into Gabi's room to meet her. Words are sparse, yet it's clear to Gabi that she doesn't have to worry about him anymore.
The conversation Theo and Miley have with Gabi has a much more profound effect on Theo than either of them realize. A lifetime of the 'mail order bride' family business only seemed to have left Theo immune to this. But the truth was that was too close to absorbing too much that had accumulated over time. Eventually his gas tank, which started empty would fill up with this baggage and a full tank could mean a ride to suicide. This is the case for life choices such as police and guys like Theo.
"I'd like to see Troy…" Gabi asked.
Neither Theo or Miley thought this was a good idea. They both had experience with these feelings, but felt they couldn't say no to her…
They brought her to face Troy, now helpless, yet still conscious…
Gabi begins…
"Troy, I'm leaving you. I should have done it a long time ago. I'm going to help my myself now. As for you, I can't love you anymore. I'm going to let fate decide what to do with you. If the police don't get you, the Russian's will (for Troy cheated them out of profits from his 'candy shop' and they found out). But this time no one will cover for you…I may be blind, but now I see better than I ever had before. And I'll still be alive, unlike you. Goodbye Troy."
Then Miley realized Taylor was still in the room of beds.
Miley had in response grabbed both Theo and Gabi and guided them both to the room of beds.
They rushed to Taylor's side…
And all they saw was Taylor foaming at the mouth with white mixed with red.
Theo's POV:
"Forced Heroin overdose…" I said.
Nick had force fed her Heroin that was supposed to be snorted or injected, and was now too much for her body.
Seeing the chains made my heart dropped. Time slowed for me, voices were
Theo's horrible flashbacks on decades of witnessing abuse, suffering, pain…
And most of all evil.
Had culminated and pierced the heart and soul, and like a machete in the hands of an artistic acrobat began to rip and tear what heart and soul he had left.
This was the breaking point…I couldn't deal with just ignoring it anymore.
I was cursed with a conscience, I could never and never really did get used to it and shut off my conscience. All this…
But this was interrupted by Taylor body 'waking up' to spasm again. They were losing her…
"Teddy!" Miley exclaimed.
Theo pulled out his handgun and quickly shot off all four chains.
He was about to pick her up when she…
Went limp…
Theo released her and checked her pulse.
What he couldn't feel anymore had killed him inside…
The previously mentioned acrobat was now spinning and weaving in full force, tearing his heart and soul into shreds.
I was now a broken man.
Miley and Gabi, who were holding each of her hands, giving her that last human dignity needed to ease her soul by making sure it didn't go without a human's loving touch before it left this broken body.
Miley looked up at Theo, Theo tried to compose himself.
Suddenly behind them.
Click (Gun cocking).
Theo jerked into a different position, trying to shove both Miley and Gabi to the floor.
Bang!
Bang!
In a split second, Troy, after crawling on the floor, had pulled a gun out of his sock and tried to kill Gabi with it, but Theo's shove meant that it got Gabi between the shoulder and her chest. But Troy could do no more, because it was Miley again who cocked her .357 Magnum revolver and shot Troy in the head in response killing him.
But after the shock, Gabi was still wounded…and Theo sprung into action…
He rested Gabi down as she put her trust into him.
The gun was a Walther PPK. More importantly it fired a much smaller bullet, a .380, which meant that it produced much less damage that it could have. And that meant all the difference, especially since calling 911 would alert the police as well as EMT's.
Theo knew exactly what to do. He ran out to the main room and went into the kitchen nook. He frantically opened and closed cabinet doors until he found a bottle of vodka that wasn't empty. After smelling it to confirm it was just right. He put it down. He then searched and found kitchen knives, which were surprisingly very clean and newly bought. (They were intended for Miley's torture) Theo quickly washed and dried a knife, a metal bowl and a solid steel skewer. He drenched the knife and skewer in vodka, then turned on the gas burner stove and he immersed both of them in flames. After all that he drenched it in vodka again, and brought it with him. Along with the bowl full of warm water, he brought all this to Gabi.
First he cleansed the wound with the vodka, acting as the perfect substitute for rubbing alcohol. He then helped Gabi drink a healthy amount of vodka, so as to dull the pain. Theo took his time thing and very skilfully dug around the wound as efficiently as he could, caring about Gabi enough not minimize her pain. And soon enough, he was finished. Miley agreed to bandage Gabi up as Theo excused himself from the room to get something.
Amazingly, the ample amount of chances Miley had to escape from Theo now was only now coming to mind, yet Miley quickly shut them out as if to escape would be blasphemy. Hell escape had never even crossed her mind.
Theo had retrieved something that he had brought with him. Originally intended for Miley for her cover, Theo brought back the disability glasses and white cane. They weren't props, they were the real thing.
The compassion that Theo showed Gabi, a complete stranger, touched Miley in such a powerful way that she had past the point of no return…
Miley had now fallen for Theo…
But fallen in what…in love, in respect…
Only time will tell…yet that time would be now much sooner than ever.
Gabi responded by tracing Theo's face to give him a chaste kiss on the cheek.
A gently warmth which had no effect on Theo. He felt too broken to care anymore...
A/N: So what do you think hmm. About anything. About the pacing of Miley and Theo's relationship, about the direction of the story. Absolutely anything in and about the story.
A/N 2: Disclaimer: Please do not follow and attempt to imitate any supposed first aid depicted in this story. In the event of any medical incident and emergency, please consult a medical professional.
GFMarshall