Phil looked across at Sam, then Abi and then the surroundings. "Abi, I don't think this is the best place to be. They may come and check here straight away. We do need a place with significance but somewhere that less people know about."
"Well ... there is the abandoned undergroud. That's where Hugh kept mum when he abducted her as well. He took me there to see her, back then I liked Hugh and she hated him, she didnt want anything to do with him. But then it all rapidly changed." Abi admitted.
"Is it far?" Phil asked.
"No, it's a couple of streets away from Hugh's house. That's how he noticed it, there's a staff enterance down an alley that's how he used to get in." Abi said.
"Right." Phil picked Sam up again and they went out to his car, checking that no one was around. They scrambled into the car, buckling up before Phil drove to the underground.
Abi opened a door. "This was where he kept her."
Phil looked around, dirty grey walls and floor. There was a thin blanket on the floor as well. "Wow, the Ritz!"
Abi laughed. "I know it's nothing special is it?"
He nodded. "Is there anything else, more warm. We need to put her somewhere."
"Well Hugh kept more blankets and stuff of hers in the ticket booth." Abi replied.
"Ok, you stay with her and I'll go get some more blankets." Phil said walking out to the platform and placing her down on the floor. Abi sat down beside her and put an arm round her, Sam's head rolled on to her shoulder.
Phil left them and Abi gently planted a kiss on her mum's head. Sam groaned and her eyes fluttered open. She stretched, aching all over. "Mum, you're awake!" Abi put her arms around her and hugged her tightly but Sam's body stiffened. Abi pulled away, hurt by her mother's reaction.
Phil returned carrying stuff for them, he put a blanket on the floor for them to sit on. Abi went and sat on it, leaving space for Phil and Sam. Sam got up and stayed standing. She looked around.
"Where are we?" She asked. "What did you do to me to make me so tired?"
"We?! We did nothing mum! Hugh drugged you, he gave you sleeping pills so you stayed in the house while he went out. Mum we had to get you out, you wouldn't be safe staying with him. He's dangerous." Abi said, standing up too. She took a step towards her mum but Sam took a step back.
Sam was trying to block out everything she was saying but was finding it incredibly hard. "No!" She said through gritted teeth. "You're wrong. You're lying!"
"I'm not though, and you know it."
Sam's eyes filled with tears as she shook her head. "Hugh loves me, and I love him!"
"Is that why he drugs you?" Phil asked.
"I just wanted to sleep!" She insisted, tears starting to slip outof her eyes. " I needed to sleep."
Abi walked over and put an arm around her as she cried. Abi lead her over to the blankets and sat her down. Sam lay her head on Abi's shoulder crying, Abigail storked her mother's hair calming her down. Phil sat on the other side of Sam so she was in the middle. He looked across at them, Sam was so confused. She was pretty much torn between choosing her daughter and her friend who was secretly in love with her or the guy who has convinced her that he loves her and wants a family with her.
"Why did no one care?" Sam blurted out sobbing. "When I went missing too, whay was the investigation stopped and no one looked for me or Abi. No one cared that i had gone."
"What?! Sam everyone was looking for you and Abigail. We didn't give up looking. We didn't give up hope either." Phil said honestly thinking about how he hoped she would come back and just fall into his arms. 'Who said no one was searching?"
"I don't ..." Sam bgean to remember pieces of when it was said. "Hugh said it, I'm pretty sure."
"When?" Abi prompted. "Where were you?" Neither twigged that if they showed the grey room with the blanket then she'd remember because that room was the room. "What was he doing?" Abi asked desperately.
"I can't remember where we were, but he was hugging me and I was upset." Sam said, looking straight ahead at the wall on the opposite side of the platform.
"Well he lied, and he played on your emotions. You stick up for him and defend him because the whole station will remember people looking, and if you think we're lying then there will be records of where we looked, why we looked, what dates." Phil said. "Now it's odd that he'd lie about us searching for you isn't it?" Unless he was trying to make you think we didn't care and that he only cared."
"No, I got confused. It mustn't of been Hugh that said it." Sam shook her head, she stood up and walked towards the edge of the platform. She looked down at the rails, her eyes blurring with tears.
"But you aren't are you? You say you are because you don't want to lose Hugh. Despite him hurting you, possibly raping you."
"He didn't rape me!" Sam's voice rose. "I kissed him! Not him forcing me into it. Now I'm sorry if that causes problems but frankly I don't care because with him I'm happy."
"Oh really?" Phil asked.
"Yes, really!" Emotion taking over her, she sniffed. "For the first time in ages I'm truly happy. Someone cares about me."
"Phil cares about you!" Abi blurted out.
"No Abi please." Phil hissed, knowing it was too late.
"What?" Sam asked. "What's going on?"
"Tell her." Abi urged, Phil shook his head ashamed. Abi sighed. ""He ... He ... he's a very good friend mum."
Sam had a little thought beginning to nibble away at her, she hoped thatwhat she was thinking wasn't going but she had a feeling it was. With all Phil's strange behaviour and the lengths he was going to. She pushed the thought to the back of her mind and just sighed. "Then why can't you be haooy for me Phil?"
"Because Hugh doesn't deserve you, and I want to see him put in jail for messing up Abi and your lives." Phil admitted.
"I'll be right back I'm just going to the toilet." Abi said getting up, Abi and Phil exchanged a brief smile for encouragement. Sam noticed it. As Abi left Sam and Phil both sat in silence thinking about Phil's love life. Sam took a deep steadying breath, preparing her for his answer before asking. "Are you or are you not sleeping with Abi?"
"Eh, what makes you say that?" Phil asked.
"You have a track record and she's a pretty seventeen year old who lives with you and is wrapped around your little finger."
"Well I could say the same about you!"
"What?" Sam asked.
"You're a pretty forty one year old who was vulnerable and in need of support and ended up falling in love with your abductor." Phil shot back.
"He's not my abductor." Sam hissed loud and frustrated.
"Course, he's your fiancee right?"
"Right." Sam agreed. "And you haven't answered my question yet."
"Why does it bother you so much, jealous?" Phil asked tactfully.
"No I'm not jelaous but I'm guessing from your reaction that you are together." There was a long pause. "...How could you? You were my bestfriend and she's my daughter. She's sixteen years younger than you!" You could have had anyone Phil, why her? Is this some kind of revenge? I wouldn't listen to you so you hurt me by sleeping with Abi?"
"No, Sam I'm not sleeping with Abi. I never have done either. We've kissed once but I pushed her away, it hurt her a little when I did that but we're ok now. I told her that I don't love her, she understands because ... because ..." He sighed, knowing it was now or never. "I love you."
His last three little words sunk into her mind slowly. "So you've done all this because ..." She tralied off.
"Yes."
She sat down again beside him heavily.
"I'm not expecting you to melt into my arms now but I had to tell you." Sam looked up and saw tears in his eyes, it made her own eyes prick. "I tell you because I genuinly love you and I want you to be safe. I know Hugh's brainwashed you into forgetting everything he's done but Sam try to remember those pictures he took of you, tied up and in your underwear. Doing that isn't love, it's sick and about power."
Sam began to cry and Phil brought her down so her head was resting on his crossed legs. 'I do remember. I felt so dirty. I thought he was going to rape me afterwards, I was really scared. And I ... I just wanted you, I wanted you to come and help me. To save me."
"Look sorry Hugh, I have to go, ask acting DC Gary Best and he'll give you and update." Jack said, leaving Sun Hill through the front exit. Jack was going to go and check the three container's yards that they expected Abigail's captator had kept her.
'Right Dr Wallis, well the DCI is going to the three container's yard that we suspected Abigails Nixon was kept at in a container to see if DS Hunter and Abi have taken DS Nixon there. I'm also going to Baxter's house to see if there are any 'guests' there." The young DC told Hugh.
"Wait, why there?" Hugh asked.
"We thought they might try and use special places with importance throughout the case to keep her so the surrounding adds to their persuasive argument, You see Abi's grown up with a criminal profiler as a mother so she's bound to pick up on things. now if you swapped the roles around and it was Abi who was the abducted and Sam the abductor then we'd be searching hotels because she'a mother, but as a profiler we should be searching significant places."
"Right." Hugh said thinking. "Cheers DC Best."
Hugh walked out of the station and towards his car, he had an idea. One that CID wouldn't think of.
Phil stroked Sam's silky hair absent mindly as she lay, still with her head on his lap. Abi had been a while but Phil guessed she was giving him some time. "I understand why you think Hugh's so wonderful; it's because he crushes you right? Make you think you're worthless and no one cares about you. But then when he gets you to your lowest point he suddenly lifts you up. Telling you how special and precious and loved you are. And by doing this he makes you think he's the only one who loves you, he manages to control your love life. But then he also controls you by your phone. he told you that he accidentally broke it and you can use his but it's so he can check who you've called. But he'll ask you when you least expect it - he'll shout at you and scare you about a two minute phone call. Then make you feel guilty because he'll go all emotional about how he fears you're having an affair or you going to be lead astray and leave him for someone else. You'll end up apologising and begging him not to leave you. Is it just the phone? Has he gone on to friends yet saying 'we don't need them' or 'we've got eachother'. I don't doubt he does probably love you. But he controls you more than he loves you. And it's not fair on you."
He heard her sigh deeply, tears running across her face and on to his trousers. Phil continued in a whisper. "He is right about something though, you are precious and special and very, very loved."
"Thank you." Came the soft reply. He carried on stroking her hair until he felt her sleping again, her breathing even and she was so peaceful. Abi walked down the platform and sat beside her mum.
"How is she doing?" Abi asked.
"I got through to her, I think she's realised just how bad Hugh is."
Jack was driving back to the station when he saw Hugh's car driving in the opposite direction and he seemed to be in a rush. Rummaging around on the passanger seat he picked up his radio and turned it on. "Sierra Oscar from DCI Meadows, my location is Canely High street. I've just spotted Dr Wallis driving past and I fear he may know where Sam, Phil and Abigail are. Can I plase have discreet back up to follow him in case he finds them and somehting kicks off."
"DCI Meadows from Sierra Oscar back up on way."
Jack got to the roundabout and turned around, following Hugh. Radio on his lap so he could keep giving directions to back up.
"How did you manage to get through to mum?" Abi asked.
"Well to begin I admitted to loving her, then I just told her the truth like breaking the phone, crushing her." Phil said. "I basically told her the truth to Hugh's actions."
Sam's eyes half opened, she could hear echoing footsteps but no one else seemed to hear them. She shut here eyes again.
"Sammy?"
Sam's eyes opened and Phil felt her tense, saw Abi freeze and his own spine curl as the name echoed around them menacingly.
Oooooo cliffhanger :D Please review xoxoxoxox