Tracy watched as Link and Seaweed scurried off with Amber. She felt so depressed, she missed Link so much. Some of the dancers were practising and others were getting a much deserved drink of water but Tracy just stood beside Lil' Inez who was talking away to everyone. After telling Link those lies outside of history he'd probably never want to talk to her again. Saying those words had killed her and they weren't even true, she wanted to see Link again but he didn't want her. That whole afternoon Tracy had spent in the toilets crying, once she pulled herself together school was over, that probably meant another two detentions but she didn't care. She loved Link with all her heart but he didn't love her back. All hope of them getting back together was gone. Remembering their first kiss was the hardest thing to do, she remembers how happy she felt after it but the kiss that he had shared with Tammy, that kiss destroyed everything between the two of them. Everything ruined because of one kiss. She felt a small tap on her shoulder and she whisked around. Mr. Cannon was standing beside her smirking, "Tracy I'd like a word with you in my office." And she followed him off to his office.

"Amber what is it?" whispered Link. The closet was really cramped with the three of them in there and it wasn't really good for his reputation to be found in a closet with his ex- girlfriend with or without his best friend so he was in a hurry to get out.

"It's Mr. Cannon, he was talking to my mom on the phone last night, and he wants to sabotage the Corny Collin's show!" she said.

"But hold on there why would he do that?" asked Seaweed.

"He's a psycho, worse than my mother he wants to get rid of all the Negros and Tracy…" she quietened off when she said the name Tracy. Link felt his heart start to pound. "What about her!" shouted Link, starting to get really worried.

"He blames her for a lot of it and… and he wants to get revenge." She said and the two boys' faces fell. Outside there was a loud clapping sound and the door swung open and Tammy was standing there. They all jumped back in surprise and she looked at them with an evil eye.

"Congratulations Amber you're not as thick as you make yourself out to be." And she laughed at her sarcastic remark. She had a key swinging in her hand and her hand rested on the door handle.

"Except you forgot one teeny tiny detail but I'd rather not give away the surprise" she said laughing and then she pushed the door closed and locked it. Link tried his best to open the door twisting and pulling the handle.

"Let us out!" they all shouted at the top of their lungs and they banged the door and walls frantically.

"TRACY! TRACY!" yelled Link he was scared out of his wits what they would do to her. After Seaweed and Link made a few attempts at pushing down the door Seaweed sat down in exhaustion but Link wouldn't give up. He continued, his wrists were aching but he kept thumping at the door.

"Link, give up it's not going to budge." Said Seaweed

This wasn't happening he needed to get to her, warn her and save her.

Link kicked the door really hard before falling on the ground and putting his head in his hands, "Amber did they mention what they were going to do?" he said calmly even though he was about to loose his nerve.

"No, Link I'm sorry I didn't hear anything." She said truly sorry.

"Look dude, I'm sure she'll be fine. You know what Tracy's like, a true fighter."

Link kicked the door in anger again. He had kicked it so hard he nearly thought the hinges would come off but it stood tall and stiff barely moving at all. The dark closet only had one light bulb hanging from the ceiling and the walls were painted black and it was stuffed full or brushes, mops and cleaning products. Link stared up at the ceiling, they needed to think of a way out a pity there were no…

"Wait a minute? Is that a vent?" he said even though he knew it was crazy but he was really desperate.

"Cracker boy are you crazy? You watch way too many movies!" shouted Seaweed.

"Well what else can we do Seaweed!" he yelled, "Tracy is in huge trouble, who knows what they'll do to her I love her too much to let her get hurt in anyway at all." He calmed down a bit and Amber and Seaweed gazed at him completely shocked at his outburst, he was shaking and breathing quite heavily.

"Well what are you waiting for, move!" shouted Amber starting to grasp the seriousness of this situation and the two boys jumped onto their feet.

Link grabbed a brush, "Stand back!" he shouted and then started to push the vent grate in, finally after one huge push the thing fell down. Link pulled himself up through the small hole with all his might. His hands were cut from the sharp edges of the side of the vent opening and he'd only managed to squeeze through it. He grabbed Amber's arms and pulled her up through with Seaweed at the bottom pushing her up. She let out a couple of screams but after a struggle she got up safely.

"Okay Seaweed you just… how the heck did you get up so fast!" said Link shocked.

"Aw stop your blabbering Cracker boy and get moving!" he shouted and the noise echoed around the vents. It was very small and cramped there was a lack of oxygen and they were starting to feel it, they were practically crawling on their stomachs as that was how much room there was.

"Link I don't feel so good" whimpered Amber and she lay down for a minute but Seaweed pushed her up again and they continued to crawl. Link's head was spinning; they needed to get out fast as he was scared the thing would collapse at any minute. Then finally there was a small opening, Link could feel sharp pains going up and down his back and he was starting to fell really claustrophobic. Then once he had reached the opening he kicked the grate of it and jumped through it scraping his back on the way down and it stung like crazy. He caught Amber once she jumped through and Seaweed got out surprisingly fast again. They didn't have a clue where they were, all they was they were in some of the offices. Link opened the door and ran out, he saw there were about 5 police officers in the building and one of them had…

"Tracy!" yelled Link and he sprinted over to her.

"Link what are you doing … are you crazy?" she said really shocked but she looked very frightened.

"Miss Tracy Turnblad you are under arrest." said the police officer. Tracy looked panic stricken and started to struggle away from the officer but his grip was too strong and he tightly squeezed her arm. His grip tightened when Link walked closer to him and Tracy yelped out in pain.

"Hey man back off, she didn't do anything wrong!" he shouted at him.

"Excuse me sir, could you back away please before I arrest you too." And with that the officer yanked Tracy's hair very hard and she screamed out in pain.

Link completely lost it, he was really hurting Tracy. Tracy tried to pull away and he yanked her hair so hard that some of it fell out into his hand, she screamed out and her eyes watered as she stared up at Link. Link couldn't take it any longer so he punched him right in the face and the officer fell back.

"Run!" he yelled to Tracy and he grabbed her hand and pulled her with him. He knew it would be too obvious to take his car so he ran on down the road towards Seaweed's place. Tracy was starting to slow up and starting to run out of breath. His legs were aching and he was losing his breath but they needed to go just a bit farther. He could see how much pain she was in but they needed to keep going.

"Come on baby, we're nearly there." He said encouragingly and finally they reached Seaweed's house. He threw open the door and Maybelle came running over to them,

"What happened?" she said looking really worried and then Tracy burst into tears. Maybelle rushed Tracy off into her bedroom. Link felt relieved at least she was safe, for now.

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Link had been sitting in Maybelle's living room for over an hour now. Tracy and Maybelle still hadn't appeared out yet. At least the sobbing had stopped at that point he nearly wanted to plug his ear because he hated to hear her cry. The thing he wanted the most was to see happy Tracy who always had that smile for him but he knew it was selfish of him to think like that at a moment like this. Suddenly Seaweed burst in the door with Penny. "Link!" he shouted and he ran over and hugged him.

Shaking off his wimpiest moment Seaweed went back to cool dude mode.

"Where's Tracy?" said Penny frightened that her friend was hurt and Seaweed had his arm wrapped around her. Link felt a stab of jealousy; he wanted that with Tracy again.

"Don't worry she's in with …" but he was interrupted when Maybelle walked out of her bedroom, Link really wanted to see Tracy but he understood if she didn't want to see him.

"Tracy wants to see Penny," Maybelle said, Link felt his heart sink as Penny was about to walk into the room, "But I think Link should see her, from what I hear this has gone on far too long." She smiled at Link and he smiled back.

"Penny is that you?" whimpered Tracy as Link pushed the door open. Tracy was sitting on the bed facing the other side of the wall. She had a white cotton blanket wrapped around her but he could still see her beautiful yellow dress poking out from under it and her dark brown hair was still sitting perfectly.

"Trace." Link said quietly. Tracy jumped around to face him surprised that he was standing there. Her face was pale and she was shivering.

"I thought you would have left ages ago." She said tearfully and she avoided looking into his eyes. He walked over to the bed and sat down on it beside her. He held her hand but she slipped it away from his reach which made him feel really rejected. She stiffened up a bit and stared at her feet.

"Link, why do you keep doing this? It doesn't make any sense." Why couldn't she just understand that he wanted to be with her, that he loved her?

"Do you want to know why?" he said slightly frustrated that she wouldn't just look at him and she nodded still with her focus on her feet. He took a deep breath and continued, "Tracy, I love you, ever since the day I kissed you I knew you were the one."

She looked up at him in disbelief, at least she was listening to him.

"But you can't… all the things I said and ..." She muttered avoiding his stare.

"Tracy babe, why don't you just believe me?" he said and he placed his hand on her chin and titled her head so her eyes were looking directly into his and she didn't pull away. They stared into each other eyes, soft brown meeting crystal blue.

"I love you." He whispered and kissed her. The past few days had been torture not to be able to hold her or kiss her. Her lips were so soft and he wanted to stay like this forever. It was the kiss that made everything better, that changed everything for the good. The kiss he'd waited for. She started to shiver again and he re-wrapped the blanket around her and he wrapped his arms round her. They sat there silent just embracing each other.

"Link?" she whispered.

"Yeah lil' darlin." He replied stroking her hair.

"Mr. Cannon called me into his office when you and Seaweed were off with Amber."

Link sat up straight, "Trace what did he do to you?"

Tracy remembered exactly what happened and started to tell him.

Tracy sat down nervously on the chair, Mr. Cannon had never talked to her before except that one time when she was with Link but that would hardly count as a conversation more like a telling off. Mr. Cannon sat down on his huge chair beside his desk and gestured for Tracy to sit on the chair on the other side. He was about to speak when she heard a huge banging noise, she was convinced that she had heard someone yelling her name, she stood up to look but Mr. Cannon stood up

"Tracy please stay in your seat." And she sat back down.

"Well what do you have to say for yourself?" he shouted and he had remained standing.

"Wh…what?" was all she could manage to say not having a clue what he was on about.

"You know exactly talking bout!" he yelled and Tracy nearly jumped down in her seat.

"You ruined the good name of Baltimore, betrayed all white people and destroyed national television. You just some chubby little girl, you're nothing special, yet you caused all this damage!" and he slammed his hand down on the desk.

Tracy screamed and he pulled her off the seat, "Don't you dare make a peep!" he shouted. Tracy was scared out of her wits scared of what this man was capable of. She couldn't speak; she couldn't believe what she was hearing. It was like Mr. Cannon was a worse version of Amber's mother.

"Don't worry girl, you'll not be here for long, the police are on their way.

Tracy stood up, "I'll tell them everything, what you've done!" she shouted. He smacked her across the face and she fell back onto the chair.

"Don't even try it!" he yelled, "anyway not that they'll listen to you, I called them ten minutes ago about how you and the Negro kids attacked some of our white councillors." And he laughed manically. There was a loud banging noise, which sounded like it was coming from the vents.

"No!" she yelled and pushed past him and ran out of the room. She stopped still when she noticed everyone was looking at her and a tall hefty officer walked over to her. Then she saw Link run towards her…

Link sat there, unable to speak or move just staring at her, his arms were still wrapped but they were stiff. He was finding it hard to breath, the whole time he'd been in that stupid cupboard, Tracy was facing that monster. She was staring into his eyes and he took a breath to speak when suddenly Seaweed burst into the room.

"Link! Tracy! Come here quickly you've got to see this!"