A/N: Yes so here is another chapter! I'm trying to update really frequently so to make up for my really really long hiatus! I'm so sorry guys!

Chapter Fourteen

Zoro rushed out of the car only to be stopped by a large hand holding him back, one of the police officers held him for a second whilst they prepared to let the family in.

Everyone was present and ready for whatever may come, at least she was alive right?

Given the opportunity, Zoro looked around. They were a few towns over, just blending into the neighbourhood it seemed. The house was identical to all the others in the street, the only give away that people don't go outside much was the grass. It was long and dying unlike the other houses which were bright and short.

"How did you find her?" Zoro asked in the car on the ride over.

There was silence for the longest time as if the Agent Lock was attempting to find a way to put something horrible into words, after not replying for what seemed an eternity, Zoro had to ask the question everyone needed to hear. Even if they believed it to be true, they needed confirmation.

"Is she alive?" He stammered out. Surely she was, or they wouldn't be taking them to her, and would have already stated about her passing, right?

"She is alive" the agent stated matter of factly yet she still hadn't answered his other question.

One of Hancock sisters let out an exasperated sigh, he didn't see which one and her mother seemed distant. Clearly something was wrong but the agent would not say what.

"Alright, here it is. We found your Hancock… but there was a complication in a sense…" Agent Lock pushed out with a huff of air.

She rubbed her forehead in slow circular movements.

"It is important to remember my warning when you see her" She suddenly looked much older and was clearly unhappy with the situation at hand. Finding her was supposed to be a good thing, what could possibly have gone wrong?

"The neighbours to the house called because they had not seen the man living here leave the house in over a week and they were worried. His description seemed to match that of Ruyi so my team checked it out" She pushed a tuft of hair that escaped her too tight of a bun away from her eyes and continued on with what she was saying. She clearly hated this part of her job and although Hancock was alive, something was apparently amiss. Zoro felt her heart quicken to the possibilities, was she dying maybe? Alive but for how long?

Agent Lock went of explaining what happened with her team. They had knocked on the door, wary of who may be inside. However the door was unlocked and there was no noise inside. They searched everywhere but the house seemed to be empty. Except one door which was closed. The smell of something disgusting was obvious and her team slowly entered the one room upstairs that no one had checked. The site would have anyone attempting to keep the contents of their stomach down. By the door lay the body of Ruyi, obviously dead for enough time to start smelling, and near him was the unconscious body of Hancock. Covered in the blood of her victim. Her two arms were the worst, almost perfectly covered from her fingers to her elbow. She was covered in it so much which was due to an obvious struggle, sweat and blood clotted in her hair. She had bruises all over her face and body. She was cuffed by her ankle to the foot of the bed and bleeding all around it where she had pulled and pulled in an attempt grab something or it might have happened during some kind of struggle with her captor. The cuts in her ankle were sickening and enough to want to rush her to the hospital alone.

She had a broken nose at first glance and when rescue came, she made no noise or expression of recognition for where she was or what was happening. She was awake but she wasn't really there.

Upon further inspection, Ruyi had bled out, jagged metal was stuck in his chest, and from the looks of things, and Hancock had stabbed him over and over again with it till he stopped being a threat. Agent Lock was no expert but she assumed it had been at least a week since he had died and because Hancock was chained, she was stuck in that room with no food or water, or if she did have those things, they didn't last long.

She was lucky to be alive. She was severely dehydrated and needed food badly. She was clearly a mess and no one could tell what was her blood or his. Clearly there was a huge tussle.

She was obviously covered in other fluids but Agent Lock decided not to mention just how bad the girl looked when they found her. Besides a broken nose, her ankle was badly cut from the cuffs and one of her wrists was fractured. She had a lot of cuts and bruises everywhere and it was hard to tell what was done on purpose by Ruyi or what was acquired during their final fight.

On the record, it would go that she killed him out of self-defence, but Agent Lock noticed that although she killed him out of self-defence, she mutilated him after as well. No one else needed to know that and she would make sure that would not be put on the record. The girl had been through a lot and if revenge is what she need then so be it.

"She is currently in the hospital, and you can visit her right after this stop" Agent Lock finished.

Agent Lock had brought the family here so they could help take Hancock to the hospital, hoping the sight of her family would help her cooperate and trust them. However her apparent emptiness confused everyone and she put up no fight whilst they moved her. She did not even seem to register the movement. Her eyes were open and she looked at the faces where the voices were coming from but she didn't seem to understand what anybody was saying. Agent Lock at the time rushed to fetch her family but she soon got word that they could not wait and had moved Hancock to the hospital already. She needed sustenance now.

Stating this to the family, Zoro still insisted on seeing the house she was being kept. To everyone it was a kind of a disgusting relief that Ruyi had not kept her in the same town. It explained why it had taken so long to find her. If she had been right under their noses, then Zoro probably would never have forgiven himself for taking so long to find her.

Agent Lock mentioned her movement to the hospital but Zoro insisted on seeing the house she was being kept and Hancock's family did not protest. Her sisters wanted to see the area in which she lived and her mother just stayed silent. She was just so relieved her daughter was alive. If she had died, her mother would have blamed herself for the rest of her life because she had married that monster and let him into the house.

Zoro stared at the house as the front door opened and a body bag was dragged out on a stretcher. The bag was black that gave a sense of anonymity but Zoro knew that, that bastard was the one inside it. Agent Lock did not explain exactly how and what Hancock did to kill him but he knew it was nothing short of what that person deserved.

He walked over to the agents moving the stretcher. The rest of Hancock's family stayed in the car.

Her mother refused to look at the body bag. It was hard for her. Till just recently, she never expected this of Ruyi. She still loved him even though she had kicked him out of the house, but now she wasn't sure how she felt. Ruyi and the man who kidnapped her daughter seemed like different people in her head. She hadn't had time to process it so instead she decided not to see the body bag or the body inside. That way she could pretend her daughter kidnapper and Ruyi were different people, to keep her own sanity. She wouldn't tell other people this however, they wouldn't be able to understand. He was a monster yes, but no one else knew the other side of him that she fell in love with. What he did destroyed everything else he had ever done but if they were two separate people then at least all those years she spent with him weren't a total waste. No, Ruyi and that monster both died but they were not the same person.

Zoro pushed his hair back out of his eyes and stopped moving when he was in front of the stretcher. The agents looked at him with confused expressions.

"Can I see the body?"

They were clearly moving to say no but one look at Agent Lock told them that it was alright for them to unzip the bag. Zoro was unsure of why she would let him, this was clearly against protocol, but he wasn't going to complain.

Slowly they unzipped to show the face of the monster. His eyes were closed as if sleeping but his face was drained of all colour, making it seem as if he was sick. He had a busted lip and a long shallow cut from his eyebrow to his cheek. From a nail he assumed, Hancock did always have long nails. Many bruises sweltered along his jaw line some darker than others, meaning Hancock had decided to fight back more than once. The darker ones indicated that her first attempt was unfruitful. Zoro's stomach knotted at the idea of what Ruyi would have done to Hancock in her retaliation. However she was alive, he needed to relish in that.

The agents looked at Zoro and he nodded for them to continue unzipping. Slowly they complied. He noticed they had removed his shirt, probably to be able to analyse the wounds and what caused his death. The first wound he saw was shallow like the one on his face and by his collar bone. Zoro assumed that it was Hancock's first attempt. She had used something sharp from the bed he was told but she was probably tired and had no energy so when she first attacked him and hit bone, she tried again in another area, which probably worked. Right under his ribcage was a deep wound, but it was hard to tell because his whole chest was covered in blood. It was angled and Zoro could tell it went into his lung.

Probably what killed him…? Thought Zoro.

Besides all that, Zoro could tell that there were six more stab wounds all in different places and one disturbing gash. It looked as if Hancock had stabbed him in the stomach and yanked. He did not know if Ruyi was dead by this point whilst Hancock had ripped him open.

The agents stopped unzipping by his pelvis and Zoro was confused as to why. Behind him Agent Lock exited her car and made her way over to him. The family stayed in the car.

"You do not want to see what she did down there" she said matter of factly. Zoro made a noise of recognition. This was the horrible man who ruined her. He didn't judge that she got her revenge, she deserved some form of closure.

"Don't tell anyone else what she did. Her family don't need to know what happened. Hancock killed him in self-defence that is all"

Zoro nodded in understanding. Agent Lock was right.

"So… what did she do with it?" Zoro asked slowly and pointed to the area between his legs still covered with the bag.

Agent Lock sighed and patted her bun to make sure it was still secure atop her head.

"We haven't been able to find it" she said as she looked down at the body.

Zoro swallowed, he was unsure whether to laugh or be afraid of Hancock just a tiny bit. He didn't want to think about what she may have actually done with his so called weapon and would ask her about it if the moment ever arose, that is if Agent Lock didn't find it and tell him first, but this was Hancock that they were talking about it. She was smart and whatever she did with it was going to prevent them from ever finding out.

"Check his…" Zoro started laughing at himself for feeling bad for the guy just a little bit.

"Check his body for it…" he finished. Agent Lock looked surprised at first, her eyes wide because of how tight her bun sat on her head and eventually nodded. She knew full well that it was probably somewhere in him, no matter how disgusting it may seem.

Looking up at the two unnamed agents, Zoro nodded. His way of letting them know he was done with the body. He turned around and stalked back to the car. He was ready to go see Hancock now.

He had been itching to see her all along but he also needed to see with his own eyes that the bastard was dead. He wasn't coming back. He wasn't going to stop Hancock from being with him anymore… hopefully.

Agent Lock got into the driver's seat and readied the car. Hancock's mother or sisters didn't ask what Zoro saw in that body bag, they didn't want to know. They didn't want to know how hard Hancock had to fight for her life, but Zoro needed to know.

Under his breath Zoro whispered ever so slightly his skin crawling with anticipation.

"I'm coming Hancock".

A/N: I hope I am making you guys happy again! I again am so so sorry about my lack of posing for so long but you reviews and messages really helped me! It always reminded me of the story and kept me attached to it. But it was so busy and my writers block didn't help D: