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Author's Note: Second chapter is up now. I have no idea where I'm going with this honestly, but we'll see.

Cassie's room is closed off with caution tape a few hours later. Sonya stands in shock outside her daughter's room while Johnny does his best to console his… Sonya. She has a hand over her mouth unable to move, which is how her friend and comrade Jackson Briggs finds her. "Sonya," he says while he puts a metal hand on her shoulder. Sonya blinks. "It's not your fault Sonya," he continues to tell her. All she does is blink in response, completely catatonic to anything else but her daughter's room.

Johnny walks up to Jax and sighs. "She's been like this since we came home to this…" he tells his friend sadly. Jax bows his head in thought. "I know Cass put up a fight because there's obviously a struggle, but still. That's my little girl he has. That bastard Kano's gonna pay."

With renewed fire in her eyes, Sonya turns sharply to the two men. "Kano," she growls, her primal motherly instincts kicking in again. "I'm gonna kill him with my bare hands." Turning sharply, Sonya brushes past Johnny and Jax down the stairs. They follow her as she grabs her jacket and leaves the house in a rush. "He's gonna pay," she growls as she wanders the streets purposelessly. Both men are behind her just in case she decides to do something rash.

They follow her all the way back to the base, through security (Johnny almost lost track of her because it took a while for him to gain clearance), and into her office. She sits down at her desk and boots up her computer. Jax crosses the threshold into her office, keeping his distance but curious to see what she's doing.

Not long after, Johnny finds the two in her office. Johnny goes over to her desk and looks at what she's doing on her computer. Sonya has found a way to get through the encryption on Cassie's computer to gain access to her personal records online, which leads her to her Friendships account. Scrolling through her profile, Sonya almost misses the conversation, but Johnny is able to point it out. "Wait! Go back?" Sonya growls in response. "Sonya? Please, allow me?" Sonya leans back and allows Johnny to go through a conversation between Kano and Cassie. "'I ain't got to bothering yer mum now, blondie'?" Johnny reads aloud. Jax scowled. Johnny knows this isn't enough information to tell him if this immediately led to their confrontation, but he knows Kano was watching Cassie and was just biding his time.

Sonya let a tear slip down her cheek. "I should've killed him when I had the chance."

Cassie comes around to see pitch black. She tries to clear her vision but ends up with a pounding headache. She tries moving her limbs to discover she's bound to something like a chair or a pole. Struggling against her bonds, Cassie tries to untie her hands. Her attempts are futile; all she manages to do is tighten the bonds around her hand. If she doesn't stop moving, she'll lose feeling in her hands and arms. "F—" she tries to say aloud. Her mouth is taped shut. Fuck me, she thinks instead as she tries to wiggle out of her bonds some more.

Just then, a door opens, temporarily blinding her. Squeezing her eyes shut, Cassie groans. When she opens her eyes again there is a light turned on over her head and none other than Kano is standing in front of her. She tries to escape again until she loses a bit of feeling in her fingers. "Aww, dearie, are your knots tied too tightly?" he asks her in a sickly sweet voice. She grunts and struggles again. "What's that, love? I can't hear ya," he says, leaning into her. He decides to be nice and removes the tape from her mouth. She spits in his face in return. He backhands her. "Oi, is that the repayment I get for allowing you to speak?"

"Fuck you, Kano!" Cassie spits angrily at him. He backhands her again in the other direction. She yelps as her cheeks are burning with the repeated contact.

"Why don't you learn to behave?" he scolds her.

"Let me go, you fucking creep!"

"Aww, you know I can't do that, now can I?"

"You think my mom was hard on you before?" she challenges him. "Wait till she gets her hands on you this time around." Despite the fear sneaking up on her, Cassie laughs indignantly. "You won't even stand a chance!"

Kano whips out his blade and runs it gently across her face. She tries to move away but only serves to worsen her headache. Kano then begins speaking to her softly, "Though you have your mother's looks, your sharp wit is that of your unworthy father's. Didn't you confide in your friends once that you felt like a second rate Cage?" Cassie's heart rate speeds up. How the hell did he know about that? Kano continues to circle her like a vulture, taunting her with his knife. "Well, maybe I can talk to you better than your mum, eh?"

Cassie takes a deep breath and exhales sharply. "You're tryin' to cut a deal with me, Kano?"

He smirks in response. "Not sure you wanna make a deal with me blondie," he warns her as he strokes her neck. She tries to move away from his slimy, unwanted touch. Creepy bastard, she thinks.

Back at the Cage residence a couple of hours later, Kenshi decides to teleport in, sensing trouble. He sees Sonya curled up on Johnny's lap on his couch and Jax pacing. When Jax notices him, he stands up to greet the swordsman with a rough handshake. "Good to see you, Kenshi," Jax tells him politely.

"Yes, though under disturbing circumstances. Can you show me?" Kenshi asks Jax. They both look to Johnny who non-verbally gives his consent. The two men go upstairs to Cassie's room. Upon entering, Kenshi senses what may have happened in the room. Holding one hand out, he begins to sense the events. Cassie answering her phone sharply. Kano is behind her, telling her something. She turns around and gets punched in the face by Kano. A struggle ensues. He kicks her forcefully but she recovers. He quickly overpowers her, and while she is down he covers her face with a cloth. He picks her up and throws her into the portal. He then writes a note and attaches it to his dagger.

Snapping back to reality, Kenshi shakes his head a few times. Jax looks at him curiously. "What'd you see?"

Kenshi continues to ponder the disturbing images he saw. "Well, it is obvious there was a struggle," he starts to explain, "and Cassandra was taken by surprise and quickly overpowered. I sensed Kano's animosity towards Sonya since the Refugee Camp. I also get the feeling that this is part of a big scheme to get back at Sonya."

Jax sighs. "As if being kidnapped once wasn't enough," he laments, remembering what happened to Cassie and his daughter almost 6 years ago. "We've gotta find her, and quick. There's no telling what he'll do to her if he gets the chance." Kenshi nods, agreeing with Jax completely. Both men make their way downstairs where they see Johnny downing a glass of scotch. "Hey," Jax nudges him. Johnny looks up sadly. "We think Kano took Cassie to the newly established Black Dragon HQ in Outworld. He may want to settle the score with Sonya by exploiting her rage for him," Jax explains as Johnny gives himself another refill.

Johnny sighs into his drink and says, "Yeah, I know. He's trying to bait Sonya. Knowing her though, it might just work. She's wanted to get her hands around Kano's throat since—"

"I can't say I blame her completely, you know," Jax tells him. Of course, Jax knows about the Sonya/Kano feud. Hell, he has his own score to settle with the weapons dealer; Kano duped them all into thinking he was on their side until Sonya and Jax found out he was the mastermind behind the elite Black Dragon faction.

Swirling his drink around in his glass, Johnny rasps, "I want to go after Kano, but we have to do this the right way. As much as I want to and will kill him if he hurts a hair on Cassie's head, we have to prevent further retaliation." Johnny pours himself a generous amount of liquor into his glass and knocks it back.

Jax eyes him warily. "Isn't it a bit late to be drinking so heavily?" Jax questions him. They both look at the time on the microwave and sees that it's 3 in the morning.

"That clock is an hour fast," Johnny drawls in response. Jax raises an eyebrow at him.

While conversation is happening between Jax and Johnny, Kenshi communicates telepathically with his son Takeda. Takeda, your help is needed urgently. Come to the Cage residence as soon as you're ready. Bring backup if you can, Kenshi thinks, hoping he can reach his son as soon as possible.

Takeda wakes up with a start. Looking around his pitch black room, he discovers he's still at the Venice Beach Suites and Hotels. He turns on the lamp on his side of the bed and shakes his head. His dream was way too vivid for his liking. Someone stirs in the bed on the opposite side of him. He turns to see Jacqui changing sleeping positions, though she might actually be waking up due to Takeda's movements. Wanting to figure out his dream, he nudges her softly. She moans softly in response. "Jacqui?" he whispers, nudging her again. This time, she wakes up and faces him. "I need your help with something," he tells her when he has her full cooperation.

Jacqui yawns in response, stretching her arms above her head. She takes a quick glance at the bedside clock and sees that it's just past 2 in the morning. "What's up?" she asks him. "Is everything okay?"

Takeda shakes his head. "I'm not sure. It might have been a dream, but I just need to make sure," he says as he feels around the bed for his smartphone. When his fingers touch it, he picks it up and checks his social media accounts.

Jacqui places a soft hand on his shoulder. "What was your dream about?" she questions him gently, reminding him of his initial reasoning for wanting to talk.

"Right, yeah," he remembers as he shakes his head. "In my dream, I saw Mr. Cage and your dad talking to my dad. Mr. Cage seemed really angry, your dad seemed really concerned and my dad… I think my dad was trying to tell me something?"

She turns on the lamp on her side of the bed. "Do you remember what it was he tried to tell you?" she wonders, trying to figure out more about the dream.

"I don't know. Something about danger and needing my help?" Takeda shakes his head. "I have no idea…"

She gets up and looks around for her own phone. "Maybe I should check up on them. I haven't heard from Cass in a while," she says more to herself as she logs into her account. She writes Cassie again.

SassyJacqui: Hey Cass, you awake?

She then tries to contact her dad.

SassyJacqui: Hey dad. Is everything okay?

Then she tries her aunt Sonya.

SassyJacqui: Hey Aunt Sonya. Are you okay?

Jacqui is semi-patiently waiting for an answer from her dad or godmother while Takeda is trying to get a hold of his dad. She gets a ping.

MadJax: Hey sweetheart. Sorry to cut your vacation short, but we need you and Takeda to get back to Johnny's house ASAP. We'll let you two in on everything when you get here.

SassyJacqui: Sure thing, dad.

Doing a double take, Jacqui writes her dad again.

SassyJacqui: Wait… what do you mean about Takeda and me?

MadJax: You think I don't know you're on vacation with Kenshi's boy? (Jacqui cringes when she reads this) Don't worry; I'm not mad (she visibly relaxes). But we do need you both back here. You may have to lead the team this time. Get some rest. Love you.

SassyJacqui: Love you too, dad.

MadJax has logged off.

"'Keda," Jacqui calls out to him. He looks up at her. "Did you get in contact with your dad yet?" He shakes his head. "Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I think we just got a new mission."

Barely recovering from their last mission, Takeda groans. "Do we have to?" he whines as he fusses with his still bruised abdomen injury.

"I'm afraid—" she starts when she notices him messing with his wound. "Would you stop fucking with it? It's not gonna heal any faster if you bother it." He scowls at her. "Anyway, I'm afraid so. Well, it was nice while it lasted." She crawls back into bed, hoping to settle down again while turning off her lamp. He crawls into bed after her and snuggles into her unhurt shoulder. She yawns again. "My dad knows about us, by the way." Takeda freezes in place. "Don't worry; he's cool about it… surprisingly."

Takeda yawns and pulls the blanket over the two of them. "Well, as long as they don't know everything," he says as he plants gentle kisses on her neck.

"Mmm, you'll have to talk to your dad about that," she tells him, stroking his bare chest.

He snickers, "I'll remember that." He turns off his lamp as he kisses her.

A/N: Well, that's the end of that chapter. Here's a sneak peek of the next one.

"But… she wrote me back today. Said she missed me and she had a surprise for me." Jacqui sees Sonya and Jax stiffen up. "Uh… guys? What's going on?" Jacqui immediately flies off the mouth with her first assumption, "Are you two getting married or something?!"

Sonya glares at her goddaughter. "Really, Jacqui?" Jax asks his daughter incredulously.

Wanting to get straight to the point, Sonya blurts out, "Cassie's been kidnapped."

For a moment, there is silence. Then, Takeda says, "Not again!" He facepalms his forehead.

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