Ana
"What have you found, Mr. Welch?"
"This Kavanagh guy is stalking you Miss Steele. All the walls are covered with pictures of you. He must have stalked you for months, there are pictures of you in france, england and spain from the looks of it. One wall has notes written all over it, it's your daily schedule, times when you go for a run, appointments with Dr. Flynn, just everything. There are even pictures of you sleeping and there are pictures of Mr. Grey and you dancing at your parents anniversary."
"Oh my god... Mr. Welch, listen I think I know where we will find Christian. I am sending you a text with the direction as soon as we hang up." I end the call find the text from Kate and forward it to Mr. Welch, Taylor and the rest of the team.
"Come on, Elliot. Let's go. Grace, we might need you, do you have your emergency bag in the car?"
"Yes, but shouldn't we get the police involved?"
"And waste more time? No, we can call them once we are there, but I am not waiting for them to decide what to do next." with that I leave the security office and head towards the elevator.
In the garage I find the SUV the car keys belong to and get in with Elliot, Carrick, Mia and Grace who quickly got her emergency bag from her car.
"Do you think you can drive, Ana?" Elliot asks concern evident in his voice.
"Call Taylor, ask him if he is on the way." I tell him, ignoring his question.
"Ana I think you should slow down a little" Carrick says after a while and I roll my eyes.
"Carrick, my Dad made me do several safe driving classes before I got my license and Christian made me do three more after the first time he sat in a car I was driving, I know what I am doing and this is not exactly the time to drive like a grandma" I snap. I've never raised my voice against Carrick or talked like that to him, but right now the only thing I can think of is to get to that damn cabin.
When I finally see it I speed up even more because I can see that fucking bitch walking over to a car... the same fucking car she used to nearly kill Sawyer and I.
"Ana stop! Oh my God!" Mia screams when I nearly run Elena over and manage to stop just a few inches before hitting her with the car. I jump out of the car, grab her by the hair and press my gun against her temple.
"Where is Christian?" I hiss and stare into her eyes which are filled with absolute horror.
"You wouldn't kill me, you would never find Christian" she says hurriedly and I glare at her.
"Do not push me. What have you done to Christian?" I scream at her... any second I am going to lose it and I am actually afraid that I am going to kill her.
"Grace, Mia, Elliot search her car and the cabin. Carrick call Taylor they need to hurry!"
Grace, Mia and Elliot run off while Carrick takes his phone out and in the far distance I can hear cars coming nearer to the cabin.
"Where is he?"
"I'm not going to tell you, bitch" she hisses and in this moment I lose it. I take my gun away from her head take a step back and shoot her right in the left knee. Elena howls in pain and sinks to the ground.
"Come again? Where is Christian... because if you don't tell me I will just continue to shoot you until you have more holes than a swiss cheese!" I yell at her and that fucking crazy bitch starts to laugh at me.
"You will never find him in time. That's your punishment, you little bitch. You took him away from me. I brought him here after that crazy fucker who was stalking you set the cabin on fire. Poor Ethan, was so in love with you, if he couldn't have you then no one could. He had no idea that I was watching when he sat the cabin on fire, but it played right into my cards. When I saw you pulling Christian out I waited a second, knocked Ethan out and placed him in the cabin. I offered Christian to leave with me and start over, but all he wanted was you, even when I told him you died in the fire he denied me. Isn't it fitting that he chose to die believing you are dead and now you have to live without him."
"WHERE IS HE?" I scream and she laughs again.
"It doesn't matter, by now he will be out of air, but don't worry you won't need a funeral, because he is already six feet under" she laughs and all the color drains from my face.
"Oh my god, what have you done... Carrick watch her." I hand him the gun quickly grab the flashlight from the glove department of the car and run to the back of the cabin. It is already getting dark and even with the flashlight I can't see much and then I see it. About three feet away from me is a spot in the grass where someone must have dug a hole very recently.
"Help me!" I scream at the top of my lungs and start to dig with my bare hands. "Help!" I scream again and hear footsteps coming closer.
"Ana?"
"She buried him alive, help me Taylor" I cry out completely hysterical and the next second Elliot, Taylor, Ryan, Welch, Sawyer Reynolds and I are digging the soil away as fast as we can.
My hands are bleeding and I am panting like a dog in heat, but I refuse to stop digging. Mia and Grace found two shovels which Elliot and Taylor are using now and finally I hear Elliot yell. "He is in there!" Sawyer and I jump out of the hole and Taylor and Elliot open the box which seems way to small for Christian, but when they open it I see him and then I hear Elliot cry out the words I feared the most.
"Mom, help! He is not breathing!"
I watch in horror as Grace lunges forward and starts to perform CPR on Christian. Oh God please, please don't take him away from me... not like this. This can't be the end... I need him... please... please don't take him away from me. And as I think those thoughts I can no longer hold back my tears and sink to the ground.
"Don't do this to me... please Christian... breathe ... breathe" Grace cries as she continues her efforts to bring Christian back and in the distance I hear the sirens of the police and the paramedics, but my gaze is fixed on the drama unfolding in front of me. Please don't take him away from me... he was happy, for the first time in his life he was truly happy. Don't make this the only time in his life he felt true happiness, he deserves so much more of it...
I continue to pray to God, Jesus and what ever else higher power might be listening. It can't end like this. It's not fair. The police and paramedics arrive at the scene and help Grace and just when the horrible thought that it is taking too long strikes me I hear Grace's voice.
"He is breathing... he is alive!"
In this moment the enormity of what I have been through since I woke up in the burning cabin comes crashing down on me. All the adrenaline, fear and anger towards Elena that kept me going until now wears off at once and the last thing I hear before everything turns black is Elliot's voice: "Ana, shit!"
When I wake it is dark and I see my parents sitting in two chairs next to me asleep. I am in a hospital bed and every muscle in body feels sore, but I am driven by one thought alone. Christian. I need to find Christian.
I silently get out of the bed and pull the IV line from the crook of my arm, pressing a tissue from the nightstand to it to stop the bleeding. I manage to leave the room without waking my parents up and find Sawyer outside the room.
"Miss Steele, you need to rest."
"Please Sawyer, I just need to find Christian, can you bring me to his room?" I ask and he looks torn, but in the end he nods.
"What happened after I passed out?"
"Well, you missed the best part so to speak. Mrs. Lincoln was about to get handcuffed when she pulled a gun from her pants pocket and Mr. Grey's father who still had your gun landed a bullet right between her eyes. Saved the life of the cops who were trying to arrest her. I hope that bitch burns in hell" Sawyer says and I know it's a terrible thing to do, but I smile at the thought of Elena's death. I hope Carrick can deal with it, though I guess after what she has done to his son, he won't lose much sleep over it. Legally, I don't think they can charge him with anything.
"How is Christian?"
"From what I have heard so far he is still unconscious, there are some problems with his lungs and he has several cuts and bruises, but he is going to make it... thanks to you. I have to say, if I find the right girl one day, I hope she is as badass as you."
"Actually, I hope you never have to find out if your girlfriend would dig you out of a hole in which you are buried alive. Oh God, just thinking about it makes me want to go down to the morgue and beat up her disgusting corpse."
"Like I said, badass" he smirks and stops in front of the ICU where he pushes a button and a nurse opens the door.
"This is Miss Steele, she wants to see Mr. Grey."
"I am sorry, but the visiting hour doesn't start until 9 am. Are you related to ?"
Before I can answer Sawyer beats me to it. "Miss Steele is Mr. Grey's fiancée, as you can see from her wardrobe choice she is hospitalized herself and needs to sit at least. Please let her stay with ."
The nurse looks at me and I give her my best pleading look and she sighs. "Fine, come I'll get you a cot into Mr. Grey's room. Oh, did you pull out your IV line?" she asks looking at my arm and I see that I am still bleeding.
"Maybe" I mutter embarrassed.
"I'll call the nurse from the ward you were in, come into my office, we'll fix this first."
Five minutes later a cot is place into the Christian's room and my drip is back in place. I follow the nurse inside and find Elliot sitting in a chair next to Christian's bed.
"I was wondering how long it would take for you to show up, little one" he smirks and I walk closer to Christian and take his hand.
"How is he?"
"We have to wait until he wakes up, he is getting oxygen and some meds to help his lungs recover."
"Where are your parents?"
"Dad took Mom and Mia home, they wanted to stay, but they were completely beat and the doctors didn't want to many people in here, I decided to stay. Lay down, Ana. You look like shit, Christian will probably knock me to my ass when he wakes up and sees you standing there while I am sitting in this chair."
I sit down on the cot and keep holding Christian's hand. "How are your hands?" Elliot asks and I look at my hands which are covered in bandage.
"Pretty sore... but that doesn't matter." I eyes go back to Christian who looks so peaceful in this moment, almost like three nights ago when I watched him sleep, only that our lives turned into a nightmare since then and I hope that with Elena's death we can finally move on and start into a more happy future.
"Can I ask you something?" Elliot says and I nod not keeping my eyes off of Christian.
"You told Detective Clark that Christian is your boyfriend... is he?"
I look up and see the ridiculous grin on his face that always makes me snort.
"You didn't miss that, did you?" I smirk and he shakes his head.
"Nope, so how high are the chances of you becoming my sister in law?"
"Really? Can we talk about this another time? Though Sawyer just told the nurse that I am Christian's fiancée, so she would allow me to see him. I sounded very nice"
We both smile at each other and Elliot clears his throat. "You know, I can never repay you for what you did today... without you we would never have found Christian in time to safe him. I know this may sounds selfish, but I am the oldest brother and I want to go first... because I losing my siblings...when I thought Christian..." Elliot stops fighting his tears.
"I get it, I guess that is something most people want. I mean we all know that our grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts will go before us, but siblings, our spouses or worse the own children, that's different... I don't even want to think about that. Christian is here with us and that is all that counts."
"You're right, he can be damn lucky to have a girlfriend like you" he says and I shake my head.
"No, I am the lucky one, Christian is all that I ever wanted and now we can finally start to build our future."
Elliot smiles and we both continue to watch Christian, hoping that he will wake up soon... because my world will not be complete until I can look into his beautiful eyes again...
Originally this chapter ended on a cliffhanger too, but I decided that leaving it after Elena tells Ana that Christian is buried alive would have been mean... so I re-wrote the chapter... the next chapter is also ready and will be posted tomorrow. After that I have to focus on my other stories first, so it will take a week for me to update again...