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Chapter 15

Heath and Kyle jumped into Heath's car.

"So Kyle, tell me everything these blokes told you," Heath instructed as he started up his Ute.

"Well they said to meet them down at Foster's Warehouse on forty-fifth, avenue," Kyle explained.

"Okay I have some idea where that is. What else?"

"Well as I said, he told me to come alone and no cops."

"Alright, well tell you what: you go in first to let them think you came alone then I'll find a way to sneak in and attack them. While I'm fighting them off, you will find Phoebe and get her out of there," Heath instructed.

"What if you get hurt?" Kyle asked.

Heath glanced over at Kyle in the passenger seat.

"Look at me: do you think I'd break so easily? Besides I've dealt with this before; I can handle it," Heath replied, with an attitude that said he was slightly full of himself.

Kyle turned back to look at the darkness of the night and hoped inside that this plan was going to work.

Dave glanced at his watch and the time read just after eleven thirty.

"You think he'll show?" Gunno asked.

"Oh, he will. If he loves this girl so much, he will," Dave replied.

"Why don't you take her upstairs to the east side room and shut her in there in case Kyle comes; we don't want him trying any funny business and letting her go so she can alert the cops," Dave instructed.

Gunno snarled his lip, raising his faint moustache in the process as he approached Phoebe.

Phoebe glared at the man as Gunno went to untie her from the chair.

"You don't try any funny business either, my sexy sweetheart," Gunno breathed seductively into Phoebe's ear before nuzzling her neck with a suctioned kiss; allowing his teeth to run along her skin.

Shivers went up Phoebe's spine at the distaste she felt over Gunno's gesture to her neck and she tried to pull away but the criminal had her hands held tight.

"Let's go," Gunno barked and shoved Phoebe up the rickety stairs of the warehouse.

Gunno then tied Phoebe back up, only this time against a broken down machine that was bolted against the wall.

"You don't go making any sound when that lover-boy of yours comes 'ere, Gunno sneered.

"In fact, just to be sure; we better but this on ya." Gunno ripped off some tape and forced it over Phoebe's mouth.

Phoebe remained silent, yet was scared, hurt, and confused and she just wanted this whole kidnapping ordeal to be over; to be back at home doing her music lessons like she was supposed to.

Heath pulled up outside the abandoned warehouse.

"You definitely sure this is the place?" Heath asked.

Kyle nodded, "It's what they said."

"Alright, well you sneak in the front and I'll stay back here to keep an eye on you that you don't get jumped, then I'll make my way around back," Heath instructed.

Kyle nodded and quietly stepped out of the Ute.

"Oh, and Kyle: you watch your back always; understood," Heath warned, in a soft whisper.

Kyle again nodded and walked in a soft, smooth motion towards the warehouse, with only the minor crackling of rocks beneath his shoes.

As Kyle reached the front door, he peered into the window and saw Dave and Gunno in the main entrance. He was unsure on how to approach the situation: should he yell out and alert his presence, or just barge in? In the end, Kyle chose the latter; barging in through the door unannounced.

Being the smart criminals that they were, Dave and Gunno had heard Kyle's footsteps outside the door and waited for the Braxton's entrance.

The two criminals snickered in delight.

"Nice of you to show up," Dave sneered.

Kyle glanced around frantically for signs of Phoebe.

Unable to see or hear Phoebe anywhere, Kyle was beginning to wonder whether coming out here was all a hoax, and that maybe Phoebe had been taken elsewhere.

Kyle's heart pounded in his chest as he was faced with his two mortal enemies.

"Tell me where Phoebe is damn it!" Kyle yelled.

"All in good time," Dave snickered, "We still have some unfinished business to attend to, and we can't have you leaving so soon."

Gunno smirked, "Besides I don't feel like giving up such a sexy piece of meat; I haven't had time to play with her yet."

Gunno's comment fired up Kyle's blood and he lunged at the criminal.

"You rotten scum; I'll kill you if you've hurt her!"

Kyle forcefully punched out at Gunno and then the fight was on: Dave stepped in to help his mate and threw Kyle off, punching Kyle in the jaw, causing a throbbing sensation for the young Braxton, but Kyle only retaliated back; swinging out harder than before.

Heath had snuck in around the back, all the while peeking through the window and as he saw Kyle take the first hit, Heath rushed around and busted opened the far back door; breaking the bolt lock with a broken iron bar left in the wreckage of the warehouse.

"We are going to enjoy this last moment Braxton!" Gunno snap out, as blood ran down his lip.

"We've waited years for this," Dave added.

Kyle knocked Dave to the ground with a swift kick to the back of his knee caps with all the might that he had.

Gunno and Kyle were left fighting on the hard ground; rolling and punching, until Gunno ended over the top of Kyle, pinning the Braxton man down by his throat.

"Having fun yet; didn't we warn you, you were going to pay?"

Kyle struggled to breath and tried kicking Gunno off him, but it was no use.

Dave had finally recovered from his knee hit and was getting up to help Gunno finish Kyle off when he was pushed to the ground as Heath burst through.

Heath then ran at full speed straight towards his brother and landed into Gunno with a hard wrestling tackle; knocking Gunno flat onto the floor and giving the criminal a painful reminder of a punch in the eye, to keep away from his brother.

"Who the bloody hell are you?" Dave asked as he struggled to pick himself up off the ground.

"I'm you're bloody worst nightmare now," Heath growled.

"Kyle, get up and find Phoebe!" Heath ordered.

Kyle shuffled up from the ground, with a hand tenderly rubbing his throat that had been strangled.

"I don't know where she is!" Kyle yelled back.

Heath huffed as he struggled fighting against Gunno.

"Try upstairs!" Heath yelled.

Kyle noticed the staircase and wondered why he hadn't noticed it before, but quickly made his way towards the stairs; forgetting about any throbbing pain over his body.

Wanting to stop Kyle from getting to Phoebe; Dave pulled himself up and dragged himself towards Kyle, gripping Kyle on the ankle and pulling him down.

Kyle fell flat, but quickly turned in an attempt to kick Dave's grip off.

Heath managed to knock Gunno down enough that he could make a turn on Dave and so Heath again rushed to Kyle's defense and kicked Dave hard in the abdomen, causing the criminal to release his grip on Kyle.

Kyle raced up the worn down stairs and began bursting through each room.

"Phoebe! Phoebe!"

Phoebe rattled her chair and tried to scream through the tape over her mouth to form some sound to alert Kyle of her where-abouts.

Kyle finally burst open the door to the room Phoebe was in and rushed over to her and without hesitation, pulled off the tape over her mouth and untied the binds around her hands and feet.

Phoebe sighed with relief and Kyle could feel the sensation of being reunited with his love sweep through his body.

Kyle pulled Phoebe into a hug.

"They didn't rape you did they?" Kyle asked in panic.

"No, one of them kept touching me, but that was all," Phoebe replied.

Kyle frantically kissed Phoebe passionately.

"I have to get back to Heath downstairs, so you need to get out of here and call the police," Kyle instructed, handing Phoebe his phone.

Just as the two stood up and went to rush out the door, Dave stood in the doorway blocking the only means of escape; huffing and out of breath from his staggered climb up the stairs with his bruised up body.

"You two are not going anywhere," he threatened, and whipped a rusty silver coloured gun out of his back pocket; aiming it directly at the couple.

Phoebe froze in fear for hers and Kyle's life, but all Kyle could think about was protecting his girl and getting revenge on these thugs that attacked his family.

Kyle took a deep breath and made a run for his life; charging directly into the firing line.

Dave didn't even get a chance to fire the gun before Kyle had tackled the larger man with all his might out of the doorway and into the hall.

"Run Phoebe; run! Get help!" Kyle screamed out and wrestled against Dave's wrist.

Phoebe shot out of her trance and rushed past the two on the stairwell and ran downstairs, pressing in numbers on the phone.

"No; get back here!" Gunno yelled out as he saw Phoebe slip out the door, but was held back too strongly by Heath to get Phoebe back in time.

Phoebe waited anxiously for the police station to pick up.

"Summer Bay Police Department, Constable Regan speaking," the deep voice came through the phone.

"Yes, we need police down at uh...uh, this old abandoned warehouse," Phoebe said in panic, as she looked around for clues to where they were, but the lighting was so dim that it was difficult to see anything.

"Okay calm down miss, can you explain what is happening?" the Constable asked.

"Uh, there are these two guys who used to be in prison; they captured me and now they are in this warehouse attacking my boyfriend and his brother!" Phoebe said; still unable to calm her nerves.

"You have to hurry; one of them has a gun!" Phoebe shouted.

"Okay miss, can you give us any more information on where you're at?"

"No, it's too dark, and I didn't see the address...oh wait: I remember one of them saying it was on Forty-Fifth Avenue," Phoebe gasped.

"Okay we know where that is and we can track your exact location through your phone. Just told tight miss and we'll be there in a jiffy," Constable Regan assured.

Phoebe hung up her phone; her hands shaking in fear and wondering what was taking Kyle and Heath so long.

Kyle hung over the rickety banister as Dave pushed him back.

Kyle heaved and shoved Dave off him and in doing so, the criminal managed to drop the gun through the slates of the stairs.

The loud clanging alerted Gunno and Heath, who Heath had now pinned to the ground, forcing his strong hands down on the criminal's shoulder joints.

"Don't think about moving," Heath growled.

Dave and Kyle had the same idea and rushed down the stairs in order to get the gun.

Heath saw Kyle make a dash for the gun on the ground.

"Kyle: don't! You touch that and it'll have all your bloody fingerprints all over it!" Heath bellowed.

Kyle backed away as told.

Dave took ample opportunity to grab for the gun and pointed it directly at the two brothers.

"I didn't want it to end this way Kyle, but you gave us no choice," he snickered evilly.

Dave then cocked the trigger on the gun.

Phoebe waited outside, huddled in the silence of her loneliness, when a loud gunshot echoed inside the warehouse, causing Phoebe to startle and stare wide-eye towards the building.

"Kyle!" she screamed.