Chris woke up to hear a loud noise just above her. She moved her head around slowly and then looked over at the man in the pilot seat. She didn't quite recognize him, but she knew it wasn't Matt. She felt like they landed or something and the man got out and started to unbuckle her before practically dropping her to the ground and dragging her.
It was at this point that she started to come to a little more. Her arms were getting scraped on the concrete and then this harsh grass. She tried to focus her eyes, but found it more difficult as they went into some building that was dark. It took a minute for her eyes to dilate and adjust from the bright sunlight to the darkness of the building.
"Where am I? What's going on?" she whispered as she tried to make sense of everything. When they got to this little room at the back of the building, he turned on the light and she saw before her the face of the man that had attacked her. She screamed.
Matt, C.J. and Hoyt fought to control themselves instead of just running in. None of them knew exactly how the building was laid out, where Chris was exactly, or if Telso had a weapon drawn on her that he would use if he spotted them.
Matt looked back at C.J. just as they entered the cave like structure, pleading with her without words to just go back and get in that chopper and get to safety.
C.J. however never looked more determined and they moved quickly past all the barrels to another door and could hear Chris on the other side begging to be let go.
"I told you I could get you, I TOLD YOU! You didn't listen and she didn't get him out. This is much harder for me when he's not here! I know you have those drugs in your system right now so that makes it a little easier, but she is going to pay for all this trouble I've had to go through."
He grabbed Chris's hair and said, "This will all be over soon. As soon as I get her here, it will all be over for you. Trust me, you won't feel a thing. She however, will." Then she backhanded her and she fell on the ground. He jumped on top of her and she was screaming again.
Matt and Hoyt threw open the door, guns pointed right at him and Matt yelled, "Let her go!"
Telso sat up and started to move slowly off Chris. Matt reached out his other hand and said, "Come here Chris, its ok, he won't be hurting you again."
Chris slowly got up and limped over to Matt and C.J. took her and held her. The two started walking out to the two patrol cars that were approaching, one federal and one local. The federal officer got out and ran right over to help C.J. help Chris to the car, carefully putting his arm around her on her other side. The two got her into the car and C.J. told the officer to please take her to the hospital to get checked out.
She leaned in the window and told Chris, "I need to stay here to make sure this animal never gets anywhere near you again, ok? As soon as I'm done here, Matt and I will be right by your side. Are you ok?"
Chris nodded to her and the car took off. C.J. then turned to go back inside that cave where she knew this was all coming to a close. Her husband and Hoyt had the man at gunpoint and he had been caught red handed with Chris. No, there was no way he was getting away now.
As she started to walk back in, she heard gunshots. Her first thought was that Matt had done it. He had said a couple of things since Chris had been raped and she was afraid he had just shot Telso in front of 3 police officers. She almost felt her heart stop as she ran inside.
Matt and Hoyt thought they had caught the bad guy red handed and also thought this was over. Hoyt had handcuffed him and both men had put their guns down when the two local officers came in. Hoyt handed Telso over to them when one of them started to uncuff him.
Hoyt asked, "What are you doing?" But before he could finish both officers had their guns raised at Hoyt and Matt. They raised their hands and asked what was going on.
Telso then spoke up, "Did you really think you were going to just waltz in here and have me arrested? I'd like to introduce you to Officers Walker and Rigsby. They work for me. I pay them well to help keep my winery secure. You two are trespassing." He turned to the two officers, "Get them out of here, arrange for another accident and make it a little further away this time. I don't like having to answer a bunch of question from the federal guys, understand? I need to get to the hospital and clean up all this mess."
They motioned for Matt and Hoyt to move and walk out. Matt had remained calm because he knew Chris and C.J. had left and at least they were safe. He and Hoyt looked at each other and both lunged at the officers at about the same time. They struggled and didn't see Telso pull out his own gun and fire at both men.
Matt was hit in the side, at least it looked that way. He was only grazed. They missed Hoyt completely, but the gunshot got his attention and he stopped moving. Both men had fallen down and Telso told the officers to get them out to the car and take them away.
C.J. came in running and stopped suddenly when all five men saw her. Matt's heart almost stopped and he yelled, "Run C.J.!" Telso fired at her and Matt tried fighting the officer holding him to get to Telso who ran past him after C.J.
She ran, fast, into a wooded area close to the buildings. She pulled out the gun she still had on her and released the safety. She couldn't fire on them in that building because Matt and Hoyt were there and could get caught in the crossfire. She tried to slow down her breathing and when she saw Telso approach, she shot at him. She saw him fall back and thought she got him.
She always had been a good aim, but it was a trick. As soon as she got close enough he tripped her and pinned her to the ground. He held her wrists behind her, grabbed her shirt to make her stand up and then put her in a choke hold as he marched her back to the storage facility. He walked her right past Matt and Hoyt as they were being led out by the corrupt local officers. Matt tried in vain fighting again and they practically threw him in the back of the patrol car.
Telso stood there holding C.J. in front of him and told Matt, "You know when you two got married the papers talked all about your honeymoon and how wrapped up in each other you were whenever they could find you. Said you couldn't keep your hands off her. Looks like I'm about to see what all the hype was about huh?"
Matt wanted to tear through the door of that patrol car. His eyes locked with C.J.'s as she tried to reassure him without words that she would be alright and he tried to do the same for her. He noticed her eyes had only looked up the once, the rest of the time they were focused on his side. Telso walked away with his wife and Matt couldn't stand it. "You're a dead man, Telso. I'll kill you, I swear I'll kill you!" He was screaming. He had to get out of that car and kill that man he thought to himself as they put the car into drive.
C.J. heard the car drive off as Telso took her into the storage facility. He got past the barrels and into the little room when he opened a trap door under the rug in the middle of the room. "Now I'm going to let you go, but only so you can descend the stairs. If you try anything I will put a bullet right through the top of your head, do you hear me?" She nodded her head.
He opened the door and she started down. She found what almost passed for a bedroom. Only the bed had chains on it and there were all sorts of things on the walls, chains, whips, and other metal objects she didn't recognize. One of them had a spiral pattern to it. She figured that was what Bob had been beaten with. Terror filled her veins as she heard Telso close the trap door and fought hard to center herself and think through all the self-defense lessons Matt had given her. She was going to need all of them.