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Chapter 11.
The next morning
Cheryl opened her eyes but saw nothing, everything was black. She could smell a mixture of petrol, alcohol and bacon in the air. This strange concoction puzzled her and as she went to move her hands she realized she was bound, by her wrists and ankles. Cheryl felt a hard surface beneath her; she was bound to the surface and could barely move.
"H,hello?" Cheryl's voice merely a squeak. "Is a,anyone there?" Cheryl's voice faltered as her fear grew. No answer came.
"Pl..Please speak to me? Simon? I know ye are there" Cheryl spoke as she moved her head around.
"He's on his way" A man's voice made Cheryl jump and gasp.
"Brendan Brady is on his way, soon it's going to be time to play" Walker smiled as he closed his eyes. He was sat opposite Cheryl watching her. He'd taken her to Chez,Chez.
He'd sat her in a wooden chair, and tied her up in the basement. A petrol can was nearby. Walker was eating a bacon sandwich he'd purchased from Doug first thing this morning.
"Hmm, this bacon it's delicious, do you want some?" He asked Cheryl as he licked ketchup off his lips
"No I don't want any "Cheryl spoke angrily "Now let me go Simon, thought you were our friend!"
"Friend? HA! Don't make me laugh that brother of yours is scum, pushing drugs on the innocent, and pocketing the profits. Not giving a fuck whose life he destroys" Walkers eyes harden as he moves over to Cheryl quickly.
Cheryl hitches a fast breath. Walker puts his lips up to Cheryl's ears and breathes heavy. The smell of bacon is stronger off his mouth and it makes Cheryl want to be sick.
"Are you scared Cheryl? I hope you are, I want him to suffer too, and knowing you are scared..." Walker moved his hand up Cheryl's thigh making her squirm and whimper. "Will make him hurt"
Walker smiled as he watched Cheryl shake.
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10 AM
Lynsey drove to her apartment and grabbed Ste's spare keys from her home. Jumping into her car she drove fast to Ste's apartment. She saw his garage wide open as she ran up the stairs to the front door. Using the key she walked in.
The TV was on and there was popcorn strewn all over the floor and sofa, some food had been left out. Lynsey forgot herself as he began to tidy up the apartment. After a while a low voice brought her back into the moment.
"Err, Lynsey? Is that you?" Ste cried "As I was just wondering like...if it's not too much trouble...IF YOU WOULD UNTIE ME!"
"Oh shit Ste! Sorry, I, was tidying up, see, and I forgot that ye were...HA HA HAAAA! Oh my god, where's me bloody phone!" Lynsey grabbed her phone and took some photos of Ste tied up on his bed, red as a beetroot.
"Lynds I SWEAR I'm gonna swing for ya! Bloody untie me,my circulation has stopped!" Ste closed his eyes and groaned into the mattress.
Lynsey untied Ste as he got up and left the room. Lynsey knew she had blackmail gold dust now as she sent pics to Leanne with a wink at the end.
Ste walked back into the lounge, fully dressed but still embarrassed. Lynsey had cleaned up for him and the place looked tidy. They sat down together with a brew.
"Ste, what happened? This wasn't some sort of sex game gone wrong was it?" Lynsey smirked as she drank her tea.
"No! Look I woke up like that, Brendan and Warren have disappeared, and my gun is missing" Ste exclaimed.
"Bren would've told me before leaving, something is wrong Lynds!" Ste looked worried.
"Losing your weapon Ste, oh that's definitely not good! Maybe Brendan took it?" Lynsey suggested.
"No, I don't think so, I dunno, just I need to get to work, get a new weapon off Darren, lets go in my car" Ste got up to leave.
"Ste...your cars' gone hun, garage door was wide open when I arrived."
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Earlier that morning. 2 AM
Warren had been driving to Liverpool for a couple of hours before he's stopped at a service station. He parked the car as far from the public view as he could and wandered into a shop and bought some drinks and sandwiches for the rest of the journey. As he made his way back and got in the car Brendan spoke making him jump and grab the gun from the glove compartment.
"No need for that foxy" Brendan groaned at his sore head. "Why do I keep getting twatted recently? I swear someone has it in for me!" He laughed and tried to move to get comfortable with his hands and feet bound. The cord rubbed at his skin tightly on his wrists causing them to burn.
"Listen Brady, you know how important family are, I have no choice, you are coming with me, alive if preferable" Foxy warned as he pointed the gun at Brendan.
"Here" Warren threw a sandwich and bottle of water at him "Don't say I never do anything for ya!"
"Hmm and just how will I eat? My hands are tied shall I snort them up my nose Foxy?" Brendan looked at the sandwich and tried to figure out how he could get around his predicament.
Foxy sighed, and put down the gun on the passenger seat; he opened up the sandwich and put it in Brendan's mouth.
"Do you want a bib too? "
Warren and Brendan sat in silence as they ate, or in Brendan's case, struggled.
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Joel had fallen asleep, the injuries Walker had inflicted been too much to cope with and had succumbed. He woke up dizzy laying on his arms on the table. He lifted up his head to see he was still in the office. He could hear a scuffle outside the office door. A woman's voice whimpered through sobs.
Joel winced in pain as he moved off the chair and hobbled to the door; he pressed his ear up to it and listened. He heard the woman Being dragged. He heard her voice plead quietly as he realized it was Cheryl. Joel waited while listening until it was quiet; he looked at the door handle and prayed as he turned it, the door opened.
Joel moved out and listened intently, he couldn't hear anything now, he wondered if Walker was now in the cellar with Cheryl. So he made his way there, slowly and holding on to his painful body.
He crept down the stairs now hearing shallow voices, Cheryl was quietly sobbing, and Walker was telling her to be quiet.
Joel made it to the cellar door, he looked around and saw some empty bottles, so he grabbed one in his shaky hand, the other bottles fell about noisily, making Joel look up to the door quickly as his heart beat raced.
The door flung open as Joel fell to his knees, a gun was pressed at his nose. Walker smiled his full teeth at him as he gestured the gun at him to get up.
"Joel! How delightful! Chez, we have another guest for our party. Please Joel come and join us" Walker grabbed Joel's hair and threw him inside slamming the door shut.
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Lynsey drove to H.Q' arrived at the entrance and went to grab Lindsey's I.D.
"I won't need that Ste" She waved at him to put it back.
"Erm yes you will! That's Fred there, he lives with a broom handle permanently stuck up his arse, he won't let you through without I.D!" Ste scoffed watching smugly as Lynsey wound her window down.
"Good morning Miss Nolan" Smiled Fred "You are well today?" Fred beamed at her as he waved her through. "Have a lovely day!"
Ste's mouth opened that wide it hit his leg. "How...HOW?"
Lynsey just smiled and shrugged as she drove into her usual parking spot.
As Ste and Lynsey walked into H.Q he noticed he was getting some funny looks, people stopping and smiling at him. They got to the security area, and George blushed as he greeted Ste.
He waved over the metal wand as Ste emptied his pockets and passed through.
He saw George wink at him as he walked off, Ste looked at Lynsey to say something but she just looked back at him puzzled.
He went with Lynsey to her office first and hugged her thanking her for her help. He whispered in her ear.
"Right, what happened, what you saw at the flat, it stays between us, yeah?" Ste looked around and then at Lynsey
"Oh my, absolutely Ste, you can trust me!" Lynsey pretended to zip up her mouth as Leanne came bounding in.
"STEEE! Wow you have a cute body dont'cha? No wonder the Irish man got 'tied' up with you eh?" Leanne burst out laughing, Ste swore as he gave Lynsey the evils.
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Ste made his way down to the basement to see Darren, he'd changed his mind about seeing his boss this morning, for once he decided to hell with it, what's the worst that could happen. He swallowed hard. Ste wandered into the basement and as usual there were staff all testing out crazy gadgets. He walked over to a bench and sat down.
"Mr Smith, I suggest you get off that bench" Darren smiled as he ushered one of his staff members to sit down instead. "Watch" Darren smirked gesturing with his eyes to the man who looked scared out of his wits.
"What's gonna happen Darr...oh!"
The bench sent a nasty electrical charge through the mans body as he got up grabbing his arse dancing about.
"Umm, an electrified bench? How would that help a field agent exactly? Ste looked at Darren with a raised eyebrow.
"Well it wouldn't would it?" Darren replied "Just thought it was bloody funny mate" Darren laughed
"Riiigghhtt! Darren, I require a new gun, can you help me out please? And a new car maybe? Go on, you know you want to let me have it" Ste grinned wide
"Wha, OH NO you ain't having that! Its too fast and expensive and not a chance" Darren stood with his arms folded.
Ste walked over to the car, and stroked his hands over the bonnet, and smiled, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, fastest road car, beautiful Black colour, he'd wanted to drive it for ages but was never allowed.
"Darren, I have NEVER trashed any car I've taken on missions, I will look after this like it was my own. I need to get to Liverpool fast, and I can't look at another plane again. This beauty will get me there so fast, and I'll return it even quicker, promise! Ste put on his cutest, sincere face
"Plus, you know the boss said I could have anything I needed to finish this farce, I mean mission" Ste nodded
"Oh god...please don't make me regret this! I'll have it put in the garage for you. Come and get your new weapon, and try not to lose this one eh?" Darren went and got a new gun for Ste as he gloated looking at his new car.
"Oh don't worry, where I'm going I will be getting back my other gun."
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Warren pulled up into Hollyoaks village at last, he felt much like a yo yo, considering the amount of times he'd traveled back and forth recently. He looked at Brendan who was snoring contently. His moustashe twitched as he breathed out.
Warren reached over and poked him in the chest. He didn't move so he shoved him hard on the arm.
"Steven, give me another half hour and then we can ok?" Brendan moved to roll over but jolted awake at the pain of the cords on his wrists.
"Oh, I almost forgot then" Brendan sighed. "So, where are we now? Disneyland?"
"We are back in Hollyoaks mate, so you had best get ya head straight, as we have a right psycho in there, enough to rival even you." Warren said as he got out of the car and opened the back. He grabbed Brendan by the ankle and tried to pull Brendan out, but Brendan moved his legs up and smashed his shoes hard into Warrens face sending him flying backwards onto the ground.
Brendan wriggled out his body until his feet touched the concrete, and bent his head round and lent out of the car. Warren was bleeding badly from his mouth and nose.
"What did you do that for? I was trying to help you out of the car!" Warren stumbled up on his feet.
"Ye kidnapped me, tied me up and shoved a sandwich down my throat Foxy, you're lucky I didn't kick ye head off! Now take these binds off me so I can finish the job" Brendan seethed at Warren who just laughed.
"We do have some good times eh Brady?" Laughed Warren.
"Look,my son is in there, probably bleeding to death, if it was Cheryl, you'd do the same right?" Warren asked
"It's not Chez though, it's Joel, and that don't concern me" Brendan replied as he tried to stand up.
"WRONG BRADY! Cheryl is in there too mate"
Brendan stopped moving and looked at Warren who was nodding.
"Get me out of these cords Foxy, NOW" Warren grabbed Ste's gun and pointed it at Brendan.
"I will shoot if you try anything, you are gonna help me get my son back" Brendan nodded as Warren finally untied him. He quickly punched Warren hard in the face, and knelt down to him on the floor.
"If ye ever hurt Steven again I'll..."
"Kill me? Jesus Brendan, come up with a new one will ya!" "That fucking hurt by the way! Now let me up"
Brendan stretched his arm out to Warren and pulled him up. They both stood side by side as they looked on at Chez,Chez. Brendan's phone rang. He saw it was Ste.
"Steven,ye okay? I'm sorry,it wasn't...no,Warren did...kidnapped...yes,well we're at Chez,Chez." Brendan gave Warren a death stare,it was his fault all this hassle.
"Look,I am big enough and old enough to look after myself,my sister is in the club,I'm going in to get her,bye Steven". Brendan closed his eyes while tilting his head At the ground,he shuck it in disbelief
"God help ye foxy if you've ruined things with Steven for me!" Warren looked at Brendan,guilt in his eyes.
"You love him,don't you?" Warren pressed Brendan carefully.
"I can see it,so can everyone else,you two,I don't think you could survive without each other". Warren looked seriously at Brendan who still had his eyes closed.
Brendan looked back at Warren. "Never been so fucking scared of losing someone in my entire life,this is what it feels like,meeting the reason you've breathed for.".
"Brendan,mate,you have to tell him how you feel,and for what it's worth,I am sorry. Joel is my son,had no choice mate"
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Ste was happy, he got into the car and grinned like a chesure cat. The car was gorgeous and didn't know how he'd agree to hand it back. He turned on the ignition as a wonderful noise hit his ear drums; he sped out of the H.Q car park and on to Chester, destination Hollyoaks... again.
Ste dialled Brendan and waited for him to pick up.
"Brendan? Yeah I'm just peachy thanks, the position you left me in back at the apartment, fantastic."
"I want my gun back Brendan, why the fuck did you think hitting me over the head...eh? Warren did? Why did? OH...Ya still not off the hook"
Ste was speeding along nicely now as he ended up on the motorway, he put his foot down and grinned again.
"Brendan,wait for me to get there,I won't be long,Walker is bad news,who knows what he has planned."
However Brendan was stubborn and wouldn't listen, he told Ste he would do anything to save Cheryl and put the phone down on him.
"Shit!" Ste cursed as he pushed down the accelerator and prayed there wouldn't be a cop around.
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Joel crawled up to Cheryl and held her hand tightly. He could see lines down her face where she'd been crying and a blindfold covered her eyes. He looked around the room and noticed a petrol can, he looked back at Walker who was walking up to him with a rope smiling. He bound up Joel's wrists and ankles behind his back then pushed him on the floor so he was laid on his side.
"Cheryl, it's going to be okay, Dad is coming, he's bringing Brendan with him" Joel promised as Cheryl sobbed.
"Is that right Joel? Daddy coming to save you is he? AW, fucking precious that is. All I care about is Brady though, and then we will see how fast this place goes up in flames eh? Walker laughed manically.
"Ye are gonna set the club on fire, with us in it?! Are you out of your mind? Ye wont get away with it, our Bren will..."
Walker rushed at Cheryl making her gasp.
"WILL WHAT? HE'LL DO NOTHING! I wont let him, I will watch as he sees his loved ones burn"
Walker walks over to the petrol can and starts to douse it on the floor, Joel starts screaming at him to stop, but he's too worked up to listen. Cheryl tries talking to him, anything that will distract Walker into stopping.
"Simon, why do you hate my brother so much? He's obviously done something, and I know he's far from perfect. Cheryl tried.
"He killed my brother, he sold drugs to him, and he took them. It ruined his life, for years I had to watch my brother suffer, because of the drugs your precious Brendan gave him. Walker slumped to his knees and sobbed.
Cheryl tried to keep her voice low and soothing while she spoke to him.
"I'm sorry about what happened to your brother, I can't even imagine the pain you went through seeing that. Simon, your brother chose to take them, if it hadn't of been our Brendan, it would've been someone else selling the drugs." Cheryl replied.
"Not that that makes it right, but he doesn't deserve this, people he loves killed?"
Joel shifted his legs around and managed to get up on his knees, he watched as Walker knelt with his head in his hands. He reached around on the floor and found a piece of glass shard from a smashed bottle and began to sever the rope slowly.
Walker spoke softly through the sobs. "An eye for an eye" Walker nodded and closed his eyes.
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Later on that day
Ste was enjoying the ride in his super car, waving to anyone who'd look his way. He was speeding down the motorway, when a call came though.
He answered with his hands free kit.
"Hello, super spy here" Ste joked.
"Hey Ste, Leanne here hun, have you heard yet?" She asked with concern in her voice.
"Heard what Lea? I'm driving to Chester at the moment,nearly there, this car yeah, oh my god it's so fast and..."
"STE! It's Chez,Chez, its on fire, there's been an explosion" Leanne spoke and it seemed to Ste like everything had suddenly gone to slow motion, despite speeding down the road. Leanne's voice distorted as he pulled off the accelerator.
"No...wha,what do you mean, it's on fire? Brendan is at Chez,Chez, it can't be on fire" Ste's heart sank and he felt dizzy.
"Ste, listen to me, Ste listen, calm down."
"There's no news of anyone being inside yet, he might not be there. Just keep your eyes on the road babe, you're driving" Leanne spoke calmly and Ste began to come back to reality again. He shifted in his seat and took a deep breath.
"I'm ok, Leanne, I'm nearly there now. Just if you hear anything you..."
"I promise I will let you know, just keep focused on the road ok? Leanne ended the call.
Ste tried to contact Brendan again,but got the answer machine,Ste put his foot down once again.
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In the club
Joel kept rubbing the glass against the rope around his wrists,while Cheryl kept Walker talking. He eventually managed to cut through it, and pull his hand free. He shifted slowly towards Cheryl so he could reach behind the chair to her hands. He passed the glass between her fingers.
"Cut the binds" Joel whispered then coughed.
"Walker, can I have a drink of water please? Joel coughed again.
"There is no water down here Joel, sorry" Walker kept his eyes closed; he was sat on the floor with his legs crossed.
"A beer then? Plenty of that, please I am thirsty" Joel asked
Walker lifted his head slowly and opened his eyes, stood up quickly and picked up a bottle of beer and put it into Joel's face.
"Erm, could you open it for me? Um, sorry"
As Walker went to open the bottle, Joel looked at Cheryl.
"Have you done it?" He whispered.
Cheryl nodded her head quickly. "Right, don't move ok?"
Walker came back with the beer and poured half the bottle over Joel's head.
"Hey! Come on let me take a swig at least" Joel cried.
Walker held up the bottle to his mouth, Joel took a drink and kept Walkers stare, Walker swallowed hard as he gently moved back the bottle from Joel's mouth, he brought up his hand to cup his cheek when Joel spat the beer in his eyes, momentarily knocking him off balance he dropped the bottle on the floor and Joel gabbed it and smashed it over Walkers head as he slumped over.
Joel untied his ankles and dashed over to Cheryl. He took off her blindfold and untied her ankles. Cheryl's eyes were puffed badly and red sore from her tears. She kicked Walker in the stomach as she used Joel to help steady herself and move out of the cellar.
As they were walking past Walker gained some composure and grabbed hold of Joel's ankle, He yelled at Cheryl to run, and pushed her through the door as Walker grabbed his gun to bring it up to face Joel. He kicked out at it;the gun fell out of his hand so he grabbed the lighter, flicked on the flame and threw it.
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Brendan and Warren had made it into the club, Warren held out the gun as he walked slowly round.
"Who are you supposed to be Foxy?" Brendan smirked
"Shut it Brady, you are just jealous you don't have a gun too"
They were bickering like two kids in a playground when a large explosion ripped through the cellar, shaking the walls, and knocking Brendan and Warren off their feet.
Some time had passed as Brendan eventually opened his eyes and shook Warren awake.
"Shit, what the hell happened" Warren held his head.
"There was an explosion; we gotta get to the cellar." Brendan moved slower than he liked but was dizzy. The smoke was thick as black clouds engulfed the cellar. He tried to cover his mouth with his Jacket, but the fumes were too much and he fell to his knees coughing.
Warren found him and lifted him onto his feet as flames were now licking up the walls, they couldn't get into the cellar now. He backed out with him. He crashed right into a fireman with breathing apparatus who helped them both out of the club.
Brendan was fighting with Warren trying to get back into the club, screaming Cheryl was still in there. Warren wouldn't let him though knowing it was futile, the cellar was ablaze.
"Foxy! Cheryl's, she's in there please, and Joel, don't you even care! Argh!" Brendan fell to his knees heart breaking.
"Yes I care Brady! Fact is the fire is too bad, we have to leave them to their job!" Warren replied head in his hands.
The fire brigade went inside and started to put out the fire, the cellar was completely destroyed.
They brought out two bodies on stretchers, and put them into two ambulances.
Brendan and Warren ran around to the ambulances desperately trying to see who they were, but they had to drive to the hospital quickly. The police advised them to make their own way to the hospital, but would both need to make statements at some point,Brendan and Warren got into Ste's car and drove to the hospital.
Not long after Ste drove up to the crazy scenes outside the club. He jumped out of the car and quickly ran towards the club. A police officer stopped him going any further.
"Get out of my way! Cried Ste "I work for the government, let me through!"
"I don't care if you work for the Queen mate, you ain't coming through here" The officer pushed hard against Ste's chest reiterating his words
"I DO work for the Queen though! Oh look can you at least tell me if anyone is hurt, my life could be in there right now!"Ste pleaded.
The officer explained to Ste that a couple of bodies had been brought out and taken to the local hospital.
"T, two bodies? Dead ones?!" Ste's legs gave way as he fell to the floor; all he could think of was Brendan.
Then it quickly turned to anger as he thought about Walker. He dragged himself up to his feet, and pushed through the gathering crowd and into his car. He put his hands on the steering wheel and rested his head on his arms and let out a deep sigh.
The burning smell was strong now as the club was still smouldering; plumes of smoke could be seen souring up into the sky. He could smell burning flesh too, which made him feel very queasy, he closed his window and put on the air conditioning full blast, but still the smell lingered in the car.
Ste turned the ignition on and adjusted the gear into reverse, he checked the rear view mirror and saw two bright eyes staring back at him, he startled and turned to look in the back.
He was looking down the barrel of a gun, as his eyes traced up, a charcoaled face looked back at him, teeth bright white, blood mixed around them and and lips.
Walker, looking badly burnt smiling at him like a man possessed.
"You should be at the hospital Simon" Ste looked through the mirror at Walker, his burnt skin on his face enhanced the colour of his eyes, they widened as he smiled at Ste.
"You gotta be in pain, your face it's, well, it needs attention. Let me drive you there" Ste went to reverse the car again and felt the barrel of the gun press hard on the back of his neck.
Ste put his hands up.
"Ah Steven..." sighed Walker
"Ste, my name is Ste, no one calls me Steven except..."
"Brendan...ahhh you two are...close now huh? I noticed that,back when you killed Danny, Brendan...cares for you" Walker Laughed.
"So I got his sister, now I get his..boyfriend, is it? Oh this...this is perfect"
"You killed his sister? No, you're all mouth, you couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery Walker, dead weight, dead behind the eyes, and when you least expect it...I will be the last person you'll see on this earth" Ste lowered his hands.
"You are a pretty cocky twat considering I have a gun to your head" Walker pressed the gun closer to Ste's neck.
"Shoot me then, go on if that's what you want. There are a few dozen cops waiting around and hmm. how many people? Go for it" Ste looked Walker in the eyes.
Walker kept the gun pointed at Ste as he climbed over into the passenger seat. Ste got a really good look at Walker now, his skin was peeling over his face and arms, and clothes black. The smell was making Ste's eyes water.
"This isn't over, I will be back to get Brendan" Walker opened the door.
"I know you will Simon, and I will be there to stop you" Ste nodded as Walker jumped out of the car and ran off.
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