Chapter 9

Something had gone wrong. Something had gone so incredibly wrong.

She could just feel it in her heart that something had. She was currently lying on her own couch. She was no longer at Bo and Hope's place. She had actually left there awhile ago. They had dropped her off at her home and told her to wait there where she was safe and to wait for news that would come. They had both promised that they would bring Shawn home safely to her. But now she just had the worst feeling rushing through her and it wouldn't go away. And it was scaring her so much as she waited.

"Belle?" She could suddenly hear her brother ask. Her brother Brady was home with her but she had been so nervous and so lost in her fears that she had forgotten he was even in the house with her. He had been there the entire time with her.

She jumped up a little. She couldn't help but feel a little startled, "Yes?"she responded to him. She looked up at him.

"I'm truly sorry if I scared you there," Brady apologized rather quickly. He worriedly gazed up and down at his sister. He hated seeing her so worried and upset. It killed him to see her like that, "I was just wondering if you wanted anything to drink or eat. Or if there is anything at all you needed. I would feel happy to get it for you," he offered her. He just wished there was more he could do to help his sister.

"I can't think about that right now," Belle muttered. She let out a long and tired sigh. She trembled a little. She could suddenly feel more tears coming down her cheeks. She had cried so much over all of this.

"Hey, hey. Shawn is going to be fine," Brady tried to reassure her as he sat down next to her. He took a deep breath, "He will be with you by tonight. I know he will. Bo and Hope will stay true to their word and they will bring him home to you."

"Then why do I have this feeling something horrible has happened to him? I mean something really horrible, Brady!" Belle turned to face him, she could feel the tears coming down more, "Why do I feel like things aren't going to be okay? I am just feeling so afraid that things won't be," she shook some more.

Brady was quiet for a moment. He reached over to dry one of the tears falling from her eyes, "I don't know. I just don't know what to tell you Belle. Except I think that the only thing you can do is pray. You need to pray that Shawn will come out of this okay."

Belle nodded her head, "Your right Brady." She quickly jumped up and she raced to the coat hanger to grab her coat. She quickly placed it on her.

"Belle, where are you going?" Brady asked. He felt rather alarmed as he watched his sister get up like that. He had concern written in his eyes as he did, "You shouldn't be going out alone. You really shouldn't be at a time like this."

"I'll be fine," Belle assured him, "I'll be at the safest place I know," She smiled a little through her tears, "I'm going to the church to pray." with that she turned from Brady, opened the door, and quickly walked out.

Shawn watched with absolute fury as Larry held tightly onto his mother. What he was seeing in front of him made him feel absolutely disgusted. It was the worst sight ever having to see this bastard have his mother in his arms like that. He wanted to break from these handcuffs that were holding him more than ever and free his mother from their kidnapper. He didn't care about himself at the moment, he just wanted his mother free from this.

Larry quickly removed the gag from Hope and she immediately spoke to him. She had been frantically looking him up and down with extreme worry in her eyes, "Shawn? Oh my God, sweetie, are you okay? Oh my God Shawn. We've been so, so worried about you."

"I'm okay, mom," He responded quickly. He eyed her for a few moments then he turned to glare at Larry with total hatred, "You bastard!" he suddenly swore at him, "You weren't supposed to have her at all. She was supposed to be free from you."

Larry laughed. He continued to hold on tightly to Hope. She struggled as he held onto her. Shawn felt extremely mad as he continued to watch, "I don't remember that part of the deal. Though the part of the deal that didn't stay true was the fact I would swap her for you once I got her. Of course that didn't happen," he couldn't help but laugh again.

Hope looked very angry after he said that. She growled suddenly at Larry, "You have me now, so let him go! Please just let my son go! You can keep me, I don't care, but just let him go! Please let him go!" she repeated desperately to Larry.

"Sorry honey," Larry told her, "That's not going to happen."

Hope couldn't help but glare at him after he told her that.

Shawn suddenly had to ask, "What did you do to Belle?" he demanded. He stared coldly at him. He hated this man so much right now. He hated Larry Welch more than anything in the world.

Hope swerved around the best she could to look at Larry in bewilderment, "Belle? She wasn't part of the deal at all! If you did anything to that sweet girl you will be sorry!"

"Relax," Larry rolled his eyes, he then laughed and he looked at both of them, "I haven't done anything to her... yet. But give me time and I will. Now you," Larry reached over to grab a chair that was on the other side of the room and moved it into the middle of the room. As he did all of this he still held onto Hope tightly. He sudddenly threw Hope down on it and he held her down, and he pressed the gun firmly against her back. She squirmed as he quickly went to grab some rope that was hanging from a nail on the wall, "Will sit here and watch the show."

"Ouch!" Hope screeched as he tightened her more firmly to the chair with the rope that he had, "Tight enough!"

Shawn suddenly realized what that 'show' was that he was talking about and he felt himself panic with fear and desperation. They were running out of time. He was planning on killing him now. He was planning on killing him in front of his mother, just like he had said he would. Terror immediatly crashed through him the second he realized it. His heart pounded faster then it ever had in his life.

"And now!" Larry smiled evilly, "We finally get to the final chapter of this hell. We have reached the final chapter of Shawn Douglas Brady's life." Hope watched and her eyes suddenly grew wide in complete fear as she realized what was going on.

"No!" She gasped in horror. She had hysterical tears streaming down her face by now. Her face had gone completely white as she looked up at Larry in disbelief, "No! NO! NO! You can't do that to my son! You can't! NO!"

"Oh yes!" Larry laughed. He pulled out a shiny knife and suddenly lowered the knife closer to Shawn. Shawn felt shivers go down his spine as he felt the metal touch his skin. He cried out in pain suddenly as he felt the knife go through him. Larry held up the knife, which he saw had some of his own blood dripping from it. Shawn wearily looked up. He had cut him a little on his left arm.

"The most beautiful thing I have ever seen," he held it up, and brought it over to show Hope, "Ain't it pretty? Let's go collect more of it!"

"I will kill you!" Hope swore at him, her eyes were now wide with extreme anger. She still had tears streaming down, "I swear to God I will kill you!" She was now furiously struggling to break from the ropes, yet it just seemed so hopeless.

Larry's eyes were gleaming, "Oh don't even bother trying," with that, he wandered back to Shawn, and Shawn froze and watched in horror as he brought the knife to his throat. He couldn't take his eyes off the knife that was so close to him... it was so extremely close. He painfully couldn't help but think that this was it. This was the end. And he knew it wouldn't feel painless.

"It is time to end your life," Larry let out an extremely evil laugh. He held the knife up and suddenly began to swing it towards him. Shawn suddenly snapped his eyes shut rather tightly and began to desperately pray for some sort of a last minute miracle. He began to pray desperately for one. He need one so, so badly right now. His life at the moment severely depended on it.

Larry was just barely inches from him, however, when suddenly they heard a couple of loud gun shots.

While his eyes were still closed he heard his mother suddenly cry out, "BO!"

Shawn immediately opened his eyes wide. He struggled to steady his breath for a moment. Suddenly he looked up with extremely wide eyes as he saw his father at the doorway, holding a gun that he had just fired a couple of times just moments before.

He then looked down at the floor and he was beyond shocked to realize that Larry Welch had fallen to the ground.

And from the looks of it, he was dead.