Chapter 12
Alex watched as the old mad man looked at Alex with a insane gaze that sent chills up his spine. "Look sir I'm sorry to have troubled you but I think I must be going now" Alex said getting up out of the chair. It was time to leave, he was going to get Evangeline and then get the hell out of this hole.
As Alex started to walk away Julien suddenly appeared before him. He was ten times bigger than Alex, and even if he had the brivita, he still wouldn't be able to take the muscular man.
"No trouble at all" Mr. Alexander said with a evil grin "Please sit, have another glass of wine." Julien pushed Alex back into the seat and let the guests into the house. Alex could hear his heart beating against his chest loudly and he knew he was in trouble now.
Suddenly a man and a woman entered into the room as they greeted Mr. Alexander genially. The man, whose name was Dolin looked at Alex with a queer smile. "So this is the boy then?" he said.
"How do you do sir?" Alex said looking up at him.
"Hello" he said to Alex.
"Missus, very pleased to meet you"Alex said to the woman whose name was Rubinstein.
"I hope you forgive us for coming over at this ungodly hour, but we heard from Frank that you were in some trouble so we came over to see if we could be of any help" Dolin said.
"Very kind of you sir, thank you so very much" Alex said hesitantly. Where in the world was Evangeline?
In her room, Evangeline was listening closely to the conversation. She listened as Alex explained what had happened at the institution and was horrified at the things they had done to him. Evangeline quickly looked around her room, planning some kind of escape as it was clear her father was planning something horrible.
She quickly put on a green dress and strapped on some heavy duty black boots just in case she had to run quickly and could not be bothered by the sharp twigs and branches of the forest that surrounded their house. It almost seemed impossible to escape, there was only her window, which was nailed shut, and the door that was bolted down from the outside.
Evangeline pressed her ear back to the door and listened closely to what they were talking about. Alex was explaining about Beethoven's 9th symphony and how he got the horrible feeling in himself when he listened to it.
Something in her gut suddenly dropped and Evangeline screamed "Don't tell them anything Alex! Alex!" she banged her fists against the door hoping someone would hear her. Suddenly everything went quite on the outside and Evangeline could hear a car being pulled up to the driveway.
Something was going to happen to Alex, or it had already happened and Evangeline was too late. She quickly looked around, panic flooding over her as she started tearing apart her room looking for anything to break the door down with. In her closet she found almost nothing, scattered shoes and dresses covered her floor as Evangeline ripped through everything when suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks as she found a heavy metal bat she had almost forgotten about.
She quickly got up and with all her might began beating against the lock on the door with the metal bat. Evangeline plunged the bat harder and harder against the lock when finally it gave a loud pop and flew from the wood of the door.
Flying from the door she quickly ran around the house looking for any trace of her Alex when she spotted the tossed wine on the floor and the half eaten spaghetti on the table. She smelt the faint aroma and knew something was amiss with the wine. They must have drugged Alex and taken him somewhere.
Suddenly she heard a slight shuffling behind her. Evangeline had kept the metal bat sturdy in her hands as she whipped it around to confront the intruder. Liam gave a loud yelp as he ducked from the bat and held Evangeline steady as the tears she had been holding back gave way at the sight of Liam.
"They took him Liam" she blubbered out "They took him and I've lost him again. God knows what my father is doing to him, oh Liam what have I done!"
Liam held her firm and looked into her eyes "Evey you must get a hold of yourself, we can find Alex. I pulled in on your street just as they were pulling out, if you hurry we may still be able to catch them."
Evangeline quickly wiped the tears from her cheeks and ran after Liam to give chase to rescue Alex.
Alex awoke to the sound of music, his wonderful Beethoven's 9th symphony playing loudly from the Hi-Fi. He covered his ears trying to dull out the sickness that the music entailed. Alex tried banging on the door but to no avail. He was a prisoner in the room with the music of madness surrounding his mind by every note. Evangeline was gone, his life was gone, only the madness and evil of his ways now surrounded him.
He looked to the window and knew what he must do. His solace was now his death. He had to snuff it out, be rid of the vile music and the hatred of men, and if Bog would allow it, in death his Evangeline would soon be with him when her time came as well.
Alex threw open the window and looked down at the ground. It seemed so far away and yet he was so calm about dying. His only wish is that he could see her one last time.
His angel, his salvation, his devotchka. Alex stepped back and in one leap from the window he fell towards his death. Only one word, or better yet, one name passed through his mind before his body hit the ground.
"Evangeline"
As Liam's car twisted and turned along the roads Evangeline feared they would be too late. "Are you sure that they were going this way?" she asked him holding onto the seat for her life.
"Yes, this is the only road going the way they went, they have to be around here somewhere" he said concentrating on the road and his surroundings. Liam knew the car that the party was driving in, he could spot a fancy luxury car like that a million miles away in this dump of a city.
Suddenly he saw it, the custom rims that glowed in the sunlight and the black waxed outside of the luxury car. He stopped suddenly "There it is!" and in a blink of an eye Evangeline was out the car door with the metal bat still in her hand running frantically to the large building the car was parked in front of.
The door was electronically locked by the box that was planted on the wall outside of the door. Evangeline had no time for such trivial things and in one big swing smashed the box exposing the wires that tangled inside of it.
She expertly started sparking the wires together till the door gave a loud buzz and unlocked. Evangeline swiftly moved inside, her bat her weapon, her mind only focused on getting the love of her life back safely into her arms. Her father had become dead to her in the moments of Alex's kidnapping. He was no longer her father, but a monster.
She heard voices and suddenly Beethoven's 9th symphony blaring from every wall in the building. Liam soon joined her and the split up looking for the party and Alex.
Evangeline ran through the hallways decorated with modern art and expensive paintings busting open doors looking for any clue, any sign of Alex. Suddenly she heard voices again against the blaring sounds of the music. She followed the voices, trying to be quite even though there was probably no need since the music was so loud.
She could hear them clearer now, her fathers voice, and strangers who she would not know but harm none the less if they had touched Alex. In one swift kick Evangeline busted open the door, her metal bat swinging furiously taking no survivors. She beat one man over the head while a woman screamed and ducked away from her quickly.
Evangeline punched Julian as hard as her fists could before knocking him sideways against the knees with the metal weapon. She turned to her father, the metal bat pushing against his nose "Where. Is. He?" she said in short tough breaths.
"Upstairs" her father said with a wide terrible smile and a crazed stare "But you'll never make it, he deserves it, he's the one that killed your mother!"
"No Da" Evangeline said "You killed her, you killed our family with your damn writing and your obsessiveness for the corruption of our government, you killed me, and that boy up there is the only one who can save me." And with that she gave one swing to her fathers head knocking him out.
Suddenly the music stopped and Evangeline's heart was the only sound now in her head. "ALEX?" she cried out.
"Evey you better get up here quick!" Liam screamed from the stairs out in the hallway. Evangeline dropped the metal bat and ran up the stairs only to find Liam in an empty room with huge Hi-Fi's. The window was broken out and Evangeline could feel the color drain from her face instantly.
She rushed over to the window and saw Alex on the ground beneath her. "Call the police!" Evangeline screamed at Liam and rushed down the stairs to go to Alex. Liam grabbed the nearest phone and dialed for the police. He only prayed that Alex was alive and Evangeline would not be sent to prison for assaulting the party downstairs.
As Evangeline ran outside and tumbled to Alex's side she felt his neck for any kind of sign of a pulse. She could feel nothing with him on his stomach and she gave a heave trying to push him onto his back. Alex flopped over lifelessly and Evangeline could feel the hot tears already caressing her face.
She felt his neck once more and even checked his wrist for a pulse but there was none. He was gone, her Alex was gone.
"No" she cried out "You can't die Alex! You cannot die, not now!" She quickly bent down and held his face in her hands, her hot tears now falling on his face. "Alex! No" she cried "Do not leave me, please do not leave me! I cannot survive without you! I love you too much! Do you hear me? I love you damnit!"
Evangeline held his hand against her face as she closed her eyes as the hopelessness enveloped her. Then she suddenly felt something, a small beat that could barely be felt against her skin. Evangeline felt Alex's wrist once more and it was true, there was a pulse, small but steady beating inside of him. "Alex?" she whispered when suddenly hands grabbed her shoulders as the police and EMT's surrounded her and Alex.
"He's alive" she whispered "He's alive!" she shouted as the police helped her up and took her to the ambulance to be checked out.
Liam explained the situation to the police as Evangeline was checked on to make sure she was not going into shock. The police soon arrested the party that had kidnapped Alex and Mr. Alexander was to be taken to the hospital for the injury on his head.
"She won't be going to jail will she?" Liam asked the officer who was writing the whole thing down.
"What the girl?" the police officer looked at the beautiful young woman who stayed by the young man's side as they loaded him into the ambulance "She rescued a young man from torture and kidnapping by her own father, I think she deserves a metal, not a prison cell" he said gruffly as he went back to his paperwork.
As Alex lay in the ambulance he heard the words play back over and over again in his mind. The words that had snatched him from Death's grip and sent him back into this life. Evangeline had said she loved him. She loved him.