Chapter 9 New Info
The guys rush back to the waiting room with huge smiles on their faces. They walk through the door and see Mrs. Knight and Katie looking at them with raised eyebrows.
"Mom, you'll never guess. We went to see Carlos and he recognized us!" Kendall beams. Jennifer Knight smiles slightly unsure.
"Yeah, we went in and he asked us to save him from this really mean guy, who was trying to pull Melissa away from him. And then he thanked us!" James adds.
"I'm sorry, but he asked you to save him? And who's Melissa?" Jennifer asks the boys.
"Well, he didn't really ask us, I mean, he doesn't talk. But it was in his eyes, mom. You should have seen it." Kendall tells her with a happy sigh following it.
"And Melissa is one of the other kids saved from that place. Apparently she's really close to Carlos. She wanted to hug him, but her parents were with her and her dad tried to take her away, so we helped out." Logan explains. Jennifer still looks confused, but she shakes her head, not bothering to ask any more. She's just happy to see her boys smile again like they haven't in quite a while.
"Hey, do you think he might recognize me too if I go see him?" Katie suddenly asks. The guys share worried looks.
"Uh, maybe that's not a good idea, Katie." Kendall starts.
"Why not?"
"Well, uh, he might not be totally up for it. I mean, he's been through a lot these past few days. You know, meeting all a lot of new people and such." Logan tries.
"So you think he'll hurt me too if I get too close?" She asks with her arms crossed. The guys' eyes widen. How could she know?
"Katie, we just don't want to see you get hurt." James calmly tells her, looking her straight in the eyes.
"And besides, he's not really up for regular visitors yet. The doctor said she'll let us know when he is." Logan adds. Katie rolls her eyes and sighs loudly.
"Fine." The guys breathe a sigh of relief. "But: when he is ready, I want to see him first." She warns and looks at them with narrowed eyes. They exchange glances with each other again. "Guys?"
They all sighs. "Okay." They quietly tell her. She smiles smugly.
- - - Meanwhile, back at the warehouse…
Lucy has arrived back at the warehouse. She ducks under the yellow tape and shows her badge as soon as a CSI tries to stop her.
She stares at all the CSI's taking pictures and investigating every inch of the place. They have already taken out a lot of evidence, so she'll contact them later. But right now, she wants to take a look herself.
She walks through the once bolted room, covering her nose to get rid of the smell. A lot of different smells hit her, among them the smell of blood, which is strong and stands out from all the others.
It's not strange, since so much abuse took place here. But one thing is strange; the smell is strong, but she can't see any blood on the floors. How could that be possible? Unless…
She walks through the rooms and no longer covers her nose. She wants to know where the smell is coming from, she needs to know. She keeps walking, until the nearly gags from the strong smell coming from… a bookshelf?
She looks around and sees all the CSI's are busy with other things. She shrugs and pulls a small flashlight from her back pocket. Always comes in handy. She shines it on the bookshelf. It's covered in books, but layers of dust linger on them. Dust lays on the entire shelf, except on the sides.
She puts the flashlight in her mouth and goes to place her hands on the shelf. Then, she remembers something vital. She didn't put on any gloves. She groans and rolls her eyes.
She walks back and sighs. "Uh, excuse me?" She calls out to a CSI close to her. He looks up. "Could you help me for a minute? I think there's something behind this bookcase." He looks confused. "I think it might be a hidden room or something. Could you just help me move it? Oh and do you have some spare gloves?"
The CSI looks somewhat annoyed, but the glare in her eyes stops him from questioning her. He walks up, tosses her an extra pair of gloves and they get ready to push the bookcase aside. It doesn't take a lot of their strength, but it confirms she was right.
Lucy shares a look with the CSI, who looks surprised, impressed and excited? They stare at the unknown door in front of them.
She looks at the CSI again and motions to the door. "Would you like to do the honors?" He nods with a childlike grin and moves over to the door, while she chuckles and watches.
He gets on his knees and pulls a pin from his belt, fiddling with the lock right away. A short time until a quiet CLICK is heard. He looks back at Lucy, who smiles at him. He stands and opens the door carefully.
Then he stands back and motions his hand for her to go in.
"ladies first." He says with a young soft voice.
"Well, thank you." Lucy says with a chuckle and heads inside the dark room. He CSI follows her and feels around for a light switch. When he finds it, he flips the switch, lighting up the room. Both of their smiles fade as they stare at the room.
Then, the CSI suddenly covers his mouth and he rushes out of the room. Lucy ignores him and covers her nose and mouth again, trying to keep out the smell of blood and urine covering the room.
It's a small square room, with one single light-bulb hanging from the ceiling. It lights up enough of the room to prove that all tortures took place here.
There is a chair in the middle of the room, with chains lying discarded on the ground. Blood covers the chair and the chains, the same goes for the floor surrounding the chair. On the walls hang several torture mechanisms, including a belt, a whip, a baseball bat and a night stick. All are covered in blood stains, old and new.
Lucy walks through the room slowly when she suddenly notices another door in the corner. With raised eyebrows she walks towards it. She puts her hand on the door knob, gently wggling it, surprised to find the door opening right away. She walks through the door and finds another room. It's similar to the first room, but instead of a chair, this one holds a bed.
"Oh god…" She exclaims when she realizes what happened in here. Several stains cover the bed, including blood. She doesn't need to test anything to figure out what the other stains are.
Chains are hooked to the bed, obviously meant to chain the victim to the bed while he was being tortured. "Oh no…" She closes her eyes when she realizes. This was where Carlos was raped. They sedated him first and then chained him to the bed, before they started. He woke up here every time, before they.. just like he woke up in restraints in the hospital… no wonder he tried to get away immediately.
If only she had known, she would have fought harder to keep him from being restrained.
"Damn it!" She shouts in anger as she kicks the side of the bed. She looks up in the air to keep her tears from falling as she sniffs. Then, she notices something. Is that, a blinking red light in the far left corner?
"Oh my god.. they recorded everything…" She quietly says in realization.
A while later Lucy finds herself outside again. She has left the actual CSI's to investigate the rooms, while she grabs her phone and dials a number.
"Lucy, where have you been? Did you really head back to that warehouse?"
"Yes, Nathan, I did. And it's a good thing I did, becaue you won't believe what I found."
A sigh is heard on the other end. "What?"
"I found the torture rooms."
"The what?"
"The torture rooms. These kids weren't tortured in the room we found them in. They set up special rooms. One with a chair and torture devices and the other with a bed. Both had chains attached and Nathan, these sick bastards recorded everything."
"What do you mean?"
"There was a camera in the room with the bed and the CSI's found another one in the other room. They rechecked the entire warehouse and finally found a control room. It had dozens of monitors. There are cameras set up everywhere. They watched everything. There must have been thousands of tapes, Nathan. Do you know what this means?"
"That these guys are more sick than we thought?"
"Yeah, that too. But it also means, we have evidence. We have evidence of everything that happened to these kids. Everything!" She shouts with a smile.
"Uh, Lucy. You know what else this means, right?"
"What?" She stops smiling, curious as to what he means.
"To be able to prove all of it, we'll have to go through those tapes. We'll have to watch every single one of them and everything that happened to these kids." Her smiles disappears completely when she realizes he's right.
"Lucy? Are you still there?"
"yeah, I'm here." She almost whispers. "I guess I forgot about that."
"I'm sorry, Lucy. I know you've started to care about these kids. But it is necessary if we really want to help them."
"I know. Shit!"
"Look, I'll give the CSI's a call and have them send the tapes over to us and we can go through them together. But if you can't handle it, I can always.." He starts, but Lucy interrupts him.
"No, no! I can do it. I have to. Like you said, we have to to help them."
"Right. So, I'll call you when we have the tapes alright? Now, why don't you go home and get some sleep and a shower. You'll need it."
"Yeah, okay." She reluctantly tells him and they hang up. Oh, she'll go home to shower alright. But sleeping? How can she, having just found out about all of this?
She sighs deeply. Now she'll have to see all the horror these kids went through. It's her job, but it doesn't make it easier. Especially not now that she knows their names…
Sorry for the long wait! I'm pretty busy lately, but I'm trying to update my stories as much as I can.
Anyway, hope you like this new chapter, some more information has been revealed
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