Chapter 15: Just the Beginning

At this point we're resorting to what I call "desperation tactics."

Such as?

(whispering) I've sent anonymous letters to the governor threatening to expose his gay lover.

I wasn't aware the governor was gay…

He probably isn't. But I figure ten percent of the population is gay, and probably about half of people cheat on their spouses; so I figure that plan has about a five percent chance of success. Better than nothing.

Huey…

What? You always say I should have faith. Well that's me having faith. Random anonymous blackmail...

Huey Freeman, Shabazz

(The Passion of Ruckus)

Huey's POV:

It seemed like what happened between me and Sophie was a dream or a memory of a memory. I actually wished it was a dream or a memory, bettter than having to tell Jazmine and confront everyone with what happened. We tooked my advice into effect and it worked. I rarely got feelings like that for her anymore though somtimes I would catch myself staring at her a little too much.

"I'm sick of this!" Sophie exclaimed breaking me from my thoughts.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"This! Sitting around waiting to be rescued!" she said.

"Well what are we suppose to do we've tried everyway to get out." I said also frustrated.

"Well I dont know." she said sighing and pushing her hair back. "But something at least! I hate being the damsel in distress! I never even liked princesses when I was little. I skipped through that whole phase." she said.

"Why you would make such a cute princess." the voice startled both of us as we whipped around. I felt myself scowl as I looked who it was. It was the guy who had stabbed her, her wound wasn't even all the way healed. She matched my scowl. "Don't give me that look dollface." he said sounding amused by how much she hated him.

"What the hell do you want?" she snapped.

He gave a fake pout and stepped closer to her seizing her arm before she could move and pulling her closer to him. "Don't be so mean dollface we all know what happpened last time." he said smirking.

I stood up and glared at him. Then snatched Sophie away from him and stood protectively in front of her. "Get the hell away." I growled.

He tsk tsk tsk at me and his eyes sparkled. "You know Huey you can't have all the women." he said. Then he leaned against the wall pulling out a knife and started to sharpen it. "I mean especially since you already have a girlfriend though if you want to make a trade..." he stopped and smirked at the anger on my face. He held up his hands. "Just saying."

Before a word could get out of my mouth Sophie spoke up. "You stay away from her." she walked from behind me and glared the man straight in his eyes. "Or any of our friend for that matter." she siad still glaring.

"Too late." he said smiling then he shrugged. "However I didn't come to talk about this." he opened the door just slightly enough for a girl to slip in. She was pretty with dark brown hair and green eyes. She looked alot like Theo. "This is Hailey."

She rushed forward and smiled at me and Sophie brightly. "Oh my gosh hi I'm Hailey wait he already told you that oh well. I can't believe daddy let me actually see real live prisoners he's giving me everything." she said rapidly.

Sophie looked at me then back at the little girl. We both didn't know what to say. What kind of little likes to meet prisoners?

"Um...So you know why were here?" Sophie asked.

She nodded. "I mean I know bits and pieces daddy won't tell me everything." she started to pout. Then reached forward and grabbed Sophie hand smiling who looked at her surprised. "We can be like best friends you know until daddy kills you." she said it as if it was the simpliest thing in the world.

"Wait wait you know we're dying?" Sophie asked.

She nodded. "I'm going to be there. Daddy even said that if I wanted to I could press the button or stab you myself." she said still smiling.

I sat there confused on what I was hearing. Was she serious? And was she happy about it? I have never met a girl so crazy. I looked at Sophie who had the same look of confusion. We stared back at Hailey who was still smiling brightly as if nothing was wrong.

"Real charmer isn't she?" the man asked.

My face instantly turned back to a scowl. He smiled at me mockingly and my glare deepened. I felt Sophie pull my shoulder and shakling her head. I also noticed the small glare she sent his way. Then she turend back to the guy.

"Um you said he gives you everything like what?" she asked. At first I was confused on why she was actually trying to make conversation with the girl. She sent me a look and I understood. She could care less what the girl had to say she just wanted information.

"Oh well besides me getting to meet the prisoners he let me feel the most amazing thing ever." she said her eyes getting dazed.

"Like what?" Sophie asked her eye brows furrowing.

"Well he didn't really a guy named Theo did." she said.

Sophie eyes got wide at the name of Theo but she quickly went back to normal. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"He had sex with me." she said then covering her mouth and giggling uncontrollably. "At first it hurt and I cried but then it felt reaaaalllllyyyy good." she said still smiling.

It was so obvious the look of anger on her face. I could feel my own self getting mad. Theo was never this sick whats going on? It was disgusting and as I looked at Sophie again her eyes were tearing up. She stared away from the little girl.

"Leave." she said.

The guy stepped forward still smirking. "Awww whats the matter babe? Hey you know what?" he looked down at his watch. "Its about time."

"About time for what?" I asked.

He reached forward and grabbed Sophie again. "The master would looove to meet you." he said in her ear.

She squirmed and tried to break free. But the man grabbed his knife and stabbed her in the exact same spot he did before. But making it deeper and longer.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.

I pushed past Hailey who was looking with fascination and punched the guy so hard in his face I think I heard something crack. Sophie fell to the ground holding her leg as tears rolled down her face and I continued to hit him. I wasn't sure where I was hitting or what but I couldn't stop. Rage was blocking my view making me punch harder. Sometime he fell on the ground and I got on top of him still punching.

"Huey..." the voice was faint and I tried to ignore it but it kept getting louder. "Huey stop."

I stopped and realized the faint voice I was hearing was Sophie and she wasn't whispering she was yelling at the top of her lungs.

"YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM!" she yelled.

I looked down at the guy and his face was all bloody. I looked down at my hands and saw blood dripping down. I don't know what happened and it scared me. I had lost control and almost killed someone. I had never done this before and it surprised me even more. Sophie was still clutching her leg and stared at me with wide eyes.

"Back away Huey." she said. As if under a trance I backed away. "Breath Huey breath." I don't know why but everything she said I did. As if my life depended on it. I backed up all the way to the wall and slide down still under a trance. More men raced into the room and looked around. They looked at the bloddy man surprised and then at Sophie laying on the ground. Since Sophies hands had blood on them because of her legs well you knew what they thought.

"You." one of them said in disgust pulling her up by her hair.

She winced and drew in a sharp breath pushing away from the guy before stumbling and falling back down. That snapped me out of whatever trance I was in. I ran to her side trying to help her up. The guy reached down and pushed me with so much force I literally flew across the room.

"So you want to hit people huh?" he asked her pulling her up again except this time by her arm. "We'll see how much fighting you can do when I'm done with you." He started to drag her out and I ran to help her. Except scary buff dude came out of nowhere and grabbed me holding me down.

"SOPHIE!" I yelled.

"HUEY HELP ME!" she yelled back. I tried my best to break free but I couldn't. "DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE!" she yelled again and it sounded like she was crying.

"Night, night Huey." the man growled then punched me in my face.

There was pain for a second then everything went black.

Sophie's POV:

My leg was bleeding, I was being dragged to a scary place, and I was being accused of hitting a man until he was nearly dead. I just can't win! But even through all of that all I could think about was Huey. How he looked when he was punching the man it was scary. I had never seen him that way, Huey Freeman was never the one to just snap. It was really clouding my judgement on him. I was broke from my thoughts when the man pulled harder on my hair.

I winced. "Could you please stop that?! You know I have a very sensitive scalp!" I yelled at him, he pulled harder.

Then we stopped and he pulled me up to standing positon. Standing face to face with him I saw that he wasn't that bad looking. He had very deep blue eyes that would look at you with such intenseness you would actually have to turn away. He had a firm mouth as if smiling was never an option to him, his hair was long and pulled back into a small ponytail. "Put them blindfold on." he said the other man.

He nodded and came to me tightly putting a blindfold over my eyes. Everything was just black. They dropped me and he picked me up from my hair again dragging me. After a short while we stopped. I heard him knock on the door.

"Password?" a man asked.

خطأ معلوم خيرٌ من حق مجهول" the man said. I remebered reading the same thing on Theo's glove. Now what did Huey say it meant...?

The doorl slide open and we walked (well they walked I was still being dragged) into the room. The man picked me up and threw me on the floor.

"Now Dimitri no need to be aggresive." someone said. He said it so easily like he reading poetry.

Another person just snorted (I'm guessing Dimitri). It was quiet for a while. I was about to take off my blindfol when someone grabbed my arm. They put it behind my back tying it. They tightend it so hard I knew it would leave marks in the morning, that is if I lived that long.

"I'm sorry but you can't see who I am, not yet anyways." he said I realized how close he was to me. I scotted away. "I see your leg is stabbed. Tsk Tsk Tsk was someone not following the rules?" he asked and the way he kept aying everything scared me. It was too calm.

"More like your sick bastards doesn't know how to treat people." I said turning my head to look in the direction of the voice.

I heard him laugh and he turned my head the other way. "Over here." he said. "Anyways I'll have a talk with Charlie." he said.

"Don't it." I mumbled.

"No?" he asked.

"Tough girl here beat him to a pulp. He's bleeding badly and had to be rushed to our emergency room." Dimitri said shoving me harder forward.

"Oh well that just won't do will it?" the mysterious man asked. I didn't have to see to know that he had on a smug face. "Take her away." the man said.

I felt hands on me as I was being shoved away. I was ready though this time. I heard exactly when Dimitri was about to grab me and flipped around and kicked him right in the face. I heard mre coming from each direction. Didn't know that. They grabbed me and shoved me down to the ground. I heard Dimitri stand up.

"Still wanna be the tough girl huh?" he asked. It was silently for a minute and I was woondering what he was doing.

"Dimitri!"The man yelled. "Now as I said before we won't be aggresive with her." he walked forward to me and grabbed my chin forcing me to look up as if I could see him. "We'll wait for that." he threw my head beack down.

They grabbed me again and this time Dimitri threw me over his shoulder. We walked for a while and he pretended he couldn't feel me punching him. Then we stopped and I heard a door open. He threw me in. I winced as I landed right on top of my cut. The door closed behind us and he undid my blindfold. I looked around unlike where me and Huey were this had a couch, a T.V, a bathroom, kitchen, and a bed.

"So he likes to treat us like royality before we die huh?" I asked sarcastically.

The man smirked. "Pretty much." he turned to go out the door. I watched him go and would have gone after himif it wasn't for this stupid cut.

That thought just sent the pain I was trying to ignore back. It hurted so bad. I grabbed the corner of the curtains. I ripped it down and ripped it up then tied it around my leg.

"Shit..." I said through closed teeth.

"Is someone there?" someone asked from the bathroom.

My blodd ran cold, like it always did when I thought something was wrong. I scrambled to hide behind the bed just wehn the door opened. I knew that the person must of caught a glimpse of me toe because I wasn't that fast.

"Hello?" he asked. I didn't say anything. "I don't bite ya know." he said and the voice sounded really familiar.

"Th-Theo?" I asked stepping from behind the bed. Instantly pain shot up and down my leg and I sat down on the bed.

His eyes got wide. "Sophie what are you doing here?" he asked amazed.

I didn't say anything just shot him a dirty glare. "I should ask you the smae thing."

He blushed and ran a hand through his hair. "Look..." he stepped forward to touch me.

"If I were you I wouldn't do that." I said. Then using all my strenth I stood back up. "Now listen clear and listen well..."

Jazmine's POV:

Me and Ceaser woke up super early to go to Mrs. C place. We decided it was better if we wore all black. He wore a long sleeve black thermal shirt, black pants, and black shoes. I noticed he pulled his long draids back into a ponytail. I wore a long sleeve V-neck shirt and some black skinny jeans. I also wore bakc shoes however unlike Ceaser I put my hair downn flowing and flirtaous. That was my first try to flirt myself inside then if that didn't work it was it was time to kick those niggas asses. I stopped as we made it there and there she was standing right outside smiling. Me and Ceaser hopped out the car.

"Happy you came." she said and there was almost a hit of excitment to her monotone voice. "Where's everyone else?" she asked.

I flinched remebering how they bailed. "They're not here so can we get a move on?" I asked more sharply than I meant.

Mrs. C stared at me with one eyebrow up Ceaser also looked at me but I ignored them and just stared ahead. Mrs. C shrugged.

"Well I'm happy you dressed in all black. Jazmine tie up your hair." she said pointing to my hair.

"I-um actually was going to keep it down to begin with. You know try to flirt my way in then if that doesn't work I brought a hair tie." I said holding up my arm to show her.

She tapped her chin probably thinking it over. "Great idea." she said and even though her voice was flat gace me a approved look. Ceaser nudged me noticing how happy I looked. I nudged him back. Mrs. C turned around and grabbed two backpacks. "One for each." she said.

"You're not coming?" Ceaser asked.

"Oh I'm coming I'll be taking another way." she said.

"Why?" I asked.

"To surprise them. Or better word for it 'a sneak attack'." she said.

We took them. "I thought you said you were expecting more." I said.

"Yes and?" she asked.

"Well its just that you only had 2 backpacks." I said.

She looked at me intently as if daring me to say more. My mind breifly wen back to the note. A shiver ran up and down my spine. I side glanced at Ceaser who was looking at me. I couldn't really read what he wanted me to do. I looked back at Mrs. C and smiled.

"You know what never mind." I said still smiling.

She smiled back but it was forced. As we walked back to the car Cesear and me shared a look. We got into the car and with one more look at the Mrs. C we drove off. Cesear pulled the directions out of the backpack and for a while it was silent as we drove there.

"That was so weird." I said breaking the silence. Ceaser lightly touched my shoulder, but it must have ben a mistake. "I mean how did she know it would just be us 2?" I asked. He touched me more firmly. "I swear maybe the no-"

"Jazmine!" he snapped.

My head whipped around to him. I finaaly realized he touched my shoulder to signal me to shut up. He put a finger up to his lips and motioned to the backpacks, I nodded understanding. If the note was true (which I wasn't doubting) then she could have put anything in these bags, including a voice recorder. I turned back to the road. Realizing I left the sentence unfinished and that could leave suspicion I started again.

"Um what I was saying was maybe the note was right. You know that um I should come to Amber's sleepover. It was today and I was deciding on if I should bail or not." I said. It was a terribly lie but the best I could think of at the time.

Ceaser rolled his eyes playfully. "Always been bad at that." he said and I smiled back at him.

I came to a stop a few feet away from the place. I gulped nervously and looked at Ceaser. He was looking outside with such a sad look on his face my heart ached for him.

"Come on." I said getting out of the car and grabbing the backpacks.

He followed and when he got out we just stood there looking forward. "Ready?" he asked.

A sudden burts of bravery busted through me. "For Huey." I thought. I cracked my knuckles (something that I've always hated and thought was disgusting, until now). "Time to fuck these niggas up." I said walking forward.

Author's note: Ok Ok I know tthis was the chapter that was suppose to be alot of fighting but I had to put all his in and if I put the fighting in then it would be waaaayyyyyy to long. I can't believe Huey snapped like that, thats some scary shit. The man he did it to though I'm sorta happy he did. Like how are you going to stab her again? Crazy nigga. Hailey is officially the weirdest kid ever he really messed her up. Um oooh in a few chapters we find out who he is. I'm so excited! Lol I bet it will be a shoker to you guys. Sophie is a fighter and I love her for that. If my leg was cut that bad I don't think I could do all that but she did. So questions are answered next chapter. Why was Theo in her room? Who's the mysterious guy? Is the gang really not goin to help? And whats up with Mrs. C? All answered!

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