Logan's P.O.V.
Somewhere in this huge, gross, dirty, and dark house one of my best friends…a woman I considered a sister was being hurt. Hurt to the point that she was screaming and crying, to only be silenced by the sound of what I assumed was one of them slapping her. After being tossed around and hit several times, and thrown in a small dirty bathroom, all I could do for her was pray. Pray someone heard us or saw us being shoved into the back of a van. Like one of our neighbors. But no one did. At least I don't think anyone did. Because what felt like hours had passed. And still no one was coming to help us. No one was on their way to stop these sick mental patients from hurting Juliet. It made me hopeless. Being tied to a pipe by a very dirty toilet didn't help me feel better either.
I tried hard to fight. Honest. I kicked and swung a couple times on Shawn, but he was a lot bigger than me. And stronger. He could grab around my throat and throw me like I was a rag doll. That hurt my pride a lot. I just thought about all those times James asked if I wanted to go to the gym with him, and I said no. I should have. Maybe I would have been able to fight off Shawn and Austin. But I didn't, and I couldn't. I just let them drag her up stairs after hitting me three times in the face and tying me up in the bathroom with my hands behind my back. I was stuck there. The rope was tight around my wrists and all I could do was pull my legs up to my chest and wait. And listen to the screams of Juliet. They were relentless. Every second…minute and hour that passed her screams seemed to get quieter. They still happened but whatever they were doing to her, it was tearing her down. She sounded exhausted. The fear wasn't in her voice any more every time she told them to stop or she said no. The fear being gone from her, meant she was giving up. She was submitting. Maybe that's what they wanted. I wouldn't put it past them If they were this sick to wait 12 years to go after a cop and two doctors who were just doing what was right, making Juliet go through a mind fuck wouldn't be too farfetched.
I got so lost in my thoughts, I hadn't realized there was no noise coming into my locked room. The house was quiet. Juliet wasn't screaming or crying anymore. It made me sick. Maybe they killed her. They already killed my daughter and my best friend and nephew. It's what the plan was all along. They were going to eventually kill all of us. And with Juliet now quiet, I just figured it was finally happening. And next they would come for me. Just as I laid my head back on the wall behind me, relaxing just a bit, I heard a key go into the lock of the door and tensed up. I swallowed hard when the door opened, and Shawn came walking in. He was shirtless, just in a pair of black jeans. He was holding a huge, long knife and as he got closer to me, making me shrink down and start to fear death, he smiled. "Comfy down there?" He squatted down quick and reached behind me for the rope tied to the pipe. I closed my eyes as he put his face right next to mine and quickly cut the rope. I stupidly thought my hands were free and tried to push him away, but he simply cut the rope connecting the other rope from my wrist to the pipe. He grabbed my left arm with his other hand and picked me up fast. I opened my eyes as he pulled me out of the room laughing to himself. If I didn't think this guy was fucking nuts before, he was doing a bang-up job making me know for sure. He dragged me down a long hallway out into the dark living room I was thrown into after he kicked me and beat me outside next to his van. I was shoved again but remained standing seeing Juliet laying curled up into a ball in the middle of the floor. It looked like she had her bra and panties on still. She was shivering and had bruises on her back and her legs from what I could see of them. I wanted to run to her and see if she was breathing but the hair on the back of my head was grabbed and both the back of my knees were hit with something hard, making me fall forward to my knees. "We didn't want you to miss the show Logan." My head was let go of, and Shawn walked around me right to Juliet. He roughly kicked into her stomach making her moan out and roll onto her back. I gasped quietly feeling tears come out of my eyes seeing her face. Both her eyes were almost shut closed from being puffy and bruised. She had been hit several times in the face, I could tell. But not just because of her eyes. Her bottom lip was bloody and swollen. Her nose was bleeding and there was a cut over her left cheek. "I'm kind of surprised at how poorly she's doing. Because she was married to that pig for so long, I would have thought she'd be stronger." I glanced up to see Shawn looking down at her, disgusted. In his left hand was the knife and, in his right, was a metal bat. Shawn looked up at me and smiled big again shaking his head. "Don't you think this is justice? My parents are killed, and I'm going after the murderers who did it."
"She had nothing to do with it you sick fuck." My voice was small, but he still heard it. He laughed out loud at this and stepped over Juliet, who was barely moving now. "Your parents are dead. Nothing you do now will bring them back." I knew I was going to be hit and clenched up as his fist swung hard into my stomach. I lurched forward onto his shoulder and groaned out loud closing my eyes.
"I'm not trying to bring them back Logan. I'm trying to bring your family, and her family just a slice of the pain and misery I went through at the hands of Officer Kendall Knight. And I want you to spend your last minutes on earth knowing that little girl you took from me will finally be with her right family." I was hit in the stomach again hearing a floor board creak just as a huge thunderclap shook the house making me open my eyes.
"It's filled." Shawn pushed me back while also standing and dragged me with him. I was shoved roughly to Austin who was wearing a big coat, also holding a small hand gun. He grabbed around my arms tied in the back and made me watch Shawn as he picked Juliet up. I was surprised at how gentle he was. He picked her up under her arms and quickly put one arm around his neck, while one of his arms wrapped around her slim waist. He started walking towards a part of the house I had never been too and was shoved to follow. I glanced to the ground seeing broken glass and avoided it. We walked past a dimly lit kitchen that smelled of rotten food and then pushed outside, to a backyard. As I looked up, shivering feeling rain drops hit my face, I saw an over grown lawn, with a rusty swing set. And to my horror, a pool filled to the brim, which Shawn and Juliet were walking too. I was stopped a few feet from them but tried to go further seeing him going to the deep end now only holding a knife.
"How about this Logan?" Shawn stood at the edge of the pool, Juliet in front of him, still holding around her waist. Her head was resting back on his shoulder and form my spot, I could see her eyes closed. But she was still breathing. I saw her chest rising and falling very slowly. "I'm going to give you one ultimatum and you have a very short window of time to give me an answer." My arms were gripped tight behind me and I looked square at Shawn who raised the knife to Juliet's throat. "I'll kill her…right here, right now, and leave your family alone. Besides taking my sister back of course." I clenched my jaw hard and shivered feeling the wind picking up speed. "Or…I'll put her down carefully, kill you and still, obviously, take my little sister back." I let a few tears fall out of my eyes and he shook his head. "You can't honestly tell me your life isn't more important than hers? You're a doctor for fucks sake. She's a fashion designer. Well…not with her building burned down but…"
"I'd rather you kill me before you hurt her anymore." I hated how quickly my brain made me say that, but it got him to lower the knife from her throat. "Go ahead! Do it you fucking pussy!" I yelled lunging forward, still being held and to my horror I saw him raise the knife again, to her throat. "No!" Before I could take another step or make another sound my arms were let go of and a gun came into my peripheral vision. I snapped my head to the right quick and gasped quietly seeing Kendall walking forward, gun raised, body completely tense and strong looking.
"Drop the knife you fucking asshole." I looked back to Shawn and saw that same stupid smile come across his face. He started to lower the knife, but Kendall kept his gun raised and took one step forward. Just as he did I watched, almost like it was in slow motion, Shawn pushed the knife deep into Juliet's chest. As soon as he did Kendall pulled the trigger on his gun and both Shawn and Juliet feel into the water. I screamed out, probably as loud as I ever have and fell to my knees. I closed my eyes feeling my arms getting pulled, softly and screamed out again. I heard the splash of water and opened my eyes seeing I was doubled-over screaming into the dirt underneath me.
"Logan…Logan look at me." I was gently pulled up hearing Carlos's soft voice and watched him kneel beside me. I quickly looked to the pool to see a body floating at the top and cried out quietly as Carlos untied my hands. Once he did I shot up fast and ran to the edge of the pool. There was a lot of leaves, and dirt in it, but I still saw a figure at the bottom. "Get that ambulance up here…Logan are you alright?" I felt his hand on my face as he tried to turn it to him, but I shoved him away getting down on my knees seeing the figure at the bottom coming up to the surface. I reached out my hand see Kendall emerge, gasping quietly. He had Juliet in his arms, the knife still in her chest. He swam over to us, pale as a ghost and gently handed her up to me. Carlos helped me pull her out and as soon as she was in my arms, I gently laid her on the dirt and put my ear to her mouth.
"Where is his brother?" I heard a soft breath leave Juliet's mouth and sat up straight looking at the knife lodged in her chest.
"Custody…Logan you need to get checked out." I felt a hand on my back but shimmied it off grabbing the knife and quickly throwing it to the side. I then quickly put one hand over the wound and looked over to Kendall who was kneeling next to his still wife. He reached out slowly and pushed hair off her face bending down to her face softly.
"Kendall…" He looked up at me, a tear coming out of his eye. "Her breathing is really slow. I need to get her to a hospital." He nodded looking back down just as she groaned under us. I looked down quick and watched her eyes flutter open as best as they could from being so swollen. "Juliet…can you hear me?" I went closer to her face and saw her nod turning her head away from me.
"Kendall?"
"I'm right here baby." Kendall quickly put one hand under her head while the other grabbed her hand down at her side by him. "I got you…you're going to be okay. You're okay."
"My chest hurts…I'm really cold. And feel…weak." She said it through pained breaths making me glance over my shoulder seeing cops just standing there while a siren could be heard off in the distance. "Am I dying?" I snapped my head back to her and bit my bottom lip seeing her bottom lip quivering looking at Kendall.
"No. No you are not baby. You're going to be fine. Just look at me alright." I raise my hand off her chest carefully and swallowed hard seeing the blood coming out of the hole in the middle of her chest. "Logan do something." I glanced over to Kendall and softly shook my head.
"I can't Kendall." He looked back down quick and so did I, seeing Juliet looking up at the rain hitting her face hard.
"I don't feel right…I feel like…" She stopped slowly raising her head and gasped quietly. I know, even though the rain was washing the blood off her, she still saw it. She laid her head back down on Kendall's hand and her chest started to rise and fall faster under my hand. "Oh my God…" Her breathing picked up speed and I saw her blinking her eyes fast. "Kendall…"
"Logan do something!"
"She's going into shock Kendall. We need to get her to a hospital!" I turned my head again hearing fast footsteps just as Juliet spoke again.
"I love you Kendall. And I love Max so much." I looked back down to her seeing her breathing starting to slow down again and I felt panicked. She turned her head closer to Kendall and quietly sobbed out closing her eyes. "It hurts…please make it stop." I also sobbed out hearing the wheels of a gurney and pressed harder into her chest. She raised her hand from Kendall's hand, and gently touched his cheek. He cried out, bending down closer to her face and kissed her head just as someone touched my shoulder and knelt beside me. It was a paramedic who quickly replaced my hand, with his gloved one. I sat back watching the second paramedic touch Kendall who violently shoved at the guy, and still held onto his wife. I crawled over Juliet's body and grabbed Kendall, nodding up to the paramedic. Once I had my arms around Kendall and started to pull him back, the paramedic bent down and they both carefully started to move Juliet to the gurney that was pushed down low to the ground beside them. Kendall sort of collapsed into me but I stood us up and held him still as they quickly pushed her towards the side gate that was wide open. I let a sob leave my mouth watching her leave, and not knowing if she was alive still. Just as the sob left my mouth Kendall turned around to me and without warning pulled me into him hard. I wrapped around his back fast and shoved my face into his cold, wet neck. I sobbed and screamed into him, feeling my legs go weak underneath me gripping onto him for support. I wanted to collapse and try to forget about what just happened but hearing him also cry over top of me made me stand up straight and just hold my best friend, as he held me, in the rain storm.