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Mike's p.o.v
The desk was completely covered in a large collection of files, pieces of paper and mugs of coffee, but there was no information about anything important to Mike. He had sat in the same spot at his desk now for three days glaring at the paper in an attempt to pull the much needed information out of the pages, but there was still nothing that could be used. Mike knew that there was information that he could have given to the police about the kidnapping of Darcy, but that meant pulling out some memories that he would rather forget, pulling out facts about his wife that he really did not want out in the open
"You can't keep sitting here Mike" Simon's voice was really starting to grate against Mike's temper, something that was short and easily lost, he was constantly tired, both mentally and of people telling him to go home and rest, they didn't know the truth, all except Simon, who managed to keep his mouth shut about the whole 'Mike's wife kidnapped Darcy' secret. Simon did this every day, came into the office sporting a smile, one that Mike wanted to wipe off his face by any means necessary, and trying to cheer Mike up.
Of course, it never worked
And only seemed to make Mike more angry than before, because at least Simon's two little girls were safe and sound at home or at school, while Mike's little girl was getting hurt by the monster that Darcy was meant to love and adore. That never happened
"I'm fine" Mike gritted out through gritted teeth, his jaw locking tightly enough that a small headache started to pound in his head right in his temples "I just need to keep working"
"No Mike, the boss ain't happy with you. He demands that you go home for much needed sleep, right now" Simon crossed his arms around his chest, giving Mike a stern look that did nothing
"You told" Mike snarled, pushing his chair away from him so he didn't smack his legs against the chair, glaring hard at Simon hoping he would magically explode in a ball of fire. Unfortunately, none of that worked, Simon stood perfectly okay right next to his desk, his eyebrows rose and a questionable look on his face, as if he knew what Mike tried to do without success
"I had no choice Mike" Simon spoke with the same amount of anger that Mike was feeling, his arms shaking at the sides of his body "and good try with the 'trying to blow me up' think" sarcasm, Mike noticed, but he didn't smile at the joke, because the previous words that Simon had spoken kept going around and around in his mind, a whirl wind of words swirling in his mind at a high speed
"I had no choice" Simon's voice echoed around his mind, piercing and haunting at the same time. Anger exploded inside Mike's stomach
"You were meant to keep it a secret! I told you in privacy" Mike roared, scaring a new intern that was walking down the small corridor, but Mike completely ignored how the younger boy scuttled off down the corridor with a horrified look on his face
"Mike, trust me I would have taken the secret to the grave" Simon started the sentence off "but its Darcy, your daughter! A-And your wife" Simon added the last part, almost chocking it out from his throat "you've not been sleeping, eating, you'll pass out from exhaustion if you're not careful, and I won't let that happen" Simon tried to approach Mike, but he lunged back away from Simon as if it was the devil standing before him, not his best friend
"You won't understand" Mike whispered in a weak voice, desperate to make it sound harsh, but it was like a small dog trying to sound threatening with his small bark, useless and pointless
"Make me understand Mike!" Simon roared suddenly, and Mike couldn't help the flinch "I know I don't understand about the situation between you and your wife, but whatever happened, your wife now has Darcy, doing god knows what to her. You look like you're about to pass out, Darcy needs her father fit and healthy to save and protect her" Simon was laying on the guilt trip hard, and in some way, it was working to make Mike feel quite guilty about keeping everything from Simon
"Please don't" Mike spoke pathetically, collapsing into his chair after grabbing the arms and quickly pulling it towards him so he could easily collapse into the cushion on the chair. He immediately slumped against the wood, his top riling up but it went unnoticed by Mike himself. Mike crossed his arms across his chest, looking down at the desk, at the many pages of papers scattered along the length of the wood that made his desk, the words jumbled as he focused on the white paper rather than the words printed on the page. The black writing blurred as one
"Mike" Simon whispered, pushing Mike away from the desk so that he could kneel down to Mike level, giving him a stern expression to tell Mike that Simon was being serious "I know it's difficult for you to admit something, I've seen how hidden you can be and its not good. You can't keep staying in the dark about what happened in your past, because its going to bite you in your ass sooner or later, and from the looks of things Mike, it already has. Speak up about what happened to someone you trust Mike, please, before we lose you" Simon had moved his hand to hold Mike's throughout the speech he was speaking, and Mike felt tears spring into his eyes before he could stop them
"I-I" Mike started to speak, coughing slightly to clear his throat "I'll t-tell you"
James' p.o.v
"Jaaames" someone drew out his name in a whispered purr right near his ear, the tone huskily spoken with an undertone of darkness that had James slowly come back from the land of dreams that he really wanted to go back to. There was a feathery touch trailing down the length of his cheek to his jawline, the touch soft enough to almost make him moan, but he bit it back, opening his eyes
And almost jumping out of his skin at the person hovering over him
The bitch Caitlyn only smirked in that horrible, dark way that had James shivering in fear not seduction, raising up from the crouch she had been in moments before, still staring at James with the cold, emotionless eyes that still had goosebumps prickling at his skin when he saw. She stalked away him in a small seductive dance, swinging her hips to an imaginery song that only she could hear, her eyes had gone back into her head as she swayed, half lidded but James could only see the whites of her eyes
"W-What do you want?" James hissed, knocking Caitlyn rather violently out of her own thoughts, her dark green eyes snapping to meet with James' hazel ones, and it was like a glaring contest between the two. James lost, looking away when the green eyes seemed to overshadow with something dark, glazing over like a china dolls with thoughts that James really didn't want to know, she just constantly stared at James, licking her cherry red lips, wetting them
"I just want to have a bit of fun before I leave" Caitlyn whispered, pressing her lips into a thin line because, from what James could see, she was trying to conceal a smile that wanted to break away from her face, tugging at the corners of her lips as much as Caitlyn would allow them to, her eyes sparkled
"I hope you leave for good" James snarled "and take that bitch of a daughter to hell with you" James finished off the sentence with a small smile tugging on his lips, but it fell away from his face. Caitlyn was smiling as wide as her face would allow, stretching all of the skin on her face, the corners of her eyes wrinkling up with the smile
"Oh James" Caitlyn purred once again "you really don't know how good it sounds to hear you speak those words" Caitlyn shivered, wrapping her arms around her body with the shiver of delight
"Why?" James spoke confidently, never taking his eyes off Caitlyn, to watch her reaction like a hawk would its prey
"Oh, if I told you that it would ruin the game. Would you want that?" the question was rhetorical and James knew it. He didn't fall into the trap that Caitlyn set out for him, and pride blossomed in his chest for a moment as James tightened his lips, showing Caitlyn that he wouldn't answer the question. The atmosphere suddenly grew tense, crushingly heavy as Caitlyn walked towards James in a new way, a sort of stomp as much as someone could do in high heels, but it was heavy, aggressive, her face twisted into a snarl. James tried to crawl backwards away from the woman, a scream of someone's name ready on his tongue as she approached
"Darcy" James cried out as Caitlyn grabbed onto his leg, dragging him across the floor to the center of the room, her nails biting in his leg even though he was wearing jeans. He could feel the pressure the fake nails digging in his leg
"There's no point calling out to any of them, my dear" Caitlyn's breath tickled James' ear, making him jerk away from her in fright, not expecting her to move so quickly to purr into his ear those chilling words
"W-What have you done to them!" James cried out, scanning the room with scared hazel eyes, taking in everyone lying on either their side or back with their eyes closed against everything that was happening to James. He could see all of the injuries on his friends body
"I just put some sleeping pills into that water I gave you earlier on" Caitlyn's tone was simple, almost speaking the words in a tone that said 'duh' towards James, she even shrugged her shoulder "they are only sleeping at the moment" her tone sounded angered at the state of everyone in the room
"Why am I not drugged?" James spat, a little bit of spittle flew out of his mouth
"Well, I had to have some fun with someone" the sick smile was back on her face, twisted as the skin pulled back, her eyes staring at James as she slowly approached him, kneeling down to see eye to eye with him
"Do whatever you want to me, I don't care. As long as you don't touch my friends" James spat once again, making sure this time that the spittle that would fly out of his mouth hit the cheek of Caitlyn, but she only brushed it away with a swipe of her finger, not seeming bothered about it. Disappointment flushed through James, but fear soon squashed the disappointment as Caitlyn took a small, barely noticeable glance to the side, her green eyes holding to have more of a stare at Darcy. Said girl was lying on her side, her head resting like a pillow on the length of her arm, her black hair, which was now short something that James would have to get used to, covered her cheek like a curtain but never flowed into her face
"I won't hurt your friends, that was not my intention" Caitlyn whispered, her green eyes now blank staring at Darcy like a monster would its prey "but I have to teach you a lesson. Teach you not to get in my way when I want something, because in the end I always get what I want" her words were now snarls, eyes narrowing into slits as they snapped to James. James tried to stand up, but a sharp pain at his chest forced him back down to the floor, his head smacking the floor from the force, darkening his vision, he completely missed the sound of the large, metal door squeaking open, a large figure scuttling through the small crack the door make. James missed how the figure gave Caitlyn something long and black, something that glistened in the small light that seeped in the room, not until James slowly opened his eyes
"W-What the hell is that?" James questioned with a slight stutter he couldn't help but include in his voice, but Caitlyn started to smack the stick in her other hand hard, allowing gravity to swing the stick down into her palm, she didn't even flinch
"It was my husbands" Caitlyn purred to the stick, stroking the stick down its length as James recognised what she was holding. A police baton "I stole it from him before I was..." she paused in her sentence, glancing down at James, digging her heel into his chest to make him give off a small grunt of pain
"You shouldn't talk about that" a voice spoke through the darkness that was seeping in James' vision, icy cold but in a small grunt
"Oh look, the cause of this whole kidnapping is slowly waking up, how good" sarcasm, James noticed
"Shut up!" James now started to figure out who was talking, Darcy, and his body was shifting and squirming under Caitlyn's foot to try to stop Darcy from making an complete idiot of herself, but her mouth was running "its not my faul-" her sentence was cut off by James suddenly giving off an almighty scream of pain, a snapping of a rib doing nothing but fueling the scream bellowing from James' mouth. There was a dull sound, a 'thwock' as something whizzed through the air, then came the horrible pain that kept James screaming. Someone else was screaming, begging Caitlyn to stop what she was doing and leave him alone, but James knew that the woman currently whacking him with the police baton was ruthless with her attacks, they were getting harder, inflicting more and more power into the swings that she threw down at James' body
"Do *whack* you realise what you've put your friends through by being selfish?" Caitlyn questioned, raising the baton above her head to hit James again, but her eyes were looking right at Darcy, who had stood up, stumbling and swaying on her feet and she looked deathly pale, probably from the wounds she had and the words that Caitlyn was practically hissing her way. Darcy looked down at the floor
"N-No" James rasped in a breathless whisper, his voice not hitting anyone else's lips other than his own. The conversation continued
"If you had not ran away from me, from Jacob, then the others wouldn't have been dragged into this mess" Caitlyn was really putting on the guilt trip, smearing it on her words, making it sound like she was completely serious, and James could see how her face, which was already deathly pale, drain impossibly paler, almost looking like she would faint on the spot. Caitlyn's mouth opened to sneer more words, but something stopped her, and made James' heart practically pause in his chest
A high pitched wail of police sirens pierced the air
Disclaimer: Well, Caitlyn is officially creeping me out, and I'm writing the story :s But the police are on their way, so what's going to happen?
You'll have to find out in the next chapter! Sorry people :)
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