Will Kim realize who is behind her? Will Jack be able to keep her safe?
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Chapter 13: Safe?
JACK'S POV
Claire sped her car up as fast as it could go. I knew that they didn't know who was following them and that if I just got close enough, Kim would be able to know it was us and not Dylan. I pushed my bike faster and knew that she would figure it out. I saw Kim's eyes clearly as she turned and looked back at us and my heart started racing. I was so close to having her back and safe.
KIM'S POV
As the motorcycles grew closer, I could hear them better and I instantly started to relax. I looked back and could see that it was Jack and his guys. I turned to Claire and tried to tell her. "Claire, you can slow down. It is Jack and his guys behind us, not Dylan." I told her, but she had tears in her eyes and a concrete grip on the steering wheel and she wasn't hearing me.
I moved over closer to her and pried one of her hands off the steering wheel. This made her look at me finally and I said, "Claire, we are okay. Jack and his guys are on the bikes behind us. You can pull over now." I made sure to speak really slowly and calmly.
Claire registered what I said and began to slow down and pull over on the side of the road. We both jumped out of the car as the motorcycles pulled up. I ran back to Jack and collapsed in his arms. I didn't care about anything else in that moment. I felt so safe with Jack.
JACK'S POV
When I saw Kim running toward me, I jumped off of my bike and met her half way. She collapsed into my arms and I just held her. I was just so happy to have her here. Brody walked up to Claire and she hugged him.
"Yo, we have to get out of here, Jack. They will be right behind us in no time." Jerry said.
"Move Claire's car over there in that parking lot and lock it up. They will ride with us." I said still holding Kim tightly.
"You got it." Jerry replied as he moved her car quickly.
JUSTIN'S POV (Back at Donna's House)
I barged in with the police and some of our team members. I was looking everywhere for Kim, but I did find some biker goons and took them down quickly. We ended up with several of them in handcuffs.
I ran down the stairs looking for any sign of Kim so that I could tell the Commander good news when I see him, but there was nothing. There were some more guys knocked out on the floor so we handcuffed them, too. I went into one of the rooms in the basement and saw pajamas lying on the floor with some blood on them. These had to be hers. The window was open and there was some blood on the frame. She had escaped, but where had she gone. I bagged everything up and went back out to the street.
The police had the situation under control now that we had helped them round up the worse of the bikers. "We would like to take all of these troublemakers with us and you can deal with the others." I told the chief. He released them to us and we loaded them up in our cars.
"Thank you for helping us take care of this mess." He told me.
"No problem. Did you guys see any other bikers?" I asked.
One of the deputies came over to us. "There was a group that rode off that way, but it was Jack Brewer's group and all of the kids here tonight said they weren't even invited. They had just shown up before us so I wouldn't worry about them this time." He said.
"Do you know where this Jack Brewer lives? I really need to see if they saw the Commander's daughter." I said.
"Yeah. I can show you the way." The deputy offered.
"Good. Let's go get my daughter." A voice behind me said.
I turned around to see the Commander and the rest of our team. "Sir, I am surprised to see you here." I said.
"We finished our mission and got back here immediately. I am not letting anyone hurt my daughter ever again. Did you find Dylan?" He asked very straight faced.
"These are the bikers that we caught, sir." I said opening the backdoor to our vehicle.
He grabbed the door and slammed it shut. "He isn't here and neither is his buddy, Tommy. They are the worse two and we have to find them." He said angrily. "Take these back to headquarters with the others that you have there already and start questioning them. Deputy, I need you to show me the way to this Jack Brewer's place."
"Yes, sir." I replied and left for the base.
I watched him drive away behind the deputy and knew that he better find Kim and she better be fine or anyone who gets in his way was going to be in a world of hurt.
JACK'S POV
I looked down at Kim and she smiled lightly up at me. When I saw her face, my heart broke. "Kim, did Dylan do this?" I asked through gritted teeth. I held her face in my hand as gently as I could.
"Jack, I'm fine. That's all that matters. Where are we going to go?" Kim asked.
I am going to kill that guy for touching her. Her face was so red and slightly swollen. She had a cut at the corner of her eye with some blood that had run down her cheek and another on her busted lip. I gently wiped what blood I could away from her face and stared into her eyes.
"Kim, I am so sorry that he did this to you. I am going to keep you safe and I will make him pay." I told her.
She looked down at her feet and I felt her shiver slightly in my arms. I took my jacket off and put it around her shoulders. She slid her arms in to it and then winced slightly.
"Kim, what is it?" I asked concerned.
"Nothing. The weight of it just hurts my back some." She said.
I remembered the blood in her room and on her pajamas. "How bad are the cuts?" I asked.
"They are fine. I cleaned up." She said trying to be convincing.
"Jack, we need to get out of here." Brody said. "Where are we heading?"
I looked back at Kim and then answered. "We need to go to my place. Bobby and Sam, you go to Julie's house and let her know that Kim and Claire are here with us and alright. We will see you at the house in a little while."
KIM'S POV
They all got on their bikes and I started to climb on the back of Jack's when my head started spinning. I almost fell over and Jack grabbed me. "Kim, are you alright?" He asked holding me in his arms.
"Yes, just a little lightheaded. I am fine." I said and started climbing on the bike again.
"No, I don't think so. You will have to sit in front so I can hold on to you better." He said as he picked me up and put me on the bike in front of him.
He wrapped his arms around me and started up the bike. I leaned back against him and put my arms on his. I loved the feeling of the wind in my face even though it stung slightly right now. Once we were going good, Jack took one of his hands off the handlebars and wrapped it around my waist.
We pulled up to a small ranch style tan and brown house with a big window in the front. Off to the side was a huge garage and they all pulled their bikes in it. I looked over my shoulder at Jack and he smiled at me lightly. He climbed off the bike and turned to help me off.
"Let's get you inside and cleaned up." He said sweetly placing his hand lightly on my back.
"Okay. Will your parents care that we are all here so late?" I asked.
"I live here alone. This is my house." He answered with a look in his eyes that was almost sad.
"Oh." Is all I could think to say.
"Come on. Let's go in." He said.
We walked into the house followed by the guys and Claire. They all sat down on the couch and at the table. Jack took me back to the bathroom and turned on the light. He got out a wash cloth and a first aid kit and helped me sit up on the counter.
"Let's get you cleaned up." He said pushing my hair behind ears.
He wet the wash cloth in the sink and lightly touched it to my cheek. I winced slightly and he pulled back. "Sorry." He said.
"It's fine." I said taking his hand and putting it back on my cheek under my eye. I felt so much flash through me when Jack touched me, but I had to stay calm.
I closed my eyes while Jack worked as carefully as he could to clean up my face. Once he was done, I opened my eyes and looked in the mirror over the sink. "I do look horrible. Thank you." I said looking back at Jack.
"For what?" He said with a small smile. "Cleaning you up is the least I can do." And his face changed to serious. "When I am the one who couldn't stop them from taking you last time."
He cupped my face in his hand and stared into my eyes. The emotions that flooded through me were almost overwhelming. I took a calming breath. "Jack, it wasn't your fault. Look, I am fine. I have a few bruises and cuts, but that is nothing." I said, but that just seemed to upset him.
"Kim, your entire face is one big bruise and this cut by your eye could have been a lot worse. Don't forget all of the cuts on your back. Did he hit you anywhere else?" He asked looking at me so seriously.
"My back is fine and I swear he didn't hit me anywhere else." I said trying to convince him.
"Can I see your back? I want to make sure that you got all of your cuts clean enough." He said quietly.
I looked at him and I felt my breath quicken. I was nervous enough being alone with Jack because of the way that he made me feel, but to show him the cuts on my back would be hard to do without being in a very uncomfortable position.
"I don't know. They are all over my back." I said hesitantly.
"Kim, it will be alright." Jack said with a smirk. "I promise I will only look at your wounds." His face was so serious.
I took a deep breath and looked up at him. "Alright. Give me a minute." I said.
Jack stepped out of the bathroom and I closed the door. I took his coat off and sat it down followed by my jean jacket. I went to pull my red shirt off and found that it was stuck to my back some where the cuts must have bled through the bandages I put on.
I opened the bathroom door and let Jack come back in. He shut the door behind him and waited for me to sit up on the counter. "My shirt is stuck at the bottom. I must have bled through the bandages." I said softly.
"Alright. Let me look." He said turning my back to him.
Jack pulled lightly at the bottom of my shirt and it hurt some, but I tried to hide it. "Kim, this is going to hurt, but we have to get these bandages off." He said looking at me concerned.
"Okay." I said.
He started pulling the shirt up and then stopped. "Just a minute." He said leaving the room and returning a minute later with a long sleeve t shirt of his. "You can put this on when we are done." He handed me a towel, too. "This is so you can cover up as I pull this one loose."
I was feeling a bit nervous about this, but knew that I needed help and then there was a knock at the door. Jack turned to open it and found Claire on the other side.
"Jack, I know you are trying to check all of Kim's injuries out, but I think that I can help." She said.
"Alright." I said letting her in the room.
She looked at the way that my shirt was stuck on my back and then looked back at Jack. "We need to have you lie down, Kim. Jack, can we use your room?" She asked.
He nodded and led the way to his room. I laid down on the bed on my stomach and Claire looked at my back the best she could with my shirt. "Kim, are you really attached to this shirt?" She asked.
"No, why?" I asked.
"I think it will be easier if I cut it straight up your back and peel it away that way. Is that okay?" She said concerned.
"That is fine." I answered. Jack must have looked at her questioningly because she quickly spoke to him.
"Jack, I can do it. Really!" She said trying to reassure him. "I have seen my mom do stuff like this before when I have gone to work with her."
"Okay. I will just sit here and help however I can." He replied and he sat down by me on the bed.
Claire got a pair of scissors from the desk in Jack's room and started to cut the back of my shirt. She then carefully started to fold the two sides of the shirt back. The cuts on my lower back were the worse because they had bled through the bandages and were the reason my shirt was stuck to me.
"Kim, I am really sorry." She said as she pulled a piece of the shirt loose and I cried out slightly.
I reached out beside me and took Jack's hand and squeezed it. He held my hand willingly and didn't even complain at how tight I was squeezing it. Claire had finally gotten the shirt pulled loose and then she started on the bandages. Some of them were stuck worse than others, but I gritted my teeth and tried not to scream.
Once she had them off, she used tweezers to get any pieces of glass that might still be in the cuts. I was trying to be brave, but it was not easy. I felt some tears running down my cheeks. Jack leaned over beside me and wiped them away with his free hand.
"She's almost done, Kim. I am so sorry that he hurt you like this." He whispered right into my ear over and over. He really is a very sweet and caring guy. Having him this close to me definitely helped to take my mind off of what Claire was doing while she cleaned each cut out with something that burned horribly.
JACK'S POV
I hate seeing Kim hurt like this. I laid down beside her and let her squeeze my hand as tight as she needed to. I wanted to take all of the pain away, but I couldn't. I would make sure that Dylan and his gang paid for this though.
I was glad that we did this because Claire had found several pieces of glass in some of the cuts and we needed to get it all out.
"Some of these are pretty deep. You should really get them stitched up at the hospital." Claire said.
"We can go now if we need to." I said.
"No, really I will be fine. Can you just use some of those bandages and tape to pull the skin back together as tightly as possible? It will be alright." Kim said but I was not convinced that this was the best choice.
Claire put them all together the best way that she knew how using some butterfly bandages to join my skin as close back together as possible. I was trying to be strong, but I winced a few times. I was lying on my stomach and holding my shirt to me, but I didn't even care about any of this at the moment. I had a few tears in my eyes and turned my head in Jack's direction. I buried my face in his chest and he wrapped his hand around me holding me there.
"I'm so sorry, Kim. I am almost done." Claire said and I knew she felt truly horrible.
I turned my eyes to look at her as much as I could. "It is fine. I am glad that you can do this." I told her.
She finished up by covering them with medicine and then bigger bandages. "There, I am done." She said and she sounded as relieved as I did that it was over for the moment.
I looked up into Jack's eyes which were so close to mine. "Jack, can you give me a minute to change?" I asked softly.
"Absolutely. I will be right outside the door." He said as he got up slowly and left the room, never taking his eyes off of me. He closed the door slowly like it was hard to let me out of his sight.
"Wow." Claire said.
"What?" I asked while I stood up slowly with her helping me.
"He has it bad. I have never seen him like that before." She explained.
"Really?" I said while I slipped off my old shirt and Claire helped me put on Jack's shirt carefully over my back.
"Yeah. Kim, I liked Jack but he was never like that with me or any other girl. Trust me he feels something different for you." She said.
I felt the blush on my cheeks and Claire smiled at me. "I am really sorry how mean I have been to you." Claire added. "Can we still be friends?"
I tried to smile at her, but there was a slight twinge of pain when I did. "Yes. We can still be friends." I said and she gave me a hug being careful not to hurt my back.
There was a knock at the door and Jack said, "Are you about done in there?"
We both looked at each other and giggled lightly. "See. He has it bad." She said.
I just shook my head and opened the door. "Yes. All better." I said staring into Jack's chocolaty eyes.
He stepped into the room and smiled. "I am going to go see what the guys are doing." Claire said as she left the room smiling at me.
"Thanks for helping, Claire." Jack told her.
"No problem. I am glad that I could." She said.
JACK'S POV
Claire left the room and I turned back to Kim. I put my hand on her swollen cheek gently. "Let's go get some ice for your face." I said.
Kim put her hand on mine and stared deeply into my eyes. "Thank you for coming after me." She said.
"I wasn't going to let them hurt you anymore. I should have gotten there sooner. How did you get yourself out?" I asked.
"Jack, you didn't know where I was and I can pretty resourceful when I need to be. My dad is in the navy and he has taught me some things." She said smiling slightly, but then wincing from the pain.
It hurt me to see that pain in her eyes. "I am going to kill that guy for hurting you like this." I said.
She shook her head at me and moved closer to me. "Jack, I am here now and I am fine. Please don't go after Dylan and Tommy. They aren't worth it." She said.
She was so close to me and I was glad to have her right here with me. I wrapped my arms around her gently and leaned in to kiss her. I stopped about an inch from her lips because I didn't want to hurt her and then she pushed up on her toes and touched her lips lightly to mine.
The heat that spread through me was unbelievable! Kim pulled back and looked at me. "Jack, we should get out there with everyone." She said sweetly.
I smirked at her and said, "Yeah, come on."
I started to open the door slowly, but then bent back down for one more quick kiss. Kim smiled and let our lips touch. I felt like I was on fire and then I was pulled backwards and away from Kim by someone, which really ticked me off. I jumped up quickly to deck the guy and Kim jumped in front of me.