Ivy's Point Of View
I finally started to come around, it had been pretty bad. I had taken a shower, I thought things were okay, Mike hadn't been too bad today. But when I was in the shower he'd found the stash of pills I'd hidden. He flipped out and started beating me, I remember everything going black after a punch to the side of the head.
"Ahh." I groaned, rubbing the side of my head feeling my other wrist was now handcuffed to the bed.
Damn my head!
My entire body is killing me!
"Now, you are going to be taking this for real." Mike growled at me, shoving a pill in my face.
"No." I shook my head, clinching me lips closed tightly, making it hard to get the pill in. He did although but I spit it out.
"What the hell you stupid bitch." Mike growled, back handing me. "I'm trying to be nice, so you aren't in pain. Just take the fucking pill." Mike yelled.
"I don't need it." I turned my head again, when he tried to shove the pill in my mouth.
Mike growled, and grabbed my hair, yanking my head back and forcing me to look at him. "Why?, because Bray says?" Mike yelled in my face.
"Bray helped me realize I don't need pills to make myself feel good." I spat.
"Let me guess, he makes you feel good." Mike snarled in my face.
"YES, he loves me." I growled, not really knowing where all this courage was coming from.
"He doesn't love you." Mike yelled, slapping me across the face.
"Yes he does." I retorted. "And I love him."
Only him!
I heard a loud growl, before he slammed my head into the wooden head board. Then once again, everything went black.
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Luke's Point Of View
I walked up to the door, knocking I looked behind me and around the corner, I saw Bray peek his head out nodding to me. I heard Mike yelling that he was coming to the door, and waited a few seconds later I saw Mike open the door. "What are you doing here?" Mike raised a brow.
"I just came to see how things are going?, can I come in?" I raised a brow.
Mike sighed, and nodded turned around walking towards the center of the center of the room. I walked inside, not completely shutting it so Bray and the others could come inside, when the time was right. I knew they'd be waiting outside listening for the signal word.
"So, how's it going?" I questioned, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Fucking woman won't get her mind off that son of a bitch." Mike growled. "She's been hiding the fucking pills I've been giving her, she said Bray helped her see she doesn't need pills to make herself feel good." Mike shook his head.
"Oh, wow." I nodded. "Where is she?" I raised a brow, I didn't see her around anywhere, although the bedroom door was shut, so that's probably were she was.
"Bedroom, we just had a little spat, but she'll be fine." Mike shrugged.
"Spat?" I raised a brow.
"Yeah, she needs to learn who's in charge. I thought she'd learned her lesson already, but I guess not." Mike huffed. "Maybe after our disagreement a few minutes ago, she might be realizing who's in charge, ME." Mike added.
"Maybe." I nodded, I looked around "So, can I use your restroom?" I questioned.
"Yeah sure." He nodded.
"Second door on the LEFT?" I questioned, saying the signal word, he nodded and I walked into the bathroom, I knew he was going to wait about 10 seconds before making his move.
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Bray's Point Of View
After hearing the signal word, as hard as it was I waited the 10 seconds allowing him time to get out of the way. I swung the door open and saw Mike run towards the bedroom door, but Erick was able to grab him and swing him back, sending him over the reclining chair.
You aren't going anywhere you son of a bitch!
Sure as hell not anywhere near my Ivy!
"What the hell?" Mike yelled, looking up at the three of us.
"You thought you were going to get away with this?" I growled. "Keep your eyes on him, I've got to get to Ivy." I said, heading towards the door of the bedroom.
"Stay away from her." Mike yelled.
"Not a chance." I growled, not even turning around. I got to the door, and opened it. My blood started to boil as I saw Ivy handcuffed to bedpost, he face bruised up her lip busted. "Ivy." I called, rushing to her side, she didn't move. "Come on beautiful." I said softly, running my hand through her hair.
Still she didn't move, I leaned down to give her a peck on the cheek. My blood boiling, as I heard a soft whimper come from the lips of my beautiful little Ivy. "Come on my love." I shook my head, finally my love coming around, to look up at me, her eyes barely able to open.
"Bray?" Ivy whispered, I could see her eyes open wider, as if she was trying to figure out if this was real or a dream as she reached her hand out to touch the skin of my arm. "Oh, I knew you'd find me." Ivy threw her arm around me, as I leaned down to her.
"Always, my love. Always." I whispered, breathing in her scent in taking a deep breath. "Let me get out of here, where is the key?" I raised a brow, pulling back.
"On the dresser." Ivy whispered.
I got off the bed, and rushed over to the dresser, but didn't find it. "Damn it." I growled, and rushed back over to her, seeing that she was cuffed by the wooden slats of the headboard. I grabbed the slat that the handcuffs where cuffed to and pulled it, after a few tries I finally got it off, and was able to free Ivy. Ivy sat up and threw her arms around me. "I am gonna get you out of here." I said softly, pulling the covers off of her, my eyes widened when I saw her knee, that was black, blue and all swollen. It had to be extremely painful as she winced just the movement of me taking the covers off her. "What happened?" I questioned, trying my best not to get angry, not to yell. As I didn't want to scare her.
"I tried to escape, and he, he." Ivy shook her head, looking down. "The bat" Ivy whispered, all she was able to get out before she broke into tears again.
That son of a bitch!
He took a fucking bat to her leg?
I could fucking kill him!
"Shh, shhh." I shook my head, giving her a gentle kiss on the top of the head. "I'll be right back." I said, standing up walking over to the bat, that I saw in the corner, taking it in my hands.
"Bray." Ivy whimpered, her eyes widening as she set her eyes on the fact that I had taken the bat in my hands.
"I've got to take care of something." I said, my breathing picking up as I got closer to the door, my anger growing, and growing.
"Don't do it, Bray." Ivy said softly.
"I've got to." I said, my fist clinched around the bat as I opened the door again, and started towards Mike.
"Bray?" Erick looked rather worried at me, as he noticed the bat in my hands.
"Son of a bitch, you are going to pay." I growled, the bat connecting with his back.
"Whoa, what are you doing?" Braun gasped.
"This son of a bitch took this fucking bat to Ivy's knee. I'm going to show him what it feels like." I growled, before bringing the bat down on him, not once but twice. I heard him groaning and screaming in pain.
"Bray." I heard Ivy yell, before I was able bring the bat down on Mike again. I turned around to see Ivy hopping on one foot, towards us. I dropped the bat and rushed to her when she wasn't able to hold herself up any longer and hit the ground.
"Are you okay?" I leaned down to her.
"It's over, leave him alone." Ivy whispered.
Leave him alone?
Can you not see what he's done to you?
"How can I?, look at what he's done to you." I shook my head.
"It's over now, please I just want to leave." Ivy whimpered.
"Lets get her on the couch." Braun said, now standing behind me.
"Yeah." I nodded, looking up to see not only Braun, but now Erick.
I stood up, helping Ivy off the ground, when we all turned around we saw Mike was now standing up, a gun in his hand. "Whoa." Erick gasped.
I moved into the front of Ivy, blocking her from him aiming the gun at Ivy, as he had been. "Don't do anything stupid." I growled at Mike.
"Like you?, trying to take what's mine?" Mike spat.
"She's not yours anymore." I spat back. "She's with me." I added, with a growl.
"Mike, put it down." Ivy shook her head, her grip on me getting tighter.
"Why can't you just let well enough alone?" Mike spat. "We were doing good babe."
"The hell you were." I growled. "You beat her with a bat." I added. "What's good about that?"
"She tried to leave me, she knew better damn it." Mike yelled. "And now you, you come in here and try to take her from me again?"
"She's not yours, she hasn't been for a long time." I growled. "She loves me, you've lost. Give up already."
"If I can't have her, no one will." Mike snapped, his finger on the trigger, I saw him pull back and I shoved Ivy towards Braun who grabbed her, shielding her from the gunfire.
I felt a stinging sensation on my arm, and looked down, he'd hit me. It looks like a through and through to me.
"Bray." I heard Erick gasp.
I heard another shot, and looked over to see Mike hit the ground, bleeding from his head. I then looked to see Luke standing at the edge of the hallway. "You okay Bray?" Luke questioned.
"Fine." I nodded. "Is he?" I questioned, as Erick knelt down to feel for a pulse.
Well, he will no longer be coming after Ivy!
"Dead." Erick stood back up. "He's gone." He added.
"Oh god." Ivy shook her head, using Braun to hop over to me. "Are you okay?" Ivy looked up at me, I could see the worry in her eyes.
"I'm fine." I nodded, giving her a gentle kiss on the lips.
"Is he really?" Ivy looked to Erick.
"Yes, he's dead. Luke's got perfect aim." Erick nodded.
"So it's finally over?" Ivy looked back up at me.
"Yes, it is." I nodded, wrapping my good arm around her to keep her upright. "Erick you need to call the police." I said looking to Erick.
"Got it." Erick nodded.
"Thank you." I looked to Luke, knowing if Luke hadn't shot him, hadn't got to him. I'd be hit again, or dead, he's probably of killed Ivy too, we all probably would of been dead.
"It's no big deal, I wasn't going to let him hurt you, or Ivy." Luke nodded. "I told you, you can trust me."
"They are on their way, make sure you have your gun on the ground, and stay away from it. They are going to want to question you Luke." Erick stated. "All of us actually." Erick added.
"I'll make sure, you have a great lawyer." I stated.
"Thank you Bray." Luke nodded.
"Here." Braun handed me a towel from the kitchen, to stop the blood.
"Why don't you sit down Bray." Ivy stated, I could see so much worry in her eyes as she looked over to my arm.
"I'm fine." I sighed shaking my head. "Don't worry about me, my love." I kissed the top of her head, when she leaned in closer to me.
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Ivy's Point Of View
I had finished talking to the police, and they wanted the EMT's to look at me, I told them I was okay but Bray had shot me a look so I decided to just go with it. The police had taken Luke in, for questioning. Bray said he'd get Luke a great lawyer, so I knew he'd have the best defense, it was clearly self defense he was defending everyone, Mike had just shot Bray, who knows what he was going to do next.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Mike is dead, he's actually gone. I don't really know how I feel about that right now, I don't know how I feel about much right now, I'm too tired, too warn out. I mean yes, I did love him at one time. But that time is over, I love Bray, I'm in love with him.
"I think you should go to the hospital and get your knee X-rayed, you are dehydrated, and I think it's best if you just get yourself checked out fully." The EMT said looking up at me. "They are going to want to clean that wrist up real good, or it's going to get real infected." He said, pointed to my wrist that had been un-cuffed, Luke had found the key on the table in the kitchen.
"I'm fine, I just want to go home." I sighed, shaking my head.
"I think it's best if you get checked out miss." The EMT shook his head.
"She'll get checked out." I heard Bray call from across the room, looking up from his arm, that was being bandaged up. Bray was right, it had gone through his arm, and the bleeding had stopped.
I sighed, and shook my head finally agreeing to go to the hospital. It made me feel better that Bray said he'd be there with me, I didn't want to be very far away from him right now.
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Bray's Point Of View
I had sent Braun to the police station to wait for Luke's lawyer. I had finished getting checked out by a doctor, he asked if I wanted some pain meds, I told him I of course didn't want any, not with Ivy's problem.
I found the ER room, that Ivy was in, and knocked on the door. A nurse opened the door and smiled at me. "Can I help you?"
"I'm here for Ivy?" I questioned.
"Oh, she's in X-ray right now, she'll be back in like 5 minutes if you'd like to wait." She smiled, I nodded and walked inside sitting on the chair in the corner of the room. After a few minutes I saw the door open, and an orderly wheeled in Ivy's bed. I saw she was hooked up to an IV. I smiled at the orderly who put her bed back and hooked up all her monitors, before walking out.
I stood up and walked over to Ivy, leaning down to give her a gentle kiss on the top of the head. "How are you feeling?" I questioned.
"I'm fine, I'm just ready to get out of here." Ivy sighed, reaching out to take my hand in hers. "How is your arm?" Ivy looked up to me.
"So am I." I nodded, leaning down to give her a kiss. "It's fine, doctor gave me some antibiotics to make sure I don't get an infections." I shrugged.
We both looked behind us and saw a doctor walk in. "Hello, I've got the results of your X-rays', nothing is broken, thankfully so we just have to wait for swelling to go down, it's probably going to be really tender for a few days, you are going to have some trouble walking for a while, so you'll have to use crutches for a while." The doctor stated. "But we will go over more of that in the morning." The doctor added.
"Morning?" Ivy raised a brow.
"I want you to stay over night, you are still really dehydrated, you don't look too well and your blood pressure has been rather high, so I'd like to keep an eye on that. I think it's best if you stay over night." The doctor explained.
"I don't want to stay, I just want to go home." Ivy sighed, shaking her head.
"You need to be monitored, it's for the best." The doctor shook his head, rubbing his temples.
"You heard him Ivy, he think's it's for the best, and so do I." I said, rubbing her hand.
"But I don't want to be here." Ivy whined.
"Ivy it's for the best, and I'll be right here with you, I promise." I offered her a small smile.
Ivy sighed, and nodded. "Fine." Ivy groaned.
"Great, I'll get the arraignments made so you can head up to another floor to be monitored." The doctor smiled, before walking out the door.
"I don't want to be here." Ivy sighed, looking up to me.
"I know my love, but it's for the best, and I told you. I'd be right by your side." I said, kissing her hand gently.
"Promise?" Ivy bit her lip.
"Promise." I smiled, giving her a gentle kiss.
A Note From The Author: It's finally up, here is chapter 18 I hope you all enjoy, I'm sorry it's not as long as I had hoped, but the first draft I had done got deleted and I had to rewrite it, the first one was better, sorry. But I still hope you all like this one. Bray got to Ivy, thankfully. Lot happened in the chapter for it being so short, please leave a review and let me know what you think. Thanks for the continued support, thanks to everyone who continues to read, review, follow, and favorite this story.
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Debwood-1999- Welcome back :) He defiantly deserves what he got from Bray, I'm glad Bray didn't let him get away with it. And it seems Luke isn't too far gone, this is a good start at redeem himself. Thanks for reading and reviewing as always. :)
WWESpongefan- Thanks for reading and reviewing, Bray got some revenge on him, you know he wanted to do a lot more, but what he got will do. Mike has nothing, he's gone and Bray has Ivy. :)
takerschick- Thanks for the review and reading. You know Bray wasn't going to give up on Ivy, now things can start looking up for the happy couple. :)