-With Anon-
Anon was in his room with Seth and Cashew, Alice had just finished calling, and the sounds of Alice's cries were ringing in their ears.
It was a few minutes of silence before Cashew cracked. "This is all my fault!" He said as he put his hands on his head. "I should've warned her! I knew Cole was dangerous but I didn't say anything!" He continued.
Seth and Anon looked at him. "What are you talkin' about?" Anon asked.
Cashew took a breath and explained his knowledge of Cole's obsessive behavior, how he had a wall filled with pictures of Alice and how he had black light paintings of Alice and him doing obscene things.
"Why didn't you say anythin'!? Alice would have avoided all of this if she had known!" Anon yelled as he pushed Cashew.
Cashew couldn't speak, he was breaking down over her, Seth went in between the two. "There's no use in arguing about it now, as much as we both want to kill him right now." He said, glaring at the squirrel boy. "What matters now is we trace the call and find out where she is. We can deal with him later." Seth explained
Anon nodded. "Alright. I'll work on tracin' the call, it might take some work since there seems to be a block on her phone, but it's nothin' I can't do." He said as he began his work.
They could only hope they could find her before it's too late.
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-With Alice-
Alice tried opening her eyes, but they felt heavy. She fought her delirium and managed to open her eyes, but the room was spinning. As she tried straightening her vision, she saw someone walking towards her.
"You know..I don't like hurting you..especially when you're carrying my child. Using medication to knock you out is pushing it..If I'm not too careful, I could hurt our child." A voice said.
Alice tried speaking, but all that came out was garbled nonsense. The voice began shushing her.
"Don't speak. The medication is still in effect." the voice said.
Alice began to recognize the voice. It was Cole. She tried looking at him, but her eyes kept darting everywhere due to the medication. Cole rubbed her head.
"I love you, I really do, but you just.. You push me so much that I have to do this to you! Why can't you see how much I love you!?" He yelled as he grabbed her shoulders roughly.
Alice, finally getting her grip, looked at him. She could see the anger in his dull gray eyes. His pupils were practically pinpricks. Her eyes filled with tears as he grabbed her hair to make her look at him roughly.
"I told you that I wouldn't give you your phone until you were obedient! And what do you do?! You disobey me!" He yelled as he tossed her aside. Alice tried to reach for her pounding head, but she found her arms were stuck, she was tied up again.
Alice cried as she tried moving her arms and legs. "P-Please let me go! I-I'm sorry!" She sobbed.
"Let you go?" He repeated as he chuckled. "After all of your disobedience?! No. I'm not going to let you go. Not anytime soon. As a matter of fact, I'm going to leave you here. Alone. Until you learn how much I love you, and you learn obedience. I will be leaving you here." He said as he began to walk away.
"COLE NO! PLEASE! I'M SORRY!"
No response. Cole had left her alone, wherever they were, it was darker and emptier…
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-With Seth-
It was almost a week later and Anon had tracked down the latest phone call, they sent Seth over since he was more equipped for hand to hand combat.
The location he was sent to was Cole's old 'workplace'. It was more his house than it actually being a workplace. Seth kicked the door down and looked around, scattered papers everywhere, pictures of Alice were on the floor. He looked around the place and managed to find stairs leading down to the basement. He quickly ran down the stairs and looked around. The basement was empty, except for some furniture. The most he found was a syringe on the floor. He picked it up and looked at it carefully. It seemed to be some sort of anesthetic. In his anger, he crushed the syringe and quickly called Anon.
"What's up?"
"Empty. The most that there was, was an anesthetic. He might've moved her." Seth explained.
"Great..Well we gotta try and track her down as fast as possible. Is there anythin' else down there?"
Seth looked around and noticed something purple. It looked like her phone. He picked it up and saw that it was cracked and looked through it. The last message on it was from Liliana.
'Alice? El said that you messaged back finally, when you get a chance call us! That picture you sent El has her feeling weird.'
Seth looked through Elise's messages and saw a picture of Cole and Alice, Alice was smiling a too wide smile and Cole was holding her close.
"Anon, this isn't good, Alice's sisters are under the impression that Alice is on vacation as well." He explained.
"We have to call them and tell them what's goin' on. Get back to the house, if anythin' we'll have to work with the police, as much as I'd prefer not to." Anon said.
Seth and Anon hung up and he began to make his way back to the house. He could only hope that they could save her in time..
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-With Liliana-
Liliana was pacing around her living room, staring at her phone. She was waiting for Alice to get back to her but so far she got nothing. As she dialed her number again, suddenly someone picked up.
"Alice? Is that you?! Please tell me you're okay!" She said into the phone.
"I wish that were true..Hello. My name is Seth, I'm one of Alice's boyfriends."
"W-What?! What happened to her!? Is she okay?!" Liliana began to yell.
"It seems that Cole kidnapped her and we don't know where she is. We've tried tracing the call but it only led us to a deadend. We're going to try again as soon as I get back to the house. We have a tech guy that can track people down and shit. So we'll update you if anything significant happens"
Liliana felt her heart shatter at the news of her sister's kidnapping. It seems that Elise was right, he was an obsessive lover…
"A-Alright..please find her! I can't bear to think what he's doing to her!" She cried.
"We'll do our best…talk to you soon."
Soon they hung up, leaving Liliana to cry over her sister. What could he be doing to her?
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-With Alice-
Alice was still tied up, left in the same spot where Cole had left her. By her was some water and food that Cole had been leaving for her everyday since he had her there. Not once did he come down to see her, not once did he come to talk to her. All Alice was left with was her thoughts.
Alice looked around for the millionth time, taking in her surroundings again. She didn't know where they were, but wherever they were at, it was emptier than the basement at Cole's house. For the first few days she was down here, she had been calling out for Cole, to let her out of her bindings, but no matter how much she cried for him, he never responded. He just left her down there as a punishment for trying to get help.
Alice sobbed quietly as she felt how alone she truly was in this hellhole.. Suddenly, she heard a door slam and footsteps getting closer. Was Cole finally coming to see her?! She looked over where the footsteps were coming from and she saw Cole approaching her, however, he didn't look happy. He came up to her, grabbed her by her hair, making her look at him.
"This is all your fault, Alice!" He suddenly yelled. "If you hadn't grabbed your phone, I wouldn't have to move you around everywhere! Why can't you see I'm doing all of this for you?!" He continued yelling as he tossed her to the side.
Alice whimpered as she heard his yelling. The more she heard him yelling, the more afraid of him she became. She looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"I-I'm sorry..I-I'll be good!" She cried. "How am I going to be so sure?!" He yelled as he grabbed her again.
Alice winced at the pain she felt in her head as he forced her to look at him. "If I untie you, and you disobey me, you will wish you never disobeyed me." He snarled.
Alice nodded her head. "I-I'll be good!" She whimpered.
Cole nodded, he proceeded to untie her and helped her up. Alice felt the blood flowing to her arms and legs. As Cole watched her stretch, Alice spoke. "W-Where are we?" She asked.
Cole rubbed her head as he purred. "You don't have to worry about that. What matters is that we're away from anyone that would take you away from me." He growled as he began to kiss her neck.
Alice felt a lump grow in her throat. How far away were they? Were they now unreachable from the other guys? As Cole pulled away his phone suddenly began going off. Cursing, he looked at his phone and saw it was…..Cashew? Why the hell was he calling? Didn't he already figure out what was happening to Alice? Why did he care to call him?
Cole picked it up and walked upstairs, leaving Alice on her own.
"What!?" He snarled.
"You…actually picked up.."
"Get on with it before I hang up!" Cole growled.
"W-Why…? Why did you do this?! Did you even consider how she feels about this?! Did you even…consider what would happen between us?"
Cole facepalmed as he heard Cashew's rambling. "I have no time to play with you and your childish games, Alice is mine and mine alone! You and those other filthy men don't deserve her time, her care, or her attention! She's meant to be MINE! If you think you can get in my way…You're sorely mistaken!" He yelled as he hung up.
Cole glared at his phone as he hung up on Cashew. Who did he think he is? Trying to weasel his way into his life and try to talk him down from his actions? No thank you. He had more important matters to attend to, like convincing Alice that what he was doing was a good thing for their relationship.
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-With Cashew-
Cashew stared at his phone, pain in his heart. Cole was truly too far gone for him to try to talk him down. What hurt the most was the fact that Cole didn't seem to care that their relationship was now broken. Was the relationship between them even real? Or was it just another one of Cole's ploys to try and get him to fall out of love with Alice? He didn't know and that's what hurt him the most.
As he pocketed his phone, he turned to go to Anon's room to get more info on what they were doing, that's when he saw Seth standing behind him, his arms crossed.
"H-How much did you hear?" Cashew asked.
"Enough." Seth responded. "So, you were in a relationship with him, huh? Even when you knew that he was after her?!" He began to yell.
Cashew flinched at his yelling. "I know! I'm sorry! I messed up! I should've warned her, but I thought-"
"You thought you could change him, didn't you? News flash squirrely, you can't change someone like Cole! Your relationship with him was nothing but a facade! Now look at what happened! Alice is gone and in trouble because you failed to warn her about him!" He continued to yell.
Cashew's lip quivered at Seth's yelling. Everything he was saying was true… It was all his fault, he thought he could change Cole, he thought he could get Cole to be somewhat 'normal' but no… Alice was doomed from the start…
Seth, not caring to hear what Cashew had to say, turned and walked away. "Just let us handle getting her back. You're clearly going to let your feelings for him get in the way." He said harshly as he left.
Cashew was left standing in the hallway, fists clenched, tears in his eyes. He truly, truly messed up…