Chapter Four-Hundred-Forty-Six
Meanwhile after spending some time with Rosalie, Aaron got up and went on over to Stacy who was lying on one of the bean bags. She smiled up at him some as she noticed him approaching her and he grinned in return before settling himself beside her and sliding his arms around her.
“You look relaxed,” he told her while resting his forehead against hers and brown eyes met with brown.
“I was having fun watching you with Rosalie. You are so good to her it’s adorable.”
“Well I try,” Aaron smirked and he placed his hand to her cheek and leaned forward to kiss her only to pause and sit up abruptly as fear was suddenly etched on his face. Stacy sat up too and regarded him with concern and she studied the look on his face. Knowing full well that the only reason he would ever look that terrified is if something was wrong with his other half she placed her hand to his cheek and gently made him look at her.
“Aaron what is it? What’s going on with Angel?” Aaron concentrated hard on Angel for a long moment and then he jumped to his feet and ran out of the room without so much as an explanation to Stacy. Stacy was up and quick to follow him and she was right at his side when he made it out into the lobby and ran right over to Laney. He grabbed onto him and whirled him around to look at him.
“Aaron? What the hell is the matter with—“
“--THEY HAVE HER LANEY! THEY HAVE HER!” he shouted as tears welled up in his eyes.
“They have who? What are you talking about?” Laney asked worriedly but with a closer look at the young boy’s face he suddenly knew the answer himself.
“ANGEL!” Aaron sobbed. “THEY HAVE…THEY HAVE MY SISTER!” he then grabbed hold of Laney once more and started to tug him toward the door. “Come on! We have to go get her! We…we have to go rescue her now!” he insisted going completely into hysterics.
“Aaron wait, stop!” Laney ordered and he grabbed onto Aaron and turned him around. He gently held onto his arms and looked him straight in the eyes seriously though the fear was evident on his face. “I want to get her back just as much as you do but we don’t even know the first place to look. I’m sure Nick is calling Detective Stabler right now and he will do everything in his power to get her back – it’s his job.”
“WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THAT!” Aaron shouted impatiently. “SHE COULD BE DEAD BY THE TIME HE GETS HIS INVESTIGATION GOING! SHE’S MY TWIN FOR CHRIST’S SAKE NO ONE CAN FIND HER BETTER THEN ME!”
“And what do you plan on doing once you do huh? This is a very dangerous man we’re talking about you can’t just march on up to him and order him to release her, he’ll kill you too!”
“That is why you are coming with me – so you can protect me like you’re supposed to!”
“Aaron I understand the pain you are going through right now but neither of you are going anywhere in this weather. Like Laney said if Angel has been kidnapped Nick has no doubt contacted Detective Stabler by now which means he’ll be here in any minute,” Raul spoke up.
“And he is very good at what he does so you just need to trust him. He got Ashley back when she was kidnapped didn’t he?” Laney added.
“BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!” Aaron shouted tearfully. “I CAN FEEL HER FEAR AND PAIN EVERYTIME HE LAYS A HAND ON HER! I CAN’T JUST STAND HERE, I HAVE TO HELP HER!”
“The best way you can help her is by staying here and giving Detective Stabler any information that you can,” Laney insisted. “But we’re not going on a rescue mission alone so you are just going to have to wait until he gets here – I’m sorry, I can’t even imagine how hard this is for you, but it’s not going to do us any good if you are both in danger.” Aaron stared at the both of them impatiently for a few moments, and then he whirled around and stormed off toward the stairs.
“Aaron where are you going?” Stacy asked tearfully.
“To find Conner!”
“Air you know he didn’t have anything to do with this one, he’s been in this building the whole time with no contact with him what’s so ever!” Stacy insisted while following after him.
“I know that, but he still has a right to know his girlfriend is missing, don’t you think?” Aaron snapped. When they got up to the floor that Conner’s room is on Aaron stormed down the hall and when he got there he pushed the door open not even bothering to knock and stared at Conner through tears as he lay on his bed reading a magazine. He looked up at Aaron however upon his entrance and he stared at him with concern when seeing the state that he is in.
“Aaron? What’s going on?”
“He has Angel!” was all Aaron said and that was enough for Conner to understand. He dropped the magazine and was on his feet in a matter of seconds.
“What?!”
“You heard me,” Aaron snapped. “Sean has her and I want her back. Didn’t you tell her just the other day you would cause a bloody massacre in order to get her back? Well what are you waiting for? Let’s go!”
“You two are not going anywhere!” Stacy insisted when she watched Conner go straight for his closet and her eyes widened when she noticed him pull out a hand gun. “Why the hell do you have that?” she demanded.
“I stole it from Max,” Conner shrugged. “I needed a way to protect me and Rosalie from Sean some how.”
“How did you manage to sneak it in here with that fancy security system down there?” Aaron asked and despite his grief over Angel and his feelings of dislike toward Conner he couldn’t help but look at him in admiration.
“I brought it in here before the security system. I forgot I even had it in my bag...” Conner shrugged. “Anyway, enough standing around we have places to go and baddies to kill.” Aaron nodded and turned around only to come face to face with his angry girlfriend who stood in the door way with her arms crossed over her chest.
“I won’t let you two go anywhere, Aaron!”
“Try and stop us,” Conner snapped.
“The only way out is past me and despite how delusional Aaron is at the moment I know he won’t let you hurt me in order to do so.” Conner rolled his eyes.
“Like we can’t just pick you up and move you out of the way or anything.”
“That might prove to be a bit of a challenge,” Aaron pointed out. “She’s tougher then she looks. Don’t let the fact that she’s very girly fool you.” Conner stared at Stacy through narrowed eyes for a couple of moments and then grew very agitated. The longer they stand there arguing over this the longer time Sean has to kill his girlfriend because of him. And he won’t have that he won’t. He needs to take action before the seriousness of the situation sinks in and his emotions catch up with him. He has no time to sit around crying over it. He grabbed hold of Aaron’s arm and whirled around then and he pulled him toward the window. Once he approached it he pulled it open and Stacy shook her head.
“You guys come on! Don’t be stupid,” She pleaded.
“You just don’t understand Stacy. I have get my sister back.”
“Not like this you don’t! You are going to get yourself killed!”
“If that’s what it takes…” Aaron replied and as soon as Conner was out the window and climbing down, Aaron started to as well.
“Aaron Charles Carter if you crawl out that window I’m breaking up with you!”
“Listen to your girlfriend Aaron,” a familiar voice spoke up from down below. Stacy sighed with relief upon recognizing that voice and Aaron looked down there to see Nick standing there holding Conner by the scruff of his neck with one hand and his gun now unloaded in the other. He also saw Laney standing there with his arms crossed over his chest and looking none too pleased. Aaron arched his eyebrow.
“Just because we can’t see in the bedrooms it doesn’t mean we can’t turn the volume on in the hallway cameras and hear what’s going on.” Aaron gulped and looked at his brother then who was staring back at him with blood shot eyes like he’d been crying a lot and an angered expression on his face.
“I suggest you get back inside that bedroom and meet me downstairs Aaron Charles because you are in big trouble!”
“I have to go and save Angel because obviously YOU aren’t going to!”
“You had better damn well believe that I am going to try my very hardest to save her Aaron even if I have to die trying but I’m not going to do something stupid like go and cause a war amongst the baddies! That’s just…it’s STUPID and suicidal! I lost one twin and it’s about tore me apart I will be damned before I let another one go!” Nick snapped tearfully. “Now march your ass downstairs right now so I can kick it!” and with that being said, Nick turned and stormed off toward the door and disappeared inside while dragging Conner along by the arm and Laney stayed behind and looked up at Aaron making sure he does as he’s told. Aaron scowled and crawled back into the window tearfully and Laney watched as he closed the window back up and then he went inside again where Nick had pushed Conner into a chair and dumped his gun in the trash can inside the security booth. Meanwhile Detective Stabler stared at him through narrowed eyes with his arms crossed over his chest.
“Do you want to tell me why you had a gun in an orphanage full of children who could’ve easily gotten their hands on it Mr. O’ Ryan?”
“What if Rosalie had gotten hold of it?” Nick added.
“She wouldn’t have gotten hold of it because it was up on the top shelf in my closet where she couldn’t reach – in the corner in one of my bags. And I just forgot I had it…I stole it from Max a long time ago.” Just then Aaron and Stacy entered the lobby and Aaron took one look at Nick’s pissed off expression before bolting toward the door. Nick ran after him and grabbed him before he could even make it out the door. He dragged him back toward the chair beside Conner and he smacked him upside the head before shoving him into it.
“OW! What the hell was that for?” Aaron yelled while rubbing his head.
“Sit your ass down there and stay there Aaron, are you really that stupid?”
“No I just seem to be the only one who wants to go and save our sister!” Aaron insisted tearfully. “If I don’t try to save her I will never forgive myself and if she dies a part of me will die along with her! Do you NOT get it?”
“I get it Aaron believe me I do! And you have to know that if she dies I’m never going to forgive myself either because I was there when she was taken away and there was nothing I could do without causing him to shoot her right there in front of me! So believe me I do understand that this is hard for you because it’s hard for me too but damnit I’m NOT losing another sibling to that man, I’m just NOT!” Aaron stared at Nick in angry silence for a moment and then really took the time to look at him and when he saw how broken up his brother really is, he hugged his legs to his chest, cowered in the chair and stared back at him tearfully.
“I have to save her Nick…I have to…I can feel how scared she is. How much pain she’s in…he’s already beaten her several times since he’s had her” He told him in a small voice. Nick reached out and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder and Detective Stabler spoke up.
“And we’re going to,” he promised. “You just have to trust me Aaron…you know me, you know I take my job very seriously.”
“I have to be apart of the rescue though. She’s my twin and she’s crying out to me.”
“And I just might let you Aaron but again you have to trust me. I can’t have you pulling stupid stunts that are going to get yourself killed in the process.”
“Really?” Aaron asked softly. “You’ll let me help?”
“I think I’m going to have to. You are the closest to her and if you can sense her emotions you can no doubt do other things – what other connections do you and Angel have Aaron?”
“We can hear each other’s thoughts and have private conversations in our head – unless she locks me out…she’s very good at that,” Aaron explained and he glanced over at Conner slightly begrudgingly about the last part. Conner sat there hugging his legs to his chest quietly. Now that he is no longer doing anything to try and save Angel, now that he isn’t on a mission his emotions are starting to catch up with him and the very thought of Sean beating on his girlfriend makes him want to fall apart like Aaron has. This is all his fault. He is doing this to punish him just as he knew he would do. He never should’ve let himself get involved with Angel but god he loves her…so much and if she doesn’t survive this then his whole world is going to come crashing down. He promised Angel a blood bath and now he can’t even do that for her either. He feels so helpless. Suddenly Detective Stabler looked at Conner.
“Do you have any more hidden weapons up in that room of yours that we should know about?”
“No, just the gun” Conner answered softly.
“You swear to me?” Detective Stabler demanded and he turned his trained Detective’s eye on him ready to catch him in a lie.
“I swear on Rosalie’s life,” Conner answered looking into Detective Stabler’s eyes evenly.
“Fine then…as long as there are no more surprises you, Aaron, and I need to get to work.” Aaron got to his feet readily then and looked at Detective Stabler anxiously for instructions.
“No, sit back down. I need you to get connected with Angel first and while you are doing that I’m going to go get Liv from the hospital wing. We’ll be right back and then if it’s okay with Nick I’ll take you two to the station.”
“The storm,” Nick reminded with concern.
“They’ll be safe with me I promise. I’m a trained professional and have had to work in hurricanes many times before.” Nick eyed Aaron warily for a couple of moments and then nodded quietly. He would like nothing more than to go with them and not leave Aaron out of his sight for anything – hell he would love to put Dakota’s leash on him but he knows Ashley is due back any minute now and he would like to be here for her. He needs her.
“Okay great. I will be right back then” Detective Stabler replied and he turned and headed for the hospital wing.
“Why is Olivia in the hospital wing?” Aaron asked concerned.
“Drew was at the store with us…he got shot in the shoulder…” Nick answered softly. “So she is over there talking to him and Q about the situation in hopes that any information they give her might help.” Aaron hugged his legs closer to his chest and rested his chin on his knee before closing his eyes and trying his very hardest to tune into Angel. But so far all he is getting out of her is a lot of fear and pain.
~*~*~*~*~
When Sean and Trevor arrived back at their hiding place they got out of the car and Sean opened up the door to the back seat where he had placed Angel earlier. She sat there staring at him through tears as she was handcuffed to the handle above the window and he un-handcuffed her, yanked her out by the arm and pulled her along as he followed Trevor into the house. When they got inside Trevor was greeted by Diego and he knelt down and gathered the loving dog into his arms for a hug while Sean yanked Angel up the stairs though she eyed Trevor curiously at the normalcy of having a dog greet him at the door when he gets home and him greeting it back affectionately. She never even knew tough baddies such as him would have a dog in the first place – not one as sweet as that one seems to be at least. Maybe Ashley was right about him going soft. She may be able to work with that. As soon as Sean had her upstairs he took her down the hall to the bedroom he shares with Trevor and over to the walk in closet. He opened it up, dragged her inside and he handcuffed her to the bar that Sean and Trevor’s clothes hang from. As soon as he had her situated he walked out, shut the door behind him, and went downstairs where Trevor sat with a golden retriever in his lap.
“We can’t stay here long Sean,” Trevor pointed out, his gaze on the window where the storm was growing outside. “I know you love water baby and I can see why you waited for the hurricane and all but you had to have realized we’re in a really dangerous spot.”
“I know,” Sean shrugged. “We aren’t going to be here for long. But you know that right? Since you read my plans and everything.” Trevor rolled his eyes.
“Fine but I need somewhere safe to put Diego.”
“We’ll take him with us,” Sean shrugged.
“Are you crazy? What you have planned will terrify him.”
“Do you have any better ideas then?”
“I do actually,” Trevor shrugged. “I managed to talk Ben into helping us.” Sean arched his eyebrow.
“And what is Ben going to do to help us?”
“He got us a room to a hotel under his name and stuff. All we have to do is disguise ourselves and show up. It’s in one of the safe zones. He’ll be fine there along with all of our belongings – you know if by chance we make it out of this alive.”
“They’re not going to allow a dog in the hotel…”
“This one will.”
“Fine then,” Sean sighed. “We’ll move in there.”
“It’s not going to interfere with your plans or anything, chill out.”
“Yeah well I have to deal with the brat before we even begin to move because she’ll be recognizable.”
“So take her out to the water and drown her already, what are you waiting for?” Trevor shrugged. “That’s what you’re planning on doing anyway right?” He guessed. That was one of the things Sean had left out in his plans. Why hadn’t he written that down? Sean grew very quiet then and Trevor arched his eyebrow.
“Sean? You are going to drown her right? That’s your signature.”
“Nope,” was all Sean said and he went outside looking like a man on a mission. Trevor raised his eyebrow and got up and he went out there with Diego at his heels. As soon as he got outside his eyes widened as he saw what Sean was doing and realized exactly what he planned to do with Angel. He’s going to drown her all right…just not in the water. Meanwhile upstairs in the closet Angel sat there in the dark bloody and bruised from her beatings and she tuned into Aaron wanting to know how he is holding up. When she saw what he almost did she narrowed her eyes.
Aaron Charles Carter you are lucky I am not there to strangle you and Conner right now!
Angel! he exclaimed in her thoughts and she could suddenly feel a rush of relief explode through her and knew right away that it was him being happy to finally have a break through into his twin.
I love you for wanting to save me Twinny but I am fine. Please don’t do anything stupid we can’t have the both of us in trouble.
Where are you? Aaron demanded. “Tell me where you are and I’ll tell Detective Stabler and we’ll come and get you!
I don’t know where I am, I just know that I am in a closet in some small house somewhere.
Angel that doesn’t help us! Couldn’t you have at least paid attention to your surroundings? She felt his frustration surge through her. Tears fell from her eyes at how much his words stung.
You try paying attention to where you are going while being beaten with a belt! Let’s see how easy it is for you!
What does the house look like? Can you tell me that?
It’s very old…it’s painted white, there’s a dark room and I think I saw a lake on the way in. She thought for a moment. And if it helps you any…the house only has one bedroom, a kitchen, a dining room, an office, and I think one bathroom. She sat there and listened to his thoughts as he mulled that over and when she decided he was done asking her questions for now, she spoke up again.
Aaron?
What?
Tell Conner that I’m okay…please? And that I love him?
I will he answered, and Angel could feel that he truly means it. That would really mean a lot to him. He’s about ready to pull his hair out over here…
Tell him to leave his hair alone, I’ll be sad if there isn’t any left to run my fingers through.
That’s pushing it.
Please? she pleaded in her thoughts and she can just tell that he is rolling his eyes without her even having to see it.
~*~*~*~*~*~
“Hey Conner,” Aaron called across the room as he watched him yank on his hair some more as he stood in the doorway listening to the other Detectives discussing a rescue plan. As he watches him he gets the feeling that he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it.
“What?”
“Angel says that she loves you and to leave your hair alone. She’ll be sad if there isn’t any left to run her fingers through,” Aaron answered and he darted his eyes away from him making it very clear that it was very hard for him to repeat that. The frustration toward how slow this rescue is going momentarily slipped away from Conner then upon mention of this. He knows she really had to have said that because Angel has told him time and time again how much she loves his hair, and Aaron looks very tortured at having to deliver the message for her. So he wouldn’t have just said it unless he was being forced to.
“You got through to her?” He asked anxiously and just as he had Detective’s Stabler, Benson, and Tutuola appeared in the doorway and looked at him with hopeful looks as well.
“Yeah, she reached out to me…bitched at me for trying to run off with Conner too. She even went as far as to tell me we’re lucky she isn’t here to strangle us for it.” Conner couldn’t help but laugh slightly though a tear was rolling down his cheek.
“That’s my Angel…of course she would.”
“Did she say anything about where she might be?” Detective Benson asked while working very hard to hide her amusement. She always admired Angel for her feistiness. She just hopes she is giving Sean hell right now. She knows only she could.
“Just that she is in a small old house that is painted white locked in a closet. She said it’s a one bedroom and bathroom house with a kitchen, a living room, and an office. There is a Dark room and she thinks she even might have saw a lake. But she didn’t see how they got there, because apparently Sean was beating her…and from what I gather from her thoughts, she was fighting with him a lot too – so at least she’s not just lying there taking it…”
“No Angel wouldn’t” Conner insisted while shaking his head. “She’s a fighter.” Aaron nodded his head in agreement.
He loves you too, he passed onto Angel. He doesn’t need Conner to tell him so because he can see it written all over his face. He felt a new wave of energy rush through him upon thinking those words and knew it was Angel reacting to them. He knows she’ll be holding onto it the whole time she is in this mess like a life line. He watched as Detective Benson and Detective Stabler immediately went into action on looking for all of the houses that could possibly be by lakes in the area and Detective Tutuola went back into Captain Craigen’s office again to fill him in on what Aaron had said. Conner on the other hand went over and sat in the seat next to Aaron.
“What did you tell her just now?” He asked softly.
“Huh?” Aaron asked confused. He hadn’t told anyone that he was talking to her.
“You said something to her just now, I know it. You get the same look on your face that Angel does when she’s talking to you. She doesn’t know I’ve picked up on it….but it’s just something you learn to notice when studying her.” Aaron shook his head.
“I should’ve known…Stacy always knows too. I just told her that you love her too was all,” Aaron answered and shrugged his shoulders.
“And you knew that without even having to hear me say so?” Conner asked slightly amused.
“I think anyone can see it just by looking at you and listening to the way you talk about her” Aaron shrugged. Conner smiled some at these words.
“Well it’s the truth, I do love her a lot – I was beginning to wonder when you’d figure it out.”
“I let myself stop being blind to it the moment you were willing to go and murder half the baddies in Florida just to find her.”
“Well that was a promise I made to her…unfortunately I’m not going to be able to keep it.”
“It’s okay. I know you are feeling pretty helpless right now but you need to know that you’re helping her more then you realize. Just knowing that you love her is like a lifeline to her.” Conner silently thought about that, feeling ten times better upon hearing those words but he is not about to admit that. Aaron squeezed Conner’s shoulder gently. “And another thing you really need to know is, when we get my twin out of this…you had better take very good care of her. I can’t promise you that I won’t kick your ass for it if you don’t…got it? If you so much as even make her cry…you’ll have me to answer to.”
“Well, one thing you really need to know is, I can’t stand it when she cries… So it’s all good.” Aaron gave him one more last warning look for good measure and then he got up and walked off toward the soda machine.
“Dr Pepper?”
“Sure.”
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