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“I hate just sitting here when they’re fighting like this,” Ashley whispered quietly in Nick’s ear though AJ still managed to hear. “I want to be useful, I want to help.”


“Over my dead body,” AJ protested. “You’re staying put. The last thing that we need is for you to be in mine and Nick’s shoes.”


“I can handle them, even ask Nicky.”


“You’ve handled yourself very well tonight,” Nick agreed gently and Ashley didn’t miss how soft he was talking, how painful it was for him to do so. “No one is more proud of you than I am. But AJ is right baby…you need to stay out of this for as long as possible. These guys aren’t Sean, they’re worse.”


“Nobody is worse than Sean I’ve learned that first hand…”


“Yes and I still have yet to finish the job haven’t I Ashley dear?” came an all too familiar voice from behind them. Ashley froze at the sound of it and Nick and AJ whipped their heads around to find Sean crouched there grinning at them evilly. Nick and AJ pulled their guns out and in that same second Sean shot Nick in the shoulder. Nick yelped, Ashley shrieked and AJ went to pull them further away from Sean only to have Ashley ripped from his arms. He whirled around and booked it with her as she kicked and screamed, and fought with all her might to break free. AJ got to his feet and ran after them and suddenly remembering his gun he aimed for Sean’s hitting him in the leg. Sean stumbled slightly, made a noise of pain but kept running nonetheless and AJ chased after him frantically refusing to let him take his sister. When Sean got to the corner, he turned and shot his gun at AJ and with the bullet flying toward him something smacked into him from the side sending him flying sideways but not before the bullet could graze his skin to the side of his waist. As AJ hit the ground hard he realized Nick was on top of him. That the tough guy had mustered up enough strength to save his life just now – maybe. Before he had time to glance down at his waist though, he felt hands grabbing him and them both being dragged along.


“Come on get in here, now!’ he heard Emilio demand and then next thing he knew they were being taken into a nearby crawl space they never knew existed. As AJ and Nick stumbled to their knees Emilio shut the door quickly behind them and they heard Kori shrieking and sobbing.


“NO!!!! WAIT!!!! WILEY IS STILL OUT THERE, WILEY IS STILL OUT THERE!!!” She darted for the door then in attempt to throw it open and grab him only to have Scott’s arms slide around her quickly.


“It’s too late Kori, they’ve already got him” Emilio insisted sympathetically.


“NO NOT FOR LONG! NOT WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THEM THEY WON’T!” and she struggled with all her might to break free of Scott’s strong hold but he only held her closer.


“Kori baby, see reason” Scott pleaded softly as his own eyes were filled with tears. He never liked the guy but he didn’t want for this to happen to him. Not in a million years. “If you go out there you’ll get yourself killed”


“I DON’T CARE!!! BETTER ME THAN HIM! HE CAN’T DIE SCOTT, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?” Kori pleaded and she grabbed his face and forced him to look at her. “YOU MAY NOT LIKE HIM, BUT I LOVE HIM AND I CAN’T LOSE HIM!!! I WON’T LOSE HIM! HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE WITH THIS STUFF LIKE YOU AND HE’S VULNERABLE AND ALONE!” She sobbed. “Please, if you love me at all you will help me get him back! I may have chosen you but I still love him, he’s still one of the best people in my life and I never told him that! I NEVER GOT TO TELL HIM HOW SPECIAL HE IS TO ME!”


“Okay…okay baby Shhh...” Scott said softly and then pulled her into a hug and she sobbed in his chest. He kissed her forehead softly and looked at Nick and AJ and suddenly he noticed their two other missing people.


“Where are Ashley and Marcus?” He asked softly and Kori whipped her head around and looked and when she realized her sister was taken too, she went into hysterics.


“NO, NO, NO, NO!!!! WHAT HAPPENED?! NOT HER TOO, PLEASE NO!” she dropped to her knees out of shock causing Scott to do the same as he still held her.


“Marcus was taken by Damien’s cronies right along with Wiley,” Emilio answered softly when the other two couldn’t speak. “And Ashley by Sean.”


“Where are we?” Frank asked while looking around.


“One of Kota’s secret hiding places,” Nick said as he stared longingly at a picture of his daughter and Ellie being Ninja Turtles together. She had pinned all sorts of pictures on the wall. “I’m sure it leads to everywhere.”


“Yeah, let’s hope out of the building,” Emilio spoke up seriously.


“I am NOT leaving here without Ashley, Marcus and Wiley!” Kori demanded firmly. “Have you not been listening?”


“I second that! We’re going to rescue them damnit…NOW!” Nick added.


“You’ve already suffered so much Nick. Just let me get you out of here and our police officers can—“


“-NO!” Nick shouted with all of the strength he could muster and he whirled around to look at Emilio – winced- and then glared. “I am NOT leaving here without my baby do you hear me? I don’t care what it does to me in the process HE’S NOT GOING TO KILL HER!”


“I cannot allow this,” Emilio protested. “The longer you guys are in here the more danger it’s putting you in too.” Nick glared at him for a long moment and then with nothing but Ashley on his mind he jumped to his feet and dove toward Emilio ignoring the shot of pain it was causing him. He grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him slightly.


“I DON’T FUCKING CARE IF YOU CAN OR CANNOT ALLOW IT!”


“Nick! Don’t, he’s a cop!” Kori protested and tried grabbing him only to have him shrug her off.


“THAT’S MY GIRLFRIEND THAT BASTARD TOOK! MY BEST FRIEND, MY REASON FOR BREATHING! I’M GOING TO SAVE HER WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION BUDDY, SO DON’T FUCKING MESS WITH ME! YOU HEAR ME? DON’T!” Nick continued, all the while sobbing. He let go of Emilio then and AJ slid his arm around him and pulled him away.


“If you want to get us out of this building you’re going to have to help us save my sister first – and our security guard, and our friend. You aren’t leaving this place without all of us do you understand? We don’t care what happens to us in the process. We’ll gladly throw ourselves in front of open fire if it means them getting out alive.” When Emilio didn’t argue, Kori spoke up.


“I know for a fact he won’t try and kill her until I’m there to witness it. He wants me to see, to punish me. He’ll most likely use her to lure me there.”


“And torture her immensely in the mean time,” Nick sniffled.


“Here, both of you just sit down a minute while we work this out,” Scott insisted and he gently helped them both onto one of Dakota’s bean bags. As soon as he had them situated he pulled off his shirt and began to take care of their newest wounds.


“We will need a really good strategy then if he will be expecting us,” Emilio replied to Kori’s comment.


“And I think I may know how to save Wiley…it’s a long shot that it will work…but it’s worth the try” Dean replied and together, he, Emilio, Frank, and Kori all discussed what they were going to do while Scott worked on making things a little easier for Nick and AJ. He’s not a doctor but he was a gang member once – he knows how to take care of himself and others.


Meanwhile when Sean arrived down in the basement with Ashley he set her down only to have her dart toward the door and he rolled his eyes.


“Oh no you don’t” he told her while grabbing her by the hair and yanking her back hard and she whimpered in pain. He raised his hand and smacked her across the face so hard that she stumbled to the floor.


“You stupid bitch!” he growled irritably. “You need re-programming, that’s for sure,” he told her while reaching down, grabbing her by the arm and pulling her up only to send her flying across the room into the wall where she crumbled to the floor sobbing. “Why don’t we work on that while we wait on big sister Kori to come, shall we?” he asked and then stalked toward her as she cowered into a ball against the wall. “That’s right bitch, fear me!” he told her before kicking her once in the stomach. Just as he went to do it again, she reached out and grabbed his foot sending him flying backward onto the ground making an oomph sound. She jumped to her feet then and made a run for it toward the door. Sean however, recovered quicker than she hoped and was on his feet in seconds and not very far behind her. She made it half way up the stairs only to have him grab her arm and twist it back behind her making her cry out in pain and he sent her flying down the stairs. She stumbled and rolled down each of them until she was at the bottom on the floor and she lay there crying weakly. He pulled his belt off then and he went down the stairs, grabbed her arm, threw her face down into the stairs and he pulled her pants and underwear to her knees before proceeding to teach her how to behave again. His hatred toward his father, all of the anger toward his mother that he kept locked away deep down inside, the pain of letting Trevor go all came out as he beat her and Ashley lay there sobbing as she’s never had such a rough beating in her life.


~*~*~*~*~


Meanwhile over in the hospital wing, Ben who had just got a text from Emilio stood in the lobby pacing back and forth as the hospital staff, the patients he was guarding, and his fellow officers sat around watching him.


“Emilio what’s going on? You’re making me nervous man.” Emilio looked at the police officer who spoke to him for a long moment in silence and instead of answering his question he flipped open his cell phone and dialed Captain Craigen’s phone number before placing it to his ear. After a couple of rings he picked up.


“Yes Ben? What is going on in there?” Captain Craigen answered in a cautious tone.


“I need for you to send Detective Stabler in here. We have some things we need to discuss.” There was silence on the other end as Craigen took in this command.


“…Whatever you have to say to him I am sure it can be said over the phone.”


“I am not going to hurt him.”


“How can I be so sure? You’ve completely taken over Ramsey hospital.”


“I didn’t hurt anybody in here, everybody has been very safe. I’m an undercover cop you can even see for yourself Benjamin Taylor is my name.” Ben listened as Craigen gave orders to Detective Benson and then there was silence for five minutes before Craigen spoke again.


“…Why didn’t you tell us this before?”


“We couldn’t be sure it wouldn’t blow our cover with Sean. We had to be absolutely sure he wouldn’t suspect double cross for even a second.”


“What do you want Detective Stabler for?”


“We tried to return Nick, AJ, Kori, Wiley, Ashley, Scott, and Marcus to you but ran into some major complications. We need your help.”


“What kind of complications?”


“I will explain it when he gets in here.” Captain Craigen was quiet for another minute.


“Let every single person you’re…protecting in there go and then – only then, will I take the risk of sending my best Detective in there.”


“Fine…get your ambulance ready then because Kevin will be the first to go.” Ben hung up the phone then and so did Craigen and he looked at his Detectives.


“Fin, go get the ambulance ready – he is letting everybody go in exchange for a word face to face with Detective Stabler.” Detective Tutuola instantly obeyed and Detective Benson spoke up.


“Captain we can’t let Elliot go in there alone,” She insisted. “I don’t care if this guy is a cop, there are a lot of other dangerous people in there.”


“I’m not, I’m sending the two of you in there with him” Craigen reassured and Detective Benson looked relieved. She was prepared to throw a huge fit if necessary. Her partner is already a wreck as it is, trusting him with something so big would be very risky – too risky.