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Chapter Sixty Seven



After making the kids sit in the closet all afternoon, Sean decided he was going to have a little bit of fun. He went and opened up the door and Josh and Elenore's bodies tensed up as they looked at him in fear. Sean smirked and reached in and grabbed Elenore by the scruff of the neck and he yanked her out pulling Josh a long. Elenore whimpered as she was being dragged up the stairs and into her parents room. When they got in there, Sean threw them onto the bed. Elenore knows what is going to happen next.


"Daddy noooo please don't…"


"Shut up!" He ordered, while crawling onto the bed and over to her. "Or I will make it hurt worse!" He shifted himself so that each of his legs were on either side of her and he grabbed hold of her hands and pinned them down on the bed making Josh lean forward a little bit. He watched in complete horror as the evil man ridded her of all her clothes. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, but he knows its not good and he does NOT want him hurting Elenore anymore then he's already done.


"LEAVE HER ALONE, DAMNIT!" He shouted suddenly, using a word he learned very early in life from his own father. Sean turned his head toward Josh and glared at him.


"Shut up boy, or you'll be next!" He threatened, and he raised his hand and smacked him across the face. Josh's head snapped to the side and he placed his hand to his cheek and began to cry. Sean just laughed.


"Not so tough now, huh? Just sit there and relax. You'll enjoy this almost as much as me seeing as how you hate her and all." He told him. But Sean is wrong. Josh doesn't hate Elenore in the least bit - not anymore. Not after getting to know her better. Infact, he feels that it's his job to protect her because he is the only one there for her right now. Elenore looked at Josh with pleading eyes as she lay there crying. Sean looked at her and he placed his finger to her chin and made her look at him.


"Look at me you ungrateful daughter, not him! He's not going to save you. He doesn't even like you. No one does. You're an ungrateful little brat and you're a bad girl and you deserve to be punished. You can't do anything right." Josh was seething with anger by now.


"She is NOT a bad girl! She's done NOTHING wrong! Why can't you just leave her alone? She's JUST A GIRL!" He shouted the words he had wanted to say to his own father when he watched him beat his mother, and he suddenly lunged himself toward Sean and he began to hit and punch him and try with all his might to push him away from Elenore. "LEAVE Ellie alone!" Elenore stopped crying then and she looked at Josh with so much shock as tears rolled down her damp cheeks. Ellie? He called me Ellie? she thought to herself. Josh never calls me that… Sean growled impatiently, and he grabbed hold of Josh's wrists and he pushed him back on the bed crawling on top of him instead and he punched him hard in the face before taking off his belt and he pulled down Josh's pants before turning him onto his stomach and he swung the belt down on him, the metal part of it coming down hard on Josh's already very red and sore bottom. Josh cried out in pain.


"I'll teach you not to disobey me you little monster!"


"I am NOT the monster here, you're! No wonder Ashley is so afraid of you! No wonder Ellie loves Kevin more then you!" Josh managed to talk back and Sean swung the belt on him even harder. He did this a couple of times, than when he felt he had punished him enough, he threw the belt down and turned on Elenore. He crawled on top of her then and he gave Josh one last threatening look.


"Move from that spot, Josh, and I will shoot you in the fucking head!" He told him, never looking anymore serious, and he turned his attention back on the naked five year old underneath him. "Love Kevin more then me my ass…I'll fucking teach you who to love you ungrateful little mistake." He told her, and with that he proceeded to have his fun with her and Josh just lay there wide eyed and angry as he had no choice but to watch the whole terrifying scene before him. He will never treat Elenore so horribly again. By the time he had finished with her he heard Shelly's voice calling him from downstairs.


"SEAN! Lock the brats back in the closet and come help me set the table for dinner!" She ordered. Sean grumbled and looked at Josh who had tears in his eyes by now.


"You're lucky I didn't get to you. Yet." He told him, and he got up and got himself dressed as he looked at the crying five year old on the bed.


"Oh shut the fuck up right now, Elenore, or I will give you something to cry about." He ordered. "Get up and get dressed." He added. She did as she was told and slowly crawled out of bed while making faces as it hurts to move and Josh crawled off the bed with her. He grabbed her clothes and handed them to her and she got dressed. When she finished she looked at Sean. Sean grabbed her hand and yanked the two children out of the room and downstairs and she saw Trevor bringing food out to the table.


"You missed out on all of the fun, Trevor. You could've had your way with Josh you know." Trevor shrugged.


"I prefer my victims older…and to be female. I had more fun with Ashley. She was my bitch." He explained, as he watched Sean open up the closet door, throw the kids in and shut and lock it again.


"Yeah, I miss Ashley. But we'll have her back real soon, you'll see." Sean promised, and he went over and began to help set up the table.


"Sean, I want to go out tonight." Shelly announced.


"We can't, Shelly. If you haven't noticed we're harboring a fugitive."


"Correction: you are harboring a fugitive. And it's not fair that I have to stay in the house all day and all night long too!"


"What's the matter Shelly? Don't you love me?" Trevor asked, looking at Shelly with pouty lips. Shelly rolled her eyes.


"You know I do, and you know I'm happy your out of that place, but it's not fair that I have to stay in this house all the time."


"Well what do you want us to do Shell? We come out of this house, we'll get recognized, and then arrested."


"We'll disguise ourselves….we've become pretty expert at it by now…and we'll drive up to a town where we won't be so easily recognized too."


"What would we do with the kids?" Sean questioned. Shelly waved her hand like that is not important in the least bit.


"We'll leave them here. Keep them locked up in the closet…or tie them up in the basement like we used to do with Elenore sometimes. I don't care, I just need to get out of this goddamned house." Sean looked at Trevor then for his opinion like he often does. He trusts Trevor's opinion more then anyone else's.


"I think we should do it Sean…It would be nice to get some fresh air for a change." Sean thought for a couple of minutes, than he nodded.


"Okay…okay. We'll go out." He replied, before going back to setting the table and Shelly grinned happily, making Sean smile too and he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close before bringing his lips down on hers in a soft kiss. Trevor grinned a little as he watched the two. Sean may treat his wife like shit a lot of the time, but he knows he doesn't ever mean it. He knows he loves her with all of his heart. A lot of other people that know them wouldn't think so, but he does. He's seen Sean and Shelly's relationship go through a LOT of ups and downs, but no matter what they always stuck together.


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As soon as Sean had thrown the kids into the closet, Elenore scrambled into the far corner of the closet like she normally does and she hugged her legs to her chest and began to sob. Josh sat there watching her for a few moments, trying his very hardest to hold his tears back, then he scooted closer and wrapped his arms around her in attempt to comfort her but Elenore only shoved him away.


"I bet you liked that lots Josh, didn't you!" She spat at him angrily.


"No I didn't," Josh replied, his voice surprisingly gentle. Elenore is much too upset and angry to recognize it right now though.


"Yeah right! I know you did because you hate me! That's what you said, remember? You hate me an' you wanted to see me get hurt! I bet that was quite a show that you gots!"


"Elenore I don't hate you…" Josh insisted, scooting a little bit closer to her.


"Then why do you say it all the time? Why are you so horrible to me? I tried being nice to you earlier, I really tried and all you did was yell at me and treat me badly just like you always do!"


"I know…and I'm really sorry, I really am…" Josh insisted helplessly. "Please believe me…I didn't like watching that at all. I wanted to stop him, I wanted to hurt him for hurting you!"


"I don'ts believe you…" Elenore replied, turning so she's no longer looking at him and she cowered more into her corner.


"Why do you think I yelled at him, Ellie? Why do you think I told him to leave you alone?"


"I don't know…."


"Its because you were right earlier...you were very right. I don't hate you as much as I let on."


"Then why do you always tell me that you do?"


"Because my father made me that way…" Josh replied, making sure to make eye contact with her. She looked at him curiously for a moment, before wiping her tears away. That did no good though, they just kept falling.


"What?"


"I was abused too Ellie…not the way you're…my father never laid a hand on me. He couldn't…he was too afraid to touch me. He could hardly look at me. He beat my mom up though…and killed her while doing so. I watched it all happen. He never touched me…though he threatened to all the time. He even almost smacked me before, but stopped himself. He abused me with words instead. He was always saying mean things to me….every chance he got. He even put it in my head that I had to be tough…that's why I act that way. He said I couldn't cry - that I had to toughen up or I would be a sissy girl and no boy of his was to be a sissy girl. My mom was the only one who loved me. The only time I ever got hugs and kisses was from her. When he killed her he was thrown in jail and I was sent to live in the orphanage…and since my father taught me that I had to be tough and since I didn't ever get love from him I turned into a bully…because that's how I was taught. No one in the Orphanage would dare come near me cause I was so horrible to them…so I spent years without any love…because I pushed it away and I almost forgot what it was like but then Brian came a long…and he wouldn't leave me alone no matter how hard I tried to push him away…"


"Because he loves you…" Elenore replied, scooting closer to Josh suddenly and she slipped her hand into his. He stiffened immediately at her gentle touch, as he hasn't felt such a thing in such a long time…unless it was from Brian. She gently squeezed his hand and looked into his eyes, tears falling from her own. "And other people would if you'd just lets them in…"


"Well Kevin loves you too you know…so maybe you should stop being afraid he'll leave you all the time."


"It's nots that easy…I'm used to being left behind…cause I'm nots a loveable person…I'm a bad girl withs a temper."


"That's not true…everybody in that orphanage loves you….I would know. I spent so much time being jealous of you." Elenore shrugged.


"Doesn't matter…cause they're never gonna sees me again…" she replied softly, as even more tears roll down her cheek. "I miss Kevy…"


"Don't say that…cause I'm gonna get us out of here." Elenore raised her eyebrow.


"And just how do you plan on doing that? My daddy will kills you on the first try."


"I don't know, but I'll thinks of something….after all, I'm Leonardo!" He told her, deciding to turn this into a game of Ninja Turtles, knowing it will calm her down some and help her to not be so scared. Elenore looked at him curiously.


"Since when?"


"Since now…since I made myself him. I don'ts like being shredder. I don'ts like being made out to be the bad guy…I wanna learn how to be good."


"Okay…we needs a Leonardo anyway….cause we're short on turtles!" Elenore replied, suddenly relaxing some and becoming a little excited.


"An' Sean can be shredder. He's good ats that."


"We don'ts gots masks," Elenore pointed out suddenly.


"It's okay, we'll pretend for now." Elenore stared at Josh for a few moments not saying a word and he looked at her curiously.


"What?" Elenore didn't reply, she only wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly. He stiffened a little, but quickly relaxed as he wrapped his arms around her in return and hugged her back, though a single tear rolled down his cheek. She snuggled into him as she very much needs the comfort right now. She could really get used to Josh protecting her - or trying to protect her anyway. Though she really wants Kevin more then anything because no one could ever take his place.



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Meanwhile, at the Orphanage, Detective's Benson and Stabler have both finally come up with a plan with Detectives Munch, and Tutuola and were getting ready to go rescue Josh and Elenore. They looked over at Nick as he lay in the bean bag in the playroom with Ashley relaxed in his arms.


"Are you two ready to go? Cause we are."


"Yeah," Nick answered readily, and he looked down at Ashley. She stood up and took his hand, helping him up and he looked at Riley.


"Will you watch Dakota and Sarah for me?"


"Of course," Riley answered. He looked at Laney then.


"Coming?"


"Yup."


"I'm coming too," Kevin announced, suddenly walking over to the group and he has Q by his side. He eyed the detectives, ready to pounce if they should tell him no.


"That okay?" Detective Stabler looked at Kevin warily. He knows he is not one to piss off right now as he's been in a very snappy and emotional mood all day long today - him and Brian both. Detective Stabler shook his head.


"You two really need to adopt these kids," was all he said. "Come on."


"Why should I adopt her when I can't even keep her safe?" Kevin mumbled so quietly under his breath that no one could hear him well enough to pick up what he actually said. He followed the detectives, bodyguards, and Nick and Ashley out of the playroom nonetheless, as did Brian who didn't even bother asking for permission. They left the Orphanage and got into the cars that they were told to go in - Nick, Ashley, and Laney all in one car with Detectives Munch and Tutuola, and Brian, Kevin, Q, and Raul in the other car with Detectives Stabler and Benson and they headed in the direction that Detectives Tutuola and Munch were leading them in - with Ashley as their map.



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Meanwhile, back at Sean's, after they had finished eating dinner and getting ready to go out, Sean went to the closet and unlocked it. He opened it up and found the two kids sitting there together on the floor holding hands. Josh tightened his grip on Elenore's hand as soon as the door had opened. He laughed.


"Aww…how sweet…looks like the two brats have learned to get a long after all," he said. He reached into the closet, grabbed hold of Elenore's hand and he yanked her out of the closet pulling Josh a long too. Elenore whimpered and held on tightly to Josh even though she knows she can't be separated from him. He dragged them down into the basement and as soon as he got down there they saw Trevor putting two chairs together back to back and he has rope in his hand. Sean drug them over there and sat them each in a chair and Trevor tied them to it. When he finished Sean glared at Josh.


"Try anything stupid while we're gone and I will shoot you both. Got it?" He asked. Josh nodded his head to show he understands, though he doesn't plan on listening to him. Not at all. He HAS to get Elenore out of there. Sean and Trevor turned and walked out of the basement, shutting the door behind them and the two of them and Shelly left to go clubbing in another town in their disguises. When Josh heard three car doors shut, and the car leave he sat there and waited ten minutes then he spoke.


"Don't worry Ellie. I'll have us out of here as soon as possible."