jj pov:
"well he said it's the only red house in charleston, so hopefully not too hard to find" sarah says to me and the other pogues who are sat in the twinkie that's on the ferry being transported over to charleston. "what's the plan when we find her?" pope says. "go mad dog" i say. cleo sighs. "jay that won't really help us" she says. "well what will cleo? politely asking for kie back? if i need to fight or kill him to save kiara i won't think twice" i say. "i know" john b says. "that's why we're worried jj. you won't think about what you do until it's too late and we don't want you getting yourself in trouble" pope says. "can you not lecture me right now? i'm more concerned about getting kie home and safe than me 'getting in trouble'" i say as i do quotation marks with my fingers. sarah rolls her eyes. "he's right on some level. we do need to get kie home and safe, but we need to do it safely. last thing we want is for barry to kill or hurt one of us or kiara because our plan doesn't work" sarah says. "that's why we need to come up with a good plan. a thought out one" pope says. "then what you got?" cleo says, turning her head so she's facing us as she shuffled her body sideways across the passenger seat. pope who's sat next to her does the same. "well... we could use jj as like, bait, or a distraction?" pope starts. i furrow my eyebrows. "safely" he adds. "we could send you to the house and like knock on the door, try to ask him if he has kie but don't act like you know he does. and then we'll sneak in through a window or something and save kie" he says. "nope. immediately no" sarah says. pope looks at her. she twists her body round in the back seat of the twinkie, next to john b and above me. i look up as i'm sat on the floor. "firstly. jj knowing what house barry is at? and as soon as jj knocks on that door and barry sees him he's gonna slam the door and run. probably taking kie with him" sarah says. "so what's the plan?" cleo says. "i can go, i can tell barry something happened to rafe. that'll distract him. long enough for you to sneak inside and get her out" sarah says. i nod. "nice one cameron" i say. she pulls a disgusted face. "i'm ashamed to have that last name. i should've been a maybank" sarah says and i laugh. "you want everyone thinking of luke maybank, the drug addict and alcoholic you're last name is mentioned?" i say. she gives a small sympathetic look as she shakes her head. "maybe become a routledge?" john b says. "definitely in the future" sarah winks at him. "get a room" pope says. "okay can we focus on kie?" i say. "what if we don't get her out? or can't find her? locked door? and if she's tied up which she probably will be.." i say. pope and sarah both sigh at the same time. "so we've got a few things to figure out..." john b trails off
kiara pov:
"let! me! out!" i scream, smacking the chains against the floor, creating a repeating echoing clinking. "let me go!!!!" i scream. i hear the door begin to open and barry is standing a few steps before me. "kiara. stop it" he says. i shoot him a dirty look before continuing "help!!!" i scream as i keep clanging the chains against the floor. "kiara!!!" he shouts, walking over to me and slapping his hand over my mouth, turning my screams to muffles. i try to act like i'm not scared, but i am. i'm really scared. "nobody can hear you" he says. i struggle to get him off of me, but it doesn't work as he has a clear upper hand. when i finally give up and go quiet again, he moves his hand away from my mouth and steps back. "don't touch me again" i hiss. "you know you liked yesterday kie" he evilly smirks.
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flashback to yesterday
barry comes into the room and slams the door closed behind him. he storms over to me. i scoot up against the wall until i can't get any further back. he leans over in front of me and puts his hand on my face. i'm petrified, even though i already know what's about to happen.
i don't want it to happen. because this time there won't be a way to stop. there won't be a sarah that walks into the room and catches him red handed, causing him to stop. there's nothing stopping him. he's slightly drunk, i can tell by his voice and how he's slurring his words. he pulls my face forward and very forcefully pushes his lips against mine. i push him back, but considering my hands are chained to a walk it doesn't really do much. "stop! i have a boyfriend and i don't want to do this!" i say but he shuts me up using his lips again. tears leave my eyes as i accept my fate. "this is for rafe" he hisses as he pulls my shorts and underwear down. he does the same with his and i'm really praying for a miracle to happen. but it doesn't. he rapes me.
end of flashback
"i need you to stop" he says. "please just let me go!!!" i cry. "i've been here for 3 days now!". "and if you don't shut up, i'll find some people to join you. your friends? jj seems like a good start..." he trails off. "don't you dare" i say. "oh, are you sticking up for your pogue boyfriend? how sweet" he says. "you're literally a pogue barry" i say. he shoot's me a glare before snickering. "not for long" he says. i furrow my eyebrows. "what does that mean?" i say. "you'll see" he says, walking out and slamming the door closed. i hear him lock it from the other side.
i bury my hands in my hair as i frantically look around the room again, looking for any way to escape. then my eyes land on a (quite big) rock.
jj pov:
"hey!" pope shouts as he points ahead of us. we all look in the direction of his finger. "only one red house in charleston?" pope says. we all nod and begin to walk up to the house.
general pov:
"what do you want?" barry slurs as he opens the door to see sarah standing before him. "it's.. it's about rafe.." sarah fake cries. barry's face turns to concern. "what?" he says. "i think it's better you sit down..." sarah says. barry looks inside and shakes his head. he comes outside of the house and locks the door, before leading sarah down the path.
jj, john b, pope and cleo run up to the back door of the house once they're certain barry is gone. cleo picks the lock open and they slowly and quietly creep inside. they all go seperate ways as they search around the house.
after a few minutes, they all meet back up at the place they seperated, but this time, all stood infront of a door. jj takes a deep breathe before twisting the knob and pushing it open. he creeps down the steps, followed by the rest of the pogues, until they reach a big metal door. "you think she's in there?" cleo says. "only one way to find out" jj says, beginning to unlock the door. he pushes it open, expecting to see a certain brunette girl somewhere, but he's just great with a big empty room. "what..." pope says as they look around. "guys.." john b croaks. we all walk over to him, who's crouched over something on the floor. we walk over to see chains attatched to a wall, a rock with blood on it and a small circle of blood. "oh my..." cleo says, putting her hand over her mouth. "she's fine. she'd have to lose more blood than that to die, right pope?" jj says, but he just stays silent. "pope!" jj says, his voice filled with fear. "not technically. depends where the wound is..." pope says quietly. jj presses his head against the wall as his breathes get shorter and quicker.
she could be dead. that is her blood. that sick bastard, had her attached to those chains. jj can picture her. laying there, tired, hungry and hopeless. her dull, lifeless eyes that were once so beautiful that jj could stare into them forever, just barely hanging open. her skin pale. her mouth drying up inside from dehydration and starvation. the vision and thoughts of it make him physically sick. he's terrified for his girlfriend. terrified of where she is. terrified of how bad she's hurt. terrified of what's happened to her. terrified of what barry could've done, or put her through. he's terrified for her.
meanwhile the young girl everyone is so worried about it currently running around fancy streets of charleston. she's just running. she doesn't know where she is or where she's running to... she's just trying to get away from him.
kiara runs towards the ferry, little does she know her friends are currently doing the same. they manage to find sarah and all head to the twinkie.
kiara desperately searches for some help. someone she knows, someone she can trust. she doesn't want to go to someone she doesn't know, incase they know barry. she's being extremely careful right now as she doesn't want to go back there. she really doesn't.
she gets strange looks from everyone as she walks round tables. she's wearing dirty clothes and her hands and wrists are covered in blood from where she smashed them with a rock to get the chains off.
jj and the others stand next to the twinkie, against the railing of the boat. they look down at the waves below them.
"what now?" john b says. jj shakes his head. "i don't know" sarah says. jj turns around and leans his back against the railing. he grabs his bottle of water to take a drink but it slips out of his hand when he sees something, or rather, someone.
"jj bro you dropped your water" pope says, leaning over to pick jj's water up from the floor, but when pope goes to hand it back to him, he's gone. all the other pogues look at jj, and then they realise what he's walking towards.
sarah's face lightens up as she feels a ton of relief come over her, like weight had been taken off of her shoulders.
cleo has a smile spread right across her face. "oh my god..." she says.
pope stares in shock, not knowing what to do, but he also feels some weight lifted off of him.
and john b chuckles as he blinks a tear out of his eye. "she's okay!" he managed to say.
jj runs up to her as she runs up to him, until they finally meet in the middle, throwing their arms around each-other as they both cry. jj wraps his arm around her waist and the other goes on her head as he strokes her hair. kie's arms wrap around his torso as her head lays on his shoulder. "kiara... are you- are you okay?" he cries, pulling back to examine her. she nods, but his smile drops slightly when he sees her wrists. "kie.." "i had to, to break myself out. i'll explain everything later" she says. he pulls her against his chest as they both sob, mostly tears of happiness and relief.
"kiara!!!" they hear. they both look to see the pogues running towards them. kie smiles again as sarah jumps, throwing her arms around her. "oh my fucking god kiara!" she sobs. kie hugs her back tightly. "are you okay?!" sarah cries. "i am now" kie cries. she pulls back to see cleo standing next to them.
"girl!" cleo says, pulling kie in for a tight embrace. "we thought we lost you.." cleo says softly. kie pulls away after a few seconds and looks at her. "but you didn't. i'm still here" she says, forcing a slight smile.
kie turns to pope and john b, who both hug her at the same time. she laughs as she wraps one arm around each of them.
they are all so happy, to see kie safe and alive. but they're all so scared to hear about what kie has been through the past 3 days. because they all know, it's not good.
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bit of a longer chapter - poor kiara || 2.4k views! tysm || i'm currently in france but i wrote this on the 20 hour bus drive so there might not be another update for a few days.