Hostage

Zack’s POV

Damn it, I knew something was wrong…
Why have I waited so long?!
One of my best friends was missing and I didn’t know what to do…
We had gathered all together at Brian’s yesterday where he showed us the picture he got from Matt.
Shit, I prayed Matt was okay.
Seeing that tall guy lying there on the floor bleeding made me fucking afraid for his life.

Brian was waiting for the next call, he couldn’t call the number back because it was anonymous.
We talked about the possibility to go to the police again but the note on the back of the photo was clear - no police.
Still I thought we couldn’t handle that on our own, but Brian and Arin convinced the rest of us to at least wait for the next call and then we would decide what to do.
I opened the newspaper and when I was nearly finished I saw in the back a small file about a missing woman.
-Alicia Davis-
A picture of her and a number to call if there were any hints about her disappearing…
I didn’t know why but this made me curious, maybe this had anything to do with Matt?!
I walked with the newspaper to my phone and called the number.

“Alicia??” The voice sounded desperate.
“Hello, no.. I am sorry. Here is Zachary Baker, I read the note in the newspaper and I wanted to ask you something.”
“Caroline Mason, do you know anything about Alicia?” The woman voice was shaking.
“No, sorry. Or well… do you know since when Alicia is missing? Because one of my best friends is also missing and when I read your note I had the feeling that maybe…” I didn’t know… maybe this was stupid from me…
“Really? So, I tried to call Alicia since Saturday… we normally talk 2 times a week and Saturday was overdue… I couldn’t reach her, so I tried again a couple of times… but nothing, I even drove over on Sunday, but she wasn’t home. I got a key to her apartment, still nothing… all her things are there…” Caroline said and my stomach began to churn.
“Matt is also missing since the weekend… maybe we could meet and talk about some details, maybe they have something in common?”
“Of course, where do you want to meet and when…” Caroline asked and I heard a little kid in the background.
“Whenever you can...” I told her and I had a feeling that maybe we had a small lead.

We made an appointment for this afternoon and I hoped that we would find anything through this meeting.

Matt’s POV

We haven’t seen anything from our abductors since this morning, the kid had thrown us some food on the table and then they were gone.
I tried to open the door then I heard one of the other guys yell not to try it again or he would shoot.
So they were still there but just didn’t pay us any attention.

It was afternoon? Maybe evening?
I looked through the only small gap in the window or rather the wooden planks before the window…
“Matt?” Alicia asked behind me.
“Hmm..” I turned around and she stood very close.
“Do you think that the police is already searching for us?” Alicia asked with a frown and damn she looked so lost.
I grabbed her into a hug and when her soft body was pressed into my chest, I breathed deeply in and out, somehow I felt better when I felt her close… was that normal?!
“I’m pretty sure that they are searching for us… And my best friends are already planning a way to find us… Johnny always had a thing for crime series… he will be the first to figure this out. I guess, that short shit is really smart, but don’t ever tell him I said that.” I smirked.
“I promise.” She smiled against my chest.
“Come on, let’s sit down.” We both dropped on the bed and I intertwined my fingers with hers. I somehow felt that I needed this contact and she didn’t seem to mind.
“Thank you.”
“For what?” Alicia asked with a frown then looked at our hands.
“For being here I guess, I think I would have gone crazy without you.” I told her what I thought earlier.
“Or you would have been gone by now…” She smiled sadly.
I let go of her hand and grabbed her chin to look deeply into her eyes, “No, way. We are in this together and we get out of this together… you will see. We just need to be strong a little longer.”
She licked her lips and my eyes moved down looking at her lips like hypnotized.
I bend a little down and she stared into my eyes our lips nearly touching, “Matt?”
“Hmm…” I murmured.
“How long was your longest relationship?” she asked and the spell was broken. I blinked a couple of times. Now she was beginning our little question and answer game? NOW?
“What?” I asked her with a frown.
“Your longest relationship?”
“Long, more than 10 years.” I told her.
“Yours?” I asked Alicia and she turned her head to look at me.
“4 years. Who ended yours?” She asked me.
“Well… that’s hard to answer, me or well we both…” I told her and thought about my talk with Val. The pause that for me wasn’t really a pause more an end… but Val doesn’t know about this yet.
“Yours?” I asked her curious.
“Him… it was a difficult time…” She said with a sad smile.
“You wanna talk about it, we have a lot of time…” I told her.
“The worst day of your life?” She asked me instead of answering.
Fuck, the worst day… I knew it right away and thinking about it could make my eyes still teary.
“When my best friend Jimmy died, when I got the message of his death…”
“Oh, I am sorry! When was that?”
“End of 2009… It was a shock for all of us… I don’t… I still can’t believe it…Jimmy was my brother.. I love him.” I shook my head.
I felt Alicia’s hand on mine and I looked up into her eyes, “And yours?”
She sighed heavily, “Not many people know this.. or well not many I care about.” She smiled sadly.
“A couple of years ago I received the message that I had cancer… that was the worst day of my life I thought… but it got even worse, long hospital stays…” She didn’t look up now it was my turn to put my hand on hers.
“Did you have chemo? Is everything okay now?” I asked her a little concerned, shit this must have been hell for her.
“No, they could remove it, but they told me that there was still a chance for it to come back, that’s why I had to make a lot of tests last Friday… And well… I… I am afraid, you know… fucking afraid… I can’t stand everything again… I am not strong enough for that.” She began to cry and fuck I couldn’t do anything I just grabbed her waist and pulled her into a tight hug.
“You are strong, you are living here through hell with me right now… and even if… you will get through that, too. But you don’t know yet, do you?” I asked her.
“No, they would call me… but well.. maybe they already tried… I don’t know… Matt maybe it came back… maybe…”
God, I didn’t know what to do so I stroked her back soothingly but honestly I felt even more helpless now… us talking about our worst nightmares, our biggest fears…
She pushed a little away and looked up at me with tears still in her eyes.

I was too aware of her soft breath grazing my cheek while she stared up in my eyes, her soft lips only inches from mine…
My hand around her waist, our other hands still chained together, but our bodies so close, firmly pressed together and then I couldn’t stand it anymore I pressed my lips to hers and was consumed in the most passionate and heart melting kiss I have ever shared with anyone.

Notes

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