Secured Sevenfold

Brian’s POV
I couldn’t believe my eyes. The room we stepped in revealed 6 more doors like the one we just passed.
“Fuck!” I heard Matt release a breath next to me. I guess he was just as disappointed as I was. We would need a lot more time to figure all of this out. 6 doors! That would reveal so much more house. How were we ever able to find them? It would be so hard to find them… If they were even here… I think we all thought such a heavy door should lead to something important, like our girls… but it wasn´t. Or at least, not behind this door, we would need a door number two, and maybe even a door number three or four. This was fucking frustrating!

“Come on, we need to get a go on it, we will find them, we just need to keep looking, not give up hope” Zack stepped forward, clapping both Matt and me on our shoulders.
“Do you all want to take a door, or should we go together?” Johnny asked, looking at Matt for an answer, but I could see Matt was taken aback. He didn’t know what to do, just like me he just wanted to get this over with, get the girls and get out of here.
“I’ll see we just go in blazing, I’ve had enough of this!” Matt groaned “I’m done. They are here, I feel they are, but we have no idea where. I say we storm in and get this over with, enough with the careful approach”
Arin stepped up next to Matt and put a hand on his arm “I understand your motives, but it’s not wise Matt and you know it” Matt shot Arin an annoyed look, but then I saw acceptance in his eyes and his shoulder hung down.
“Let’s take this one door at the time, we don’t know what’s behind it and we might need each other” Arin took the lead again and I was very grateful for that, we needed someone that was able to keep his head in the game. Arin sure stepped up to the par. I might have been wrong about him earlier.

We started systematically opening doors, the first one showed a broom closet, while the second one opened up to a large room, filled with boxes.
“What’s in there?” Johnny asked, already heading in to have a closer look
“I don’t fucking care, if it’s not Jack or Joe” I growled at my friend. Why waste time on these things if we still hadn’t found the girls?
The third and fourth door gave us the same kind of content as the earlier ones and I was starting to lose my faith again. What if this was just on big fancy closet?

Door number 5 made us all stop dead in our tracks. It was a close like room again, but this time, it was filled with photos, articles and keepsakes of Jack and Joe. Two lifelike pictures of them were staring at us and for a second I was wondering where the hell you could make things like these.
“Holy shit” Johnny let out next to me. He was going through the pictures that were pinned on the wall. I opened one of the boxes at my feet, to find it filled with baby things. A blanket, a rattle, baby clothes. It freaked me out. Were these stuff Joanne’s or Jack or Joe’s? This room was so fucking creepy it gave me the chills.
“This is freaking me out” Zack said, also looking around. I could only agree with him, this girl must have been sicker than we thought “I don’t know about you guys, but I just want to get out of this room and close the door behind me with three locks on it, making sure nothing will come out. Brrrr” Zack shivered as he backed out of the room. I couldn’t help but stare at the content of the room, but I averted my eyes and made my way out too.

When we all stood in the initial room again, Matt looked at us. He had his leader look on his face and I knew that he had something important to say.
“As we all noticed from the room we were just in… This girl must be highly delusional. We need to take more precaution in everything, because we really won’t know what she will do, or what she is able of. Please be careful, for yourself, but especially for the girls. We need to be extra careful”

With that Matt put his hand on the doorknob of the last door we had to check and opened it carefully. He revealed a corridor with another oak door at the other end. We heard some movement behind the door and were pretty sure there must be at least one, or maybe even two persons behind it. I put my hand on my gun, I needed to be prepared for what was behind it, I wouldn’t be kind, I would get my Jacky back. Right now.

Matt pointed to the door “There is someone behind it” he mouthed to all of us. We were all getting ready to fight. We were creeping towards the door, slowly, quietly, not giving away our presence just yet. We were about to open the door when our phones buzzed. Arin took his out and read the text he got from Dean.
“Shit! We need to get out, Joanne is coming back” He whispered.
“I’d say we let her come and just fight, how strong could she be?” I said, not wanting to run without my girl.
“I agree” Matt added, crossing his arms over his chest.
“We don’t” Zack, Johnny and Arin said resolute, like they had discussed what they would do if we would reach this moment “We are going to get back to the cars. We are not running into Joanne on purpose. You have seen how crazy she is, what do you think she will do to the girls if she sees us like this? It’s too fucking dangerous. We will think of a new plan! Now let’s go!”

Before I could even protest Zack was pushing me towards the exit of the house. And Matt was forced by Arin, not looking happy at all. We couldn’t take the front door, seeing that was probably where Joanne would come in. Just as we made our way out of the back of the house we heard her voice at the front door.

“Kevin! Did you forgot to put the alarm on? I told you, you should take better care! What if my sisters are gone?” My eyes widened, they were here! “It will be on you and let me tell you… You will regret it”
Zack pushed me forward and dragged me away from the house. I didn’t want to leave, Jacky was there, she really was. I needed to go back, find her.
“Let go of me!” I pulled my arm out of Zack’s grip the minute we reached the others on the street “I need to go back! They are there!” I turned to head back to the house, but Zack held on to me, refusing to let me go.
“They are there?!” Matt looked at me in surprise.
“Yes! I heard that bitch tell about her sisters, she is keeping them there, we need to get back!”
Matt turned around to, but was stopped by Johnny and Arin. If this hadn’t been a very serious matter it would have been funny, but it wasn’t.

“No!” Zack looked me deeply in my eyes. “Brian, no! Don’t do anything stupid! Let’s get back to the car, and make a new plan. We know they are here. That’s the important thing. Come on, let’s go”

We walked back towards the car and Zack was walking so close to me that you could think he was actually holding my hand. As if he really could stop me if I planned on getting away from him…
But I let him think he could, same was with Matt, Arin and Johnny. If he really wanted to get away from them he would, we both would.

Problem was we weren’t alone in this and we had to listen to our friends, one way or the others, they were three and they thought we should head back to the car, we would. They outnumbered us and sometimes we just had to discuss something before going in, we knew what happened with Jimmy being too unprepared.
I wouldn’t let that happen again, and maybe they were right, maybe we should talk about a new plan first.

We arrived at the car and Dean opened the door for us, we quickly jumped in and closed the door behind us.
“Shit…” Matt cursed loudly, throwing his phone against the door.
“Calm down.” Arin urged him on.

“What? What’s going on?” Dean asked impatiently and I grabbed his shoulder.
“We heard them talking about the girls, they are there. We know for sure they are there, but they are not alone.
“Do you know how many?” Dean asked and I shook my head looking at the other guys.
“You got any idea how many? Could someone tell the voices apart?” I asked and saw Zack shake his head and Matt sigh loudly, no.
“I could hear Joanne and another guy, maybe one more, not too sure about that.” Johnny said and I nodded “That’s what I guess as well.”
“But that means we are more, we got 5 against 3, maybe four if Joanne will still be there.” Matt said hope still in his voice.

“But they got the girls, Matt.” I said quietly. “We cannot risk that” Zack finished.
“Fuck, don’t you think I know that… I just… we were so close… we know they are there… We need to finish this, guys… I mean…” Matt looked helpless at me and I nodded, I was on board, if he said we would be going in, I would, but I wouldn’t risk any of my friends for this.

Matt and I locked eyes, was he thinking the same way I was… maybe it was just us who had to manage the whole thing? Maybe we could outsmart them…
“Don’t even think about. You won’t do anything alone, quit that badass superhero look in your eyes, both of you.” Arin said looking between me and Matt back and forth and I could help it but chuckle, that kid really knew what was going on and he was growing with each mission and situation, we had to talk about that after all this was done.

“So… what do you think we should do?” Matt looked at Arin and that was also something new, Matt asking the kid for advice.
“I think… we should regroup, I mean, when this crazy as fuck girl is home, we need to… we need to think of a way to handle that… what if she takes the girls as victim, tries to hurt them just to fend us of, you know… We need to consider all this? I know you don’t wanna hear this, but what if?” He was right, I really didn’t wanna hear this, but… how would we react seeing the girls are being hurt?

“I know…” Matt and I nodded.
“Maybe we should head back to the mansion, think this through clearly. I mean we know where they are, they haven’t seen us, and they don’t know what we know. We found a way in, we will consider everything and go back…” Zack said and I shook my head “I don’t think we should leave..”

“Maybe Zack and Arin are right…” Matt mused “Maybe we should all consider what happens, what if really one is hurt, we need to… I mean… does any of you have the first aid training? Or can remember any of it, maybe we should get Liv in on this, pick her up, she told me she can handle all this, she is trained for emergency situations… we could get her, think about a new approach and get back her…” Matt looked around, earning nods from the others and I think this was settled, if I liked it or not, but why did it seem like that I was the only one thinking we shouldn’t leave?!

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