Stockholm Syndrome is not a Myth (Vocaloid Fanfiction KaitoxLen)

Chapter 4

Oh god I'm so sorry it's been so long since an update I have no excuses for it at all. It's just been I've been prioritizing other things over finishing this story.

In other news, this has reached over 800 views, and I'm just so happy!! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed/favorited/followed/gave kudos! And I even thank people who are just reading the story! It means a lot! I just never thought this would be so popular, y'know?

The room was silent, devastation showing plain on their faces.

"No...No...How do we even know they really kidnapped him? What if they're just messing with us?" Kanon asked, timidly as she wiped the last of her tears.

"Well, I don't know how they would've known Len was missing. We only called his friends." Anon replied, with her head in her hands.

"But...they couldn't've taken him...he's just...just...Why would they take him?" Kanon was slowly losing the composure she had just ten minutes ago.

"They want money." The girls looked to their father. It had been the first time he had spoken since he had replied to the email. There hadn't been a response in ten minutes, and they all were feeling antsy.

"We'll give it to them, right? I mean, if it's just money." Anon asked, trying to get her father to communicate.

"...I don't know what they want...whatever it is...I'll give it to them..." Leon murmured.

There was another silence as the three sat in the living room, Anon and Kanon side by side on the sofa, and Leon slumped in a loveseat.

"Someone has to tell your mother..." Leon said under his breath. He wasn't sure if he could do it himself, though.

"...I could bring her in here." Kanon volunteered, getting up from her place on the couch. "Maybe we all could calm her down..."

Kanon gently rapped on her mother's door.

"Mom...we're having a family meeting." Kanon said through the wood. There was no immediate response.

"Mom...?" she knocked again.

"Have you found Len?" she asked as she hastily pulled the door open.

"Um...We..." Kanon didn't want to have to answer right there with her hysterical mother staring her down. She wasn't sure exactly what her mom was doing while in her room, but Kanon knew she wasn't resting. Kanon could already see the worry lines being burned into her mother's forehead, and her mother's eyes prompted her to continue her sentence.

"...That's what the meeting is about." Kanon finished quietly. She didn't want to say it right then and there and have to see her mother's face hopeful face twist to agony.

Lily flew past her daughter, straight to the living room.

"Mom...are you okay?" Kanon asked as she followed her mother.

"No, I'm not. You'll understand when you have children, Kanon. I'm very worried right now. Scared is probably a better word."

Kanon knew that her mother was very overprotective. Kanon knew she meant it with good intentions, but she was just a natural born worrier. She could remember the time she had broken her wrist playing softball, and her mother cried like she was diagnosed with cancer. She almost forced her to quit the team. And Len's curfew was still considerably earlier than his friends'.

Kanon could only cringe to herself when she imagined how her mother would take the news.

The two turned into the living room, Kanon immediately taking a seat next to her sister on the couch. Lily took a seat next to her husband. There were exchanged, uncomfortable glances, for a short while, and it was silent.

"Leon, where's Len?" Lily had finally spoken up. Anon could only look at her mother with sad eyes, and Kanon let her head hang. Leon hadn't moved from his position since Lily sat down.

"Leon, where's Len?" she repeated, more sternly. Leon sat up straight, looking at his wife with sad eyes.

As a politician, he was used to giving people bad news. And he was usually okay with people hating him for it. But as a father and husband, he just couldn't look into his own wife's distressed face and just know that he was the one who had to tell her that their son had been taken from under their noses.

"Leon, don't just look at me like that! Where is my baby?!"

"Lily, while you were in our bedroom, we got an email." Leon sighed, handing his phone to Lily. The mother swiftly took the phone, reading over it frantically, silently mouthing the words to herself. The rest of the family could only watch as she read over the words again and again, as if it would change the message itself.

"M-My baby..." Lily whispered, tears welling in her eyes. "Of all the things to happen to him, it has to be this!" she squeezed the phone, half tempted to throw it across the room.

Lily tried her absolute best not to break down in front of her children, but it was becoming increasingly difficult. How could she not? Her only son was kidnapped, his life on the line –no, he could already be dead for all they knew! And whoever's behind this could just be collecting money. She didn't know, her family didn't know, no one knew.

Lily wiped the tears that were about to fall, and exhaled deeply. She held the phone again, dialing a number.

"What are you doing?" Leon asked.

"I'm calling the police." Lily pointedly said.

Leon snatched the phone from his wife's hands. "Lily, we can't do that!"

"We can't just sit here, can we? I can't just do that!" she asked rhetorically. She already knew that's all they could do; all they could do was sit and listen to whoever's orders.

"We don't have a choice." Anon mumbled.

"All we can do is sit here and do what they tell us and if we don't listen then they'll hurt Len or maybe even kill him! He could already be dead! And we don't even know what they want!" Kanon finally blurted out. A few angry tears punctuated her remark, her fists balled up at her sides.

"Honey..." Lily sighed, more tears threatening to fall. She opened her arms, prompting Kanon to run into her mother's embrace. Kanon buried her face into her shoulder, dampening the blue fabric of her mother's blouse.

"Wh-What if...What if we never see him again..." Anon trailed off. Lily and Leon looked over to the couch to see their other daughter silently weeping in her seat.

"Anon...we'll..." Lily started. We'll get him back, is what she wanted to say, but she couldn't even believe that herself.

"We'll make it through this." Leon finished.

That's all the family really could do.

Holy moly it's finally finished. God that took five months...so sorry about that hehe. Right now I'm literally kicking myself because now that I've picked a plotline, it's beginning to contradict what I've already wrote...so I might change some stuff from earlier chapters (?) if you don't mind...

Ew I really hate this chapter because it's rushed and a lil melodramatic and way shorter than I wanted it to be. I tried to take y'all's (it feels weird typing that lol) advice as best I could! I hope it was good enough!

Hopefully the next update will not take so long (still very sorry about that)!

Also! Thank you so much for the reviews! I really love seeing them! Whether they're opinions or criticisms! (This is probably the longest author's note I've ever written sorry)