Love In The Dark

Hyde Manor

She drives for what feels like forever before he instructs her to stop somewhere.

"Get out of the car. If you try to run I'll shoot you." Amanda steps out of the car and Lewis gets out after holding his gun to her head. He leads her to a different car and pulls out a pair of hand cuffs. He cuffs her hands behind her back and shoves her into the back seat. He gets into the car adjusting the rearview to focus on Amanda.

They drive for a while before she loses track of time. She  looks out the window trying to remember distinctive landmarks or any major locations. They were at least a few hours outside the city and she knew it wouldn't be long before they were out of New York completely.

"Where are you taking me?" She doesn't look at him but she can see him looking at her in the mirror out of the corner of her eye.

"I have a place. Somewhere we can go and nobody is going to bother us. Have you ever been to Vermont? You'd be amazed how many places there are that no one has any interest in for such a small state. The best part? By the time they realize we've left New York you'll be dead and I'll already be across the border." She refuses to give him the satisfaction of knowing that she's terrified and continues staring blankly out the window for the rest of the ride.

"Here we are." Lewis gets out of the car and opens her door. He watches as she slowly slides across the seats and steps out of the car.

"What the hell is this place?" Her eyes widen as she takes in her surroundings.

"It was a resort once. It's been here for over 200 years and somehow it's miraculously still standing...well at least some of it is. It's perfect right? Nobody ever goes inside because of how dangerous it is. Lucky for you it's a mild amount of danger compared to what could happen if you so much as look like you're trying to leave. I know that you're part of the NYPD and you all think you're untouchable but this isn't going to play out like you think. There's no happy ending where your squad finds you last minute and the bad guy goes away. I'm not going back to prison and you're never going to see Olivia again." He shoves her towards the building and leads her behind into a side door that opens up to a small foyer and a staircase.

He brings her toward the staircase and into a small hallway behind it where they come to a locked door. He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a key and removes the padlock that's on the outside of the door. Her stomach drops when she realizes this really isn't going to end like it did for Liv. He's thought this out. It wasn't luck or a convenient place like before. This was methodically planned out, he knew that there really wouldn't be anyone that would look for them here. Half the building is collapsed and reclaimed by nature. He leads her down the stairs into a basement. The basement is nothing like the rest of the building. It was haunting, and she knew there was no way this was part of the original building. Lewis had to have had people on the outside doing his dirty work. People he trusted who were scared enough to build him a cement box inside of an older than dirt resort. The floor, ceiling and all four walls were all cement. There was an old radiator built into one wall, a plastic tote and a folding metal chair. He pushes her against the wall and lowers her to the ground cuffing her hands behind her back onto the radiator.

"I've got a few loose ends to tie up and then I'll be back. You're gonna stay here. Not that you have much of a choice." He chuckles at himself and turns towards the stairs stopping in the doorway to look at her one more time. He could see the look of pure and utter terror on her face and he knew that he'd already won.

"Lewis don't leave me down here!" She pushes herself as far as she can to the doorway and pleads for him to not leave her down there.  She pulls at the hand cuffs pushing her back off the radiator the metal loudly clanging off the cast iron. Every time she pulls away she can feel the cold metal digging into her skin. Unable to free herself, for the first time in her life she feels complete hopelessness as the door slams shut and she's left alone in total darkness. She's really here and no one even knows she's gone yet. Liv will realize something is up eventually, but that doesn't help her have any idea were to find her...or him for that matter.

"I don't want to die here." Amanda sits in the shadows by herself, her breathing getting heavier and faster as the panic and the fear start to set in. She pulls harder at the cuffs wincing as she feels the metal scraping the skin on both sides of her hand. She keeps pulling, trying to free herself with absolutely no luck. She looks around the room frantically her breathing becoming more intense with the overpowering darkness around her. She can't see anything, not a single trace of light. There was nothing that could help her. There was absolutely nothing. No windows, no phone, no power. She had no leverage or mobility in the position she was in, she had no food, and no water. She was alone in complete darkness in some two-hundred year old manor that was half deteriorated and collapsed.  Her life was fully in the hands of a sociopathic murderer. He could just not come back if he wanted to and he was right, she'd be dead before anyone ever found her.