Protecting Leah

I'm Sorry

Taylor's P.O.V

The room was damp, musty and smelt like wet dogs but I had no idea where I was. No windows let in the light and all that I could see was my white dress that I had thrown on after waking up on Karlie hours ago. I had no way to measure the time that I had been here but considering I couldn't hear anything I wasn't holding out on finding out the time anytime soon. I had no idea what was happening and all I wanted was to be home but I had watched enough crime shows 'thank god for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' to know that I had to keep a clear head.

Time passed slowly as I was in the dark I had managed to figure out that I was tied to a chair that seemed familiar but I didn't know why. My hands felt like they were chaffing and I couldn't do anything about it, I tried to sleep but it was difficult to find comfort sitting upright and having your hands bound to the chair you are seated on. Soon I became aware of noises coming from around me, like someone was near me in the room I was in. Soon enough the door burst open and light flooded into my eyes but when I looked up I felt sick. "Hello Taylor. Long time, no hear." I grimaced as they came closer and I hated that they knew my face and certain signs I made but that wasn't it, it was the betrayal knowing they had abducted me and taken me hostage against my will. All of a sudden the months of silence made sense to me, why she wasn't willing to help in any way. She abducted me. Standing up to her full height which was still shorter than me she said, "Well how does it feel to be helpless Taylor? Strange? Kind of how you left me for your stupid little daughter, friendships mean so little to you don't they?" she spat at me and I looked at her in disbelief.

"Why?" She cackled with laughter.

"You took yourself away from me, so now I'm taking you away from your wife and daughter." She spat again emphasising on the 'wife' and 'daughter' parts. I looked away and her hand swiped across my face. "Pretty bitch aren't you Swift. Never a hair out of place well I'd know that since we were best friends before you got with 'her'." I knew instantly that she meant Karlie but I stayed quiet. Her hand grabbed my short hair and said, "Oh and your parents say hi, well not really but since they are paying for this little escapade then I'll tell them you begged to see them. "That's a lie. I don't want anything to do with them." I state holding my head up as I'm slapped again.

"Stupid bitch, you should respect them. All that time they spent with you and you ran away to New York City and became a lesbian, but you see I wasn't as surprised as your mother was. In fact I had suspected it years ago, all your close friendships. You were nothing but a slut and you know it." I felt her hand slap me again as I shook my head defiantly. "Yes you were and now you're a married lesbian and we couldn't have that. But you made this so easy coming back here. No one will ever suspect me or even your parents." I snorted and got hit again, feeling the blood run down my face. "Is that what you think or what they told you, because everyone I left behind knows that they are out for me, even my wife." I spat at her. I then watched her eyes bulge at the idea that they knew I would eventually be found. "Aww just figuring it out? Don't worry they only send you to state prison for abduction and kidnap so I wouldn't worry I'm sure they planned everything to fall back on you...oh well maybe you should worry." I state. Happy to have a hand up on her but then I'm hit again this time from someone else. Waking later on I'm still chained to the chair but I'm not alone, I look around the room and see two other people but I'm not shocked. "Hi there Tay." One voice calls from the corner, I strain my eyes and see my father standing there like he's waiting in line at the grocery store. A warm hand is placed on my shoulder and I turn to see my mother, I shake off her hand and she speaks.

Andrea's P.O.V

It was never meant to happen like this, the plan was to wait it out and get back into Taylor's life and make her see that the things she had done since leaving Nashville were wrong, dating Karlie Kloss, getting engaged to Karlie Kloss and eventually marrying Karlie Kloss and all of this tipped Scott and I over the edge, but I knew that there were people who would help us for a fee and I found one very close to home who seemed to hate Taylor at the moment. It suited us, we didn't care. The original plan was to abduct her and tie her up until she agreed to divorce Karlie and marry a man, she also needed to agree to have a child naturally but I never agreed to physical abuse. Walking in and seeing Scott knock her unconscious made me realise how dumb we were being but Scott was into it, it was exciting to him not that I cared for the physical side of things but there was nothing I could do to stop it. We sat for hours waiting, Scott had told Taylor what she needed to do to be released and she nodded but didn't say anything more and I could tell she wasn't going to. I could see her engagement ring and wedding ring secured on her finger and I smiled a little happy that she seemed happy and then I remembered what Scott and I talked about, she ran from us and wouldn't listen and my heart turned to stone once more. Time passed and eventually I walked out to call Austin to bring us food. He agreed and arrived half an hour later. We said he could enter and see Taylor but he refused and instead he said something funny he said, "I'm sorry." I didn't understand him until I saw a flash of red and blue and I understood what had happened, Austin was saving us from ourselves and I willingly surrendered. Sitting in the back of the police car I wasn't sad, I watched Karlie sprint inside the warehouse where we had kept Taylor for close to twenty hours and walk back outside carrying Taylor bridal style to an ambulance. It warmed my heart and I realised that my daughter was happy, extremely happy and because of that I was happy finally.

Austin's P.O.V

Thing's had gotten hectic and I had been rung by Office Franks who asked me to come in and talk with him. It was there that I discovered that Taylor had been abducted and my parents were the suspects but I knew who it was. "Officer I haven't been involved but I know where she will be and who is to blame, if I tell you will I go to jail." He shook his head.

"No Austin but you will be banned from seeing your sister." I nodded and told them everything even how I would be called to bring food and they decided to use me as bait to catch them. Next Karlie was told and she socked me one in the eye, not that I blamed her then we hatched a plan and waited until I got the call.

Driving to the warehouse felt unreal, I knew my family plus a family friend were about to go down for abduction but I saw it as their fault, they chose to implement the plan. I was always just around. I was shown in by mom and she offered to let me see Taylor but I couldn't that was part of the deal then I said, "I'm sorry." Mom looked at me and saw the flashing lights and nodded sadly, I walked outside as the cops ran in, minutes later Mom, Dad and Abigail were brought to the car. My parents had taken it hard when Taylor began to make her own decisions and Abigail was mad that Taylor had Leah and no time for her. It was all because of jealousy. Nothing more or less. Officer Franks shook my hand and allowed me to leave, just as I left I saw Taylor being carried by Karlie to an awaiting ambulance. I nodded and began to walk headed back for college picturing my mother's face as I said, "I'm sorry." She knew what I had done and she accepted it.