Now&Forever: Victors or Victims-A Y&R Young and the Restless Fanfic

Chapter 2

"This is something I need to do! I have to make sure this scum doesn't get the chance to hurt anybody I care about! I can't stand by and watch him destroy my family! Don't you understand, I won't stand by while he tries to make me and everybody I care about a victims again! I can't and I won't! Why can't you understand and accept that?!" Vicki tried desperately to make her position clear, to make her parents understand that she was only trying to protect them.
"Who says you need to let him victimize you, or anybody?" Nikki asked calmly.

"Sweetheart, all we're asking is that you think this through! Is whatever small victory you might gain worth risking your safety, your life?" Victor chimed into the discussion once again.
Without hesitation, Vicki replied, "If it means my family is safe, and that I don't have to worry about what I'll do the day I come home, only to find that he's taken you all away from me, that I've lost you forever, then, yes it is."
"Victoria, come on! You're talking crazy!" Nikki exclaimed forcefully.
"You don't know what he's capable of!" Victor echoed his wife?s sentiments.

Wide-eyed and hostile, Vicki shot back bitterly, angrily, "Oh no? I don't know what he's capable of? Come on! If anybody knows what he's capable of, it's me! I know first hand!"
"Then, why are you doing this?" Nikki asked confused, worried.
"Why are you taking such a risk? Don't you realize the colossal consequences? Don't you realize how much this could cost you?" Victor boomed, trying to get through to her.
With a chilling, detached look in her eyes, and a steely edge to her voice, Vicki replied, "Whatever the consequences, I'll deal with it! And, as far as the risk I'm taking with my life, it's my life! I won't run scared, so, if that's what you want me to do, if thats what you're suggesting, you can just forget it!"

"Sweetheart, nobody's suggesting you do anything you do anything like that." Victor tried once again to make her see reason.
"All we're saying is you need to think about things, really think about them, before you do anything you might end up regretting." Although Nikki's voice was soft, the determination in her eyes shone as brightly as the light from any star!

"Gee, thanks, Mom, thanks a lot! Is that it, you and Dad have so little faith in me that you're desperate to stop me before a make matters worse?" Vicki shot back defensively, needing to lash out. Accusingly, she continued. "Gary's the one who tortured me and yet, everybody's so quick to try and stop me from defending what's mine! Well, excuse me! That's everybody else's game plan, not mine!" With that, she stormed to the front door, seething!
"Victoria, where are you going? We're not finished!" Victor called after her.
"Out!" Victoria barked, before slamming the front door behind her!

After she left, Nikki and Victor were left to wonder where she was going, and just exactly how far she'll go to rid herself of a monster that fate has seen fit to give a second chance, while their daughter goes though her own waking nightmare. A nightmare that, benign as it may seem is nothing short of torture for her, as well as for themselves!