No Tomorrow

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The jeep swerved dangerously close to the edge of the road and it took him a few seconds of frantic steering to get us back in the right lane, we were driving at least 70 miles an hour but thankfully the roads were fairly clear. He cleared his voice a few times and put a shaking hand on my left knee.

"....so you told him.."

"He didn't like it, no. I didn't expect him to touch me though...he told me that he doesn't want it, he wants me to get rid of it.."

He squeezed my knee again and for once I didn't bother to tell him to stop, it felt nice and it made my skin tingle even through the fabric of my leggings.

"We'll talk more about it on the way back, but whatever you choose to do, I'll be behind you 100% of the way."

*

"Grab that duck."

"Huh?"

Having raided the small store, we were parked close to the doors we busted in through to transport the goods better; we lucked out on enough baby clothes, food, and toys to last the baby a few months but Jay had gone out of his way to find me some prenatal vitamins. Expired by at least a few months, but he told me that they would work the same.

"That duck, you dropped it back there by one of the isles. A kid growing up in a prison could use all the toys she can get."

Jay smiled and picked up a fuzzy yellow duck he'd dropped on the floor and I returned the smile when he stepped back into the sun with a handbasket of formula bins and pacifiers.

"Fair enough~"

It was when he bent over to adjust our goods when I heard another heartbeat right before I felt the cold metal of a gun being pressed into my right temple and an arm wrapped around my throat from behind.

"Now then, step away from your car or the bitch gets it."

I saw the muscles in Jay's back tense up but he obeyed the throaty sounding voice withouth much trouble, making sure that his hands were in the air for the man to see, I could tell that Jay was trembling but there was no way that the man knew what we were....right? I felt like I heard that voice somewhere before...

"Alright, just don't hurt her. What do you want?"

The arm tightened around my neck and I smacked at the dude's elbow until he lifted his other arm and I was able to see where I knew the voice from, the man's right hand was missing and replaced with a brutal looking metal weapon with a big metal cuff around the place his wrist should be.

"Your ride, obviously."

"Let...me...go...now...Merle."

The arm loosened a little bit but he tightened it back up when I tried to break free of his hold and his whole demeanor changed, he kept the gun to my temple but his body stiffened ram-rod straight.

"....you're the two bit whore my brother saved, aren't you? Where is he?"

"Nowhere that you're concerned. He looked for you until we had to leave-"

He tighened the muscles in his arms and my air supply choked off with a gurgle and a stab of pain at the back of my head, I saw a few of Jay's fingers begin to twitch more but black spots were starting to dance around my vision.

"Take me to him."

"No."

The pain in my head increased and more black spots took over my vision until I saw through nothing but tiny pin-holes but I kept clawing at his arm with my fingers to try and breathe, I knew that I could break his arm to get free if I had to, but the little bastard was sapping my energy by not letting me breathe. The gun barrel to my head was scaring me too, not for my sake, but for my baby's.

"Then I'm sorry sugar tits, but I'm taking you back with me."

He smashed the gun into the side of my head with enough force that I blacked out in an instant and knew nothing more.

*

Jay's POV:

"Wake him up.''

Something hard kickd me right in the face and the pain of my nose breaking woke me up, I knew my nose would heal before my blood dripped from my chin but everything else was foggy; all I remembered was trying to fight the bastard who knocked Belle out but something was shot into my neck and made me pass out. I could hear fists hitting flesh over and over again but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, whoever was getting the shit beat out of them hardly seemed to be concious. The man who stood before me had one bandage over one of his eyes and looked purely l i v i d.

"Where are your people? Tell me, and your woman might be spared. I don't normally condone the acts of violence towards women, but..."

The man shrugged and with a sickening lurch I realized the nasty sounds I was hearing was Belle, I spit blood from my mouth and struggled to free my wrists from the weird metal cuffs that bound me to the chair I was in.

"Please, she's pregnant! You'll kill the baby!"

The man leered when I heard the most sickening crunch yet and a pitiful cry of pain, I strained against the cuffs even more until my wrists began to bleed a litttle bit.

"Please! The baby!"

"Tell me where your people are and that'll stop."

I snarled at the man and he raised a finger to his own head before he tapped at the dark hair clustered to his temple.

"Time's ticking, if I were you I wouldn't let my unborn child and wife go through that."

The man punched me in the jaw and I wanted to grin when he winced but a new tearing sound replaced the beating noises and I quickly turned my head trying to pinpoint the noise, the man circled me maybe twice and came to rest on a table out of the range of my legs; a few tools were on it but I couldn't tell what they were from here.