A Pain Never Forgotten (NCIS) - Part Three

Chapter Two

Kelly stood there with her wrists tied above her head stretching her arms to full length and her bare feet on the cold woodern floor. They'd taken off her sandals and T shirt, leaving her just in her shorts and sports bra, she was planning to take TJ to the park since it was a sunny day. She forced herself to look up the pain burning through her face and neck. She could feel that it was swollen and it felt tender she recalled as her captor swiped his fist across and crashed it into her face knocking her to the floor and making her blackout. As she finally managed to pull her head up she saw a camcorder pointed at her, it's red light flickering. It was the same as when Gibbs had been caught in England she knew that they were streaming this on the Internet.

McGee brought the live video feed up on screen it hurt to look at it, and he knew the rest of the team wouldn't want to, but they had to it was evidence and the strongest thing they had so far to find Kelly.

Kelly looked around to absorb her surroundings they seemed strangely familiar. It looked like she was inside a house, it felt warm and she could see a winding staircase outside the room she was being held in. On the walls hung family pictures, she didn't know the family but they looked happy, a man, woman, a boy who looked about 15, one who looked about 9 and a girl who looked around 6 years old. Their family portrait looked over Kelly, their smiling faces shining from within the frames. She saw in another picture a man in a navy uniform hugging his two boys. Why here? Could there be a link? She had faith in her family but she was beginning to wonder if she would see TJ again, he couldn't grow up without her. Her shoulders were burning and tired but there was nothing she could do. She heard a commotion from the other room and stomping on the staircase, she could hear a woman's frantic muffled screams. Kelly tried to pull herself free as she saw the family in the pictures been dragged down the stairs arms and legs tied together, they where dragged into the same room as Kelly and thrown on the floor. Kelly could see the horror in the mother’s eyes as she feared for her life and the safety of her children. The father of the family did not appear with the rest of his family, maybe he's out and will find us Kelly thought to herself.

One of the men Kelly recognised stalked over the scared family and started to threaten them. The man had long black greasy hair that had random stands of grey straggling out of an untidy ponytail, his skin was tanned but it was dark and grubby like he hadn't had a bath in months, his teeth a rotten yellow colour with a faint smell of tobacco and whiskey on his breath. Kelly saw the familiar swallow tattoos on his hands, he worked with the men she had killed only a couple of years before.

"Don't speak to her!" He spat to the family pointing at Kelly "Don't even speak to each other or I'll kill you" he continued pointing a gun at them.

He turned and walked over to Kelly "Hello my lovely" he smirked brushing a strand of hair out of Kelly's face, she quickly moved her head out of his touch. He just smirked at her.

"Damn! Your signature move, is now just predictable and boring!" Kelly joked sarcastically about the camcorder pointed in her face.

"It just so we can show your family your true colours. We need you back with us now it's been too long." he laughed his foul breath filling her nostrils.

"A lifetime of not seeing you still wouldn't be long enough" Kelly retorted.

He grabbed her face squeezing her cheeks, Kelly groaned in pain as he touched her bruised skin "Still as much attitude as ever, I see. Just how we made you! and don't moan ... you know that's what I like"

Kelly closed her eyes thinking back to how stupid she'd been "I'm not that person anymore, and I am not part of your stupid games anymore!"

"But see lovely, you are! We needed you as revenge, Gibbs sent one of our guys away, he needed to pay! So when we saw you and your mother on your own we had to do something, when we saw that you had survived the crash without hardly any injuries we had the brainwave, you would kill Gibbs for us!" He laughed pacing round the room

"You're sick" Kelly spat

"No, it would of been simple for us to kill Gibbs, it would be much worse to be killed by your own little girl and he wouldn't send you to jail. We raised you as a killer, a fighter, we knew you could of done it, you'd killed many before. You forgot about your old life and made one with us. We made you forget your perfect little family. But when you met them again you got to know them, felt sorry for them, you forgot what we told you and believed their version of events, that's not what we wanted and now you've gotta pay!" He said slapping Kelly across the face to the family's horror who were shuddering on the room's floor.

"Let the family go" Kelly called

"You're so noble, just like your father" he walked up the camera and spoke into the lens "there is one difference between you both, you are ... Well let me spell it out for you" he turned to walk back over to Kelly who stood there helpless, he pulled the knife from his belt and traced the cold metal across Kelly's collar bone down over her sports bra to her disgust, he pulled it off and placed the sharp edge of the blade on her stomach he pressed it in lightly making it draw blood, he began to drag it down making Kelly scream out in pain she closed her now watering eyes. When he had finished Kelly looked down to see her skin had been cut into a 'w' on the right side of her torso drops of blood running down her stomach to her shorts.

The man looked in Kelly's eyes "I'll finish the word later I'll leave you and your new friends guessing what it could be"