The Cost of Freedom Is High

On The Road To Warped

Bret Von Dehl's POV ~

I made sure to keep a tight grip on Bella's body as it lost all control, flopping down to the ground.

I managed to stop her body right before her head hit the ground. Just as William entered the room I had thrown Bella over my shoulder and was ready to leave.

"Do we have everything?" I asked William, making sure of everything before we got onto the road.

"Yep, and Telle's calling either Danny or Chris right now. To tell them that a) we've got her, and b) that she tried to run before she even saw our bus." He replied.

"Sounds good to me." I stated.

"If you're okay with it I'd say that we should probably bring her to the bus now, and I can close and lock everything up." He suggested.

"Will do." I said, and started to walk out of the house with her.

"Oh, and just take a little bit of precaution, there is a chance that she'll wake up sooner than expected." He warned me.

"Okay, thanks." I replied, and then fully made my way out of the house with her still over my shoulder.

When I got to the tour bus Telle thankfully was ready for us, and opened up the door, took Bella from my arms and brought her into the bus as I walked up the steps.

"So, we've got a runner, huh?" Telle lightly chuckled.

"Seems like it, even though apparently she hasn't done that for coming up on about 4 months." I told him.

"Yeah, that's what Danny just told me." Telle said.

"What'd he think of it?" I wondered.

"He was definitely a little surprised, although he did say in a sense he was a little surprised she hadn't tried it more than once already." Telle told me.

"Everything's locked up, and we're ready to go." William announced, coming onto the bus and shutting the door.

"Okay, let's go." I suggested.

"Sounds good to me." William stated.

Telle went ahead, and put Bella's body down on the chair across from the 'kitchen' table, and William went up front to call Fronz and Cody Carson who were in the other bus that everything had gone well enough and we had Bella.

"Well we've got about 34 hours left." Telle laughed slightly.

"Let's just hope she stays asleep for a majority of the time." I said.

"Just to keep us all on the safe side I say these are a bit necessary at least as of now." Telle stated, pulling out two pairs of handcuffs.

As I sat down on the couch I watched as Telle quickly lock Bella's arms to the sides of the chair.

Giving them a pull, we both became satisfied with the fact that they'd keep her in place.

Now we just had a waiting game.

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8 Hours Later ~

A piercing scream suddenly pierced through the air, which sent Telle and I jumping down from our bunks and rushing as fast as possible to where the screaming was coming from.

"Shh, quiet Bella." Telle hissed at her, kneeling in front of the chair she was in and putting a hand on her thigh.

"Nooo!" Bella screeched, now slamming her arms back and forth trying to get the handcuffs off.

"Shut the fuck up." Telle growled, placing a hand over her mouth.

"Mmmm!" She once again howled, the sound now being muffled.

"Go get a gag or something." Telle asked me.

"Yep, be right back." I yelled, already running to the cabinet we had in the bathroom which was full of things such as gags.

I was met with a collage of ball, bit, and panel gags, but I made the quick decision and grabbed the black ball gag that I know would shut her up.

"Thanks." Telle said, as I finally ran back to him and placed it in his hand.

"Open your mouth." I growled behind her, now clamping a hand under her jaw as she had shut her mouth and was trying to keep it closed as tight as possible.

"Come on." Telle goaded her, attempting along with me to pry her mouth open.

Getting annoyed with her resistance, Telle just went ahead and shoved two fingers on each side of her ribs.

Thankfully she screamed out which allowed us to slip the gag in and tighten it from the back.

Once it was in Bella was completely silent, but was giving us both very clear glares.

Not wanting to give her that satisfaction, Telle and I walked back to the back lounge and were both surprised by the quiet we were met with.

"That was really weird, I was not expecting that from her at all." I admitted, despite knowing her past history.

"I honestly think she just got worried and panicked after she got back in the house. I don't think she knows either of us as well so that probably through her for a loop." Telle added.

"Exactly, now let's just hope that she calms down a bit more and then we can get her more nicely situated." I said.

"That would be nice." Telle told me, sitting down across from me.

"I agree." I replied.

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8 more hours had passed, but luckily a lot of progress had been made. After the first three hours Telle went and checked on her and we were happy to find that she had relaxed almost completely down.

We stayed out in the same room with her for another hour,until we had full faith in her that she wouldn't act up again.

Once I had slipped the gag out from her mouth she took a few deep and calming breaths, and finally muttered out a "I'm sorry."

After consideration between Telle, William who was now driving, and I we came to the conclusion that it was safe for us to give her another chance without the handcuffs and so far it's been fine.

For the entire time now she's sat silently, answered questions politely when asked, and in general has been very calm and collected.

Both Telle and I had been trying to get her to confess to why she was out running in the woods, but she kindly denied to tell us and simply told us that she'd talk to Chris about it.

There wasn't much we could do with that, we just accepted the fact that we'd most likely have to wait to get any information from her.

"Bella." Telle called to her.

"Yes?" She gently replied, looking up.

"Do you want to just go in the back and sleep?" He asked her.

"Only if that's what's okay with you guys." She said.

Telle looked at me for confirmation, and I agreed with him.

"That's completely fine. Go get rested up." I told her.

Without another word she got up and quickly walked to the backroom where the bunks were.

"Chris and the guys will get down to the bottom of it." Telle stated.

"Let's hope for her sake that it was just a stupid impulse." I said.

"Exactly." Telle replied.

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Ghost's POV - in the MIW bus with MIW & the MIW Crew

Ryan and I were the lasts one still up, as everyone else was in bed and Vinny had just went to bed as well.

"So, are you planning on teaching little miss princess a lesson when she arrives?" Ryan asked, beer in hand relaxing on the couch.

"Of course, I've been waiting a little over 3 months and now at least I have a solid reason to do it. Not that I needed one in the first place." I replied.

"Sounds good to me." He said.

"What are you thinking so in depth about?" I wondered, noting a certain sense of thoughtfulness going on with him at the moment.

"Is there any possible way that Chance was the reason for her little run?" He asked.

"No way. It doesn't add up in any sense at all. I mean it was possible that there was communication before hand, but after Michael and DJ came to live with us it's impossible that Chance managed to get to her." I said.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But still, I think that once she gets on one of our buses we need to always have her on a bus. I just have this gut feeling that says if she walks around with us even with the new hair. contacts, and tattooes............... I don't know. I just feel we need to be extra cautious." Ryan explained.

"I understand, and we can definitely make sure that works out." I said.

"Well, I'm going to go to bed. I'll see you in the morning." Ryan told me.

"Okay, night." I called after him, as he threw his bottle in the trash and went back into the bunks.

I'd make sure that along with her punishment Bella would still be able to have enough trust in us that she won't want to leave.

Not that there's a chance in hell she'd get out anyways.

It was impossible.