Blainsville

30) Tortured

Jess

It was early morning around 6 or 7 when my alarm beside the bed stand went off only when I awoke I had this eerie feeling... I knew someone was up or watching me sleep. When I opened my eyes I wasn't met by Lindsey not at all but I was met by three tall men in dark suits who stabbed me with a needle in my arm, "What the Fu... Lind.. Lin..." What I could see was a glimpse of Lindsey as my eyes started to grow heavy. "Mommy?" She asks glancing around at the tall strangers, "Mommy what's going on? Mommy?!" I want to yell I want to scream and make a getaway but my body is so heavy it takes a second to realize I was drugged. "Run." Is all I can manage to get out as a whisper the last thing I see is my baby girl running down the hall. I could feel her footfalls fast and heavy, "Grab the girl." One says to the other. "Why?" Is all I can whisper as I'm being lifted up. I could hear the door open to the backyard and one man comes back to me; what's so weird is I can hear everything they're saying but I can't move I can barely blink all I can do is pray that Lindsey got away. I know what this is about now and it has to do with the Blooms... Fucking James. I'm being carried out the front door by one of the men who opens the backseat of a black Camaro and loads me in laying me down. I can watch and hear what's being said something about Lindsey ran away she went under the backyard fence and across the neighbor's yard they didn't know where she disappeared to but if she knew anything about stranger danger she would stay hidden until someone could find and help her.
Two of the men closed the back door where I was thrown into I can hear bits and pieces of the conversation something about Cromwell owed them and they wanted that baby, that's when it occurred to me that they were ranting about Jimmy's babies... But how did they know he had given birth already? Or did they just take a wild guess? My only assumption was that someone we knew told... We had a rat in our midst.

John

When I awoke I couldn't feel anything below my waist I could only feel my hands which were tied down by a strap I think. I try to move but I'm tied to something I can feel cold metal underneath my hands I attempted to open my eyes but was failing what the fuck did they drug me with? Though I was probably going to be killed or tortured like the mafia as I sat there against my will I could only think about Jessica and Lindsey I was hoping to God thay they had gotten away... Please escaped somewhere far from this because of me they were probably going to be executed. Suddenly I'm hit with what felt like ice water to the face it's freezing and I immediately open my eyes in a panic, "It's about time. Hello, John it's been about a month since we last talked." I recognize that voice that tone but I'm freezing and in shock; my mouth is so dry making it hard for me to speak back to whoever this was, "Who the fuck are you?" I manage to say through my scratchy throat, "Aires, being him some water. You're going to be here for awhile, Dr. Cromwell you lied to us and now you have to learn your lesson. I warned you that if we didn't get that baby I would make you regret it. You see I thought you understood that agreement? Did you really think that I wouldn't find out that all of these forms, these documents were a fake? Did you think the government was that stupid, John?" He asks. That's when I glances around quickly and notice that I'm actually strapped down to a medical chair of some sort I can't feel anything below my waist but I'm very aware of the medical tools beside me. "What did you do to my daughter? Where's my family?" Im practically pleading to him. "See there's the situation we ran into, Cromwell. Lindsey; your little daughter she ran... Now the problem is where the hell is she? We have Jess in the next room over if I were you I would start singing like a canary or your little wife isn't going to last very long. As for your daughter we have the entire state searching for her with the promise of a $50,000 reward on her head if found alive." What the hell did he mean by if? "You fucking bastard! You'll never find her... I've raised her too well; for a seven year old she's more spry than you think... If you hurt my wife... If you hurt Jessica I will escape these cuffs and I'm going to fucking kill you." I add that's when he goes to my face and is holding a syringe probably with more of the drug I was given. "So I assume you're going to put me under again when you know damn well I know some pretty valuable fucking information." I smirk. I figured if e wanted to play mind games I could play too because I had what he wanted and if he decided to kill me I'm taking every piece of it with me to the grave. "Oh you would like that wouldn't you, John? Just another chance to ignore my pressing questions? Well here's the deal now, if we don't find out what you know by the end of the day I'm not just gonna torture Jessica, I'm not just gonna find your daughter either... I'm going to use your body to get what we need. Trust me, John you won't want that. Because if I can't get the Bloom's baby you're going o replace it. You see if we used Lindsey that would be too easy we wouldn't get the results we need but that doesn't mean that we aren't going to take her and use her for other scientific measures." He says before leaving me and allowing two other guys in black to take over his role, "You can do whatever you want to Dr. Cromwell but I do ask that you leave him alive. You have till te end of the day John, or you're going to serve as the surrogate." That's when the two men put a dark sack over my head and I'm left to stare in the darkness.

Jimmy

I'm holding onto Diana because she's so upset and distraught that I don't know what else to do as she shakes and sobs. Last night was the worst experience I had ever been put through between losing a baby... Our baby girl that we were promised we are left with the twins that probably sensed something wrong with the situation because both were crying on and of for several hours. I was exhausted and looked like a straight up zombie but I didn't look and feel as messed up as Diana was. Her eyes were dark and puffy from crying so hard, she hasn't spoken in several hours and even when she did it was the same two words, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She kept whispering. I had put the baby in a small box and set it in the backyard in hopes of calling an ambulance or at least planning a proper burial. "Diana, we have to do something about her body. She ant just sit out on the back porch in the snow... We have to call someone. Honey?" But she wouldn't answer I had managed to get her to stop sobbing loud enough to where the twins wouldn't wake. I was exhausted and had dark circles under my eyes and they were as red rimmed as hers from the frantic tears. "We can't tell anyone, Jimmy. If we call the law they're going to ask questions... Questions we don't see an exact answer to. Where the fuck is John anyway? You called him five hours ago what could possibly be more important than this? I lost a fucking baby again, James... I don't... I don't know... I can't..." She starts to stutter before breaking down in my hold again hiding her face in my chest. "I'm so fucking ashamed. It's my fault... She died because of me, baby..." She chokes out before crying more. I glanced over to see Alaina asleep in her crib in front of us, she was tired herself and I was up every couple hours to change her or feed her. As for AJ he was awake again and I could hear him gurgling or wat sounded like blowing mouth bubbles, "I have to check on Alan ok? I have to get up babe. Do you want me to bring him over here with us? Do you want to hold him? Ana?" She wouldn't answer or gesture she just laid there curled in on herself so I planted a kiss on her wet, warm cheek and went to grab AJ. When I got to the crib he was awake and glancing around the place, "Hey there big guy, are you wet again?" I ask picking him up and setting him down on the changing table, "You're getting heavy my little man. Mommy is upset today and she has a good reason to be. Do you want to go see mommy? Do you want to go get some breakfast? Yeah buddy, let me change your diaper and I'll take you out to momma." I tell him as I change his diaper and then change his baby blue dinosaur onesie into a green and white jumpsuit, "Let's get you fed, AJ." I add carrying him to the kitchen to prepare a bottle I could have asked Diana if she wanted to breastfeed him but that look in her eyes I'm sure she can't even look at our living children right now. I set AJ down in his high chair at the table and turn to make him a bottle that's when Alaina starts to cry, "Oh great here we go again." I mumble to myself yawning from exhaustion. When I walk upstairs to the bedroom Diana is already holding Alaina close to her chest and besides the baby crying is also Diana, "I know baby girl, it's ok. Mommy's here, mommy's got you. I lost... I lost your baby sister..." She chokes out as Alaina clings to a strand of her stray red hair that's in a messy ponytail. I lean against the door and watch as she cradles Alaina bouncing her up and down every now and again just listening to heartbroken rant. "You didn't do anything wrong, Diana. It's not you at all it just it happened. It's alright sweetie... Do you want to feed AJ or do you want me to bottle feed him?" It's as if she's in her own little world when she takes Alaina to the window and stares out into the yard. I shrug unsure what to do or say next so I head back downstairs to find AJ passed out in his chair which was utterly adorable, I couldn't wake him poor little guy had been crying all night just about so I pick him up and carry him with me to our bedroom that's when it gets alarming. Alaina was in her bassinet but where was Diana?

Diana

It would only hurt for a minute I try to convince myself as I'm sitting there on the toilet holding a razor blade. I know this is the stupidest stunt I'll ever try but I can't stand to live with the guilt of knowing I've caused us pain. I've caused us so much loss and pain and trouble and just... I can't take it anymore. I take the blade to my left wrist and run it down the length of my arm longways until all I can see is a puddle of blood pouring out of my wrist. I begin to feel weak and tired, so tired that it's a labor just to stay awake that's when I hear the door slam open and Jimmy is knelt down in front of me holding my head in his lap. "Diana why?! Why! Diana, wake up please wake up! Diana don't do this to me damn it! Don't you fucking do this! Diana please stay with me! I can't lose you both! You can't leave me like this!" He starts to yell, "Come on baby, come on I'm helping you up we need to go to the hospital, babe?!" I can't feel him anymore, I can't feel anything now except cold; cold and alone.