stand by me {a katy perry fan fiction}

Paralyzed

Sitting in my chauffeurs car my hands shake. Everything in me felt numb with panic. I fumbled with my phone and call Riley. He doesn't answer so I leave him a voice message.
I don't cry, I let shock fill my body and take over me.
As soon as I get home I call the police and wait impatiently for them to answer and when they do I'm frantic.
"Ma'am slow down, tell me slowly what happened" the man on the other end responds calmly and I try to take in deep breaths but as I try to explain all my emotions come boiling to the surface.
"I was shopping with my daughter, rhiannon mary Hudson and she went to the toliets and she has been missing ever since, there was her phone on the ground from a number telling her to meet them in the car" i spend 40 minutes explaining everything i can.
I tell them all about Brett. It must of been him. I feel it in my gut that he had something to do with my daughters disappearance.
The soft blankets underneath me hold no comfort. The sheer shock kept me from crying. I was in disbelief that 14 years after my baby was abducted in the middle of the night she goes missing again. I was right there yet again.
I entwine my fingers through my hair and start tugging in stress then I hunch over and start pulling ferociously and before I know it I'm screaming. I'm on my knees screaming out all my agony, guilt and rage.

Time seems to pass by me. One minute I am at the police station with a statement the next my brother David is sitting across the table from me holding my hands but I take no notice. Then I hired a private investigator to try do what I didn't trust the police to.
I tried not to panic but my heart couldn't follow my mind. The cops told me she could have went for a walk since we were fighting around the same time.
I didn't believe it for a second, she wouldn't put us through this again and leave her phone. She should be home safe where I can see her.
24 hours pass and Riley was home safe but he was just as stressed me and upset. He hugged me close as soon as he was through the door and I let him cry in my arms as he broke down about how it was happening all again.
Some time passed and suddenly my phone went off. I have never grabbed my phone so quick. A huge part of me hoped it was Rhiannon telling me she was fine. I was wrong.
It was a private number that sent me the text.

I have your daughter. If u want her brought back to you alive you will give me 10 million dollars. In cash. I will send you the location soon. She is safe for now depending on how you choose to act next.

I am in shock and my heart whole body goes numb as a picture is sent of my baby girl tied up in a dark room. A gag is fitted over her mouth and she is unconscious and a bloody gash is on her forehead. I have no idea what to do as I cry out again.
♡Rhiannon♡

I stare at the one spot on the moulded wall, boredem, fear, anger and all other things I didnt even know I could feel were all rushing through me. My stomach ached, my lips were dry and cracked from not drinking in what I guessed was 48 hours. My will of getting away from my evil soon to be step mum kept me sane and cunning. I didn't know why she was biding her time to kill me if she needed to.She is doing this to amuse herself and I knew it.
I wanted to cry but i felt i had forgotten how. I just wanted to go home and sleep and be with my twin and mother. I needed to pee so badly and I wasn't even allowed that.
A burst of anger rushed through me and suddenly out the top of my head and I stared rocking back and forth violently in my wooden chair. Then I shoved the chair to the ground will all my strength left and it shattered into pieces under me and the pain was worth it. The sound was loud and echoed in the almost empty room and it worried me.
My hands and feet were still bound with tight, thin rope. I lay sprawled on the floor trying to figure out my next move, scrambling as best i could being tied up.
Then the door opens and tahlia walks in and looks at me with pure hatred and agitation. I gulp down my parched throat with slight fear because she had proven to be ruthless and heartless.

"Wow good attempt" she says sarcastically as she claps at me in mockery. I try get back up but kicks me in the stomach and i focused on getting my hands out of the rope. My hands were sweaty so it was slippery.
I felt the pain in my empty stomach and my ribs and i suck in air. I still pulled my hands feeling my skin getting scratched with the rope. She kneels down and grabs my face and shakes it.
"Poor baby, all alone, you aren't getting out of here that easily. You are my cash cow and you arent going anywhere, I've waited too long to let some dumb kid get the best of me" she giggles maliciously and just as she goes to stand up my hand comes loose and I ball my hand up into a fist and strike her right in her fake nose.
It shocks her so I use those precious seconds to lunge at her throat. The impact throws her on her back and I squeeze as hard as I can but with little strength she overpowers me and flips us over. She swaps positions with me and holds her thumb right in the middle of my throat and pushes it down whilst smiling sinisterly.
In flight or fight mode I try ignore the urge to cough and splutter and knee her right in her crutch.I roll over and quickly untie my feet and before she can get up i boot her in the head again. I kick her so hard she groans and doesn't move as she is clearly dazed and I get out from under her and jump up kicking her in the face swiftly.
I waste no time and run out the door as quick as my legs can take me. My weak legs cause me to fall to my knees but I force myself up promptly hissing in pain.
The warehouse was huge, I find myself running down a long, spiral staircase.
I look in every inch trying to find the way out. Then I see a slice of Pizza sitting on the bench and my human nature kicks in and I scoop the slice in my hands and I run through the first doorway I see and huddle in the corner and scoff it down. I moan in satisfaction at the taste and its gone in seconds but it only helped my energy levels slightly.
I hide in the darkness of the room that I could barely see from the bordered up windows. I heard walking around and yelling. I kept my hearing out like a rat and looked around trying to keep an eye out for any movement.
As i look out the door I see the doorway that leads out side. The window next to it showed clouds and a blue sky. My eyes nearly bulge out of my head. Excitement buzzes through me. This was my chance.
I crawl quietly to the door way and look around to make sure no one was around and then I bolt to the door.
I run so fast it hurts my ham strings and i almost trip not being able to catch up my legs with the rest of my body.
Just as I go to grab the handle of the wooden door my hair is ripped so hard  I fall back onto the concrete floor. The wind is knocked out of my body and then I feel a shoe hit my cheek.
The impact is so strong I lose consciousness. I begin to fade in and out. Someone is dragging me by my arms and all I can hear is loud ringing and my vison dots but I can't move. It was like I was paralyzed.
I stand there looking towards the ceiling with my dotted vision. Then I can't keep fighting the feeling and I let the darkness take over my whole vision.

•Riley•

2 days. 2 days my twin sister had been gone. No one knew where she was and the police weren't so certain she had runaway anymore. The evidence was suspicious.
Brett was who they looked at. They had arrested him in suspicion of kidnapping a minor and other charges of kidnapping Rhiannon as a baby.
Mum and I were back at the police station, we wanted to be there to see the bastard get incarcerated.
We were in a private room in the police station because we couldn't handle mum getting harrassed by fans.
we didn't talk, we had no idea what to say. I can't believe i was in Connecticut and wasn't there to protect her. I let this all happen. I could have done something. Mum can't go through this again.
I held my hands over my face as i propped myself up with my elbows that were on the tables surface.
It felt like an eternity had passed until an officer walked in.
"Miss hudson, would you like to view the questioning?".

A few minutes later we were sitting at another table looking through glass that the officer and Brett couldn't see through.
Mum sat looking at him with a cold glare that gave even me chills. I looked at my so called father witheringly with my lips tightly pressed together. I didn't know how to feel. This was my first time seeing him in person. Someone I'm supposed to admire and adore I only see as a monster who I would like to strangle.

"Mr dalton you Abducted your daughter as an infant some 14 years ago and she is missing again shortly after having contact with you again as shown in phone records here on her phone that she does not currently possess, this is all extremely suspicious don't you agree" the officer stares him down but keeps a kind demeanor so the man can feel open to being honest and not like he's being interrogated.
"I-I know what I did all them years ago sir but I swear to you now I had nothing to do with this I don't know where she is" Brett pleads, leaning half way across the table.
"Then tell me why is she missing than? Do you know anyone who would want or have motive to hold rhiannon hostage with the intention or receiving ransom payment from miss hudson?" The officer asks calmly.
Brett sits back, he runs his fingers through his hair.
They begin to ask him more and more questions. They ask alot about his meeting with rhi the week before her disappearance.
"I told her my fiance and I were getting married and I wanted her to be there, that is all, I would never hurt my little girl, i know i have made mistakes and I wish I had done things differently but I had nothing to do with where she is and I don't want anyones money, I swear to god!" he half shouts. His voice was begging for anyone to believe him.
"Who is your fiance mr dalton?" He asks warmly.
"Tahlia Fitzgerald" brett sniffles after the officer offers him a tissue. And the cop writes this down.
"Did they meet before, miss hudson and miss Fitzgerald I mean"
"Yes they met once before she ran away 6 months ago" bretts voice was clearly puzzled.
"I've seen videos of your fiance about her running away and she seemed distraught, were they close" the officer pushes further.
"I don't believe so sir they only met the once and they much didn't seem to like eachother" brett admits still baffled by the question.
"Where is your fiance?" He asks quizzically at the man and he is clealrly taken back. Then he stops and thinks. I lean foward being sucked into this interrogation wishing he would crack already and tell us where Rhiannon was already. The impatience was getting harder to ignore.
"Out of town"
"Where out of town?"
"I'm not sure"
"She didn't tell you?" He asks and i can't see his face only the back of his head.
"No she didn't" Brett sounded unsure himself.
"When did she leave?" The officer presses further.
"3 days ago" brett nods affirming it to himself.
The officer writes it down.
"So right around the time Rhiannon went missing is that right?" The officer questions.
"I don't know what your getting at, tahlia had nothing to do with this" brett is extremely defensive.
"Then she shouldn't mind coming in for questioning then?"