Ruthlessly

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Jade's pov

We had been driving for what felt like hours. I had given up my crying and fighting a while ago, seeing how it did me no good, Jason had been silent for the most part until I had tried breaking the window on the passenger side to get out, not caring about how fast the truck was moving as my fight or flight mode had kicked in, then he had told me to shut up and sit down binding my hands in front of me with a piece of dirty rope. 

Then we had both shut up and I gave up, accepting what might be my cruel fate while he just stared back at the road, silence surrounding us. I leaned my head against the window feeling little to nothing, more or so numb. I could tell by the direction he was driving in that we weren't going back home. We were leaving it behind, everything behind the farm, Karma and Jody.. I inhaled quietly, not wanting to make a sound. I didn't want to piss him off, I didn't want to get hurt. I clenched my eyes shut and let a few tears fall before looking down at the two rings I still held in my hand.

I wondered who they were, or if I'd ever find out. The only person I could have asked was Karma and I'll probably never see her again. 

'you should have been paying attention..' my mind shamed me, but she was right and I had to grace her for showing up when things got bad. Maybe I was crazy but she helped me feel better when I was terrified. I clutched the rings tightly in my hands, pulling my head off the window and looking back out the window as my brother did. 

After a few minutes, we pulled into a gas station with a bunch of police cars parked side by side. There seemed to be at least ten of them. Jason parked the truck then got out and walked over to the vehicle parked closest to us. A police officer got out and started talking to Jason. Jason started yelling at the officer before they both looked towards me for a brief moment, then started talking again. I had a feeling that the officers weren't on my side but my brothers, and I couldn't help but feel saddened at the thought of truly being helpless. 

I really hoped that Karma and Jody would come looking for me. Unless they end up getting hurt by the police or Jason, then I would never forgive myself. Maybe it was best to accept our fate and to let whatever it is that my brothers will was to happen. I was brought out of my thoughts as Jason slammed his car door shut and started the truck, letting the officers all start driving in front of him before he began taking off as well.  

Then, he looked at me. 

"Y'know, those officers wanted to have their way with you" he said, glaring at me with a straight face, my mouth fell open and Jason smirked at my reaction, "I said no, you should be happy with me" he turned his attention back to the road, "If you don't behave, maybe I'll change my mind."

I clamped my eyes shut and shuddered, turning my whole body towards the window, shutting every part of me deep inside of my brain. 

'Just go to sleep..' she echoed as I retreated, blacking out and shutting off.

Jody's pov

"f**k!" Karma shouted while she anxiously paced around the kitchen. It had been a few hours since we watched Jason rip threw the yard with his truck, Jade banging on the windows as he did. We were now sitting in the kitchen trying to figure out what his next move would be. 

I blamed myself for letting this happen if I hadn't fallen asleep on the couch, if I had just followed her up the stairs despite her wish to be alone.. If I hadn't put so much trust in her, maybe we wouldn't be in the spot we were, or maybe we would have been police would have come into the house and taken her by force, or maybe I could have been able to take off with her instead of her being alone with Jason. 

Maybe maybe maybe...

"Okay.." Karma breathed out, taking me out of my antagonizing thoughts, she put her hands down on the table, throwing her head down in defeat, then looked back up to me, "We know which way he turned out off the property.." she was still looking at me but it seemed as though she was staring right through me deep in her own thought. We did know that Jason turned left off of the property, as did the police when they left, which gave me an idea.

"Do you think that he went to meet up with the police?" I hesitantly asked. She looked at me as if she hadn't thought of that before and I couldn't blame her. Neither of us could think properly in the panic of the moment. She stood up and went to a closet which was right beside the staircase. I watched as she opened it and a few things stuffed inside came tumbling out. She began going through the things inside, mindlessly tossing them to the side before she found what she was looking for. She began opening a piece of paper as she came back towards me, putting it down flat in the middle of the table. Once she reached me, it was a map. 

she flattened it out some more and once she was satisfied she began tracing her finger down the road until she stopped and tapped her finger several times, making a flapping sound with the flimsy material, "Were here" she explained, then she traced her finger left, the way Jason had pulled out from the drive way, her eyes intensively looking as she silently mouthed out street and county names, before her finger finally stopped again and she looked to me. "Wheemingsville is the next town over, the closest one.. If the pigs had thought I hadn't taken Jade far before, they must not have gone that far.." she told me, looking up from the map to my eyes. 

"Are you sure?" I countered, I wanted her to be right but really anywhere we thought they might have gone would be a longshot, by far. We were only going off by the direction Jason had turned.. but I highly doubted that he would have taken her back home.

"It's worth a shot, and really our only shot", Karma sadly looked at me. I nodded my head in agreement. We had to try to go that way, even if it was a dead end, we couldn't just let Jason get away with her, we had to at least try to find her. After all, I had made a promise to myself to protect her and I had already failed that we were going to find her. I wasn't about to let her get hurt again, or worse, killed.

"What are we waiting for, let's go get her", I told karma, shaking my thoughts from my head. She briefly looked up at me and shook her head a bit, looking back down at the map and marking in with a pen she had found while I was deep in thought.

"Your so headstrong kid, I like that about ya'" she laughed, looking up from the map once again. She sighed. " We're going to need reinforcements. And were going to have to do this illegally, with the cops being rouge and, on Jason's side, they would kill before they'd talked" 

I understood what she was talking about, she knew more about this than I did. And even I, with my past addiction, knew that the police really didn't care about anything as long as they wore a badge they thought that they were, as the law, above the law.

"Alright then, let's do it." 

Jade's pov

It was dark when I woke back up again, and just in time for me to see Jason pull into a motel. It looked old and run down. It was two stories high, blue and white although the paint was dull and obviously chipping off. There was a railing on the top floor, some of the doors were boarded off while dead leaves littered the parking lot and most rested in the crease of the curb.

It is safe to say that this place sketched me out.

Jason pulled into a space, the police were no longer leading the way, which made me think that they had turned off down a side street somewhere along the way to lead themselves back into town. Jason looked at me, and I backed away towards the door of my side as he leaned in closer to my face he didn't like the fact that I cowered away, so he grabbed me by my hair once again. 

"Don't you f*****g start anything, or else" he spat in my face, literally spat. I could feel little droplets of spit on my face when he was done speaking. Not hearing anything from me, he decided to pull my hair harder, making me yelp in return. He laughed, holding on to it for an extra few seconds before letting go. He had a sick pleasure in inflicting pain on me and seeing me in pain much more. He slammed his door shut and I watched as he walked up to the hotel manager's office, which was sectioned off from the rest of the hotel with its own personalized parking space attached to it.

He quickly came back out a few minutes later with a receipt in his hand. Instead of going back to his own door, he came to mine, opening it and grabbing me by my hands, which were tied, he hauled me out of the car and pulled me in front of him harshly so that nobody would see me with my hands tied in front of me. he then roughly grabbed my shoulders and walked me up to a door on the first floor, I wasn't dumb and I definitely wasn't stupid enough to try to get away from him. 

He fumbled with the key until he shakily put it into the keyhole in the door. He must not have been used to this. After all, my captivity was always unnoticed. When we were back at home, he always kept me in the basement and my cries were either muffled or just unheard. 

It wasn't like we didn't have neighbours, but it wasn't like Jason wasn't close with any of them either. None of them knew, I'm not even sure half of them knew I even existed, maybe only the ones that came over to drink and play poker with Jason every once in a while, but other than that. I was a nobody. 

I was brought out of my thoughts as my brother threw me into the room, my bum hitting the ground. I let out a cry feeling my tailbone become the center of pain, I quickly looked back up as he closed the door and turned around, coming closer and closer to me, slowly, as if he was closing in on his prey, but he wanted to play with his dinner as much as he could before he finally let up and killed it. Eventually, he kneeled down to where I was on the floor. All I could do was put my tied hands up in front of my face and scoot backwards with my feet to protect myself.  

He grabbed my hands and pulled me towards him, getting in my face. I wanted to cry, scared of what was about to come. I knew that I had f****d up badly by running away. Why on earth would I believe I wouldn't get caught? That he wouldn't find me? Why did I ask Jody to help me? I just dug both of our graves and, by trusting Karma to keep me safe, I feared that I had also dug hers as well. Jason took my forehead against his. I could feel him gritting his teeth.

"You thought you could run away from me?" He threw me again, but this time harder, he was trying to do damage in some way and he succeeded in doing so. My back had hit the board of the bed which held it up, he did it so hard that it temporally winded me, leaving me heaving trying to catch my own breath. He came closer again, standing up this time, towering over me as I laid helpless on the ground, trying to breathe. 

He laughed. Feeling accomplished with himself, I looked up at his face. His raven black hair lopsided over the left side of his head, while his smirk turned into a scowl and he moved around me to sit on the bed. Once he did, he grabbed me by the collar of the shirt, lifting me up in the air so that I was facing him. I looked into his cold blue eyes and he looked into my own green ones.

"You made such a big mistake, I hope you're ready for this consequence, because not only are you gonna suffer..." he dropped me and kicked me roughly in the side. 

"But the others will too.. especially our big sister." He remained emotionless, just stared at nothing, not a laugh or a smirk... not even a scowl. Just emotionless staring. 

"I've got a big surprise..." He said, seeming like he was talking to himself, but I knew it was directed towards me.. And I couldn't help but wonder what sadistic plan he was planning.