12:30pm Tuesday (Location-Unknown)

I had been laughing like a maniac for the past 15 minutes, while these two stood before me. In all honestly this situation was pretty fucking funny. It was simultaneously the most and least expected thing ever.

"Are you done?" The bitch asked exasperated.

Finally sobering up I faced her with an amused smile still on my face, "Ok, I'm done Zia." Zia Rosa, the one aunt trusted the most by my brothers, my father's biological sister. As it turns out this bitch has been working with the Russian mafia for a long damn time. Two faced duplicitous bitch. (Aunt)

Beside her is the leader of the mafia, Alexie Sokolov. The man who has been hurting my family all this time. Rosa is stuck to him like a piece of gum, clinging on to his arm and whispering into his ear, barely talking out loud.

The classic example of a rich man tricking a woman to fall for him and turning her against everyone, still doesn't mean that in not gonna be angry with her, in fact if my hands were free I would have punched her right now.

"Look cara, I know you may hate us but this needs to happen, for your brothers to understand. This empire that Xavier believes he can lead has never been his in the first place, and trust if there was another way to make him understand I would choose that in a heartbeat but this is the only thing that made sense." Her voice is soft, like she is coaxing me into believing her. I lean forward in my seat, as much I can. Looking her dead in the eyes I spit on the ground, showing her the worth of her empty words.

Not a second later Sokolov steps forward, slapping me and square across the face. My head whips to the side, the sting of his hand still on my cheek. For some reason my grin returns as I turn back to them challengingly. This was strangely fun. (Dear)

3:30pm (Marino house) Third person POV

After a whole night spent searching their general vicinity the brothers returned home to look at other places their sister might be. All five of them, along with Eren and Ace, were gathered around Xavier's office. Humped over their own devices, or talking over the phone with their employees.

They were hopeful, they were gonna find Kate. And besides that everyone knew how strong Kate was, they had faith that she would survive whatever those Bastards threw her way.

5:30pm Wednesday(Russian warehouse) Kate's POV

One whole day of punches, kicks, burning knives slicing into my skin as I screamed, but never for them to stop. No. Begging them to stop would be accepting defeat, and there is no way in hell I'm letting that happen. I'd rather die than let them feel the pleasure of knowing that they broke me.

I was left alone for about four hours during which I was passed out. I was woken up by a splash of freezing cold water and judging by the intense stinging in my cuts I'm guessing it was salt water.

As the guard moved away with the bucket in his hands. I was faced with those two again. "What we're about today wasn't originally planned but I'm just way too eager for it." Sokolov grinned, before I could question him I felt a prick at the back of my neck and in less than a minute I lost all consciousness.

The next time I woke up on my own, this time though, I couldn't feel the ropes that previously wrapped around my upper body. Instead when I opened my eyes I saw my hands strapped to a completely different chair from before, a strap going around my stomach and what felt like a helmet sort of thing strapped on to my head.

On looking down a little I saw my feet were submerged in a shallow container of water, it had two clips with wires extending to a machine. It didn't take Einstein to figure out that the chair I was sitting on wasn't an ordinary chair. The wires, and the meters on the machine connected to it told me all that I needed to know.

"No don't...." My voice barely a whisper, no one heard they were too busy being excited about what was about to happen.

It all came without a warning, the current was strong, the shock was painful, my body trembling and spasming on its own. My back arched off of the chair, teeth grinding together, I couldn't do anything other than fully feel the current going through my body for a painfully long time.

I wanted it to stop. God did I want it to stop. I couldn't even scream out. I was afraid of losing consciousness. I had studied electrocuting people, just a couple more watts and I'd be dead in one of the most painful ways imaginable.

My eyes clenched shut. I kept praying to whatever god that was willing to listen to me. Please, make this stop.

8:30pm Wednesday(Marino House) Third person POV

Xavier was sitting at his seat as everyone else gathered around him all staring at the computer in front of him. The video was in front of them just waiting for Xavier to press play. The email address it came from seemed to be untraceable. Their best hackers had done all in their power to find out but got nowhere. The thumbnail of the video was what made Xavier hesitate. It was unclear but the silhouette of his sister was recognisable.

Finally gathering the courage, he pressed play. The buzzing of a machine filled the silence before the camera came into focus and the muffled grunts of the girl could be heard, there was barely any sound in that video but somehow it made it all the more worse.

Everyone was terrified of what was happening. It was unbelievable. The sight in front of them was one they all wanted to be a nightmare. But before either of them could react properly a loud sound was heard from the corridor.

"Katie, where the hell have you been? You haven't been responding to my texts since the past two days." Elijah's voice seemed to be approaching the office they were all currently in. Eren hurriedly closed the laptop, stooping the video, the last person seeing this was Elijah.

Unlike the rest of them, he wasn't a part of the mafia. Neither was he trained like the rest of them, he wasn't someone who had to see people get tortured like the others had to.

The doors opened as he stepped inside, the smile Elijah wore, dropping at the sight in front of him. Eight sleep deprived people looked back at him with papers and other clutter spread across the room.

Everyone looked back at him with nothing to say. In the end it was Dante who spoke up. "Elijah, Kate's been kidnapped." Sounds of protest were directed towards him. "Well what were you gonna do? Lie to him. The girl's his best friend I think he deserved to know the truth."

No one could argue with that, and Dante was right, they couldn't lie to Elijah for long. But the boy in question seemed to be having a hard time believing them "That's a cute joke." "We're not joking." "Hell yeah you are. She is the one person who is an impossible target. There is no way someone was able to kidnap her."

"You're right. That would have certainly been hard and impossible because she went willingly, in exchange for me. It was either she goes with them or I'm dead."Dante explained and by the end he was met with a shell shocked Elijah.

Katherine may be impossible to beat but she would forfeit out of the game in a heartbeat for her family, Elijah knew that very well. He turned to Eren, his other closest friend in the group, "Eren what's going on? Where's Kate?" His voice was desperate. He knew the answer wasn't one he wanted but he still asked.

Eren on the other hand was hanging on by a thread. His best friend was in some unknown dingy warehouse he had no idea about and he like a fucking failure for a friend. He was supposed to be there for Kate. But the training of being a mafia leader was also in work, meaning he had to worry about his people before he could even take a second to himself.

Thus he stepped forward and engulfed Elijah in a tight hug, whispering words into Elijah's ear, words he didn't even register himself. All he knew was that he was the one holding up most of Elijah's body as the boy's legs had already given up.

"No, she- she promised me. She said this wouldn- wouldn't happen. She said she was going to be fine." Elijah cried out in Eren's arms, tears streaming down his face. He couldn't comprehend anything that was happening. It felt unreal.

It was Kate that was kidnapped. Elijah couldn't say for the others but in his story Katherine was definitely the hero. The knight in shining armour that had saved him way too many times. He being gone, being tortured was something that didn't make sense to him.

Hero's weren't the ones that got tortured, they were the ones who saved those people. But if this was truly happening, if his hero was actually being tortured what the hell was going to happen to the others?

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Hello beautiful people! I know this is smaller than usual but this seemed the only good place to stop.🤷‍♀️

I had fun writing the scene with Elijah, it's something I had in my king for a long time and I finally got to write.

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