"You cannot be serious, Chris!" Maria snapped as they stormed down the hall from the security room. "This is suicide!"

"I cannot stand by and let this girl die!!" Chris snapped. "Misery's girl was a blood slave, I'm not gonna let Alexis Dorame meet that same fate, or Emma Roberts's fate!!"

"And I can't let you meet your father's fate!" Maria shouted, grabbing his arm to stop him.

He stopped and stared at her.

"I cannot let you let your mother suffer again," She said.

"And I cannot let this girl die. If they said show up alone, then I have no choice I have to," Chris snapped.

Before Maria can argue, Chris's phone rang.

He sighed and answered as Maria crossed her arms in frustration.

"Cerulli," He said once he answered.

"Agent Parente is gone," Dr. Balz said.

"What do you mean he's gone?" Chris asked.

"He stepped out to make a call, never came back. We're with hospital security," he said.

"Okay, me or Agent Brink will be right there. HQ has a meeting for us, but if an agent is down then this is an exception," he said, and hung up. "Angelo's missing."

"Missing?" Maria asked.

"I have to go to the hospital. Keep me updated on what Manson says," He said, and ran off.

Maria sighed and went to make a call as she hurried to her car.

*****

[Warning: mention of physical and drug abuse ahead] 

Angelo groaned as he started to wake up, his head throbbed with pain.

He went to sit up, but immediately felt dizzy and fell back as his vision slowly started to clear.

He looked around to realize he was in some sort of basement. It was dark and had a musky odor, kind of like a muddy beach smell.

"Fuck," he groaned as he rolled to his side. "Where am I?"

He then noticed something laying a few feet away from him.

He scrunched his eyes more and realized it was a person.

He was able to sit up and then realized his hands were tied tightly together.

He grunted and started to crawl a bit until he regained some feeling to his legs.

He then got to the person and by the hair recognized her.

"Alex," he gasped, as he turned the intern to her back, eyes widening.

She had bite marks on her arms and she had bruises on her face, neck and also arms as well. She thankfully had her clothes intacts, though they were dirty and a bit torn. But what shocked Angelo more were the small red dots on the inside of her elbows, looking like syringe punctures.

Her kidnappers were drugging her...

"Oh god.... What did they do to you?" he asked, shocked, then gently started to shake her. "Alex... Alex, can you hear me? Wake up."

Angelo took her pulse, fingers gently pressed against her neck, and she then softly groaned and moved.

"You're alive, thank goodness" he sighed, looking around. "Its gonna be okay. I not gonna let them hurt you anymore."

Her eyes opened, looking dilated and dazed, as she coughed softly. "A-Agent Parente?" she mumbled in a raspy but soft voice.

"Just Angelo," he comforted as he helped her sit up carefully. "How do you feel?"

She looked around, all dazed and confused, her face blank and void of any emotion and her eye make up smeared a bit.

"I.... I don't know....." she mumbled, almost incoherently, then blankly looked around the room.

All of a sudden after a few short seconds, she cried out, sobbing hard and hugging herself as she shook. "J-Johnnie.... O-Oh god, Johnnie's dead," she cried. "T-They said he's dead! He's dead!"

"Shhh, shhh, no no no, he's not dead, Alex. He's alive," Angelo said, not positive if he was telling the truth or not, but he had to tell her something to have her stop crying. "He was hurt real bad, but he's alive."

She just sobbed and then almost screamed in horror and started to claw at her arms frantically

"I-It hurts!! MAKE IT STOP, P-PLEASE IT HURTS! MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!!" She sobbed hysterically, leading Angelo to having to cover her mouth with his hand, hisother hand holding one of her arms.

Last thing he needed was these guys coming to hurt her.

"Shh, shhh, shhh, Alex, please, I kniw you're scared, but you have to try and keep quiet or else they'll come back," Angelo pleaded, comforting the drugged girl as she broke into quiet sobs, leading to him having to hold her and rubbing her back.

"D-Don't make them come back, p-please," she cried. "They're all  vampires.... They had red eyes, and fangs... Vampires a-are real....."

Alex was drugged to the point of hysteria and confusion and fear, and Angelo did everything to comfort her, not knowing how long the drugs will last, much less what they even injected into her system.

"Its gonna be okay," he said as he held her protectively. "Someone will find us, I know it. And you'll be home soon, with Johnnie and your friends and family."

She just quietly cried to herself as she clung to Angelo.

Angelo knew Chris would stop at nothing to find them, but he knew by what they were capable off so far, and what Chris would do, that another Cerulli was going to end up in a casket.

Worse if he fails, everyone probably will.

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Ricky shook the bars hard with frustration.

"Dammit! We're not supposed to be here!" he sneered. "Chris is going to go on a suicide mission on his own!"

"Well, there ain't much we can do here," Ash sighed. "Unless someone springs us out. Frankie would have done it in a snap."

"One thing's for sure we're the only ones capable to fight this group," Misery said.

"But us three ourselves?" Ricky asked. "With the goons."

"He's right, baby, most of the goons are scared of these.... And so am I," Ash said, mumbling at the end.

"Ash, we know you're scared, but that girl is going to end up in the same situation you were in, if not worse," Ricky said. "And if Chris goes at it alone, he's dead and so is Alex, and Chris's death will be in vain," Ricky said, pleading. "I can't let him die, not like this. I'll never be able to live with myself knowing I caused it thanks to my psycho Robin Hood act."

Ash was quiet as she looked at Ricky nervously.

"You know I can't lose him," he pleaded.

She pursed her lips, then nodded. "Okay. Okay, I'll do it. For you and Chris, sugar."

Ricky smiled hopefully at her and she smiled back when suddenly the door opened to reveal TJ and Craig.

"What's going on?" Ricky asked.

"Chris is going alone, but the situation is worse than what we saw," TJ said.

"Agent Parente was also kidnapped," Craig said.

"What? They have two hostages now?" Misery asked.

"By the looks of it," TJ said. "Chris is going alone, but we're all monitoring the town, going to plant some snipers around the pier area."

"That's not enough," Ricky said. "Look, this may sound crazy, but you have to let us out."

"Excuse me?" TJ asked, looking at them all like they just stated thesheer obviousness of a situation.

"We're the only ones among others that can take on this group head on. You send in S.W.A.T. and that girl, Agent Parente, and Chrissy boy are toast," Ash argued.

"How do we know you're not bluffing?" Craig snapped.

"Because Chris trusts them," A voice spoke and everyone turned to see Maria standing there, arms crossed. "And they are already as trained as S.W.A.T., hell as strategic as a ranger."

TJ and Craig hesitated.

"We do our job. Let them do theirs," Maria said. "Agent Purdy and Agent Ortiz can guide them since its their case, too."

They debated it before TJ groaned and Craig sighed.

"Fine. But we had nothing to do with this," Craig said as TJ unlocked the cell doors and let Misery, Ricky, and Ash out.

"Gather your people, we gather ours, you'll know when its your turn," Misery said.

Everyone nodded.

"Come on. Let's get you all set up in armory," Maria said, motioning them to follow her.

They follow Maria when Ricky stopped and turned around, looking at Craig with a serious look, following a few seconds of silence before he spoke.

"Jet fuel can't melt steel beams," he said, and Craig suddenly snapped and lunged at him.

"GET OVER HERE, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF RACCOON SHIT!" Craig sneered as TJ held him back.

Ricky immediately took off beforeCraig could do him anybodily harm, running behind the others as they heard and were laughing while calmed him down.

"Easy now. He's not worth it, bro," TJ said as Craig seethed with irritation and rage.

"Ugh," he grunted as he straighten up. "Let's just get moving."

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Haha! Okay so credit to the "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" line goes to DecayDanceDance.

Note: I'm not sure if Alex Dorame's full name is Alexis or Alexandra, but I'm just gonna go with Alexis for this story. If its something else, comment below if any of you know it.

Let me know what you guys think of this story so far.

♡~ sapphire.