"MOMMY!"

"Don't look, Isla.  Please don't look!" Jessica sobbed as Edwin pounded himself into her.

Isla screamed on the top of her lungs as tears poured down her face.  This poor little girl was traumatized.  She had no idea what this man was doing to her mother.

"Mommy's okay baby.  I'm so sorry." Jessica kept apologizing like this was her fault.

Edwin moaned her name and grunted into her.  Jessica shut her eyes and wanted to die.  Why was he doing this?  Why was this happening again?

Jessica wanted to fight him, but since she was tied down she couldn't.  There was nothing for her to do.

She thought about Danny and her heart broke.  Jessica felt that she may never see Danny again.  Maybe that was for the best.  She felt disgusting and she knew Danny deserved someone who was clean.

Suddenly Jessica felt Edwin throbbing inside oh her and the familiar warm liquid oozing out and filling her just like last time.

Jessica cried as this happened.  Not again.

**

Jessica's mouth is completely dry.  Her eyes so red from crying.  Her body in pain from the abuse, and her heart absolutely broken.  Isla sat across from her mother and had fallen asleep in the chair she was tied to.  Jessica didn't take her eyes off of her daughter who was slumped over.  She prayed that Edwin would keep his hands off of Isla, and that her family would find her soon.

***

"It's been five hours!  Those fucking police are doing shit!  I'm going out to find her."

"Daniel, where are you going?" Zoe asks.  Everyone had gathered at the Paulson's home.

"I'm going to see where they've gotten on tracking her phone, and I'm going to tell them to search Edwin's home.  It's him, I know it is.  Jessica and Isla aren't safe with him.  If he did that to Jessie in junior high then who knows what this man is capable of in his own home." The very thought of it made Danny's stomach turn. "No one try stopping me because I'm going!  I should have never left her, this is my fault."

"Don't say that, Danny." Catherine said.  Her eyes swollen and red from the constant tears.

"It is.  Aunt Cathy, I'm gonna find them." Danny grabs her hands and looks into her eyes. "I promise you I'm gonna bring them back."

"I'll go with you." John says.

"Me too." Doug grabs his phone.  He had been driving around as well, but he had a bad feeling that Danny was right.  Edwin had his girls.

***

Edwin walked into the room with food for Jessica and Isla.

"Elizabeth, I have a grilled cheese for you, and Jessica my dear I have a nice variety.  I looked up the best foods to eat when you're trying to get pregnant."

Anger filled Jessica and she spit in his face.

"Come on, love.  We make such beautiful babies!  I mean look at Elizabeth."

"THAT'S NOT MY NAME!" Isla shouts.  Jessica had never seen her daughter this way before.  She's such a happy child.  Now Isla looks so angry and afraid.  Who can blame her?

"Eat baby girl.  You'll feel better." Edwin holds the sandwich up in front of her mouth but Isla refuses to eat.

Jessica looks at the time and realizes Isla hasn't eaten in hours.  As much as she hates this, Isla has to eat.

"Isla honey, you should eat."

"No mommy.  I don't want his food!"

"Let me feed her, Edwin."

"No."

"Let me feed her." Jessica clenches her jaw.

"Fine.  But do not untie her or you will regret it." Edwin unties Jessica and she walks over to her daughter.  She grabs her in her arms and Isla begins to cry.

"It's okay baby.  It's okay." Jessica says in a soothing motherly voice as she softly rubs her back.

"No it's not!" She sobs.

"We're never gonna see Gaga and Poppy ever again. . . We won't see baby Holly grow up to be big like me. . I'll never see aunt Sarah and stupid scary Bear." Jessica couldn't help but chuckle a little.

"But the worst. . we're never gonna see Danny ever again. . he's like my favorite friend ever."

"Oh baby girl you will see him again!  I promise you, okay?"

"I love him so much, mommy." A sob escapes her.

Jessica swallows and pauses for a moment before speaking in a whisper. "So do I.  Very very much."

"He's my daddy."

"What?" Jessica pulls away and looks into Isla's eyes.

"He's my daddy.  Not this man.  He loves me, mommy.  He plays with me, he cleans my face if I have food on it.  He reads to me.  He tells me to listen when I don't. He cuddles me when I'm sleepy, and protects me when I'm scared.  Danny isn't just my best friend.  He's my daddy." Isla cries.

Jessica smiles through her tears. "Yes he is, baby.  He's been there for us since the very beginning, huh?"

"Yeah." Isla nods and rubs her eyes.

"When we get out of here you can tell him.  I know he'll be so so happy.  He tells me all the time that you're his.  He was there the moment you came out of me, and he's been there everyday since.  He even felt you kicking all around before you were born!"

"In your tummy."

"In my tummy!"

"And mommy, I've got his blood."

"That's right!"

"He saved my life."

"He sure did, baby."

"He's my daddy!" Her hoarse little voice from screaming and crying finally filled with excitement.

"Yes he is!"

Suddenly they hear glass shattering on the ground.  Jessica and Isla turn to see Edwin standing there with anger in his eyes.

"She is MY daughter!  You fucking bitch.  How dare you let some pussy get so close to our daughter."

"She's not yours!  She will never be yours!"

Edwin slaps Jessica across the face and Isla screams.

"Don't hit my mommy!"

"Shut up!" He snaps.

Jessica looks up to him with a bloody lip.

"MOMMY!  You made her bleed!  I hope the police find us and KILL YOU!"

"Isla!  I'm okay, honey." Jessica said in a very calm voice.  She just wanted Isla to relax a bit.  She didn't want her getting sick.

But then Edwin stomped towards Isla and slapped her just as hard. "You will not call another man Dad.  You will be punished and learn your lesson!" He hits her again.

Jessica runs towards him and grabs his arm.  She screams and hits him but Edwin pushes her away.  Jessica fights harder than she's ever fought before.

After fighting her off and hitting Isla a few more times, Edwin turns to Jessica.  He roughly pulls her pants down and turns her around.  He pushes her down so she's leaning over the bed.

"Stop it!  DON'T!"

"You have to be punished."

Jessica panics as Edwin grabs her cheeks and forces himself into her.

"AH!  OW!  STOP IT!  PLEASE!"

"PLEASE LEAVE HER ALONE!" Isla sobs.  Her face busted up and bleeding.

"Mommy's okay, Isla.  Close your eyes, and think of happy times."

Isla cries and shuts her eyes.  She thinks about her family.  Her Poppy, her Gaga.  Her aunts, Sarah and Holly.  Danny's family.  And she thinks about Danny.  Her Daddy.