Hit and Run, More like a Hit and Take

This story is by Becca please do not edit it without permission. Thank you and enjoy!

## Story

Rose was taking her dog, Nina, for a night time walk like she always does now. Rose was wearing her favorite sweatshirt which just happened to be one that Marcus got for her. As they were walking under the moonlight, Rose saw something laying in the middle of the street. The street was not really busy at night so to see something on the street was kinda weird. She walked closer with Nina at her side as the got closer to the thing in the road.

“Stay,” Rose said to Nina, who just laid down on the sidewalk. Rose got a closer look and noticed it was a person laying there in the middle of the road. She immediately thought it was a hit and run which has happened before. “Nina, fetch Marcus for me.”

Nina barked in response to Rose’s command and ran back to the house. Rose never noticed a black car parked a little ways down the road, hidden in the shadows. She got on her knees and moved the hoodie from the person so she could see their face. She noticed, once the hoodie was pulled off the head, that the person wasn’t even real. It was a mannequin that was wearing a hoodie and jeans.

“What the heck? Who would leave a mann-Mmp!” She started as someone covered her mouth and pulled her closer to them. The person whispered into her ear and the person sounded like someone she knew.

“You're a feisty girl...but I have something for you.” The person started, as she felt something prick her in the arm for a quick second. She started to feel a little bit tired as he spoke again to her. “Sleep tight.”

Rose tried to fight off the urge to fall asleep but she couldn’t. She ended up falling asleep when she was laid in the back of a car. She laid there and didn’t even remember the ride. When she did wake up she had no clue where she was. Looking around, the place was somewhere that she had never been before and it kinda smells like dead things. She felt something soft under her, and soon realized she was laying on someone’s bed. She sat up, still a little dizzy, and went to the door that she saw just a little ways in front of the bed. She stumbled over to the door but she couldn’t reach it. She stopped just out of reach from the door. She tried to pull her leg forward but she couldn’t. She glanced down at her ankle and some chain that was bolted to the floor. She ignored it and kept trying to reach for the door but she ended up hurting her ankle instead.

“Gosh.” She sat down on the floor, facing the door as she rubbed her ankle. She heard the sound of footsteps coming from outside the door. She looked at the door in confusion before the door swung open, almost hitting her from where she sat. A man walked over to her, looking her up and down before stopping right in front of her.

“Hello, Rose.” He finally spoke with a smirk on his face. Rose just stared at him and said nothing to him. “You’re being quiet. That’s no like you at all. You mostly yell and demand that you be free to fly on out of here.”

“You don’t know me.” She mumbled to him, looking at the floor before she was startled. He slammed her into the bed frame with his hands clasping around her neck. She fell quiet as she tried to fight him off of her so she could get some air. He kept pushing his hands harder onto her neck before letting her go suddenly. She immediately starts gasping for air with her hands holding her neck.

“Don’t be stubborn! I know you more than you know yourself! I knew your mother! I knew your father! I know your brother and boyfriend! Tell me one more time that I don’t know you!” He pointed his finger at her as she was still catching her breath. She just looked at him slightly before he stormed out of the room. She just sat there, holding her neck in surprise and shock. She didn’t know he heard her nor did she know he would choke her either.

Back with Marcus, he was sitting at his desk reading an old newspaper. He did this when he was bored and when he was waiting for Rose to come back. He kept reading until Nina came into his room barking.

“Woah, girl. Slow down.” Getting up from his chair and getting to his knees. “Come here girl.”

Nina disobeyed Marcus and ran. She never disobeyed him before, so he went out of his room to see her. She had Rose’s sweatshirt, that was on Rose’s dresser, in her mouth. She put it down, placed her paw on it before barking at Marcus. She kept barking until Marcus picked up the sweatshirt from the floor.

“Nina, where is she?” Looking down to her, Marcus tried to call Rose when Nina ran outside. Marcus saw her and chased after. They ran back down the street where the mannequin still laid. “What the heck?”

He moved it before looking around, he didn’t see Rose anywhere. He called her name a few times and tried calling her phone. Everytime he called her, he heard her phone going off near him. He followed the ringing sound and found her phone thrown in the grass next to the street. He knew now she was probably in trouble and started getting very worried about her.

“Nina, search!” Marcus demanded her to go find Rose’s scent. Watching Nina sniffing the ground she suddenly bolted down the road. “At a girl! Go find her!”

Back with Rose, who had fallen asleep on the floor and laid there. Soon after she fell asleep she felt something poke her, opening her eyes to the man standing over her. He chuckled as he showed her a small bottle. She looked confused since she was a little dizzy from the last thing she was given.

“Do you know what narcotic painkiller Dilaudid is?” The man asked, turning the small bottle in his hands. Rose shook her head as he got down to her level. “This is a narcotic. They are used to relieve moderate to severe pain a person may experience. Which in your case, you'll need lots of this if your hero doesn’t show up and save you.”

“I don’t…need that.” Rose muttered, trying not to fall asleep from the narcotic.

“Oh, but you will need this. When your boyfriend comes in he’ll see you and try to get you to come with him. But little does he know, I’ll be ready for him.” He stood up and pulled a gun from his back pocket.to show Rose. She just stared at him, unable to keep her head up much longer, she lowered her head and closed her eyes. He laughed at her, picking her head so he could look at her eyes. “He’ll come for you and then I can teach him a lesson or two.”

Before he could do anything, Marcus stepped into the room breathing heavily, quietly after a long run. He looked at the man’s back and snuck up behind him to knock him out with a board he picked up from the floor. Holding the board like it was a baseball bat he went to swing it but he stopped him. The man grabbed it from Marcus’s hands and smacked Marcus across the face with it. Holding the board he tossed it to the side, before grabbing the collar of Marcus’s shirt and punched him in the nose. He let his shirt go so he tried to get him back but missed him. The man pushed Marcus forward causing him to stumble and fall onto the ground.

“Silly boy, who doesn’t know how to fight!” The man laughed, watching Marcus stand up from the ground with his hands covering his bloody nose. “Learn to fight, Marcus.”

Marcus turned to face the man and immediately stopped dead in his tracks. The man smirks at Marcus with his brown eyes meeting Marcus’s light blue eyes. Standing there in fear as the man started walking closer to him with a sinister look across his face. Macus just stood there in panic, while the man pushed him against the wall. With nothing to say, he just stayed as he was with the man’s hands pinning him in his place on the wall.

“Now. I wish you wouldn’t have said a word to the police about me. But thankfully when you didn’t go against me in court I was able to not be in jail, son.” The man smirked again.

“I…I didn’t tell them Nick! You were the one who told me not to, so I didn’t tell the police!.” Marcus realized what he had said once his mind was clear. He has never in 18 years called his father by his first name. He has never done that, and he was getting uneasy. Nick just started him in the eyes for a long two seconds before grabbing Marcus by the neck.

“You know the rules, don’t you?” He didn’t have any force since he just wanted to see him squirm like a worm on a hook. He enjoyed watching the fear in his eyes.. “You didn’t forget them already? I should have nailed them into your brain.Right?”

“Y-you did. I-I just corrected myself- t-that’s all, sir.” Growing nervous as he looked over Nick’s shoulder to see Rose opening her eyes to the chaos going on. Nick watched his eyes look away from his eyes before throwing him almost on top of her. Marcus looked down at her as she closed her eyes and tried keeping her head up as well. Nick turned to face the two kids, with fire glowing in his eyes.

“You want her so badly that you’re getting yourself into trouble bubby.” Marcus got up and stood in front of her, trying to protect the one he loves from his insane father. He stood his ground as he watched his father pull his gun out and pointed at him. He froze as the muzzle of the gun pointed right at the center of his head. “Poor Marcus. This day has come finally.”

“What do you mean?” Marcus asked, with his voice shaky as he was still standing his ground. He watched his father very closely as he just walked in a semi-circle around them.

“You see, I never wanted you. You look like Anna and you’re too weak to be a man so my plan was once you were 18 and you didn’t toughen up.” He paused, looking into the worried boy’s eyes with a smirk. “I was going to make you pull this on yourself.”

His father started to close in on Marcus as he kept walking in a semi-circle. With the gun pointing still at the center of Marcus’s head.  He still stood in front of her, he didn’t want anything to happen to her. This wasn’t her fight to fight at all. Nick held the gun against Marcus’s head with a smile on his face.

“Cya later Marcus.” He said, pulling the trigger gradually. Marcus closed his eyes to accept his fate. When he heard the trigger go off followed by his father shouting with growling. He opened his eyes to see Nina with her teeth in his father’s leg. Nina kept growling and she tugged at his leg with Nick trying to get her off of him. Marcus turned around to see how Rose was doing, and she was trying to keep her eyes open. She mumbled something to him but her words were incomprehensible to him. He ignored what she was trying to say to him,looked over his shoulder to see Nick on the ground with Nina still holding his leg. He noticed the gun on the floor and grabbed it. Nick saw Marcus going for the gun and tried to grab it himself but lost.

“Silly, boy. What are you going to do with that? Huh?” Nick still was on the ground as Marcus pointed the gun to his head. Marcus’s hand was shaking as he held that gun since he’s never held one before in his life but he’s seen them. “Do it.”

“I’m sorry but I’m not one to kill someone else out of anger.” Still holding the gun in his hand, the police came into the room. Alongside the police was Derek, who saw Marcus with the gun.

“Put it down! Now!” The police officer yelled, pointing their guns at him. Marcus got scared and didn’t drop the gun but had it still pointing to Nick’s head. “Put it down now!”

“Marcus, you need to drop the gun.” Derek slowly approached Marcus with his hands out in front of him. “It’s okay Marcus but you need to put the gun down.”

“You don’t understand, Derek. It’s not what it looks like, I swear.” Marcus started to freak out as Derek walked right next to him, taking the gun from his hand Marcus calmed down. “It’s not what it looked like.”

“I know but they don’t know you as well as I do.” Derek led Marcus outside before Nina let go of his leg and ran beside Derek. “Listen, I know you didn’t intend for that to happen. I’ll help you alright.”

“Will we go to court?” Marcus asked, stopping in the doorway of the room. Derek stopped with him and turned to look at him. With a sigh Derek just looked at him.

“I’m not sure but here isn’t the time to talk about court. That man has to get his leg taken care  of.” Derek started before getting interrupted. Marcus took him by the hand and led him to his car where he seemed pretty shaken up. “Are you okay?”

“Derek, that man is insane! And he is the reason you have me!” Marcus started trying to keep it cool but he just couldn’t. “He’s the reason I’m here with you and he’s the reason Rose is chained up and…and…”

“Marcus, please calm down…” Watching the way Marcus was acting out was making him worried for him. He knows how he is about protecting her but seeing him like this is not a good thing. Marcus didn’t listen to a word Derek told him and just continued on what he wanted to say.

“I lied under oath when I was in court because I was scared because of what he told me before you took me! He has done so much to me and he still leans over my shoulder! I can’t ever sleep since his friends feed him information on what I’m doing and where I am! I broke so many rules with him which is why I am the way I am! He’s the reason I don’t tell people what’s going on under my skin! He’s the reason I am broken and nobody can fix me, Derek! He is!” He started to break down into tears half way through his speech he was giving Derek. He covered his face to hide the fact he was crying out in public. Derek didn’t know what to do. He said so much and he didn’t know that any of that happened to him.

“Marcus, I didn’t know.” He looked at Marcus as he picked his head up and removed his hands. His face was red with tears still flowing down his cheeks.

“That’s the point. Only I and the others know this.” Derek put his right hand on his shoulder to tell Marcus he was there for him.

“I won’t break you, I will only help you. Alright? I’m here to help you.” Marcus wiped the tears away from his face and nodded his head. “Alright, but you can’t lie to me anymore. Okay?”

Marcus just nodded his head again as Derek pulled him closer to himself. Derek knew it took him a lot to tell him since Marcus knew if any of Nick’s friends heard him he’d be  in trouble. Derek just wants to keep his family and friends safe, in Marcus’s case he wants him to trust him more. Marcus picked his head up, looking over Derek’s shoulder he could see his father. He gave him a look that he doesn’t give him often enough for him to know what it meant. The only thing he knew was that he was a goner.

“Marcus! You’re done for! You hear me! Done for!” Nick shouted before being put into a police car. Derek and Marcus watched him get put in the car, Derek looked at Marcus. He looked a little off, he was biting his lip and it looked like he was trying not to cry.

“Marcus, let’s take you home.” Derek guided him away from the building as Rose stumbled out with a couple of officers holding her. He looked over his shoulder to see her and immediately ran over to her. He watched as they had her sit down on the side of the road, shining a small light into her eyes. She squinted her eyes as they shined the light into her right eye.

“Excuse me, is she alright?” Marcus asked, getting down in front of Rose on his knees. The officer looked at him before replying.

“Well, she seems to be fine. There are no signs of anything wrong except for minor bruising to her ankles, in other words she’s fine.” Marcus helped her stand up from the ground, as the officers took Nick away in their car. Looking into her tired eyes, Marcus picked her up and took her to Derek’s car. She groaned, trying to make him put her down by pushing his chest but he didn’t. He put her in the back seat behind the driver so he could turn around in his seat and see how she’s doing. He buckled her up before closing the door. He was startled when Derek tapped his shoulder, just to get his attention.

“Marcus, I’m taking her home now and you’re welcome to join us. Unless you have other plans you need to do.” Derek pointed out, opening his door to the driver’s seat.

“Well, I think I’ll go with you guys, I don’t have anything else to do plus I think she’d want me with her.” He went around the car to get in the passenger seat. Derek drove them back home very easily. Marcus kept turning around to check on her while she just slept through the whale ride. She must have been very tired but he doesn’t know why? She could have not slept while she was missing or she could have had something else happen to her. Nobody but her and his father knows what happened to her.

“Derek, why is she so tired?” Marcus asked, turning the right way in his seat. Derek thought very long before giving his answer to the question.

“Well, I’m not sure why she’s so tired. We both know she puts work before her own health so maybe it’s coming back to her right now.” Derek pulled into the driveway of their house. Marcus got out of the car and went to Rose side. He opened her door, tapping her shoulder, she groaned.

“Come on, sleepy head. It’s time to go inside.”He picked her up from her seat, carried her inside and laid her down on the couch. He laid her head on the couch pillow, covered her with a blanket and he sat down in the chair next to the couch. Little did he know, she was having the aftermath of the drugs his father used on her. As he sat there he watched the way she was acting closely. He noticed she wasn’t breathing normally, in fact she was breathing extremely slow. He went to get Derek and he said that he just found out that his father had drugs in his pocket when they arrested him. Connecting the dots they realized that Rose could be breathing dangerously slow because of the drugs she may have used. They took her to the hospital and she had overdosed on a narcotic which was why she wasn’t breathing right. Luckily she was fine, she got the care she needed and his father had to go to court to have him sentenced for the crimes he had committed.