Hide and Seek

## Summary

Seeing that the parents came to find Rose made them believe by taking her and beating her they’ll get Sophia to say what they want to her.Rose got kidnapped since she’s the daughter of the FBI. They take her in hopes that she’ll be able to get Sophia and Derek to come to save her. Rose being a little girl she complains and puts up a fight. Which results in her getting beaten and she gets hurt.

## Story

Rose slept in Sophia and Derek’s room that night. She slept right next to Sophia since she was scared of the men who took her when she was nine years old. She held her teddy bear so tight that nobody could take it away from her. The sun was rising up and the light shone through the windows. The light was shining into Rose’s eyes so she got up. She rubbed her eyes and went downstairs to get some breakfast. Walking sleepily down the stairs she made it to the kitchen.

“Oh!” Rose was looking out the front door and saw that there was a package on the front step. Before Rose opened the door she called up to her mother who was still asleep.“Mom?” I’m getting your box from the porch!”

The little girl unlocked the door and went to get the package from the porch. Before she could grab it someone reached their hands around her mouth. Rose was startled and freaked out. She tried to get away but it was no use since the man was stronger plus he was bigger than her.

“Easy little one. I just wanna talk with you.” The man picked her up as if she was his child and took her to the van. Rose wiggled around until he threw her into the van. He hopped into the back and strangled her so she would pass out. Once she passed out he got in the driver's seat and drove away.

In the house, Sophia just woke up and noticed that Rose was gone. Sophia got out of bed and searched the whole house for her. Calling her name and looking under everything that she could fit under. With no luck in finding her she did notice that the front door was unlocked. Getting worried she ran upstairs to wake up Derek.

“Derek! Get up! Rose is missing!” Sophia threw her pillow at him to wake him up.

“Huh? What?” Derek opened his eyes and looked at Sophia with confusion. “What do you mean missing?”

“Rose, is missing. I looked everywhere and I couldn’t find her. I looked under everything and saw the front door open. I feel like she’s in trouble and needs help.” Sophia grabbed her gun and badge and everything else she needs for her job. “Come on, we need to go look for her.”

“I’m up. I’m up.” Derek too got the things he needed for his job and followed Sophia downstairs. They went out the front door and found a letter for them. “I think someone left this for us.”

Sophia took the letter and read it out loud so Derek could hear it. “Sophia and Derek. I have your little girl and the longer I have her the worst it will be for this little girl. I have her and I will have you come and get her or else I will harm this child. We’re playing hide and seek so come find her.”

“Poor Rose. She’s already scared. I hope she’s alright for now.” Derek took the letter and shoved it into his pocket and went to their workplace to get to work on finding her.

In the meantime, the man had just gotten to an old shed in the woods which was 25 miles away from her home. He got out of the van and opened the back. Rose had her knees to chest as she sat in the far back corner. She looked at him with a fearful expression on her face. He smirked and grabbed her by her foot. Pulling her to him she tried to pull away.

“Come here now!” He yanked her foot and once she was close enough he slapped her across the face. “You listen to me! Got it!”

Rose just held her cheek where he slapped her and ever so slightly nodded her head. He pulled her out of the van and forced her inside the shed where a chair stood. He shoved her and she fell onto the chair. He grabbed some rope and tied her up to the chair so she couldn’t leave.

“I-I just wanna go h-home.” Rose cried as he finished tying her up. He looked at her before punching her in the chest. Knocking the air out of her and winced out of pain.

“I told you not that long ago to listen to me!” He turned angry and violent towards her. He couldn’t take her complaining and demanding voice. After punching her he felt that maybe she would listen to him.

“I want to go home. Let me go home please…I just wanna go-” Having chest pain was not what she was focusing on. She just wanted to go back home to Sophia and Derek. She was only ten and she doesn’t understand anything about Sophia’s job. Neither does she know that she was taken to get her parents to come.

“Shut up!” He covered his ears and yelled at the top of his lungs. “Just shut up! You’re not going anywhere! You are going to stay here and say nothing unless I say something to you and if I want an answer!”

She sat there with no choice but to stay put. He couldn’t take her for another minute so he left her alone. The moment he walked out of the shed Rose clenched her teeth together, closed her eyes so tight, with the pain in her chest fading away ever so slowly. She only wanted to go home. It’s not like she did anything wrong, did she? She sat there and waited for her mother and father to come and save her.

Back with Sophia and Derek, they just got to work and went to the chief. The chief was a tall man with short brown hair, a mustache, and black glasses. He was six foot tall and he was a little wide but not a lot.

“Agent Sophia. Agent Derek. What brings you here?” He asked, putting down the file he was reading on his desk and he sat up straight and tall.

“Sir, Rose went missing and when we were looking for her we found a letter.” Derek explained, holding out the letter for their chief to read. Once he took the letter Derek went on explaining the letter. “ Whoever wrote this letter never used her name but referred to her as a child or little girl. They must not know her name. Plus they keep saying that they’ll harm her. She’s scared enough after the accident when she was nine and seven.”

“I know you’re worried about her but we can’t give the person what they want. I can not send you two after her. I will put two other agents on this case but you two may not get involved.” Chief stood up from his chair and walked out of the office and called in two of their fellow agents.

There were two agents that were doing some work until the chief called their names to come take the case.

“You two are taking a missing child case. You both will have to talk with these nice people to know a couple of things about the little kid.” Chief led the four of them to a room where Sophia and Derek could be while the two agents asked them questions. Before entering, Sophia stops and asks a question to the chief.

“Sir, with all due respect. I feel that having Derek and I in this case will make it easier for her. We’ll be able to find her quicker than anyone since we know her better.”

“I know you wanna find her but it is as clear as day that the person wants you to find her. We don’t know what they have planned for her so the longer we stand here the longer she’s away.” The chief put his hand on Sophia’s right shoulder with his stern voice.

“Very well, sir.” She gave in and went to talk to the new agents about Rose. They answered every question that was thrown at them but the new agents didn’t ask the right ones. They asked what they were doing and nothing about what Rose would have done or anything about her.

“I just hope she’s doing alright knowing the issue she’s in.” Derek held Sophia’s hand under the table as more questions were asked.

In the woods, the man just came back with a bag full of things on his back. He untied her and dragged her to a new building. It looked like someone once lived there but moved away. The walls on the outside of the house were covered with grape vines and weeds. Once they went inside it looked like an old time house or only one person lived there since it was so small. Ten times bigger than the little shed she was in but still small. He threw her to the ground and started to go through the bag. He pulled out so many things like knives, rope, chains, hammers, duck tape, and much more.

“These are all for you little one.” He chuckled, taking the chains and snapping them in front of her face. She pushed herself away as he came closer and closer to her. He stepped on her pant leg to stop her from moving. “They haven’t shown up and you’ve been gone for an hour.”

Holding the chain in his left hand he grabbed her by the back of her neck with his right. He showed her a metal pole that he just put inside the house. He had it so it was against one of the walls and screwed down. Taking the chain and looping it around the pole and using a lock, that he got from his bag, to keep the chain from moving. Making her sit with her back to the pole he chained her to it by her hands. Using one more lock to keep her hands from getting free he stepped back.

“Lookin 'good little one.” He smirked before one of the hammers. “Do you know what time it is?”

Rose thought about it before replying to his question. “No, I don’t know.”

“They haven’t found you yet so I am…” He turned back to her holding the hammer and hitting his palm with it. “Going to teach your parents a lesson.”

Rose curdled herself up more while he came closer to her. She cried out, “I have done nothing wrong! Please don’t hurt me again! I have listened to you! I answered your question!”

“Oh, but I’m doing this to get back at your parents' young one.” He held the hammer above his head and looked down at Rose while she begged him not to. He swung it down with full force onto her leg. He did this multiple times so she wouldn’t be able to run off if she got out of the house. She cried out in pain with every hit she got from him. Even a couple of tears were shed. He stopped after ten minutes of beating her. Stepping back proud of his work along with being very tired.“In half an hour I will have to teach them another lesson.”

Rose’s legs were black and blue with small circles from the hammer hitting her skin. Beside the bruising she had a tremendous amount of pain running through her legs. Her knees were killing her so just moving them a little bit caused so much pain for her. He laughed at her and even kicked her legs to see how she would react. When he kicked her she winced in pain and didn’t move them.

“Hahaha! Weak little girl and weak parents. Very nice.” He laughed some more before walking away from her and going into a different room. Rose winced some more when she tried to curl her legs up to her chest but she couldn’t do it.

“I-I wanna g-go home,” She cried when he returned to check on her. He looked at her with a death stare.

“What did you say?” He looked her dead in her eyes with fire burning in them. “What did you say, little girl?”

“N-nothing.” She lied through her teeth in hopes he will let this one slide.

“Do you think I am dumb! Cause I’m not and I heard what you said when you thought I was gone! You are a brat that means to shut up or take it hit!” He hollard at her with his face inches away from her.

“I’ll be quiet…I-I won’t say a-another word…I swear.” She stuttered in fear that he’ll hit her with the hammer again on her legs.

“Too late.” He reached into his back and dug around from something. He pulled out a knife that he held in front of her face. He took her face and held her head still. Taking the knife to her cheek her breathing sped up and she sat very still. As he sliced her left cheek and smirked as she cried. He sliced her cheek four times because she said four words. “Everytime you say anything out of turn this will only get worse for ya. Understand?”

Rose nodded her head when he set the knife down on the ground next to the bag. Soon half an hour will pass and he’ll teach them a lesson. Rose struggled to get her hands free from the chains but she couldn’t. He turned around and saw her wiggling around with his face full of anger. Rose looked up in shock.

Sophia was getting very impatient with the new agents. Derek was calm but Sophia was getting very annoyed.

“Can we please go look for my daughter?” Sophia asked.

“With all due respect Ma'am, the chief said you guys could go out and look for her.” The agent said.

“What’s your name,” Sophia asked, sitting straight in her chair and looking the woman in the eyes.

“Darlene Cummings,” She replied, getting a little uncomfortable with Sophia.

“Well, Darlene. Do you know anything about her? Or do you know what has happened to her? Do you know her past? Do you know how she feels?” Sophia started getting annoyed with the fact that she was gone and they spent an hour here with Darlene and her partner but they had gone nowhere.

“Ma’am, I’m sorry she’s gone right now but we will find her.” The other new agent said.

“What’s your name then?” Sophia snapped.

“Jose Johnson,” he replied.

“Well, I’m leaving to look for my daughter and you can stay here. Thank you for your time but I gotta go.” Sophia walked out of the room and got in her car while Derek, Jose, and Darlene stayed in the room and talked. She drove around town and looked everywhere plus she talked to people. She saw a boy about Rose’s age and went to talk to him.

“Hey, kid! Can I talk to ya for a second?” She walked over to the boy and stood in front of him.

“Umm…sure? What do you want to know?” The boy seemed a little nervous when he spoke to her.

“ I’m looking for a girl with blond hair and brown eyes. Her name is Rose. Have you seen her and anything out of the ordinary?” Sohpia looked the little boy in the eyes as he bit his lip nervously.

“Well, I saw a huge white van go that way into the woods but I don’t think that’s anything useful.” The boy pointed in the direction the van had gone as he was still biting his lip. “I come here a lot and I’ve never seen anyone go into the woods over there. Maybe she went that way in the van?”

“Thank you…what’s your name?” Sophia tilted her head slightly to the right when she asked for the boy’s name.

“I’m Marcus.” He said shyly, not meeting her glance.

“Thank you Marcus.” She went on her way in the direction that Marcus pointed to when she watched what seemed to be his father pick him up. She drove into the woods when she saw a white van parked not that far from the main street. “Huh?”

She got out of the car and looked at the van. She opened the back door and saw nothing on the floor. It looked clean with no sign of a struggle. Looking around some more in the front she heard a scream from somewhere. She stood very quietly and wanted to see if she misheard the sound. Waiting there a couple minutes she heard the scream again. She went running throw the woods where she kept hearing screaming and yelling.

“I’m coming Rose.” She said as she kept running through the woods where she saw an old shed. When she looked inside there was a bloody knife and a bloody adult man shirt. She heard someone yelling and she could make out some words.

“Why you little…why do you think…tell me what….well guess what…you’re wrong!” Sophia ran and found the old building that she had never seen before. When she looked through the window she saw a man covered in blood and a smaller person on the floor. Searching herself for her gun she watched as he pounded the crap out of the smaller person. Once she had the gun Sophia kicked the door down.

“Put your hands up right now!” Sophia yelled with her gun pointing at the man’s chest.

“Who the heck are you?” He asked, dropping his knife onto the floor.

“Put your hands behind your head and get on the floor!” She yelled again as the man dropped to his knees.

“Smart girl. Aren’t ya? Well I told you I would harm her.” He looked at Rose as she laid on the floor. Rose was no longer chained to the pole but you could barely recognize her. Her face was cut up so much that her whole face was covered in blood. Her hands and feet were tied together so her hands and feet were ice cold. Her neck was bruised all around from being strangled so much along with being covered in her own blood.

“I’ll kill you!” Sophia cuffed him and once she was safe he smacked him in the face with her gun. “You ought to be lucky I can’t kill you.”

Sophia put him in her car and called Derek and told him what happened then called 911. In five minutes, Derek, the police, and the EMTs all arrived. The police took the man and threw him in jail while Derek went to pick Rose up and get her the help she needed.

“Dad? Mom?” Rose’s voice was so weak that it sounded as if she were whispering to them.

“Sweetheart?” Derek took his little one's hand before she went into the ambulance. Watching her going to get the help she needed was enough for Derek to know she’s safe.

With the man in jail, Rose got a medical check. She had broken her tibia and fibula on both legs, two ribs bones, minor cuts to her cheek, stitches on her arms and legs from some of the cuts that were very deep, and she had lots of bruises that would heal on their own. Sophia thanked Marcus for telling her about the van and gave him so much of the credit for telling her. Rose was in bed rest until the bones healed and Sophia took time off of work to help her out. Rose laid down with Sophia sitting next to her bed as she fell asleep and they all tried to forget about the whole thing but Rose never did. This always haunts her anytime she goes outside by herself.