In Captivity

She's staring at the face of death. Roman Nevikov. The devil... The Satan... The man who has been holding her for days.

She doesn't know exactly how many days she has been in this room with a bag over her head. The only time he removes the bag is when it's time to eat. She was never one to pray but every day that she has been held captive, she prayed to God that Crews finds her. She smiled as she remembers the conversation she and Crews had about faith. Crews said she didn't lose her faith but what she lost was her faith in a man. The man she fell in love with, who just happened to be a suspect and turned her into a junky. Luckily, she saved herself just in time. But the long road to recovery was tough. She heard whispers and was called nasty names by some of the people she thought were her friends. She worked so hard to make it as a Detective. Everyone thought she got a free ride because she was the great Jack Reese's daughter. But she worked her butt off and deserved to be a detective. People will believe what they want to believe. She stopped caring what people thought after awhile. Her captain supported her but watched her like a hawk. I'm sure it was because of her father. Her father, a man she loved and hated at the same time. He was so tough on her and so mean. The arguments she heard growing up and her mother's cry broke her heart. How often did she tell her mother to leave her father? She still does every now and then. But her mother was old-fashioned. She believed that death is the only way a husband and a wife could be separated. She used to think that her mother was weak but now she knows that her mother was the bravest woman she knows. She stayed because she truly loved her father. She was able to love a man who was incapable of showing love and affection to their daughter.

She remembered the day she was cleared from desk duty. It was the day she met her partner, Charlie Crews. Everyone knew who Charlie Crews was. How can you not? He was a young cop ib the LAPD, wrongly accused of murdering his friend and business partner, and his family. A man who spent 12 years in prison and until a re-trial was proven that none of the evidences collected pointed to him. He was free and sued the LAPD and won. There was no doubt she was being punished for screwing up so they partnered her with him. She didn't quite know it then how to make of her new partner. He ate a lot of fruits, most of them she has never heard of or seen and talked non-stop. He was truly strange, but her gut told her, he's a good man. That is why even when she was being pressured by her Captain to give Internal Affairs anything to have him removed from the Department. She told them nothing. Just like he did the same for her when he knew that she was going to a bar when she wasn't supposed to. He protects her. She protects him. They are partners. She often wondered, what she would do if she were to be in the same position as Bobby was 12 years ago. Would she try and save herself and leave her partner out to dry on his own? She was a lot of bad things but one thing is for sure, she would never betray her partner. So even though she hated Roman's presence and she's tied and all bruised up, she would rather be the one in pain than her partner. God knows, if there were any man who did not deserve to feel pain again, it would be Charlie Crews.

He will come for her. He will come rescue her. He will find her. She has so much faith in him. She watches Roman pace back and forth. He seemed nervous. Just like her, she senses Charlie Crews is near. She decided to taunt the devil. She wants to watch him sweat. "He's getting close isn't he?' He will find you. You're connected to me. And I'm connected to Crews. He will find me. And when he does, you know what he will do. You can't get away from him." Roman gives her a slap, so hard that tears started to fall and she tasted the blood in her mouth. She's not crying. She can't let him see that she's hurt. Roman loves to see women suffer. As long as she lives, she will never give him that satisfaction. But then he told her "Crying runs in your family. You're just like your father. You know he cried before I killed him." And the tears began to fall. Tears because she couldn't save her father. And tears for her mother.