AJ:  "Yeah"

Kevin:  "Fix it."

AJ:  "Yeah"

Kevin:  "Ciao"

AJ:  "Yeah."

Kevin goes back inside.  He passes the parlor and hears crying.  He looks in to find Abigail curled up in one of the overstuffed chairs in the corner.  He walks in the room.  She looks up at the sound of footsteps wiping her tears away she stands.  "Oh, Signore Bianchetti, um can I offer you a drink?"

Kevin:  "No thank you.  But you look like you could use one."  She tries to smile at his kindness but only ends up in tears.  He walks over and pours her a drink, brings it back and hands it to her.  "Maybe you should go up and to your room.  I'm not sure this is the best place for you."

Abby:  "When Suzanna's home, we always have lunch here in this parlor.  I need to be here."

Kevin:  "May I sit with you."  She nods; he pulls a chair over and joins here in the corner.

Abby:  "I know this is going to sound silly but will you hold my hand."  He looks at her and sees what everyone doesn't.  She is merely just a child, a lost little girl who is growing up way to fast in a world of high stakes, a little girl who has suffered way too much. Kevin smiles and reaches out and takes her hand.  "Suzanna really loves you, you know" He smiles and nods.  Looking away so she doesn't see the tears in his eyes.  "It's ok to cry.  It seems that is all I do lately"

He composes himself and with his free hand quickly wipes his eyes.  Abby sips her drink and sits there in silence, holding Kevin's hand and praying somehow this is all just a bad dream, from which she will wake up soon.


Inside everyone is so busy making various calls and setting up strategy that no one notices Lance slip out of the room.  He walks outside and pulls out his phone, he dials a number. 

Voice:  "Hello"

Lance:  "They've seen it"

Voice:  "Are they acting positively?"

Lance:  "I don't really know"

Voice:  "Do they know who they are messing with?"

Lance:  "Do you know who you're messing with; the deal was just the kid... not her.  Do you realize that they will come after you with everything they have?  She is their crown jewel."

Voice:  "You are an advisor; I think you should advise them not to be stupid."

Lance:  "I can only advise Jon Carlo.  His father is still calling the shots and when you went after her you made enemies of the Bianchetti's as well.  I have no control over what they do."

Voice:  "Perhaps they need further proof of my threat regarding retaliation."

The call is ended

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Suzanna is alone, frightened and fighting off her body's instinct to lapse into therapeutic sleep.  She hears footsteps approaching from the darkness.  She tries to decipher the direction, but the sound echoes in the empty room.  Suddenly there is a figure standing in front of her.  She tries to pull away from the hand that is reaching out towards her, but can not move.  Bound to the chair, her sobs are barely audible thru the duct tape that covers her mouth.

Voice:  "Beautiful, Suzanna.  Hahha, lets just see if I have made a fair asking price for you, umm?!?"  The person reaches out and runs their hand up her leg, touching her thigh.  She screams against the tape and tries to move her leg.  "A fighter huh.  This will take some of the fight out of you."  She feels a needle pierce her skin.  The drugs work quickly in her blood stream and she fights the urge to vomit as the hand slips inside her panties.  His other hand rips the thin material of her slip away.   She feels his mouth on her breast and squeezes her eyes closed and mentally removes herself from what is happening.  She doesn't remember being unbound and literally dragged across the floor to a make-shift "bed".  Being bound again in a spread eagle position, and being repeatedly raped.  After they are done they take digital photos and send them to the Bianchetti household. 

 

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A couple hours later.

Abby had fallen asleep and Kevin is still sitting in the parlor with her when his phone rang.  He reaches for it and flips it open.

Kevin:  "hola"

Vito:  "There is another package"

Kevin:  "Have Tommy bring it over."

Vito:  "Um, perhaps not everyone needs to see the contents of this one."

Kevin:  "Papa"

With un-common emotion in his voice, "Giovanni should be spared this package."

Kevin:  "I'll be right home."

From somewhere behind him Donatella speaks, "is she dead?"

Kevin stands up quickly and turns around.  He hadn't noticed her enter the room, had she been there the whole time he was on the phone.  "No, that is the only thing I am sure of at this point."

Dona:  "Do what it takes.  She's so young."

He nods and leaves.  Donatela cries silently in the corner.

Kevin gets to his house in less than 5 minutes.  He is ushered into his father office, Vito Sr. in the only person there.  His father looks up at him.  "I have requested that Rick go pick up Nickolas at school.  I can't risk his being attacked.  Not now."

Kevin nods, "what was in the package, Papa."

Vito looks off to the corner of the desk.  The plain brown wrapper, addressed in what appears to be blood, sits there.  Kevin picks it up and sits down in the chair opposite his father.  Inside is a stack of pictures, Kevin clenches and unclenches his jaw as he views the documentation of Suzanna's rape.  He places the pictures back in the wrapper.  His eye catches his father's gaze and his father is frightened of the murderous look in his son's eyes.  In all his years he has never seen anything so evil, and he has seen a lot.

On his way back to the Mazzagotti's, Kevin's phone rings.

Kevin:  "Yeah"

AJ:   "Got um."

Kevin:  "I'm going with, where can I meet you?"

AJ:  "You'll draw too much attention can't risk it."

Kevin: "I'm going with."

AJ:  "Meet me at the dam bring one man you can trust."

Kevin:   "I'll be there with in the hour."

He rolls up to the house.  Brian and Kevin's must trusted man, Gino met him outside.

Brian:  "What was it?"

Kevin:   "It was their death sentence. I must speak with Don Mazzagotti."  They follow him inside.  Papa's study is still full of people. Kevin walks up to him and whispers in his ear.

Giovanni:  "If everyone will excuse me for a moment I must speak privately with Vito Jr." everyone starts to leave except JC.

JC:  "She's my sister I won't be dismissed."  He looks at Kevin to argue, which he doesn't.  After everyone leaves.

Kevin:  "We have received another package from Suzanna's kidnappers.  Inside was photographs of her being assaulted in the worst way a woman can be."  Papa pales and JC can not sit any longer.

JC:  "Who the hell do those sons of bitches think they are messing with?  We'll have their balls when we find them."

Kevin:  "A man of mine has already found them."  They both look at him.

Giovanni:  "Where is she?"

Kevin:  "Close. I have to meet my associate with in the hour to go retrieve her."

Giovanni:  "Take as many men as you need."

Kevin:  "A small force is all that is needed. I need only one man."

JC:  "I'm going."

Giovanni:  "Jon Carlo you are needed here. I'm going."

Kevin:  "With all my respects Don Mazzagotti, I think JC should go.  They would be looking for you."

Giovanni rubs his temple thinking.  "Very well. But both of you be careful and bring Suzanna back home. Speak of this to no one." They nod and leave the room.

Kevin and JC head out to Kevin's car.

Kevin:  "Brian come here."

Brian: "yeah."

Kevin:  "JC and I are going on a lead. I need you to stay here and keep and eye on Abby."

Brian:  "I'm going with. She's got a whole house of people to look after her."

Kevin:  "Michael, she's just a kid. Something that a lot of people forget.  I promised Suzanna when she went back to college that I would watch out for her. Just make sure that boyfriend of hers doesn't start bullying her."

Brian:  "That guy's like twice my size."

Kevin:  "Then have Gino stay with you. But stay here I might need you."

Brian:  "Alright. Be careful."


Kevin and JC get to Hoover Dam and park on the top floor of the garage.  They get in the elevator and Kevin takes off the note taped to the inside of the control panel.  He shows it to JC.  They exit the elevator and duck down behind the wall.  A tractor trailer pulls up and they jump over the wall and into the awaiting rig. AJ puts it back in gear and drives in to Arizona. 

Kevin:  "Jon Carlo this is AJ. This is Jon Carlo Mazzagotti."

AJ:  "Oh the brother."

JC: "Where is she?"

AJ:  "Searchlight. They have her in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town."

Kevin:  "My god they are stupid aren't they. How are we getting in?" AJ smiles wickedly.

AJ:  "Right through the front door. They'll never see us coming."


Back at the Mazzagotti's.

Abby wakes from her little nap to find Brian in the chair that Kevin had been sitting in.  She rubs her eyes and smoothes out her dress.

Brian:  "How are you doing?"

Abby:  "I've been better. What's happen?"

Brian:  "Nothing yet. We're still trying to find her." She starts to sniffle again.

Abby:  "Can I offer you anything?"

Brian:  "No I'm fine." His stomach grumbles.

Abby:  "You're stomach is not agreeing with you. Come on I'll make you a sandwich."

Brian: "You don't have to go to any trouble."

Abby:  "I need some thing to take my mind off of this for a few minutes." He follows her to the kitchen. Gino moves from his position at the door of the parlor to the door to the kitchen. The cook is in there making pasta and sauce.

Cook:  "Can I help you with something Bella Mazzagotti?"

Abby:  "No I'm just going to make a sandwich don't mind us."  She starts getting out the bread and mayo.  "I make the best sandwiches."

Cook:  "Si. She does. Excuse me a moment I have to get something from the pantry."  She leaves them.  Abby is rummaging through the fridge.  Brian takes that moment to admire her butt as she's bending to get the lunch meat.

Abby:  "Okay do you want turkey, beef, salami, bologna, or an Abby special."

Brian:  "I'll take an Abby special."

Abby:  "Good." She starts making the sandwich. "So talk to me about anything except what's going on?"

Brian:  "Okay. Um, I'm going to Paris next week."

Abby:  "Really I love Paris. It's feels so old."

Brian:  "You've been there I take it."

Abby:  "Yeah for a little person like me everything always feels really big but there I feel the right size. Besides everyone there is rude so I fit right in." He laughs. "What are you going there for?"

Brian:  "Can't say."

Abby:  "Oh okay point taken." He was going there with a woman but he just didn't want her to know. "Well make sure to take time to sit on the bank by Notre Dame. It's very peaceful there."  She hands him his sandwich and starts making two more.

Brian:  "this is really good."

Abby:  "I know."

Brian:  "What's in it?"

Abby:  "Secret ingredient."

Brian:  "So have you found your dress for the wedding yet."  Her hand trembles.  Saying that made her think about Suzanna and the fact that there might not be a wedding. She picks up a slice of turkey.

Abby:  "No. I haven't." Brian looks at her because he can hear the change in her voice.

Brian:  "Oh shit I'm sorry."  He sits down his sandwich and comes around the table. "Here sit down." He guides her to a chair, because she's crying again. "Hey how can one little person have so many tears?"

Abby:  "I don't know I've been crying all day you think I would have run out by now."

Brian:  "I hate to tell you this but your heart's too big you'll never run out of tears." He places his hands on her face and wipes the tears away. His touch is soothing and she looks in his eyes.

Abby:  "Thank you for being nice to me."

Brian:  "No problem. Do you want to talk about it?"  He hands her a hand towel that was by the sink.

Abby:  "I can't lose her. I never knew my mother. Suzanna is all I ever had in that department and I can't lose her. I'll go crazy if I do." She is near hysterics.  Brian wraps his arms around her and rocks her back and forth.  He can't help but wonder why some one hasn't come to check on her.  Where's Joey?  He should be there making sure Abby's okay, he thinks to himself. 

Abby starts to get myself under control slowly.  Brian's embrace was so comforting she just wanted to stay there for ever.  She hadn't seen Joey since she first found out at the mall and really needed some one to hold her.

Brian:  "It's going to be okay they'll find her."

Abby:  "I know."  She wipes her eyes and stands up.  "Thank you Brian. I really needed a friend."

Brian:  "Hey not a problem.  We're almost family now anyway."

Abby:  "Yeah."  Something had passed between the two of them that neither could put a name to.  The silence was starting to get heavy.  "Do you want some chips?  Or something to drink?"

Brian:  "Sure."

She gives him some chips and a soda.  Then finishes the sandwiches she was making for her papa and Joey.


Searchlight

AJ comes out of the diner and runs over to the truck.  Where Kevin and JC are crouched down in the back of the cab.  He gets in and starts it up. 

AJ:  "They are keeping her in a back room so we can go in through the front. You two ready?"  Kevin and JC take off the safeties on their mini Uzis, the modern day Tommy guns.  They nod.  AJ detaches the windshield.

Kevin:  "Are those supposed to come off?"

AJ:  "No but the first time I did this I got cut up pretty bad so I took it out for then on."

JC:  "You've crashed a tractor trailer in to a building more then once."

AJ:  "Yeah."  He says it in a way that is like and you haven't.  "Let's roll."  He shifts in to gear and circles the truck stop a couple times to get some speed.  Then he drives straight in to a building. He starts immediately shooting off his gun. JC and Kevin both hop out and take cover from fire behind the broken down wall. Soon all the guys in the front room are dead and they make their way towards the back room where Suzanna is.  There are two guys in there.


The loud crash brought Suzanna out of her dazed state.  One of them was on top of her again.  He jumped up and pulled his pants up.  She had never heard their names the always called each other by numbers.

One:  "Six what the hell is going on?" Six bolts the door and runs for his gun.

Six:  "Some one just drove a truck through the fucking wall!"

One:  "Shit they found us. Get rid of the girl."

Six:  "Fuck no! You're the one that wanted her you get rid of her."

One pulls his gun on six.

One:  "You better do what I fucking say."

Six:  "Go ahead shoot me, we're dead anyway."

One:  "Let's get the fuck out of here." They leave through a back door.  Everything is quiet.  Suzanna can only see out of one eye and everything is hazy.  Then she thinks she's dreaming as she hears Kevin calling her name.

Suz:  "Kevin."  She passes out again when she sees his face.

Kevin:  "Oh Jesus. JC throw me that blanket."  He covers her up.  "We've got to get her out of here."  AJ as always was a step ahead of him.  He threw the back doors of the trailer open and brought an ambulance out of the back.

Kevin carried Suzanna to it and laid her on the gurney.  JC got in the driver's seat hit the siren and speed back to the city. "What are you doing?"

AJ:  "She's dehydrated I'm giving her fluids." He watches AJ start an IV and then he starts inspecting Suzanna's wounds on her face and arms.  He hands Kevin some cloths and antiseptic. "I think you should clean up the blood off her legs."  Kevin moves the blanket away and sees the extent of what they did to his fiancé.  He puts his hand over his face and cries.  AJ doesn't say anything he gives Suzanna something for the pain that she'll have when she wakes up.  He readies another shot. "Kevin. Hey man I need you for a second."

Kevin:  "what?"

AJ:  "Chances are they where not careful with her." Kevin understands what he is saying. "I can give her a shot that will get rid of anything they might have left. Do you want me to give it to her?"

Kevin: "Yes. She's going to have enough trouble getting past this with out something like that to remind her. I have to make a call."


The Mazzagotti's

Brian and Gino walk with Abby into Giovanni's office.  She hands Joey his sandwich which she doesn't even get a thank you for.  She sits her father's on his desk.

Giovanni:  "An Abby special?"

Abby:  "Of course."  She sits the soda next to it.

Giovanni:  "I love you my little angel."

Abby:  "I love you too papa." She hugs him. "May I stay?"

Giovanni:  "This really isn't a place for you."

Abby:  "I know but I have to know what's going on. Trust me the truth would be better then what's going on in my head." The phone rings she moves so he can answer it and the whole room gets quiet.

Giovanni: "Yes."

Kevin:  "We've got her."

Giovanni:  "Did you get them?"

Kevin:  "Most of them."

Giovanni:  "How is she?"

Kevin: "She needs a doctor."

Giovanni:  "Bring her home."

Kevin:  "Yes sir." He hangs up the phone with tears running down his face.  Abby stands preparing herself for the worse.

Giovanni:  "They have her and are bringing her home."  Abby faints and Brian catches her.  Joey runs over.  Gino checks her pulse.

Gino:  "She's fine she just fainted."

Giovanni:  "Brian could you take her upstairs."

Joey: "I'll get her Don." He starts to take Abby from Brian who surprisingly does not want to let go.

Giovanni:  "No Joey I need you to go get Justin's doctor he can look Suzanna over too. Brian I will show you to Abigail's room." They take her upstairs and Brian lays her on the bed.  Giovanni gets a washcloth from her bathroom and places it on her forehead.  The cold water wakes her up.  "Hey it's going to be okay they are bringing her home."  She leans up and hugs him and cry harder then she has ever before. "Calm down sweetie you can rest now.  Do you need anything?"

Abby:  "no papa."

Giovanni:  "I want you to stay in here and rest.  Do not come down stairs." He stands up to leaves and Abby waves bye to Brian as they walk out.  "I want to thank you for helping her."

Brian "I was standing right there I wasn't going to let her fall."

Giovanni cocks his head to the side a little and looks at Brian.  "Nothing goes on in my house that I am not aware of Michael."  Brian looks at his feet.  "Thank you for before, trying to take her mind off of what was happening.  You have done me a great favor that I will not forget."

Brian:  "The pleasure was mine Don Mazzagotti.  Deep down she's a good kid."

Giovanni:  "Not a lot of people see that.  Thank you Brian."

They go down stairs to wait with everyone else for Suzanna to arrive.


After tending to Suzanna, AJ goes up and sits in the passenger seat.  He looks over at JC and sees how truly upset he is.  "It's gonna be ok, she's safe now."

JC:  "For now.  When I get a hold of the son of bitches that did that to her"

AJ:  "I understand man.  Let me know when and where and I'll gladly help."

Kevin sits in the back with Suzanna.  He holds her hand and covers her with more blankets when she shivers.  He holds his head in his hand and stares at the floor.  About half-way home, she regains conscience.  She is completely disoriented and the first thing she feels is someone holding her hand.  Quickly she pulls away.  Kevin looks up; Suz sees his face and starts to cry.

Suz:  "Vito?!?"  She reaches out and touches him to make sure he is really there.  He is and that makes her cry harder.  He takes her hand in his and brings it too his lips and kisses it.  He sees her squinting in the bright light and reaches and turns them off. 

Suzanna starts to cry and shake, "no turn them back on."

He does, "I am so sorry.  I... I'll keep them on; I thought they were bothering you."  She tightens her grip on his hand.

Suz:  "Tino?"

Kevin:  "shhhh"

Suz:  "Is Tino okay?"

Kevin:  "um, not really sure yet.  Let's focus on you, ok.  You worry about you.  Are you hurt anywhere we can't see?"  She touches her chest.  "Ok, my love, we'll take care of everything."

She exhales deeply, closes her eyes and is asleep in seconds.

They arrive at the house and Kevin makes sure Suzanna's body is covered securely with blankets and then covers her face.  He scoops her up, AJ grabs the IV bags and JC runs around to open the doors.  The three of them walk past everyone else that was waiting, and into the house.  Giovanni is standing next to Donatela in the foyer.  He is visibly shaken, even more so when he sees the looks on the faces of JC, Kevin and AJ. 

Dona ushers them up to Suzanna's room that now resembles a lush hospital suite.  She was so happy to have Suz home safe that she was not prepared for what she saw when the doctor removed the blankets.  She lost it.  Dona sat on the edge of the bed stroking Suzanna's hair and sobbing, "you poor precious, beautiful girl.  What have they done to you?"

The doctors ask her to move, so they can attend to Suz, but she won't.  They work around her.  Giovanni walks in the room takes one look at his daughter and walks back out.  In the hallway outside, he speaks briefly with Kevin.

Giovanni:  "Who were they?"

Kevin:  "Just kids."

Giovanni:  "Then our true enemy has yet to show his face."  Kevin nods; he understands what Giovanni is not saying.  That there could be traitors among them.  "Who would you trust with the lives of your children?"

Kevin:  "Brian, AJ, Nick, Howie and Gino.  No one else."

Giovanni:  "Very well.  I'm limiting the access to this floor.  Those you have mentioned, family and the doctors will be the only ones allowed in to see her."

Kevin:  "What about Sphinx?"

Giovanni:  "I do not have control over him.  But it would take more force then I have to remove him."

Kevin:  "I don't think he'd hurt her"

Giovanni chuckles, "not for the world."

Kevin:  "and Fatone."

Giovanni:  "I have things to keep him busy."

Kevin nods.  He read between the lines, Giovanni has to test everyone.