KIDNAPPED GIRL FOUND BRUTALIZED BUT ALIVE IN FRANKENSTEIN STYLE LAB NEAR ROSWELL
Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Guerin was found today in an old salt mine, one hour outside of Roswell, New Mexico on an old service road near the interstate. A service road that was popularized more than 20 years ago but when the interstate was improved, the salt mine fell on hard times and closed. Citizens of nearby Roswell never imagined that it would be the site of a grizzly find when a teenage girl who was kidnapped nearly two weeks ago after her high school prom was found today barely alive, and in what can only be described as a Frankenstein type lab with a doctor conducting unspeakable acts on the girl. He and five other individuals who can’t be named due to the investigation have been arrested and been denied bail. The mastermind who goes by the name Nicholas is wanted for the crime after he was initially arrested in the initial mayhem of the kidnapping, but evidence couldn’t be found to link him but now there is evidence I am told, and the hunt is on.
We’re told the girl’s condition is touch and go and she’s slipped into a coma on the way to the hospital and it’s not known whether she will survive. It was her older brother; 18-year-old Jacob Guerin and his girlfriend, 16-year-old Grace Evans who found the unspeakable crime scene as they were out for a drive after spending time at a nearby cabin with their parents. Family and friends have rushed to the hospital and praying for the girl’s condition to stabilize. The girl’s parents, notable author Maria Deluca Guerin and her husband Michael are said to be distraught and are asking for prayers for their teenage daughter.
Ms. Deluca Guerin remaining dates of her press tour for her latest best-seller Shock and Awe have been cancelled and the upcoming release of the next one is on hold that was scheduled for next year is likely to also be postponed or cancelled outright as they grieve and try to help their daughter recover.
The family is asking for privacy during this time, and no more information will be given out at the direction of the police as they work to investigate and for the family who wish to support their daughter.
Alexandra looked horrified as she read the article that her friend had forwarded to her as she was chatting on a messenger service. Eyes went up when she saw that her sister’s name was mentioned in the article. Getting out her cellphone, she texted her father and Grace…
“Thinking of you. Love, Alexandra. “Whoa” she muttered as she went back to the article as Serena knocked on the door of the spare room she was staying in with Carrie. Carrie was playing videogames with Jonathan and Matthew downstairs. “Yes,” she asked as Serena’s head popped in.
“Your mother is downstairs…” Serena was all she said.
That surprised Alexandra because both she and Carrie knew their mother’s schedule. “What’s wrong because Mom is not due back until tomorrow” Alexandra asked as she eyebrows rose and got up from the bed which she was using her laptop on. “Why is she back early?”
“You can ask her” Serena was all she said as they walked downstairs, and Carrie had stopped playing videogames and now was sitting by her mother and Alexandra had the same sense as her sister that things were different. She saw her mother was on edge. She had to wonder if she knew about what was happening back in Roswell.
“Mom, what’s up?” Alexandra asked as she focused on her mother and sister and knew this had to be bad omen for her mother to come back so quickly after heading to New York for a conference or they were told. “Did you hear about Elizabeth?”
“Yes, I did,” Beth nodded as she felt traumatized from the reports she read and talking to Max only made it worse and therefore she cancelled plans to come home the following day and came home immediately be able to take comfort in her children’s faces. “I talked to your father and they are at the hospital. No news yet,” was all she could say.
“Then why are you home?” Carrie asked. “Is your conference over?”
“Girls, we need to talk” Beth said softly as Alexandra looked wary.
“That sounds ominous,” Alexandra muttered as she sat down beside her sister. “So, what is up?” she asked as she and her sister exchanged a
Uh oh look at each other and Serena only watched amused. She knew what Beth was going to be telling the twins.
“Girls it wasn’t a conference I went to in New York yesterday,” Beth sighed as she saw the alarm on her daughter’s faces. “It was a job interview because I am up for a new position at a new hospital.”
“Excuse me,” Alexandra asked with alarm. “Are you telling me we’re moving to New York?” she wanted to know. “If you are, no way, that is further away not closer to Dad and Grace” she said of her father and sister. “We can’t be living in New York.”
“Alex is right. No way, can’t you tell them no? We can stay here, but no moving to New York” Carrie muttered as she secretly pondered ways to prevent such an occurrence. There was no way she was moving to New York, when she rather be closer to her father and to Grace. Alexandra felt the same way.
“You two, calm down because we’re not moving to the New York” Beth was quick to assure her daughter. “But if I took the position, well, we would be moving. But the position is not in New York. The people I was meeting with were for a set of meetings, and they wanted to meet with me there initially.”
“Yeah,” Alexandra asked as she didn’t know what her mother was going to say in response.
“There is a new hospital geared only to children being opened, and they want me to help set up a department and run that department and it would be year contract initially, and maybe more if we’re successful” Beth said as she long gotten these kind of offers, and yet because of the kids and because loyalty to the hospital for saving her life, she always resisted them but this time, this offer was too good to pass up. It fell into her lap, and she knew it was a sign.
“That is incredible Mom, Congratulations” Alexandra smiled but then stopped as if she didn’t want to know where they would end up. “But if not New York, where then?”
“Las Cruces, New Mexico” Beth said carefully as the twin’s mouths dropped opened as they received the unexpected location for their move. “That is a much better reaction,” she laughed. “So yeah, what do you think?”
“You mean we would be closer to Dad and Grace?” Carrie asked almost in a whisper before it sinks in and she became louder with excitement. “And we could see them all the time.”
“As much as schedules can allow,” Beth smiled. “Of course, Las Cruces is a distance from Roswell, so if we did do this, you would have to start new schools…”
“Mom, we were supposed to be starting a new school in September anyways” Alexandra smiled. “Whether we move or not. High school is a whole new school for us. It would be perfect if we could see Dad and Grace more…” she sighed. “Have you made your decision yet?”
“It wouldn’t do it without hearing your opinion” Beth smiled. “I know this will change our lives. Because so much of our lives have been here in Connecticut, so to move across the country would be a lifestyle change for all of us.”
“Mom, you have been asking for a sign” Alexandra asked. “This is the gods telling us that we need to be near Dad and Grace. I know it’s a big change, but come on, this is our chance start a whole new chapter, and a new story.”
Beth couldn’t help but laugh as she looked over at Serena who nodded as if she agreed with her kids. “It’s not a done deal. They want me to come to New Mexico for an interview on Tuesday, and we would narrow down more details. So, it’s not official, but it’s only me and someone else in the running…”
“Do we have to stay with Serena longer?” Carrie asked.
“No, you guys would come with me,” Beth admitted as the twin’s eyes lit up at their mother’s news of an unexpected summer adventure. Beth knew she needed to bring them along because she didn’t want to be across the country without her kids close to her or able to be quickly in her eyesight. She knew she couldn’t be away from them with everything going on with Elizabeth, and according to Max, the mastermind was still on the loose which meant a whole other level of unknown that Beth didn’t even want to contemplate with this move on the horizon. Because she didn’t know what it meant if she got the job, and then took it, and what it meant for the safety of her daughters. But she knew she needed to try… So, it meant the girls would be coming with her so she could figure out their next steps. “We’ll be staying at a hotel in Las Cruces and it would be chance to look for housing and schools if I do get the job” Beth said to the elation of the girls. “And you would get to see your father and Grace. We’re not going to be staying with them because of everything up in the air for them, and I wouldn’t want to put the pressure on them.”
“Cool, another hotel!” Carrie cracked.
“But Mom, what about our house here…” Alex asked. “If we’re gone for up to a year or longer”
“They would be wanting me to start by June 1st if I get the job. I will give notice to my hospital in New Haven, if I get the job and I would try to rent it or I can’t, then Serena and Keith will keep an eye on until we can get it rented.”
“But we would keep it, right?” Alexandra asked.
“Until we know if we’re coming back at the end of the year or not” Beth smiled.
“When do we leave?” Carrie asked.
“I have to confirm flight reservations, but likely tomorrow” Beth sighed as the twins came towards her and she embraced and she found herself believing for the first time that this might work out for them and that she was making the right decision because she needed to protect her kids, and she needed them to be in the same State regardless of what it meant for her and Max. “So, you should go get your stuff and we’ll head home.”
The twins quickly bolted upstairs, leaving Beth and Serena downstairs as Beth couldn’t help but seek advice from their friend. “Am I doing the right thing?” Beth wondered as if she wanted someone to say she is being too rash.
“You said it yourself that the twins need to see their father more, and they have a sister they are only beginning to know and they are at the age that they need both parents to be able to parent them, and you’ve said that Max is going through a hellish time right now and same with Grace. They both need you and the twins close to them. Grace needs you in her life and it isn’t helping you to be across the country and can only talk every other weekend or whenever your schedule allows you time. It will do a world of good for you, as well as Alexandra and Carrie. As I said, they are getting an age where they will need their father in their lives. Max will need your support, and he needs to see his kids.” Serena murmured. “Whether that means anything, I don’t know. But you have to at least try.”
Beth nodded.
“That said, I know you’re taking a risk because of the danger level is high out there, which is pretty amazing to me. So, I know what it means to take the kids back there, but at the end of the day, it will only help the situation by having you back there with the girls,” Serena murmured as she could tell that her friend was apprehensive about the possibility of relocating. “You’re probably at more of a risk staying here… But it’s the decision for you and Max to make. Speaking of Max, have you given any thought of where you and his personal relationship might go if you do take the job and move closer to him in New Mexico?”
“I haven’t begun to, and I doubt Max has either” Beth nodded. “Too much has gone down to even go there…”
“I wouldn’t be too sure,” Serena nodded as she deeply sighed because she might think this was the only out that her friend had but still, she knew it would be life changing. “I am going to miss you though…”
“You’ll have to come visit…” Beth smiled. “The boys will love it, lots to investigate. Lots of caves.”
“We will definitely plan on it,”” Serena smiled as Alexandra and Carrie came downstairs with their bags, and soon they were walking and driving away. Serena watched long after the car drove away from their street as Keith came out onto the porch to bring a drink to his wife who was taking some time under the beautiful evening sky.
“She’s not coming back, is she?” Keith asked as he handed the glass Serena.
“Nope,” Serena said. “She might not know it right now but even if the job doesn’t work out. She won’t be back…
New Mexico and the people there will mean too much to her by then… so, I’ll miss her…”
“She’s right, we’ll have to plan a vacation out there…” Keith smiled.
Serena could only smile as they walked into the house and closed the door while Beth and the twins headed home to pack for their newest adventure.
*
While back in Roswell, it was pure chaos as the whole family and clan collected at the hospital. All the kids from the three families were there, as their parents didn’t want to be apart from the kids and not know where they were as the adults were pacing the waiting room. Little Belle was sitting by her grandmother who was on the verge of tears.
Maria was sedated in a hospital room. Michael was on the verge of attacking someone as Isabel kept close to him to try to keep him from letting loose. Max was being family spokesman and lawyer who kept up with the doctors and nurses. Everyone else waited for news.
Elizabeth had slipped into a coma on the way the hospital and was immediately whisked into an operating room to survey and hopefully repair the damage and for hours they hadn’t heard anything which led to Maria’s collapse and the need for a hospital room, and Michael’s insanity.
Once word of the rescue got out, the crowds around the hospital started to grow. Once word got to the high school; they had closed early, and Sue and Finn rushed to the hospital and were now sitting with the family next to Grace as they waited word. Jake hadn’t spoken since arriving at the hospital, and Grace worried about him. He had seen too much and had to endure too much since it had all started Grace knew, and she ached for his pain and loss.
And most importantly her friend who was in agony.
And then the doctor came out with news.
Elizabeth was alive… but…
*
“She’s still in a coma and we don’t know when she’s will wakeup,” the doctor said softly. “We were able to repair some of the damage, but it was extensive and she’s going need a lot of treatment in the weeks to come if she makes it that far” she said to the crowded waiting room. “There is more Mr. Guerin if we you wanted to talk to me privately and I can go into more detail as I understand your wife is resting…”
“Resting is too simple,” Michael grunted. “She needs more than rest. She needs answers. We’re all family, you can say it to everyone if you have anything to say?”
“Mr. Guerin, some of the information is sensitive and private and you might not want everyone to hear,” the doctor said softly as she knew no family wanted to hear such information but in this case, the medical needs were dire and would hard to hear about a fifteen year old girl after such an experience.
“Right,” Michael paled considerably at the news. Grace stood up and knew she should head this off. “Why don’t Sue and I take the kids, down to the cafeteria and get something to eat. Sue, you can help me, right?”
Sue nodded as they collected the boys, Kylie, Michelle and Belle to go down to the cafeteria. “Thank you, Grace,” Jake said squeezing her hand as he got up from the chairs. “I’ll join you in a minute,” he murmured as he guarded his heart and composure for what was going to be said about his sister’s condition.
“Jake is right, thank you Grace” Michael allowed as Sue and Grace collected everyone and headed to the elevators while Finn decided to head home after asking to be called when Elizabeth woke up.
While the adults, and Jake tried to prepare himself for what the doctor would have to say, as the crowd stilled and watched the doctor with interest as Jake approached his father. “I am 18, she’s my sister, so I’m staying”
“Very well,” the doctor said with concern. “To begin, Elizabeth is alive. She is responding and there is hope she will pull through despite her comatose state. Still though her system was put through a tremendous amount of stress, and it’s evident that she found the breaking point at some point, and it’s remarkable frankly that she made it this far” the doctor said as Michael nodded to Max who stood there grimly knowing the fact she would be gone if not for his powers.
“To start, we were able to remove the tubing and wiring, but superficially, she broke her ankle and because it was starting to heal without being treated properly, well, we had to rebreak it and set it so she’s going to be a cast for up to six to eight weeks, and still we don’t know if we were able to treat it in time but we will see how it progresses,” the doctor announced.
Michael nodded and wondered if she broke it when she tried to run, and that is what allowed his little girl to fall back into the claws of a monster. “And…”
“Examination shows that she wasn’t sexual assaulted in the traditional way” the doctor said frankly as the adults looked stunned. “She’s still a virgin, but obviously they were using her for other purposes” as the adults and Jake winced and turned away as the words struck him with force.
“Obviously,” Michael murmured as the doctor continued as his fists clinched in rage.
“The tubing procedures done caused extensive tearing and scar tissue and allowed infection to set in, in numerous places,” the doctor murmured as Isabel winced. “We were able to fix some of the issues but still she’s going to be on antibiotics to clear up the infections… and if they can’t, then we might have to go back in.”
“There was also extensive internal bleeding going on, and it’s quite clear Mr. Guerin if she wasn’t rescued when she was, she wouldn’t have made it… as the attempted cross contamination of her blood caused her system to attack itself and start to shut down. She wouldn’t have made it, and it’s amazing she still even has a chance…”
“What are you talking about blood contamination?” Max asked stepping in for his friend who was about to strike.
“Someone tried to give her blood she wasn’t a match for, and it didn’t mesh with her system and it’s clear it wasn’t the first transfusion of blood. While we were able to get it under control, we had to use a lot of blood to get her to even make it off the table. Whoever did, was treating her like…”
“And object, and like she wasn’t human” Michael murmured through his rage at the thought of what was done to his little girl. “They wanted only one thing, and they would do anything to her to achieve it… or they would kill her.”
Jake couldn’t take it anymore and stormed off, in a fit of rage… and they didn’t stop him and instead of going and joining his girlfriend in the cafeteria, well he found a way through the doors to the intensive care unit and walked the halls. “Sir, you can’t be back here.”
“I belong here, I am family, you can’t and you won’t throw me out” Jake muttered as he didn’t let the doctor stop him as finally found his way and stopped and cried when he saw his little sister barely alive, hooked up to machines and lying so still, pale, and lost to the world.
So not the Elizabeth who was determined to rule the world and take out anyone who got in her way and would fight to the death for someone she loved or do anything to get what she wanted.
“Sis, what did that bastard do to you?” he cried as she stood and watched as she laid so still, so not the outgoing girl they all had gotten endless grief from and now would love to experience just a tiny but of that personality.
“You can’t die on me, please…” Jake pleaded. “I know you think you don’t have any fight left and I know they took something from you and you probably don’t think you deserve to come back but you do so please fight for me and for Mom and Dad. We love you Elizabeth and we won’t be the same family without you so for our sake, Mom and Dad’s sake and for Colin, Liam and Belle and especially for the future you that is just waiting for you to grab… Please fight, and please come back to us…
*
She did fight, as she was still with them a few hours later as Michael and a now awake Maria stood watch and vigil by their daughter’s bedside as Jake climbed the tree and into Grace’s bedroom window and broke down in her arms as they laid in bed.
“She’s so broken,” Jake whispered as they laid in bed together. “They broke my sister…”
“It’s pure evil,” Grace murmured as they fell asleep in each other’s arms as downstairs Max was consulting with his sister.
*
“She was treated like she wasn’t human. They didn’t care she was a girl. Someone who is innocent or who didn’t even do anything to him except exist” Isabel hissed in anger as they sat in the living room.
Colin, Liam and Belle had gone home with their grandparents. Michael and Maria weren’t leaving the hospital and Max knew he could find Jake upstairs in his daughter’s bedroom. Tonight, was one night he didn’t care because there wasn’t nothing to gain after the day the boy had, and he was a sitting duck in his motel room or at the family house.
“He’s sick,” Max muttered.
“Max, I know were probably bad people or people who did the wrong things sometimes on Antar to allow for a coup, but our children didn’t do anything. It’s not their fault that they have us for parents, and to go after them and treat Elizabeth like she was…”
“It’s unconscionable,” Max murmured as his stomach was downright queasy at the memory of the torture he had witnessed. “They were trying to create the perfect sacrifice. The newspaper got it right, it truly was Frankenstein lab. “The were going to use Grace but when she wasn’t available, they went after the second in command’s eldest girl” he muttered. “They wanted the perfect vessel.”
“To try to create a child for Nicholas to offer Khivar to be able to go back to Antar or use Elizabeth as a virgin sacrifice, to build her into the someone who survive on another planet despite her human DNA and human mother so Khivar could use her to get that heir from someone in the original royal bloodline,” Isabel muttered. “Which is why they were trying every other way possible, but you know with time running out they would have gone there if they needed to…”
“Sickening,” Max said as he was sick to his stomach. “This was coldblooded revenge.”
“Yeah, against us…” Isabel muttered.
“For keeping him on this planet. Back when we destroyed those husks and Michael got close to Courtney who sacrifice herself, so he didn’t find out about the Granolith” Max asked.
“Then the Alien Summit…” Isabel remembered.
“He wanted me to do that deal, if it was even a deal” Max thought. “This was pure revenge. It might have started out about Khivar and creating an heir and he was still working on it obviously, but this was about putting a bullet into us, and especially Michael using something he cares most about… his daughter.”
“He got you through Liz, and almost Grace and now he’s after Michael through Elizabeth…”
“Clearly, I am not something he’s feasting on as much anymore because he has a fresher piece of flesh in Michael, and unfortunately in Elizabeth…”
“That is what I am afraid of, does he come back for more…?”
*
Nicholas was planning on it as he stormed around his new hotel room as he surveyed the media coverage of Elizabeth’s rescue. The anger was building. He would not let them win. He would win this, as he immediately made plans and packed.
As he walked smoothly though security at the airport and hopped on a plane out of New Mexico.
Memories of how enticing Elizabeth was, and how much she was a fitting way of getting revenge and now she will be just waiting for him to come back and play with her some more and he couldn’t wait.
I’ll be back he swore.
She will want me back…