Without You There Is No Me

I watched Carrie set her bags by the door. Her parents were looking sadly at her. Tony wrapped his arm around her shoulders and she smiled up at him. You could see it in his eyes. He loved her like Vic loves me. It's un fathomable, unexplainable love.
"Will you looks after her?" Laura asked me.
"I promise." I told her.
"What will happen to her?" William asked.
"I don't know." I sighed. "When we get home I'll take her to Jess' house. After a day or two we can enrol her at a school so she's still getting an education. I'll just help her much as possible." I explained.
"I trust you." Laura told me. She hugged me briefly and brought her lips to my ear, "keep my daughter alive." she whispered.
"I will." I replied.
"Thank you." William told me and kissed my cheek.
"Have a safe journey." Harry told me.
"I will. Thank you for everything." I smiled. I went to hug him and he kissed my cheek.
"If you ever need anything then please call me."
"I will." I replied.
"Han', we'll miss the flight!" Jaime called.
"Coming." I rolled my eyes. "Are you ready?" I asked Carrie.
"Yeah." she nodded. She went up to her parents and hugged them longly. I went outside where everyone else was. Gary put all of our bags in the cars. I went to Vic and took his hand.
"You ready to go home?" Vic asked.
"Yeah," I nodded. "I feel like I should miss it though."
"Maybe you will." he reasoned.
"This weather is killing you." I laughed.
"I'm a San Diego boy." he shrugged.
"Let's go." Vic sighed. I leaned up and kissed his lips. Vic smiled when he pulled away and we went to the car. I waved to everyone inside slid inside the car. Vic sat next to me and everyone else piled into the cars. The car started to drive down the long driveway and out onto the road.
When we arrived at the airport I got out of the car. I thanked Gary and we took our things inside. We walked inside the airport and over to check in. I handed all our things over and the woman smiled at me handed me some papers back. We walked over to our gate and I sat down in the waiting area, watching everyone else do the same.
When we landed we all made our way to get our bags. We went outside of the airport and started looking for Karen's car. "You sure she's picking us up?" Mike asked.
"Of course she is." Jess rolled her eyes.
"Well, she isn't here." Mike stated.
"Thank you, Mr Obvious." Jaime said.
"Can we just get home?" Vic asked.
"Who's Karen again?" Carrie asked.
"Jess's mom." Tony explained.
"Are we all hanging out at HQ?" Jaime asked.
"Stop calling it that." Mike sighed.
"Are you coming?" I asked.
"If I can sleep I'm there." he shrugged.
"Let's all drop our things off and we can meet up at Jess's house then." I explained.
"I would but our ride isn't here." Mike stated.
Then I car horn beeped. I saw Karen's car and pulled the others over. Karen got out and hugged Jess tightly before she moved onto me. "Hannah!" Karen exclaimed. "How are you? Did you find what you needed?" she asked.
"Yeah, I did." I nodded. We pulled away and she looked around the group.
"Who's this girl that looks a spitting image of Hannah?" Karen asked.
"This is Carrie Charlotte." Tony introduced her.
"Hi." Carrie smiled and waved.
"I've heard all about you." Karen said.
"Good things?" Carrie asked hopefully.
"True things." Karen replied.
"I told her." I said.
"Shall we go, Mom?" Jess asked.
"Come on, then." Karen urged.
We got into the car and squeezed to fit ourselves in. I was pulled onto Vic's lap and his hands wrapped around my middle. I leant back and rolled down the window.
"Why is it so hot?" Carried moaned.
"Get used to it." I laughed.
"It's paradise." Tony told her quietly. "You just need to adjust."
"I spoke to your parents, Hannah." Karen called from the front of the car.
"About what?" I asked anxiously.
"Being more understanding." she said carefully.
"They've been better." I defended.
"Did you shout?" Jaime asked.
"No, I didn't." Karen laughed. "I talked her into letting Vic stay over."
"How?" I asked excitedly.
"We spoke about children." she explained.
"Mom, why?" Jess sighed.
"Hannah needs it." Karen said. "Besides, Rich called while you were away."
"And said what?" Vic asked.
"One of his contacts phoned about Hannah."
"About me?" I gasped.
"He wants you to see him. But he recommends that you keep Vic close. I thought I better go to your parents." she said.
"Looks like I'm at yours for a few nights." Vic whispered in my ear.
"If we were able to do anything I might be worried." I joked back. Vic's arms tightened around me and he smiled against my back.
The car pulled into my drive and I got off of Vic's lap. Jaime opened the front door and grabbed my bag. He took them upstairs and looked down to me. "Hang my jacket up, Han'!" Jaime called. I picked up his jacket and went over to the cupboard under the stairs.
I opened it up and gasped. I dropped the coat and had backed up against the hallway wall. There was a noose attached the the light fitting. Then when I looked down I saw Lauren. Her neck was snapped and she was hanging lifelessly. I looked at her wrists and saw they were bloody. I could see the bone in her arms. As she hung there I saw her back was red and scratched.
I felt arms around me and screamed. I turned and saw Jaime. I relaxed against him and looked back to see nothing under the stairs. "You looked scared." he said.
"Lauren was in there. With a noose." I rushed.
"Shh... Okay, let's get out of here." Jaime said. He wrapped a arm around my shoulders. I sighed and hurried out of the house. I couldn't be in here right now after just seeing that. We went back on the car and I sat back on Vic's lap. I buried my face into his chest and he stroked my hair.
"What's wrong?" Vic asked gently.
"I'll tell you later." I mumbled into the fabric of his t-shirt.

Notes

Hey! What do you think? Carrie has come to San Diego. How do you think she'll deal? What does Rich want? Is there more to Lauren's death? Any predictions? :)