Freedom

Damien's POV:
"DADDY!!," Nyssa screams and runs to her dad when he walks in. She runs up to him and they hug each other tightly, I can hear Nyssa crying. "I missed you so much daddy." "I missed you to, I'm so sorry this happened to you. I promise I won't leave you again." "But what about your job." "I'm not about to risk losing you again, I had no idea you were missing and that you were trying to contact me because of the area I was working in." "So what are you going to do?" "I quit my job." "Dad you can't do that." "I have to, I'm doing it for us. I'm not leaving you again Nyssa, its hurt more now knowing that I failed to protect you. I got a local job that doesn't have me travel." "I love you dad." "I love you too." I turn away and walk out, I'm really happy for Nyssa being with her dad again. That was my main goal, to get her out and to be with her dad again. She didn't deserve to be there. I go in another room and sit down on the couch, for the time being I'm staying here till I can support myself. Craig's wife and kids are on a short vacation while we're here.

"Damien," I look up and see Craig. "Hey." "I think we need to have a talk." Craig sits down by me and he lets out a deep sigh. "I need to tell you the other reason why I was there." I stare at him in confusion. "Before I arrived there, Matt had told me about his top trainers, saying that's who I'm going to be working with the most. He had me learn how all of you got there. But only yours caught my attention the most. You see... When me and my wife were 18, we had been dating for two years, we had sex for the first time. But shortly after she got pregnant. Our parents were furious at us, it had almost split us up. But as you can see it never happened. We had to make a deal with our parents that we weren't going to keep the baby, even though we wished we could. So shortly after my wife had the baby, our parents made us sign off that we weren't going to keep the baby and give it up for adoption. They told us that we weren't responsible enough to raise a child. We hated ourselves after we did it, we never wanted to lose our child."

Craig looks at me, there was sadness in his eyes. I slowly slide away from him. "I'm so sorry that we did that to you Damien." "Wh-what." "Your mother was the one who came up with your name actually." "M-my mother?" "Damien... I'm your father." I stare at him in shock, I feel like I'm gonna pass out. "Your lying, my parents gave me up because they didn't care about me." "Is that what the foster care center told you? I swear they have so many things against them. The place you were at." "How do you know about that?" "I had to do a background check on the foster care center you were at, I'm on the works of shutting them down. They have gotten worse since you left." "This can't be real." "It is... I'm really your dad, Damien. And my kids are your siblings." I stare at him, tears threatening in your eyes. "At first I didn't know it was you, but when you told me your story of how you ended up there, that's when it clicked for me. I had my suspicions, but then you cleared everything up. That has been the main thing I been trying to do since the day I founded out you were out of the system. My parents made it impossible for us to adopt you until you were 18. I kept an eye on where you were and who you were with. But when I founded out were adopted, I was almost relieved knowing that a family had adopted you. But when I founded out who had adopted you, I knew you weren't safe."

"So how come you fucking didn't save me once I was adopted." "Because you were 16 Damien, Matt had legally adopted you and there was nothing I could do about it. He could have denied the reason he adopted you at the time because he kept his business secret from you. You could have backed him up." "But what about when I turned 18 and founded out?" "Believe me I tried. I been trying for four years to get in so I could find you, but Matt didn't need my help until this year." I look back down at the floor, I can't believe it, this whole time, I was with my real dad. And he's been trying to get me out of my hell. I start crying and turn away from him. I feel his hand on my shoulder, "Damien I'm so sorry I couldn't save you sooner." I turn and look at him, "you saved me just in time. Nyssa did as well. I wanted to commit suicide before she came, I had enough there, I was sick with myself and I knew how I thought was different. I wasn't me. I didn't want to live anymore, but then I met Nyssa. She changed me. She helped me feel love for once. And you got me out."

Craig holds his arms out and I slowly hug him. He wraps his arms around me and I cry more, holding him tighter. Just like Nyssa, I finally have my dad back.
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Nyssa's POV:
"Are you sure you don't need me to come in with you Nyssa," my dad tells me. "I'm sure dad." My dad nods and walks off, I face the door and slowly open it. I look in and I see Zack laying in the hospital bed with a bandage on his arm. He looks at me and looks away. I have to hear it from him. I close the door and walk over to him. "I'm surprised your even here." "I have to be here." "And why's that," he snaps. "I have to know the truth." "I'm pretty sure you already know, I'm sure Craig has already told you." "...So its true. You been working for Jack and them this whole time." "Yep." He said it so calmly... "So when we first met, you were working for them." "Jack and Alex have known me since I was 15, my dad was one of their favorite customers. And I agreed to work with them once I turned 18." "Craig told me what your job was... You tested new girls before anyone knew about them." "Yep, no one knew because how I acted, I made people trust me. It was really easy you know, seeing how I got you." He laughs to himself and I take a deep breath.

"I was actually supposed to test you when you arrived, but Jack told me due to the situation, that he wanted to slowly bring you in. The only girls I tested were the ones that were virgins and not experienced. Everyone you met came in on their own and didn't need to be tested." "You were supposed to test me?" "Yep." "But everything I told you, about escaping, you helped me and Rocket escape. You fought off Jack-" He laughs and it made me sick. "Perfect acting huh. I had told Jack about you little plan, that was part of our plan. But then your dad fucked it all up for us. I brought Rocket in with when you distracted those guys. I told her there's no way we can get out, and she believed me. She didn't want to leave without you." "But what about at the last place. Were you working for them again." "Yep, I secretly became a tester again and started training. And you never knew because Damien kept you away from me. And he didn't know either." "....Did you even love me Zack." "What do you think."

I feel my eyes tear up and I turn away from him. "I loved you Zack, I really did." "Your pathetic you know that." I slowly turn back to him and he was grinning. "I knew you and Damien were falling for each other, and I didn't do anything about it, I wanted to see if you did love me. And I just sat back and watch it play as you tried to be loyal to me. It was a great show and it amused me." I smack him across the face and glare at him. "Now answer this last question. How did you end up here." "Did you hear a gun shot that night." "Yeah." "Kellin saw me go into the studio and I saw that he was setting off smoke bombs. The noises you heard, that was us fighting. I pulled out a gun which of course caused more noises then what we wanted. I wanted to see you lose your precious virginity that you had planned to save for me. Kellin grabbed the gun and shot my arm. When Alex and Jack found me, I told them what was going on and I told Jack to follow you and Kellin. How did it feel when Jack raped you Nyssa, I want to know."

I turn away from him and run to the door. "By the way Zack, I do love Damien." I can't believe I'm finally admitting it to myself. I been in denial, but this cleared everything up. "That doesn't hurt me Nyssa." "Also, you can go fuck yourself." I open the door and I could still hear him laughing when I close the door behind me.

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