Safe & Sound- (A Taylor Swift AU)

~chapter 22~ kidnapping

Taylor's POV (December 6th)
Yesterday Jayden rushed here because he didn't feel safe. As a mom of someone that was abused before she was mine, it hurt to hear. Jayden is Travis's son, no matter what. Even if we just found out. Travis came to bed upset last night. Even though he didn't know Jayden was his, he's had a guilty feeling because he hasn't been there to protect him. Tonight when Chloe goes to bed we're gonna ask Jayden more about this.

"Jayden, Chloe! Breakfast!" I yell from the kitchen. I don't know what those two are doing right now but neither one of them are listening to me. 5 minutes to by and they still aren't down here. I groan and go upstairs to get them. I knock on Chloe's door than open it. She's wearing headphones, that's why she couldn't hear me. And Jayden is cleaning up Chloe's toys while using AirPods. I take the headphones off of Chloe's head, "Your breakfast is on the table go eat." She hugs me and goes downstairs. Jayden takes an AirPod out of his ear. I look at the toys on the floor, "I'll finish picking these up. You head downstairs and eat breakfast." He looks at me politely, "Are you sure? I can do it." I smile, "Yes I'm sure. She's my daughter it's practically my job. Thank you though!" He nods and goes downstairs.

When I get back down, Chloe and Jayden are sitting at the table eating and talking. Even with a 13 year age gap they get along great. He's so patient with her, and I love it. I walk over to Travis who's busy giving the dogs treats. Rambo gets excited when he sees me and barks at me. "Hi Rambo!" I say sitting down and giving him kisses. I'm not a dog person, but I love Rambo. Chauncey is okay too, I guess. Meredith comes running towards me, she jumps on my lap and hisses at Rambo. I'm still trying to get her used to dogs. She only really knows/gets along with, my moms dog, Kitty. "Meredith be nice to Rambo. He's my baby too!" I giggle. Meredith side eyes me and I laugh. "Now I need to pee Meredith!" I groan and take her off of my lap so I can go to the bathroom.

I hear footsteps approach the bathroom door while I'm in here. The door opens because I didn't lock it, and in walks Travis. I flush the toilet and pull my pants up. He shoves me against the wall, and I wince in pain. He's so strong. "Trav," I breathe out. He kisses down my neck, "Are you okay?" He rubs my back where it hit the wall. "Mhm," I mumble. He looks into my eyes, "I just wanted to come remind you how incredibly beautiful you are. You are the prettiest, strongest, most caring person on this planet, and I love you more than everything." I cry because of the hormones, "You interrupted my piss just to tell me I'm beautiful?" He raises an eyebrow not knowing if I'm crying because it's sweet or because I'm mad, "Yeah."

I sob, "Aww! You are so cute. Even when I'm fat, gaining weight like crazy, and have tender boobs, you still think I'm beautiful." He cups my cheeks, "You are not fat, Taylor. I wish you could see that." I relax into his arms and nod as I bite my lip.

This moment is interrupted by a loud scream. Chloe's scream, followed by Jayden yelling, and lots of noises of things slamming around. I swear if Jayden is hurting Chloe I will kill him. I will kill him and never regret it. I run to the kitchen as fast as I can. My eyes meet the eyes of Jayden. He's shaking, his hands are cuffed to refrigerator. I then look out the window and see Chloe being drug away by Joe Alwyn. I scream and Travis opens the door and runs outside. Joe drives off with Chloe in his car. "NO NO!" I run after the car. "CHLOE!!!" I get exhausted fast and throw up, having to stop.

Security immediately leaves and follows the car, as well as Travis in his car. I sit on the side of the road shaking. I thought this was all behind us. I thought Chloe would forever be safe with me. I adopted her so she could have a happy life. Now my toxic ex boyfriend is trying to abuse that? She doesn't deserve this.

I go back inside and cut the handcuffs off of Jayden. "What happened?" I ask him. "We were just in here talking and laughing, when the window shattered and some guy started talking to Chloe. She tried clinging to me terrified, but he pulled her away. So I punched him. Then he tackled me and hand cuffed me to the refrigerator, and at that point he grabbed Chloe and ran off," He explains with a shaky voice. I cry, "You poor things." I get up and get him an ice pack, "Put this on your eye." He takes it and gives me a grateful nod. "Do you guys know that man?" He asks. I sigh, "He's my ex boyfriend, of 6 years. He's toxic, the whole relationship was toxic, and he was abusive." Jayden hugs me apologetically.

Travis's POV
My baby girl was just kidnapped by Joe. I hate Joe with every part of my being. He hurt Taylor time after time again and I just don't know how anyone could look at that amazing of a woman and decide to be a toxic, abusive, boyfriend. It's not okay. I could never hurt a woman on purpose, not mentally, and definitely not physically. And now he just took away the one person Taylor loves more than anyone in this entire world. Her daughter.

I run the car off the road and it falls into a ditch. Joe gets out of the car and attempts to run. He drops Chloe, then picks her up and runs more. He's too weak, too much of a dependent white boy. He starts to try and throw Chloe every couple feet and then pick her up and throw her again. I'm not sure how that's easier than carrying her. This man is so weak it's sickening. I run over to him and knock him out. I see Chloe on the ground a few feet ahead and run up to her. She's unconscious. I call 911 as I try to wake her up. "Chloe, wake up baby girl, daddy's here."

She doesn't wake up. And she's now being taken away from me by medics.

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Short chapter. And cliff hanger. Don't hate me 🤪