My heartbeat increased and my breathing became heavier as I planned my next move. I decided the only way to keep out of sight was to move underground so I joined my captive in the basement. "There's plenty of food and water here for two months. There's a wood stove down here to keep us warm and plenty of blankets I grabbed you a box full of free books some idiot left on their lawn." I said as I sat down close to her. "P-please don't hurt me." She cried as she whimpered softly. "I'm not gonna hurt you. I swear." I said as I backed away some. "Why are you being so nice to me? I'm a girl too, why didn't you kill me?" She asked me both scared and surprised. "Because, you're the only girl so far who hasn't screamed and yelled for help like all the others did." I said. "But you're a criminal! Shouldn't you be on the run? I mean the cops are still looking for you." She said as she crossed her arms. "They're also looking for you too, Katherine." I growled. "So as long as I'm here you are too. Don't worry I won't send some kind of ransom note or anything demanding money for your release. When they find me they find you. Which won't be for a long while." I told her cracking my knuckles. "What makes you so sure I'll stay here with you? I might run!" She snapped as she picked at the lock on her foot. "Here let me unlock that." I said as I took the key and unchained her leg. "You're letting me go? What kind of criminal are you?!" She said as she laughed. " what's that suppose to mean?" I asked. "It's just that most criminals like yourself would've kept me chained up for the fear of me running off to tell someone. Then the cops would come, and they'd take you to prison. And I'd be sent back to my parents." She explained as I moved closer. "I know how that ends, I'm not stupid." I grumbled angrily. "Didn't say you were." She stated. "Why are you keeping me alive, that's not what serial killers do. They kill their victims after they kidnap them not hold them hostage. You're just a confused man who has had a big tragedy and is taking his anger out on the world." She complained. "What would make you think that." I said. "It's just that when you came up to me in that alleyway, wanting to talk it already raised red flags about you." And then she went quiet. I breathed out my nostrils and my veins in my neck bulged out. I realized the pan in my hand and came to the conclusion, I had knocked her out cold. "Shit! I'm sorry! Please wake up! Please don't die on me!" I cried. I dragged her back to my trunk and placed her in it and packed everything into the back including the cases of water, all the food, the blankets and a pillow. "It's gonna be okay. I promise you. You're gonna be just fine." I said as I drove onto the highway and down south more. She woke up kicking and screaming in the trunk. I yelled shut up and she went quiet. "Be good back there! Don't make me use the duct tape!" I growled angrily. She stayed quiet and cried in pain. "W-what did you do to my head?" She cried. "I kinda knocked you unconscious with a frying pan, don't worry you're not gonna bleed to death." I laughed. "You kidnap me and then you bang me over the head with a frying pan, what a great person you're turning out to be. How many girls have you killed?!" She said. "About 13 maybe even 14." I said as I kept driving. "What if the police are tracking your phone location?" she asked me. "Don't worry about it I dumped my phone a while back so they won't find us. "What about your car? They can still track that." She said. "Damn it! Would you just shut up already! you're starting to annoy me." I growled as I stopped the car. "No. I won't. I'm gonna keep talking and asking questions until you let me go. So deal with it." She said. "I'll deal with it alright." I mumbled under my breathe and got out of the car opening the trunk. I shoved a sock into her mouth and covered it with duct tape and then tied her hand behind her back. "There now you'll stay quiet." I said as I closed the trunk and got back in the car. I drove another 10 miles and parked my car at another abandoned motel. I took out our stuff and then her and placed them all in the room and then I went in and locked the door behind me. "We'll stay here for the night and then tomorrow morning we'll continue driving." I said as she gave me a evil staredown. "Please don't hate me." I groaned upset. She kicked her feet and screamed through the tape. "I can't understand a word you're saying." I sang as I took out my gun and she paniced. Her pupils dialated and she began kicked more and screaming louder. "Shhhh! I'll shoot your foot if you don't shut up." I teased. "I will do it don't test my patience." She didn't pay any attention she just kept screaming as her face turned red. I cocked my gun and pulled the trigger as she screamed and tears came down her eyes as her foot bled. "I warned you." I said as I shrugged. "You should've listened." I said as I wrapped some medical gause around the middle of her foot where I shot her. She continued crying as she rocked back and forth to calm herself down. "Shhh. It's gonna be okay. I shot you to teach you a lesson. That's all I'm trying to do is keep you quiet." I whined. "Now go to sleep and be quiet, we have a long drive ahead of us tomorrow." I said as I got undressed and turned off the lights. She curled up and cried a little and then fell asleep. I gave her some pain medication when she woke up to help. She grumbled something under the tape, I got frustrated so I took the tape off her mouth and the sock that was shoved in there and let her speak finally. "Scream for help one time and I'll put this sock back into your mouth, do you understand?" I growled. She nodded right away and cried. "Okay good."