Sleeping Beauty through the looking glass
Imagine if the bad guys were good...
Chapter One
December 31, 2001
Jason disembarked from the jet grimacing as the cold air hit him. He had returned to Port Charles after an odd call in which Sonny had thought he had hung up the cell phone. Instead Jason had gotten an earful of information that his apparently manipulative friends had been keeping from him.
"Sonny, was that Jason?" he heard Carly asking.
"Yes, relax, I kept my mouth shut, but you need to realize that if he were to call Lila or Emily they might tell him."
"Emily won't." she said assuredly. "She wants Elizabeth with Lucky just as much as we do."
"Carly, I am not so sure about this." said the clearly conflicted man who knew that this decision might create an even greater chasm then there are already was between the three friends. "Do you realize that if this blows up in our face, that Jason just might come after you and I."
"Why?" she asked clearly not getting understanding why he was worried. "I mean, he was just confused when he was in town, he would never, ever put anyone over us, over Michael."
"I just hope you are right, because if Jason was in love with Elizabeth..."
"He wasn't." she said confidently as she went to pour herself a goblet of wine.
"What if he was?" he asked playing devil's advocate. "Carly if he really does have feelings for Elizabeth. For him to learn what is happening to her, that we know she isn't in complete command of her senses and that we are helping the Spencer family use that knowledge to force Elizabeth to marry Lucky... well you can kiss any chance of Jason returning to Port Charles goodbye."
Jason had no sooner hung up then his own phone rang, looking at the familiar name on the caller ID he quickly pressed talk. "Did you hear?"
"Yes." he said grimly then after a heartbeat asked "I gather you arranged for me to hear it."
"Yeah, Stan did a number on Sonny's phone." he said as he looked at his co-conspirator in the room with him. "We are going to kidnap Elizabeth tonight."
"I understand, then I will publicly return to town as soon as she is to safety. Does she have anyone to take up for her?" he asked grimly as his mind thought about the mistake he had made by leaving.
"Her brother was in town but she keeps repeating this mantra that she doesn't want to be free that she wants to marry Lucky. The old lady called him when she decided that Elizabeth was acting strangely. Mrs. Hardy would help, but she is frail, Morgan." said the man on the phone. "She couldn't say more but one thing, uh, Jason your sister, well she is involved."
Gulping hard at that piece of information, at the idea his little sister would go along with this abomination, Jason said "I was hoping that Carly was wrong about that."
Across town, Jason made contact with the one man who had an interest in taking down Sonny more than he did. "Well?"
"Are you sure about this?" he was asking grimly. Seeing the tall blond in front of him nod, AJ said "Why are you so sure that I won't screw you?"
"Me, I'm not. Elizabeth, I am quite certain you wouldn't do anything to harm her." he told his brother. "What about my offer?"
"I promise." vowed AJ. With that, he went to the mansion and saw the bride getting ready to leave for the wedding with his sister. When the car wouldn't start like he had been warned would happen, he made the suggestion that he drive them over.
Grinning widely at her big brother, Emily said thanks then ushered Elizabeth into the back seat while Gia hopped into the front. There was a brief moment when AJ closed his eyes then looked into the rear view mirror and saw the blank expression in the future bride's face and that alone kept him from betraying Jason.
Driving towards the Spencer home, he saw the road crew where Jason said they would be and went to make the detour. Five minutes later, the car was highjacked.
Emily looked up in horror as armed gunmen surrounded the vehicle wearing black ski masks and black attire. "Get out."
All four of the gunmen opened the doors to the expensive BMW six series sedan. Gia's arm was grabbed a bit roughly and she was shoved away, same with AJ but before Emily or Elizabeth could get out, two of the gunmen got into the front seats and aimed their weapons at the young women.
Then a third gunman got into the back seat next to Elizabeth and held a gun near to her head but careful enough to make sure she wouldn't be hurt. Nodding at the getaway driver, he didn't say a word as the car drove off, the automatics locks sealing the two women in the car with the men. They never noticed the other man disappearing while AJ went off to make sure that Gia was distracted.
"Please, you are making a mistake. My brother will kill you for this." said Emily as she trembled in fear. "Do you know who I am? I am Emily Quartermaine, I am under the protection of the Corinthos organization."
The young man in the passenger seat looked her over then said "So, we should let you go. What about your friend, how about we keep her?"
Emily's eyes widened in terror as the man beside her best friend took the safety off his weapon. "No, look, do you know who she is. She is Lucky Spencer's fiancee."
"So unlike you, she isn't under the protection of the Corinthos organization is that what you are saying?" asked the same man wanting his boss to hear every single detail from one of the people involved.
"I uh, I don't think so but you don't want to mess with the Spencers, they are related to the Cassadines." she said while the man with the gun near Elizabeth's head was amazed at the blank expression on the younger woman's face as she didn't even react to all that was going on, there wasn't even a flicker of fear in her eyes.
"Well what is wrong with her?" asked the man upfront. "Your friend is acting stoned. Maybe she will want to stay with us, she looks like she likes to party. Those eyes, I recognize that expression, yeah, this girl is high, she is a party girl."
Emily was now frantic, she had to stop this. She had to get away and more importantly for her future dreams of being with Nicolas, she had to get Elizabeth to the Spencer house. "No, no you don't get it, Elizabeth isn't a druggie."
The man in passenger seat looked at the man holding the gun and hoped he was right and that the other girl would spill what they needed to know. "Seriously, either you are naive or you are a druggie too. This girl, she is out of it. Look at those eyes."
Emily couldn't, she couldn't do it, couldn't face what she had done.
She had been partly responsible for this mess and how, because of her, her best friend was about to face an even worse nightmare if she didn't do something to stop them from taking her away from Lucky and hurting her.
"I said LOOK AT HER." snarled the man in front seat. "DO IT."
Emily looked up, avoiding looking into Elizabeth's eyes, she ended up looking into the man with the gun's brown eyes. There was a familiarity to them, but before she could figure it out, her chin was grabbed until she was forced to face Elizabeth.
"Now tell me your pal isn't on drugs." sneered the man in the front seat.
Desperate now, Emily said "I didn't say she wasn't on drugs, just that she wasn't a druggie. I gave her the drugs, I did it. I had to."
"Well well, now this sounds like something I want to know." drawled the man while the man in the back seat was now tense with anger at the explanation the woman was offering up for drugging her best friend.
"Look, you don't understand. Without the drugs, she will run off, do something that she will regret." she said almost hysterical as she confessed to the man in the passenger seat. "You see, the hypnotic suggestion she was under, it was wearing off and if she leaves, my other friend will die."
"What kind of suggestion?" snarled the man in the passenger seat as he felt the need to throw up at what she was saying.
"To make her pliable to the... to the..."
"Spit it out, princess." she was told. Emily was almost in tears as she looked between Elizabeth and the man snapping orders at her.
"To the idea of marrying Lucky. She has to marry him. If she doesn't, he will go off and hurt people, a lot of people I care about." she said not adding that they weren't positive, that it was just his father speculating.
"Pliable, you mean... damn..." the man hated to go there, hated to say the words but they needed to know what exactly was going on with this sick little twisted mess. "Damn, you mean if I were to tell her to give me a blow job, she would?"
"No. I wouldn't let them put anything like that in there." she muttered clearly not liking the topic of discussion.
"Its sounds like they wanted to." he said speculatively.
"Lucky, well he did." she confessed then quickly added wanting them to understand that she was only doing this for Elizabeth, that it was for her sake and of course everyone else. "But its only because he was brainwashed, once that stuff is gone from his head, he would never want to do anything like that. Lucky and Elizabeth love each other they truly do."
"Doesn't sound like love to me princess, not if she has to be forced to be with him." sneered the man upfront while the man next to Elizabeth was as tense as a caged tiger while his eyes glared at her with a deep anger that she could almost reach out and touch.
"But she is just confused, she was a mess because of everything that was happening. Its why she thought she was in love with this other man, if she was in her right mind, well she would know, that Lucky and her have a permanent lock." she said earnestly.
Hearing the sound of the sirens, the driver looked over in warning at the other man. They were getting bogged down in stuff that really didn't matter, all they needed to know was what drugs were used and how they had got them to drug the innocent young woman.
"So, pretty lady, how about this. In exchange for freedom, you tell me how you got the drugs and why?" he asked trying not to reach out and grab her by the throat at the delusional thoughts coming out of her mouth.
"The hospital." she muttered wishing she had kept her mouth shut. "I volunteer there. Now let us go."
"No, I want to know why, I mean do you hate this girl, is that why you are forcing her to do this?" Seeing the clearly shocked expression, the man next to Elizabeth felt the need to slap this woman into the real world.
"Forcing her?" she asked clearly not understanding. Then her face cleared up as she said "Oh, you don't get it. I am not forcing her. Elizabeth if she was in her right mind, wouldn't walk away from her true love. She was brainwashed by Helena Cassadine into forgetting Lucky and loving my brother."
"Why would this Helena care about your brother?" he asked trying not to look at the very angry man in the back seat who looked like he was having the same very pain filled thoughts he was. .
"She doesn't, at least... well I don't know why she used Jason. I mean we thought she wanted Elizabeth with Nik, but something has to have been done to Elizabeth. There is no way she would chose Jason over Lucky, none at all."
Pulling to a stop, the doors were unlocked and Emily was breathing a sigh of relief as she was told to get out and take her friend with her. Emily hopped out and was reaching for Elizabeth when they heard the sirens closer and closer.
"The police, we have to get out of here." snarled the driver and before Emily could reach Elizabeth she ended up spinning away from the car as a gun was fired over her head. Diving for the pavement, she was shouting no when the car drove off and the door slammed closed with Elizabeth still in it with the hijackers.
Hearing the police sirens, she had barely looked up when the car drove right on by chasing after the men who had stolen AJ's BMW and had kidnapped Elizabeth.
Then there was the sound of a crash not that far away then the ground shuddered and she screamed when she saw the fireball in the sky. Running towards it, she arrived on the next block just in time to see the car explode yet again. Hearing more sirens, she saw the police car she had seen chase after them stopped mere feet away as the car her best friend had been in was ablaze.
Unable to move, unable to say a word as the firetrucks arrived and put out the flames, she never noticed as Mac Scorpio had arrived and had told the medics to cover her.
"Emily, was Elizabeth still being held hostage?" he asked quietly. "And how did you get free?"
"They, they pulled over after tormenting us." she said unable to tear her eyes away from the fire that was still not out, as a truck bearing foam instead of water arrived. "They heard sirens and before Elizabeth could get out, they drove off."
The Spencer family arrived in spectacular fashion, all dressed in their finery as the fire chief came over to Mac and Luke. "The car was a diesel, from the looks of things it had a full tank of gas, then when it hit the generator. Well there will be no survivors. They uh, my men saw four bodies, two in the front, two in the back."
Luke's hopes were crushed as he could only stare with bleak eyes as the firemen finally got the fire out, his last hope of saving his family had just died in that fire.
Mac offered his condolences then asked Luke if he wanted to ride with him as he went to tell Audrey Hardy. "Is she at your house?"
"Yeah." said the broken man as he to where his son was standing with his half brother. "Sorry cowboy, she didn't make it."
"No, no you are wrong." he said. "I didn't die when Helena tried to kill me, Elizabeth won't die. She can't, I need her."
Nik swallowed his pain and helped take Lucky back to the limo. Riding in silence, he was about to get out of the car at his mother's house when Lucky looked at him and beseechingly asked "What am I going to do now?"
"Lucky, you were lucky to at least had time with the woman you love. I know how badly this hurts, but right now, we have to mourn the loss of Elizabeth, then help Mrs. Hardy bury her." Nik didn't agree with everything that had been done recently but he knew, deep down that they had only done so out of love.
"No, I meant what am I going to do now. Helena didn't have as much time with Elizabeth as she did with me. That doctor Sonny found assured me that the key to getting rid of Helena from my brain was helping Elizabeth get Jason out of hers."
Nik felt his jaw tighten as his brother went on and on about how he needed Elizabeth, even once they were inside. As the guests all felt sorry for him, for his losing the love of his life, only Nik knew that his brother wasn't mourning the woman he had loved, but the woman he had been depending on to fix him.
Sonny and Carly were trying to get out of there, both of them not giving a damn about how this affected the Spencer family, but both relieved to realize that with Elizabeth dead, Jason wouldn't ever learn the truth.
Across the room, Audrey was distraught, while Sarah was in shock at the news. She had arrived the night before, having come to stop her sister from making the worst mistake of her life. She had spent the day trying to get access to her sister, but had felt like the Spencers and Emily had played keep away all day.
Taking her grandmother to the hospital, she was not surprised when the elderly woman was admitted overnight for observation. Walking down the hallway, she saw Emily speaking to her mother, clearly upset at what had happened.
Sarah wanted to glare, wanted to hate Emily for at least having had time with Elizabeth today, but she felt to blame for what had happened between herself and her sister.
She hadn't gotten a chance to say she was wrong, hadn't gotten a chance to right the wrongs before Elizabeth had died. Leaving the hospital, she went to the studio and stood there at the door, staring at the scarred wood and began to cry.
Leaving, she went to her grams house, just missing seeing a man exiting the small rundown building with a suitcase and directing several others to carry out a few other items.
Across town, Jason was carrying an unconscious Elizabeth into the large estate. "What happened to her?"
"You need to find the head shrink that Sonny uses. I want eyes on him." Jason snarled at Johnny.
The Irishman looked at the other Johnny then at his boss and said "Jason, you can't kill him, not without exposing the truth."
Bleakly Jason laid Elizabeth down onto the bed and then looked at his friend and wished he was wrong. "You are right, I just... I want them all to pay."
"What about Emily?" he was asked, both knowing that his sister had been hip deep in this mess.
"My sister too." he said his eyes back on Elizabeth who hadn't even moved. "She might not die, but she will pay and pay dearly. She seems to feel she had some kind of moral high ground because she kept them from letting Lucky rape her. What the hell is wrong with that girl?"
"I don't know." said Francis entering from the garage. "Jason, Sonny called, we have to go."
"Go, do me a favor, tell him you think he should call me." he said his mind already moving forward with the plan even as he regretted not sticking around to save Elizabeth that past spring. "Then have Stan bounce the call to Zimbabwe. It will get me some more time. Find out all you can."
"I have that list." said the short Italian entering. His smile faded when he saw the young woman. "What is wrong?"
"They fucking used hypnotism, I have to find out how long and what was exactly done then when it started to fade my sister fucking drugged her." Jason said bitterly.
"How do you want to do it?" he was asked.
"I need a doctor, but don't know who I can trust." he said. "Dr. Webber, Elizabeth's father is a decent man, he will take care of her, but I want to make sure that the doctor isn't connected to this mess."
"I have a name." said Trevor entering followed by his son who saw the man he had heard about over the years for the first time and realized that his father was right, this man was why no one had ever actually dealt with Sonny. "Are you sure, once you go down this road, there is no turning back."
"Do it." he said then Ric gave a slick smile as he said "I will make the call. You do know that Rome wasn't built in a day."
"I don't care if it take years. Sonny promised me when I left town he would protect her, I left town, believing he was keeping her safe." said Jason as he looked at the woman lying on the bed then pulled out the letter that had taken weeks to catch up to him. Weeks that had cost him and the woman in the bed dearly.
Holding it, looking at the worn paper, he then looked up and said "I want to burn Port Charles to the ground, just as much as I want to take out my so called best friends."
"Where do we start?" asked the women entering wearing a tight red dress and four inch pumps.
"We start with the person who decided that Elizabeth's word was no good now that she had decided she loved me. We start with Detective Marcus Taggert who she tried to go to for help." he said coldly knowing he could leave the mob stuff to Trevor who had his own axe to grind. He just hoped that the selfish people in Port Charles bought it; that they believed Elizabeth had died and she would be given time to heal.
Early the next morning as the Sunshine newscast and Wake up Port Charles were running stories about the tragic carjacking and death of Elizabeth Webber, the young woman herself was on a jet to a private cattle station in Australia.
Dr. Jeff Webber came out to greet the jet landing on the private airstrip and was soon met by a tall cold man who was carrying his daughter down the steps. "How is she?"
"She hasn't woken up, but she went into detox." Jason gave him everything he had done, written down precisely in the order he had done things.
"They had her addicted to these pills?" he asked as he read the list but frowned when the man announced that he believed there were other drugs that they hadn't found out about. "I will run a tox screen, find out what they were."
Jason gently placed Elizabeth in the back seat then climbed in beside her for the drive to the remote station in northern Australia. At the long low slung one story house, Jason was drained as in a monotone he told Jeff Webber all he knew.
"I know you want to stay, but you can't." he was gently told. Seeing the pain in the blue eyes of his ex-wife's son, he said "Until we know what we are dealing with, it is safer if you aren't here."
"I know and I am going home to start dealing with this, you might hear some things, please, please just believe that what I am doing, I am doing for her." he said looking at Elizabeth who was still unconscious.
"I will." he promised then they went to see his wife. "What do we tell Sarah and Steven?"
"For now, nothing." said Carolyn. Looking at Jason she said "I wish I dared tell her grandmother but clearly she doesn't want to know what happened for a reason."
Jason waited until the couple went to speak to their neighbor and get the rumors about home, then sat down at Elizabeth's beside. Holding her hand, he gently kissed the tip of each finger. "I am so sorry I didn't get your letter sooner. Just know, whether it takes a week, a month, a year, ten years, I will be waiting for you."
Touching her face as gently as possible, worried that Jeff was right and she would start to get withdrawal symptoms, he pressed a kiss to her lips and said "I love you."
Hearing the Webbers returning, he listened to what they had to say then asked "Are you sure you trust him?"
"No." admitted Jeff. "But then I would be a fool if I did."
In Port Charles, Audrey was praying Elizabeth was alive but didn't hold out much hope. Emily's certainty had her believing that things went wrong. Seeing her two other grandchildren standing beside her as they ended the service for Elizabeth, she picked up the urn carrying what they were saying were her ashes and quickly walked out to the car, using her grief as an excuse not to deal with the Spencer family.
Seeing the man wearing the black leather jackets slipping out of the church, Audrey found herself regretting how her fear had played a part in this mess. If only... a refrain she had been thinking a lot over the last few days.
When Sarah had offered to move to Port Charles to help her, Audrey rejected the offer, then Steven's when he made one a bit later. "No, I won't let my grandchildren be my crutch. I will be fine. Please, do me one favor. Just, just remember, remember her."
There was no time to grieve in Port Charles as mysterious things began to happen yet again. Luke was convinced it was Helena and had quickly gone chasing after her, while Laura who had been angry to realize she was stuck dealing with the fallout of Helena's last foray into Port Charles stayed home.
Lucky in spite of the fear of a time bomb in his head seemed to be acting normal, going through the grieving process and helping out at his father's blues club.
Nik had announced his engagement at a party held inside of The Port Charles Grille. At the end of the evening, his fiancee who was drunk had ran into a blond who had just moved to town. Gia swore up and down that the blond had drove out in front of her, but the street cameras and the only eye witness said otherwise.
Courtney Matthews it turned out was the sister of mobster Sonny Corinthos and Gia who had not confessed had had big brother covered it up when the blond who was almost at death's door, had a turn for the better.
Nik and Gia were planning their wedding believing all was well, when a scandal involving Detective Marcus Taggert her brother exploded. First he had been caught slamming Jason Morgan into a wall in front of a a reporter.
Jason Morgan who had just gotten off a jet from Rome, hadn't even been in town fifteen minutes when Taggert who had seen him at the airport had committed this crime in spite of there being no reason for him to even be in Jason's orbit.
Detective Taggert who had been suspended, fired and under the threat of being sued by Mr. Morgan's attorney Alexis Davis had left town, but the cloud of scandal hadn't only ruined his life, it had cost his sister her engagement when what he had done for her had come out.
Gia quickly left town, unaware that she had been the lucky one as Jason began to maneuver his sister out of Zander's orbit and into the orbit of her long time crush.
Sonny smiled as Jason entered the penthouse. "So, did you deal with Zander?"
"He is done." he said then held Carly when she rushed into his arms and insisted he join them for dinner, that Sonny's sister would be there and that since Carly and she would be gossiping, Sonny could use the company. "I am having dinner with Emily tonight."
Wanting to protest, but knowing she had to be careful, well aware that Jason had been upset at the news of Elizabeth Webber's death, Carly just waited until he was gone. "Well?"
"Relax, Carly. Jason has no idea what was going on in his absence." Sonny assured her. "And if you want him to date Courtney, you have to stop throwing her at him."
Zander who was not happy to be in a jail cell was even angrier when Mac Scorpio didn't believe him when he had said he had something to trade for his freedom.
"Zander, what could you possibly have?" he asked. "We both know that Morgan and Corinthos would change anything you possibly knew."
"How about this, I know that Lucky Spencer is sniffing around your daughter. Your underage daughter." he taunted the police commissioner.
Mac told him that knowing that wouldn't help get him free but after Zander was suddenly bailed out by Roy DeLuca, Mac went to speak to Felicia who was stunned when after tailing Maxie she saw it was true.
"Oh my god, she is sleeping with him, Mac. She isn't even sixteen." She said still in shock at what she had seen.
"If we arrested him, he becomes a martyr and we are the bad guys." he said despairingly.
"How about this,I am working a case for Lady Jane, she invited us to come to Australia." said Felicia.
Agreeing to let them go, Mac went to the station and pretended to be surprised when the girls showed up protesting. But that ended two days later when Lucky in a fit of rage almost stabbed Maxie.
The broken blond and her younger sister quickly were packed off to the Jacks Family cattle station in the middle of their mining concerns unaware that Jerry Jacks had come back to town to investigate and had only interfered because it affected his plan to take down the Spencers.
Emily looked across the table at her big brother, with a broad smile on her face as she said "I am so glad you are back Jason, I missed you."
Reaching out, steeling himself not to explode on her he said "I am only sorry I couldn't have prevented your losing Elizabeth."
Emily kept how delusional her best friend had been at the end to herself as she said "It was terrible Jason, it was her wedding day. The day she had waited for for years. The day she was going to finally be Mrs. Lucky Spencer. She was so excited."
Well aware that his sister was living on planet Spencer which wasn't even in the same solar system as earth, he gritted his teeth as she went on for almost twenty minutes, then had to dig deep for even more control as he heard her self satisfaction as she said "And I did it, I was the one who finally fixed things for the two of them. So, how are you Jason. Did you meet anyone while traveling."
He was afraid what would come out of his mouth, suddenly grateful when his phone rang. "We figured out it, well in truth, your parents did. They had an audit done because they notice drugs are missing from the dispensary though they don't know it was their own daughter who took them."
"What happened?" he asked.
"Cassadine covered it up, looks like he was involved too." said Johnny, they had suspected the prince had known so they really weren't surprised he covered it up.
"Thanks for the news, but I am with my sister right now. I will call you back later." he said then with a half smile hung up and asked her how things were going with Zander.
"You won't believe it, he blamed me for what you did." she said in shock, unaware that Zander's dissatisfaction with her had been the result of his thinking he had a chance with Corinthos sister.
"Emily, maybe that was a good thing." he said then seeing Nik entering asked about his wedding.
"They ended after she had Taggert cover up for her." she said then realized she still had some feelings for her old crush.
Suddenly happy as she got that she had more than one fish in the sea, three really if she thought about it. After all, she had her best friend Lucky who was now unattached.
Emily hugged her brother and went off to chase her old dreams, unaware as the expression in her brother's face had turned to ice as he watched two of the co-conspirators as she debated flirting with Nik to see if he was interested before ending things with Zander.
Jason was slowly pushing Sonny over the edge when he got the call. Hating to leave, he went to Crimson Point and was shown the brunette. "Yes, she will do."
"You had a call." Antony said as he gave him the piece of paper. Jason went to the small office and dialed the overseas number.
"Jason, what did you find out?" Giving the man the information, Jason hung up and opened the drawer to where he kept the picture.
"Hey, you okay?" said the hard woman standing near the door. Seeing what he was holding, she said "I heard what happened to her. I just don't get it, why would anyone do something like that to save a worthless shit like that Spencer kid?"
Jason didn't say a word, just lifted the phone and made a call. "Dr. Webber."
"Jason." The mob enforcer could hear the bad news in the tone of his voice. "I am sorry, but it was too late. She slipped into a coma about two hours ago."
The woman saw his face and left the man alone, knowing he was going though something no one could comfort him for.
"The protocol didn't work?" he asked when he had gotten his voice back.
"No, I am sorry." said Jeff. "Her body stopped convulsing, her heart stopped racing, she is getting healthy from a physical standpoint."
Jason couldn't say a word, he just pulled out the note from behind the picture he used for cover, unable to imagine a life without her in it. "Is there anyone, any specialist who can help?"
"I am sorry, Jason." he heard as the man hung up and went to look at his daughter who was now hooked up to machines that were keeping her alive. "I told him."
"Did you tell him how bad it is?" she asked.
"No." he said. "I lied, I couldn't take away all his hope."
"Oh Jeff." she said rubbing his back.
"You saw him, you and I both know that the only thing keeping him from just going to these people with a gun and killing them is the small hope that someday she will come back to him."
TBC
