Ch 1: Ex Employee
Susan had come out of her coma. She told the police that it was Jessica who did that to her but she was really after Ana. Jessica had called Christian telling him she wanted to speak with him about the stuff she had done. He asked Ana to wait for him.
Meanwhile Elliot, Nell, and Levy were at Jessica's apartment and found out she wasn't there after all. She set up a dummy in front of the window to make it look like she was there. She snuck out to go to the ball. Christian arrived, out of breath, claiming that Jessica had called him to meet her there to talk. When they all realized that it was a setup they went back to the club to find Ana.
Nick and Susan were celebrating the new year with each other and the fact that she had come out of her coma. They were relaxed in the bed together realizing how lucky they were. He had the ring and knew it was time to pop the question.
"You know what? I have something for you," he told her.
"Like what? I have everything I already need." She told him.
"That's very sweet, but I have a feeling you will love this. I wouldn't normally do this here, as I wanted to do this that night."
"Wow, Nick. I have never seen you this tongue tied before. It's so cute!"
"Cute? Oh no, you didn't just say that! Okay, here it goes. Susan, you have made me the happiest I've ever been. Will you put me out of my misery and marry me?" he asked on one knee with the ring in the box opened. Susan was shocked. She had no idea that is what he had in mind.
Susan kept looking at the ring as she was in shock. But something else got her attention. She saw some men's underwear and socks on the drawer in her room.
"Nick, is that your stuff over there?"
"Yeah. I know I'm messy, but with everything going on…" he was saying only she interrupted him.
"Have you been staying here all that time?"
"Of course. I wasn't going to leave you alone for another minute knowing Jessica was still out there and could hurt you more. So I camped out in here until you came back to me."
She started laughing and giggling at her man. It made her so happy that Nick stayed by her side the whole time.
"Are you laughing at me now? Are you upset I stayed in here? Whats going on?" he asked confused by her laughter.
"Oh, Nick. Just the fact that you camped in here and stayed with me the whole time, it's just so romantic. You don't need a fancy diner to propose," she told him. "I've never felt so loved in all my life."
"So will you marry me?" he asked her again.
"Yes, Nick, I will marry you," she told him as he kissed her again.
Back at the New years party, Christian and Elliot were looking for Ana. They ran into Kate as they asked if she seen her. Kate told them the last she saw her was at midnight. She asked what was wrong. Elliot asked her to go home and he'd tell her later. He, Christian and the rest of the cops went out to the back of the country club. Ray saw Christian and asked him what was going on.
"Isn't Ana with you?" Christian asked him, now worried.
"Why would she be with me when she was with you." Ray told him.
"I left her with you. If she's not with you then where in the hell is she?"
"Are you drunk? You came in around midnight, you two walked right passed me and came out back."
"That's impossible!" Christian yelled.
"I know what happened, I was there. Ana saw you come in, she ran to you, and you two went outside to be alone." Ray told him.
"That wasn't me! I was at Jessica's apartment looking at some dummy in a red wig...Oh my god," Christian stated. "Oh no...Jessica was told what I'd be wearing tonight, she knows I came as Zorro. She has Ana."
"What are you talking about?" Ray asked him. "You're telling me that Jessica dressed up like Zorro and kidnapped my daughter? Is that what you're saying?"
"Dad, Susan just came out of her coma. She told us that it was Jessica who attacked her. But, It wasn't Susan that she was after, Jessica wanted to kill Ana." Elliott told Ray.
"You can't be serious!" Ray yelled to them all. "Jessica has my daughter?" Ray asked. Christian was furious right about now. He felt so stupid for leaving Ana like that. And now she's missing?
Levy was on the phone creating a search team for Ana. He also put out apb out to search for Ana and Jessica. Ray was furious at himself for believing that Jessica came dressed as Zorro to kidnap his daughter.
Cleary had search the grounds for any sign of Ana. She brought something over to them saying she found it.
"I found these over there…" she was looking at the costume realizing it was the same one she saw leaving Jessica's apartment. "How could I have been so stupid?"
"Whats up, Cleary? You recognize that costume?" Levy asked her.
"I recognize it too. The guy was dancing with Ana earlier." Christian stated.
"I saw some guy leaving Jessica's apartment building wearing this."
"Are you saying she walked right passed you?" Elliot asked.
"I saw some guy coming out and I didn't think of it at the time as I thought I saw her watching tv from the window."
"She's a psycho! A complete nut!" Christian yelled out.
Jack Jr had come outside and heard what they were saying. "I'm afraid she's more than that."
Christian looked back at him. "What do you know Jr? What do you know about Jessica? If you know anything about what happened to Ana you better tell us!"
"Jessica is a man," Jr. told them.
"She's a what?" Christian bellowed. "How could this be?"
"I found out on that night that Ana hit her with the car." He told them.
"You have got to be kidding me with this!" Christian yelled frustrated as hell.
"You knew that this sicko was a man and you didn't tell anyone about this?" Ray asked him angrily.
"Ray, anytime a patient comes to me it's kept confidential. I made sure he/she knew I wouldn't say anything."
"Hey! Hey!" Cleary shouted. "If this Jessica is really a guy, then who is he? What does this person want?"
Christian was starting to piece it all together. "I think I know. On the night when Ana was getting her third test done, some crazed guy was in the lab trying to change Ana's lab results. It has to be the same person."
"Christian's right. My dad had been looking all over the hospital for this guy but never found him." Jr told them.
"Are you saying that this is the same guy who was pretending to be Jessica?" Elliott asked.
"It fits!" Christian yelled.
"So this maniac has been after my daughter for months now? This is insane!" Ray shouted.
"Do you have any idea what this guy looks like?" Elliot asked.
"No, I don't. She was wearing a prosthesis that night so I have no idea," Jr told them.
"I know who it is!" Christian yelled leaving the country club. They ran after Christian but he was too fast as he hopped into his car and drove to his father's house.
Meanwhile they were all shaken up by this. First they heard Jessica tried to attack Susan. Now they were looking for a man who dressed as a woman. This was just unreal.
Carrick and Rebecca were back at his place after the party. They went back to his place and made love. While they were talking, Christian started banging on the door.
"Carrick! Carrick, open the door!" Christian banged and yelled trying to get his dad's attention. "Open this door or I swear I will knock it down! Rebecca!" he continued shouting.
Carrick opened the door to his son. "Son, do you have any idea what time it is?"
"I have to talk to Rebecca," Christian told him, ignoring his protest.
"You can't just come barging in here…"
"Where is she?" Christian yelled again.
"She told you everything she knows…
"Rebecca!" Christian shouted again.
"This is my house, you can't just barge in like this!" Carrick said to him.
"I don't give a damn if this is your house. Now I need to talk with her."
"Can't this wait until in the morning?" Carrick asked.
"Don't you understand that he's got her!" Christian yelled to his father.
"I'm warning…"
"Carrick stop it! Can't you tell he's scared to death, would you listen to him," Rebecca told him.
"Rebecca, you have got to help me," Christian pleaded with her. "Someone has kidnapped Ana." he told them both.
Back at the country club, Ray was getting upset that the cops weren't looking for his daughter. Gia, Roz, and Luke heard about this and asked if it was true that Ana was missing. Cleary told them it was a police matter. They explained that they knew her and wanted to help.
Elliott began to tell them that they didn't need the press right now. But as soon as they could get more information they will let them know. Until they needed to keep this under wraps. They agreed and asked to get an exclusive.
Christian was at his father's house and told him the whole story that Jessica had been parading around as a woman this whole time and was really a man. That this person had been stalking them for months now. Rebecca wanted to know what she could do. He told her he thought that the same man who scared her in the lab that night could be the same man who took Ana. He asked her to make a sketch of the man she saw.
Levy, Elliot, Cleary and the rest of them went back to the police station. He was handed a report and looked at it. He began to tell everyone that the hair on the mannequin in Jessica's apartment is the same one on Cutter's report. They realized Cutter was onto her that night he was killed.
Christian was pacing around at his dad's place as Rebecca worked on the sketch of the man she saw in the lab. She was a little frustrated with her sketch.
"I'm no great artist, but I hope this will help. This is the best I can do," she said, handing it over to Christian.
He began looking at it and couldn't believe what he was seeing. No, this couldn't be true.
"Oh my god!" he said to them, while looking at the sketch.
"Who is it son? Who is it?" Carrick asked.
"It has to be a mistake," Christian began saying. "My father must have shown you a picture of this man."
"This is from memory. Do you recognize him?" she asked.
"It can't be…" Christian whispered.
"That was the man I saw in the lab that night." Rebecca told Christian.
"You have to be wrong and seen this picture from somewhere." Christian told her, not wanting to believe what he was seeing.
"Rebecca, you couldn't have seen this man that night. It's impossible."
"Who is he?" she asked.
"He's dead." Carrick stated. "Son this can't be true."
"Jessica came to me and told me that she thought that the person that changed Ana's results was probably a woman who was upset for what Ana and I had done to Jose. Jessica said she was a rape victim, she even joined in on Ana's rape group, and now he's laughing at us," Christian stated to them.
Rebecca looked at Christian as she said, "I don't understand. Who are you talking about?"
"There has got to be an explanation for this," Carrick said to his son.
"That's the only thing that fits! Its gotta be him!" Christian cried out. "This man was the only one who would be obsessed enough to be this sick. He came back to pay us back for what we did to him! He wanted us to suffer, it was a sick game to him. He's alive. Jose Rodriguez is alive." He told them both. "I'm taking this with me," Christian said as he was leaving.
"Christian, if you need anything…"
"You've done enough!" Christian screamed at his father. "You unleashed this man, and now he has her." He slammed the door behind him.
Ana had woken up and looked around. She didn't recognize the place she was in.
"Hello! Hello, can anyone hear me?" she asked.
"I'm so glad you have woken up to join me." Ana looked over to where the voice came from. She saw Jessica standing over by the corner.
Carrick told Rebecca that he was going to go to the police station to help his son. He felt the only way Christian would ever forgive him, is for him to be there for him.
"Carrick, I don't know what you think you can do to help."
"Christian is my son. He needs me and that's all that matters."
"There is nothing you can do for your son right now. He hates you."
He turned to her. "My son does hate me, Rebecca."
Christian arrived at the police station telling them he knew who took Ana. Ray said they knew too, that a man disguised as Jessica. Elliot asked him who.
"Jose Rodriguez," Christian told them.
"Christian, are you crazy? There's no way," Elliot told him.
"Jose is dead, buried and rotting in hell." Ray also said.
"I wish he was, but I can prove otherwise. Look at this," he handed Elliot the sketch that Rebecca drew for him. They all looked at the sketch.
Meanwhile, Ana was in a place she didn't recognize but saw Jessica. She kept asking her friend where they were. But Jessica just blabbed on about tea and how it tasted. Ana demanded to Jessica to tell her where they were.
"We're in a place overlooking Seattle. It's actually quite pretty. Do you remember that retreat I invited you to come with me on? I was very disappointed when you didn't want to go with me. But I think this will make up for it."
"Christian doesn't know I'm here with you does he? I want to go home," Ana said to her.
"And I want a Rolls Royce but that's not possible. I'm afraid you are stuck with me so you might as well make the most of it dear."
At the station, Christian had shown them a sketch of Jose. They didn't understand how he got that.
"How did you get this?" Ray asked him.
"Rebecca drew it," Christian stated.
"How did she know about him?"
"Christian this is crazy, there is no way he could be alive," Elliot told him.
"I didn't want to think he was either. Look, do you remember that crazed lab technician?"
"The one that you think changed Ana's results?" Nell asked.
"Rebecca walked in on him in the lab, he freaked out and threatened to kill her. She got a good enough look to draw this."
Ray grabbed Christian telling him it was not Jose. Elliot agreed with Ray, frustrating Christian.
"That's what I'm trying to tell you! It's not two people it's one guy!" He yelled to them all.
"Is it possible you made suggestions to this woman?" Levy asked.
"No. I didn't say anything she did this on her own. Ray and Elliot, I know you don't want to think that Jose got to her but he did. He faked all of us out."
"Christian, there is one problem with this, Jose's dead." Elliot told him.
"I understand, but the fact is Rebecca drew a picture of his face from her memory. Don't you see? He faked his death, all of it was a lie. Jessica Martinez was make believe. God help me I'm wrong, but I'm not."
Jose was still playing Jessica to Ana, and had her hidden away where no one could find them. Ana wanted to know where they were as Jessica told her they were still in Seattle.
"If this is a game, I'm not really in the mood to play," Ana told her.
"Oh, no, this isn't a game. As a matter of fact the little game we had been playing is over."
"I didn't realize we were playing a game," Ana said, continuing looking around her surroundings.
"I can see that you can walk now. What you doing back there, Ana? Trying to open the door? It won't do you any good as its locked."
"Could you please give me the key?" Ana asked her.
"I think this was the perfect place for our retreat don't you think? The lighthouse is quite unique as ships use it to bring them safely into the harbour. I thought this place was perfect for us." Jessica said to Ana.
She walked around and went up some stairs. Ana looked out and seen nothing but water from one side of the light house. She saw how the waves of water crashed against the light house. Ana finally saw Jessica's face when she joined her on the deck of the lighthouse.
Back at the station, Christian was doing everything he could to convince them that Jessica was indeed Jose. He told them that it all fit. He began to explain his theory as Jose knew computers very well inside and out."
"What about Jessica?" Elliot asked.
"That's why I hired her. If I'm right and Jessica was really Jose he used that to gain access to me and Ana. He gained her trust, he stole her ID number from the lab, that's how he changed the test results. It wasn't some crazed lab technician. It was one guy out to hurt Ana and me."
"He would have plenty of motive after you and Ana accused him of raping her right?" Cleary asked Christian. Elliot went over everything that night Jose "died".
"Okay, you were there when he supposedly died right?" Elliot asked. "There was a doctor and his sister said he was dead."
"And he signed the death certificate," Christian also explained.
"But the next day Ana went to the funeral home and saw the coffin." Ray stated going, continuing their thoughts about the whole thing.
"Hold on dad," Elliot replied. "The coffin was closed."
"Right," Christian chimed in.
"No one saw the body after he died at the docks," Levy also replied.
"That's what I'm trying to tell you all."
"What about an autopsy?" Cleary asked.
It all seemed to be coming together as pieces of the puzzle began to emerge.
"There wasn't one." Elliot told them all. "As a matter of fact the doctor was present and signed the death certificate."
A woman came from the forensics lab and told them that the wig from Jessica's apartment matched with the samples of hair clutched in all the victims hands Flower, the Jane Doe as Nadine, and Cutter.
Elliot told him that was it as Levy stated that Jessica aka Jose was involved with two murders possibly three. Christian also included the fact the Jessica tried to kill Susan Bates as well.
"But yet Susan said that Jessica/Jose was going after Ana. Christian you have me all screwed up with this." Elliot explained, trying to make sense of everything. "I know it seems as though the pieces are all fitting together but it just doesn't seem possible to me. I mean you are telling me that Jose faked his death, came back at Jessica putting on a wig and faking all of us out. It just seems like a stretch to me." Elliott said, trying to make sense of it all.
Suddenly they heard Carrick chime in. "If my son says it was Jose, then listen to him." But Ray went after him saying that it was his fault for all of this mess.
Back at the lighthouse, Ana came face to face with Jessica. Her face looked a little weird as she said it was hard to put on her make up without a mirror. They went back into the light house as Ana told her she couldn't keep her like this.
"Are you afraid of me?" Jose asked her in his Jessica voice.
"No. I believe that you really care about me."
"I think about you all the time."
"That's nice, Jessica. But seriously, I think it's time I get back to Christian."
"What can Christian give you that I can't, my dear?"
"Jessica, I realized that you have feelings for me and I'm flattered, I really am. But I'm in love with Christian. Plus I know what you did to my HIV results. I know it was you that changed them. I also know what you did to Susan."
"Are you finished?" Jessica asked.
"Am I right?"
"One of the things that attracted me to you is that you are very bright and clever. As a matter of fact, I have done those things you said. I've done more...plenty more." He told her, looking in her eyes. Ana couldn't believe it! She didn't want to believe that Jessica would do this to her.
"Who are you?" Ana asked her/him.
He began walking closer to her as he was dressed and sounded like Jessica. "What's the matter dear? Are you not impressed that I would do such things to be close to you," in his Jessica voice. He still hasn't revealed who he truly was to her and was having fun playing with Ana. He backed her against a wall behind her as he put his hand out above her head. "Do you remember all the great talks we had just between the two of us.
"How could you do this to me?" Ana's voice was shaky. "I thought you cared about me. Why would you do this?"
"Your patient number was 11937, I would have done it a third time except someone came in and made me drop the vile." Ana moved from the wall and began to walk away from him again.
"Jessica, I befriended you when no one else would. I stood by you because you had been through the same thing as I did."
"Yes, I do recall you telling me all about your experience with Jose. You gave me a blow by blow description of that night. But the more I thought about your story, you weren't really raped at all. That you really wanted Jose."
"No!" Ana screamed at her. "That's not true! How could you say that to me!" she screamed at her as Ana went after Jessica.
At the police station Ray and Carrick continued to fight. Elliot pulled his dad off him and Carrick began to say that he knows he was to blame for what happened. But now was the time for them to pull together for Ana's sake. Carrick tried to talk with his son, but Christian turned away from him. He suggested that maybe if they compared Jessica's prints to Jose's they would have a match. They were all thinking that if Jose had fingerprints on file they could easily match it up.
"Cutter took some," Ray told them, getting their attention. "It was when Ana and Jose had just began dating and they went to the country club pool. They were fooling around in it when Cutter caught them, he took them in and Cutter was trying to scare Jose from his poor attitude as he fingerprinted him."
Christian was beside himself; just the very thought of Ana being that intimate with anyone else before them drove him crazy.
Ugh! The thought of him touching her made me sick to my stomach. Now it's possible he has her.
They went to check Cutter's office to see if he had Jose's prints. Elliot told his dad not to do anymore to Carrick.
"They believe you son," Carrick said to Christian. "And they should."
He turned to his father and looked at him angrily. "What are you doing here, anyway. I told you I didn't need or want your help."
"Now is not the time to turn your back on me. I could help you out on finding Ana." Carrick told his son.
"What do you think you could possibly do, huh? Besides that, it was your fault that Jose escaped prosecution. If it weren't for you, she would be with me right now. I am never ever going to forgive for that!" Christian yelled to him.
He went to Ray, telling him he was sorry for all of this. Ray grabbed Christian telling him it wasn't his fault and that he knew how much Christian loved her. The two men shared a hug. Carrick stared at the two of them. He hated that Ray had a closer relationship to Christian than he did. But he also knew it was his fault.
At the lighthouse, Jessica was telling Ana that it was her than did those things and more. She also told Ana that she was not raped by Jose after all. Ana went on the attack telling her it was true and that she didn't want Jose in that way. Ana stopped fighting against her as Jessica told her if she calmed down, she would let go of her.
"I know why you did all those things, Jessica." Ana told her.
"Why is that?"
"I think it's because you wanted me all to yourself. I think you may have a crush on me and that's why you did all of those things."
Jose turned Ana to look at him. "You think I have feelings for you. That I'm some kind of a lesbian? Well, Ana, I hate to disappoint you, but I'm no lesbian. Far from it actually."
"Then why? I don't understand why are you acting like this," Ana's voice is very shaky.
"I did it all because of you. Ana, you brought this all on yourself."
"I still don't understand…"
"Let me explain it to you. I was raped. I was raped and ruined by you," he growled to her.
"This doesn't make any sense."
"Do you remember when we were looking for a disgruntled employee?"
"Yes, I know but we couldn't find anything."
"But there was, Ana. I was right in front of you the whole time."
"How? You're not an ex employee," Ana told Jessica. "What did I ever do to you?"
"You have done plenty and now you are going to pay for it like the others did. The rapist on the docks, Patrick Cutter, and your step mother Nadine."
"I...I…" Ana started to say but couldn't get the words out.
"That's right, you had no idea that Nadine was dead."
"No. She went to Florida, she isn't dead." Ana told him.
"Wrong again, sweetheart. Nadine got a little too nosy, she found out about me before leaving. She came into my apartment and snooped around. She found the test results that I changed. So I had to kill her."
"No! No! It can't be true! I don't want to hear anymore!" Ana yelled as she covered her ears.
At the police station, Christian, Ray and Carrick were waiting on them to find out if Jessica really was Jose by using finger prints. The forensics lab person told them about more information on the Jane doe they found at the docks.
She explained it was a homicide, killed by a blunt instrument on the head. She described Nadine and gave them the woman's personal stuff they had in the folder. Cleary began going through it just as Levy came back with the prints.
"I got them!"
"Okay run them against Jose's…" Elliot began to say.
"Already did. They're a perfect match." Levy told them. "Jessica Martinez is Jose Rodriguez."
Christian didn't want to believe that Jose had his fiance, but it was a reality. Elliot didn't know how Jose could fake them out for so long, but Christian had an idea how. Back at the lighthouse, Ana kept asking Jessica why she did all of those things. Jessica was ready to reveal who she was.
"It's time to reveal my true identity," he said, removing of his wig. Ana eyed her as the layers started coming off.
"Oh my god," she was saying.
He began to remove his prosthetic face off revealing his face to Ana. He looked back at her with a big smile on his face.
"Now do you understand, Ana?" he asked her in his now normal voice.
"Oh my god. Your Jose," she said to him in shock.
A/N: Hey all, I have never written anything like this before. So now you all know the truth. Jose didnt die, he has Ana. Also there will be a mention of the supernatural/spiritual realm stuff going on. I will have a sketch of Jose in my Karen Cullen Grey group and it will be under this title.