Author's note: Okay I don't know where I got this idea, but I hope you like it. Please read and reply and let me know if I should keep this one going. And check out my other stories too please. Oh yeah and this is my frist purely 7th heaven fic so be kind please.
I'll stand by you
"I'm telling you Simon, this homework is gonna drive me insane," I said to my boyfriend Simon. He smiled his georgus smile that made his green eyes sparkle.
"Let me ask you a question Lizzy, How can the homework drive you crazy if you already are crazy?" He asked. We were sitting at the picnic table in his back yard doing our Chemistry homework.
"I must be crazy to be dating you," I joked.
"Oh really," He started tickling me. We were laughing so hard we didn't realize his mother had come outside until we heard her clear her throat. We stoped and looked at her. Her face was very pale and she looked like she had seen a ghost. "Mom, what's the matter?" Simon asked.
"Are you okay Mrs. Camden?" I asked. She came and sat next to me and held my hands. It was never a good sign when an adult did this.
"Elizabeth, something happened today while you guys were at school. Kevin and Roxanne just came in looking for you." She stoped for a minute not knowing how to tell me the rest.
"What happened?" I asked getting very nervous.
"The good news is that Mark left. The bad news is that your mother ..." her voice trailed off.
"I know Mark left. He left yesterday while mom was at work. What about my mother? She's ok isn't she?" I asked. She squeezed my hands which was a sign things deffinately were not okay. "I need to get home to her. I'll call you later Simon." I tried to get up but Mrs. Camden pulled me into a tight hug and then finished her sentance.
"Your mother killed herself because of Mark leaving." I couldn't believe what she had just said. I knew that couldn't be right I had just seen her that morning. Anne (Mrs. Camden) held me tighter. Simon patted my back. I wanted to cry, but nothing was coming out. It felt so surreal. I couldn't believe my mom had killed herself over that jerk. She had married him when I was 5. I had never really liked him, but she loved him. Lately they had been fighting, sleeping in seperate rooms, and even had seperate checking accounts so I thought they could be headed for splitsville but I never in a million years thought that he'd leave on his own or that my mother would kill herself over it. Just then Simon's brother in-law who is a cop, Kevin Kincaid and his partner Roxanne entered the backyard.
"Liz if there's anything we can do just let us know," Kevin offered. I had only been dating Simon 7 months but his family had become like my own.
"Thank you," I said in a very scratchy tone. My throat was very dry and my eyes were really wet but I wasn't crying. Anne let me go.
"Are you okay?" She asked me. I nodded. She stepped back and Simon stepped closer to me. As soon as he grabbed me for a hug I broke into tears and couldn't stop them. I was seventeen, and had never even considered living the rest of my life without my mother.
"Can we do anything for you?" Roxanne asked. I shook my head. Just then two of Simon's sisters, Lucy (21), Kevin's wife, and Ruthie(12) walked into the back yard carrying Simon's little brothers, Samuel and David (3).
"What's wrong Lizzie?" David asked.
"What happened? Are you ok Liz?"Lucy asked.
"Come on guys lets give Simon and Elizabeth some time alone," Kevin suggested leading everyone else into the house.
"Are you okay?" Simon asked me after everyone had gone inside.
"No, but I will be." I sobbed.
"Can I do something to help you?" Simon asked.
" Just hold me and let me know everything is going to be okay."
"Don't worry, my dad and Chandler will help you." His father is a minister and Chandler is his father's assistant.
"Let's go inside, I need some tissues." I said leading him into the house. When we walked in the kitchen everyone was sitting there including Revernd Eric Camden and Chandler.
"Liz, how are you?" They all asked when we walked in.
"I'll be ok eventually." I answered.
"Well just know that we'll help any way we can. You're more than welcome to stay here for as long as you need to," Anne offered. Eric, Kevin, Roxanne, and Chandler all looked at each other with an odd look. "What?" Anne asked them.
"Well this probably isn't the best time to mention this, but officer Shepard already contacted Liz's father and he's supposed to come by after dinner tonight to pick her up and bring her to his place," Eric said. Anne shot him a nasty look.
"My father? NO! Please you guys can't make me go with him." I started crying harder. I bearly even knew my father. My mother hadn't been married to my father and after he found out she was pregnate he took off. We didn't see or hear from him again for 13 years. And from then on he contacted me on my birthday and at christmas every year but that was it.
"It will be okay. You won't have to go. Dad will do something about it, won't you dad?" Simon asked putting his hand on my shoulder to comfort me.
"Well, its not that easy...."Eric said.
"But you're gonna help her aren't you?" Simon asked.
"Don't worry Liz, if dad can't help you, I'll hide you in my room," Ruthie offered.
"Thanks Ruthie. But you guys can do something about it can't you?" I asked the ministers and officers who were in the room.
"Let me go call officer shepard and see what loop holes we can find," Eric said getting up.
"I'll help you," Kevin said. Kevin and Eric went to Eric's home office.
"C'mon why don't I take you to get your stuff for the night," Roxanne offered.
" Ok." I said breaking free from Simon's grasp.
"I'll come with you guys," Simon offered.
"Simon, I know you want to help Liz right now, but I really need to talk to her woman to woman," Roxanne said.
"Ok I get it. I'll be right here when you get back." He hugged me and kissed my cheek.
"I'll go with you to help," Lucy said. She was in college to be a minister so she figured she could get some practice.
"Ok, but let's get going now so I can get back and help Kevin out."
Roxanne, Lucy, and I drove in Roxanne's police car over to my house which was only two and a half blocks away but since I was gonna have stuff with me we drove over.
"Do you want us to go in with you?" Lucy asked as we drove over.
"Yeah if you don't mind." As we aproached the house there were a bunch of cop cars around. "Roxanne, I thought you said she killed herself. Why are so many cops still here if she killed herself?" I asked.
"I don't know, stay here I'm gonna go find out whats going on." She parked the car and got out. She went and talked to one of the cops. When she returned to the car, I could tell she had some bad news just from the look on her face. "Liz, I need to take you down to the station. You're not under arrest, but I need to talk to you about it."
"What is IT?" Lucy asked the question I was thinking of myself.
"Officer shepard says there is reason to believe your mother was murdered not that she commited suicide. So therefore I have to take you down and question you unless you'd rather have someone else question you."
I was shocked. I couldn't believe they thought my mother had been murdered. "No, I know I'm innocent so I don't care who questions me."
"Okay well Kevin's meeting us at the station. So let's go."
Twenty minutes later we were sitting in an interagation room. "Okay, Elizabeth, we need you to be honest, did you leave school at any time during the day today?" Kevin asked me.
"Of course not. Why in the world would I want to kill my mother I loved her."
"I know this is tough on you but please try to remain calm and just answer our questions so we can get through with this faster," Roxanne said.
"I just want to know who killed my mother."
"That's all we want to know," Roxanne tried to reassure me.
"Well I can tell you I didn't do it. And unless you're gonna charge me with something I'm leaving so I can be with my boyfriend right now," I said standing up.
"SIT DOWN!" Kevin said pushing me back down into the seat.
"Kevin, calm down," Roxanne directed.
"Liz, I don't want to be here doing this anymore than you do. So just tell us who you think would have wanted to kill your mother and we can get out of here now," Kevin said.
"The only person I can think of who might have done it is Mark. Kevin, you know me, I'm not capable of murder." Just then officer Shepard knocked on the door. He opened it.
"Liz, your father is here," He informed us.
"Please don't make me go with him!" I pleaded.
I'll stand by you
"I'm telling you Simon, this homework is gonna drive me insane," I said to my boyfriend Simon. He smiled his georgus smile that made his green eyes sparkle.
"Let me ask you a question Lizzy, How can the homework drive you crazy if you already are crazy?" He asked. We were sitting at the picnic table in his back yard doing our Chemistry homework.
"I must be crazy to be dating you," I joked.
"Oh really," He started tickling me. We were laughing so hard we didn't realize his mother had come outside until we heard her clear her throat. We stoped and looked at her. Her face was very pale and she looked like she had seen a ghost. "Mom, what's the matter?" Simon asked.
"Are you okay Mrs. Camden?" I asked. She came and sat next to me and held my hands. It was never a good sign when an adult did this.
"Elizabeth, something happened today while you guys were at school. Kevin and Roxanne just came in looking for you." She stoped for a minute not knowing how to tell me the rest.
"What happened?" I asked getting very nervous.
"The good news is that Mark left. The bad news is that your mother ..." her voice trailed off.
"I know Mark left. He left yesterday while mom was at work. What about my mother? She's ok isn't she?" I asked. She squeezed my hands which was a sign things deffinately were not okay. "I need to get home to her. I'll call you later Simon." I tried to get up but Mrs. Camden pulled me into a tight hug and then finished her sentance.
"Your mother killed herself because of Mark leaving." I couldn't believe what she had just said. I knew that couldn't be right I had just seen her that morning. Anne (Mrs. Camden) held me tighter. Simon patted my back. I wanted to cry, but nothing was coming out. It felt so surreal. I couldn't believe my mom had killed herself over that jerk. She had married him when I was 5. I had never really liked him, but she loved him. Lately they had been fighting, sleeping in seperate rooms, and even had seperate checking accounts so I thought they could be headed for splitsville but I never in a million years thought that he'd leave on his own or that my mother would kill herself over it. Just then Simon's brother in-law who is a cop, Kevin Kincaid and his partner Roxanne entered the backyard.
"Liz if there's anything we can do just let us know," Kevin offered. I had only been dating Simon 7 months but his family had become like my own.
"Thank you," I said in a very scratchy tone. My throat was very dry and my eyes were really wet but I wasn't crying. Anne let me go.
"Are you okay?" She asked me. I nodded. She stepped back and Simon stepped closer to me. As soon as he grabbed me for a hug I broke into tears and couldn't stop them. I was seventeen, and had never even considered living the rest of my life without my mother.
"Can we do anything for you?" Roxanne asked. I shook my head. Just then two of Simon's sisters, Lucy (21), Kevin's wife, and Ruthie(12) walked into the back yard carrying Simon's little brothers, Samuel and David (3).
"What's wrong Lizzie?" David asked.
"What happened? Are you ok Liz?"Lucy asked.
"Come on guys lets give Simon and Elizabeth some time alone," Kevin suggested leading everyone else into the house.
"Are you okay?" Simon asked me after everyone had gone inside.
"No, but I will be." I sobbed.
"Can I do something to help you?" Simon asked.
" Just hold me and let me know everything is going to be okay."
"Don't worry, my dad and Chandler will help you." His father is a minister and Chandler is his father's assistant.
"Let's go inside, I need some tissues." I said leading him into the house. When we walked in the kitchen everyone was sitting there including Revernd Eric Camden and Chandler.
"Liz, how are you?" They all asked when we walked in.
"I'll be ok eventually." I answered.
"Well just know that we'll help any way we can. You're more than welcome to stay here for as long as you need to," Anne offered. Eric, Kevin, Roxanne, and Chandler all looked at each other with an odd look. "What?" Anne asked them.
"Well this probably isn't the best time to mention this, but officer Shepard already contacted Liz's father and he's supposed to come by after dinner tonight to pick her up and bring her to his place," Eric said. Anne shot him a nasty look.
"My father? NO! Please you guys can't make me go with him." I started crying harder. I bearly even knew my father. My mother hadn't been married to my father and after he found out she was pregnate he took off. We didn't see or hear from him again for 13 years. And from then on he contacted me on my birthday and at christmas every year but that was it.
"It will be okay. You won't have to go. Dad will do something about it, won't you dad?" Simon asked putting his hand on my shoulder to comfort me.
"Well, its not that easy...."Eric said.
"But you're gonna help her aren't you?" Simon asked.
"Don't worry Liz, if dad can't help you, I'll hide you in my room," Ruthie offered.
"Thanks Ruthie. But you guys can do something about it can't you?" I asked the ministers and officers who were in the room.
"Let me go call officer shepard and see what loop holes we can find," Eric said getting up.
"I'll help you," Kevin said. Kevin and Eric went to Eric's home office.
"C'mon why don't I take you to get your stuff for the night," Roxanne offered.
" Ok." I said breaking free from Simon's grasp.
"I'll come with you guys," Simon offered.
"Simon, I know you want to help Liz right now, but I really need to talk to her woman to woman," Roxanne said.
"Ok I get it. I'll be right here when you get back." He hugged me and kissed my cheek.
"I'll go with you to help," Lucy said. She was in college to be a minister so she figured she could get some practice.
"Ok, but let's get going now so I can get back and help Kevin out."
Roxanne, Lucy, and I drove in Roxanne's police car over to my house which was only two and a half blocks away but since I was gonna have stuff with me we drove over.
"Do you want us to go in with you?" Lucy asked as we drove over.
"Yeah if you don't mind." As we aproached the house there were a bunch of cop cars around. "Roxanne, I thought you said she killed herself. Why are so many cops still here if she killed herself?" I asked.
"I don't know, stay here I'm gonna go find out whats going on." She parked the car and got out. She went and talked to one of the cops. When she returned to the car, I could tell she had some bad news just from the look on her face. "Liz, I need to take you down to the station. You're not under arrest, but I need to talk to you about it."
"What is IT?" Lucy asked the question I was thinking of myself.
"Officer shepard says there is reason to believe your mother was murdered not that she commited suicide. So therefore I have to take you down and question you unless you'd rather have someone else question you."
I was shocked. I couldn't believe they thought my mother had been murdered. "No, I know I'm innocent so I don't care who questions me."
"Okay well Kevin's meeting us at the station. So let's go."
Twenty minutes later we were sitting in an interagation room. "Okay, Elizabeth, we need you to be honest, did you leave school at any time during the day today?" Kevin asked me.
"Of course not. Why in the world would I want to kill my mother I loved her."
"I know this is tough on you but please try to remain calm and just answer our questions so we can get through with this faster," Roxanne said.
"I just want to know who killed my mother."
"That's all we want to know," Roxanne tried to reassure me.
"Well I can tell you I didn't do it. And unless you're gonna charge me with something I'm leaving so I can be with my boyfriend right now," I said standing up.
"SIT DOWN!" Kevin said pushing me back down into the seat.
"Kevin, calm down," Roxanne directed.
"Liz, I don't want to be here doing this anymore than you do. So just tell us who you think would have wanted to kill your mother and we can get out of here now," Kevin said.
"The only person I can think of who might have done it is Mark. Kevin, you know me, I'm not capable of murder." Just then officer Shepard knocked on the door. He opened it.
"Liz, your father is here," He informed us.
"Please don't make me go with him!" I pleaded.