Kill Me Before I Speak
Chapter 2: Cruel Fate
"So, Kathleen Newberry is a no-show, huh?" Horatio asked as State Attorney Rebecca Nevins approached him.
"Yeah. No one can find her, which helps Kyle, of course." she sniffed, obviously pissed off.
"I'll send my team up there right now." he offered.
"Thank you, Horatio." Rebecca takes her leave, still visibly upset that she lost yet another case against Kyle.
Julia overheard their conversation smiling to herself. Earlier today she had her assistant, Pamela, bribe Kathleen to leave town with 1 million dollars. She would never let Kyle or Lucy get hurt again. She had let them go and regretted it ever since, and now that she's found her children she's not going to let them be taken... not again.
They had lived their life knowing just of pain, abandonment, and suffering. That's why she was so desperate to get her children back, so they can be loved and looked after properly and with all her money she can make sure nothing can touch them. They'll want for nothing.
She walked over to her ex-lover, her heels clicking softly with every step, "Did I hear her say her witness is missing?"
"You did. Where's Kathleen, Julia?"
"Why are you asking me that?" Julia pretending to look shocked.
"I'm asking you because you petitioned for custody for Kyle this morning, hours before this proceeding." Just as he did.
"Of course I did." Julia said, offended he'd think she would just let her son rot in jail, "I'd do anything for him now."
"And that's my point." Horatio turned away from her taking his phone out of his suit pocket, calling Eric and Ryan to have them search Kathleen's house.
~2~
"I-I was just checking to make sure everything was in order before I left, hope you... don't mind..." Lucy trailed off when she heard the sound of her door locking.
Lucy shuffled nervously looking up at her unexpected guest, "Is there s-something I can... help you with?" her voice shook, portraying her nervousness.
The figure slowly approached her, before revealing the sharp object hidden behind his back.
"What are you doing with that?" It suddenly clicked in her mind, "No, please! No!" Lucy cried as she realized this was no social call, this was an execution... her execution.
Fight or flight mode kicked in. She snatched a vase of flowers off her table and hurled it at her attacker. While he was distracted she sprinted around her desk towards the door, but a hand reached out and snatched the back of her neck up like a little rag doll.
"No!" Lucy wailed as she was brutally slammed to the ground with the knife digging into her chest.
This wasn't suppose to happen.
Kyle was getting out of prison today, and she was going to quit her job to spend more time with her family, and everything was suppose to be fine.
She was supposed to be at the police station by now hugging Kyle and giving him empty threats if he ever went back to prison. She was supposed to meet her mom and dad for the first time. Lt. Horatio Caine and Julia Winston. She was suppose to be with her family... But that was just a fairytale of course.
It was almost cruel how fate had given her a family, only to kill her in the end.