Chapter 2: Snuffing Lights
Roger watched as he and the Ladies walked behind Mary and Riggs. They all noticed that Mary and Riggs were getting a little to close. They would laugh and joke with each other. They were flirting with one another. Roger knew that he had to stop it, he didn't want Riggs to get in trouble.
Riggs was carrying the basket for the girls. Mary was walking close to him and they were talking about the gardens. They got to the spot and Mary took the basket and Kenna laid out the blanket on the ground. The girls sat down and started to talk with each other. Roger walked over to Riggs and stood next him. Roger pulled Riggs aside.
"What?" He asked looking at Mary, making sure that he could still see her.
"You need to stop with flirting with her man." Roger told him.
"I'm not flirting, I don't flirt." He told him.
"Yes, your are." Roger told him again. "Look she is engaged to a man name George King." He told him.
"Really?" He asked. "She didn't tell me that." He added. "Who told you that?"
"Greer told me this morning." He said and looked at him and pointed his finger at him.
"Stop flirting."
-With Mary-
"He is cute though." Kenna said glancing over at Riggs.
"He is." Mary said.
"But what about George?" Lola asked her.
"All of you know that I don't want to marry George." Mary said while holding a blueberry muffin. "It was Cora's idea, not mine."
"You have a voice Mary. Tell her no." Greer told her and took a bite out of her muffin.
"Greer, you know that Mary can't do that. She has to marry him." Aylee said looking at her.
"Only to free Cora from her promise to Francis." Greer said back. Aylee looked at Mary when she spoke.
"It's true Aylee, I have to be married before she can get out of my life." She looked over at Riggs and saw Roger point his finger at him.
"What is Murtaugh telling him?" She asked and looked at Greer when she spoke.
"Maybe to stop flirting with you."
"What, he is not flirting with me." Mary said and looked at Lola.
"Yes, he is Mary and you are flirting with him."
"No, I'm not." She said and looked at her ladies.
"Mary, you are too flirting with him." Greer said and looked at her with a tell the truth look.
"I'm not. We are only being nice to another and that is all." She told them. "And I don't want to hear anymore about it."
-Later that night-
Riggs had just walked into his room from Mary's. She was going to bed and so was he. He was about to get in when he heard a knock on his door. He walked over and opened it. A man rushed in and knocked him to the ground. They rolled on the ground and knocked over a table that had a vase on it.
-With Mary-
Mary was in bed when her door opened. She looked up and saw two men in her room. They were dressed in her guards uniforms. She moved and got out of bed. She grabbed a shawl and wrapped it around herself.
"What is going on?" She asked them. Then she heard the vase break from Riggs's room. She looked at the men and noticed something.
"You are not my guards."
"No, we are not." One of the men said and moved toward her. She moved and tried to run out to the balcony, but he grabbed her by the arm and through her down on the ground. She tried to fight him off but couldn't. The other one moved over to her.
"Hold her."
"No, why are you doing this?" She asked him.
"Cause I was paid to." He said and moved his hand to his pants. Her eyes got wide and she tried to fight harder but the other man grabbed her and held her down.
"MARTIN!" She screamed out. Nothing.
"He's dead." The man told her. He moved and himself to her.
-With Riggs-
Riggs had got the upper hand and had the man in a hand lock. He heard Mary scream out for him. He moved and snapped the man's neck. The man went limp and he moved and got his gun and ran to Mary's room. The door was locked so he moved and kicked it in. He ran in and saw a man choking Mary and one holding her down. He held up his gun and shot the one that was holding her down in the head. The man feel to the ground dead. The one that was choking Mary looked up and looked at Riggs. He smiled and fired the gun and shot him in the head as well. The man fell to the ground and Mary got up and ran over to Riggs. She wrapped her arms around him, and he did the same to her. Just then Roger and other guards ran in.
"You okay?" Roger asked as he moved over to them.
"We're fine." Riggs told him and looked at Mary. She had a look on her face that he didn't like at all.
"I'm going to take Mary to my room he told him.
"Okay you do that. We got the dead guy out of there." Roger told him and lowing his gun. Riggs moved and took Mary to his room. He was shutting the door to the balcony when she walked over to the fireplace. He walked over to her and looked at her. He neck was starting to turned purple.
"Mary, I will only asks this once." He started. She looked at him with teas in her eyes.
"Were you raped?" He asked and she fell to the floor crying.
"Okay, okay that answered my question." He said and moved over to her and knelt down. He pushed his hair back as he talked to her .
"Okay, this is what we are going to do okay. We are going to you get cleaned you up and get you dress on that has a high neck. Then you are going downstairs and you will tell them that you are alright." He said to her.
"No, I can't do that." She said and hugged the edge of the fireplace and looked at the floor. Tears were pouring from her eyes.
"Mary, you have to." He said. She looked at him. She was about to say something but he stopped her by saying.
"Mary if you don't than people will start to talk, and they will see you as a easy target." He said and moved over to her.
"I can't do it." She said.
"Mary, if I can act like I was never raped, so can you." She looked at him.
"What?" She asked him.
"I was raped three times in my life. I got pass it and so will you, but you just have to trust me now. Then later on tonight I will hold you and you can cry as most as you want and not just over this, over anything." Riggs told her and held out his hand. She looked at it and took it slowly.
-About 30 minutes later-
Mary walked down the stairs and saw the staff, her friends, Cora, Roger and the LAPD. Riggs was right behind her. He had helped her with her hair that was down but brushed out. He had picked out a dress that had a high neck to it. The dress was a long black dress with red brocade lace on the top of it. She had on black gold earrings with red rubies in them and a matching head piece. She got the bottom of the stairs and her friends moved to hug her but she stopped them and told them they could hug later. They looked at her with odd looks. Cora walked over to her.
"Were you hurt?" She asked her. Mary looked over at Riggs. Cora looked at him and then back at her.
"I will tell you later." She told Cora.
"Alright dear." She said moved over to Riggs. She leaned in close to him and asked.
"She was raped wasn't she?" Riggs said nothing just nodded his head. As Mary told everyone that she was alright, Cora asked to see Riggs alone. They walked into the office. He shut the door and turned, just in time for a hand to slap him across the face.
"Where were you?!"
"I was fight a guy that was trying to kill me. He knocked on my door, I opened it and he jumped me." He said, she turned as he was talking. He did see her grabbed a poker from the fire place. She moved and hit him in the head with it. Riggs fell to the ground. He moved and shook his head.
"You fool, you should be there with her at all times!" She yelled and hit him in the back with the poker repeatedly. He was no on the ground and could not get up. He moved and rolled over. She moved dress and placed her foot on his throat and pushed down. He grabbed the shoe and looked at her. She was cutting off his air with her shoe.
"If something happens to Mary then I will kill you." She said removed her foot from his throat. "Go the back way and get cleaned up!" She ordered him. She walked out that door and closed it. Riggs moved and stood up, he moved and did as told.
-Later-
Mary walked into her room with Cora by her side.
"So one of them did rape you." Cora said and moved to the door.
"Yes, he did." She looked around and noticed that she didn't she Riggs.
"Where is?" She moved and looked at Cora.
"I punished him for not being there when you need him" She told her.
"What? What did you do to him?" Mary asked her and moved to go out the balcony door.
"I beat him, with a fireplace poker. Come now Mary, he needed to learn." She said and walked out. Mary's eyes got wide and she ran to Riggs's room. She ran into the room and didn't see him. She ran over to the bathroom in time to see him take his shirt off. She looked at his back and she saw the red marks turn into buries. He turned around and looked up and saw her there.
"Mary?" He said she could see the mark on his throat and the blood slowly running down the side of him head and face. She ran over to him and grabbed a rag and wetted it. She moved and moved his hair and dapped it on the cut. Riggs smiled and let her do it. He smiled more when he smelt her perfume. It smelt like apples and honeysuckles.
"We can't sleep in two different rooms anymore." Mary looked at him.
"Your right, we can't." She moved the rag and looked at it. "Why didn't you stop her?" She asked him.
"I deserved it." He said in a low voice. Mary looked at Riggs with a confused look.
"No, you didn't."
"Yeah I did. Mary I left you alone. You got raped because of me."
"Martin, this was not your fault no matter what Cora says." She told him in a strong voice. Riggs smiled and moved and took her hand.
"I'm sorry Mary." He said. She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek this time.
"It's okay." She sighed, she knew that she was not going to talk him out of thinking it was his fault. "I forgive you." He smiled at her. They walked out of the bathroom.
"You want to sleep here or in your room?" He asked her.
"We can sleep here." She said and moved and got into his bed. She looked over and saw Riggs walk over to the couch.
"You can sleep in the bed with me." She said.
"No, you are an engaged woman. That would make people talk, mainly if Cora sees us." He made point. He laid down on the couch and Mary laid down in his bed. She laid there and all she could smell was him. It smelt like old spice wolfthorn. She smiled and closed her eyes. Riggs looked up at her and smiled.
He was in the garden laying in the grass. He had his eyes closed and so slowly going to sleep. He hear her voice. Riggs opened his eyes and looked at the woman before him. He smiled at her and she smiled back. She leaned down and kissed him, he kissed her back. They kiss broke and he looked into her eyes. He loved those eyes.
"I love you." She said and he smiled and said.
"I love you too, Mary."
Riggs opened his eyes and looked up at Mary who was asleep in his bed. He looked at the fire and then thought about what Roger had said to him.
'You need to stop with flirting with her man.'
Riggs laid his head down and laid there, he didn't sleep for the rest of the night.