Author's Note: Hey guys! Thanks for 8 reviews on my first chapter! ILOVEYOU! Anyway, I'm updating this story today because I'm not going to have internet for a while so I wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about this story or my other ones! Anyway this was 12 pages for this chapter! I hope to get a lot a reviews! :)


Broken Paradise
written by missefron15


Chapter 2

He stared down at his iPhone and decided whether or not to call home. It'd been a long time since he'd called home to New Mexico seeing as he lived almost 1,000 miles away in Los Angeles, CA. He looked up and noticed his co-agents were just doing nothing at their desks.

"Dude, what are you staring at?" his partner in crime asked.

Troy looked up and saw his partner, Chad standing in front of him. "Uh…trying to decide if I want to call home or not."

Chad stared at his best friend while he grabbed a rolling chair and sat in front of him. "It's not going to hurt you to call home one in a while." Chad spoke.

Troy stared at his dark-skinned friend and sighed bringing up the dialer on his iPhone. "Yeah but I haven't spoken to them in a couple months."

"Just dial the damn number." Chad snapped at his friend.

Troy shook his head and decided to go ahead and dial the number. He punched in the numbers and placed it on speaker phone so Chad would know he didn't chicken out. "Hello, Bolton residence, Caroline speaking." Troy heard the voice of his 17 year old little sister.

Troy sighed and then spoke, "Hey Caroline, its Troy."

"Oh my god! Hey stranger! You know it would be nice to hear from you every single day!" his sister screeched into the phone.

Troy laughed and looked at Chad who had a grin on his face as well, "Where is your twin brother?"

Caroline sighed, "I don't know. Probably playing video games in his room."

Troy laughed again, "Put me on speaker so I can talk to everyone."

"Okie Dokie!" Caroline shouted. "MOM! DAD! CADE! COME TO THE PHONE! TROY THE NON-EXSISTANT MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY HAS CALLED!"

"Damn, your sister has some lungs," Chad commented, holding his ears.

Troy smiled, "I know, but I love her anyway."

"Troy, honey is that you!" Troy's mother, Lucille spoke.

Troy smiled, "Yeah mama, it's me."

"Oh goodness! I'm so glad you called! When is my little boy coming home to visit!"

Chad laughed and Troy rolled his eyes. "I don't know Mama; I've got a lot of cases to finish before I can even think to come home."

Lucille Bolton sighed when she heard her oldest son say that. Lucille looked to her husband Jack to say something, "Hey son," Jack spoke.

"Hey dad, how are you?" Troy spoke.

"Good just been busy with the new basketball team," Jack spoke to his son.

Troy laughed, "You getting them in shape? Cade on the team?"

"Yeah I sure am and Cade is the one helping me get them in shape." Jack laughed.

Troy laughed as well along with his father, "That's great dad. I was just calling to make sure everyone was doing good and alright," he told his family.

"Dude, we're fine, stop worrying you big FBI agent." His little brother's comment sneaked into the phone conversation. Troy laughed and looked up to see a few more people were listening in on his phone conversation.

"Hey Cade, what you been up too, little bro?" Troy asked casually.

"Nothing really. School, basketball, work and more basketball." He laughed.

Troy smiled, "That's good, following in your big bro's footsteps I see," he told his little brother.

Cade smirked, "I guess so."

Lucille hit her youngest son, "So Troy, how have you been sweetheart?"

Troy looked around, "Good, busy but good and how about you mom?"

"Oh honey, just been working on the garden in the front yard and oh that reminds me I must stop to see how Rose is doing, poor Rose." Lucille spoke not noticing that she said it in a sad tone to her oldest boy.

Troy sat up right in his chair and held the phone closer to his body, "Mom, is Mrs. Darbus okay?" he asked mentioning his old neighbor/teacher.

Lucille sighed. She didn't want to tell her oldest boy that his ex was no longer around to help her grandmother. It would just make him worry. "I mean she's fine, Troy. She's been working on her new play for the winter musical and just the normal stuff."

Troy could feel that his mother was leaving something out. "Is she still living with Mrs. Darbus?"

Jack looked at his wife and saw that his two children backed away from the phone not wanting to be a part of the conversation anymore when it concerned her.

Lucille sighed, "No, Troy. Gabriella hasn't spoken to Rose in a year or so…no one has seen her really since Henry came into the picture."

"Who is Henry?" Troy asked immediately. He noticed Chad had a pen and some paper and was looking at Troy.

"His name is Henry Marshall. He is a surgeon at the hospital Gabriella works at. When she started there, they started to date and she brought him home a few times and introduced us to him…" Lucille trailed off. Troy looked to Chad seeing if he wrote down the name Henry Marshall, which he did, and continued to talk to his mother.

"Why did you trail off mom?"

Lucille sighed, "Troy, it's not like Gabriella to stop talking to Rose. You and I both know that is her only family. She is alone without Rose. Henry…he didn't seem like an okay guy. He seemed…constricted."

Troy sighed, "Would you like me to look into this guy, Ma?"

Lucille smiled, "Yes…and one more thing…"

"Anything for you Ma," Troy spoke noticing the agents backed out of his conversation somewhat.

"Check out Gabriella. Something isn't right, honey."

Troy sighed once again and nodded, "I will, tell Dad, Cade and Caroline I love them and I'll talk to you soon."

"I will. It was good to hear from you Troy."

"You too Ma. Love you. Bye." He spoke.

"Love you too." And she hung up. Lucille looked to Jack and he gave her a pointed look. "What?"

"I don't think it's right to have Troy snooping into Gabriella's life." Jack spoke, not noticing that Caroline and Cade were hiding by the stairs.

Lucille sighed, "Jack, Gabriella was a part of our lives. She is like a daughter to me."

"I know Lucy, but she and Troy broke up. I'm not trying to be a jackasss, but she's living her own life now. We have to let her go." He spoke.

Lucille sighed, "I still think there is something wrong, Jack."

Troy hung up the phone and saw that Chad was looking at him, "What?"

Chad looked at his best friend and gave him a look, "Who is Gabriella?"

Troy sighed. When he first started FBI training him and Chad became close but he never told Chad about Gabriella. He didn't want anyone to know about her. She was his life and he was miserable when he broke up with her, but she was going to have a good life and so was he. "She's my ex-girlfriend."

"Why is she your ex and not your now girlfriend?" Chad smirked.

"I turned 21 and got accepted to train for the FBI, Chad. She was 18 and got accepted to Medical school. I wasn't going to hold her back from her dream of being a doctor. I told her we needed some space and then we never really talked again."

"Wow…how long has it been?" Chad asked.

"Seven years." Troy stated simply.

Chad made a low whistling sound, "Wow. No sex in 7 years, man."

Troy rolled his eyes, "Man, that's not important-"he got cut off.

"Dude it is important." Chad declared.

Troy smirked and shook his head, "No it's not. Anyway, check out that Henry guy for me would you?"

Chad nodded and stood up. He was about to walk away when he turned back towards his best friend, "What about this Gabriella girl? Your mom said to check into her. You want me to do that?"

Troy looked at him for a moment and shook his head, "Nah, it's my mess. I have to clean that part up."

Chad shrugged his shoulders, "Whatever you say man," he said and walked away.

Troy sat there for a while before turning back to his desk and working on a case. He would put the Gabriella case on hold and work on that later. She was his past…not present.


Rose Darbus was never late for school. But for some reason her alarm didn't go off and she was rushing around like a mad woman. She saw that it was already 8:50 when she reached school. She was five minutes late. As she reached her drama class she saw her assistant had already started, thank god.

"Oh thank you Ms. Evans," Rose spoke.

The young blonde woman turned around when she heard her name being called and smiled at the older woman. "It's not a problem, Mrs. Darbus." She spoke.

"Good morning class," Rose spoke loudly and sat her things down on top of her desk and turned to see her students bored out of their minds. She turned to Ms. Evans and looked at her for some back-up.

The blonde turned her attention towards the class and called it to order. "Attention!" she hollered and it got everyone's attention.

Rose laughed, "Thank you Sharpay," she spoke using Ms. Evans' first name.

"Anytime Mrs. Darbus," Sharpay spoke and went to her assistant desk right by Rose's.

"Anyway, I'm sorry for being late, my alarm didn't go off." Rose explained to her students.

One of her students raised their hands, "Mr. Bolton?" she questioned the young Bolton answering his raised hand.

"I have some news for you about my brother. My mom wanted me to let you know." He told her. Rose looked at the young man and saw that everyone was curious.

"Uh class, take about ten minutes to go over the new play we will be studying on page 117 in your books," Rose spoke and motioned for the young Bolton to come forward.

Rose sat at her desk as he came towards her, "Good morning Cade." Rose spoke using the 17 year olds first name.

"His Mrs. Darbus," Cade spoke.

"How are your mother and father? I have been so busy with the winter musical that I haven't been able to stop by." Rose told him.

"They're good. Troy called home last night to see how everyone was doing and he especially asked about you." Cade told her.

Rose smiled at the thought of Cade's older brother, Troy Bolton. "Why is he asking about me? I haven't talked to him in almost two years now. He's been so busy in Los Angeles."

Cade grabbed an extra chair and sat beside Mrs. Darbus. "Well he was talking to everyone on speaker phone and mom mentioned that she needed to stop by your house to see how you're doing and Troy asked why, and what was wrong with you."

Rose sighed knowing what Lucille, Cade and Troy's mother probably told him. "She told him about Gabriella, didn't she?"

Cade sighed, "Yes and no. Mom said that you'd been busy with school work and that you were always lonely nowadays and that's when Troy asked about Gabi. He asked where she was and mom said she didn't know."

Rose sighed, "I wish my Gabriella talk to me."

Cade looked at his teacher, "Have you tried to call her?"

Rose nodded, "Her number was changed. I don't know what I ever did to that girl. I just took care of her when her parents wouldn't."

Cade nodded, "I know. She'll call you one day."

Rose smiled at Cade's optamissiom, "Thank you for telling me about Troy. Next time he calls, tell him to call me and talk to me himself. I would love to hear from the boy that stole my granddaughter's heart."

Cade laughed, "I will." Cade stood up and went back to his seat and Rose looked over at Sharpay.

"Sharpay, how are you today?" Rose asked.

The blonde looked at the older woman with a smile, "I'm good." She spoke and looked down at her phone and texted someone. "My brother just cancelled on me. Something big came up at the hospital."

Rose looked at Sharpay, "Your brother works at the hospital?" she asked interested.

Sharpay nodded, "Yes, ma'am. He wants to be a peds surgeon."

Rose looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "A what surgeon?"

Sharpay laughed, "Ryan wants to work with the kids and be a surgeon for them. Hey isn't your granddaughter a surgeon?"

Rose sighed, "She's a resident at the hospital. She wants to be a general surgeon."

Sharpay nodded, "Maybe Ryan knows her. He's a 5th year."

"My Gabriella is a 3rd year."

"I can ask him when he comes for dinner tomorrow night since he cancelled on me tonight." Sharpay suggested.

Rose smiled, "Would you? I have spoken to my granddaughter in over a year."

Sharpay looked at the old woman with such sadness. Her greying hair but beautiful colored clothing made her an amazing woman and teacher. She just couldn't believe that her granddaughter would just stop talking to her. "Of course, I will."

"Thank you so much, Sharpay."

"Anytime, Rose."


"Why did I agree to this?" the annoyed voice of the dirty blonde spoke.

They were sitting at a table in the cafeteria far away from everyone where no one could hear what they were going to be talking about. "Because she wants this very much and you've been here two years longer than us." Taylor spoke.

He sighed and looked at the light golden skin of the girl that sat in front of him and had her arms crossed, "First off, what is going on that I can't tell anyone and I just have to agree?" he asked.

She looked up and her brown eyes met his teal ones. "Ryan…I need out of my relationship and this is why." She spoke rolling up her sleeves.

Ryan looked on and was shocked at the dark bruises all over her arms. "Dr. Marshall did this to you?" he asked in shock.

Gabriella looked at him and nodded. "There are a lot more where that came from. He's not a nice person and I will get fired if I end things so I need you to do this for me."

Gabriella looked to Taylor hoping she will finish telling him what she needed to be done. Taylor looked at her and nodded and then looked towards Ryan. "So Ryan…me and you are going to kill her."

Ryan's eyes widened and looked at the two women like they were crazy. "No way." He spoke through gritted teeth.

Taylor sighed, "Ryan, please. We're not really going to kill her. We're going to put Sodium Thiopental into her system and then we have to start her heart back up and then put air into her lungs. I can start her heart, since I am going into Cardio and you can do the lungs. I know you know how to do this. That is why Gabi picked you."

Ryan sighed and looked at the two girls. "I don't know you two. This can kill you, Gabriella."

Gabriella sighed, "It's my only way."

"What are you going to do when everyone thinks you're dead and we bring you back to life?" Ryan asked her point blank.

Gabriella knew what she was going to do. She'd been thinking about it ever since she told Taylor what she wanted to do to get away. She needed this to work. "I'm going to go find someone in Los Angeles."

Taylor looked at her. "You didn't tell me that part, Gabriella."

She sighed, "I know and I'm sorry. But I have someone in Los Angeles that can help me…I hope."

Ryan looked at her and shook his head. If we're doing this, we're doing it in an hour. I don't have time anywhere else. I can get the drug but ya'll need to create a scene when I enter it into your system, Gabi. We need it to look like you collapsed."

Taylor looked at Ryan. "What if we made it look like Henry killed her?"

Gabriella looked at her friend, "What do you mean?"

"You and Henry can start a fight. He can hit you really hard, but prior to the fight, Ryan will put the drug in your system. It takes a couple minutes for it to hit your whole system. I think it will work." Taylor spoke.

Gabriella nodded. It sounded like a really good plan. "I can make him angry…"

Ryan sighed, "I hope this freaking plan works because you only have minutes before you drop dead."

Gabriella nodded, "It'll work."

Taylor looked at Ryan, "We have an hour. Let's get to work."


She breathed in and out while she waited for Henry to meet her in the resident locker room. He said he'd be here in a few minutes; he'd just gotten out of a heart transplant surgery. She looked over to her right and saw that Ryan was filling the syringe with the drug and getting it ready.

She heard her phone go off and saw that it was Henry.

Be there in a minute.

"Ryan, hurry! Henry will be here any minute." She shouted at him.

Ryan sighed and saw Taylor standing by the locker room door looking for him. He walked over towards the fragile girl and pulled her sleeve up to find a vein. He cringed at all the dark bruises. "He's coming," Taylor voice spoke. Ryan took this chance. He stuck the needle in her arm and pushed the drug inside of her. He pulled the needle out and looked at her.

"You have at least three minutes. We'll save you. Make it big, girl." He told her. Him and Taylor grabbed all their stuff and rushed to the showers behind the lockers so that Henry wouldn't spot them in the same room as them.

Gabriella looked at the clock and twenty second had gone by. She heard the door open and there came in Henry. "What is so important, Gabriella?"

"I texted Nana this morning." She blurted out.

Henry's green eyes flared as he strode towards her and grabbed her upper arms. "You did what!" he yelled at her.

"I texted my Nana this morning. I want to talk to her, Henry. You are not my family anymore. She is." She yelled in his face. She could feel her muscles contracting and her legs wanting to give out. Her head felt light and she just wanted to sleep.

Henry grew furious. How dare she do this to him! "That's it, bitch." He threw her on the ground and kicked the shit out of her until she couldn't breathe. "You are a filthy bitch! I knew I should have taken that job offer in Washington and dragged you with me! I knew it! YOU BITCH!" he then reached down and punched the hell out of her face.

By now she was giving out. She felt like she couldn't breathe. She felt like she wanted to die. She was feeling at ease…

When he kicked her one last time…she passed out cold. "You bitch!" he screamed. He was breathing heavy and his face was red as can be from the hatred he had for this woman. He looked down and noticed she wasn't making any sounds. "Gabriella get the fuck up." He yelled.

She didn't move.

"Gabriella!" he screamed. He kicked her again and her body turned upright. He bent down to feel her pulse and there wasn't one. "Oh shit." He cursed.

She was dead. He'd killed her. He could lose his license for this. He had to come up with a plan. He looked up at the locker room door and knew that if he bolted, he could just pretend that he was never here. That's it. He grabbed his things and bolted out of the room.

Taylor and Ryan heard the locker room door open and close. The silence was unbearable. They rounded the corner and saw her body.

"Oh my god, he beat her!" Taylor shouted.

Ryan cursed under his breath. "It's been three minutes, Taylor. We only have one minute to get her heart started."

Taylor looked at Ryan. "Ryan, we need to call the ER doctors in here."

Ryan shook his head, "We don't have time, Taylor." He snapped.

Taylor shook her head at him. "No, we do." Taylor went to the phone that hung on the wall and dialed the number to the ER desk.

"Hello, this is Daisy," a soft voice spoke.

"Daisy! This is Dr. McKessie. I have a 25 year old female, badly beaten and not breathing in the resident locker room of the 4th floor." Ryan shook his head and started to begin CPR on Gabriella.

"Okay Dr. McKessie, I will send someone up," she spoke in a hurried tone now.

"Hurry. The girl is Dr. Montez." Taylor spoke hanging up the phone.

"Bad move, McKessie." Ryan snapped as he continued CPR.

"Ryan, this plan went all wrong. I didn't think he would badly beat her."

"Yeah well this whole plan was insane in the beginning." He snapped.

After a few minutes and no response from Gabriella, Ryan gave up. He beat her bad and it might have given her heart out along with the medicine he'd given her. "Taylor I really think she's dead."

Taylor's brown eyes widened. "No…this plan was supposed to work, Ryan!"

Ryan's eyes grew furious. "Well it fucking didn't! It didn't work Taylor! I didn't want to do this!"

"Then you shouldn't have agreed, Ryan!" she screamed back at him.

"Ya'll gave me no choice in the matter!" he screamed back at her.

"Woah! What is with the screaming!" a voice spoke.

Taylor and Ryan saw some doctors rush towards Gabriella's side and pulled out some equipment to try and start her heart back up. "What happened here?" One of the doctors asked.

"We came in here and found her like this," Taylor rushed out.

The doctor, Dr. Hayes, looked at the residents and nodded. "Page Dr. Marshall up here. Her heart isn't beating."

And so Dr. Marshall was paged. He never showed up.

After twenty minutes of trying to start her heart without the best cardio surgeon's help, Gabriella Hope Montez was pronounced dead at 2:49 P.M., December 12th, 2010. Two days before her 26th birthday.

Taylor McKessie watched as the corner came up from the morgue to pack her body into a black bag. Tears poured form her eyes. This wasn't supposed to happen this way. She was supposed to wake up when she and Ryan helped her.

Ryan looked at Taylor and wrapped in arm around her. "I'm sorry Taylor. But let me tell you this. When they do an autopsy, they're going to find that drug in her system. They are going to think she committed suicide, or someone killed her after they beat her to death."

Taylor looked at Ryan, "We killed her, Ryan."

Ryan shook her head, "No we didn't. We set her free."


Rose Darbus looked out the window of East High School as she watched her class in groups finish their drama project. "Mrs. Darbus?" she heard Sharpay's voice.

Rose turned to see Sharpay holding her phone out. "Your phone beeped." Rose took her phone from Sharpay and noticed it was an unfamiliar number. She opened the text message she received and she gasped at what she saw.

I'm sorry, Nana. I love you.

"Mrs. Darbus!" Sharpay exclaimed.

Rose looked up with tears pouring out of her hazel eyes, "Sharpay, it's my granddaughter, Gabriella. She texted me."

Sharpay smiled, "Text her back!"

Rose settled down before texting her back.

Gabriella? Honey? Is that you my darling?

Rose waiting ten minutes and didn't hear anything back from her. "Maybe she's busy." She stated and saw that Sharpay was nodding too.

"Maybe," Sharpay spoke.

A minute later, Rose's phone rang. It was Gabriella's number. "She's calling me." Rose commented.

"Answer it, Mrs. Darbus. It's time to talk to her again." Sharpay spoke.

Rose smiled and touched answer on her phone. "Hello? Gabriella, is that you?"

"Uh…Is this Gabriella's Nana?" an unfamiliar voice spoke.

Rose looked confused. "Yes this is she, who may I ask is this?"

A sigh was heard on the other line, "My name is Taylor McKessie. I worked with your daughter…Uh, Miss Nana…"

"Worked? My name is Rose."

"I'm sorry Rose…Gabriella was pronounced dead at 2:49 P.M. today."

Rose's heart dropped to her stomach. She glanced at the clock. It was 3:30 P.M. Her baby was dead. Tears poured from her face. "She's dead?"

Sharpay looked shocked at what Mrs. Darbus said. She grabbed her phone and texted her brother.

RYAN! DID YOU WORK WITH GABRIELLA MONTEZ!

Rose looked on with tears streaming down, "Yes, she died. Me and a fellow worker found her dead in the resident locker room badly beaten. They tried for twenty minutes to start her heart but nothing worked. I'm so sorry for your loss." Taylor spoke.

Sharpay looked down and saw that her brother texted her back.

I found her dead.

Sharpay's heart dropped into her stomach.

Rose dropped her phone and steadied herself on the window sill. "Sharpay finish my class. I will be stepping out. I have a few phone calls to make." And Rose Darbus left the class room leaving everyone confused to what was going on.

Sharpay cleared her throat. "Mrs. Darbus will not be returning for the rest of the day. She just found out her granddaughter died today."

Little did Sharpay know, Caroline Bolton was sitting right there in the middle of the classroom and felt like dying. She stood from her seat and left the classroom after hearing everyone calling for her to come back and ran out into the hall to find Mrs. Darbus. She found her sitting on the steps in the corridor.

"Rose?" she spoke softly.

Rose lifted her head and saw Caroline. "What do I do now?" she cried out.

Caroline came and wrapped her arms around Rose and held her. "We cry, Rose. We cry."