*As promised a new chapter! Merry Christmas everyone =). I didn't realize how much you guys enjoyed this story I'll try to update more frequently, but RL just doesn't want me too. That and I had the serious case of "writers block" and my growing Bamon obsession (shame on me to put Ramy on the back burner). Alas my gift to you Chapter 4. Thanks so much for the positive reviews.*

PS-I STill OWN NOTHING

Amy Are You Okay? Are You Okay Amy…

Ricky

Ricky and Adrian pulled up to creepy abandoned building number 2 in her book. She glanced over to a surprisingly quiet Ricky who glared out the window at there surroundings. She took a deep breath and reached over to grab his hand.

"You ready?" she asked somewhat unsure.

"When it comes to my family I'm always ready." he replied giving her hand a gentle squeeze.

She gave a small smirk as they headed out the car into the fire. The got to the door of the building and as if on cue it creaked open.

"This would be a great place for a hunted house." Adrian mused.

Ricky rolled his eyes at her comment and walked into the vacant place. Always Adrian to joke in such a serious situation.

"I really think you should call Ben, make sure everything's alright on the home front. You know with Amy and the kids since you don't want to talk to her yet." Adrian suggested.

"Dre…" Ricky began in protest.

"Really Ricky I have a bad feeling we're missing something." she said seriously.

"Look if you're worried about the treasure than don't be its protected." he shrugged.

"Are you sure because I know we'll supposedly give it back for James no doubt, but they can't have what's in there. Its dangerous for us all."

"I promise I put it in a safe place. No one can get into it they'll have to get to my heart first." he smirked.

"And what's that suppose to mean?" she asked puzzled.

"You hear that?" Ricky whispered to a dumbfounded Adrian.

"Nope, you're the only dog whisperer here bud." she shrugged shaking her head at his change in subject.

"Let's head up stairs I could have sworn I heard foot steps." he hummed softly in her ear. She gave a productive smile as they made their way up the staircase. For it to be a little after 4 it was strangely dark in this area.

Ricky grabbed Adrian's hand and pulled her close to him as the voices got louder and clearer. He pulled out his gun and clicked off the safety. Adrian did the same, he lifted an eyebrow to her asking if she was ready and she gave a quick nod as they proceeded forward.

As they reached the door of one of the rooms the voices became more distinct and the argument more vivid.

"I know you had something to do with this!" the woman hissed swinging the bud of a gun to the man's already battered face.

"I told you I don't know anything you sorry excuse of a captor." he spit out venomously.

Ricky dropped his weapon and furrowed his eyebrow as Adrian stood by equally baffled.

"Mom… dad?"

Amy

Amy opened her mouth, but quickly closed it. It was as if she seen a ghost.

"Guess you weren't expecting to ever see me again huh?" the handsome stranger smirked.

A ghost alright Amy thought, of boyfriends past if you could even call him that.

"Jimmy." she said more meekly than she intended.

"In the flesh babe." he smiled. "Much to your dismay I suppose." he added.

Amy took a moment to gain her composure. Her relationship with Jimmy was nowhere near normal. It hadn't even happened under normal pretenses. He was a rebound in every since of the word. She was hurting from Ricky's lies so she used him to get back at Ricky. Not intentionally of course; they had been friends for years and yes she was aware of the crush he had on her, but she never entertained it. Not until her marriage had started going downhill. What started as innocent conversations and him building back up her confidence, ended in a drunken sex stupor after she caught Ricky lip-locked with Adrian. This was before Adrian fell in love with Ben of course, which meant she took the down pour of their marriage and ran with it. Any who she got trashed at the local pub and went looking for trouble. She regretted it as soon as it was over and disappeared from Jimmy's bed and subsequently his home. Ricky found out about the tryst and "took care" of Jimmy although one of the hit men were sloppy and Jimmy survived, only to be left in a vegetative state.

"You-you're not a…" Amy trailed off wide eyed.

"A vegetable." he deadpanned. "Nope let's just say it was a miracle…for me of course." he grinned wickedly.

He stepped past her into the penthouse and she reluctantly closed the door behind him.

"I take it you received the call." he exclaimed eyeing the bunched up rug and the fallen phone.

Amy gasped feeling her heart stop. "Jimmy. No, what did you do?"

"Well my dear." he said turning to face her arms crossed and smirk in place. "I did what I had to."

Amy felt the tears rising in her eyes surprisingly not much from fear, but from anger.

"Jimmy please tell me you don't have anything to do with James being gone." she pleaded.

He stared at her for a moment too long before cocking his head to the side. "Okay I won't" he shrugged nonchalantly.

"Damn it Jimmy!" Amy yelled in frustration. "How could you do this! You should have just left." she said through clinched teeth.

"Leave?" he asked incredulously. "And let him have everything that belongs to me? I think not." he hissed.

Amy exhaled a deep breath that came out a languished sigh. As much as she dreaded this discussion she knew it was inevitable. Truth was if it wasn't for his "accident" they would have been had this discussion. When Ricky first found out about her mistake he was furious he had ordered out that his men take care of Jimmy, make him pay for touching Ricky's property, for touching her. They had tried to work things out, but that was short lived. It wasn't until a month later when Amy found out she was pregnant that Ricky went crazy, deranged. He couldn't fathom her "his Amy" ever being with anyone else, and the thought of Jimmy possibly being the baby's father had him completely livid. He forwent all former plans and delivered the near fatal beating himself. He made sure Jimmy suffered Amy had never seen that side of Ricky and she was afraid not only for Jimmy, but for Ricky. She couldn't bear if he was caught and arrested for malicious assault and battery. She couldn't live with the guilt of that or the guilt she felt for Jimmy being in that predicament. It was her fault she had known him since childhood they had been friends so to look at his parents and lie had killed her, but she'd do whatever it took to protect Ricky. Afterwards they had been strained. So consumed with their own guilt and fidelities that they decided to stay separated figure things out.

"Jimmy." she started out softly. "James isn't yours."

She saw his eyes go from menacing to hurt, but back to crazy in a matter of .5 seconds.

He let out a cynical laugh. "Why would I believe you anyway. You've showed where your loyalty lies even after he hurt you. You would love nothing more than to pass my child off as his." he sneered.

"Jimmy I'm sorry how everything happened I regret it everyday the pain I caused you, him, and myself. But James is not yours I was already pregnant when we did what we did-"

"Had sex?"

"Yes." she said bashfully. "I was already 2 and half months the doctor confirmed the day Ricky went after you. After I found out what happened to you I cried. I was angry at him for what he did to you, but I love him I can't apologize for that."

"So Ricky doesn't get punished because you love him. Yet innocent people do because you don't. Do you hear how stupid you sound Amy?" he chastised.

"He doesn't do those things anymore he's done with mob life." she stated firmly.

This garnered another laugh from Jimmy. "You're a fool to believe that Amy. Then again you never had much sense when it came to him.."

"Please. Please just stop this bring him back and leave go far away and never come back. Please Jimmy if Ricky finds out you're in this I won't be able to save you this time." she pleaded.

Jimmy looked at her as though he was pondering his options, her words.

He shrugged and pulled out a handkerchief. "None of this matters Amy. As fun as this reunion was and you look beautiful as ever by the way. Its not what I came for and I have a deadline I'm running by. And you my dear have something that belongs to me."

He grinned and snatched 24 carat diamond encrusted locket and key from around Amy's neck. It was a present Ricky gave her a while back when he first started coming into money that Amy thought was from the restaurants. He always said it represented his heart and that she had both it and the key to it. She had tried to give up wearing it but after years of it being there it felt wrong when it was gone. Just like now.

"Give it back! That belongs to me." she cried.

"Sure." he said uncaring as he moved closer to her hanky still in hand. "But inside what it unlocks is mine." Amy heard him murmur before the handkerchief covered her face causing everything to become dark.

He let Amy's body fall to the ground as he made his way towards the back of the penthouse. To one of the many closets in encased. He went to the very back of the one in the master bedroom and peeled back a piece of rug. He took the key on the chain and unlocked the medium sized locker. At first he saw nothing, but un marked bills and spare jewels. He moved over a photo frame and found what he was looking for.

"Bingo." he smiled.

Ricky

The two adults stared at their offspring in slight embarrassment.

"Ricky what are you doing here?" Nora asked her son suspiciously.

"Mom what are you doing?" he said motioning to his estranged father who was tied to a wooden chair.

"I'm feeling uncomfortable." Adrian sing-songed leaning against the door frame.

Bob remained silent as he looked from Ricky to Nora waiting for her explanation.

"Well I thought your father may know who took James and where they might be." she said honestly dropping her own 9mm.

"And I'll tell you as I told her I don't know anything about what happened. Didn't know the kid was missing until she kidnapped me." he mumbled.

"Technically you can't be kidnapped seeing as though you're a grown ass man." Nora shot back.

Ricky shook his head in embarrassment over his psycho parents it was like being a teenager all over again. His crazy drunk dad who loved gambling more than his family, and his sociopath mother who did anything to save face. The divorce was the best thing that happened to him in 9th grade. He acquired a rebellious streak that made him popular with the girls and feared by the guys.

"Look. I don't have time for this bullshit." he groaned. "I gotta find my son. Let's go Adrian."

"Yea I'm starting to think this whole thing is some sort of wild goose chase." she sighed.

At that something clicked in Ricky's mind. His face went blank as he raced out of the room down the stairs frantically dialing Amy's number. Adrian followed behind him "what's going on? Was it something I said?"

"Wait you guys are just gonna leave me here with this lunatic." Bob cried after the twosome as Nora glared at him.

"Come on Amy." Ricky whispered into the receiver. "Come on baby pick-up."

He sighed as he made his way to the truck slamming the door as Amy voice rang in his ear telling him to leave a voicemail. He gave Adrian a wild stare as he tried to harden his voice from panic to leave a message that would startle his wife.

"Hey its me. I know you're probably pissed, and don't want to talk. But this is important Amy. Are you okay? Are you okay Amy?"

Okay we're getting more incite to the past months when our favorite couple were on the outs so to prevent confusion i'll break it down.

Ricky dabbled with Adrian while him and Amy were separated after many shot downs from Amy.

Amy caught them the one time got drunk hooked up with Jimmy. She found out she was pregnant and told Ricky about how it may be Jimmys. Ricky never the patient one tried to "take care" of Jimmy while Amy went to the appointment. Amy caught up to him stopped him his men was supposed to fix things but that ended awry.

Amy had had a weak moment half way into the separation and her and Ricky had got it on lol but she regretted it told him it could never happen again. So she was pregnant from then but didn't know. Oh and yea I made Bob not so bad and Ricky's family crazy. Don't hate Amy and Ricky yet they'll find their way back sorry for the long note hope you enjoyed more to come on my next off day =)