Chapter Nine

Vegas 4:00 p.m.

Friday April 25th, 2007

It was a hot day in Vegas, a cool 105 in the shade. Most people were cursing the weather, but two people in Vegas weren't.

"Will, do you want a glass of Tea? I just made some." Aisha asked as she poked her head into his office. Billy was at his computer, listening to music and IM'ing.

"Huh, oh yeah. That would be great, thanks Alyssa. Hey, what are you going to be doing later?" Billy asked as he got up and followed her into the kitchen of their house. It was very nice and large, and very modern.

"Don't know, why?" Aisha asked as she poured him a glass and handed it to him then picked up her glass that was sitting on the counter. She then went to the refrigerator and started pulling out stuff to make cookies with.

"I was thinking that we could hang out and maybe go see a movie and get dinner. We haven't had the time in awhile." Billy said as he leaned against the counter as Aisha grabbed a bowl and started making cookies.

"Yeah, that would be great, what do you want to watch?" Aisha asked as she worked, mixing the cookie dough together.

"I don't know. Uh, oh, how about that new Mark Walberg movie. Uh… the Shooter, I hear that it's suppose to be good?" Billy said as he got two cookie sheets out for the cookies.

"Yeah, that would be great. And he is really hot, to." Aisha said, making Billy laugh and smile at her.

"Yeah. So where to you want to go to eat at?" Billy asked as Aisha started mixing the cookie dough together a final time before she started putting them on the cookie sheets.

"Oh, how about that new Italian place that opened up close to the station?" Aisha said as Billy grabbed a spoon and started helping her get the cookies on the cookie sheets.

"Yeah, I hear that's a great place. So, say about eight?" Billy said as the last of space on the cookie sheets were filled up. Then they popped them in the oven.

"Yeah, sounds great. Now, get out of my kitchen and let me bake my cookies, and I might even let you have some." Aisha said, laughing as she pushed a protesting Billy out of the kitchen, cookie dough on his lip from sneaking bites. Billy went back to his office laughing as he did.

Vegas 4:48 p.m.

Billy looked up as Aisha came in with a plate full of cookies and another large glass of Tea, she sat them down on his desk.

"Hey, cookies are ready, thought that you might like some and some more Tea. So what are you doing?" Aisha said as she looked at his computer.

"Thanks. I'm just looking around, I'm running a search on Zach, to see if they have found out who killed him." Billy said, then the phone rang and Billy answered it.

"Will James speaking, how my I help you?" Billy asked as he turned from the computer.

"Billy, Jason. I'm sorry Bro, but Kim she showed up here in New York. She had photos of us… all of us. Some of them… she shouldn't have had. Cause… I now know things about yours and Greg's relationship that I didn't really want to know about. Bro she… she had shots of you and Greg, Kat and her girl, hell she even had shots of Trini and Eric. All of them were when they were having sex. She even had a couple of… of Adam in the shower, you know. We have to run, I'm sorry." Jason said with a sigh. Billy sat there and shook his head.

"What… Jason, are you sure? I mean, me and Aisha both have lives here that…" Billy asked as he looked at Aisha, she had sat down on the couch that was against one of the walls in the office. She started shaking her head as Billy talked to Jason.

"Yeah, I know. But I just don't see away out of this. We have to run. See you in three days, ok Bro?" Jason said, the worry and strain in his voice.

"Yeah. Three days, see you then, Jason." Billy said then hung up the phone, he turned to look at Aisha, tears were rolling down her cheek as she sat on the couch.

"I'm sorry Aisha." Billy said as he got up and walked over to her.

"I know. God, Billy, just when I thought things were going great… so now we pack up and take off. Then what?" Aisha asked as she stood up along with Billy.

"Then we make new lives, I guess." Billy said as he looked around his office, thinking about what he want and needed to take with him. It took them two hours to get packed, then they stood looking around what had once been their home.

"I'm going to miss this place. God, Bobby… Billy… I don't want to leave him." Aisha said as she looked around the front room, looking at the photos that were hung on the wall showing their friends that they had made here in Vegas.

"I know, Aisha, I don't want to leave Greg either. But you heard Jason, Kim is not going to leave us alone." Billy said, as they took one last look around then walked out the door to a large SUV waiting in the driveway. They had it loaded up with everything that they were taking.

"Yeah, God Damm Bitch. Why in the hell can't she just leave Tommy and Jason alone?" Aisha asked as they got in and Billy turned on the SUV.

"I don't know, Aisha, I wish that I did." Billy said as he backed the SUV out of the drive and they took off. Inside the house, two notes lay on the coffee table in the front room. And in Billy's office, a news article about a recent conviction in the case that had been open since the murder.

L.A 3:48 p.m.

Friday April 25th, 2007

Adam sat on his surfboard looking out over the ocean, listening as the waves crashed around him. He was happy for the first time in twelve yrs on the ran, and was thinking that it was time to stop running. His watch beeped at him, it was time to go back in. He turned and paddled in to a wave, standing up, he rode the wave in. He was smiling as he ran up to his towel and laid down for a second then he got up and started cleaning his board and drying off. His cell phone rang as he was picking up his stuff.

"Hey, Master's, what's up?" Adam said as he walked to the house that he was staying at for the weekend.

"Adam, it's Jason. Kim found me in New York, she had photo's of everybody. Some of them were… they were of them having sex, or taking a shower. Adam, she… she said that if I didn't hand Tommy over to her that she was going to kill one of the other's. She said that I had to pick, which one of them that she was going to kill. We… we have to run." Jason said, a sigh on his breath as Adam stopped cold in his tracks, looking up at the house that was in front of him. Knowing that he was about to destroy his life, and his boyfriends lives at the same time.

"Damm, this… I'll see you when get I there then." Adam said, as he started back up to the house, the smile that he had been wearing now gone from his face.

"Yeah, see you." Jason said then hung up. Adam rushed up and into the house, he had to be gone by the time that Jesse and Steve got home from work or he would never be able to leave. He went to his apartment and grabbed his stuff, tearing thru the room grabbing everything that he needed. He looked around. A sad smile on his face as he thought about the good times that they had had in this apartment, then he turned and left, a tear slipping down his face as he left his life and new family behind.

London 1:48 a.m.

Saturday 26th, 2007

The ringing of a phone broke the silences that hung over an apartment.

"Hello, Kelly Wilson's, how my I help you?" asked a quiet female voice with a light Irish brogue.

"Uh, is Kelly there, this is Jay Mason. A friend of hers from the States and I really need to talk to her." Jason said with a sense of dread in his heart.

"Uh, no. I am sorry to… to have to tell you this but Kelly was killed yesterday… well Thursday, in a auto accident. I'm very sorry, I had thought that we had called all of her friends." the woman said, tears flowing down her face as she held the phone in a death grip.

"Kelly's… Kelly's dead. Oh god. Oh my god. Uh, this is Amanda, right. Amanda Johnson, you're… you were… her girlfriend, right?" Jason asked as his mind raced, trying to think and drive at the same time. He looked over at Tanya; she had put on a pair of headphones and was staring out of the SUV as they left New York.

"Uh, yeah. How did you know that?" Amanda asked worried as she had never heard of this Jay Mason. Kelly had never talked about him.

"Kelly told me all about you when she first met you in Dublin. Amanda, she… she really loved you. Amanda, Kelly she ha… had a lockbox, I know that this is asking a lot of you. But I need you to get it and open it up. I need some of the things in there taken care of." Jason said, his mind going over everything that Kat had told him about Amanda.

"Uh, I'm not sure I should that I should mess with that stuff. At lest till her wil… will is read." Amanda said as she stumbled over the word 'will'.

"Amanda, look. Kelly… Kelly ha… had some things that need to be dealt with. She trusted you, so just please get the lockbox and open it." Jason begged as he thought about what could and would happen if certain things were found in Kat's lockbox.

"Ok, what is it that you want dealt with?" Amanda asked as she got up and grabbed Kat's lockbox from their bedroom and went back into the front room and the couch that she had been sitting on. She opened it and looked inside.

"There should be three folders, and a leather bag. The folders need to be destroyed, burned or sheared, it doesn't matter which. The leather bag need's to be sent to a P.O. box. I need it overnighted, found out how much and put a note in with the bag and I'll wire you the money directly." Jason said, all businesses.

"Ok, what about the rest of the stuff that is in here?" Amanda asked as she picked up a photo of Kat, she was standing on a diving platform about to dive in.

"Kelly left a note, telling what she wanted done with her stuff. Follow it, and remember, she loved you." Jason said then he hung up with out saying goodbye. Amanda sat staring at the phone for a second then she hung up the phone and looked at the lockbox. She started pulling everything out of the lockbox when an envelope with her name fell to the ground. She picked it up and shakily leaned back in to the couch. She opened it and slowly started reading it.

'Dear Amanda, it's funny, you just left to go and see Megan and Sara's new baby. You told me that one day you hope to hold our own child, and I had to smile while my heart was breaking. If you are reading this, one of two things has happened, I've died and Jay Mason called you and told you to destroy the three folders that are in the lockbox. Or we are sitting together and I'm letting you read this… I hope that it's the second one. But I don't think it will be. Mandy, I love you with all my heart, and… I've been lying to you since the day I met you. My name isn't Kelly Wilson and I'm not from Broome, Australia. I'm from Sydney and my name is Katherine Hillard, my parents are still alive, and the last that I knew… I have three older brothers. I know that you can'…'

Miami 7:48 p.m..

Friday April 25th, 2007

The Dojo was quiet as a man and a woman sat meditating, facing each other. The quiet of the night was shattered by the ringing of a cell phone. The man pulled it free of the pants that he was wearing.

"Thorten, talk to me." the man said as he got up, the woman just smiled as she watched him.

"Tommy, she showed up in New York at my hotel. She had photos of everybody. Some of them were… very private stuff, Bro. She made her usually threats, then… she asked what would the police think of a Texas Ranger that had sleep with a kid. She had a photo of you, Justin and me in bed together, and none of us had cloths on. It's pretty good, would get you and me lynched before anyone would have the chance to really take a look at it. We have to run man, I'm sorry." Jason said a slight bit of fear and anger in his voice.

"It's ok, Bro. We knew this might happen one day. It sucks, but… I don't see a way out this." Tommy said as he looked over at Trini, who was staring at him in shock. She knew what was going on.

"I know. I'll see you in three day's, ok Bro?" Jason said with a sigh.

"Yeah. See you in three day's, Bro." Tommy said then hung up his cell phone, he turned and looked at Trini. He opened his arms to her and she got up and rushed into them.

"Tommy… what's going on?" Trini asked as Tommy hugged her tight not wanting to let go.

"Kim showed up in New York, at Jason's hotel. She had photos of all of us, some very private photos. She then threatened Jason and me with a made up photo of the two of us with Justin. We got go, I'm sorry Trini, but… I can't see a way out of this. We have to leave Miami." Tommy said sighing as he looked around the Dojo that they had built just the year before. Trini just nodded her head and followed him to the house and up to his bedroom. She watched as he grabbed his stuff and started packing what he was going to take.

"Trini, you need to get your stuff together. We need to leave soon." Tommy said as he stopped and looked at her. She was leaning against the door watching him pack.

"Tommy… I'm not going. I'm going to tell Eric that I changed my name and that I ran away from home. I won't tell him anything about you or the others. But… Eric asked me to marry him the other night and… I said yes." Trini said, tears running down her check as she looked at Tommy, who was staring at her in shock.

"Trini… are you sure?" Tommy asked as he walked over to her and pulled her into his arms.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Trini said, nodding into his chest. Tommy sighted then he pulled back a bit.

"You will make the most beautiful bride in the world. And you tell Eric that he had better take care of you or me, Jason, Rocky, Adam, Billy, and Justin will hunt him down and kill him." Tommy said with a sad smile on his face. Trini nodded, tears falling from her eyes in streams.

"Yeah. Now you better hurry, you have to get to the others. You tell them that I love them and that I miss them. An once the coast is clear you e-mail me everybody's new stuff, ok?" Trini said, as she pulled away from Tommy, wiping her eyes, and smiling at him.

"You got it. And you send us pictures of the wedding." Tommy said as he went back to packing. With in a few minutes Tommy was ready to go.

"Well, I guess that… I'll see you." Tommy said as he stood at the front door, his SUV loaded and ready to go.

"Yeah. I'll wait a week then tell Eric and them that you found the man of your dreams somewhere else and you left. Now, you and the others be careful, and say hi to Jason for me before you two get to involved to remember your own names." Trini said with a sad smile, tears falling down her face. Tommy just nodded and kissed her check then he turned and left. Trini watched as he pulled out of the driveway then slide down the door and stared to cry.