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Chapter 11

Taylor hadn't slept well that night, she kept dreaming about 'libby', where did she know that face, it wasn't so much the face, but her eyes and they kept haunting her. Taylor got up at five thirty am, and went to the kitchen to make herself some coffee, she knew that she would need some pick me up, and she had to make herself confront her demons, she would tell Ryan her worries when he woke up.

A few hours later Taylor heard Ryan get out of bed and into his chair, then he wheeled himself into the kitchen,

"morning, rough night?" he asked Taylor

Taylor shook her head, " the girls slept right through" and she had to smile abit, their first night with no interruptions and she had still been up all night,

Ryan beamed, "must have been all that fresh air at the park"

Taylor fiddled with her coffee cup, "about that, Ryan there's something I want to talk to you about"

"everything was alright, wasn't it?" Ryan asked concerned.

"sort of…" Taylor started, but Ryan interrupted,

"what happened?" he said,

"you'll think its stupid, just forget it" Taylor said, whilst getting up from the breakfast bar, and placing her cup in the sink.

"Taylor?" Ryan said, with his eyebrows raised,

Taylor took a deep breath, "well we were at the park, and there was this woman, and I don't know…..she…. She kinda freaked me out, her eyes…she looked so familiar" Taylor said half to Ryan half to herself,

Ryan looked confused, he thought perhaps some guy had come onto her, or some kids had picked on the twins, but this..

"sorry, what?" he asked,

"see I told you it was stupid, and I've been up half the night thinking about her," Taylor replied,

"I'm sorry Taylor, I don't have time for your delusions, I have got to get to work," Ryan said as he started to get angry, Taylor was freaking out about some random woman, whilst he was still trying to hold their family together,

Taylor looked taken aback, the last time Ryan had spoken to her like this, he had broken down in a rage and ended up back in hospital,

"Ryan… how…how can you say that to me?" she asked, tears building in her eyes.

"Taylor, I am trying to deal with the fact that I'll never walk again, ever, and I'm trying to deal with that, really I am, and work is really helping, but this, whatever this is, your delusions, your worry about why someone looks familiar or doesn't look familiar is not helping" Ryan rolled off at his wife.

Taylor blew out the breath she had been holding, "so what are you saying?"

"I'm saying I have to get to work" Ryan stated as he went to wheel himself out of the kitchen,

"don't you walk away from me Ryan Atwood" Taylor yelled,

Ryan turned in his chair, "nice choice of words Taylor, but tell me HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO 'WALK' AWAY FROM YOU WHEN I CANT BLOODY WALK" he shouted,

"stop speaking to me like that Ryan, I am not Marissa, or any of the other chino, slappers that you used to date, I am your wife, dammit" Taylor yelled back,

"YER, WELL MAYBE, YOU SHOULDN'T BE, THEN YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE WAY I TALK TO YOU ANYMORE" he yelled again,

"fine, if that's what you want, go…." Taylor whispered,

Ryan looked surprised, yes they were arguing but he never really meant it, "what?" he asked,

"I said leave…"Taylor said again, turning away from Ryan,

"Taylor?" Ryan pleaded, "I never meant…." he started,

"oh, I know exactly what you meant Ryan, and I also know that if Marissa was still alive, it would be her and not me you were married to, you still have the use of your legs, and you wouldn't have to put up with my delusions, and you wouldn't have to settle for second best" Taylor said,

"I…Taylor….I" Ryan said but the shock of what Taylor had said and was saying was beyond words,

"leave Ryan," Taylor stated,

Ryan didn't move, he sat motionless,

"I SAID GET OUT" Taylor yelled, and she turned and walked off, leaving Ryan sat contemplating his possibilities and how things had ended this way first thing this morning, on such a beautiful day.

After twenty minutes, Taylor entered the kitchen to find that Ryan had left, she quickly ran to the bedroom and sure enough, he had taken some clothes, she didn't really want him to leave but then again he hadn't really tried to stay, and he was confirming all her fears.

Ryan arrived at sandy and Kirsten's house, in his adapted car, as Kirsten was taking Sophie to school,

"morning Ryan, what can we do you for?" Kirsten asked as she helped him out of the car,

"I thought sandy would have you under lock and key" Ryan said smiling,

Kirsten rubbed her swollen tummy, "I have three days until my due date, and I am not going to carry this baby any longer than necessary" she stated, and Ryan chuckled,

Kirsten nodded to the house, " sandy's inside", Ryan nodded and turned his chair to wheel himself into the house, as Kirsten and Sophie left for school,

"sandy?" Ryan yelled through the house, as he opened the front door, sandy appeared at the top of the stairs,

"Ryan, what's up? Everything ok?" he said, as he reached Ryan at the bottom of the stairs,

Ryan couldn't hold it anymore, he hadn't cried since Marissa had died, and he never thought he would again, but after his fight with Taylor, and the prospect of losing the love of his life and his family, he couldn't help it, and so he broke down into tears, not only surprising himself but sandy too.

"sandy…I" he started,

Sandy wheeled Ryan into the kitchen and started to make a fresh pot of coffee, to be honest, he didn't know how to act around Ryan, he hadn't seen the man cry since he was a boy and lost Marissa.

"here" he said as he offered Ryan a cup, Ryan took it gratefully, "so wanna tell me what's going on?" sandy questioned,

Ryan took a long gulp of his coffee, and decided to inhale a big whiff of his coffee, and he couldn't help but smile, as it reminded him of Taylor, he took a deep breath, no matter what was going on between him and Taylor, the family would find out sooner or later,

"taylors asked me to leave" he said into his coffee,

Sandy was shocked, " she what? Why?"

Ryan told sandy everything that had happened that morning, not leaving out anything, and he couldn't help but wince slightly as he retold the parts of how he spoke to Taylor, once he had finished, he turned to sandy,

Sandy sucked in a breath, and rubbed a hand over his face, "I can sorta understand why she got so upset, but still to throw you out"

Ryan nodded and decided that the best way to clear his head would be to take a walk, but since he couldn't walk he decided to go for a 'spin' as Seth called it, so he set off, to where he didn't know, he just needed space and so did Taylor, or so sandy and Kirsten said anyway.

Taylor was just arriving back home with the twins after dropping Jamie off at nursery, she let herself in, and placed the girls in their playpen, and she sank into the sofa and started to re think the mornings events, she decided to check for messages, so she pressed the answering machine, but the voice only said, 'sorry there are no new messages', Taylor hit the end button and went to the kitchen to make some bottles for the twins.

She became so lost in thought that she didn't notice how quiet the twins had become, and when she finally went into the lounge, she realised she wasn't alone, there stood at the play pen was a woman, with dark shoulder length hair, startled Taylor had no idea what to do,

"can I help you?" she whispered, knowing it was the dumbest thing she could say, but still she had said it anyway.

The woman turned around to face Taylor, and Taylor gasped, "libby, what are you doing here? How did you know where I live?" Taylor questioned,

Libby smiled, "oh I know all about you Taylor, and your little dog too" she said, mimicking the wicked witch of the west, she also started chuckling,

"excuse me?" Taylor asked confused, as she stepped closer to the playpen, to check the girls, she blew out her breath as she saw that both girls were sat watching her.

"Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, tut, tut, don't you know who I am?" libby asked mockingly,

"should I ?" Taylor questioned,

"well!" libby said and started laughing, "where should I begin?" she said as he patted her chin with her finger,

"what do you want?" Taylor asked, genuinely scared now, she had told Ryan to leave, so he wouldn't be checking in anytime soon, and she was expected to pick Jamie up for hours,

"revenge" libby snarled,

"revenge? What have I ever done to you? I don't even know you" Taylor stated,

"you might not know of me, but I know you, and Ryan knows me" libby said,

"Ryan?" Taylor asked confused,

"yes, Ryan, I was his assistant in London, did you really not click yesterday when we were talking?" libby replied,

Ryan on his 'spin' Ryan= bold, sandy- normal

Ryan had been rolling around for about thirty minutes when his phone rang, he looked at the caller ID, sandy, he sighed and opened his phone, part of him had hoped it was Taylor,

"hi sandy, what's up?"

"we think you should come back to the house"

"what's going on? Is it Kirsten?" Ryan asked concerned

"no, Kirsten's fine, we've had a visit from detective walls"

"from who?" Ryan asked really confused

"detective walls, he was in charge of the paper work, after scotts… erm… thing"

"what's going on?"

"come back to the house, and we'll tell you everything, detective walls, is going to meet you here"

"on my way"

Ryan hung up the phone and started making his way back to sandy and Kirsten's house, what the hell was going on?

Taylor and libby

"his assistant?" Taylor asked, almost as though she still wasn't understanding,

"yes, his bloody assistant, god what made him want you in the first place" libby snarled,

"Ryan?" Taylor was so confused right now,

"no, urgh! For gods sake, we're on about Scott here" libby said

Taylor's eyes widened, "how do you know Scott?"

"duh! Cant you see the likeness" libby said, stepping closer to Taylor, and that's when Taylor saw it, the eyes just like her dream, that had haunted her last night, how could she not have seen it, how could she not have seen the likeness before, and all she could think of was Ryan, how could he not have believed her.

Sandy and Kirsten's house

Ryan arrived at sandy and Kirsten's house and shortly after, detective walls arrived, Kirsten ushered them into the lounge, where they waited in anticipation for detective walls to start,

"mr Atwood, do you know a Elizabeth Johnson?" detective walls asked Ryan,

Ryan thought and suddenly it came to him, "libby? form London? Yes she was my assistant, why? What's this gotta do with Scott?" he asked,

"mr Atwood, we have been investigating Scott, for some time, and we looked back over his medical records, and we have found that he was been seen by a doctor for schizophrenia, we went back through his family records and it seems to run in the family" the detective explained,

Sandy shook his head confused, "I'm sorry detective.." he started,

"please call me mark, mark walls" the detective said,

" ok mark, I don't understand what does this have to do with Ryan's old assistant?" sandy asked,

" like I said, we have been through scotts family records, and we have found that Elizabeth Johnson is Scott Fraser's sister"

Ryan couldn't believe his ears, "what?" he yelled and if he could walk he would of jumped out of his chair,

"Elizabeth Johnson, is scotts sister, but after their mother remarried, Elizabeth took her step fathers name, that is why we didn't make the connection straight away" mark walls said,

"so why does this concern us?" Kirsten asked, and Ryan and sandy nodded in agreement,

"even though it is uncommon for women to suffer from schizophrenia, we have reason to believe from Elizabeth's medical record that she too suffers with it," mark explained,

"and? This has to do with us why?" Ryan asked again, still confused,

"we have reason to believe, that she maybe after revenge, we received a message from her mother, who found some entries and letters from Scott in Elizabeth's room" mark explained,

Comprehension flooded Ryan's face, and then Taylor came to mind, the park, the woman.

"the park, yesterday" he said and everyone looked at him confused,

"Ryan?" Kirsten asked,

And then it dawned on sandy too, the argument Ryan had, had with Taylor this morning,

"Taylor , a woman approached her in the park yesterday, she was panicked, said she looked familiar, and I… I told her she was delusional" Ryan looked stricken, if only he had believed her,

Detective walls snapped back and started making calls, whilst Ryan sat motionless, staring into nothing, thinking about how he had spoken and behaved towards Taylor, he was snapped back from his thoughts by detective walls,

"is Taylor at home now? Is anyone with her?" he asked,

Ryan looked like he'd seen a ghost, " no she's at home with the twins, alone" he whispered,

Detective walls nodded, "we need to get over there right now"

Taylor and libby

Taylor sucked in her breath, "who are you?" she asked, needing confirmation,

"I am Scott's sister, and you stole him from me, the same way you did with Ryan" libby spat,

Taylor couldn't breathe, her chest hurt, and she felt like crying but she saw the girls and knew that she needed to stay strong for them.

"Scott never told me he had a sister" Taylor said to libby, whilst looking around, she was trying to bide her time and look for a means of escape.

"ha, I know, duh! And I never told Ryan I had a brother, you guys would have guessed for sure if we had" libby chuckled to herself,

"what are you talking about?" Taylor questioned,

"we had a plan, you know, right from the start, you see, I started working for Ryan, and I wanted him all to myself, and I would have done too if you hadn't wrote him those letters about your precious Jamie, and Scott, my Scott was only too happy to help, so he tracked you down, and wined and dined you, to keep you out of the way, but you came back, they always come back, but the you… you killed Scott,… and you took Ryan…. And I have no one…" libby rambled to herself, and this told Taylor just how unstable libby really was,

"I didn't kill Scott" Taylor stated,

"YES YOU DID, YOU KILLED HIM, YOU KILLED HIM, YES YOU DID, yes you did, yes you did, yes you did" libby repeated over and over,

Taylor looked around and noticed movement in the kitchen, it was a man she didn't recognise, was he in on it with libby, were they working together, but Taylor was put at ease with a subtle wink from this strange man, and she put on a placade, so not to alert libby, if only she could go another few minutes,

"and now, I'm going to kill you" libby stated, pulling out a gun, as libby took aim, she looked at Taylor, "anything to say?" she asked

Taylor felt her cheeks flush, and tears well up in her eyes, "yes" she squeaked,

Libby raised her eyebrows, "what?" she asked, clearly she hadn't heard Taylor, but that was all the distraction libby needed, she was seized from the back by detective walls, and Taylor grabbed both her girls and ran from the room, and out the front door, leaving detective walls and libby fighting it out,

Taylor ran out into the street and into the arms of Ryan, sandy and Kirsten took the twins and Taylor flung herself over him, crying and sobbing,

"I'm so sorry, for not believing you Taylor" Ryan whispered in her ear,

"it was a plan, everything they did to us was a plan, they worked on it together, to keep us apart from the very beginning" Taylor rambled back at him, the urgency to get it out,

Ryan pulled her into his lap, "shhh, its over now, its over now" Taylor went to snuggle into to his chest, and a shot rang out piercing the air, everyone gasped and looked at the front door, where a bloodied detective walls exited the house, police ran past him and into the house, and he walked over to the Cohen Atwood family, "it is over now" he stated,

Ryan and Taylor felt a relief, because of Scott and libby their lives had been turned upside down, not once but numerous times, and now it was over for good, now they could finally start living their lives.

A/N so? Did you like? Read and review,

This is the last chapter but I will be doing a prologue that should be up tomorrow night, and it will be based in the future so you can see how they are al doing.

I just want to say thank you to tcsportsmed7 for sticking with me for so long, even when the 1st story took a while to write and for giving me all the tips and hints about what you wanted to see in the story, without you it wouldn't have been as good as it is J

Emily, thank you for your story line plots, you have interesting ideas, and I would really like you to write some stories so I could read and review yours, I know some of the story wasn't to your liking but hope you liked it anyway,

And annawhite83 for reviewing it means so much thank you.

And a big thank you to all the rest of my readers J