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Chapter 14
Madison's eyes widen and her mouth dropped to the ground as she stared at the black mustang. Billy had not gotten out of the car but she could see him staring at her from the front seat. She knew how angry he must be at her. She would be angry at her too but she felt like she had to do this for herself. To get closure no matter what the risk. Getting so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn't realize Denny coming up behind her. She jumped when she felt his hand on her shoulder. Turning around she took a step back realizing just how close he was to her.
"I thought I told you to come alone." Denny said to her.
"I-I did. I didn't know h-he was f-following me." Madison looked down at her feet when she stuttered. Old habits die hard she thought.
"All I wanted was to talk calmly. But both you and I know that Billy Darley doesn't understand the meaning of the word." Denny said looking over Madison's shoulder seeing Billy step out of his car.
"What do you want Denny." Madison said.
"Where are the hugs and kisses I used to get every time I saw you." Denny said trying to wrap his arms around her.
"What do you want?" Madison said slowly stepping back from him. As she stepped back from him he immediately stepped forward and put his hand on her cheek. Madison closed her eyes as he touched her cheek and swallowed the lump that was in her throat. She opened her mouth to speak but before she could Billy had grabbed her and put her behind him and jumped at Denny. Denny stumbled back at the attack. Billy stood up legs spread apart and head tilted back as he stared at Denny.
"What the fuck is your problem." Denny spat out. "This is between me and her."
"You want to know my problem. You're my problem. You and your boys have been trying to take over my turf." Billy stated calmly trying to keep his temper in check.
"That's not my problem. Ever hear of survival of the fittest."
"Yeah your boy learned that the hard way didn't he." Billy retorted back.
Denny clenched his jaw together and took a step toward Billy.
"Madison. I want to talk to you alone. I miss you and I want to see my son." Denny said looking at her.
"Why are you doing this. You think messing my car and home up will make me want to get involved with you again?" Madison said shaking her head. She stepped in front of Billy hoping to stop anything drastic that he might do. She could hear him breathing deeply behind her showing how angry he was.
"Madison you know I love you. I never stopped. I want you and I want Caleb. We can be a family just like you always dreamed." Denny moved to step toward her but before he could he found that there was now a gun in his face.
"Billy stop it. That's not necessary." Madison tried to put his arm back down to his side but was too strong.
"All I want to do is talk. You really think it'd be fair to shoot me without trying to defend myself." Denny slowly spun around once and took his jacket off to prove he was not armed. "See I got nothing."
Billy refused to lower the gun with an emotionless expression on his face.
"Madison you know how good we were together. We can be together. Without the drinking and the drugs. We can have any life you want. You really think this deadbeat can provide for you. Come with me."
Madison stood there staring at Denny not really knowing what to say. This was what she had hoped for, for so long. But since she had met Billy she hadn't thought about wanting to be with Denny. She just wanted to be with Billy. Mood swings and all.
Billy stood with the gun in Denny's face and wanted nothing more than to put a bullet into his head. Especially after that speech about wanting to be with Madison. The only way that was happening was over his dead body. He looked down at Madison realizing she hadn't said anything back to him. She wasn't really considering going back to this guy was she?
"I'm giving you ten seconds to get back in your fuckin truck and get out of my city." Billy spat at Denny.
"Look why don't you back the fuck off and let me do what I came here to do." In a movement that shocked Billy, Denny reached up and knocked the arm that was holding the gun down causing Billy to lose the grip he had on it. Both Denny and Billy watched it fall to the ground a few feet away from them before looking at each other. One second past when both of the simultaneously lunged for each other. Denny had the upper hand first getting the first punch at Billy's face. But Billy was obviously the bigger of the two and quickly took over. Billy gave Denny a strong uppercut causing Denny to fall to the ground.
Madison took this opportunity to step in and try to stop the fight. "Please stop." She whispered as she stood in front of Billy and looked at him with pleading eyes.
He looked at her with a blank expression not showing what he was feeling. He wiped his hand over his nose with had a little bit of blood dripping from it. Madison turned around to face Denny but before she could decipher what was happening she was on the ground with a hand over her cheek. Denny stopped what he was doing and just stared at Madison. He didn't realize she was standing in front of Billy. He blindly stood up and swung his fist with every intention of knocking Billy out but had instead hit Madison. Billy looked at Madison then back at Denny and with a rage he had no idea he had, he tackled Denny to the ground and started punching him. He stood up and laid a few swift kicked into his stomach.
"Motherfucker." He mumbled to himself.
Looking over to his right he noticed that Madison was gone. He looked to where her car was parked and saw it turning a corner. Swearing out loud grabbing him by the collar of his shirt Billy brought Denny's face close to his own.
"I'm giving you one week to get the fuck out of town." With that Billy slammed Denny's head back on the ground. He took out a cigarette and lit it up taking a long puff before he walked over to where his gun lay and picked it up. Putting it in his jacket he spit on Denny who was now trying to get up and get to his truck. Billy walked swiftly to his car and left.
Madison finally made it back to Tanya's. She was surprised she made it in one piece. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she walked down the hall to Tanya's front door. Opening the door she walked in on the sight of Caleb sitting on Tanya's lap reading a book he had brought with him. When Tanya heard the door click shut she looked up and the smile faded from her face as she saw Madison's face. Gently placing Caleb on the couch next to her she jumped up.
"Sweetie what happened?"
Madison couldn't say anything. Tanya came over and wrapped her arms around Madison who started to sob onto her shoulder. She felt like she had been keeping everything in since the first note she had received. She didn't want to appear weak in front of Caleb or Billy or anyone for that matter. She had been through so much and everyone thought she was so strong. She was afraid she really wasn't that strong.
"It's okay." Tanya said as Madison cried into her shoulder even though she wasn't sure if it was really okay.
"Come over here and sit down." Tanya lead Madison over to the couch so she could sit down. Hearing all the commotion cause Gabby to come out of her room. Seeing Madison crying she ran over and sat down next to her.
"What's going on?" Gabby asked. Tanya just looked at her and shook her head mentally telling her not to ask questions right now. Caleb was standing by the coffee table looking at the three of them. He saw his mother crying and took a few timid steps closer to her.
"Mommy?" Caleb said placing his little hands on Madison's knees. Madison looked up at her son. She almost didn't want to look at him at the moment because he looked so much like Denny. Caleb was scare when he saw his mother crying. He had never seen her like this before and he didn't like it. When Madison saw his eyes water she picked him up so he was sitting on her lap and hugged him tight, pressing the side of her face into the top of his blond head. The hair was a trait he inherited from his father. The only thing he really got from her are her eyes. Everything else was all Denny.
"Gabby go get her a glass of water." Tanya ordered. Gabby was about to protest being ordered around but kept her mouth shut and went to the kitchen. Madison lifted her head and looked straight ahead at nothing in particular while Caleb clung to her not really knowing what was going on. Tanya gently grabbed her face and gently turned it so Madison was looking at her.
"Who did that to you?" Tanya asked gently looking at the bruise now starting to form around her eye. Madison sniffed gently and looked down at Caleb's head.
"Did Billy do this to you? Did he hit you?"
Madison immediately started shaking her head no.
"He followed me when I met Denny and they got into a fight. I got in the way. Denny hit me. Although he didn't mean to." She said in a low voice. Gabby came back over and laid the glass of water on the coffee table in front of her.
Nobody knew what to say so they all just sat back in silence. Gabby deciding to break the silence took the remote to the tv and turned it onto the local movie channel. They all stayed that way for the rest of the day watching tv and eating. Finally at about 8:30pm Madison decided she had to go back to the apartment. She was hoping Billy had calmed down and they would be able to talk. Standing up she noticed Caleb was fast asleep. She put her jacket on then picked him up. Giving both Tanya and Gabby a kiss on the cheek she left telling them she could call soon.
Tanya was hesitant about letting Madison go back there with Billy's temper. She knew Billy and she knew how angry he got. But she noticed the affect Madison had on him so she hoped that he would be calm and listen to her.
Madison adjusted Caleb who was sleeping in her arms she opened the door. Walking in she stopped short seeing Billy sitting on the couch. He looked up at her with an emotionless expression on his face. She looked around and noticed there were a lot of empty bottles. Madison looked in Billy's eyes and saw they were glazed over.
"Are you drunk? Where's Joe?" Madison whispered trying to not wake Caleb.
"Don't fuckin ask me that. I don't know where the fuck Joe is. And right now I don't fuckin care!" Billy raised his voice and stood up.
"Mommy." Caleb mumbled into her shoulder.
"It's alright baby just go back to sleep. I'm going to put you to bed okay."
"And what I want to know is where the fuck you found the nerve to lie to me." Billy continued not really caring that Caleb was waking up and looking at him with tears in his eyes.
Madison ignored him and walked into Joe's room and laid Caleb on the bed.
"Just close your eyes and cover your ears okay baby boy?" Madison said gently and kissed his forehead. Caleb nodded his head as a tear fell down his face and covered his ears and closed his eyes.
Billy continued yelling and opened the door to Joe's room but Madison stood up quickly and pushed him out of the room and closed the door.
"Billy your drunk. Go to sleep and we'll talk when your sober."
"Who the fuck do you think you are? My mother? If I wanna fuckin talk to you I'm going to fuckin talk to you." Billy ranted on getting in her face.
"Mommy I want to go home." Caleb had come out of the room and was clinging to Madison's hand. Gripping his hand Madison turned with all intentions of bringing Caleb back to bed but as she turned Billy reached out and grabbed her arm in a fierce grip forcing her to drop Caleb's hand. Billy hauled her against him and away from Caleb. The force from her letting go of Caleb cause him to slam to his knees.
"Don't walk away from me." He spat coldly at her.
Madison looked down at her son who was openly crying having fallen on the floor hurting his knees then back up at Billy. Without thinking she raised her hand and slapped him as hard as she could.
"You wanna hurt me then do it but I'm not going to let you hurt my son." She said her voice cracking. She went to help Caleb up but Billy grabbed her by the shoulders again and forced her to face him. Madison winced at the tightening grip Billy had.
"Billy let go your hurting me." Madison cried her words going into deaf ears.
"Who the fuck do you think you are? You think you can just fuckin lie to me and get away with it." Billy said shaking her.
"Please, s-stop it." She tried to choke out tears running down her face. She could hardly breath at this point.
If Billy was in a right and sober state of mind he would have stopped what he was doing a long time ago. He was so angry that someone had the guts to lie to him and to talk back to him all he saw was red. It was like he had no control over his body. He knew he was hurting her but he couldn't control himself. During his tirade Billy felt a soft pounding on his leg. Looking down he saw the top of Caleb's head as he was banging his little fists against Billy.
"Leave my mommy alone." Caleb shrieked out.
Billy still seeing red moved his leg forward causing Caleb to fall on his bottom Billy bent down to Caleb. Madison not knowing what he was going to do grabbed Billy and tried to back him away from Caleb but he wouldn't budge. Caleb sat back tears rolling down his face as Billy advanced on him. But just as he was about inch away from him Billy stopped and stared.
All Billy saw when he looked at Caleb was himself and Joe when they were young trying to stop their father from hurting their mother. Jerking back like he had just been shocked he took a couple quick steps backwards causing Madison to fall down. Looking down at her with an unreadable expression he could still picture the look on his mothers face when his father would hurt her. Billy stared at Madison and she was shocked at what she saw in his eyes. The hard anger was gone and in place was sadness and shame at what he had just done.
"Sorry." He mumbled under his breath although she didn't hear him. He turned from both Caleb and Madison and almost ran out the door. When he was gone Caleb ran into Madison's arms and cried. Madison too shocked to cry anymore sat there rocking Caleb back and forth taking deep breaths.
A few minutes went by and Madison knew she couldn't stay there. Gently placing Caleb on the floor she stood up and went into Billy's room and packed her bag. After that she went into Joe's room and packed up all Caleb's things. Putting both bags over her shoulder she picked Caleb up and left the apartment making sure to lock the door when she left knowing if Billy didn't have the house keys then Joe definitely did.
Billy stormed into the Four Roses furious. But he wasn't mad at anyone but himself. He went to the back table and sat down not saying anything. All the boys except Joe was there. Nobody said anything knowing that Billy was in one of his moods and did not want to be bothered. He grabbed the shot glass Bodie was about to drink out of his hand and downed it himself.
"Man. What happen?" Bodie was the only one to try and talk to him.
"Shut the fuck up and get me another drink." Billy snapped. Everybody stayed relatively quiet and talked amongst themselves not bothering Billy. Billy heard the door to the bar open and look over his should to see his brother walk over with a huge grin on his face. Billy wanted nothing more that to wipe that grin off his face at the moment.
"Hello boys. Guess who has a hot date tomorrow night." Joe said.
"Shut the fuck up Joe. I'm not in the mood to listen to your bullshit." Billy spat.
"If your talking about Gabby boy you better watch your mouth." Baggy warned.
"Hey you worry about your own girl alright." Joe laughed along with some of the other boys.
"When your girl is the sister of my girl I'm gonna fuckin worry."
"Joe shut up. Don't you have some work to do tonight." Billy said glaring at Joe.
"Relax Billy I'll do it later. I got all night."
Billy was not happy with that answer and stood up, his chair flying backwards and grabbed Joe's collar of his jacket and hauled him to his feet causing them to be face to face.
"You're not going to do it later. You are going to do it now. Hurry up before I get mad." Billy said in a low cold voice.
"Fuck man. What the fuck's your problem. Madison not give you any today?" Before Joe knew it both Bodie and Baggy were in front of him trying to hold Billy back who had jumped at him.
"Calm the fuck down. You know I was kidding."
After a few minutes of calming himself down Billy sat down and had another drink before explaining in as few words as he could what had happened that day with Denny.
"Billy you want us to go after that motherfucker?" Bodie asked.
"No." Billy said quietly. "I going to take care of him myself."
Tanya was just about to get ready for bed when she heard a soft knocking on her door. Curiously looking out the peephole she was surprised to see Madison and Caleb. She quickly opened the door and let them in.
"Hey sweetie what's going on?"
"Can we stay here with you for the night?" Madison said avoiding Tanya's question. Madison had set everything down and had just hung her's and Caleb's jacket in the closet when Gabby skipped into the room.
"Guess who has a date tomorrow night?" Gabby said in a singing voice.
"With who?" Tanya asked suspiciously.
"Not telling." Gabby grinned.
Madison smiled weakly at Gabby then chuckled a little at the look Tanya was giving her.
"I'm leaving tomorrow to take Caleb to my fathers."
"Have you talked to him yet?" Tanya asked.
"No. I thought I would surprise him. I don't want him to worry. I'm going to tell him that Caleb wanted to stay for awhile. I just hope this whole situation is over soon."
"Well how are you going to explain that shiner."
Madison brought her hand up to her right eyes and softly touched it. She didn't know exactly what she would say about that.
"Well I was going to try and cover it with some make up but if they see it I guess I'll just tell them I walked into a door or something." Madison shrugged her shoulders.
"Maddy. Your dads not stupid. Every woman who's gotten a black eye from a man says that to cover up."
"Well Tanya I don't know. I'll cross that bridge when I get there. By the way I have to go back to work tomorrow night." Madison said running a hand through her hair, knowing she would have to face Billy sooner or later. She would rather later. She looked to the couch where Caleb had laid down and was now asleep.
"I guess I should get him to bed."
"You can both take my room for tonight. I'll sleep on the couch." Tanya said retrieving a blanket from the closet and laying it on the couch.
Madison smiled great fully and picked Caleb up and went into Tanya's room. Tanya sighed when she saw her bedroom door close. She felt horrible for Madison. She didn't know exactly what had happened when she went back to Billy's but she knew it wasn't pretty.
Tanya was lying down in the dark when she head a rustling at her front door. She sat up as the door opened. She smiled when she saw Baggy step into the room. She had given him a key not long ago.
"Hey." She whispered.
"Hey what are you doing out here?" Baggy walked over and leaned down to kiss her before lifting her legs and sitting down. She put legs over his lap and scooted closer to him.
"Madison is staying here the night. Something happened between her and Billy but she wouldn't tell me what."
"Yeah Billy's been a hard ass all night. More than usual." Baggy explained to Tanya what Billy had told the boys of what happened.
"Well I can't blame her for leaving. Nobody deserves to be treated like that." Tanya leaned her head down to rest on Baggy's shoulder.
"Yeah well you know how Billy is and how he can get when things don't go his way." Baggy sighed running his finger through her hair.
"Yeah." Tanya yawned closing her eyes and going to sleep.
Madison walked out of the bedroom the next morning and went to the bathroom. She had a quick shower and when she got out she searched her bag for some clean clothes. All she found was a pair of jeans that she had worn a couple days ago and an old red tank top. She really needed to wash her clothes. Walking out of the bathroom feeling refreshed she stopped short seeing Tanya and Baggy cuddled up together. She smiled sadly. She wished things between her and Billy were as easy as they were with those two.
Madison quietly got a drink of water and went back into Tanya's room to wake Caleb up. She wanted to get to her fathers as soon as she could. It was now nine in the morning so if she left by ten she would make it to her dads hopefully by noon.
"Wake up baby boy." Madison sat on the end of the bed and gently rubbed Caleb's shoulder waking him up.
"What?" Caleb sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"How do you feel about visiting Grandpa for awhile?"
"Really." Caleb got a big smile on his face.
"Yeah and you can sleep over. Mark will like that." Madison said talking about her seven year old step brother. He was born a couple of years before Caleb.
"Yeah and I can show him how to make card castles." Caleb jumped up now excited and started to take him pyjamas off.
"What are you doing?" Madison heard a laugh from the doorway. Turning she saw Tanya standing there with a small smile on her face.
"We're going to visit Grandpa! I'm going to show Mark how to make card castles." Caleb said before Madison could say anything.
"So I guess he was okay about staying with your dad."
"Yeah. Thank goodness. If I know he's safe then I'll be able to handle this situation better. And I want to talk to Billy without Caleb around." Madison sighed.
"Baggy told me what happened. Said Billy was a wreck at the bar." Tanya said quietly.
"Yeah well. I don't want to talk to him unless he's sober and calm."
Madison went out looking for Caleb who was with Gabby and Baggy in the living room. Her and Tanya made breakfast for everyone. Once they were done she got Caleb's jacket and put it on him.
"Say bye to everyone." Madison said to him.
Caleb gave everyone a hug even Baggy which surprised Madison. Maybe he was starting to come out of his shell a bit more. Madison gave everyone a hug and swung the bags over her shoulder.Both her and Caleb gave everyone a wave before finally leaving.
Baggy hung around for about an hour before he had to leave. Tanya was just getting ready for her shift at the diner when he was leaving. Giving her a kiss Baggy told her that he would pick her up when her shift was over.
Not long after he had left she was putting her jacket on when he phone rang. Not looking at the caller id she picked it up.
"Hello."
"Where is she?" A hoarse and tired voice asked.
"Billy? Is that you?"
"Tanya please tell me where she is."
"Billy-"
"Tanya I'm not going to fuckin beg you. Put her on the phone."
"Billy she's gone. She left over an hour ago." Tanya stood there silently waiting for Billy to speak, but after a few seconds of silence all she heard was the dial tone.
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