Chapter 25

Martin waited and waited for two hours for his son to come home but he never did. He finally gave up and went back to his own house. He couldn't stand to leave things as they were and he didn't like fighting with Scott. The next morning came and Martin called over to Scott's several times with no answer so he figured that he must have gone off to school. He didn't become concerned until he got a call from Shelby.

"Hi Martin is Scott over there?"

"No I haven't seen him this morning. He should be at school. When was he going to pick you up from the hospital?"

"Well he said that he wasn't going to school today because he didn't have any test or anything important. He told me that he would be here first thing in the morning and I've been calling the house for over an hour. If he left over an hour ago than he should have been here by now."

"Let me call the school and see if he went and then I'll call you back."

Martin called the school to find out that Scott never checked in and so he became worried. He didn't want Shelby to worry so he needed to find Scott before she started to panic. He sent Susan over to the hospital to check Shelby out while he continued to look for Scott.


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Scott was given a lawyer and had his time to plead his case in front of the judge. Thank goodness he was given a very understanding judge. He had compassion for Scott but also gave him something to remember his sins by. He didn't suspend his license because he didn't want to put a couple with a newly born baby in hardship. He did give Scott a fine of $500 and told him to check in with a probation officer and perform 20 hours of community service.

It could have been worse so Scott took his penalty without complaints. At least he still had his license so that he could drive home. He used his grandfather credit card he gave him to pay the fine. He was hoping that his grandfather didn't look at the monthly statement and question the $500.00 charge to the county courthouse.

Scott had given Snake his number and Snake was going to call later on in the day before his scheduled meeting with Elaine. Scott started to head home when he remembered that he was supposed to pick Shelby up several hours earlier. Shit. Shelby is going to kill me He drove as fast as he could without risking another speeding ticket to the hospital. When he got there he went straight to her room but she wasn't there. The nurse told him that she was checked out by her mother in-law. Scott called his parent's house and found out that she was there. He told his mother that he wanted to spend some time with Sheldon and then he'd be by to pick up Shelby.

Shelby was going through some depression because she was separated from her baby and she wanted to be home with Scott. Two more hours had passed and Scott finally showed up at his parent's house to retrieve his wife.

"Scott where the hell have you been?"

"Gee not even a hello before you start hounding me?"

""You left me stranded at the hospital and you want me to be cordial to you?"

"Look Shelby I'm sorry. I've had one shitty night."

Martin walked into the room. "Where have you been. I waited two hours at your apartment last night and you never came home. Where'd you sleep last night?"

The worst scenario went through Shelby's head. Great he is already cheating on me again "Who was it this time Scott?"

"What? What are you talking about? For your info, I spent the night in jail."

Martin threw his hands up in the air. "Great. Now what did you do? Who'd you pick a fight with? You've got a bruise on the side of your face."

"The bruise and the knot on the head is from the policeman's night stick."

""You started a fight with a cop?"

Scott cringed his face. "What? No. Would you quit putting words into my mouth? Stop interrupting me and I'll tell you. I was so pissed when I left here last night that I was caught speeding. When they pulled me over I guess that I got a little out of control and so they took me into the station. I was hit in the process of being subdued. They considered it resisting arrest."

"Did they suspend your license?"

"No but I did have to pay a fine and do some community service."

"Well maybe now you will learn to control your temper."

"You know Dad. I wouldn't have to worry about controlling my temper if people like you weren't always pissing me off."

Shelby spoke up. "What did he do to piss you off this time?"

"Don't worry about it right now. Let me just get you home where you belong."

Scott grabbed up Shelby's belongings that she brought back from the hospital and started for the front door. Just when he was about to go through Martin asked a question.

"So what are you going to do about Elaine?"

Scott's head snapped around and Shelby looked at him. "What about Elaine? What's going on?"

Scott turned and escorted Shelby out the door. " Don't worry about it I've got everything taken care of."

Martin, " What's that suppose to mean? What are you up to Scott?"

Scott looked over his shoulder and proceeded on. "Good-bye Dad."

All the way home Shelby was drilling Scott about what Martin was referring too. Scott was becoming a little disturbed by the whole inquisition. "Shelby please stop hounding me. There are certain things that I need to take care of myself and you don't need to be bothered by it because you have enough problems of your own right now."

"What problems do I have? Why are you always shutting me out? I thought that this marriage was a 50/50 give and take. You never let me in on what is going on with you. If you keep shutting me out then eventually the door will be closed and I may not open it again."

"I'm just trying to protect you."

"Protect me from what? Maybe I should be the one to decide if I need protection or not. I know all this has to do with Elaine because her name came up in the hospital also so you had just better tell me."

"Ok promise me that you won't get all bent out of shape." She shook her head.
"It seems that Elaine had someone install a hidden video camera in my bedroom and so everything that went on in there was recorded so she could continue her blackmail with me."

Shelby had a concerned look on her face. "Well what is it that the witch wants now?"

"I don't know but she isn't going to get away with it. I've got back up."

"What kind of back-up?"


"Please Shelby just trust me on this. I'll keep you posted as to what happens."

She did trust Scott and she also knew that she couldn't keep pestering him about this because it would just push him farther and farther away from her. She decided to let the situation drop for now.

Scott helped her into the apartment and led her into the bedroom to get some rest. He could tell that she was still in a lot of pain from the childbirth because she moved so slowly. He sat down on the side on the bed and rubbed her back.

"What can I do for you Shelby? Are you really Ok?"

She rolled over to face him and brought her hand up and caressed the side of his face. "I don't like being home without the baby. I hurt because my stitches are tightening, I have to keep expressing my own milk, I just feel awful in general and I don't know how to help you."

He leaned forward and wrapped her in his long arms. "You did great Shelby. All these problems will eventually go away and one of these days we will be able to bring Sheldon home and everything will be fine. I don't want you worrying about what you can do for me. It's your turn to be pampered right now. You just went through one of the hardest things that woman can go through and survived. It's my turn to take care of you right now. What can I do for you?"

"Just hold me and be with me. I've really missed you these last couple of days."

"I'll be here as long as you need."

Those were Scott's famous last words because the phone then rang and he had to go answer it. It was Snake asking to meet up with Scott so they could discuss their plans for meeting Elaine. Scott asked him to come over to the condo so he could still be near Shelby.

After the phone conversation Scott went back into the bedroom to be with her until Snake came over. The two new parents enjoyed basking in the closeness of each other's company for a good hour until Scott was awoken by a knock on the door. Thanks goodness it didn't wake Shelby as he quickly crawled out of the bed away from her hugging arms.

He let Snake in and they sat in the living room and made some plans. When it was time for Scott to meet Elaine he left with Snake as a backup. He expected her to be shacked up with the lawyer that she left his dad for but she had a nice condo by herself. Scott knocked on the door and waited for an answer. He had in his pocket a small walkie-talkie that he could contact Snake if he needed.

"Well hello Scott. I'm actually surprised that you bothered to show up. Is it because you believe me about the tape or you just miss me?"

"Don't hold your breath and cut the crap. Give me the tape because I know the sick little twisted mind of yours was very capable of doing the perverted deed."

"And what makes you so sure all of a sudden? Before you were hard pressed to believe me before?"

"Because the set-up in the attic going down to the light fixture in my room. My dad doesn't know a thing about it so if I want to press charges against you now then I have evidence that you intended fowl play."

"Yes but can you prove that it was me and not you that had the whole set up?"

"How could a teenage kid hire an electrician or security service to do the kind of work? The contract would have had to be signed by an adult."

"Unless the kid was smart enough to accomplish that on his own. It's amazing what information you can teach yourself on the Internet. You do like to spend time on the Internet don't you Scott? You can't keep hiding behind your age because everyone knows how mature you are for your age."

"Just give me the tape Elaine. What do you want from me anyway?"


"You mean you haven't figured it out yet? I was supposed to have your baby not some hooker girlfriend. I want you to dump her and we could go off and raise your son together."

Scott began laughing. "You've got to be kidding me right? The only place you need to go off too is the insane asylum. You are one crazy bitch. Where do you have the tape?"

"I'm getting tired of your rude remarks towards me. The tapes are in a safety deposit box and all I have to do is make one phone call and someone will retrieve them and put them to use." She held the phone in her hand holding it up in a threatening gesture.

"Listen Elaine. I have some reinforcements outside and all I have to do is click the mike on this walkie-talkie and they will be in here to do who knows what to you."

Elaine walked to the front window and looked outside. She saw some burly looking guy with tattoos leaning on Scott's car. Snake looked up and waved to Elaine with a big grin on his face. She snapped the blinds shut and walked away from the window.

"Do you realize that if anything happens to me then my contact will automatically go through with my plan."

"So let me get this straight. You want me to ditch my wife, kidnap my son and just hand him over to you?"

"Well you have the ditching part right but you don't have to just hand him over to me. I expect you to be there and help raise him along side me."

"You are absolutely, positively, completely out of your mind. What would keep Shelby from filing for custody?"

"Don't worry about her because she is nothing without you or the Barringer money." The whole time Scott just stood there shaking his head because he couldn't believe that someone could actually be acting this way. "What you don't think it could happen?"

"It's not that I don't think it could happen but I know that it won't ever happen. Elaine you seriously need some kind of help. Why don't you just let me put you out of your misery?"

"You are not funny Scott. Fine if letting Shelby keep the baby means so much to you then she can but you will go away with me and stay with me until I conceive a child of me own."

"I will never have sex with you again Elaine not even if you were the last women on this earth."

Just then Edward walked into the room from another part of the condo. Scott looked at him in shock.

"Grandfather what are you doing here?"

"Why are you making things so difficult Scott?"

"What? What are you talking about? This is the women I was telling you about?"

"I'm quite aware who this women is. Don't you get it Scott? You've ruined all the years of planning I've done. Your father didn't meet Elaine by coincidence. It was a whole set-up. You were too young for marriage so she had to con your father into marriage. The plan was and still is for her to conceive your child. Elaine has been working for me for several years now. At least she did succeed in having sex with you. So the timing wasn't right. We'll make sure that we get it right this time."

The whole time Scott was shaking his head in total shock and was walking backwards to the door. He pulled out the walkie-talkie and began yelling for Snake. An unknown voice came back over the speaker. "Everything is Ok Edward. The big guy is taken care of."

Scott ran to the window and didn't see any signs of Snake but only a stranger leaning against his car where Snake had once stood. "You won't get away with this." Scott bolted for the door and threw it open. There on the other side were two men dragging him back into the condo. Scott began to kick and scream fighting to get away. His grandfather came towards him with an injection of some sort and Elaine seemed to be stripping off her clothes.

"Relax Scott and we'll make this as painless as possible."

Scott could feel someone's hands on him shaking him and yelling his name as he fought with all his might to brake free.

"Yo man, Scott wake up. It's me Auggie. You're having a bad dream. Wake up."

Scott finally sat up in bed and threw open his eyes. He was drenched with sweat and breathing heavy. He looked over at Auggie and touched his face. "Auggie is that you?"

"Yeah man, you must have been having a real bad one. You OK now?"

Ezra came over with a glass of water. "Here Scott how about some water. You look like you could use a drink." Scott took it and downed it in one long gulp.

"What day is it?"

"It's Sunday man. The day after the morp. You want to talk about it?"

Scott rolled out of bed and headed for the girl's dorm. He wasn't thinking straight and he walked right in without even knocking. You could hear a couple of screams from some other girls as everyone froze. He looked around until he laid eyes on the girl that he was looking for. "Shelby."

She walked over to him and noticed the sweat and flushed look in his face. "Scott are you OK?"

He didn't say anything but just took her in his arms and held on for dear life. Shelby felt like she was totally supporting him up. Auggie walked in and gave her an update. "He had one hell of a nightmare. He yelled the name Elaine several times."

Shelby began to understand a little. She continued to hold him and stroked the back of his head for comfort. "It's OK Scott. You're here with me. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."

Scott finally broke down and began to cry. "It seemed so real. Everything seemed real. You, me, Sheldon, but then Elaine had to ruin to all."

"Elaine is out of the picture and out of your life for good Scott. You don't have to worry about her anymore. I'll be with you and be by your side until you can get over it." She withdrew herself a little and began to give him soft sweet little kisses all over his face. "I love you Scott. I'll help you get over her."

"I love your too. Didn't I tell you that is why I came back?"

She smiled. "Yes it was. By the way, who is Sheldon?"

Scott smiled now. "Don't worry about it. You'll find out some day. Let's go get breakfast, I'm starved."

Scott and Shelby walked across campus hand in hand towards the dining hall when they saw Peter running across the campus.

"Hey Scott you have a visitor. You told never told me that you had a grandfather."

Scott's heart skipped a beat. "I don't."

"Well an elderly gentleman named Edward Barringer is waiting in my office. He claims to be your grandfather.

The End