Chapter 37

Threats

"Hello?" He answered, and for the first time in her life, she froze up and she found that she didn't have any control of her voice whatsoever. It was a frightening feeling and she didn't want to feel it for much longer, the guilt and the sadness that she felt were also contributing to her inability to talk.

Rose tapped the steering wheel impatiently and then she finally worked up the nerve and as she sharply cleared her throat, she swallowed and sighed heavily. "Hi Jake, it's me, I just wanted to know how you where?"

"Really Rose? Are you calling out of concern for me or for Alyssa?" Jake asked and his voice was filled with bitterness and anger that was with her.

"A little of both actually," Rose conceded. "What was that?"

Jake sighed. "I don't know but I think our family's powers of have been stripped, it happened to me and Haley, is she doing okay?"

"Yeah, she's a little shaky, but fine," She said stealing a glance at her daughter who was watching in interest. "And by the way, Johnny was shot."

"Oh no, is he alright?" He asked knowing how that would affect his daughter.

Rose shook her head. "Yeah, Jackie extracted the bullet, though we think it might have shattered his arm, they're gonna try and take him to a hospital."

"What do you mean them? Aren't you going to go?" He asked.

"No," Rose said firmly. "I got the information out of Dallas Grey, I know where the nerve gas is and I'm gonna go and get it out of there"

"Alone? Oh hell no," Jake actually laughed. "That's not happening dear, I'm going with you if they're going to be at hospital, awkward or not."

She scoffed. "And what the hell makes you think you can tell me what I do?"

"I have a vested interest in the life growing in you," Jake pointed out with sarcasm and bitterness. "You won't be going anywhere without me with you."

She felt her face go red with some indescribable emotion, she smiled and looked over at her daughter with a wink. "Fine, and you do have a point, okay, I'm going to need you to go into my special room and get a bag ready, get some guns, a few knifes, maybe get a tool kit, and some flashlights, we'll need them for where it is."

"And where is this place at Rose?" He asked curiously.

"Oh the Huntslair in Manhattan," Rose said feigning un-interest. "Yeah, apparently it was a hundred feet under me and I never knew it, the thought pisses me off."

And just before she could hear his response, a female voice sounded clearly in the background. A voice that was so painstakingly familiar that she almost drove the car right off of the road, instead she signaled and quickly pulled over to the shoulder, there were no cars on the road besides the other one that was carrying Jackie, Erin and Mark. Rose noticed at the corner of her eye that they had pulled over as well. "Jake that better not be who I think it is, or the shit will hit the fan."

"What? You have a problem with Trixie?" Jake sounded clueless and Rose could understand, but that still didn't help the jealousy that was clouding her mind.

Getting out the car, she jumped up as quickly as she could and slammed the door behind her. "HELL YES I DO! WHAT YOU THINK I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HER LITTLE CRUSH ON YOU? AND WHAT DID SHE TELL YOU? OH I THINK TRIX REMEMBERS WHAT I SAID I WOULD DO TO HER IF SHE EVEN TOLD YOU THAT!"

"YOU KNEW!" Jake yelled, partly because he was clueless about all of this.

"OF COURSE I FUCKING DID! I'M NOT STUPID JAKE! WHY DO YOU THINK YOU GREW APART DURING MY PREGANCY WITH ALYSSA! GODAMNIT! LET ME TALK TO HER NOW!" Rose yelled, she was now surrounded by Erin, Mark, Jackie and Alyssa.

It was a few more moments and above her angry panting she heard them arguing, a tight smile came across her face, Jake knew better than to deny her something like this. She would make it clear to Trixie that you do not cross her when it comes to her family, that smile turned into a wicked, evil grin when the slightly meek voice of Trixie Carter answered the phone. "Hi Rose, how are you?"

"Shut Up," Rose hissed. "Do you remember or conversation we had all those years ago about what I'd do to you if you told my husband that you loved him?"

Alyssa who was listening looked shocked, and she had to force herself to not gape at her mother ask who that was. The former Huntsgirl almost laughed when she heard the response from her husband's former friend. "Yeah, but my mother's dead and you don't want him anymore, so I've got nothing to lose here."

"BUT I'M MARRIED TO HIM NOW YOU BITCH," Rose screamed. "AND IF YOU THINK FOR ONE SECOND THAT I'M GONNA LET YOU HAVE HIM THEN YOU HAVE ANOT-"

"Didn't you say that you wanted to divorce him? He's fair game Rose." She said.

Her voice was infuriatingly clam, and Rose turned and kicked at her door of her car in pure rage. "I DIDN'T MEAN WHAT I SAID, IT SLIPPED OUT, NOW I WANT TO MAKE MYSELF ABUNDANTLY CLEAR! I AM A HALF AN HOUR AWAY FROM THERE AND IF YOU ARE THERE WHEN I GET THERE, I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH, AND I WILL NOT GET CAUGHT, YOU HAVE THAT LONG TO GET OUT OF THERE AND IF I EVER SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN I WILL KILL YOU…"

"Your bitchy threats are worthless," Trixie taunted, knowing that she was digging herself into a deeper hole with Jake's wife. "Come and get me, I have Jake here…"

Rose scoffed. "YOU THINK HE CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME? YOU ARE A STUPID SKANK I CAN BEAT HIS ASS UP AND DOWN THE STREET AND I CAN THROW YOU FROM OUR BALCONY DOWN ONTO THE STREET, IN FACT BITCH I WANT YOU TO STAY THERE BECAUSE I WANT TO PULL YOU OUT OF MY APARTMENT MYSELF…"

"I'll be here …with Jake…" Trixie taunted knowing it would piss Rose off even more.

"FUCK YOU! LET ME TALK TO MY HUSBAND." She responded angrily.

It was another few seconds before she heard Jake on the phone again, he was now shooting off a lot of questions and she didn't have the patience to answer them right now, she had to go trekking through the Abandoned Huntslair she had the whole fighting thing with Jake, it just drained her. Maybe she would be able to sleep sometime by the end of the week. "Jake! Shut up please, I'm sorry that I yelled but if you knew the whole story then you'd understand why I'm pissed off."

"I don't want to know Rose," Jake responded. "And what did I hear you say about the divorce, Trixie had the phone on speakerphone so I could hear it all."

Slapping her palm against her forehead in an almost comical gesture, Rose sighed and looked down. Absently he ticked a rock onto the road and turned to look at her car. "I love you alright, I don't want this to end, and I certainly don't want you to go to Trixie, she only wants you, not your personality or your real love. Oh God baby I'm so sorry that I've been treating you like shit. Please, please forgive me."

Jake was silent, this was certainly something that he hadn't been expecting from her and she was glad for some reason, it must have meant that he was thinking about it which was good or at least she thought. "You know Rose your very cruel."

His voice was deathly quiet, and it was the voice that he used to admonish her about things when she screwed up. "I know, look I don't want to end this, can we please talk about this and work it out, I've been so busy lately but I'll make time."

"Yeah I guess," Jake again said quietly. "Look do you have any other things you want to say to me or you things that you want me to do? Or can I hang up now?"

"Trixie is not leave that apartment, and don't forget to get a bag ready." She said.

"Sure," He affirmed. "Goodbye Rose."

Hanging up the phone, she sniffled slightly and handed the phone back to her concerned daughter. She didn't want to talk about it right now and she tried making that point as non-verbally as she could, after she was sure that the phone was back in her daughter's pocket, she opened the car door and slipped it and as she always had to make a big exit she slammed it shut loudly.

Jake almost wanted to contact the council and ask why his and his family's Dragon Powers had been stripped, there was absolutely no reason whatsoever that they could have done this legally. And if he remembered the law of the Council correctly, it was only by the word of the Pro Tempore that an entire family could have its powers stripped. When he got his hands on Keeler, he was going to kill him, but now that he didn't have his powers he didn't have all of the abilities that they granted him so Keeler could probably thrash him. "Jake, I-I think I'll be going."

He turned and looked at Trixie, he remembered how enraged she made his wife, and frankly he didn't want to explore that avenue any further. But he knew better than to deny her something that she demanded, so he would have to do whatever he had to do to keep Trixie there. "Uh, I don't think so, you know that she wants you to stay here, and I know you think that she's gonna kill you but trust me I won't be letting that happen, but please, stay here with me."

"She's on her way right now," Trixie continued. "Rose can be here for you while you take care of your sister."

Shaking his head vehemently, he grasped her tightly by the shoulder and led her back to sit on the couch and then he just stood there and looked at her. "So what did she say to you? You know if you ever told me that you loved me."

"Oh the typical," Trixie said seriously. "She told me that if I have got in the way of her when it came to you than she would kill me and then my mother, and let's just say that I got the point and backed off, especially after the first kid."

Jake remembered how they just dropped contact with each other when Rose was pregnant with Alyssa, and whatever she had said must have been the cause of that. Or another theory and this was the more likely one in Jake's opinion, Trixie just couldn't handle the fact that Rose had his child and she just stopped talking to him all together. Whatever it was it sort of bolstered his ego, despite the situation that he was in with his wife and former best friend, these two very attractive women had been fighting over him. "Y-You should have told me, I mean I can't say that I would have broken it off with Rose, but I think I had a right to know, and by the way it doesn't surprise me that she threatened you and your mom, last year we were at the supermarket, and the cashier lady was looking at me, she sent death glares at her and I swear if they had been alone together than she would have beaten the hell out of her."

"I've said it many times, and I'll say it again, she's a crazy woman." Trixie said with a snort.

Jake couldn't argue, but it wasn't like Rose went out and killed puppies or something, she was just naturally like that, it was the way she was raised, getting her way by threats of violence. But he loved her, he couldn't deny that he loved everything about her, she was perhaps the most loyal and caring person that you could ever meet, and if you fucked with anyone that she cared about than she would make that person pay, but there was the Mr. Hyde part of her personality too which was oblivious. Rose had lived a strange life, and she had suffered much heartbreak in her life most of which had come from him but that was behind them now. And now he that he knew that she was playing with him, could he swallow his pride and forgive her? Just the situation was cruel but Rose had made it crueler by making him believe it. If he was going to even think about forgiving her than he would have to think about it heavily.

"She's not crazy Trix, she's just …misunderstood." Jake corrected absently.

They had made the transfer, Johnny would go with Erin, Jackie and Mark to the hospital and Alyssa and Rose would return to the apartment. Alyssa would leave after she talked with her parents and then go back to the hospital to be with her Husband, she just wanted to know more about what was going on. And if her mother was correct about her father's friend Trixie, than she would want her piece of the skank. But she couldn't help but worry about her mother, she had been put under a lot of stress today and she was pregnant, that couldn't have been good for her, she couldn't wait for all of this to be over so she could put her mother into bed so she could get some rest. "What are gonna do?"

"What the hell do you mean? I'm gonna string up by her hair and hang her from the balcony," Rose seethed, and she could swear that she was so mad she was seeing red. "Goddamn, I miscalculated I had no idea that he would have invited her into my house, I am so mad that I can't see straight, how could Jake bring her into our lives again."

Alyssa was confident that her parents would make up, she had to be or else she was going to break down and feel the emotions that a child of divorce normally would. "Look at it this way, when you get there you can drive the point home that she is not be there, and I'll help you, she probably hates me anyway, I'm the reason she couldn't get daddy."

"I told her that if she didn't back off that I'd kill her mother," Rose said absently. "That's why she hates me."

While she wasn't surprised by that statement, it still seemed on a level of cruelty that even her mother couldn't make it too. But she did, and Alyssa was stunned for a moment, and by the look on her mother's face it wasn't best to lecture her on her ways right now. "Well then I'm not surprised that she hates you Mom that was a low blow."

"It was," Rose nodded. "But it got my point across."

"Yeah well maybe you could do it in a more humane manner today." Alyssa said with a bit of a scoff at the idea.

"Sure I could, I could shot her in the head and be done with it." She replied with a sneer.

She couldn't help herself, she began to laugh.

AN:/ Dun-Dun-Duuuu…Okay it was sort of anti-climatic but it came out how I want it to be. The next chapter will be purely dominated by a good ole' bitch fight. Hope you liked it and I really do hope that you'll leave me a review.