Debwood-1999: Vermi and I love our cliffhangers *smiles evilly* Glen will definitely be looking for blood, as will James. The shit is really going to hit the fan now, that's for sure. Kaneslady1974: Vermi loves Kane and I've always liked him but yeah, we've made him into a complete asshole in this. Nooks: Mindy's not shutting up any time soon so get used to it *nods firmly* Her annoying you is not a license for Glen to smack her. She's not shutting up and she's not going anywhere any time soon. James is going to make damn sure of that. DarkMage6: Mindy can be very cleaver and sneaky when she has to be. Because of her Glen has lost the element of surprise and James's temper has already been ignited. NeroAnne: Yup, it's Glen. He's very mean; it's what he knows how to do best. James is pretty much the only one NOT working her. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dead wrong. James plans on delivering a whole lot of hurt, so don't worry about that. EternalxInsanity: lol *puts this up* How's this for ASAP? Menaji: Gotta love the drama. Makes for some exciting storytelling. slashdite: Mindy calls a lot of people baby; Glen and James are just two of them. She wants to be with James and she doesn't really want Glen to die, but she won't stop James from killing him if it comes down to it. Her allegiance is firmly behind the Lawsons. Esha Napoleon: Thank you!
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"How the fuck could this happen? Were none of you paying attention? How the FUCK did she disappear on you?"
Cooper winced as James continued to scream and carry on like a mad man. They had both received a text from Mindy telling them to watch out for Glen, and that was about the time Cooper had realized that Mindy was no longer in the house. That had freaked him the fuck out because all he had been doing was watching The Lion King with Amber. He hadn't heard Mindy scream or Glen barge in and be the maniac that he was. He had asked Connor if he had seen or heard anything, but Connor was too busy tending to Snoopy, who was limping pretty badly. Cooper wasn't a vet but he was willing to bet his left nut that Glen had stomped on Snoopy's paw just for shits and giggles. If it wasn't broken it probably would end up being a miracle.
"Lawson would you keep your eyes on the road and your hands on that mother fucking steering wheel," Mark growled in the background. "You're not going to be able to help anyone if you fucking kill us on the way."
"Don't fucking take that tone with me dickface!" James snarled, making Cooper smile despite the situation that was unraveling right before their eyes. It was always nice to hear James call Mark nasty names. "Your fucking brother is DEAD! You hear me Marky? DEAD!"
"James-"
"SHE IS THE MOTHER OF MY UNBORN CHILD AND I WILL BE DAMNED IT I PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT ANYMORE! GLEN IS DONE, YOU HEAR ME?"
Cooper actually had to put the phone away from his ear so it could stop ringing. James in full rage mode was not good for the ears. "We're going to find her, alright?" he said, knowing that there was no other option to even consider. "Alright?"
"Cooper?" Connor said at the same time James resumed his shit fit.
"Not now Connor," Cooper hissed, trying to wave Connor off. Connor however, had no intention of being denied.
"But Cooper, it's important!" he insisted. He pointed to the window and began bouncing up and down anxiously. "Uncle Crispy came back with Mommy!"
"What?" Cooper asked, now tuning out James completely in favor of going to the window and seeing what the fuck Connor was going on about. Much to his shock and horror, he saw that Glen was not only pulling Mindy out of his car by the hair, but he had a shotgun pressed against her throat. "Oh dear Jesus," he muttered.
"What?" James asked. "What's wrong?"
"Glen's back and he's got a gun," Cooper said, leaving out the part about it being pressed up against Mindy's throat to prevent making his dad have a conniption fit while he was driving. That wouldn't do anyone any good. "Get home now." He hung up his phone and tossed it aside. "Is Amber-" The rest of his question died in his throat when he turned around and saw that Connor was no longer in the room with him. "Connor?" A really uneasy feeling began to take him over. "CONNOR!" He ran out of the room and looked around the hallway. He could hear Glen breaking in the front door and he immediately went to Amber's room and was horrified to see that only Chelsea and Snoopy were in there. "Oh fuck," he muttered. "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck…"
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"What are we doing Connor?" Amber asked in a hushed voice. He had snatched her up right out of her room and was now sneaking her down the stairs. She could hear her daddy down there and she really wished that she was still in her room. He sounded like he was in one of his nasty moods, which was always scary. Even though he had never laid a hand on her, she had seen him hurt her mommy too many times to count.
"Sssshhh," Connor scolded. "I has a plan."
Amber did not like the sound of that. She closed her eyes tightly and buried her face on to his shoulder. She did not like the sound of this at all. Connor probably did not have a good plan. She liked him and stuff, but he didn't seem to be that smart. She wished that Cooper had come up with a plan. Cooper was smart. He would be able to save the day. And maybe he still can, if he hurries up before Daddy does a bad thing again.
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"Cooper," Glen drawled out, easily dragging Mindy all around the house. He still had the gun pressed up against her throat but he was more than ready to turn it against the first Lawson that he saw. "Connor…come out come out wherever you are."
"Leave them alone!" Mindy yelled, desperately trying to yank herself free from Glen's grip. She didn't seem to give a shit about the fact that the gun was still pointed at her. She only seemed to be concerned with protecting the Lawsons, which was just making him even angrier than he already was. He didn't know what the fuck the psychopaths had been doing to his wife and two daughters, but it was obvious that they had really REALLY gotten into Mindy's head. Fuckers…I'll show them…I'll show them all…
"GLEN!" Mindy shrieked, now actually kicking at him as hard as she could. "Leave them alone!"
"Shut UP MINDA!" he roared.
"FUCK YOU!" she snapped back, tears freely running down her face. "Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck-"
He snarled and dropped the gun down so he could slug her in the face so hard that she barely avoided crashing violently to the floor. "SHUT UP!" he roared again, barely stopping himself from kicking her while she was down. "You stupid bitch! Just shut the fuck up!"
Mindy was hysterical at this point, crying so hard that she was beginning to hyperventilate. "Daddy stop!" Amber yelled, coming from behind him and trying to use her little body as a shield. "Stop it!"
Glen shook his head, putting his gun behind his back so she couldn't see it. "Get out of the way Amber," he ordered.
Amber shook her head fearfully. "No Daddy. Leave Mommy alone!"
"Amber-" At that moment, he heard someone coming up from behind him but before he could get all the way turned around, a lamp came crashing down on his head.
"Gotcha!" Connor yelled, snatching the gun and tossing it all the way across the room before tackling Glen to the ground. It was a dumb move but seeing as how Connor probably didn't even know how to even properly hold a gun, that was probably the best move he could make.
"You hurt Snoopy didn't you?" Connor yelled, doing what he could to drive his knife right into Glen's chest. Glen had him by the wrists somewhat more easily than he would have been able to if it was James or Cooper trying it. Connor was the runt of the Lawson litter after all. "Didn't you? Bad Uncle Crispy! Bad!"
"Stupid dog deserved it," Glen growled, getting his foot up and violently kicking Connor off of him just as Cooper was finally coming into the room. He got on his hands and knees and scrambled over towards the gun. Cooper managed to jump on him though about halfway there, and they soon found themselves wrestling all over the ground, punching the living shit out of each other.
"Connor!" Cooper yelled as Glen knocked his knife out of his hands. "Get the gun! Get the-" He was cut off by Glen grabbing his neck and squeezing it as hard as he could. Glen wanted to snap his neck right then and there and would have had Cooper not driven his palm in an upward direction and broke his nose right then and there.
"I got it!" Connor yelled triumphantly. "I-Coopy get out of the way! I might shoot you!"
Glen snarled and tightened his grip on Cooper, fully intending on using him as a human shield. "Let go asshole!" Cooper growled, elbowing Glen wildly. His left eye was already swelled shut from where Glen had punched him and his lip was busted up too.
"Glen stop!" Mindy pleaded, clutching Amber for dear life. "No no no Connor put down the gun. Don't kill him please don't kill him!"
"Uncle Crispy bad," Connor declared. He looked torn between waiting for Cooper to get out of the way before he took his shot or taking a chance and trying to nail Glen right between the eyes right at the moment.
Mindy shook her head, her poor mind being ripped apart by everything that was going on in front of her. "No no no no no no n-JAMIE!"
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James barely heard Mindy screaming his name. He had burst into the house to find Mindy's and Cooper's faces busted up, Connor holding a gun, Amber watching the scene with horrified eyes and Glen actually attempting to use Cooper as a human shield. His mind-which had only kept enough sanity to get him and Mark back to the house. But once he saw that Mindy and Cooper were banged up and once he looked into Glen's mismatched eyes, he lost it completely. Letting out a roar the likes of which that scared the crap out of everyone else, he ripped Cooper out of Glen's grasp and grabbed the bald man by the throat so he could literally drag him into the kitchen.
"Let go of me!" Glen roared, barely escaping James's grip so he could start throwing wild punches. "Mindy's MINE! MINE MINE-"
James grabbed a skillet that was sitting in the sink and whacked Glen right upside the head with it. That threw Glen for enough of a loop to all him to grab the monster by the back of the head and start smashing his face into the counter. "You think Mindy's yours?" SMASH. "Huh? Is that what you think?" SMASH. "Well let me tell you something Crispy Critter." SMASH. "She's MINE!" SMASH. "Her, Amber, Chelsea, all your other children-"
"Never," Glen croaked out defiantly. His face was a broken mess but he still managed to glare at James hatefully.
"Never?" James chuckled. "Oh Glen, you know that denial is a river in Egypt, don't you?" He smashed Glen's face into the counter once last time before tossing him down to the ground.
"James!" Mark exclaimed, finally coming into the room and shaking his head frantically. "That's enough. You've done enough."
James scowled and shook his head. "It's not enough. Fucker will do it again. He'll-" He stopped to knee Glen in the face before he sat up too far. "-hurt my baby." He smirked and got down so he could straddle Glen's lap and whisper in his ear. "Mindy aborted your baby Crispy," he whispered, chuckling at the look on Glen's face. "She wants her last baby to be with me."
"Lawson…" Mark said very uneasily, looking very torn at the moment. James knew that he loved Glen despite everything because they were brothers. They had a bond that James couldn't touch. But James knew that Mark would forgive him for this. They both knew Glen would never stop coming after Mindy unless he was dead. He was so convinced that Mindy's was his that he didn't see a lost cause when it was staring it right in front of his face.
"Mother fucker," Glen growled, making one last desperate attempt to fight off James. "Fucking send you to hell…"
James backhanded Glen across the face before taking out his knife. "You first Crispy." He drove the knife deep into Glen's chest, letting the blood coat his hands before he pulled it out. "If you see Caroline…tell her I still hate her guts." He sneered just a bit before stabbing Glen several more times, only stopping when Mark grabbed him by the back of the shirt and pulled him off. He almost yanked himself free so he could stab Glen's body one last time, but stopped when he felt Mark's forehead pressed up against the back of his neck.
The kitchen door suddenly opened, but only James looked up and saw Mindy come in. It looked like she had just fought off Cooper and Connor to get in, and when she saw Glen's body laying there on the floor, her eyes just about popped right out of her head.
"Baby Doll?" James said slowly, not liking the blank expression that filled her face. "Baby Doll come here."
Mindy didn't respond for a very long moment, but then she stumbled over to him and buried her face into his chest. He wrapped one arm around her and hugged her tightly, using his other one to reach back and touch Mark's hair with his bloody hand. He tried to think of something to say but couldn't come up with anything to say. That was probably alright though. His actions had already said everything that needed to be said at the moment.
