Her Protector
Hello, my fellow readers. It is I, the great James Stryker bringing you another great chapter of Her Protector. Well guys, I can tell you right now that the climax of the story will be really intense. Lives will be put on the line, there will be bloodshed, another player will be revealed, a character is pushed over the edge to go save a life and someone will die. Things will definitely get intense for Riley, Lucas, Maya, Josh and little Mallory. I hope you're prepared for what's going to happen. Anyway, it's update time. Last time on Her Protector, poor little Mallory witnessed an argument between Maya and Josh. Lucas breaks the news about Lt. Keegan's death, which worries Maya about losing Josh. Plus, the body count just went up when Taglialucci was killed…. BY SCALISI! Today, we have a little Rucas chapter with Lucas comforting Riley. So here it is, chapter fifty of Her Protector. Enjoy.
Chapter Fifty
Why Me?
New York City. Josh and Maya's Apartment. May 11th, 2030. 10:52 PM
Riley was sitting alone in the living room of Josh and Maya's apartment, sitting on the couch watching television while Maya is in the bathroom taking a relaxing hot bath and Josh is getting Mallory ready for bed. The pretty brunette waited for her fiancé to come back from their new house to pick up some of their clothes and from Lt. Keegan's house to go see Ellie and her son Tommy to talk to them about her husband. Riley picked up the remote from off of the coffee table, preparing to change the channel, the episode The Man Who Killed Batman from the show Batman: The Animated Series was playing on Disney XD right before they show Superman: The Animated Series. Right when the classic and hilarious scene where The Joker does a funeral for Batman at Ace Chemicals and Harley Quinn starts playing Amazing Grace on the kazoo very badly after The Joker puts Sid the Squid in the coffin with Batman's cape and cowl. She could laugh from watching the scene, but she wasn't in a laughing mood after what happened today. She then changed the channel to Disney Channel, where they were showing her favorite movie The Little Mermaid. Riley sighed, then flipped over to another channel, this time it was ABC where they were showing Captain America: Civil War for the ABC Saturday Night Movie right before WABC Eyewitness News at Eleven comes on. Riley sighed softly and turned to her left, noticing Lucas entering the apartment holding two suitcases filled with their clothes and some food that he bought while he was out.
"Hey. Sorry it took me so long to get back here. I was at Mike's house after I picked up our clothes from the house. I had to go see Ellie and Tommy. She's really heartbroken about her husband. I've helped her out with arrangements for the funeral." Lucas said sitting the bags down on the floor before heading towards the dining room to sit the bag of food down on the dining room table. "I've brought some ribs from that barbecue place, Stevie B's. Knowing you I thought you might like a salad."
"I'm not hungry." Riley said as she got up from the couch.
"Where's Josh and Maya?" Lucas asked.
"Maya's in the bathroom taking a bath while Josh is getting Mallory ready for bed." Riley said, walking over to the bay window. Lucas takes the food from out of the brown bag and walked over to Riley and looked out the window with her. "Lucas, may I ask you a question?"
"What is it that you want to ask me?" Lucas asked.
"What's it like?" Riley asked.
"What is what like?" Lucas asked.
"What's it like after you kill a person? You have experienced that kind of thing on the job." Riley said as Lucas sighed a bit before telling her his experience on the job. Riley placed her hand on Lucas' hand. Lucas moved his hand away from Riley's as his memory of being on the police force flashed right before his eyes. From the moment he was shot, there was another memory that he had to live with as well.
"It was about five years ago. Lt. Keegan and I were assisting Det. Stone and three of his men in bringing down a drug kingpin who was running a crack house in Harlem. The drug kingpin runs a drug ring called the CMB, the Cash Money Brothers." Lucas said, remembering the assignment. "Detective Scotty Appleton and his partner Nick Peretti had an informant to infiltrate the CMB. His name was Pookie and he was a crack addict once before going to rehab. Keegan and I were briefed on Nino Brown. This guy was one sick bastard. He turned a once peaceful apartment complex filled with families into a place with drug addicts stay at after kicking the families out. A father was shot in front of his wife, his 5 year old daughter and his four month old daughter by those bastards while they were having breakfast."
"Oh, my God." Riley said, appalled at the fact that families were being thrown out of their homes.
"Well to start off, Scotty's mother was a school teacher. Brown murdered her in cold blood. He wanted Nino Brown badly. He wanted to make him pay for what he did to her. Scotty was undercover and he saw Nino Brown use a young girl as a bullet shield at a wedding while Dom Armeteo sent his men to kill him." Lucas said.
"That monster." Riley felt her heart shatter into pieces. This story was making her sick to her stomach from hearing about Nino Brown's murderous activities. "What happened next?"
"During his undercover sting, one of Nino Brown's friends found the wire on Pookie and killed him before destroying the crack house. We moved in immediately in the nick of time before he set the whole place on fire. Everybody was in the room with Nino Brown as we have our weapons pointed at them. Scotty noticed Pookie's dead body, Brown slit that poor boy's throat. Scotty wanted to kill Nino so bad. But we needed him alive so we can get him to court. Then, all of a sudden, I see a shadow of someone holding a gun in the other room, pointing the gun at Mike. I reacted by shooting at the gunman. So, I walked into the other room to see if the gunman was alive, turns out it wasn't a gunman. It was an eight year old boy and the gun was a toy gun. He took a bullet to the throat. I see him lying on the floor as blood poured from out of him. I did my best to try to stop the bleeding. It was too late." Lucas said looking down at the floor.
"He died?" Riley asked. "The boy died?"
Lucas did not say another word as Riley hugged Lucas to comfort him and laid her head on his shoulder.
"It was an accident. It was also traumatic at first. It's something that I'll have to live with for the rest of my life. As the famous Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid said, "Killing is something that gets easier and easier the more you do it." Lucas said.
"Did you live with the fact that you took a life?" Riley asked.
"I have to. And you have to live with it as well." Lucas said as Riley got up and walked away from him.
"I can't. I can't! You think that I want to live the rest of my life with the fact that I killed somebody. I don't want to live with it! Let's get this straight, I am not like you!" Riley yelled.
"What could you have done?! Would you just stand there and watch the son of a bitch kill me?! Get this through your head, Riley. You whole life is not about sunshine and lollipops. Everything's not all that peaceful." Lucas said.
"You know something, I wish I never witnessed that murder. I wished that my life was back to normal." Riley said, feeling tears forming around her eyes.
"Well like it or not, what's done is done, you just gotta roll with it. Life goes on and what we witness and how we react to it defines us as people." Lucas said. Riley stayed silent for a moment and starts crying.
"I want this whole thing to be over. I'm afraid of what's going to happen next." Riley said as Lucas walked over to the couch and sat down next to Riley, embracing her, feeling her body around his. Mallory entered the living room, only to see Lucas comforting a scared Riley.
"Uncle Lucas." Mallory said.
"Hey, Mal. What are you doing up? Aren't you supposed to be in bed?" Lucas asked as Mallory looked at Riley.
"Why is Aunt Riley crying?" Mallory asked. Lucas picks up Mallory and sits her down on his lap.
"You see, Mallory. The reason why your Aunt Riley is crying, is because she is in trouble with some bad people. They're the same people who are after you and your parents as well." Lucas said as Riley watched him and Mallory talk to each other.
"Why are the bad people after mommy and daddy?" Mallory asked.
"Because they're trying to get to me. They're trying to hurt the ones that I love just to get me." Riley said.
"Is that why Uncle Auggie and Charlie died because they want you dead?" Mallory asked as Riley nods her head in response. Mallory's eyes begin to water and laid her head down on Riley's lap. "I'm scared."
"I know. Your Aunt Riley and I are scared too. I hope that it will be all over soon." Lucas said. "Do you want your Aunt Riley to send you back to your room?"
"No. I want to stay with you and Uncle Lucas." Mallory said, yawning.
"Okay. You can stay with us." Riley said as she lightly rubbed Mallory's head while watching her drift off to sleep. Lucas looked up at the television and noticed the news report on Eyewitness News.
Breaking News tonight, mobster Vincent Taglialucci was killed outside of Drusilla's in Little Italy, Algonquin. Taglialucci was the son of the late mob boss Anthony "Tony T" Taglialucci and the brother of Frank "Frankie" Taglialucci. Taglialucci's father was killed by rival crime boss Rupert Thorne in a brutal massacre that claimed his life and paralyzed his brother outside of Sparks Steak House back in 2016. Sources say that Taglialucci was in a mob war with rival Gerald McReary of the Irish Mob. In other news, NYPD has been called to the New York Marble Cemetery only moments ago. There have been reports of multiple gun shots going off and an explosion as numerous men were found dead here in the cemetery. Among the dead tonight, is Lieutenant Mike Keegan who has been found with multiple shots in his body and even one to his head. Police have confirmed that the New Sons of Liberty are involved in this incident as one of their high ranking members: Hanzo Kazama, was also found dead in the church with ten shots in his body, Police have also confirmed that the destroyed car belonged to Detective Lucas Friar, fiancé of award winning writer: Riley Gardner. Police are very concerned about this case and are asking the public if anyone has any information on this case, to please come forward and call police.
"Well, that's it. There goes my testimony against him. There goes my chance of putting him away in jail." Riley said.
"But Scalisi is still out there. I'm not going to let him go near you, Josh, Maya and Mallory." Lucas said as he held Riley in his arms with Mallory still lying in her lap.
New York City. May 11th, 2030. 11:20 PM
Scalisi was sitting in his apartment, still angered by the death of his comrade, starts planning his next move to kill Riley and Lucas. The vengeful hit man has eliminated Taglialucci, and now he was going to have someone to help him go after the two of them. While filling the clip of his Desert Eagle with bullets, the mystery man entered Scalisi's apartment.
"You've made it. Looks like we have someone in common. And it's Detective Friar. He was the one who had Hanzo killed at the cemetery. I can pay you double than what Taglialucci is paying you. I want you to eliminate Friar. But before you do that, I want the location to where Riley and Lucas are hiding at. If they're hiding out at her uncle's house with him, his wife and his daughter, you will let me know." Scalisi said.
"But what about the girl? She'll be with her best friend and her uncle and their daughter. What are you going to do with them?" The mystery man said.
"I'll deal with them while you deal with Friar. Do we have an agreement?" Scalisi asked as the mystery man nods his head in response and shook his hand.
Uh-oh. Scalisi is making a deal with the mystery man. And he's going to pay him double. And there's going to be trouble. Any guesses to who the mystery man is? Next time on Her Protector, Maya has a nightmare about Scalisi and Josh comforts Maya in her time of need about the situation. May or may not add some Joshaya smut in the chapter. I don't know, what do you think? Also, information about the shoot-out comes up. Don't forget to review this story, add this to your favorites and follow it for future updates. Before I go, I would just like to bring up two things real quick. First up, I don't know if you've read about this but transgendered actress Alexis Arquette died Sunday September 11, 2016 from AIDS-related complications. If you don't know who Alexis Arquette is, he, well, she was the brother of actors David Arquette, Patricia Arquette and Rosanna Arquette, who also stared in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction. He played the Jerry Seinfeld-looking guy in the bathroom who shot at John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. And second, Sabrina is going on tour and to any of those who live in the greater Cincinnati area, she will be coming here. I am so excited because I had a dream that I met Sabrina Carpenter and got her autograph. I'll see you guys next time for chapter fifty-one. Till next time, my fellow readers.
Let's Talk!
TeamCapGMWPLL: I know, poor Mallory. And I agree, no child should ever witness their parents fighting. The body count went up in three chapters. Who's going to be next? I like Girl Meets the Phantasm better. Hope that you like the new chapter
Guest #1: Taglialucci is outta here and so is Hanzo. So, only three left.
Guest #2: Like I said, you have to read to find out what happens next.
Rugbygurl501: I already came up with a list of people to kill off. If I do end up killing off Lucas or Josh, please don't come after me. I doubt that I will kill them off. They'll probably get injured.
DanseChick: Yeah. The body count will definitely go up in later chapters.
Roxy1971: I know. It's hard to pick where to have the climax of the story take place. But there will be a happy ending for Rucas.
Boris Yeltsin: Glad that you like the new chapter. I think it should happen in the apartment too.
gmwfanforlife: The wedding will either be in a future chapter or in the epilogue.
violet1429: I know right.
Mr. Authentic: Glad that you like the GTA IV references. Thanks for your help with the news report for this chapter. Thanks for the review and I hope that you're excited for the new chapter. Keep up the awesome work.
