Secrets
Chapter 28-The Pope's
A/N: Please excuse the grammar and punctuation errors. I was writing on the fly as I celebrated with my family. Happy Holiday Everyone.
Happy Reading!
It had been two weeks since the fire and Huck had yet to come up with a cause or so everyone thought. Not only had Huck uncovered the cause of the fire but who set the fire and how. He continued to go over the video of the woman climbing down the fire escape. He caught a picture of her face when she turns to look around as she climbed down. He used his face recognition software and got a hit. Natalie Fisher-Pope.
Who was she? How was she connected to Liv? Why did she burn down OPA? All these questions needed to be answered before he went to Liv with what he found. He decided to give Tom a call so that Tom could used his connections in law enforcement to dig up information on her. Tom agreed to keep things on the low until they figured it out.
It didn't take Tom long to come up with a shit load of information on the Natalie chick. He shared with Huck what he found. Natalie Fisher-Pope was an only child born to a woman named Lisa Fisher, a former employee of none other than Norman Pope. Norman was the CEO of a large Investment Corporation and Lisa was a beautiful low-level secretary that handled appointments confirmations and phone calls at the front desk.
Norman Pope
Lisa Fisher was always the first to arrive and the last to leave the mega company. She would constantly flirt with Norman upon his arrival and departure. She knew he was newly married but pursued him anyway. Norman on the other hand had no interest in Lisa and only smiled when she would flirt with him. He truly loved his wife Diane and would do anything to keep her happy. Diane was a registered nurse studying to become a Cardiologist. They both had demanding jobs which put pressure on their new marriage. He was somewhat upset this particular day because his wife shared with him news of her pregnancy.
A new baby was not something he thought they were ready for being newly married and the demands of their jobs. Diane refusal to take time off work only heightened his anger. He was a planner and hated surprises. Her becoming pregnant was quit the surprise that he didn't anticipate and now he needed to figure out how to add this new addition to their lives. Norman didn't like change unless he was making it, so his frustration at his wife for not following his lead and taking time off pissed him off. He and Diane argued all night and early this particular morning.
When he arrived at work, he had already made up in his mind that he needed to give his wife time to cool down, so today would be a late work night for him. He was frustrated and upset that his wife called him out making him sound selfish and inconsiderate about her feelings and career. He thought she was the one being selfish and inconsiderate.
It was late and everyone had already left the office for the day when Lisa walked into his office. "Hi Mr. Pope. I stopped by to check on you and say goodnight. Are you okay? You don't look too good." He looks up in his now drunken state and smiles "Yes Lisa, I'm better knowing you are checking on me." Lisa is surprised at his statement and sees her chance to move up in the company.
Norman attempted to stand almost losing his balance when Lisa moves swiftly to his side "Here let me help you over to the sofa Mr. Pope." Once they are standing in front of the sofa in Norman's office, he finds Lisa's lips on his. His first instinct is to push her away but her feminine scent overwhelms him and so does the kiss. The feel of her soft lips causes him and immediate reaction. He allows himself to fall victim to this beautiful vixen and before he could really think things through, she's straddling his lap pulling out his manhood, sliding down on him riding him until she milks him dry. His orgasm weakens him. Mixed with his drunken state he had no fight in him and just looked up at her as she straitened out her clothing. "See you tomorrow Norman, do you want me to call you and uber?" Norman couldn't believe what just happened. His senses are starting to clear up. He sits forward as he fumbles with his now wet flaccid penis placing it back in his pants. "Lisa this was a mistake. You can't speak of this to anyone. I have a wife who is newly pregnant with our child. I love my wife. I should have stopped you…"
She quickly interrupts "But you didn't. I see the way you look at me Norman. Don't worry, I won't tell you wife. We can stay discrete." He stumbles to his feet "No, this was a mistake and should have never happened. I had a bit too much to drink and got caught up in the moment. I'm sorry but you need to leave and never speak of this to anyone. There is nothing between us, and it's Mr. Pope."
Lisa just looks at him. Her plan backfired. She was sure he wanted her. He didn't try to stop her advance. He just needed time to understand his feelings for her. She would give up that easily. He would be hers. Her infatuation with Norman was borderline psycho.
"Fine Norman, I get it. You need time to figure out your attraction to me seeing you didn't stop yourself from fucking me. I will give you time to sober up, oh and you should really take an uber, you're in no condition baby to drive. Bye Norman." She struts away with the biggest smile on her face, leaving Norman dismayed and confused.
Norman couldn't believe what just happened. He just committed adultery. He needed to nip this shit in the bud. He couldn't and wouldn't allow a woman to ruin his marriage or his life. How did he allow this? He didn't cause it, but he didn't initiate it either nor did he stop it.
Norman was no push over. He could be rude and brutal when he needed to be. After meeting, dating, and falling in love with Diane he softened his brutal ways. Her gentle loving spirit showed him how to be gentle. She helped him change. He realized now that he may have to bring out that side of him to deal with this Lisa situation. She needed to be handled sooner than later before things got out of hand.
He also realized that his wife was right. It took the two of them to create a baby and just like everything else in their life they would handle it together. He was indeed being selfish. He chuckles to himself as he thinks of his behavior. This was supposed to be a celebratory moment in his life. The creation of life with the woman he loves should be celebrated and that's just what he would do when he got home after apologizing to his wife of course.
Over the next two weeks Norman embraced his wife and her pregnancy and agreed to do whatever it took to support his wife in her career and motherhood just as she supported him. He stopped speaking to Lisa and put his plan in place for her. She set him up. She took advantage of his drunken state. She was stalking and waiting for the perfect moment to get to him. His connections researched her and found that she did this type of thing before but has never gotten caught. She targeted blue collard executives and made sure they were caught in her web and financed her life. He would not fall victim to her games.
Norman was a different breed. He didn't take kindly to being played. He was connected and could be powerful when needed be. Lisa was in for a rude awakening. She sat and smirked each time he walked into the office building. "Hi Norman." She would say but he would completely ignore her and keep it moving. Her plan was not working. She needed to up her game. Weeks later nothing she tried worked, and now others were treating her like she had some kind of disease and whispers about her begin to surface. She never knew what the rumors were because no one spoke to her unless it was to confirm an appointment or receive a phone call.
Anonymously Norman had been secretly sharing pieces of Lisa's past with others warning them to stay clear of the home wrecker. He paid two low level male employees to file a sexual harassment claim against her after setting up late night meetings while recording her flirting. Withing the next two weeks she was called into the office and fired for sexual harassment and charges would be dropped if she went quietly but unfortunately it would remain on her record. She had no power to prove her innocence. They had recordings of her saying things completely taken out of context and clearly doctored. She knew it had to be Norman that did this, but she had no way to prove it.
Lisa was angry and confused. She always got her mark and her man. Norman was her man. He made love to her. He kissed her with passion. She even allowed him to ejaculate inside of her. She has never allowed a man to do that. Didn't he know that she loved him? How could he do this to her? Her delusional mind was heightened two weeks later when she took a pregnancy test, and it came back positive.
She needed to tell Norman. She knew he would be happy, and they could be together even if he had a wife. At least that's what she told herself. Late Monday night when she knew Norman would be leaving the job she waited. Once she spotted him leaving, she approached "Norman I'm pregnant." She blurted out scared that he would not want to talk to her.
He turned to her voice and just stared at her. She was still beautiful. Her thick curly natural blond hair and amazingly blue eyes stood out. Since he didn't respond she continued "I'm six weeks pregnant Norman and it's yours." Norman jaw was tightly clenching "Get in the car." He stated
After she got into the car he drove off. They drove without saying a single word. Lisa was in for another rude awakening. He drove to a secluded beach before pulling into an empty parking lot. After turning off the engine he looks at her with what she interpreted as a smile, but it was something much more than she could have ever imagined.
DV Alert….
The grip on her throat made it hard for her to breath as she felt Norman's sinister voice in her ear. "I don't know what kind of game you are playing with me, or what your intent is but I am not the one. I will make you disappear with the snap of my finger. If you come anywhere near me ever again, I will kill you." Lisa scratches at his hands fighting for air. She has never been so scared in her life. "You have two choices, you move on and stay the hell away from me or you die right here right now." He squeezes harder momentarily cutting of all of her oxygen. "Do you want to live?" He growls and she quickly nods her head up and down.
He releases her and sits back in his seat and reaches inside his suit jacket and pulls out five-hundred-dollar bills tossing them at her. "Get rid of it." He then leans over her causing her to flinch and opens the door. "Now get out." Lisa quickly releases her seatbelt and bolts from the car running as fast as she can in the opposite direction. Norman adjusts his jacket before driving off. The secret of his indiscretion would die with him, but not the birth of his second daughter.
Lisa's life was never the same. She lived paycheck to paycheck, and became untrusting of men, so she never stayed in any kind of relationship because of this mistrust. This upbringing made Natalie mistrust men as well in all of her dysfunctional relationships. She grew up poor, and still struggled to this day.
Lisa would share her daughter on her death bed the story of her father, unable to keep the secret of her father inside any longer. Natalie would plot her mother's revenge only months after her mother's death and since Norman was dead, his daughter would have to pay. She grew a hatred for Olivia after doing research of her and the Popes. Liv had it all, a father, money, education, a good life, and Natalie hated it and her even more. She set out to destroy her entire existence.
First finding people who may hate her as much as she did, starting with her ex-husband mistress and baby's mother, which ended up being a dead end. She decided it was too much work chasing down people who my hate her, so her second move was to destroy her business and then destroy her marriage, to end with destroying her, even if it killed her. At least she would be with her mother again and maybe even the father she never knew.
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Huck knew that now was the time to inform Olivia, Fitz and the team, but first he will talk to Olivia. However, he had to wait for her to return from her doctor's appointment. So, he sent her a text saying he needed to see her soon as possible. She agreed to meet him after her appointment.
Liv and Fitz both were both a bit tense because after Liv explain to her OB how she and her husband let things get out of hand and broke the six-week rule, along with the fact that Liv stopped taking the pill, he told them they had to wait at least two more weeks before a pregnancy test could be accurately diagnosed. She would also have to wait until then before birth control could be prescribed and was also encouraged to use condoms if they were to continue being intimate.
They stopped at the drugstore before heading to Hucks house to pick up condoms. No more slipups was a decision they both made, but no sex was out of the question. They arrived at Hucks warehouse looking apartment inside of and old industrial buildings that looked abandoned. Fitz and Liv look at each other. "Have you ever been to Hucks place?" Fitz questions with a concerned look on his face. He refuses to turn the car off as he looks around.
"No, let me call him." Liv answers looking into her purse when a knock on her window scares the living daylights out of her and Fitz both. Fitz almost pulled off on him. "Ahhh!" Liv screams "Fuck Huck!" Fitz explodes in fear filled roar. "You gotta stop sneaking up on people like that. That shit is creepy." Raising down the window Fitz continues in a calmer but aggressive tone. "Sorry man. Pull ahead you can park inside." Huck followed them closing the door behind him.
Liv and Fitz exit their car and look around. "Huck this place looks abandoned." Liv states some what dismayed at what she sees
"I like people to think that. I own this building under a bogus name. As long as the utilities are paid, no questions are asked." He turns and begins walking and both Fitz and Liv follow.
Once inside of the actual space they walk down a long hallway with several doors before entering like the 5th door. It's cozy and dim. They continue to follow Huck as he walks towards a brick wall next to a fireplace. He reaches inside of the fireplace using only his hand and the wall opens. They look at each other before following him inside.
There's wall to wall electronical devices with beeping lights. A panel of computer monitors where all line in rows of three totaling five laterally. With a keyboard housed on a desk just in front of them. It was so high-tech that just seeing it left Fitz and Liv speechless.
Huck pulled up the video of Natalie climbing down the fire escape minutes before the fire supposedly started. He freezes on her face. "Do you know this woman Liv?" Liv leans in and take a close look. "No who is she."
"I believe she set the fire. It started on the 3rd floor, and she's coming out of the 3rd floor fire escape just before the fire spreads."
"Did you do a check on her with the face recognition software?" Fitz questions
"I did." Huck types as he speaks "Her identity comes back to a Natalie Fisher-Pope."
"Pope? Really?" Huck nods and continues typing. "Did you find relations to my father?" Liv questions looking at Fitz then back at the screen.
"All I found was she was an only child to a woman named Lisa Fisher who used to work with your father. She was fired" He stops after pulling up her birth certificate. "Your father's name is on the birth certificate. He never signed it, but she did put him down as the father."
"But why would she set fire to my place of business? I don't understand."
"I'm not sure. I can find her if you want."
Liv feels Fitz soft touch against both of her arms as he runs his hands up and down them. "When you find her take her to the safehouse then call me." Huck agrees before walking Liv and Fitz to their car only allowing them to leave after checking to see that the coast was clear. They both head home as Huck begins his search. The team all receive information on Natalie to find out any and everything concerning her. Her friends, her enemies, her lovers, her family, her dog, her cat, what she ate, what she liked, what she disliked, where she's traveled, everything. No stone would be left unturned. The hunt was on for the woman who carried Olivia's last name…Pope.
A/N: Woo! This is all I have for now. My family is really looking at me like…Really! So leave a review.
Until next time…Keke