Annette
The next day Kathryn woke up feeling in one of the worst moods she'd ever been in since Sebastian was killed and the entire city of New York had shunned her. She could here Jases heavy breathing next to her his arms wrapped protectively around her waist as if she was suddenly going to run off and leave him. Gently unwrapping his arms she felt him sigh and roll onto his back as if freeing her, getting up quietly she pulled on a pair of trousers along with a silk top, "Kathryn," the word came out a breathy whisper and was followed by Jases lips smacking signaling that he was still half asleep.
"Yeah," she answered softly.
"You okay?" she smiled and stroked his forehead lightly.
"Yeah, I'm just going to go for a walk," he nodded and rolled onto his side and immediately fell back asleep. Taking a deep breath she left the apartment and headed for her destination.
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The travel agent loomed in front of Kathryn, taking a deep breath she approached and entered the shop heading straight for the brochures. She needed a place that was nice but would also hold her up for a while, Barbados…na, Hawaii…na, Florida…na, this was going nowhere fast. Nothing was cheap these days, that is until her eyes locked onto a target, she smiled. That was the one. That was where she was going to go.
Grabbing the brochure she made her way over to the desk and pointed at the picture, the woman at the desk looked it over, "You would like to go to Thailand ma'm?"
Kathryn smiled, "Yes, I'd like two tickets please, to leave tomorrow."
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Jase glanced up and saw Kathryn enter the room, smiling at him she made her way into the bedroom and closed the door. A few minutes later she reemerged, "Have a nice walk."
"Mm hmm," she collapsed beside him, "we need to take care of Annette today," he remained silent, "I said we…"
"I heard you," he replied nonchalantly, "what do you want me to do to her."
Switching off the television she turned to face him, her deep brown eyes locked with his, "I want you to kill her," he adjusted nervously in his seat, "is that a problem for you?"
"Uh yeah I suppose, I mean it's not as if I haven't killed people before. Back in my gang days I must've killed like seven gu…" her hand cut him off as she placed a finger gently on his lips.
"Will you do it…for me," she saw him swallow and nod, "thank you."
"When do you want it done?" he asked trying to act cool about it, in fact he was petrified, one of the things he had vowed to do was not kill women or children. But he'd do anything for Kathryn. Even kill.
"This afternoon, 4 pm, I want you to stab her," she felt him shift uncomfortably, "what?"
"Can't I just shoot her or something," he asked, this just kept on getting worse by the second.
"No!" Kathryn replied firmly locking eyes with him, "I want her to suffer, you understand?" he nodded, "good. Annette is going to pay for what she helped do to me."
"Where's she going to be?" Jases fingers were drumming on the arm of the sofa an obvious signal that he was nervous, Christ even he knew it but still…he couldn't stop.
"According to my contacts she goes running everyday at 3:30 so by four she should be in the girls locker room changing," Kathryn had also noticed her students fingers drumming furiously, "if you won't do it I can find someone else to."
"No!" he snapped, "I'm going to do this."
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Annette paced her room nervously, she'd heard that after Mrs Caldwell found out about Cecile's pregnancy she'd sent her poor daughter to an all girls school where outside access was strictly forbidden. It seemed like Mrs Caldwell would rather her daughter become a lesbian than see her be with a black man.
What had also come her attention was the fact that Court had been arrested for possession of drugs, he was now awaiting his trial. Kathryn had vowed to make them all pay and she had done just that, Court could very possibly go to jail, Cecile and Ronald's lives had been destroyed and now there was only one person left…her.
Her first lecture wasn't until 11:30 and then she had an hour until her annual workout on the track. At least she'd be safe there with all of those people surrounding her then Kathryn couldn't possibly get to her there…could she. Chewing on her lower lip furiously Annette was worried, what was Kathryn going to try to do to her.
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Jase had left a half an hour ago heading for the locker room leaving Kathryn alone with her thoughts, and with her two plane tickets. She'd been staring at them for the past half an hour and the decision was not an easy one to make, if she was going to leave Jase behind then she'd have to leave now otherwise he could catch her at any time. Fingering the tickets nervously she suddenly stuffed them both into her pocket, grabbed her coat and headed for the door. She needed a walk.
However just as the door opened a pair of hands grabbed her and pulled her in towards someone, a hand clamped down on her mouth preventing her from screaming and the one by her throat was quickly replaced by a knife, "Hello Kathryn," the voice whispered sarcastically, "where's Jase?"
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Now was the time. Jase had been standing outside the female locker room for the past half an hour, he'd made the excuse to leave early so that he wouldn't miss Annette but really he needed some time to wok himself up, he needed to be confident to do this otherwise he'd bottle it. And that was something he couldn't afford to do, Kathryn had done so much for him that now it was time to repay his debt…in full.
He could hear voices inside, two to be exact, both female. They'd been talking for quite some time and Jase had no idea what Annette sounded like, all he knew was that she was quite short and blonde and looked like a goodie goodie. Not the best of descriptions but it'd have to do.
Quickly turning away as the door opened he heard a female voice call, "See you tomorrow Annette," a yeah was her reply and the female left down the corridor. Making sure no one was looking Jase opened the door and slipped inside closing it with a quiet click.
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Annette's head shot up at the sound of the door closing…again, "Hello?" walking past her locker she looked at the door but no one was there, 'God get a grip Annette' her mind whispered to her 'your paranoid' it continued as she slipped her top on over her bra and began to slowly tie her shoes.
Jase watched from behind one of the lockers, his face was fixed in a cruel snarl as he moved around the corner behind her quietly he raised the knife and was about to send it plunging into her back when a shout alerted him. "Jase!" turning he saw Kathryn being held by a guy a knife at her throat, he immediately recognized him.
"Dylan," the former football teammate held his teacher captive a menacing smirk on his face.
"Hello Matthews, I'd say it's nice to see you but then I'd just be lying wouldn't I," Annette had turned around by now and had noticed the guy standing in front of her a knife in his hand and then the one holding Kathryn also brandishing a blade, "I've gotta say you are one hard guy to track."
"Let her go or I swear I'll make you pay," Jase snarled but Dylan didn't relinquish his grip.
"Kathryn," Annette asked slowly, "what's going on."
"What does it look like Annette," Kathryn muttered sarcastically but whimpered when Dylan pressed the knife firmer against her throat.
"Do you know what happened after you two left? Hmm?" no one said a thing, "I was practically forced to marry Haley and do you know why? Because her father was the richest guy in L.A." he laughed to himself, "I didn't really love her, I wanted an easy life and that I would've had, I would've been on easy street but no, you…" he pointed the knife accusingly at Jase, "had to wreck everything I'd ever hoped for. I was the laughing stock of L.A. people would whisper behind my back 'Oh that's the poor chump who's got Jase Matthews' hand me downs, do you know what that's like?" Jase shook his head, "I was forced to break up with Haley after three weeks of marriage and do you want to know why? Because she killed herself, slit her wrists leaving only a note saying I'm sorry. That's your fault Matthews, she didn't make a will so everything went back to her old man and I was left with nothing. Well…now you're gonna pay, starting with this little bitch," he motioned at Kathryn with his head.
"Uh I think I should…" Annette started towards the door but she didn't get far.
"You stay right there, I'm sorry that you got involved in all of this but for the moment you're not going anywhere," Annette stopped, "now I'm gonna cut this pretty little thing a new smile," grinning evilly he prepared to end Kathryn's life when Jase took a chance.
"Get out he's got a knife," at his cry directed to the door Dylan turned his head, sprinting forward Jase knocked Kathryn aside just as Dylan swung the knife, "AH," the cry would make anyone shiver as Jase went down holding the left side of his stomach in pain. Looking at it he seemed stunned, "You stabbed me…you son of a bitch," he cried incredulously.
"Well it's gonna get a whole lot worse," Dylan moved forward when there was a loud bang and his eyes shot open, looking downwards he could see his shadow with a hole in his chest, "no fair," he whispered before falling forward onto the floor.
Kathryn looked up at her mystery savior and to say she was surprised would be the understatement of the century, "Eliza?"
"The one and only," the woman Kathryn had had raped stood over Dylan's body a 9mm in her hand, "lucky I always carry a piece on me."
Annette stood there stunned at the entire transaction, "Ok, what the hell is going on?"
"Annette," Kathryn looked up at her, "get out," the blonde girl stood there as Kathryn went to Jases side as he desperately tried to hold the blood in, finally though she backed away and left the room, "you stupid bastard," Kathryn whispered to Jase who tried to laugh but couldn't.
"Guess I'm done for huh?"
"Don't say that," Kathryn scolded, "we've got a plane to catch."
"Let me see," the now slim Eliza checked the wound and frowned, "I need to stitch you up, can you handle it. If we do that then the blood should stop, without warning she dipped two fingers into the wound and clamped hr hand down on Jases mouth muffling his agonizing cry.
"Hey," Kathryn cried angrily.
"No organs are damaged but I need to stitch you now, are you cool with that?" Jase nodded, standing Eliza searched for a first aid kit before finally discovering one in the store cupboard, "ok now this is going to hurt," pulling out a lighter she sterilized the needle and jammed it into the side of Jase who attempted to keep his cries of pain quiet.
"You'll be okay, you'll be okay," Kathryn whispered stroking his forehead, after what seemed like an eternity but was actually three minutes Eliza finished, "is he going to be alright?"
"I think so," Eliza replied standing.
"You think so," Kathryn snapped furious, "you mean you don't know?" she shook her head, "oh that's just great."
"We'd better get out of here, because personally I don't want to be caught in a room with a dead body, especially since I've got a kid to think about now," helping Jase up they both supported him back to the room telling anyone who gave them strange looks that he'd been hurt playing football.
Collapsing onto the couch Kathryn looked at him worried, "We need to get him to a hospital."
"No," Jase called, "if I go to a hospital they'll ask questions about what happened and I personally don't want to say I got stabbed by some girls boyfriend who I fucked," Eliza laughed.
"I told you that thing'd get you into trouble," Jase rolled his eyes, turning to Kathryn so Jase couldn't hear her she whispered, "this first hour is going to tell us whether he's gonna be alright or not, if he hasn't improved then we're gonna have to take him to a hospital," Kathryn nodded.
However if that happened then it also meant one important thing, she'd have to leave Jase behind.
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To Be Continued
By Boulder
Next chapter definite last chapter, basically the epilogue
The next day Kathryn woke up feeling in one of the worst moods she'd ever been in since Sebastian was killed and the entire city of New York had shunned her. She could here Jases heavy breathing next to her his arms wrapped protectively around her waist as if she was suddenly going to run off and leave him. Gently unwrapping his arms she felt him sigh and roll onto his back as if freeing her, getting up quietly she pulled on a pair of trousers along with a silk top, "Kathryn," the word came out a breathy whisper and was followed by Jases lips smacking signaling that he was still half asleep.
"Yeah," she answered softly.
"You okay?" she smiled and stroked his forehead lightly.
"Yeah, I'm just going to go for a walk," he nodded and rolled onto his side and immediately fell back asleep. Taking a deep breath she left the apartment and headed for her destination.
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The travel agent loomed in front of Kathryn, taking a deep breath she approached and entered the shop heading straight for the brochures. She needed a place that was nice but would also hold her up for a while, Barbados…na, Hawaii…na, Florida…na, this was going nowhere fast. Nothing was cheap these days, that is until her eyes locked onto a target, she smiled. That was the one. That was where she was going to go.
Grabbing the brochure she made her way over to the desk and pointed at the picture, the woman at the desk looked it over, "You would like to go to Thailand ma'm?"
Kathryn smiled, "Yes, I'd like two tickets please, to leave tomorrow."
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Jase glanced up and saw Kathryn enter the room, smiling at him she made her way into the bedroom and closed the door. A few minutes later she reemerged, "Have a nice walk."
"Mm hmm," she collapsed beside him, "we need to take care of Annette today," he remained silent, "I said we…"
"I heard you," he replied nonchalantly, "what do you want me to do to her."
Switching off the television she turned to face him, her deep brown eyes locked with his, "I want you to kill her," he adjusted nervously in his seat, "is that a problem for you?"
"Uh yeah I suppose, I mean it's not as if I haven't killed people before. Back in my gang days I must've killed like seven gu…" her hand cut him off as she placed a finger gently on his lips.
"Will you do it…for me," she saw him swallow and nod, "thank you."
"When do you want it done?" he asked trying to act cool about it, in fact he was petrified, one of the things he had vowed to do was not kill women or children. But he'd do anything for Kathryn. Even kill.
"This afternoon, 4 pm, I want you to stab her," she felt him shift uncomfortably, "what?"
"Can't I just shoot her or something," he asked, this just kept on getting worse by the second.
"No!" Kathryn replied firmly locking eyes with him, "I want her to suffer, you understand?" he nodded, "good. Annette is going to pay for what she helped do to me."
"Where's she going to be?" Jases fingers were drumming on the arm of the sofa an obvious signal that he was nervous, Christ even he knew it but still…he couldn't stop.
"According to my contacts she goes running everyday at 3:30 so by four she should be in the girls locker room changing," Kathryn had also noticed her students fingers drumming furiously, "if you won't do it I can find someone else to."
"No!" he snapped, "I'm going to do this."
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Annette paced her room nervously, she'd heard that after Mrs Caldwell found out about Cecile's pregnancy she'd sent her poor daughter to an all girls school where outside access was strictly forbidden. It seemed like Mrs Caldwell would rather her daughter become a lesbian than see her be with a black man.
What had also come her attention was the fact that Court had been arrested for possession of drugs, he was now awaiting his trial. Kathryn had vowed to make them all pay and she had done just that, Court could very possibly go to jail, Cecile and Ronald's lives had been destroyed and now there was only one person left…her.
Her first lecture wasn't until 11:30 and then she had an hour until her annual workout on the track. At least she'd be safe there with all of those people surrounding her then Kathryn couldn't possibly get to her there…could she. Chewing on her lower lip furiously Annette was worried, what was Kathryn going to try to do to her.
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Jase had left a half an hour ago heading for the locker room leaving Kathryn alone with her thoughts, and with her two plane tickets. She'd been staring at them for the past half an hour and the decision was not an easy one to make, if she was going to leave Jase behind then she'd have to leave now otherwise he could catch her at any time. Fingering the tickets nervously she suddenly stuffed them both into her pocket, grabbed her coat and headed for the door. She needed a walk.
However just as the door opened a pair of hands grabbed her and pulled her in towards someone, a hand clamped down on her mouth preventing her from screaming and the one by her throat was quickly replaced by a knife, "Hello Kathryn," the voice whispered sarcastically, "where's Jase?"
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Now was the time. Jase had been standing outside the female locker room for the past half an hour, he'd made the excuse to leave early so that he wouldn't miss Annette but really he needed some time to wok himself up, he needed to be confident to do this otherwise he'd bottle it. And that was something he couldn't afford to do, Kathryn had done so much for him that now it was time to repay his debt…in full.
He could hear voices inside, two to be exact, both female. They'd been talking for quite some time and Jase had no idea what Annette sounded like, all he knew was that she was quite short and blonde and looked like a goodie goodie. Not the best of descriptions but it'd have to do.
Quickly turning away as the door opened he heard a female voice call, "See you tomorrow Annette," a yeah was her reply and the female left down the corridor. Making sure no one was looking Jase opened the door and slipped inside closing it with a quiet click.
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Annette's head shot up at the sound of the door closing…again, "Hello?" walking past her locker she looked at the door but no one was there, 'God get a grip Annette' her mind whispered to her 'your paranoid' it continued as she slipped her top on over her bra and began to slowly tie her shoes.
Jase watched from behind one of the lockers, his face was fixed in a cruel snarl as he moved around the corner behind her quietly he raised the knife and was about to send it plunging into her back when a shout alerted him. "Jase!" turning he saw Kathryn being held by a guy a knife at her throat, he immediately recognized him.
"Dylan," the former football teammate held his teacher captive a menacing smirk on his face.
"Hello Matthews, I'd say it's nice to see you but then I'd just be lying wouldn't I," Annette had turned around by now and had noticed the guy standing in front of her a knife in his hand and then the one holding Kathryn also brandishing a blade, "I've gotta say you are one hard guy to track."
"Let her go or I swear I'll make you pay," Jase snarled but Dylan didn't relinquish his grip.
"Kathryn," Annette asked slowly, "what's going on."
"What does it look like Annette," Kathryn muttered sarcastically but whimpered when Dylan pressed the knife firmer against her throat.
"Do you know what happened after you two left? Hmm?" no one said a thing, "I was practically forced to marry Haley and do you know why? Because her father was the richest guy in L.A." he laughed to himself, "I didn't really love her, I wanted an easy life and that I would've had, I would've been on easy street but no, you…" he pointed the knife accusingly at Jase, "had to wreck everything I'd ever hoped for. I was the laughing stock of L.A. people would whisper behind my back 'Oh that's the poor chump who's got Jase Matthews' hand me downs, do you know what that's like?" Jase shook his head, "I was forced to break up with Haley after three weeks of marriage and do you want to know why? Because she killed herself, slit her wrists leaving only a note saying I'm sorry. That's your fault Matthews, she didn't make a will so everything went back to her old man and I was left with nothing. Well…now you're gonna pay, starting with this little bitch," he motioned at Kathryn with his head.
"Uh I think I should…" Annette started towards the door but she didn't get far.
"You stay right there, I'm sorry that you got involved in all of this but for the moment you're not going anywhere," Annette stopped, "now I'm gonna cut this pretty little thing a new smile," grinning evilly he prepared to end Kathryn's life when Jase took a chance.
"Get out he's got a knife," at his cry directed to the door Dylan turned his head, sprinting forward Jase knocked Kathryn aside just as Dylan swung the knife, "AH," the cry would make anyone shiver as Jase went down holding the left side of his stomach in pain. Looking at it he seemed stunned, "You stabbed me…you son of a bitch," he cried incredulously.
"Well it's gonna get a whole lot worse," Dylan moved forward when there was a loud bang and his eyes shot open, looking downwards he could see his shadow with a hole in his chest, "no fair," he whispered before falling forward onto the floor.
Kathryn looked up at her mystery savior and to say she was surprised would be the understatement of the century, "Eliza?"
"The one and only," the woman Kathryn had had raped stood over Dylan's body a 9mm in her hand, "lucky I always carry a piece on me."
Annette stood there stunned at the entire transaction, "Ok, what the hell is going on?"
"Annette," Kathryn looked up at her, "get out," the blonde girl stood there as Kathryn went to Jases side as he desperately tried to hold the blood in, finally though she backed away and left the room, "you stupid bastard," Kathryn whispered to Jase who tried to laugh but couldn't.
"Guess I'm done for huh?"
"Don't say that," Kathryn scolded, "we've got a plane to catch."
"Let me see," the now slim Eliza checked the wound and frowned, "I need to stitch you up, can you handle it. If we do that then the blood should stop, without warning she dipped two fingers into the wound and clamped hr hand down on Jases mouth muffling his agonizing cry.
"Hey," Kathryn cried angrily.
"No organs are damaged but I need to stitch you now, are you cool with that?" Jase nodded, standing Eliza searched for a first aid kit before finally discovering one in the store cupboard, "ok now this is going to hurt," pulling out a lighter she sterilized the needle and jammed it into the side of Jase who attempted to keep his cries of pain quiet.
"You'll be okay, you'll be okay," Kathryn whispered stroking his forehead, after what seemed like an eternity but was actually three minutes Eliza finished, "is he going to be alright?"
"I think so," Eliza replied standing.
"You think so," Kathryn snapped furious, "you mean you don't know?" she shook her head, "oh that's just great."
"We'd better get out of here, because personally I don't want to be caught in a room with a dead body, especially since I've got a kid to think about now," helping Jase up they both supported him back to the room telling anyone who gave them strange looks that he'd been hurt playing football.
Collapsing onto the couch Kathryn looked at him worried, "We need to get him to a hospital."
"No," Jase called, "if I go to a hospital they'll ask questions about what happened and I personally don't want to say I got stabbed by some girls boyfriend who I fucked," Eliza laughed.
"I told you that thing'd get you into trouble," Jase rolled his eyes, turning to Kathryn so Jase couldn't hear her she whispered, "this first hour is going to tell us whether he's gonna be alright or not, if he hasn't improved then we're gonna have to take him to a hospital," Kathryn nodded.
However if that happened then it also meant one important thing, she'd have to leave Jase behind.
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To Be Continued
By Boulder
Next chapter definite last chapter, basically the epilogue