Life After High School - Ten Years Later

By Risty and Silver

Disclaimer: This is what? Our third story? And you still haven't figured that we own only our characters? What, are you nuts?

Summary: Just writing as we go along.

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(Kane's POV)

I couldn't believe that Randy and Gimli had been the ones who had attacked us. When we met them, they were just so cool. I couldn't believe that Randy had a diamond in his tooth and I wondered how it got there. But I was way too shy to ask him. Gimli was a little quieter, but he showed me how to whistle. While we were messing around, Lucas went upstairs to talk to mum. A few minutes later, he came down again.

"She's all right about them two staying in the hideout" he told Benny. "Providing they behave. Personally I think she's more upset about her argument with Damon the other night."

"You should go up and apologise" Blaze said at once. "Emma is a good woman, Damon. You don't want to lose her."

"No, I don't" he agreed with a sigh. "I'll go up and see if I can talk to her."

I grinned at Blaze at my dad went up the stairs. If dad and mum could put aside their differences, then all we needed to do was to get rid of the bad guys and everything would be just fine again…

(Emma's POV)

I was pretty surprised when Lucas told me what had happened to Gimli and Randy. I disliked them, they had put me through a lot of hell in school, but I didn't hate them, not like I hated Jaime. I had no objections to them staying if they behaved themselves.

When Lucas went back downstairs, the phone rang. Anxiously I picked it up.

"Hello Emma" Boromir said casually. A little too casually. "Just thought you would like to know that I am now a single man and I would very much like us to meet up again. How about I come to Silverwood tomorrow night?"

"You are sick," I hissed. "What makes you think that I won't tell my husband?"

"You won't tell Damon," he sounded very confident. "Because you are afraid of what might happen if you did. I'm not messing around when I say that I have the information that will allow me to get my son in a legal way. So, I'll be seeing you tomorrow night then."

"Anything wrong?" Damon asked from behind me as I hung up the phone. "Who was it?"

"It was…" I couldn't go on. Turning around to face him, I threw myself into his arms and began to cry. He seemed very surprised, but just held me tightly and stroked my hair.

"I'm sorry" he said quietly. "About the other night. You had every right to be angry and I was well out of order. Can you forgive me?"

"Yes" I said quietly, between my tears. "I shouldn't have shouted at you like that. It's just that…well I'm so scared that you are going to end up like Jon…"

"Look, it was a stupid thing to do" Damon told me. "I won't touch the stuff again, I promise. And I honestly didn't mean to hurt you…"

"I know you didn't" I said softly, wiping my eyes. "Damon, that phone call…it was Boromir."

"Boromir" I felt my husband go tense. "What did he want?"

Taking a deep breath I told him everything, how Boromir had been threatening me, how he had forced me into sleeping with him and then beaten me up, right up to that final phone call. I swear I had never seen Damon so angry.

"I'm going to kill him" he whispered when I had finished. "Emma, Boromir is the one who has been paying your father to hurt me, you and Kane. I don't know what he is playing at, but somehow or other, we are going to stop him. Come downstairs with us and we'll talk about what we are going to do. You should be involved in this too."

I nodded and we went down to the hideout. Randy and Gimli were perfectly polite, although they couldn't look me in the eye. Benny sent Kane and Ria upstairs telling them that Galia would watch a video with them. Then the group of us sat around the table, discussing what we were going to do and talking about our next course of action…

A/N: I think my chapter will probably be the meeting between Damon's group and Jaime and Frodo if that is OK, Risty.