I Disclaim.
Finally Ch.3 NC-17
*** In Mac's unconscious state, we're going to delve into her memories. The conversations will be in italics. ***
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"Hello Granddaughter." Stefano walked into the room wearing an all black suit, and his trademark grin. "You see what comes from being good and noble." His points to her attire and emphasizes the all white room. "You do something selfless, and this is where you end up."
"Still the same old Stefano, looking for your own personal pay off." Mac grins and shakes her head. " You know the world encompasses several billion people, so in fact it's NOT all about you."
He gives a hearty laugh and seats down on a couch that appears for nowhere. " How did this happen, you have DiMera blood, you even resemble my first wife, and yet you speak of other people like you're one of those damn Blacks."
"Thank you, I'm honored."
" Where did I go wrong with you Machiavelli?" "I tried to do everything I could, I raised you when Tony refused, I taught you everything I knew, I gave you every advantage, and this was how you repaid me." Stefano snaps his fingers, and the white room disappear and they find themselves back in the DiMera Library on the fateful night. "You betrayed me."
The goes dark expect form the light from gun as Mac fires toward her grandfather." Isn't it ironic that I taught you how to shoot in the dark."
"Well you know what they say no good deed goes unpunished."
"You were my greatest creation, and in the end you were the downfall of the DiMera family." Stepping close enough to breath on her a lone tear escapes from his eyes. " How does it feel Machiavelli, to know that I gave you everything in my powers to bequeath, and you betrayed me, and hundreds of DiMera's before you."
"You made choices long ago, that set this path in motion, don't blame me for walking it." The white room reappears and Mac sits down. " I will not take the blame for downfall of your evil empire, so try something new."
"Fine, I will." He snaps his fingers again this time bringing them to a dark alley, where a man lays on the ground grasping for air, as a dark figure emerges. Stefano laughs as Mac pales at the sight of herself at fourteen.
"Please." The man leaned against the wall the light from the corner lamppost shows the bruises on his face. " What ever I did, I won't do it again, I swear."
Mac was into the light a smile of pure evil on her face. " You don't know what you did." She removes a knife from her leg and licks the blade. "I find that hard to believe, because you've been pissing me off months now." Mac throws he knife letting it land an inch from is head.
"I'm sorry Mac, I wont do it again." He struggles to get to his knees and crawls to stand in front of her. "Please, I swear, you have my word."
"Your word means nothing." Mac brings her closed fist down and strikes his cheek, the blow sent the man sprawling on the ground, and laughed as she picked up her knife." I lost all patients with you, and so has my grandfather." She removes a gold plated 9mm gun from her waist of her slacks and pointed it at him. "Say a prayer."
"Please, I have children and a wife." He takes put his wallet and turns to a picture of a beautiful blonde woman and two small girls that resembled their mother. " Machiavelli, if you have any goodness in you, you will let me go, I will give you anything."
"You sicken me, you use your children to beg for your life." Pulling back the hammer she shakes her head. "One day your children will thank me for ridding them of their coward of a father." Pulling the trigger Mac doesn't flinch as the man's body convulses as the bullets invade his body.
When his body lay unmoving, she starts looking through his pockets and searching for the film, but finding nothing. Hearing a sound of footsteps Mac pulls her gun and readied herself to fire, when her Grandfather enters the alley smiling, a Bentley pulls up behind him.
" Very good Machiavelli, does he have what we came for?"
"No grandfather not on him."
"Damn, we'll have to search his home." Stefano kicks the body. " Take care of it Machiavelli, and leave no survivors."
Mac nods and motions for the driver to come forward. " Pack the body in the car, we'll make it look like a robbery." She pockets the photo he had shown earlier, and stops beside him leaning by his head while the driver readies the car. "Good news, your children won't be fatherless for long."
"Now are we still on our high horse?" Stefano asks his granddaughter watches herself get in the car, and drive off smiling. The older Machiavelli now paler then when she first arrived.
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Lucas was trying to leave the office, Chloe had called him in tears and he wanted to be with his sister, but people didn't seem to understand his rush to get out of the building. " June, if there's a problem catch me on my cell, I'm at the hospital with my sister."
He was at the door when two men in all black suit cam in flashing badges. "Lucas Roberts?" At his nod he continued. " We need to speak with you sir."
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Chloe held Gabriella in her arms, but that wasn't where the little girl wanted to be, she had heard Mac's name and now wanted to see her favorite godmother. " Come on Gabriella, please behave."
"Want Big Mac." The small child pouted as tears welled up in her eyes.
Chloe kissed her daughter's forehead, thinking the same thing. " I know baby, I know."
Brady fought back tears as he watched the scene, and turned toward Shawn who was doing the same. " Any leads on the car?"
" My father has and ABP out on it, and the wolf pack has been searching the state for the last four hours, and we haven't found anything, yet." Shawn lowers his voice. " I think it's safe to say that this was just one of things, and not a planned hit."
"Really how can you be so sure?" Brady wanted to believe it was just an unrelated occurrence, but things were never really unrelated in Salem.
" I checked it out, Mac's only real enemies have only ever been the DiMera's, and they're all dead, or MIA, I hate to say this but…" Shawn looks around to ensure that he and Bray are alone.
" What?"
" Mac had a tendency to have the 'last word' in a arguments, if you get my drift."
" You're saying that most people dumb enough to fight with Mac ended up dead." Brady still remembered the reports he had seen on Machiavelli, and had no doubt that very few people messed with the women.
"That or prison."
"LUC." Chloe ran to her brother and threw herself and her child into his arms.
"Hey Chlo, Hey Gaby." Lucas hugged them tight, and made eye contact with Brady, motioning for a word." Gaby, I need to speak to your mom for a minute okay?" The little girl nodded, and he set her down and turned toward Belle who was waiting with open arms for the child.
Chloe saw Brady and Shawn come closer form the corner of her eye, and tensed up. "What's wrong Luc?"
" I was on my way here and I was stopped by two Federal agents." He let's out a sigh and runs a hand through his hair. " They have frozen all of Mac's assets, lawyers from DiMera Co are saying that Mac used her brief reconciliation's with her family to get insider information that she used to rebuild the Red Wolf fortune." " They are charging her with insider trading, until get this 'she can prove her innocence in open court'."
" I can't believe this, why now?" Chloe took a seat looked dejectedly at the three men in front of her.
"I hate to say it, but it's common government practice." Brady took the seat next to her and grabbed her hand. " The feds comes in when there's a weak defense so it's easier to win the case." " They were probably just waiting for something to happen to distract Mac from fighting to hard."
" Chlo, we have all our attorney's on this, and we will win, and Mac will wake up just in time to tell them where to stick it." Lucas gave his sister a reassuring smile.
Chloe returned her brother's hopeful look and then stood when she saw Roman Brady entering the waiting room looking somber. " Roman what's happened did you find the driver?"
"Yes, we did." Roman waited as the people awaiting news surrounded him, he gave Philip, and Lucas sympathetic looks as he rubbed his chin. " We found the car about in a wooded area about thirty miles out of town the driver was unconscious, and he reeked of alcohol, they must have panicked when he realized what he did." "I'm sorry to say it's someone we all know."
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Coming Soon:
The driver is identified.