Chapter 6

Ok since you guys reviewed so quickly I decided to be nice and post another chapter. Hope you like it and keep reviewing please!



Helen and Ellenor walked into court the following morning with grim faces. It had taken them half an hour to get to work through all of the traffic and another ten minutes to push through all of the reporters and cameras in the hallways.

"Miss Gamble, Miss Frutt how nice of you to join us." Judge Kittelson said from the bench.

"Sorry your honor we were caught in traffic." Ellenor apologized as she and Helen both took their seats.

Kittelson looked at Ellenor strangely, "What happened to your head?" she asked.

Helen tried to hide the smile on her face and Ellenor glared at her.

"I was hit with a door last night." answered Ellenor seriously.

Helen's smile grew even bigger as she tried to suppress her laughter and Bobby and Lindsay looked at the rather large bruise on Ellenor's forehead. Kittelson caught Helen's smile and decided against asking for the full story.

"Ok. Are both sides ready for trial?" she asked

"Yes your honor." answered Helen.

"Yes your honor." said Lindsay.

"Alright lets bring in the jury and Miss Dole you can give your opening statement."

The jury came in and Lindsay stood up.

"Opening statements are when lawyers from both sides stand up here and tell you what they hope to accomplish by the end of the trial. They tell you facts that they intend to prove and witnesses that they are going to call in order to prove those facts. Well today I'm not going to do that. They only thing I'm going to tell you is that my client is innocent. He was temporarily insane at the time of the shooting. You can not convict someone of a crime unless you know for certain that his or her actions were deliberate and sane. His were not. The prosecution knows that. The only reason that they are trying to convict my client is because of the public outcry that someone should be charged with this woman's death. He was temporarily insane when he picked up that gun and shot his mother. We all know it. By the end of the trail you will too."

She walked back over to her seat and sat down. Bobby gave her an encouraging squeeze of her hand.

"Temporary insanity is an interesting defense," said Helen as she stood up. "Defense attorneys use it when they don't have anything else to go with. They argue that the client was insane at the time of the shooting, the jury buys it, and the client effectively gets away with murder. Well I promise you it's not going to happen here. Our evidence will show that the defendant discovered his mother in bed with a man who wasn't his father, went upstairs, got his father's gun, loaded it, waited until the man left, and then executed his mother. There was nothing insane about it. This was a first degree murder, and I hope that you don't let the defense fool you into believing other wise."



Five minutes later Ellenor, Bobby, Lindsay and Helen stood outside of the courtroom.

"I'll give you manslaughter, eight years." Helen offered.

Lindsay rolled her eyes. "You should just go ahead and give us an acquittal and save us the time of a trial."

"He executed her. He got a gun and blew her head off. Manslaughter is a gift." answered Helen.

"No thanks."

"Fine." said Helen as she began to walk down the hallway.

"Uh Helen." said Bobby. "This may not be the right time to ask, but could you watch Bobby tonight? Linds and I are going out to dinner."

Helen just stood there and stared at him for a long moment.

"What time?" she finally asked.

"Seven." said Lindsay.

Helen nodded and continued walking down the hall.

Around seven that night Ellenor was making dinner and Helen was playing with Zoey when the phone rang.

"I got it." said Helen as she practically ran to the phone.

Mike was on the other end. Ellenor watched as Helen's face lit up and she nervously twirled the phone cord around her finger.

"Ok I'll see you then," said Helen. "Bye." and she hung up the phone.

"When are you guys going out again?"

"Friday." answered Helen as she tried to wipe the huge grin off of her face.

"You must really like him." said Ellenor.

The doorbell rang.

"Yeah, I do." answered Helen as she went to open the door.

"Hewen!" said Bobby Jr. excitedly as he ran into the apartment.

"Hey sweetie."

"Where's Zoey?" he asked.

Helen pointed to the kitchen floor where Zoey sat coloring. Bobby quickly ran over to join her.

"Thank you so much." said Lindsay while putting Bobby's bag on the floor.

"We should be back by 9:30 or 10:00." Bobby informed her.

Helen nodded. "Take your time. Zoey loves having him over."

Little Bobby came back over to his dad.

"Daddy, are we going to spend the night here with Helen like we did when mommy lived somewhere else?" he asked innocently.



Alright I realize that it's kind of mean to leave it like this but if u guys review I'll try to get the next chapter up sometime tomorrow and I'll explain the whole secret. Hope u liked it!

Oh and something completely unrelated that has been bugging me, did anyone watch the Golden Globes? Can anyone tell me what the hell Lara Flynn Boyle was thinking?!?!