Chapter 14:

This can't be happening, screamed Sheridan's body and mind. Instead of Luis saying an "I love
you" to me like he always used to do, he comes into my cottage and says another set of three little
words: "You're under arrest."

How could this happen? I can't believe it. I mean I knew that I had this unclear memory in my
head of something bad happening when I was a child, but it's so hazy!

I killed Martin? she asked herself. How could I? How could God make me do that? Kill the
father of the only two men in my life that I love? It was so unfair, but she knew she couldn't do anything
about it. The damage had been done. Time to suffer the consequences.......

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Sheridan reached the police station in Luis's patrol car. Beth, Liz and Antonio followed in
Antonio's car.

"You have one call to make," Luis told her.

She nodded, hardly meeting the gaze of the man that used to love her. The love that she had
sucked dry after killing his papa.

Sheridan instantly knew who she would call. As much as she hated to do it, she knew that the
only man she could count on was her father. Or at least she hoped.

Sheridan picked up the phone from its cradle and placed a call to her father's private line.

"Julian! I told you not to call this -" Alastair's booming voice came from the other end.
Apparently even Alastair Crane was too cheap to get Caller ID.

"No, umm, Dad it's me...Sheridan," she mumbled. She hadn't had a proper talk with her father
in a long time. But she was hoping he would help her out.

"What do you want?!" he hissed after a moment of silence.

"I'm..." Sheridan took a breath of air before she said the next words. "I'm in jail, and I need
your help."

Sheridan didn't hear anything at the other end of the line for a while, but then was able to detect
a noise that seemed relative to a laugh. The noise got louder, and yes, Sheridan knew. Her father was
laughing at her.

"Why are you laughing?" Sheridan demanded. "I'm in jail. You have to help me!"

"Well, Sheridan, you DID kill Martin Fitzgerald. I can't do anything about it."

"What?!" she hissed. "Of course you can! You've done things people only dream about doing!
Surely you can get me out of this bind."

"Yes, if you were innocent, sweetheart!" Alastair said, using fake charm. "But you're not. So I
can't be of any service to you."

"But..." Sheridan muttered before the line went dead. She stared at the receiver in shock. Her
own father, who was overdue when it came to being there for her, was refusing to assist her in this trying
time of her life. Not even once. Not when she needed it the most.

Sheridan's sense of shock quickly turned to one of anger. She slammed the receiver down in its
place, which grabbed the attention of some of the other cops.

"I take it it didn't go well?" one of the cops asked her, laughing scornfully.

Sheridan didn't bother answering. She looked at the ground. The cold, hard, empty, walked all
over ground. That's what she felt like then.

Luis led her to one of the empty jail cells towards the back of the station house. She would stay
there for the night until someone posted the $500,000 dollar bail.

"Luis!" she moaned pleadingly as he closed the jail door in front of her.

Normally hearing her voice carrying that tone would have made him do as she wished. Like he
was her personal genie. But those times had long passed. He just walked away from her. His heart was
bleeding with pain. The pain of losing his father because of the woman he used to love.

Looking at her crying her eyes out in the jail cell, with her hair in disarry and her mascara
running, he couldn't tell what it was about her that he had fallen in love with. Whatever it was, it had
begun as quickly as it had ended.

{a/n: i know this chapter was a bit shorter than the rest and for that i'm sorry. but i hope u still
enjoyed it. to sheridan fans --- i advise u to not read anymore, unless u like to see her being bashed.
its up to u. keep reading ppl and thanks for the reviews! oh and one more thing,if my updates become sporadic, it's because my college semester started.}