A/N:
Hey Bubbles, thanks! Oh by the way, I personally know the song goes "signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours" but it didn't fit where I wanted it, so I changed it. :) Anyway, thanks for the idea, but ah, Julie's mom has to have a share with her husband, she went along with it all those years…oops, listen to me giving way the story…
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James didn't know what to do. He had been tricked out of his own company. By his own daughter!
James returned home to consult with his wife.
"Rebecca, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know. What do you think we should do?"
"I think we should end this once and for all. If she wants to be with him, then fine! She has to deal with the consequences of her actions."
"James what are you thinking?"
James got a smile on his face. An evil, maniacal, grin.
"James no!"
"Rebecca, yes."
"What are you thinking?"
"Hey fires happen all the time. You can't blame it on anyone if they leave the stove on before they go to bed."
"James!"
"Come on! Let's go."
"No! I refuse to have any part of this!"
"Rebecca you come with me, or have nothing."
"NO!"
"Listen honey, they took everything from me. They embarrassed me, now they have to pay. I won't kill them, they just need to learn a lesson."
"You won't hurt them."
"No! Of course not! Just, teach them. It is for her own benefit."
"I don't want to know what you are doing, I don't care. I want none of it."
"Fine."
Rebecca went upstairs.
None of this is what she wanted, she loved her daughter, and she just wanted her to be happy.
She didn't want James to trick her in the first place. She should have said something years ago.
She couldn't even bear the look of herself in the mirror anymore.
Maybe she should just let it go. Her life was meaningless; she didn't care to live anymore anyway. Her daughter hated her; she could never make her believe she wanted her to be happy. She would go get something from the car first…
After she was finished in the garage, she went upstairs.
Rebecca went to her bathroom, and closed the door.
She opened the medicine cabinet to see all her prescription pills.
// I could do it with no pain. Then I wouldn't have to deal with the coward inside me any longer.//
She looked at the bottle.
She had been thinking about it for years now. However, James plotting against his daughter this way was enough to push her over the edge.
She looked at the bottle and the glass of water for hours.
She could not think of any reason not to.
She emptied the bottle onto the bed.
There was no point, she would rather this then to go to jail for murder… but enough was enough, and James had gone too far.
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James decided fine, if his wife was going to be unsupportive, he could do it with out her.
He decided he would go tonight, and take care of his business in NYC.
He got in his car and slowly drove down the driveway, thinking if this was really worth it.
The gates opened and he proceeded down the steep hill toward the highway.
"Hello Mister Gaffney, what can I do for you?"
"I need to go to NYC tonight, I am on my way to the airport right now."
"Very good Mister Gaffney, we will be ready when you get here."
James hung up the phone, and started to drive faster down the windy hill…
*****
24 Hours later…
"So Mrs. Portman, would you like to go out to dinner?"
"Why I would love to Mister Portman."
Julie got her things and they headed for the door when the phone rang…
"Hello, Ms. Gaffney?"
"Yes."
"Hello, I am commander Carver, I am afraid I have some bad news for you."
Julie stood silent on the phone while the officer told her what happened.
"Thank you commander for telling me." Julie said calmly.
"What happened?" Dean asked.
Julie sat down on the couch in disbelief.
"Well, honey you might want to sit down." Julie said.
"Okay." Dean said and sat down.
"Well, he said that my father died in a car accident. He was driving down the hill, the brakes went out, and he went over the cliff. The car exploded."
"Oh wow, Julie I'm sorry. Should you call your mom to see how she is?"
"Well, it won't do any good. She's dead too."
"She was in the car too."
"No, she was in her room, she had taken an overdose of one of her prescriptions."
"Oh my god, Julie, I am so sorry."
"Humph. He said he found a note with her."
"What did it say?"
"It said that James was on his way to try to start a fire in our apartment or something, and she had to stop him, so she cut the wires for the brakes on all the cars. She didn't want to go to prison so she just decided it was best."
"Oh my god!" Dean sat next to Julie and held her close. "I'm so sorry Julie."
"Don't be, I'm not. Good riddance, at least we do not have to worry about him anymore. Do you realize he was trying to kill us? Anyway, I suppose I will have to meet with the lawyers tomorrow."
"Do you still feel like dinner?"
"No not really. You can light a fire though." Julie said with a smile.
*****
"Mrs. Portman," Trent her father's attorney began, "it is pretty simple really. His percentage of the company he left to you. And everything else was going to be given equally between you and your mother, but since she is deceased too, it all goes to you."
Julie nodded, "okay, so the house in Maine and the apartment in Paris right?"
"Well, no actually. It's the house in Maine, the apartment in Paris, the villa in the south of France, the jet, the yacht, the 5 cars in Maine, 5 cars in Paris, all the horses, a race track in Dublin, and roughly $10,000,000,000. Oh, did I mention the company's net worth is over 87 billion dollars? I don't know how rich that Bill Gates is, but you are probably richer than him!"
Julie nodded her head and Dean's mouth was on the floor after 'the villa in the south of France'.
"All you have to do is sign here." He said.
"Okay." She took out a pen, signed the document shook his hand, and showed him the door.
"Thank you so much."
"Congratulations!"
"Thank you."
After he left the office Julie screamed.
"Oh My God! Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my! Dean do you know how rich we are?!"
"Um, no, not really, I lost everything he said after the cars."
"Well here let me show you."
She wrote it down on a piece of paper.
"Roughly our net worth is $97,000,000,000."
Dean got up and started shouting with Julie, jumping up and down.
"So, my darling, what would you like to do? Anything in the world?"
Dean smiled, well…
*****
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Began the announcer, "Let's hear it for the Western Conference Champions the Anaheim Mighty Ducks!"
The audience cheered.
"Let's hear it for our own Bash Brothers! Fulton Reed and Dean Portman!"
Julie stood up and cheered her husband and his best friend!
Dean and Fulton skated out onto the ice with the rest of the starters and prepared for the showdown on center ice.
The End…for now…