I hadn't planned to update so soon but I started writing and before I knew it, there was the next chapter. lol =)

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Georgie stormed down the hallway of Kyle's office building with Leo close behind. In the back of her mind, she knew this wasn't her brightest idea ever but that didn't stop her. She was too angry to try to distinguish between good and bad ideas. The entire ride over to the building, Leo had tried to convince her to turn around and go home. She heard him tell her Dillon was going to be mad, that she was probably going to make things worse, and maybe he was right, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe if Kyle realized that she knew, he would get the message. Maybe all he needed was for someone to wake him up.

"You know," Leo sighed as he caught up with her "We still have time to get out of here."

"Nice try."

She rounded the corner and looked out on all of the cubicles. She had been here a couple of times with Maxie, to see Kyle, and she knew exactly where he was, third row, second desk. He was sitting there, calmly typing away on his computer.

"Georgie?" he raised an eyebrow with suspicion "What are you doing here?...Is something wrong?"

"Is something wrong?" she practically laughed, folding her arms across her chest.

When Kyle noticed Leo, he quickly shut off his computer monitor and stood up. Leo had always made him nervous.

"Um," he shook his head with confusion "What's going on?"

"How dare you?" Georgie began, shaking her head in disgust "How dare you touch my sister?"

"Excuse me?" he stood with his hands on his hips, keeping a close watch on Leo's every move.

"Admit it Kyle. I want you to admit that you hit her."

"Look, I don't know what you're talking about but now is not a good time to discuss anything," he moved away from his desk and out into the aisle.

"Well, I think it's the perfect time," she gave him a mock smile "Let me tell you something, I know what's going on. I know that you've been drinking and you've been taking out the fact that you're a loser on Maxie!"

"That's enough!" Kyle raised his voice, pointing his finger in Georgie's face, which Leo quickly batted away with a stern expression in his eyes. Kyle shot Leo a fearful glance.

"Look," he said in a more quiet tone "I haven't hurt Maxie. If you're talking about her black eye, she fell, I thought she told you all about it."

"Yeah, yeah she told me how she tripped...what did she trip over again?"

Kyle's eyes grew wide and Georgie knew he was lying.

"Um..."

"Come on Kyle, what did she trip over?"

"This is ridiculous," he shook his head, glancing back to his desk "I have work to do."

"You don't know do you?"

He turned and went back to his computer.

"Do you Kyle?!" she shouted, so loud the entire office could hear her "You don't know what lie Maxie made up to cover for you with!"

"Come on Georgie," Leo took her arm and began to pull her away "Let's go."

"Don't you ever touch my sister again!" she shouted after him as Leo pulled her out of the office.

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"Are you going to tell Dillon?" Georgie sighed as she and Leo rode the elevator back up to the penthouse.

"I have to. You just made everything more complicated," Leo sighed "Why did you have to do that, Georgie? I was going to handle it."

"Not fast enough," she shook her head "Just, can I tell him?"

Leo narrowed his eyes. He didn't know if he trusted her enough to be honest with her husband about where she had been. She would usually go to great lengths to avoid his reaction to things like this.

"I'll tell him, I promise," she smiled "Now go on, tonight is your night off and you shouldn't spend it worrying about me. I'm going to tell him," she swiped her finger in an 'x' shape across her chest "Cross my heart."

Leo shook his head with a smirk.

"Fine, I'll see you tomorrow," he acknowledged Jimmy standing outside the door and left.

"Is my husband home?"

"Yes ma'm. He's got a visitor, Jason Morgan."

"Really?" Georgie smiled, opening the door and coming inside the house. Jason and Dillon were sitting on the couch.

"Jason," Georgie walked over to him and gave him a hug "What are you doing here?"

"I came to see Emily's baby," he smiled proudly. He looked truly happy. She hadn't seen him in a long time, but the last time she had, he had been miserable. He had lost Sonny, Carly and their kids after they went into hiding, and he and Courtney were left alone. Apparently moving from PC had given him a new start.

"Where were you, sweetheart?" Dillon looked up at her from the couch.

"Um, I went out, to the office for a little while" she smiled; She would tell him the truth, just not in front of Jason.

"Sit down with us," Dillon offered her a place on the couch.

"No, that's ok. I'm sure you have a lot to talk about, I'm just going to go upstairs for a while," she smiled. She wanted to call Maxie and tell her what she had done, before Kyle got home. She was hoping to convince Maxie to move out and stay with them.

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"You what?" Maxie practically screamed into the phone "Georgie, why did you do that?"

"Because he has no right to do that to you Maxie. I know he did it, you don't have to lie to me."

"Don't you understand what you've done?" Maxie was crying "When he comes home, he's going to be so mad at me."

"Maxie, listen to me, just pack your stuff right now and come over here. I can send the car for you."

"No," she whispered "I can't do that. I can't leave, that will make things worse."

"Maxie if he's hitting you, you need to leave!"

"Oh no," she heard Maxie sigh.

"What?"

"He's home, I have to go."

The phone went dead.



Georgie rushed down the stairs and grabbed her coat from the back of one of the chairs in the living room.

"Where are you going?" Dillon asked her.

For a second, she almost told him. She almost spilled the whole story right there in front of Jason, but she knew if she did Dillon wouldn't let her go, and she *had* to be there for her sister.

"I forgot something at the office," she called over her shoulder, not wanting to look him in the eye "I'll be back later. It was good to see you Jason, please come back whenever you can."

"You too Georgie," he called back, as she slammed the door behind her.

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When Georgie reached their apartment door, she could hear them yelling. Well, it was mostly Kyle.

"Maxie!" she yelled, banging on the door once she realized it was locked "Maxie! Open the door!"

Finally, it flew open, only Kyle was on the other side. He was drunk. She could smell it and she could hear it in his voice.

"What? Did you come to see it first hand Georgie?" he laughed.

She rushed in, trying to get away from him as quickly as she could. Her sister was sitting on the couch, curled up into a ball. A broken lamp lay in the middle of the floor and the coffee table was turned over.

"Come on Maxie," she took her sister's arm "Come on we're leaving."

"Oh no you're not," Kyle shook his head, locking the door back and moving toward them "Your little sister came to visit me today, Maxie."

"Kyle," Maxie whispered "Kyle, stop it."

"She likes getting in our business," he laughed, reaching out he grabbed Georgie's arm "Come to think of it, she's always done that, hasn't she Maxie?"

"Let go of me," Georgie groaned defiantly.

"Oh, what are you going to do? Get your little bodyguard to save you, he's not here this time, is he?"

"Kyle you're drunk, and you don't know what you're doing," Georgie stammered "Just, just let me go and we'll leave you alone, I promise."

Kyle shook his head and threw her down on the couch next to Maxie.

"Did you go crying to your sister Maxie?" he raised his voice "Did you? Did you?" he shook her shoulders between his hands.

"No," she whispered.

When she raised her head to answer, Georgie noticed that Maxie's lip was bleeding.

"Yes you did!" he slapped Maxie's cheek and pulled her off the couch.

"Let go of her!" Georgie demanded, trying desperately to move between them. He was doing his best to shake her off him. Georgie noticed they were really close to the fireplace, and she spotted the fire poker. She let him shake her away, falling to the ground, while he continued to fight with Maxie. He was so drunk and so focused on her, that he didn't notice Georgie slide across the floor and grab the fire poker. He didn't notice her move up behind him while he shook Maxie, and he didn't notice her raise it above his head. She hit him once, shaking his grip loose on Maxie and he hit the ground. He grabbed Georgie's foot and pulled her down beside him, they began to fight over the weapon and before Georgie knew what had happened, Kyle stopped fighting.

"Oh my God," Maxie whispered, as Georgie stood up beside her. The two women continued to stare at the lifeless body with the fire poker piercing his chest.

"Oh my God," Georgie echoed her, fear rising up in her throat "Oh my God, I killed him."

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Somebody mentioned in a review of "The Sacrifice" that they wanted Kyle out of the picture, and that was a coincidence because I already had this idea in my head. So, now how will they handle Kyle's murder? That's what the fic is mainly going to focus on. How it will effect Dillon and Georgie's relationship, how are they going to cover it up, etc. thus "The Secret". lol Please, please, please review. =)