Title: Problems with the Past
Author: I AM GRUMPY-BEAR
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Summary: Gary meets a girl who's past is quickly catching up to her and that could spell disaster for everyone.
Disclaimer: I don't own them. I don't, I don't, I don't
Note: Frederick Bostwick was a character I made up in a story I wrote with a friend of mine. Most of this chapter was taken from that story. Basically, I thought you might all like to know why he is so evil and all. There was a reason.
Problems with the Past
Chapter Eight: The American Boy
Frederick Charles Bostwick was raised like most American boys. His parents were together all their lives and he had always been given a lot of love. He was an only child until his baby brother Samuel Wayne Bostwick was born when he was five.
While growing up, Bostwick played various sports. He had played football in junior high, and was on the varsity baseball team his freshman year. His parents always managed to make it to all his games and bragged about him to all their friends.
Although Samuel was not interested in sports, he enjoyed participating in other activities. Unfortunately, his parents were not too interested in what Samuel enjoyed and never quite managed to make time for his events. It had always seemed that Bostwick was their favorite son and Bostwick being happy with all the attention never noticed haw sad his younger brother was.
Everything had changed for Bostwick his sophomore year of high school. He hadn't made the cut for the baseball team and his parents practically disowned him. Their lives had been all about Bostwick's games. Bostwick, angry at the baseball coach, took a baseball bat and bashed in the car windows. Bostwick's life had gone down the hill from there.
He quit caring about school and sports and started to commit petty crimes. He had gotten together with a kid at his school and held up a convenient store when he was sixteen. That kid was Michael Sumter, his best friend and soon to be partner in crime. Since they were still a minors, he and Michael had gotten away with only two years in a juvenile delinquent center before being transferred to a minimum security prison for a two year sentence.
After being released from prison, Bostwick and Sumter had left their hometown of Jacksonville and moved to a small town in mid-western Illinois. There they did odd jobs around the town. One of the families they worked for were the Stantons. The father was named George Stanton and he was a self-made millionaire. That's when Sumter hatched the plan.
Sumter got a job at Knoxville Junior High as a janitor and Bostwick continued to do odd jobs around the town. Then one night, Bostwick and Sumter broke into Stanton's house and stole one million dollars worth of money, stocks, and jewelry. Stanton caught them in the act and their robbery became a murder.
Sumter and Bostwick had split up after the crime and Sumter was picked up by the police a day later. They were never able to get enough evidence to pin the crime on either Sumter or Bostwick.
Two years later Michael Sumter was killed in a car accident. The rest of the Stantons moved away and for eleven years, the robbery and murder went unsolved. The town forgot about and went back to their normal lives. For thirteen years, Frederick Charles Bostwick was missing, until one day, he came back.
Like his friend before him, Bostwick became a custodian at the Knoxville Junior High. He was in search of the money he and his friend had stolen. After Bostwick had been searching a week, a kid had stumbled onto the locker with the clues to where the fortune was hidden. Her name was Robin Mason, and she and her friend Samantha were determined to find the money.
After following the two girls and George Stanton's son, Jack, around the town for two weeks, Bostwick was ready for the fortune. It was located behind a row of lockers at the junior high. Bostwick was willing to kill all three kids for the fortune and nearly succeeded by locking Jack and Robin in the school freezer. Samantha had called the police and they arrived on the scene before he could get away. Robin, Jack, and Samantha told the police everything from the robbery, to the murder, to Bostwick following them around town. Bostwick was sentenced to thirty years in prison with no chance of parole for fifteen years.
He hated Jack and Samantha, but it was Robin he hated the most. She had figured out everything and it was her fault he was going to prison. Bostwick swore to the world that he was going to make her pay.
Chapter eight. Whoo! Wipes forehead. Hope you'll liked it.