Before the Gun Shot
The police had been surrounded around the house now for a good 20 minutes, all they kept on doing was announce for Kyle to give himself up. Danielle finally looked up from thinking about all that was going on and saw Kyle pacing back and forth in the room nervously. "Kyle, please just give yourself up. I promise to make sure that you get all the help you need." Danielle told him very calmly as Kyle stopped pacing and looked over at her.
"They weren't suppose to find us, how the hell did they find us so fast?" Kyle asked frantically kneeling down in front of her taking her hands in his.
"I don't know, there wasn't too many people that knew about this place." Danielle answered softly looking in the other direction.
"You really think that I should give myself up?" Kyle asked in a sincere scared voice as Danielle turned her head back over to look him in the eyes, "Yes". There was a long pause between them as Danielle could see that Kyle was holding back tears and then finally spoke up.
"I'll be back in a couple of minutes". He let go of her hands and got up walking out of the room leaving Danielle all alone. A couple of minutes later he returned like he said he would but this time he had a very serious look on his face.
"Can you just answer me this one question, and please be honest." He asked her as Danielle nodded agreeing to that, "Do you love me?"
"Kyle, yes of course I love you. I grew up with you, we share a lot of memories but I don't love you in the way you want me to love you. I love you just as a friend." Danielle truthfully answered him as he nodded closing his eyes letting a tear fall down his cheek.
"Here" Kyle replied pulling a key out of his pocket and handing it over to Danielle. "Will you come out with me?" Danielle asked.
"You just go ahead and go first; I'll be down in a couple of minutes. Take this with you too."
"What is it?" Danielle asked taking the folded paper he gave her.
"Just something for you to read once you can forgive me. I guess it's easier to write down then for me to say to you." Kyle told her as Danielle pulled him in for a hug, "Thanks. I promise I'll get you all the best help. Ok?"
"Ok" Kyle sighed as Danielle finally pulled apart from their hug and took one last look at Kyle and walked out of the bedroom heading downstairs. She stopped at the middle of the stairs and sat down taking a moment to try to take things in. She began to cry lightly as she heard the cops announce again for Kyle to give himself up. She wiped her tears away quickly trying to hold herself together getting up. All she could think about now was the faster she got out there the sooner Kyle would get the help he needed. Just as she got the bottom of the stairs she heard the noise of a gun go off. Danielle turned around and looked up the stairs in shock not believing she just heard the gun shot.
"Kyle!" Danielle screamed as she took off running up the stairs, "Oh my god!" She stopped in the middle of the room holding her hands over her mouth as tears fiercely fell down her face at the site she saw. "Kyle no, why did you have to do this?" she walked over and took his hand in hers hoping he would still have a pulse, but there was nothing there. She dropped his hand and backed away seeing she had his blood on her hands. She began to shake wiping her hands down the sides of her pants and taking off down the stairs. She took out the key and could hear the cops yelling to stay down as she began to open the door. She slowly walked out of the house hearing Rob and Shane yelling for her in the background but she didn't really feel like she was there.
"Oh Baby, thank god your alright" Shane replied running up to her grabbing her into a strong embrace trying to comfort her. "No! Please don't touch me!" Danielle yelled out backing away from him as Rob came up behind a shocked Shane.
"Let her be man, I think Kyle may have raped her." Rob replied with a crack in his voice, it killed him to see her like this. He remembered the shape she was in when her brother committed suicide and now something like this had to happen when everything was going right for her.
"What's wrong did you and Matt have a fight?" Jeff asked walking into the living room knowing Amy had just got off the phone with Matt to talk about something.
"No we didn't have a fight, I just had to tell him some bad news." Amy sighed laying her head back on the couch. Jeff came over and sat down on the couch, "What bad news?"
"Well the WWE called me early this morning and said they decided to keep me on Raw instead of moving me to Smackdown. They couldn't guarantee that I would get anywhere on Smackdown because most of the girls on there aren't ready to step up more with me." Amy told him as Jeff nodded.
"You never can guess what the WWE is going to say, they called me back this morning too" Amy raised an eyebrow as she listened to what Jeff was saying, "And what did they have to say about you?"
"Well they said they would be willing to give me 8 months off only if when I came back that I would not pull the tricks I have been pulling lately" Jeff answered as Amy was surprised the WWE actually agreed to give him that much time off.
"Is that enough time for you?" Amy asked.
"Yea I think it is. I'm glad they finally realized I need this time off to get my hunger back for wrestling and to heal"
"So what are you going to do about Jessica? When she finds out your going to be home for that long she will.." Amy began to say as Jeff stopped her. "She's not going to know. I know damn well this baby is not mine, I just have that feeling. I'm heading out to Michigan in a couple hours"
"Michigan? Did you hear news about Danielle?" Amy asked sitting up, she had been worried about Danielle all night because she hadn't heard anything since they had gotten Danielle out of the house that Kyle had her in.
"Yea Rob called me. Kyle did rape her, and he committed suicide as well. He said Danielle isn't in good shape so I said I would fly up to stay with her because Rob and Shane both have a live show to tape tonight" Jeff explained to her as Amy sat there in silence for a moment with tears in her eyes.
"God I hope she's going to be ok. Do you really think that is a good idea you fly up there and stay with her, you two did have feelings for each other and she's with Shane now" Amy questioned him.
"Yea I know Shane's with her now but that's not gonna stop me from caring about her. Just because things didn't work out between us doesn't mean I don't want to be there for her as a friend. I feel terrible about what happened to her, if only Jessica didn't play her stupid games and keep me away from that OMEGA match. I would have went back to Shane's house with the two of you and Kyle would have never got to her then." Amy put her hand on his shoulder, "Jeff you can't blame this on yourself, yea maybe you could have stopped it from happening that night but it would have happened another night then. You better get going if you don't want to miss your flight, tell Danielle I said Hi and hope she's doing better. She can call me anytime she needs somebody to talk to."
"Ok I'll tell her" Jeff nodded getting up giving Amy a hug goodbye, "Sorry the WWE had to be jerks to you, maybe Matt can give it a try and switch over to Raw."
"Thanks Jeff see you when you get back" Amy smiled as Jeff left Matt's house heading straight for the airport not wanting to stop at his house in chance of running into Jessica.
"God it just frustrates me so much that I can't do anything to make Danielle's pain go away. That asshole had the nerve to rape her and then make her live through another suicide." Shane replied with frustration and anger in his voice as him and Rob talked outside Danielle's house not wanting her to hear their conversation.
"You can do a lot for her, just letting her know that your here for her means a lot more then you think even though it looks like it doesn't. When her brother committed suicide she shut everybody out, and plus now a rape she's just in shock of everything. It's going to take time but once she realizes you aren't going anywhere she will reach out" Rob replied giving Shane the reassurance that he needed.
"Boys, did you want something to eat before you have to leave for the airport?" Danielle's mother Elizabeth asked peeking her head out the door.
"Yea Mrs. Channing, you know I miss your cooking" Rob smiled making her laugh as Shane and Rob came back into the house.
"I'll be back down for something to eat in a second, I just want to go check in on Danielle" Shane replied as they stopped in the kitchen. Mrs. Channing turned around giving a warm smile, "I'm sure she'd love to see you right now. She just woke up from a nap and was taking a quick shower." Shane nodded giving her a smile, she had welcomed him the moment she met him and found out he and Danielle were involved. Rob and Mrs. Channing then made their way into the dining room as Shane headed upstairs to Danielle's bedroom. As he walked into her room he expected to see her lying in her bed but she was nowhere in site. He turned to her bathroom where he heard the shower running. "Danielle, you ok in there?" Shane asked knocking on the door lightly as the door moved opened a little to let out a big amount of steam. He waited a second and heard no response which made him worry. He immediately opened the door going into the bathroom that was full of steam from the shower. "Danielle?" he called out once more as he looked over in the shower and saw her sitting on the floor curled up letting the water run on her. He saw her skin was red from the heat and quickly grabbed a towel nearby and turned the shower off and getting the towel wrapped around her as he helped her out of the shower. She fell into his arms so fragile and helpless crying as Shane wrapped his arms around her. She had finally at least let him hug her which made him feel a lot better.
"Oh god baby I'm so sorry this had to happen" Shane whispered into her ear, "I'm always here for you" Danielle nodded as Shane picked her up and carried her back over to her bed laying her down gently. "I'm going to go downstairs and get some water for you, you were in that hot shower too long"
"No, please don't leave right now" Danielle called out as Shane turned back around to see her scared expression. He quickly walked back over and sat down next to her on the bed, "Ok" He took her hand in his and they both sat there together in silence.
Rob walked down the long hallway in the back locker rooms of the arena they were in that night. He finally arrived at JR's room and knocked on the door lightly being greeted by JR as he opened the door.
"Rob, hey i've been expecting to hear from you about Danielle. How is she?" JR asked as they both went and sat down on the couch in his room.
"Well she's safe now. We found where Kyle took her and he let her go, and he comitted suicide thinking she had already left the house. We also found out from Danielle that Kyle had raped her as well when he had her in the house." Rob explained to him as JR shook his head feeling terrible for her.
"Poor thing she must be an emotional wreck" JR replied as Rob sighed nodding his head, "Yea it's terrible for her to have to go through this, it was hard enough for me and Shane to leave Michigan. We had Jeff fly up and stay with her tonight because she's starting to have nightmares whenever she falls asleep."
"I'd like to call her and talk to her about a developmental contract" JR told Rob as he smiled that they had liked her in ring performance. "You know what I would give her about a week and then call her because that is something that would start to help her feel better. She wants this so bad especially because her brother didn't get it."
"Yea I'll give her a week and then give her a call. Vince can't wait to meet her; he loves her energy in the ring." JR told him as Rob thanked him shaking his hand and leaving to get ready for the show.
"Your pregnant Jess?!"
"Anna, shh not so loud." Jessica replied cutting her off as they sat in the local restaurant eating lunch.
"Is it Jeff's?" Anna asked knowing she had been around Jeff as much as possible lately. Jessica paused for a moment and then decided to tell her the truth since she was her best friend.
"No, but he thinks it's his. I went to a clinic a little bit after I got back from Canada to make it close to that time to make him believe it's his so we can finally get back together and get married." Jessica told her as her friend was a little shocked.
"Are you serious?" Jessica nodded her head. "Then who was this guy I saw going over to your house a lot?"
"Ok, don't tell anybody this ok?" her friend nodded as Jessica continued on, "His name is Kyle. He is a friend of Danielle's the one that was almost involved with Jeff. We planned together to keep them apart and get them with us."
"So that break in at Jeff's house that was Kyle?" Anna asked.
"Yea that was him. I haven't heard from him since the day before yesterday. He was suppose to kidnap Danielle from Shane's house and make her realize they were meant to be." Jessica told her as her friend sat there the whole time looking behind Jessica.
"Umm Jess I have to get home, call me later ok?" Anna replied rushing out of the place as Jessica couldn't figure out why Anna acted so weird.
"Jessica, so nice to see you again" Gil Hardy answered walking around from the back of the booth.
"Gil, hi" Jessica replied a little alarmed that he was right there and began to wonder how long he had been there. "Listen Gil I have an appointment to have to get to"
"Save it Jessica" Gil retorted cutting her off immediately "I heard the whole conversation, to think I believed you were a great lady for my boy when he told me all you were was trouble. I should have believed him from the beginning."
"Gil I was just joking about what I was saying to my friend" Jessica answered as tears came to her eyes as Gil just shook his head and left the restaurant leaving Jessica in a state of panic.
Jeff knocked on Danielle's bedroom door lightly as she softly replied for him to come in.
"Hey" Jeff answered walking into her bedroom and sitting in the chair next to her bed.
"Hey, sorry I didn't let you get much sleep last night. I just can't help it, every time I go to sleep I have the same damn nightmare" Danielle answered still in as soft scared voice.
"You don't have to apologize to me, I care about you and I'm here whenever you need me. I know this is something you don't want to hear now but I know you would want to know about this, I just heard it directly from my father."
"What's that?"
"First he said he wanted me to tell you that he's sorry for the way he treated you and that he says your welcome to come over for dinner when you are feeling better. The bad news is he overheard Jessica telling her friend she knew Kyle. They both planned together to keep us from getting involved."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes positive he listened to the entire conversation. You know she had the nerve to go to a clinic and get pregnant and tell me that it's my child" Jeff told her as Danielle sighed.
"Nothing goes right anymore. Why do they have to do such terrible stuff like this?" Danielle cried softly. Jeff sat there for a second hesitant and then reached out taking his hand in hers and then kissing her hand softly.
"Don't worry this whole mess is over with now." Jeff told her as Danielle nodded soon falling asleep tired from not getting much sleep yet.