Ur-Chapter 22
"Can I get out now or shall I just drown here?" Brian asked as Kendall sat leisurely on the bank, watching him with her eagle eye vision as best as she could, the pouring rain making her a sopping wet mess. She examined her nails and squinted at him as he spit out the accumulating raindrops in his face and mouth.
"You can drown. That way I don't have to get my hands dirty." She said with a huff and went back to her nails. Brian stood in the rushing creek, his boots filled with water and the mud feeling like it was going to give away and let him be swept away. He cursed himself for trying to distract her and make her get out of the water. He had obviously gone about it the wrong way.
"Thanks." He said, his feet giving away. He started to float downstream of the ever growing, water rushing creek.
"Oh, no you don't.! You can't escape me, no matter how hard you try!" Kendall jumped up, following him down the bank, her feet hopping like a rabbits through the muddy creek bank. The sight of a soaking wet Kendall with a fiery hornet's temper following him downstream as she ranted and raved of him 'trying to escape her wrath' made him bust into laughter, despite the situation.
"Seems I'm doin an all right job of it." He called back, now amused, not able to do anything else in the situation.
"You ARE SO FREAKING DEAD." She spouted, stomping her foot like a little kid throwing a tantrum.
"Yeah, I might just be. Be careful not to fall back in. I would hate to have to rescue you again." Brian called, laughing as he floated at a slower pace.
"You wish I could fall in so you could kill me like you killed my dad!" She yelled, pacing back and fourth on the bank like a tiger stalking a victim of prey.
"I didn't kill your dad." He called, laying on his back, his hands behind his head, looking like he was floating in a swimming pool rather than an over flowing creek bed that was way out of control.
"Right, my ass. I'm not stupid to fall for you r lies again." Kendall warned, still trailing the bank as he floated on down. He sat up, seeing the dam was coming close and he was about to enter a lake. He tried to swim but the current was too strong. He gave her a wave and went over the small waterfall like dam. "NO! I'll kill you! You can't escape me!" She yelled, feeling defeated and suddenly tired.
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"Where do you think they went?" Roman asked Dominic, pacing with worry.
"I don't know. I can't get an answer on the phone. Let's go out and look." Dominic's forehead had a creased line with worry across his shiny forehead.
"This is just like O'Connor." Roman mumbled, annoyed and yet worried all at the same time.
"Yeah, well, I can't see Kendall goin out with him unless she had good reason." Dominic said, getting up to answer the phone that was ringing now for the thirtieth time, it seemed.
"Brian?" Letty asked, her voice giving away concern. Dominic dropped the phone and turned white. Hearing the commotion, Mia and Jesse came running in.
"Hello." Mia picked up the phone. Dominic got a hold of himself and took back the phone, waiting to hear the angel's voice he had just heard.
"Mia, what is goin on?" Letty asked, now quiet. Dominic looked at Mia with hurt, bewilderment, joy, and yet an unsure ness.
"Give me the phone and I'll explain in a little bit." Mia grabbed for the phone. He held it up over her head, speechless and put the phone back to his mouth and ear.
"Letty is that you?" Dominic asked hoarsely, his expression paining his sister as she watched him try to figure out what was happening. He even pinched himself.
"Yes, Dom, it's me. I was going to come home and surprise you but the two that were on their way…" She trailed as lightning crashed and she fought back tears of just being able to hear his voice.
"Where you at?" He asked, grabbing his coat as he talked. She gave him the address and he was out the door after hanging up. He came back in, grabbed Mia and headed for the door yet again.
"I hope you make it back in one piece." Jesse called after her, a grin on his face and glad to see that he was alive in the empty shell of a body he had been walking around in since the news of her death.
"Find Brian and Kendall." She called over her shoulder as she was being drug out the car.
"Why MIA?" Dominic asked, shifting gears and gunning the engine.
"It had to be done, DOM. Tran was going after you and all of us and it was the only way to bring him down. He's in prison now. Thanks to Dall setting him up." Mia put on her seatbelt, truly afraid of his reckless driving as he plowed through the build up of rainwater on the sides of the city roads.
"Ok, I coulda acted. Why?" he asked, tears in his eyes. He was happy and yet he was feeling betrayed.
"It was the police department's doing. I only found out by mistake." Mia played with he hem line of her jean jacket as he looked at her.
"She's okay? Alive and well?" He asked, shifting to get onto the highway as his sister nodded, her eyes watery.
"I don't know what to say…" He trailed off, his throat tight.
"Take this as a second chance to show her how you really loved her and how you can treat her like a wife and give her the ring." Mia encouraged, her voice soft.
"How do you know about the ring?" He asked, his shock clearly apparent by his expression.
"Dom, I know you better than I think you know yourself sometimes." Mia laughed, shaking her head at his blindness. "I know you wanted to give her that ring three years ago and I know its up in the closet so why haven't you? Or why didn't you?" She asked, ready to finally get an answer.
"I'm not worthy of her." Dominic replied simply.
"What?" Mia scoffed, wondering where her cocky brother was and who was the person that was unsure and belittling to himself was.
"You heard me. Ever since I thought she died, I hate myself. I should have given her the world and yet I treated her like she would always be there." Dominic sighed, the stress showing how it had made him age. He was no longer the same man, Mia noticed. He was tired, worn, and old. He was to the breaking point and she couldn't wait until the two saw each other. She knew this is what they had needed, be it painful for them both or not. She couldn't help but smile to herself. "What're you smiling for?" He asked, his eyes now on the road.
"Let's just say you have a new chance. A way to start over. You gonna mess it up too or you gonna learn and do her right?" Mia asked, almost dying to tell him the news of the baby on the way.
"I don't think I have to answer that one. I think you know what I'm going to do." Dominic grinned, making her smile.
"SO, you won't yell at her for keeping this a secret? You won't be mad at us all?" Mia asked, her eyebrow raised as she watched him. He pulled up to the address and stopped the car, looking at his sister.
"I don't care as long as I have my baby back." He said and with that, got out of the car into the pouring rain and ran to the warehouse's door, knocking on it with a heavy and soaked hand.
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"Where's Brian?" Roman asked, meeting a muddy, soaked Kendall at the door as she took off her muddy shoes.
"Don't know, don't care." She said, almost as if she was huffing. "Last I saw he was headed down the creek and over the dam. Yeah, that was the last I saw of him." Kendall nodded, going to the bathroom and slamming the door in Roman's face, clearly pissed.
"You left him there? What the hell, Kendall?" Roman yelled, banging on the door. She opened it, stared at him coldly and shut it again, this time locking it.
"He killed my dad. He admitted that shit to me." Kendall slid down the floor, tears flowing freely now, as she didn't care that her muddy back was making an impression on the white paint of the door.
"No, he didn't. Why did he tell you that shit?" Roman asked, shaking his head in frustration at her latest escapade. She was good at creating the drama.
"SO I could get her ass out of the water." Brian whispered, an evil like grin on his face.
"You okay, Brah?" Roman looked shocked.
"Shhh…." Brian cautioned, nodding and making a slashing throat signal as he pointed to the door Kendall was behind.
"You had to live didn't you!" Kendall threw open the door, her curling iron raised as she lunged for the water soaked blonde headed guy she had grown up with.
"God, you have good ears." Brian quipped, still finding her temper after all the exhausting water funny as hell. Grinning was all he could do.
"You… you are dead." She yelled, starting for him.
"Help me out, Roman. Control your girl!" Brian called, jumping over some furniture to stay out of her tornadic path of threats and slurs she was throwing out left and right.
"DALL! Come on! Let's talk about this." Roman held her, lifting her up off the ground as she kept running in the air, still struggling to get loose and at her enemy number nine.
"TALK? Oh, he and I will talk." She warned, almost loose of his grip, though he was holding her tightly. Roman never realized just how strong she was until now. She was one of strength and determination.
"Distract her, would you?" Brain growled, under his voice as she ranted and raved, still trying to get at her. Roman looked at him as though he didn't' know what to do and then he grabbed her soaked face and looked her in the eyes, kissing her with some what of a force as Brian hightailed it up the stairs to his room and to safety.
A/n" I have like one, maybe tow chapters of this story left, lol. I love this story and have so much fun with Kendall, lol. She's a trip, eh? Well, thanks to all of you for being patient with me and stuff. I have a broken arm and so typing has been kind of hard and painful but I got it done, wohhhooo, lol. Thanks and I'll really love ya if you hit that review button and give me a review fix, lol. See ya next update! CHEER
