( Courtroom #7; 1984)

"Well Mr. Hyde, since there is no proof that Mrs. Hyde's child is not someone else's but yours, I'll have to rule in her favor." The judge said.

"Wait your honor, can't we get that new test to prove that the kid is indeed not his?" The attorney asked.

"Mr. Arson, I don't think that your client can afford that test it's extremely expensive and it's a very rare test. The only place to get the test done is in New York." The judge said.

Mr. Arson looked back at Hyde and was about to tell the judge to forget it then until Hyde jumped up.

"Your honor I don't care how expensive it is; that money is supposed to go to my child not my pretend child and my ex-wife." Hyde said.

"Mr. Hyde, I'll give you one month; Mrs. Hyde, I'm ordering your son to undergo a DNA test." The judge said.

"Wait your honor, you can't go back on your verdict." The man said.

"Mr. Patterson, I can't make a ruling without seeing that test; if Mr. Hyde cannot provide that test for me then the ruling will stand. If he can provide the test then the ruling will be made right away." The judge said.

Eric opened the door to his apartment as soon as Hyde had knocked on it. The two friends had rarely spoken to each over the past two years. Eric however, knew that he had to come to the hearings. He was so happy that Hyde had finally seen through Valerie's lies and schemes. Unfortunately for him, he was locked in a big divorce trial.

"Looks like you're starting to get a little beard." Eric said.

"Well, at least I'm able to get some facial hair." He replied.

"I'm glad things haven't changed. So you want a bear?" He asked.

"Yeah sure whatever." Hyde said.

"So have you seen Marissa lately." Eric asked.

"Not in a couple of years." He said.

"What? I thought you were seeing her more often." Eric said.

"I was but then I got caught up in my life with Valerie and the divorce." Hyde said.

"Well, why did you tell me that you recently saw her to me on the phone the other day?" Eric asked.

"I didn't want anyone to worry about it." Hyde said.

"Well, have you talked to Jackie about it lately?" He asked.

"No I haven't." He said.

"Have you seen her lately?" He asked.

"No." He replied.

"Hyde, when's the last time that you have spoken or seen Jackie?" Eric asked.

"1978; the nanny always dropped Marissa off." Hyde said.

"It's really been that long?" He asked.

"Yeah and I don't plan on seeing her ever. I feel bad for Marissa but there's no way that I'm getting on the phone with Jackie. She would have a field day with how dare I abandoned my only daughter crap." Hyde said.

"Yeah but Hyde she's your one and only child; not to mention your first born." He said.

"I know that you have to believe that I would never hurt Marissa in anyway." He said.

"Well what do you think you're doing when you don't see her or demand to see her?" Eric asked.

"Eric I really don't need a lecture right now; I already have enough on my mind. Marissa is better off without me anyways. I mean look at how messed up my life is; she doesn't need to be dragged into this." Hyde said.

"Hyde I can't believe that after all you have been through with your parents that you would do this to Marissa." Eric said.

"Do what?" He asked.

"Abandoned Marissa that's what." Eric replied.

"I'm not abandoning her; I'm just not involving her in the mess that my life has become." Hyde said.

"So after all of this is over you are going to go and see Marissa." He asked.

"Yeah sure whatever." He replied.

"What about Jackie?" He asked.

"What about her?" Hyde asked back.

"Well as soon as the divorce is actually final, are you going to go and get Jackie back?" Eric asked.

"No I'm not; Eric, you don't get it, do you?" Hyde asked.

"No, Hyde I don't get it. You two should be together right now; but because of Valerie you both have lived apart from each other." Eric said.

"Eric you're forgetting one little detail; first of all she's married and secondly doesn't she have a little girl with him as well." Hyde said.

"So what; that doesn't mean she's in love with him." Eric said.

"Eric, having a daughter with him means that she's bonded to him no matter what. Plus her marriage has lasted for six years because they are in love. I'm not going to break up a six-year marriage over selfish reasons." Hyde said.

"Well then leave it to..."

"Eric stay out of it." Hyde said.

"Yeah but..."

"Eric promise me that you'll stay out of it." Eric said.

"Yeah but Hyde..."

"Eric promise me now." Hyde demanded of his best friend.

"Fine I promise." He said.

"You promise to do what?" He asked him again.

"I promise not to stick my nose into yours and Jackie's business." He said.

"Good, now how about that drink." He said.

"Coming up." He said.

The tears came pouring down her cheeks violently. Six years of marriage and this is what it had all boiled down to; he had left. It wasn't that he had just left her that bothered her but the fact that he had taken Courtney with him was a fact that she couldn't bare. It had been a quiet day the snow was falling outside and he had decided that it was the perfect time to take Courtney to Greece. He left a note for Jackie on the pillow next to her. That was the last time that she would ever here from him and Courtney again. When she woke up she called Marissa downstairs to get her breakfast but then remembered that she was in Paris with grandmother. Marissa had fell in love with Paris after she got a personal tour of the Louvre. Jackie went into the kitchen and fished a grapefruit out of the bottom of the fridge. Since she ended up firing the chef, the fridge had been pretty empty. After thinking about it, she was glad that Marissa was not here for breakfast. Jackie walked into the living room and turned on the TV. She was going back into the kitchen when she heard the report on the TV.

A man and his daughter were found dead inside a car this morning. Apparently, they were ambushed from behind. Police are looking at this as a planned shooting. The victims were found outside this small airport. The owner of the airport identified the man as one of the owners of a small airplane.

Jackie freaked when she heard the report. The airport was the same one that Robert had an airplane at. She thought it was coincidental until she heard the last part of the crushing news.

The man has just been identified as Robert Dawson ; the girl's name will remain anonymous unitl her mother has been identified of the incident.

So here she was now driving down to Point Place, Wisconsin. She had given the allusion that she had been somewhere else in the world beside Wisconsin; but the truth was that she was in Madison. The whole entire time; she was crying so hard that she didn't see the car she had just hit. The crash, luckily, had not really caused much damage at all. How ever the lady that she had hit happen to be no other than Valerie. She got out of the car and walked over to Jackie's car.

"Listen I'm so sorry I didn't...mean...to...Valerie is that you?" Jackie asked with surprise.

"Oh wow this is so my luck day. I get to run into the bitch of them all. Look at what you did to my car." Valerie yelled at her.

If things were bad enough for Jackie, the fact that she had hit Valerie's car right out in front of Eric's apartment made far more worse. Eric and Hyde came running out of the apartment to see what was going on. Hyde didn't recognize Jackie at first because he was too busy rushing over to Valerie.

"So what happened, you hit someone or are you going to lie about that one as well?" Hyde asked.

"Actually I never hit anyone but you're whining little girlfriend total my bumper." Valerie said.

Hyde turned to face Jackie; his eyebrow lifted in surprise at seeing her. She looked like a total mess.

"Jackie what are you doing here?" Hyde asked.

Jackie turned to face him and instead of saying anything, she turned to him and started hugging him.

"Jackie what's going on?" He asked more seriously.

"Steven they're dead; every single one of them are dead." Jackie said.

"Every who...oh no...Marissa..."

"No she's fine but Robert and Courtney are dead." Jackie said.

Eric went over to hug Jackie while Valerie smiled. Finally, she had succeeded. Valerie had a new plan; and that was to make sure that Jackie suffered. First she hired someone to get rid of Robert, Courtney, and then she would hit her where it counted the most; Hyde and Marissa.