Another Problem

Chapter 4: The Unexpected

(Two Month Later)

Kiva stepped into her home with Coop looking absolutely distraught (Kiva looked distraught). Coop stepped in behind her looking very serious. Kiva headed straight for the luxurious couch and lay on it. Coop walked up to the couch and stood over her.

"What are we going to do about this?" Coop asked seriously.

"I don't know," Kiva whispered tearfully.

"I have everything to give her. Why would she want you?"

"I don't know."

Coop just had a quick mental flashback of Jamie giving him the same answer to a question he had asked. 'I don't know'. Jamie had said that to him the day before he (Coop) married Kiva. Now Kiva was saying it.

"What if it's Jamie's?" Coop asked her, "what if the baby looks like him?" he asked.

"What?" Kiva asked as she turned to look at Coop.

"I will not have a scandal," Coop said firmly, "not in my marriage," he told her.

Kiva looked at Coop incredulously.

"You want me to have an abortion?" Kiva asked fearfully.

"No," Coop said, "I want a divorce," he revealed.

"What?" Kiva asked incredulously, "you want to leave me?"

"I will not be made a fool of," Coop declared, "not even by you," he added darkly.

"But I don't understand," Kiva insisted, "you're the one who refused to leave me," she pointed out.

"But I have a condition though," Coop revealed.

"I knew it!" Kiva shouted.

"If that baby's mine," Coop started and Kiva prepared herself for talks about custody battles, "don't EVER tell him that I'm his father," he told Kiva.

"What?" Kiva asked in confusion.

"You heard me," Coop said, "I want no connection or affiliation with that child of yours," he said frankly, "you can make Jamie or even Goat be his father," he declared, "I for one no longer know either one of you," he concluded.

"You'd forsake your own child?" Kiva asked him.

"Don't play innocent with me!" Coop shouted, "if you hadn't slept with Jamie three days after we had sex that month there wouldn't be any questions of paternity," he threw at her.

"If you hadn't forced me to stay in a marriage we wouldn't even have a paternity problem," Kiva threw back.

Coop looked at her angrily with clenched fists.

"Well guess what?" Coop hissed, "you're not being forced to stay married anymore," he told her, "I really do care about you," he said and Kiva snorted, "but I'm tired of you," he said and Kiva looked at Coop as if he were nuts, "you're not happy, you make me angry and well…it's not worth it," he said frankly, "not worth it at all," he added and walked off.

Kiva watched him go. She hadn't contacted Jamie for over a month. She wonder how he'd take the news of her finally divorcing Coop. She hoped that he'd take it well. How else would he take it?

(Later at 7pm at a beach in Japan)

"I want us to be married," Yuki said excitedly as she and Core walked along the private beach, "Jamie's too deep in love with his 'married' woman," she said, "he'll never love me," she said sadly.

"Not as much as I do," Core said and kissed her lightly on the lips, "but give our relationship time," he told her, "we've only been dating for two weeks," he reminded her.

"But it feels like two years," Yuki whined, "two wonderfully luscious years," she added and looked at Core flirtatiously.

"Been absolute heaven for me," Core said and Yuki giggled, "I can't see what Jamaie can't fall in love with when it comes to you."

"Well I can be bitch," Yuki admitted.

"And I love that about you," Core said kindly, "makes you strong and assertive," he said proudly.

"Is there anything bad about me?" Yuki asked with a laugh.

"Like all humans you fart," Core said and Yuki cried out in disbelief and hit him over the head.

Moments later they were both laughing.

"Let's go to bed," Core said and Yuki nodded and followed him back to the hotel, "but I need to see Jamie," he added.

"I'll come with you," Yuki said and Core nodded.

"Yo Jamie!" Core shouted, "funny," he said softly, "Jamie wouldn't be asleep now."

"Yeah," Yuki agreed, "hey his bedroom door is open," she observed and walked quickly towards it, "Jamie Core wants to…." she started to say and opened his bedroom door, "ahhhhhh!" she suddenly screamed.

Core ran to her side immediately. Yuki turned to him and sobbed on his shoulder. Core looked down on the scene before him sadly.

Jamie lay on the floor of his bedroom bleeding heavily from his head. A pistol lay on the floor not very from his immobile body that kept oozing blood from the head.

Chapter 4 Completed

Disclaimer: I didn't mention this in chapter 1 but I don't own the PPGS or Townsville, which I mentioned in ch1 of this story. Not repeating.

Reggae: Updated Wednesday September 28, 2005.