The next morning Willow sat in her office thinking about the night before. Every thing had gone as planned. She and Rex had made love. It was the best night of her life, she thought with a smile. Rex had been shocked, shocked and very excited, when she had opened the door in nothing but a negligee and a glass of bubbly. He had also said yes when she had asked him to move in with her. Life didn't get much better then this.
She shook off her thoughts and decided to get back to work. She was working on her kidnapping case, making notes to her self on a legal pad. As she sifted through the files on her desk she noticed the Mitch Lawrence file she had put there yesterday. She had forgotten all about it. Opening it up she started reading. Making notes to her self. As she neared the end of the file she came upon a photograph. She looked at it shocked. She knew this guy!
"Rex!" She called into the other office. "Rex, come here a minute!" She called again.
"What? What's the matter Honey?" Rex asked concerned. Willow was looking at a file like she had seen a ghost.
"Who is this guy, Is this Mitch Lawrence?" She asked, shaken.
Rex looked at the picture and nodded. "That's Mitch Lawrence. Do you recognize him or something?"
Willow's face hardened into a mask of hate and rage. She wrote down what she was thinking on her notepad to make sense of it all and the pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place. Her parents murder, John's (and hers) fathers apparent robbery murder, why her stalker knew her so well and how he know her real name, Haver, the cult and finally the black market baby ring. It all fell into place. She knew who the killer was, she also knew why she didn't recognize him before!
"Yes, I recognize him. He is the man who murdered my parents in front of me when I was 5 years old!" Willow said in a cold hard voice. "I need to go right now."
"Where are you going?" Rex asked. He had never seen her in such a mood. It was almost like she was planing on doing something. Something she would regret.
"I have a errand to run," Willow said in a lethal voice as she reached into her desk and took out her knife and slid it into her boot. She also put her hair up securing it with a special hair clip. She had some errands to run all right. Willow thought to her self. "I have to take care of some unfinished business." She said as she left the room, leaving behind her note pad.
Rex looked at the notes on the pad. They didn't make any sense to him. It was in German . He remembered her voice when she said she had 'unfinished business' and was very worried so he called John. If anyone would understand what all this meant it would be him.
"John," Rex said into the phone as soon as John picked up, "get over here right away. I think Willow is in trouble."
"What are you talking about Rex?" John said impatiently. Rex sounded funny and John really wasn't in the mood for guessing games. Natalie was out and she had ditched her body guards.
"Just get over here," Rex said and hung up.
John sighed leaving a message for Natalie he headed over to Willow's office. this better be good. he thought. At the very least he would get an the info on Haver that he had been waiting for.
When John got there Rex was in Willow's office looking over a legal pad. He looked like he was about to be sick. Then John saw the Mitch Lawrence file on the desk and got angry.
"What's this doing here? Did you take this from the station Rex?" John demanded.
Rex looked at him like he was nuts. "No John I didn't steal that file from the station. Actually Natalie copied it for Willow yesterday."
"I have actually been meaning to talk to you about Willow. I noticed you moving your stuff in her apartment this morning. Are you 2 living together now?" John asked sounding like a disapproving father.
Rex sighed exasperated, "Yes! We are living together, and guess what we are sleeping together too! Really! Can we focus here?"
"Willow saw that file and Mitch's picture and looked like someone shot her dog. I asked her what was up and she told me that Mitch is the one who killed her adoptive parents!" Rex said in a rush. "She started writing like mad on this legal pad then said she had unfinished business to do! She looked like she wanted to kill someone and she took her knife when she left! John, I'm afraid she is gonna do something she will regret!"
"Well, What do the notes say?" John asked worried now.
"I don't know they are in German." Rex said silently cursing the fact that Willow knew so many languages.
"Damn it," John said.
Then Rex had an idea. "I got it. We scan it on the computer then down load a translator and translate it." Rex said and John nodded.
That took a half an hour, by the time it was finished both John and Rex were very anxious to read the notes. John took the first look. As he read them he got increasingly alarmed. When he got to the last entry he exclaimed, "Son of a Bitch!"
Rex looked where John was looking and said, "Oh my God!"
As John looked at Willow's notes he wished he had seen them sooner. Willow was on a mission to kill, to avenge all the wrong done to her and her family. No. Wait on second thought He wanted to join her. Looking at these notes everything became clear to him.
John grabbed his phone and called Bo. "Bo, We got a problem."
"What's the matter John?" Bo asked.
"Willow knows who the MB killer is and is going after him. She has proof. She's gonna kill him." John said in a rush.
"Slow down John. Tell me everything." Bo said calmly though everything in him was saying just tell me who it is. But Bo wanted to get the whole story.
"Haver is the Music box killer and Willow has gone after him! According to her notes Willow found out that he was in Mitch's cult and that Mitch sold her to the Summers'. My father found out and Mitch had him killed. Her parents found out and Mitch killed them personally. Haver stalked her and after she stabbed him had plastic surgery. That's why she didn't recognize him. He killed Caitlyn and shot me, I'm unclear on why right now, and the information he wants is the location of his daughter. Isis!" John explained in a rush, seething with Rage with this new information.
"oh my god" Bo said. "We have to find Haver! I'll put out a APB on him right now. You need to find Willow before she does something stupid. Whatever she is planing I doubt it will include Haver living through it."
"Rex and I are going over to Haver's office. He is probably there." John told Bo before hinging up. He and Rex headed for the door at a run. Everything was going down and it was going down fast.
Across town at Steven Haver's office Willow walked into Steven Haver's office. He looked up and smiled. He knew she didn't recognize him. He stood up and held out his hand. "Good morning Miss McBain. How may I help you this morning?" He said in his most pleasant voice.
Haver was extremely surprised when Willow attacked him and slammed him against a wall. "Did you think I wouldn't find out?" she snarled. "You killed Jeanna! You stalked me and killed Jeanna, then you killed Darren."
Haver smiled even though he was against the wall with Willow's arm on his throat. "so you figured it out. Took you long enough. I thought you were supposed to be a genius."
"You bastard," she swore punching him in the face. "You killed Darren!" She raged at him, whipping her knife out she pressed it to his throat ready to slit him from ear to ear. "Why? Why did you kill all those girls, Why did you kill Caitlyn and shoot John?" When he didn't answer she shoved him up against the wall harder, cutting him a little with the knife, rage giving her added strength. "Why?"
John and Rex stopped outside the door of Haver's office and listened. John heard Willows shouted questions but he didn't dare go in yet. He Motioned for Rex to stay there and be quiet. They needed to wait till he admitted something before he could arrest him. John slowly opened the door to the office and saw Haver up against the wall with Willow's knife poised on his throat.
John immediately called Bo. "Bo," he whispered, " Haver's at his office. Get down here right now, Willow has a knife at his throat and looks ready to kill him!"
"Why are you whispering?" Bo asked as he began shouting orders to his men.
"I'm right outside Haver's office. I don't want Haver to hear me." John explained, seeing Willow tighten her hold on the knife looking ready to kill, he said, "OH MY GOD, I have to go. I need to stop her before she guts the bastard," before hanging up.
"Willow!" Rex exclaimed shocked at seeing the feral expression on her face. She looked ready to slice him open right there. "Don't do it!"
"Rex is right Will, We need him alive. He needs to be held accountable for his crimes in a court of law." John chimed in hoping to get her to listen to reason.
"Oh, He will be held accountable for his crimes," Willow snarled putting more pressure on the knife drawing another thin stream of blood from Haver's neck. Looking at Haver again "answer the question!" she demanded in a dangerous tone.
"Because I could!" He sneered, looking at John, "John got in my way. I almost had you but he slowed me down. He had to be punished. I killed your precious Darren because he had you. Your mine!" Haver stated boldly as he saw Evangeline come into the room holding a gun to Natalie's head.
"You were mine back when you were 14 and you are mine now." Haver stated confidently. As two more people came in the room.
"Pretty confident of you to say considering you have a knife at your throat." John said casually, hoping to defuse the situation, not seeing Evangeline there, holding a gun on Natalie, until she spoke.
"Drop the knife Willow," Evangeline commanded, "or Natalie here gets one in the brain."