Ch. 7

Package

"Oh my god, Jamie! Don't sneak up on people like that!" Babe reproached.

"Sorry Babe, I saw you talking with Little A and I didn't want to interrupt." Jamie said while smoothing down the hair on her son's head.

"Jeez Jamie, please don't do that again." Babe told him and then continued packing the food in the picnic basket.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"We're going on a picnic, aren't we my little dream boat?" Babe smiled at her son."

"As in we, you mean you and Little A..."

"And JR." Babe finished.

"So its getting pretty serious..." Jamie started but was interrupted.

"Babe, BABE!" JR yelled while running into the kitchen. "What's wrong..." He stopped as soon as he saw Jamie, "What are you doing here?"

"JR, I'm fine. I just was surprised, that's all."

JR walked up to Babe and placed a hand on her back.

"I was here to actually talk to you, JR. privately..." Jamie paused, looking at Babe.

Babe looked back and forth between JR and Jamie, wondering what was going on.

JR looked at Babe and then at Jamie, "Alright, in my office."

JR gave Babe a quick kiss and then led Jamie into his office and shut the door.

"I wonder what is goin on with your Daddy and uncle, little guy." Babe wondered and then went back to making lunch.

"What do you want, Jamie?" JR asked, grabbing for a glass of water.

"I needed to talk." Jamie said, watching JR.

"Yes, we already established that. What about?" JR snapped.

"I don't think we have heard the last of Amanda. I know she has got something planned for Babe." Jamie told JR.

"Hear her say anything specific, like what? Because we already know she is after Babe." JR took a drink of his water.

"I think she may be after Little A."

"Why would you think that?" JR asked, setting down his glass.

"Amanda is crazy, and she wants to get to Babe. It's an obvious step. Well, it's what I would do."

JR narrowed his eyes and looked at Jamie, "So you're telling me that you think she will come after my son because it's what you would do? Jamie, if you don't have anything useful to tell me, get out."

"Don't say I didn't warn you." Jamie slammed the door behind him.

JR watched him go and then walked back out into the kitchen and walked up behind Babe who was making PB&J sandwiches and put his arms around her.

"Hey, what was that about?" She grabbed wrapped the sandwiches and put them in the basket.

"Nothing as usual. Are you almost done? I'm starving, and we still have to pick our a perfect place to eat this wonderful looking lunch, isn't that right, Little A?" JR asked while picking up his son.

Babe smiled and decided to just forget about Jamie's visit. They had a perfect day ahead of them and she didn't want anything to ruin it.

They had returned from their picnic and put Little A down from a nap. Babe had decided to go to the Pine Cone and get her things together, and JR would follow a little while later with his truck. Babe arrived and unlocked her door, thinking about how much she was not going to miss this place once she moved back into the mansion. She walked into the room and gasped.

The room was torn apart. Clothes were strewn everywhere, and glass spotted the floor. The mattress wasn't even on the bed, and the sheets were torn to pieces. The tables were in pieces, and some of the sharp pieces had actually been placed in the wall. Words like 'bitch' and 'slut' and 'whore' had been painted on the walls with what seemed like blood.

Babe went to one of the walls and looked closely at the words, and breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that it was only dry paint. She looked around again and then her eyes rested on a small object, wrapped in a brown package. It had nothing on package. She paused before deciding she needed to open it and find out what was in it. Inside it contained a VHS tape. All it had on it was "Watch me."

Babe put it in the VCR and pressed play, nervous because she wasn't sure what she was about to see. Suddenly, a dark room came on the screen. All you could make out was shadows. You could hear breathing coming from whoever had the camera in his or her hands. It was like that for a little while, just a person breathing, and maybe moving but it was too dark to tell. Babe weighed her options of shutting it off or fast-forwarding it, but she got an answer when she saw the lights turn on. She fell back onto the floor, repeating the word "No" over and over again.

The video had been taken in little Adam's room, and the person holding the camera was hovering over his crib. Little A was sleeping; he had no idea what was going on. Little A then opened his eyes, and in an unrecognizable voice, someone said:

"Good back to sleep, sweet baby James."

That was when Babe screamed and ran towards the phone, begging God someone was at the Chandler's that would answer the phone.