A/N: So, I at least managed to shock some of you! That's good. Also, remember to read Unbroken by Chicas (Alicia). I expect more reviews on that one before I even think about updating Tangled Secrets! I'm serious people! Go read it, you'll love it.
AnAngelofAStar- Eh, FBI was close enough! Good job!
TwoBrokenToCry- Yours was by far my favorite review for this chapter, lol. I am so glad that I was able to really shock someone.
emmalee05- Yes, things are about to get very, very ugly.
Vicki316- Yes, you did get it. And I am proud to admit that I am 16 years old and still a virign. That's right, everyone gasp. This girl has morals. Lol, j/k. (Well, not about the virgin part) So anyway, any sex scenes are sorta ripped off from the show/movies/other fics.
middiegurl08- Yes! You were totally off! I love suprising people.
Spoiledtink- My favorite parts of the story start now. This is what I was waiting for.
Jen- Yay! Another one that I was able to shock.
Lili- I'll always be your pimp, as weird as that sounds. And was it really that dirty? I hope I don't get in trouble for that. No one report me! I was just going on other stories with that one!
MelindaM- My sister either takes me or I wait too. My mother is so embarassing in movies. She asks the random strangers next to her questions the whole time, and then she usually gives a speech on how overpriced movies are. I usually spend the whole time pretending I don't know her, lol.
Samantha- Yay! I can add another person to my list of people I was able to get.
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Renee- I'm so glad you like it that much! I don't know when I'll have another Jexie fic out once I finish this one. As of now, I have 2 more going, and another completed one that I'm in the process of posting, but they're not Jexie.
tania- Get ready for the aftermath, that's this chapter.
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SweetScam- I'm evil. We all know that though. Hope the wait wasn't too bad.
Christine- I love drama. I wanted a big, unexpected, dramatic reveal.
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Chapter 15- The Fallout
"How could this have happened!" Sonny yelled, shaking all the guards. "How could no one have noticed that this punk kid was an undercover cop! He was feeding the PCPD information on our business!"
"Please, boss, try to understand. He blended in. He was never suspicious. And the whole time, he was the enemy!" said Max in what he hoped was a calming voice.
"He can ruin us! And he will. I pay you all to protect me, and this organization. And you all failed me!" yelled Sonny so loudly that the glass in the windows rattled.
"Come on Sonny" said Jason. "We didn't catch on either. We had no idea that Beaudry was playing us"
"He used me" she said, her voice shaking as her tears threatened to fall. "He told me that he loved me but he was really just pumping me for information"
"Maxie, he may have really loved you" said Courtney as she put her arms around her little sister.
Throwing Courtney's arms off of her, Maxie walked over to the window and stared out in a very Sonny like manner.
"I slept with him Courtney! We had sex. We said we loved each other, and then we had sex. But all along, thoughts of how to best bring us down were the only thing that was crossing his mind! All he was thinking about was the best ways to hurt my family!" cried Maxie as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Love doesn't discriminate Maxie" Carly said. "Just because one half of a couple is on one side of the law and the other is on the opposite, it doesn't stop them from falling in love. Life just isn't that simple"
"Yeah, well it's not like he loved me anyway" she maintained.
"How can you say that?" asked Courtney. "I saw the way he looked at you"
"Are you trying to get us back together or something?" asked Maxie. "Because I didn't realize you were Jesse's official cheerleader"
"I'm not" said Courtney as she threw her arms up defensively. "I just hate to see you like this"
"You blew your cover. That's just fine" said Durant snidely. "But you better have some information for me Beaudry"
"I didn't get much Mr. Durant. I was still a low-ranking guy, I never got any of the dirt" said Jesse as he leaned back in the chair in the interrogation room.
"I find that hard to believe" said Durant as he sat down on the table and looked down on Jesse. "I know about your little love affair with Sonny Corinthos' baby sister. So I know you got information. And I know that you are just trying to protect them. But the question is Beaudry, why?"
"Look, I'm not protecting anyone" said Jesse coolly. "I'm just letting you know that I don't have much"
"I hope you weren't too attached to your job Beaudry. 'Cause this is grounds for being fired"
"Fire me and I'll bring you to court" said Jesse as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"I don't think you're in any position to be making threats" said Durant. "And even so, I can just bury you under paperwork at some desk job. You'll never see the light of day again"
'Just what I thought that night in the bar' thought Jesse as he continued to listen to Durant babble.
"So I'm going to ask you again. What do you have for me?" said Durant.
Sonny grabbed Jason by the arm and led him to a back corner of the warehouse so that he could talk to him privately.
"What the hell are you doing?" hissed Sonny. "Why are you undermining me in front of the men?"
"I'm not undermining you" said Jason defensively. "I'm just trying to make sure you keep your temper in control. We need to keep cool heads right now"
"I'll get a cool head once I fire every single man that standing in that room right now" said Sonny as he motioned with his hand.
"You can't do that Sonny! The police are coming after us now. We need experienced guys right now. We don't need to be teaching some newbies the ropes while Durant and the PCPD are breathing down our necks, information ready to be used against us. I just became a father Sonny! There is no way in hell that I am leaving my little girl to spend the rest of my life behind bars!" said Jason, his voice becoming louder when he talked about Ava, ready to begin to scream and yell at Sonny if he needed to.
"I understand that Jason. Do you think that I can leave my family any easier than you can leave yours? But the truth is, we may be leaving them. Because of some kid who infiltrated out ranks and had us all, hook like and sinker"
"So what now Sonny? Do we run? Do we pack up our families and get out of Port Charles"
"We can't just leave. We have lives here" sighed Sonny as he massaged his head with his hand.
"Fine, than we need to stay out of trouble. And to do that, we can't go around firing all of our men"
"Yeah, but we need to put up a strong front as well" said Sonny.
"I get that" said Jason tiredly.
"And that involves you not undermining me" he said tensely as Jason sighed and growled, looking away from his best friend.
"Fine, I get it. But I needed to stop you from making a big mistake"
Sonny didn't answer him, but instead he took a few steps back, pacing around.
"He hurt every member of my family. He hurt us with the business, and worst of all, he hurt my sister"
"Well get used to it Courtney. Because I am going to be like this for a while" snapped Maxie. "I mean, seriously! How pathetic am I? How many times can I let one guy hurt me?"
"Maxie, what can we do to help?" asked Carly.
"Go back in time and fix it so that I never met Jesse Beaudry" she answered.
"Honey, you don't mean that" said Courtney.
"Yes. I do. He did nothing but break my heart!"
"Yes, but in order for him to break your heart, you must have felt really strongly about him" said Carly.
"I did. I felt too strongly. I let him ruin me. I was one of those"
"One of those?" asked Carly.
"One of those pathetic girls who rely on the guy to rescue her. Save her from herself, and the world, and everyone around her. I did that with Jesse. I basically ripped out my own heart and handed it to him on a silver platter"
"You took a chance on a guy!" cried Courtney. "Sure, it turned out he was an asshole whose life mission was to take down this family, but still, you took a chance. You can't keep your heart locked away forever. You need to take risks to fall in love"
"Yeah, otherwise you turn into a cat lady. And that's terrible, not only because it's sad, but because you're allergic to cat dander" said Carly with a smile
"Is that supposed to make me laugh?" asked Maxie crossly.
"Well, actually it was. But that obviously didn't work" said Carly.
"Obviously" said Courtney maliciously.
"Hey, I would have thought you'd be on my side" said Carly.
"Sorry" said Courtney with a smile.
"I don't get it!" yelled Maxie.
"You know what Mr. Durant" said Jesse as he adjusted himself in his chair and gave Durant a sarcastic smile. "I don't care what you threaten me with. I don't care how much leverage you have, or that you have a PhD in blackmailing. Because I have nothing. Especially nothing that I'm telling you"
"You're in way over your head Beaudry. I can make your life a living hell. My PhD in blackmailing allows me too" he said sarcastically. "I can take away everything that you love. I can destroy you, and I will"
"You can't touch me" said Jesse. "Nothing you do can touch me"
"Yeah? How 'bout some prison time? How does that sound. And I don't mean as a guard, which is a job you have gotten pretty damn good at while working for the mob as I can see. No, I mean as an inmate. Obstruction of justice, withholding evidence. Tampering with police business. Things of the sort" said Durant with a sickening smile. "And they don't like cops in prison. In fact, they have a strong dislike for them. All of those damn self-righteous cops that put them there in the first place! You may have some unhappy prisoners on your hands. And I won't feel even the least bit sorry for you when those inmates decide to get a little revenge to their best of their ability, being locked away from the real people who put them there. I won't feel a thing when they take out their anger on you. Well, that's not completely true. I will feel a thing. I'll feel a big smile coming on my face"
"Nothing you do or say is going to scare me Durant. Or deter me. I'm standing my ground. I'm not telling you anything"
"What is it that makes you suddenly so loyal to Sonny? Hmm? Tell me, I'm dying to know. Why protect the guy? He caused you nothing but hell. He told you that you couldn't date his little sister; he gave you a crappy job as a gift for kissing her. What is it that makes you want to protect the guy?" asked Durant. "Oh, of course. Why didn't I see this one coming? It's not about Sonny, is it? It's about Maxie! Well then, that changes everything, doesn't it" he said with a sadistic laugh.
"I just don't get it! You're husbands, the fathers of your children, may be sent to prison because of Jesse. And you're trying to defend him? Aren't you worried about Sonny and Jason at all?"
"Of course we are sweetie" said Courtney as she got up from the couch and walked over to Maxie. "We are petrified about losing them. But you already lost your guy. And well we both may want to rip Jesse limb for limb, we don't want you to be in any pain either"
"What if he sends them to prison?" asked Maxie as she tearfully turned around. "He'll destroy my family. I don't know what I'll do without my brothers!"
"Shh, it's ok, come here" said Courtney as she wrapped her arms around Maxie again.
Maxie didn't pull away this time, but instead she hugged Courtney back, letting all of her tears flow. All of her angry, bitter, and sad tears. She had so many different emotions running through her right now. There was the anger and bitterness that she felt towards Jesse, then there was the sadness of losing him. There was the fear of losing her brother, and then there was the fear for Jesse. The fear that something would happen to him too now that he was in the middle of such a dangerous thing. Suddenly, Maxie remembered seeing him talking to Lorenzo Alcazar not too long ago. What did that mean? Just how deep in was Jesse? She started to cry more as she realized that she still loved him with all her heart, and she was still worried about him. Courtney also began to cry as she thought of Jason being dragged off to jail and taken away from her and Ava. Breaking the hug a little, Courtney motioned to Carly to come and join them.
Carly eagerly entered the embrace, tears of fear cascading down her cheeks too.
"If someone walked in on this group hug, they'd think we were all beyond weird" said Carly as she attempted to lighten the mood.
"Carly; we are beyond weird" said Maxie as the three of them burst out into giggles.
The giggles were uncontrollable, and all three were soon rolling on the couch, unable to contain themselves.
"I think we're losing it" said Courtney as she continued to laugh.
"No shit" said Maxie as she too continued her laughter. "And it wasn't even funny"
"I'm just afraid to stop laughing for fear of crying" said Carly once they calmed down a little bit.
"Life blows" said Maxie as her giggles finally came to a stop.
"Yeah, it does" said Courtney as she and Carly also calmed down.
"I just wish we got do-overs" said Maxie.
"Yeah, me too" said Carly
"And me" agreed Courtney as all three woman allowed themselves to get lost in their thoughts.
"How could I have been so dense?" asked Durant. "Of course it was about the girl. It always is. You want to protect Maxie. Not only that, but if you rat on her family, she's going to hate you even more than she does now"
"This has nothing to do with Corinthos' little sister" said Jesse nonchalantly.
"Right, of course not" said Durant sarcastically. "Tell you what Beaudry" said Durant as he jumped down from the table and got in Jesse's face.
"You testify against Sonny and Jason, and I'll leave Maxie alone. You keep that mouth of yours shut, and I won't make you life a living hell, I'll make hers. I will make sure that I break Maxie down, bit by bit. By the time I'm done, her life will be in shambles, in a pile at her feet. And who knows, maybe I'll show her some mercy and end her pain. Take her out of her misery" said Durant with another sickening smile.
Jesse jumped out of his seat before Durant had time to even get his grin to full length. He pinned him against the wall, his elbow pressed into Durant's neck.
"You stay the hell away from Maxie!" yelled Jesse.
"So you do love her" Durant croaked, a statement more than a question.
"You are not to lay a finger on her!" he continued to yell.
"Don't push me Beaudry. I won't hesitate to ruin her! To hurt her! To make her pay! There is only way that I'm not going to do that. And I think you know the only way to stop that" said Durant.
Jesse released Durant quickly and the man slumped on to the floor as he tried to catch his breath. Jesse paced for a moment, his thoughts invaded by horrific images about the damage that Durant could and would do to Maxie. His only true love. Running his fingers through his hair, Jesse turned to slowly face Durant.
"Fine" he croaked out in a thick voice. "I'll do it. I'll testify against Sonny and Jason"
A/N: I love reviews! Also, I watched A Night at Roxbury this weeked (funny movie, go see it). And they used both the Say Anything and the Jerry Maguire references that I used in my chapter! I guess, that's a common thing, or was it just a freakish coincidence? Lol, just wanted to point that out.