"Max I'll never leave this family." Fran called as she was laying flowers on a gravestone that she has picked for the family. "Where am I? Looks like a cemetery."

Graves stones are shone, five to be exact. "I don't understand." CC shook her head and glanced around the place. Fog circled her at her feet. "Why is she here? Why am I here? Who died?" CC just stared. Then swallowed hard. She had a bad feeling about this one. "Whose cemetery is this? What am I looking at or for?" The ghost points to the stones all in a row. There were four.

"Read." the ghost points to the first headstone

Here lays Maxwell Sheffield, loving father and husband. Under that it read. This should have never happened.

"This will be my home forever." she hears the nasal voice again calling in the distance.

"Who did this to him?" The ghost points in her direction. She looks around then points to herself. "Me?" she questions then looks down at the ground. What if this was all my fault. I mean it could be? She looks up at the ghost once again. "But how? I quit but what does that got to do with Maxwell?" The ghost then points to the other family stones. "His kids too?" this time her heart sank. What have I done? "The business went down? Didn't it?" The ghost nods. The ghost next points to the last stone under the tree where Fran is placing flowers down. "Read."

CC stares for a few minutes to read the headstone description.

"Out loud." The ghost voice had lots of anger in it. Why is he angry? Is it something that I did?

CC reads it out loud: Here lays Niles, the man with no last name. The loving, caring and best friend in the world. Under that it read. What would have been, no one knows.

"I don't get it?" CC looked towards the ghost. "What happened? What happened to him?" CC felt a tear form in her eyes. She started to cry uncontrollably. She blinked; now, she was at the mansion looking through the upstairs window.

"I don't…"

"Shh….." the ghost puts a finger to her mouth. "Watch and learn CC…."

CC stood there in silence as she watched his fate unfold in front of her face.

"When is this?" CC asked.

"Christmas night."

"The night.."

"This year, a few days from now." the ghost corrected. she pressed her face against the window. What she heard was the most freighting thing to her.

"Niles I didn't mean it."

"Yeah you did."

She looks at the ghost. "This is some kind of fight, we had. I did all this?"

"Shhh…just watch. You wanted to know what happened. So here it is."

Inside we see the two of them auguring with Fran and Max in the same room

"Where will you be ten, twenty years from now, you will be saying Merry Christmas to all your friends in rehab."

"At least I'll have friends. You will be rotting away here, all alone." I said that to him?

Quite dispassionately he had slapped her in the face.

"He did that!"

CC put her hand to her face like she could actually feel the slap she was watching. I don't blame him for that one. I would have done the something to someone if they told me that.

The silence had begun to throb all around them, you could have heard a pin drop as she stood there trembling, her wounded eyes slowly filling with tears. Her mouth had begun to quiver, her hand going up to cover the mark on her cheek. Where his fingers had stung her, and without a single word, she had just turned away from him and walked out of the room, leaving him standing there. He had caught her at the door, his fingers curling around her waist and tugging her roughly around to face him. He had frown at her reddened cheek; at the tears streaming unchecked down it and he had pulled her into his arms.

"Forgive me."

"Forgive me."

"I can't deal with you right now." She yells and pushes him away. She leaves slamming the door to the mansion.

"Sir I quit!" he faces Max. "I'll be leaving first thing in the morning." He stomps up the stairs. We watch him go to his room all mad. Niles writes something down and then leaves his room.

"Can I read it?" CC asked the ghost.

"sure, if you want to."

"I do. I have to know what he wrote."

The ghost sent a gust of wind and the sheet came into view.

"read it."

CC cleared her throat. My CC, (yes, my CC or so I thought of you as mine)

Sorry about everything especially tonight. I just snapped. I try to show you a good time maybe too much of one. I try to show you how much I cared but you just kept turning me away. The past month was the best in my life. I guess I was just too stupid to believe in you. I thought you changed. Who was I fooling? The ice queen can never change her set ways. I can't take all that has happened so I'm moving back to London. At least maybe my heart can finally heal. I thought I found what I was looking for. That special person, you know, the one that takes your breath away, the one that touches your soul, the one that you can't live without. Well, it wasn't. That's the last time I ever listen to my heart. It was what saw the first changes, the ones that I thought would last. I guess it was just as blind as me. Gotta catch my flight out. Take care of the Sheffield's….

your pal, (thought I was)

Niles

"so he leaves."

"That's not all. Come." They go to another window but this time it is later on in the evening. Niles is putting things in a suitcase. "All you care about is yourself and how you feel."

He must be talking about me. CC stares at him. Look what I have done to him. Poor Niles.

Niles picks up some more of his things. "You don't care about anybody else. You never will. Look how you treated me." When he reaches in his bottom drawer he picks up a gun that he kept in case of emergencies. He breathes deeply. "CC I loved you. I don't know why you couldn't see that."

"What's he going to do with that?" the ghost shakes his head. "Oh no! Niles don't. I do love you!" Niles loads the gun. The screen turns black and shots are fired…

"No!" CC screams.