Summary: Lies, deception, everything has a price ... what is the price of shame?
Disclaimer: I do not own them
A/N: Any reviews will be welcomed, any flames will be shared with friends for laughs.
Chapter 1
It was an ordinary day in October. The noise coming from inside the living room though was anything but ordinary. Walker was showing Trivette an ancient Indian move, and Trivette was now beating on the floor trying to get up, while Walker and CD both laughed at him.
To anyone who randomly walked in they would have thought they were in the middle of someone breaking in, or a fight, but to Alex who had walked in from the kitchen, it was merely men being men, or rather her man doing what he did for fun.
"Walker, let Jimmy up before you hurt him," CD said trying to stifle the laugh in his throat.
Walker stood up, giving Trivette a hand up as well, and patted him on the back. "I didn't hurt you did I?"
"No, I may have to see a chiropractor come tomorrow, but for now you can repay me with some food. I am starving."
The five of them walked into the kitchen and enjoyed the steaks and baked potatoes, but before too long it was time for everyone to be heading home.
"I'll see you tomorrow Cordell. You and Alex are stopping by for lunch right?"
"Are you going to make some chili?" Alex asked, smiling ruefully as she said it.
"You bet your sweet petunia I am little lady."
"Then we will be there, but this time could you make it a bit hotter?"
CD turned around on the porch steps. "Hotter? Alex honey are you sure you even have any tastebuds. My chili is always hot. I put in enough peppers to steam the hairs right out of your nose."
"That's good CD, but can you put in a bit more?"
CD's mouth fell open, "Cordell your woman is not human I tell you."
Walker and Alex watched as CD and Trivette drove off, and then Walker put his arm around Alex and walked back inside.
"You know, it's good to have friends over but I also enjoy just being here alone with you."
Walker scooped Alex up in his arms, and started walking up the stairs. Once he reached their room he carefully laid her on the bed, and then laid down beside her. "You know Mrs. Walker I am the luckiest man alive to have you."
Alex smiled brightly, for the little things like that meant the world to her. "No, you are wrong. I am the lucky one."
Walker and Alex spent the rest of the night cuddled in each others arms. They didn't even wake when the alarm went off, which was not normal for either of them. When Alex finally did peek open her eyes and saw the clock she jumped out of bed.
"Walker! it is nine o'clock and I am late for work."
Walker didn't jump up like Alex expected him to; instead her pulled her back down on the bed, placing a kiss on her lips as he pulled her close to him. "Since you are already late," he smiled.
"Walker, you must be joking."
Walker kissed her on the ear, then began kissing her over and over down the side of her neck. Alex couldn't resist and soon they were crawling back into bed for another hour.
By ten thirty Alex was waving to Walker as she got into her car to drive to work, only now she felt as if nothing could go wrong, not even if her boss yelled at her could it ruin this day.
Just as she always did Alex pulled up into her parking spot at the courthouse and got out. Parking garage C was where she always parked, right up near the door, as Walker had told her he would rather she not have a long walk to her car. Alex ran into the office, looking sleek in her new dress suit. She was worried about the boss.
"Miranda, is Mr. Fletcher in?" she asked the receptionist.
Miranda smiled the sly smile at the normally well spoken Alex, now fidgeting with her words. "Mr. Fletcher seems to be running late today, so he is not in yet. I think you are safe."
Alex let out the breath she had been holding in, and walked into her office. The rest of the day went by without incident and at one o'clock she told Miranda she was leaving to meet Walker for lunch.
Alex walked to her car, a smile on her face at being lucky enough to avoid her boss. She was so caught up in her joy that she did not notice the car pulling off behind her, nor did she notice that it followed her as she turned the radio to her favorite country song.
When Alex looked over at CD's she did not see Walker's truck yet and figured she had just enough time to run inside the clothing store across the street to look at the dress she had been eyeing for the last week.
Once inside Alex decided to try the dress on. She never noticed the man behind her till he grabbed her as she walked to the dressing room and dragged her out the back door.
Alex tried to scream, but the hand over her mouth kept her from screaming. She saw that the clerk from inside the store was also being held, and he looked as frightened as she did. It was an elderly man, one that had smiled at her last time she had been in there. Alex was scared, so scared in fact that her stomach was now in knots as she tried to catch her breath before she hyperventilated.
"Mrs. Walker, so nice of you to join us. As you can see my associates have not harmed you in any way, but I felt you would not agree to meet with me if I asked."
Alex's eyes grew wide with fear, as standing before her was Mr. Sukara, a man known for killing on a whim. He had taken out his own son when the boy tried to leave the chinese mob. This man had no feelings, he was a maniac, and Alex thought she was surely dead.
"Now, as I was saying Mrs. Walker. I want or maybe a better term to put this in is I require something of you. You see your husband took from me the only thing I treasured, and that Mrs. Walker is family. Since my son's unfortunate demise occurred I have been left with no heir to pass along the family business to. This makes me very unhappy, and your husband is to blame for this you see."
While he had been talking Alex started gasping for air, her fear overtaking rational thought, and she was about to pass out.
"I will allow you to speak on one condition. You must understand that should you yell or scream for help, I will have to kill this man," he said, pointing at the elderly store keeper. "Do we have an agreement?"
Alex wanted nothing more than to scream, but she did not want the man to be shot, and she knew Mr. Sakara would do it. Nodding her head the hand was released from her mouth and she sucked in a couple of deep breaths to steady her breathing. Once she was breathing normally again, she looked back to Mr. Sakara.
"Now that I have your full attention Mrs. Walker I will tell you what you will be helping me with. You see for your husband's transgression of my family, you will be helping me. He stole from me what was rightfully mine, hurting me emotionally, and I wish to repay him the favor."
"What has that ot to do with me?" Alex quiered.
"I am getting to that. When you leave me here today you will announce to your husband that you are pregnant. Walker, being the man I think he is, will be overjoyed at the news."
Alex's mouth fell open in shock. "What! I can't tell him I am pregnant."
"You can Mrs. Walker and you will. If you do not do this then know your husband will be killed. I have no qualms about ending his life a bit sooner Mrs. Walker, but if you do not wish to keep him alive then please run and tell him of our meeting. You see I only wish to humiliate your husband as he has done to me, not kill him, for a man who has been shamed is no longer a man."
"He will know I am not pregnant, when I don't deliver a baby. Seriously Mr. Sakara your plan won't work."
"You doubt me Mrs. Walker and with good reason, but I have thought out all aspects of this you see. You will see a new doctor, one who will see you through your seventh month. I will supply you with phoney sonograms, documentation of your pregnancy. When you reach your seventh month you will then reveal to Walker that you have lied to him, and I will watch my greatest victory yet. I will watch the very soul slip from your husband's eyes, that is what I require of you Mrs. Walker."
"He will never go for it. I can't fake a pregnancy. What about morning sickness? What about getting fatter?"
"I have all of that taken care of Mrs. Walker, no need to fear. All you must do is agree to my terms, if not your husband will not live to see another day. Right now I have a man aiming at his head as he sits inside waiting for you for lunch."
Alex started shaking, but she knew this man standing before her would follow through with his threats. She didn't know how she would pull it off, but she knew she had to so Walker would be safe. Maybe she could figure out a way to let him know before she was to reach her seventh month, maybe then she could tell him when they were alone together.
"Mrs. Walker I see you deep in thought. Let me also tell you that should you reveal our secret to your husband, that I will know. The house you reside in is being bugged right now, your phone also is bugged. I will know every conversation that you have, every move that you make."
"Who will I report to for my doctor visits?"
Mr. Sakara handed Alex a card. "You will tell your husband the reason you are late is because you stopped here and found out you were pregnant. Shall we say four weeks along. You will then report to Mr.Suling every Friday at noon to receive your instructions for the following week. I will supply you with the paperwork you shall require, and the medications as well. All is planned out Mrs. Walker all you have to do is agree to my terms."
Alex didn't want to agree. She wanted to run as fast as she could away from the man she had killed his own flesh and blood. Alex had tried to convict him, but all the witnesses against him ended up dead, and without them they had no case.
"I will go along with your plan Mr. Sakara, but I want you to know I hate you. You are going to make me lie to my husband, manipulate his feelings, and all for this revenge you claim. I hate you with every fiber of my being. I hope you know that."
Mr. Sakara bowed his head to Alex. "I do not doubt your hatred for me Mrs. Walker but I also do not want you to doubt that I will kill your husband if you try to defy me."
Mr. Sakara nodded his head, and the man holding the store keeper pulled his gun and shot the man in the head. No one heard the shot as the silencer on the gun covered it up. The shop keeper fell dead onto the ground, his life taken for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Alex was now frozen in fear, staring at the dead man, and then to the evil smirk of Mr. Sakara as he smiled at her.
"As I said Mrs. Walker your husband's life is in your hands. I believe he is waiting for you for lunch if I am not mistaken. You should go to him now, and do not disappoint me, my son did and for it I ended his shame."
Alex walked in a daze back through the store and across the street. She opened the door to CD's and stared at Walker who was sitting at the bar, his mouth open in laughter at something CD had said. How could she do this? Alex thought. 'How could she trick him?" It wasn't a question of how anymore as her thoughts drifted back to the dead storekeeper, it was a matter of playing her part as best as she could.
"There you are. I was beginning to get worried," Walker said as Alex sat down beside him.
"You know women Cordell. Alex here probably stopped off to try on some clothes somewhere and lost track of the time."
Alex didn't say anything, a million thoughts running through her head before she blurted out, "I had an appointment today. I was important. Sorry you worried," she finished in a whisper almost.
Walker turned in his seat after noticing Alex was far too quiet, after the morning they had spent together. When he looked at her he could see the dried up tear tracks still on her face. "Alex?" he asked, reaching for her, but Alex took off in the direction of the bathroom, leaving a very bewildered and now worried Walker staring after her.
Alex stood in the stall, a cold sweat drenching her as she thought about what she had to do. The look of the shop keeper when he knew he was going to die. All of this combined sent a wave of nausea through her and Alex fell to her knees retching into the toilet. After a few minutes Alex stood up on shaking legs. She was about to lie to Walker, about to stare him straight in the eye and lie, but she had no choice.
Alex walked to the sink and splashed some water on her face, rinsing her mouth out as well. Taking a couple of deep breaths she opened the door only to find Walker standing outside it.
"Alex, are you all right?" he asked, peering into her eyes, and seeing a look of fear flash across them.
"Come and sit down and tell me what is wrong."
Alex walked shakily to the barstool and sat down. She opened her mouth twice but closed it when she couldn't force out the lie.
"Honey, if it's bad news then go ahead and spit it out. Better to get it over with quick," CD offered.
Alex swallowed the lump in her throat, and her stomach churned with another wave of nausea. She glanced around her, looking as if somehow she would not have to answer when he eyes fell on an elderly couple in the back booth. They looked so happy, just like the store keeper had looked yesterday, and now he was dead.
Walker was getting very worried now, and he pulled Alex's face around to meet his. "Alex, please tell me what it is. We can work it out together, I promise."
Alex stared into the same eyes that she had vowed her life to, and they held nothing but love and concern right now. Without thinking the words tumbled from her lips. "I'm pregnant."
Walker's face blank as he shook his head, "What did you say?" he whispered, his throat suddenly very dry.
Alex stared back at him, tears threatening to fall, "I'm pregnant," she said a bit louder.
Walker's face went from one of shock to instantaneous joy. "Did you hear CD, Alex is pregnant. I am going to be a father!" he yelled, twirling Alex around in his arms. "Is this what you were so worried about before?" he asked her once he sat her back down.
Alex nodded her head, afraid to open her mouth.
"You have made me the happiest man on earth today Mrs. Walker," he said, kissing her lips gently, and wiping away the tears. "Do not worry. I know we had not planned for this right now, but everything will work out."
"Did you hear CD? I am going to be a father!"
"I sure did Cordell. Champagne for everyone!"
"That will be one lemonade also please," Walker said, taking Alex's hand in his. "I love you Alex," he whispered, as he pulled Alex into a hug.
Alex wrapped her arms around Walker, scared for the future, and what would happen, but relishing the fact that for today he was still alive, and she was in his arms.
A/N: Well, I hope this chapter has you wondering! Till I update again!