Family Bonds: Book 2 of Sista

by Blackstar1979

Family Bonds the sequel to Sista. The the Superstars and Sistas have been through a lot that have carved out bonds where there were none. Will the past rip apart the bonds that have been forged or make them stronger? Reviews are welcomed as always.

11. Chapter 11 A Kiss to Remember

Authors Note: Warning This Chapter is "DARK" using full advantage of the (Mature) rating I gave this story." Roman Reigns's Ring name will be used not his real name. I in no way believe that the Leati Joseph "Joe" Anoa AKA Roman is like this. By Ring appearance ONLY Roman fits this look better than the real person. So since this is "real person fan-fic" Like I said I'm playing with these guys in my mental sand box. I'll let them out when I'm done. Please read and review. It helps me tremendously: End Note

Chapter 11

A Kiss to Remember

Candy had fallen sleep on the floor near her door. She guessed she was more tired than she thought. Checking her phone Deon had not responded to her last message last night. She goes takes a shower and dresses in a black dress with a lightning bolt pattern cut into the cleavage she bought when she went shopping with Angel at Hot Topic. A knock sounds at her door confused if it was someone that knew her, they would know if she was awake to ring the bell or come on in, remembering how that freaked Angel out. Candy thought for a second then brushed the idea away that it could be one of the people bothering Angel and Sophie. She didn't even seem to rank high on her own boyfriend's list. Walking to the door she looks out and on the door step stood her ex. She plasters herself to the wall and peeks out at him. Long black hair a build to make your mouth water, he was her weakness in high school also her judge. In her head she shouted no don't open the door pretend you're not home. Her eyes locked on his handsome face and in a trance like state she opened the door. Roman Reigns smiled at her and the spell was casted even further. She was once more the shy unsure girl that thought he loved her at one time.

Roman looks down at the trim blonde he once dated in high school he'd been a senior and she was a weird skinny little junior she was easy for him. He smirks at her very open expression. "May I come in?" She nods her head and steps to the side. He walks into the little house. "It took me a while to track you down. I went to the old house and it's so different than I remember. Kyle misses you. She looks alarmed. "I didn't tell him I found you. You're probably still pissed at me for back then." She shakes her head. "Okay words would help this out a lot."

His sarcasm breaks the spell and she can speak. Stepping back from him so she can't smell him she wets her lips and says "Words would have helped back then. I'm not still pissed off at you, truth be told I really haven't been thinking of you. Why have you tracked me down?"

"A co-worker of mine hired out your little band to play his intro to a major performance." She asks was he truck crew for WWE or something. "Or something, I'm a professional wrestler now." She tells him she's not a fan, it was work, and supporting a friend. "I see, so you really didn't recognize me?" She shakes her head in the negative. He reaches out and trails a hand down her face biting his lip. "We're both adults now you can speak to me. I came to give us a chance. We're both successful. You look great." He smirks at her. He was hard thinking of things they had done until he left her thinking she was pregnant. His little shy girl he once could do anything he dreamed up to or with her.

She was now getting pissed at herself why wasn't she saying anything? She'd already lied to his face well sort of, she is still pissed at him she was hurt by him, and pissed that she didn't pull away from his touch. When he'd thought she was pregnant he told her to get rid of it. When she refused he tried to help her make up her mind. Looking at him through the eyes of an adult finally made her step back away from him. "You're right we are adults now, so did you come to see Roman Jr.?" His eyes bug out of his head. "Oh don't worry I'm kidding. Your trick would have worked. I have wanted to tell you something for a long time but you ran away before I came to. Roman, I was just late that month, the dollar store pregnancy test, was wrong. The pain I was in, wasn't caused by the miscarriage you thought you had induced." Now here was the anger she had been to miserable and afraid to display. "You left me at my job. I'm allergic to morphine in any form. If it weren't for my boss's son, I could have died. Thanks for pretending to be concerned, and telling my father. So you damn right, I left Grandville North like my shirt was on fire. If you want to do me a favor, leave, now, and don't come back."

"Hey, I didn't know what was wrong with you. I was a kid myself. I didn't need a kid. I did care you know I risked my freedom by telling your father that I had knocked you up. You were 16 or 17 I was already 18." He steps towards her brown eyes meet blue. "It's not good to hold in anger. I was immature back then we both were. You survived and did damn well for yourself. A kid would have changed your life. We both dodged a bullet." She says he left her. "I gave you a choice you picked the drink so you can't blame that on me." She backs away from him saying she thought he was telling the truth and wanted to at least make sure she was really pregnant before they made any rash decisions. She thought it was a sweet gesture for him to offer to buy her dinner at the restaurant next to the Davenport. "You should have known I wasn't going to leave it alone. Yeah I lied but you alive and you don't have a brat running around." Her eyes narrowed and she slaps him hard enough to turn his head. "You always never knew what to do with those hands of yours." He reaches for her she runs towards her bathroom. "I didn't come to chase or fight with you." He easily using his longer stride catches her by the hair pulling her against him his front pressed against her back. "I've been thinking of you ever since Mania." He bends his head and kisses her breathing heavy he says "Bed or floor? I want you."

She looks around for something to grab that's when she saw the picture of her and Deon in the hallway. Deon had tried to train her how to keep calm. It was easier with Megan because she was just pissed this was bundles of emotion. This was Roman he wasn't good for her he'd proved that. "The roof has a great view." He turns her to face him holding her arms to her sides in a hug saying his choice. She screams "NEITH…" He crushes his lips to hers in a brutal kiss cutting off her protest as he watches her eyes he smiles against her mouth. She bites his bottom lip and tries to head butt him he calls her a dirty slut and pushes her backwards she waves her arms in the air trying to find her balance but she hits the floor she looks up at him. His expression was darker than she ever remembered. When he steps towards her she screams "NO!" as she tries to get up he pounced on her covering her mouth with his hand. She tries to buck him off but he presses her harder into the floor. His long dark hair was blocking out most of the light. She keeps screaming "no" under his hand her trying to buck him off had cost her much more energy than she had to spare.

Roman watches her eyes widen as she still tries to make sound until he moves his hand up to cover her nose as well. "Your choice was the floor if you scream again, I'll fuck you while you die. Now shut the fuck up." He wouldn't but she didn't know that if anything he'd wait until she passed out and leave. Her eyes were starting to tear and glaze. He moves his hand allowing her breath.

Dragging in heaping amounts of life giving oxygen she starts coughing and says "I'm sure this isn't the best way to keep a fan base. I don't want this not here." Her mind was racing she had to get him off her though he'd moved his hand, his heavy ass was laying on her on a hard surface. She believed he would fuck her to death and beyond. This was the side of him she had to avoid getting riled up. He had a very dark and dangerous game he'd played with her younger stupid ass. She focuses on him trying her best to look willing she whispers "You're hurting me"

Her phone starts playing (Best Friend by Jason Mraz Joshua had song it to her at her birthday party) "Roman I have to get that or he'll be here soon" That was the wrong thing to say his lack of fear of being caught scared her. Him angry wasn't her goal "Bed you said I had a choice." He covers her mouth but not her nose.

Roman says "He who the base player I saw you with? Send his ass my way and I'll beat him to death." Glaring down into her eyes He covers her mouth again. "You almost got a choice of a bed." He moves a little and with his other hand reaches down and pulls her thong to the side feeling her body's response to him. "Your eyes say no but your body wants me badly" He sinks into her. Watching her eyes widen.

He was larger than he had been and she couldn't help but cry out in pain. She'd tried to squeeze her thighs closed but when his hand moved up over her nose she relaxed she didn't want to play this game. She hoped Joshua did come. She focused on a part of her bathroom wall.

Roman says "Look at me" as he moves his hand from her sex now that he was inside of her. Pressing her into the floor he grabs her nose until her eyes lock on his face he moves his hand off her mouth. "Inhale" she tries to turn her head "I allowed you breath. Exhale"

He bends his head down and kissed and sucked on her keeping a rhythm. She lay staring at him. He still had his fingers pinching her nose closed. She breathed in and out through her mouth when he told her to. His speed picks up as he removes his hand from her nose. She tries to get her hands free he pins them back between their bodies and calls are a bad girl. "Please don't" She knew what would come. He says trust him. She felt the old panic building "Please Don't" He shushes her and puts his mouth over hers and pinches her nose closed. He starts to blow into her mouth. This was even scarier because he was mad at her. He would get his dark wish granted he'd take all of her breath while taking her. He lets her nose go but he was still blowing taking her breath even with her nose clear she feels her lungs begging for fresh air as she starts to fade. He was going to kill her on her bathroom floor for his pleasure.

He stops blowing, he'd almost held their kiss for too long. She started to twitch he watched in dark fascination as her eyes flutter and close. He'd asked her when she was younger could he do this and she'd agreed because he told her if she wasn't a thrill seeker like he they couldn't be together. He'd put her out with what he called a kiss to remember and fuck the shit of her as she came to. Lifting his mouth from hers he blew his load into her. Usually when he would stop preventing air flow she would start to come around. For a moment he thought he'd went too far. She wasn't moving anymore she lay still. He rubs her face her lips were turning blue he starts massaging her neck violent coughing starts as she opens her eyes. He kisses her on the mouth. Getting up he spoke "Trust me, you'll be fine" she slowly turns her head away from him and says nothing laying on her bathroom floor. He tells her "you're pissed right now if you try to report me I'll make sure you're dead before I'm caught." She turns her head looking up at him. He stops at the door and says "Get your wind up I almost lost you." He smirks and walks out of the door gets in his car and drives away.

Just like when he carried her into the Davenport and laid her on the stock room floor at age 16 she watched him leave. She was sore all over. As she hears his car leave her tears spilled silently on to the brightly colored linoleum bathroom floor. She felt fear and anger telling her to get her wind up, meant he would be back. She lay on her back her fucking dress pulled up laying against her soaked stomach. He'd taken her against her will she smelled like sex, and he'd made her piss herself by cutting off her air. He threatened her life but he'd almost killed her anyway. She starts laughing and crying then starts screaming FUCK YOU over and over beating her fist on the floor. The crying takes back over and wracks her already sore body as she curls into a ball hugging herself. She'd let him into her house. Last night she'd been lonely right now all she wanted was peace. She gets up and into the bath tub. Turning on the water she plugs the drain with her underwear. He wouldn't have to worry about her telling. He did her raw she would not have his fucking demon spawn. She propped her feet up on the wall so she could lay her back and head flat against the surface. Her cell phone plays Joshua's tune. The water wasn't even past her ears yet. Joshua had saved her by taking her to the hospital when Roman had drugged her trying to kill a baby that wasn't even a baby. She would miss Joshua and Angel and Deon. Tears slid down her face and silently sank into the rising water. She pinched her nose Roman would never control her breath again. She remembers the game as if it were yesterday.

Flashback

16 year old Candy was going to be 17 real soon and she couldn't wait to get to her boyfriend's home. Roman her dark and dangerous lover, they were wild and he loved her. He has his own car and his own house. He worked at Jiffy lube he was so cool he'd divorced his parents, he was the image of a rebel. Her parents didn't understand her. Half the time her father preached at her and threaten that if she had sex before marriage he'd make her pay. He was the first man she hated he was such a hypocrite. She would nod her head and say yes daddy. Her blonde hair was Roman's drug she really didn't see what the fuss was about, it was long and thick but her man loved it. She grew it past the middle of her back. It never curled.

She gets off the bus she'd skipped school. She would do it a lot Roman had told her to live on the edge. She was in a relationship with a grown man she had to bring her A-game. She walks up to the door and knocks it opens and there stood her treasure. His dark hair and hard body made her want to take him on the door step. She jumps into his arms kissing him on his face and on his neck. "Missed you" she purrs.

Roman bites his lip and smirks at her. "We saw each other at midnight. That was me giving you a lift back into your window so you wouldn't get caught by the shrew or the warden." He puts her down and closes the door. "Did you tell anyone you're coming here today?"

She told him the truth "Baby you are my only friend there's no one to tell." He takes her hand and runs his other down her face she leans into his touch closing her eyes. "You said you had a new game in mind." She smiles up at him. He leads her to his garage. "Oh are we going to do it on your van?"

"You ask too many questions. Nice dress" he gets in the back of his van and tells her "Climb in you was too loud last night. Today you will receive a kiss to remember."

"I will remember all of your kisses." When he told her to lay down flat. She does and he asked her how she felt about letting him control her breath. Raising up on her elbows quickly she says "I don't think that's a hot idea what if you, you know killed me?" He gets up and sits in the driver's seat. She soon sat in the passenger seat reaching across the open space she rubs his nape. He jerks away from her touch. She withdraws her hand.

"Maybe you are too young for this relationship. I asked you to trust me. Candy-Bar, I'm a thrill seeker but if you're just pretending to be a thrill seeker then maybe you should just go back to school where everyone makes you feel like shit. If you're not willing to trust me with your valuable life, what's the point of staying a couple?" He starts his van.

Candy didn't want him to break up with her she loved him. She reaches over and turns the van off. "No, I trust you." He gives her a yeah right look. "I've always told the truth why would I lie now?" He tells her to lie in the back of the van and he would give her a kiss to remember if she wanted to stay with him afterwards they would play and he'd even let her dominate him. "Really?" He asks her was it a deal? "you're on" She was going to get to dominate him oh yes she was going to be in charge and he had plans like that so he must know enough of what he is doing to keep her safe. She lay on the floor of his conversion van. He climbs on top of her and pinches her nose telling her to breathe in and out through her mouth. She nods her head staring at him. He tells her at no time was she to close her eyes. On one of her inhales he seals his mouth over hers blowing. She fought to stay awake her chest hurt she felt herself fading. She tried to stay still but she started making a weird snorting noise when he lets her nose go and she reaches for his face to push him off. Her eyes hurt and watered and she passes out. When she came too he was inside of her. That night she passed on more games but she'd saved her relationship.

End of flashback

Candy presses herself into the water opening her eyes under water she lets go of her breath. Water fills her mouth and nose at the last minute she tries to fight for air she presses against the wall that pushed her further under her mind starts to drift. Soon she'd be gone.

Deon walks in with a dozen of red roses. He'd been so nervous he was going to pop the question. He hears running water smiling he sneaks to the Bathroom door it was partly closed he'd told her a million times to lock the front door if she was in the tub he had a key. "Babe if you're going to be in the…" Deon drops the flowers on the floor, calls 911, throws his cell phone onto the back of the toilet, and runs to the tub, quickly picking Candy up out of the water. "CANDY" he lays her on the bathroom floor and feels for a pulse he thinks he feels one and starts mouth to mouth 1,2,3, blow the only thing rising her chest was him blowing into mouth her. The operator comes on the line and while he presses down on her chest he tells them what is going on. After what seems like miles of minutes sirens are heard. He yells where they are and breathes in to her mouth trying to make her chest rise.

The Grandville South Med crew rushes in and takes over. Deon stands back and watches after what seems like hours but in reality were only minutes they turn her and her first sign of life is when she starts vomiting. The med crew says they have a pulse and puts her on a gurney they put an oxygen tube down her throat and wheel her out the front door. Deon tries to follow her, one med tech stops him and ask him what happened. Her eyes were still closed she wasn't conscious but she at least now for sure has a pulse which is more than he could give her. "I don't know. I just got here and found her in the water. Can I ride with her?" The med tech tells him no because he is not on her sheet as a contact or a medical liaison. He points to the police cruiser that pulls up saying he had some questions to answer. "I know who her medical liaison is. Where are they taking her?" They tell him her network is the Sheldon Center. Deon sighs in relief Luke's team wouldn't let anything happen to her.

Candy's mind drifts in and out she'd tried to take the path to least resistance like her mother had. "Hey where am I?" she couldn't see but she could hear the sirens no one is talking to her. They are talking about her. She listens wondering why she can't speak to the male voice that is talking about her. He fucked up her last name no one but Joshua got it right. Jonathon came close but it sounded harsh when he said it. She listens someone had called 911 and now they were in hot shit. Had Roman returned and called the police. The person furthest away was female.

The driver speaks to the med tech sitting next to Candy. "Dan that kid looked 10 times too scared to have done that to her." the male med tech says for her to keep working in this field and see if she could read people better in a few years. "You honestly think the guy could have held her under the water?"

"Rena the girl was fully clothed and on the floor. She has a lump on her fucking head. Her underwear was missing. Either she likes it really rough on a regular basis or he fucked the shit out of her and dunked her ass. There was blood in the water. He's not from this country maybe it is part of their custom." The female asks how he knew. "That's easy he's part of her band this little lady is one of Grandville's rising stars.

Candy was starting to fade out again the voices and siren was getting further and further away. "No he wouldn't do this" they thought Deon had tried to kill her. He was the only male in the band that could be mistaken for being mixed. Joshua was clearly white and so was Vash. Deon had come to the house and found her. He wasn't mixed he was South African his skin was lighter than Angel's but he had some color and really curly hair. She'd got Deon in trouble.

Joshua and Angel get in Joshua's truck. He loved the sound of that. "Hey babe I'm kind of worried about Candy she didn't answer her phone or call me back. I spoke to Jonathon and he said he was now in Dallas but when he took her home she asked to come to his place." Angel gave him a weird look. "I told him and I'm telling you Candy would not have tried anything with Jonathon. She didn't have to leave last night I mean there are rooms upstairs."

"She's having problems with Deon I don't want to say too much because I'm not sure if she's spoke to you." Joshua says he knows both sides and hates being in the middle. "You know why he being distant, why he hasn't invited her to his home since his parents has moved out." he gets a call pressing hands free. An automated message come over the line.

Joshua Davenport, if you are Joshua Davenport, Please respond by saying yes or no. "Yes" the phone rings a woman comes on and says that Candy the woman butchers her last name has been taken to Sheldon Medical Center. "What happened?" She says she doesn't have a lot of information only that he was to be informed if she cannot make medical decisions for herself. "I'm on my way, please help her." Joshua hangs up and speeds down the hill.

Angel closes her eyes tightly when he goes through an intersection on a red light. "I'll drive please stop. It won't help Candy if you crash trying to get to her." Joshua slows down and takes a turn. Bobby calls and tells her to tell speed racer to get his foot out of the tank. "Bobby is having trouble trailing or his team is. Joshua please slow down." He yells at her that he's doing the fucking speed limit. She didn't want to piss him off but he was scaring the shit out of her. She looks in the rearview mirror four tan cars sped up and moved with them. She looks at the speed limit whip past it said 40 she looks over at the speedometer it was at 70. He slows down to take the turn into the parking lot of the hospital, stops the truck in the middle of the parking lot, grabs his wallet out of the overhead, and tells her to park the truck. He then jumps out before she can even say anything and breaks into a dead run for the doors. She closes her eyes when it looks like the doors won't open in time. Hearing no glass shatter or loud thud she opens her eyes he'd made it into the building. She scoots over and parks the truck.

Deon gives his statement the police officer tells him not to leave town. He gets in his car. They thought he did it. It was always the boyfriend first. He had a dark suspicion. Candy had her legs up on the wall that ruled out a fall. She was also dressed, no one takes a bath with clothing on. Her mother had committed suicide by jumping into the family's 12 foot pool after Candy told her in anger years after she'd moved out about Kyle only being mad at her for having sex with someone other than him before marriage. If Deon was going to be accused of killing someone or trying to he'd love to submerge her fucking father. When he started mouth to mouth her mouth was bruised and so was her nose. There were scratches on her face. What the fuck went on in that damn house? She either tried to kill herself or someone tried to kill her.

Sophie and Luke were slow dancing in his office he did stuff like this. He'd called Bobby and had him send one of the crew to bring her here when she told him she didn't have any plans for the next two hours. She'd been at Ivey Enterprises. She was hesitant to drive her car saying if she'd drove that night she probably wouldn't be alive, first Dave now this. She would ride with him if he drove the Hummer or had it driven. They had lunch and he asked for a dance before she left. As the song ends he holds her to him and kisses her. She puts her hand on his chest and slides her fingers down his torso. He catches her hand before it meets his groin. His eyes slant and he growls with a smirk. "Not here, but tonight I'm going to slip into your room and wake you like you deserve to wake every night." He is paged "Fuck"

"I was trying to but you stopped me." He walks into the bathroom splashes cold water on his face rubbing some on the back of his neck. He looks in the mirror and she was standing at the door watching him. He lifts an eyebrow and smirks at her. "Don't let me stop you."

He tells her she's going to get it tonight. He then does what he calls decoding character. He closes his eyes trying to get his personal thoughts under control. "Come on Sheldon it is ShowTime" He briskly walks out of the bathroom he stops at her. "See you tonight Sweetheart." He quickly kisses her on the cheek and walks out of his office. Walking towards Emergency he looks at the message that had went to his iPad. Candy R as she liked to be called was here as his patient. He was her doctor of record so that's why the other lead doctors here didn't touch this case and sent it to him. He jogs into Emergency as she is transferred from gurney to hospital bed by the med team. Scrubbing up, one of the med techs tells him how she was found and why her dress was cut up the middle. Luke had input a law within his network called Art No Trial. If something was done it must be articulated to the lead doctor from the med tech while recording is running. If not and something is brought to trial that Med tech is in deep shit. Luke nods that he has heard.

Sophie walks out the back and sees Joshua, checking her phone she hadn't got any messages so he wasn't here for Angel. She hoped his father hadn't died or nothing. Walking over she sees Angel walk in and sit beside him holding his hand. He had his head down. Angel sees her and gets up he rises his head and looks at her. Sophie waves "Hey. What's going on?"

Angel speaks "Candy is here somewhere, she was brought here in an Ambulance from her home. Joshua was called because he's her Medical liaison." Joshua says all the desk girl told him, was that Candy R is unconscious. Sophie tells them both that Luke was just called into emergency so he may be her doctor. Joshua says Luke is her doctor she was his father's patient until Luke took over his old case load. Sophie looks at her watch she tells them that she was waiting for her ride and she'd sit with them longer but she had a really important meeting with a Judge and a D.A. that dealt with a child.

Deon walks in, looking like shit. His trademark silk shirt was dark and blotchy from the water. His hair wasn't pulled back into the, oh to curly ponytail. His eyes were red and his pants were drying. He sits down beside Joshua and stares straight ahead. "The police think I did it."

Joshua gets up and asks Deon into the hall. Joshua stands on the opposite wall with his arms crossed over his chest and his foot resting on the low almost to the floor window sill. Deon walks out "DID what? What the fuck happened? You sent me a text this morning saying you were going to propose." Deon explains what happened and the fact that he would never hurt her. "At least not physically, she thought you were gearing up to dump her. I found out more than what she was telling me. Your little questions she took as you distancing yourself for the big break. Not letting her come over not bringing your ass over to her, breaking dates with her. Deon, if you're the reason she tried to kill herself. I'm gonna be pissed at both of you. She has to make it man. Without her there is no Personal Touch. " Deon tells him she wouldn't want that. "Shut the fuck up. It's clear; you have no clue what she wants."

Deon hauls off and punches at Joshua the strike is blocked and returned to Deon in the form of an upper cut to the chin knocking him into opposite wall with a thud. Angel and Sophie runs out when they opened the door Deon tries to charge Joshua, Joshua grabs his clothes and slings him to the floor. "How are you an expert on what my woman wants are you screwing her?"

Angel says glaring at them both "Stop it, Candy is going to be super pissed that the two only men that care as she puts it are fighting. So you can fight what does that solve not a damn thing. Deon, you know good and well that Joshua isn't screwing Candy. You saying that is mean to Joshua and Candy. They are friends and have never given you or I a reason to believe it was any deeper than friendship."

Deon gets up and says "Your right Angel, their just friends from back in the day, oh wait isn't that you and Joshua started?" Angel surprises him when she gets in his face and tells him that Candy loves him and that he's the one that's playing games with her friend's emotions. "I was going to propose damn it" he reaches in his pocket and pulls the messed up suede box. He grabs her hand and drops the box in it.

Angel looks at the ring hands it back "if you were going to propose why all the games? For the last few days she has texted you and waited hours for a response just to get some weird question. Last week when we did the couple's date you didn't show up when you told her you were on your way. She sat there for a good hour saying you would be coming through the door soon. Now I don't know if she made contact with you when she excused herself, but she came back to the table grabbed her stuff and left without a word. If you don't know how highly she thinks of you just listen to her. Before you sit on the fat end of your butt and think up stupid questions and comments about her settling for you. How would you feel if the shit you did were reversed on you? I don't know all of what was up but think about how you would feel if she sent you that message. Now I'm going back in this ugly little waiting room and would suggest that both of you join me." Angel walks back into the waiting room and sits in the row of chairs on the back row Joshua and Deon return Sophie comes in tells Angel she has to go and that she sends her prayers to Candy. Angel lies her head back on the wall and prays that Candy can pull through this. Joshua had come in and quietly told her what Deon had told him.

An hour later Luke walks in passes Deon as if he is not even in the room and walks to Joshua. "Come with me please" Deon gets up and says he is her boyfriend. Luke turns on Deon and keeping his professional demeanor says "Joshua Davenport is her Medical liaison sir." He turns back to Joshua "I would like to speak to you before anyone goes in that room." Joshua nods he squeezes Angel's hand she squeezes back and he gets up and follows him pass the hall check point into his office.

Joshua remembers an office like this one and sits in a chair like this one for yet another one of his friends. Sitting back he asks. "What's going Luke?" Luke explains that since Candy did not come back to conscious that to protect her brain from further injury he has placed her in a medically induced coma. "What?" Luke tells him she isn't breathing on her own and that he has been her doctor for a number of years now and a side from nearly drowning it was good Deon pulled her from the water when he did. Luke tells Joshua that he may not want to hear what he was going to say but he should be aware. That because of the timing he did have suspicion and explains the scaring in her private area. His suspicion that because she was under the water for less than two minutes which is why the med crew was able to clear her airway of water it also points to Deon being a suspect because of the other scaring. He says he will not officially rule Deon out until some DNA comes back that was under her remaining nails saying at some point she was made to dig her own nails into her own breast. There was pressure marks all over her front and back. "Deon says he found her in the tub he thinks she either tried to kill herself or someone tried to kill her."

"Joshua keeping Candy's health as your priority I will ask that you not to let Deon into her room until I have at least tested the hair and other DNA that survived being submerged underwater. I don't want to risk being right that he held her down and then pulled her out shit like this happens and I for one will let science decide if I believe him." Joshua asks when Luke would try to wake Candy. "In 48 hours. She will be cool to the touch because we are cooling her down below normal body temp. I also have removed her Birth control disc only because her blood pressure is affected by the disc and I am not taking any chances."

Joshua looks up meeting the doctor's eyes. "I want to say that I know Deon but like you I'm not about to trust that. I can't see her trying to hurt herself over being lonely something happened and though I know Deon. There have been others that I thought I knew well, and I have been wrong, so no until you have something to prove otherwise, Deon is not to be in her room. Where is she now and is the room monitored?"

Luke gets up from his desk and walks over and sits on the front of it facing Joshua. "Look, I know this is difficult for you especially after the situation with your mother. I'm not saying that I want to be right about this suspicion but I couldn't ignore it. As for will the room be monitored yes. It is a part of our intensive care unit it is audio and visual in and out, since she is on a floor that is accessible from the ground. I don't want to put her in danger but putting her in a room like you were in would decrease the traffic of the nurses as well she needs more attention than you did. She is on the 3rd floor in room Alfa 3056." Joshua asks can he see her. "Yes were you bringing Angel back as well?" Joshua says he wanted to see Candy first. "Okay let's go they should have her in the room with everything in place."

Joshua walks into Candy's room and stops, just staring at her. Walking to the bedside he looks at the large mask that incases the tubing that he knew was down her throat. Her eyes were closed there are monitors everywhere, and white plastic pads of many different sizes with tubes and wires all over her. Her pale complexion marred by scratches and deep pressure bruising. He stands near the bed and bends down near her ear. "I don't know if you can hear me but somehow I hope you can. Candy Rabinenvitch I don't know how this happened but I will find out. Please don't leave me here, not now, you are one of the only two people that I love beyond all. I want you to wake, if Deon did this I'll make him pay. If you are frightened don't be like always I am here for you."

Inside Candy's mind which seems the only thing that she has a connection to the outside world. It felt like a dream she felt nothing but she could hear sometimes discerning what she was hearing and what she was dreaming kind of merges together. Joshua is speaking to me but I can't respond I love you too. An image of them standing on the stage at the Davenport accompanies his voice. She is looking at Joshua and herself. I'm stuck here and that frightens me bro. He thinks Deon did this oh no please, please, please, don't fade now. Joshua I'm sorry it was me. I didn't think. Her minds drifts and she is once again in the bathroom on the floor under Roman his mouth looks a hundred times larger as he covers her mouth. No not you, if you want me dead I tried to, but you are not who will be affected by my escape. There was no pressure. Though he covered her mouth and pinched her nose closed that dread and burning desperation did not exist here, that scared her, was she dead? She could no longer hear Joshua. The image of Roman burst in to millions pieces of sparkling glass. She must still be dreaming she had to find her way back the bathroom floor falls away and she lands on her butt in a hallway. Doors with images engraved on them. What the hell I've never seen this place before. She walks to the first door it has a sun and a water fall on it. My happy place I could use you right now. When Kyle her hypocrite of a father first walked into her room to give her the talk she had told him she knew about sex. She should have kept her mouth shut. He started by telling her the origin of her name he was so proud that after she was born before she had a name he went to a strip club and when he returned to the hospital he insisted her mom name her Candy after the dancer that had serviced him and made him feel like a reaches for the door to her happy place it is sucked out of her hands and she is thrown backwards color explodes all around her as she falls. When she lands an arm is around her middle as she lies in her old bedroom. Kyle tells her that her mother was never a sexual person that he'd have to get her drunk just to get what he had paid so dearly for by marrying her prude ass.

Candy tries as she always did, to get up. She notices she is half the size she is as an adult. Oh shit, this is not good. She was 14 her mother was still alive and in denial about the noises she would hear. Her father told her to be quiet as she did in her early teens she asks him "You Bash mom and tell me to not have sex until marriage but you're here in my bed?" He told her he was teaching her training her that he did not count she was his payment for choosing to marry a woman that did not like sex. He holds her down and she stares off into space it used to hurt more when she struggled the first time he'd not only ripped away her virginity he'd created an abrasion in her cervix because he was very rough with her. It still bothered her sometimes in adulthood. As she stares off into space she is able to go back to the door of her happy place. Opening the door her waterfall was here. She hears Joshua over the rushing water say he'll be back. I'm not dead I can hear you. Candy sits in her spot near the waterfall places her hand out she feels the water this place had saved her sanity but she had not been here since she was 17. She'd been in so much trouble after the pregnancy scare and hospital stay. Kyle picked her up from the hospital and stopped in the back of a strange house. What made her leave and not look back at the border of Grandville North? Kyle Rabinenvitch her father told her if she was going to act like a whore she would be treated like one. He told her while she was wasting his money in the hospital he found a way that she could pay him back. She told him he could have her next few checks. He told her he had another solution. Her 10th grade Algebra teacher comes and gets in the car when she sees money trade hands she jumps from the car and runs. It was bad and gross enough to have to deal with Kyle and not have her mother believe her, but she'd damned to hell if she was going to be used as a fucking whore with Kyle as her pimp.

After telling Candy he would return Joshua pulls himself into a standing position, rubs his hand over his face and walks into the hall. He gets a call and walks back in the waiting area on this floor. Looking for a posting about the use of cellphones he sees a sign that has a cellphone without a line going through it, looks at his phone rolls his eyes and answers. "Hello" Instantly Deon is yelling into the phone.

Deon was sitting in one of the empty rooms in the emergency room. "I saw that sneaky punk ass doctor walk pass the door when he left his office. So if he can be sneaky I thought so can I. I waited until his ass left the area and charmed my way pass the double doors. Now where the fuck is my girlfriend?" Joshua asks him where is Angel. "I knew she would rat my ass out if she saw what I was doing so I purposely pissed her off enough to leave. Shit, I don't know, where is Candy?" Joshua starts telling him sneaking pass the doors is not making his case look good. "What case, if this about my swinging on you man don't be petty, I deserve to see how my lady is doing." Joshua tells him he not telling him where Candy is until he has something saying that Deon wasn't what put his friend's life in jeopardy in the first place. "That's bullshit and you know it. You're just mad because you opened your mouth wrong speaking to me and I swung on you."

"At, you swung at me, not on me." Joshua texts Angel asking where she was? "Deon go back out into the lobby. You sneaking around the hospital isn't legal those doors are there for a reason. Dr. Sheldon brought something into the light that you said nothing about. My decision to not have you visit Candy is for her benefit in the event your lying to me. I can't risk believing you because if you fucking double cross me and did something to her it would solely be my fault." Deon says well it looks like neither of them will see their woman for a while. "I doubt Angel left the hospital. So what did you say to her? "

"I didn't say anything disrespectful. I just told her how when you first proposed to her, you spent a lot of time at my woman's house. I happen to omit the fact that I was there. Angel was very interested in why you would sleep in Candy's bed. I may have led her to believe that I walked in on you in the bed the night you walked down and I took you home when you guys were fighting about the name. I didn't say you were doing anything. She called me a vengeful childish lying ass and stormed off like a child."

"I thought I knew you, I would have never known how you really think I wonder does Candy know about this irrational jealously. With everything that is going on you trying to layer me in some shit that even you know is total bullshit." Angel's picture pops up on his phone. "Angel found me Goodbye Deon." Joshua touches Angel's image and slides the call open. "Hey, where are you?"

"Deon is an ass. I went out to the truck. I forgot I gave you the keys back." Joshua says Deon omitted a lot of shit to start shit. "Deon has a really a nasty view of Candy and your relationship. Joshua I know he was lying, babe I not only trust you, but I trust Candy, and I know Deon is pissed but we all are dealing with this. Yeah she is his girlfriend, but she's is my closest female friend that isn't related to me in some way. I know she is very important to you. You've kind of for lack of a better term adopted her as your younger sister. To answer your question, I'm in Luke's office. I figured if you could text me you were outside of Candy's room and it would be ok to call you. Can I see her?"

"I'll come get you. I don't want you wondering around in the halls Deon is in the back walking around and I don't need him trying to follow you. He pissed you off so he could charm his way pass one of the dumb ass nurses." Angel tells Luke and an all call goes out with Deon's description." I hope he went back out in the lobby if he's caught anywhere else it won't be good considering what Luke suspects." Joshua didn't want to believe that Deon was responsible but his actions were out of character and he did seem to keep implying that there was more than friendship between Candy and him but, the stuff that Luke said about timing and the pressure marking on her keeps running through his head. He soon walks to Luke's door and knocks. Luke yanks the door open "it's just me" Joshua takes Angel to Candy's room. When she walks in she turns back to him saying she thought she was prepared he closes the door and holds her. She lays her head on his chest wrapping her arms around his waist. He kisses her on her forehead and says Candy is going to be okay.

Angel soon pulls away from Joshua now that she had seen her friend she walks over and moves her girl's hair out of her face. "I think your bangs are growing back. I don't know what to say." She turns to Joshua he says he has no clue he just speaks to her and lets her know he's here. Watching out for any cords or tubes Joshua gets her a chair and says he's going to go check on the situation. Angel thanks him and sits next to the bed. Her friend looked so like a broken doll. "Candy I want you to know I'm here for you." the minute Joshua leaves the room. Angel places her hand on Candy's making sure she wasn't touching any cords. "I don't know if you can hear me and I know you can't respond, but the last thing I want you to ever think is that you are alone. Oh Candy Deon says you may have tried to kill yourself, but Luke thinks he is the one that pushed you under then pulled you out when you stopped moving. Please whether you tried to take yourself from us, or someone else is to blame please come back, If not for me for Joshua."

Candy hears Angel through the water fall. Oh girl, don't cry.When Angel makes the comment about her hair she sounded nervous. I've been using the hair book I bought at Sophie's book store. An image of Angel standing in the yard of Ivey mansion as she speaks appears before Candy inside her secret place. As soon as I figure out which way is up I'll try to come back. Hearing Angel speak to her made her want to find her way out of here but her secret place was safe. Roman couldn't get her here. When she landed she noticed there wasn't a door. It was just her and her waterfall. So the only person that knew what happened was the one in trouble. She had not heard Deon's voice.

The next morning Roman drives back to Candy's house there was something different. He wanted to come back and tell her that yesterday went 12 types of wrong. He gets out of the car and crosses the street not wanting to park in her driveway again. He'd come in the first place to see if they could be what they were. He'd expected to be stopped at the door when she let him in and kept looking up at him like she once did it he started thinking with another piece of his body. He knocks on the door. The door opens. "What the fuck?" Looking around for some type of ambush he walks into the house. "Candy-Bar" the carpet was soaked near the bathroom he made squishing sounds. The door was completely open the Bath tub was filled to almost over flowing. He looks down and sees roses walking in fearing he'd see her in the fucking water. Okay something was not right about this. Had her base player returned before she could clean herself up? Roman looked back into the water her colorful underwear was blocking the drain. Reaching in he pulls the thong out and the water loudly starts running down the drain. Tucking the underwear into his back pocket he watches the water go down.

Deon gets up out of bed, yesterday that damn doctor had sent out a search for his ass. He was pissed at himself for running like the guilty. He hated to admit it but Joshua was right if the tables were turned he wouldn't trust him. He was sure he'd put some distance in the relationship between him and his band lead. He'd come to Candy's house he couldn't visit her but he wanted to be enveloped in her sent. Something wasn't right he felt a presence that ringing in your ears when something electronic comes on in a quiet house that's what he felt. Looking at his phone this would only be 24 of the hours that his girl was in a coma so who the fuck was in her house?" He slips out of the bedroom down the stairs missing the squeaky one. He grabs one of her sculptures when he reached the sound of the tub draining, he creeps into the bathroom. There stood a man with dark hair and Candy's thong hanging out of his back pocket. Deon lifts the sculpture above his head. Suddenly the guy whirls around Deon saw his chance and took it as he quickly threw the clay art into the face of her ex. The guy hit the floor like a brick. Deon pounced on top of him punching the man in the face as he opens him up further then when he hit him with the sculpture. "Surprise asshole Candy's not here."

Roman needed to get this guy off of him. He relaxes his body to give the illusion that he had passed out he could take a punch that statue he got hit with was a bit more than he expected It rung his bell but shit he'd been hit with worse. The base player stops hitting him. Roman quickly grabs the guy by throat lifts his leg and brings it over the base player's head and pins him to the floor backwards hard. Holding him down with his leg. Roman quickly stands when he takes his leg off of the base player he starts kicking him. "Where is Candy-Bar?" the base player says fuck him. "Fuck me, nah you're not my type. Now where is?" He kicks a little harder and watches as the guy's head snap back into the base of the toilet. "Ouch, Did you make her disappear or is she hiding from you? Did you catch the scent of our affair on her and try to harm her?" The base player screams that it was him. "What was me? She was lonely I cured that loneliness." The base player tries to sweep him off his feet. Jumping out of the way Roman kicks him in the face. Blood starts pouring out of his nose. "Where is my woman?" he stomps him in his side. Where?"

Deon hoped this guy was lying. How would he know she felt lonely? "There's a reason she broke up with you." the ex tells him but that reason has been resolved or it will be in about nine months. "You lying piece of shit. You're the one who tried to kill her in the tub." The anger on the ex's face was tangible and so was the last kick Deon remembered. He tried to move his head but he soon saw an explosion of bright color then darkness.

Roman kicked and stomped on the guy until he was tired. The base player was out cold from the second kick to the head. He made sure to work the son of a bitch over real good. Candy had been in the tub and this fucker was trying to pin it on him. He walks through the house. He said tried so that meant she was in a hospital. Roman hadn't used protection he wanted to be connected to Candy now that he could afford the child. He had a girlfriend and she was pretty but she didn't like the games she safe-worded his ass when he first tried anything "extra". Walking back in the bathroom he grabs the base player half drags, half carries him in the guest bedroom letting him fall near the bed. He lands with a groan. Walking into what had to be Candy's room he finds a pair of kink cuffs Roman walks back in the room and cuffs the son of a bitch to the foot board.

Roman returns to the house he is staying at. It was only half a block downhill and on the opposite side of the street. It was his girlfriend's family home. Walking into the front door Evie smirks at him. "Was your old friend home?" He sighs and says no. He watched her she hadn't even noticed the mark where he'd got hit by the base player. His Evie had selective sight if it didn't have anything to do with her she simply didn't notice. She changed the story. "I'm sorry to hear that. Will you come with me? I want to try to apologize to my old friend. So much has happened. Her mother has passed she is getting married to a hometown boy. I was there when she disbanded then I see her and her husband to be on stage at Mania. We both said things we did not mean. I did not mean to imply that she would steal my, steal Jeffery Hardy. I found out that she did not betray me but it was after she hung up. Jeffery tricked me into thinking that she had told a very personal secret I found out I gave away my own secret."

"Stop talking, I love you babe but I've heard this story. You said the girl is very forgiving go with that, calm down. The longer you leave it unsaid to her, the harder it will be to seem sincere. Trust me." she walks over to him. He grabs her long inky black ponytail pulling her head back and kisses her on her pulse point in her neck. This was the most he would get to do to her. Unless he got her drunk then there was the issue of getting her to stay in the damn house. She'd received a call and run from the house butt naked drunker than he'd ever seen her. He found out that it was Jeffery Hardy's birthday that night and his ape shit brother Matt had called her to threaten her. Matt wasn't going to risk fame to hurt his travel liaison / girlfriend. She taps his wrist he lets her hair go. Just once he wants to wrap the black silken snake around her throat as he took her. Sighing and trying to wipe the thought from his mind he says "Let's go I have some research to do. She asked what kind. "I have to find out what happened to my friend I think her boyfriend tried to hurt her but he won't tell me where she is located receiving help." she asks his friend's name he tells her and she says there was a page on Facebook that was like a gossip rag but it usually was true about local artist. He pulls her to him for another kiss at the last possible moment he stops his hand from inching up her shirt and lets her go. "Thank you" He shivers and growls. She shivers as well.

Evie meets Roman's lust filled gaze sometimes he kind of scared her. He was much more adventurous than she. She wasn't above a little kink but he wanted more than she could see herself giving. He was hot and dark the divas of WWE were jealous of her. They looked so good together. After Jeffery died she went back to WWE and Vince changed her assignment she no longer managed either of the Hardy's or Shannon's schedule. Matt had threatened her life blaming her for Jeffery's death. Roman was larger than Mathew she felt safe from Mathew when with Roman. They had an open relationship. It worked for them. Roman promised her that he would not mingle inside the Diva circle. She had mingled inside the Superstar circle but Roman didn't seem to mind. He wasn't jealous. She managed his trips and hotel stays and he managed her other needs.

They head to his BMW and get in. Evie hoped she could save her friendship with Angel. They were best friends growing up. They met at music Camp and Angel's quiet wit merged with Evie's more out spoken nature and a friendship was bonded their families had vacationed together. They ride to Ivey Mansion and Evie smiles at the guard as her old pass code had worked. She was surprised. Then she realized she had a master copy one of the first set after the fan attack 7 years ago.

Evie and Roman stand on the doorstep of Ivey Mansion. She knocks because her house key card does not work for the house anymore. Roman rings the bell. "Smart thinking darling the house is sound proof."

Sophie was in a good mood her meeting with the D.A. and the Judge was successful yesterday she had good news when she spoke to Mark. There had been no change in Candy's condition for the worse. Last night as promised Luke had stolen into her bedroom and she was brought from slumber with him pleasuring her. This morning she'd got a lot of her other business taken care of. She was sitting at the table with Paula and Janet when the doorbell rings. Janet offers to get it. "Usually it's Ivey Carrier my files for a case I'm working on may have been sent already. I'll get it you finish your breakfast. That way I don't have to witness what's going to happen to that oatmeal that Paula has mixed in with her chocolate mousse from desert last night blah" Sophie makes a face as she gets up from the table heads to the front door opening it.

Evie smiles at her family friend "Hi Sophie is Angel home?" Evie steps forward Sophie steps out on the porch nods at Roman closing the door behind herself.

"What the hell is wrong with you bitch? The queen bee dies and now all y'all come out the woodwork? What do you want why are you at my house?" Sophie heard about the conversation between Angel and this chick, and Angel seemed to be moving on.

"I just wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss" Evie says she did not want to bring up the talk her and Angel had.

Sophie takes the Keycard out Evie's hand "Okay it's been said now get the hell away from my house and don't try to contact Angel anymore or you'll have to deal with me."

"Why are you so angry at me?" What have I done to you? I thought I was a family friend" Sophie had taken the working keycard.

"Correction you were Angel's friend. You fucked that up. Angel is not to be stressed out by your ass. When everything was good I stayed out of it. Now you come back after 5 months trying to rehash shit. That's when I get involved."

Evie was angry now. "You cannot make life decisions for Angel if after I've said what I have come to say and she still wants to throw away a 16 year friendship so be it, but I will not let you threaten me in to silence if you remember I am very goal driven."

"Keep it up, and I'll drive over you. Just leave Angel alone." Sophie stepped back into the house and tries to slam the door, Roman moves up and put his foot in the space. He squeezes in pulling Evie with him. "Look you need to leave before I call the fucking cops." Roman says that gives Evie and him about 10 minutes to get her to tell them what they want to know. As he reaches for Sophie he is soon throat-punched when he puts his hand to his throat coughing and glaring at her. The person behind her catches his attention.

Mark had been coming down the stairs, when he heard Roman making a pest out of himself. "The hell you will…" Mark watches as Roman foolishly reaches for Sophie and her throat-punch his ass like a pro. "Sophie, though you have this about handled I would like to add to Roman this is not the place to make enemies. If you like the life you have built for yourself, you might want to walk back out those doors and take your traveling companion with you." Roman walks out the door Evie follows him. Closing the door behind them, Sophie says and she was having such a good day. Mark looks out the window and watches the car drive out the gate. "Well it looks like the boy is smarter than he looks they left."

Deon wakes up, his face hurt his head was pounding along with the beat of his heart. He tries to moves his hand to his face and heard the chain clink against the frame of the bed. Opening his eyes he sees that both of his hands are in cuffs with an 8 inch chain run through the bed footboard. They were Candy's cuffs the bright pink double linked chain gave them away. He tasted blood, running his tongue over the cut in his lip. That son of a bitch was going to pay for this. His shoulders hurt from having his arms above his head. His phone rings its Joshua's ringtone. It was Joshua playing Torn by Sandra as fast as he could on his violin. Joshua was calling him it had to concern Candy. Deon pulls on the cuffs they had a key but they were kink cuffs how strong could they be 2 minutes later he found out very. His voicemail message alarm chimed at him.

That night Evie needed some fun she was bored. Roman was off at a show he would be one of the first matches the WWE was in Dallas. Her work was done he made it to the pre-taping on time and his next appearances was all set. She hits the shower her boys were in town. They would be playing at the Last Ride. Evie knew this must be the new management's idea. The 69 Eyes were here friends from Finland they had done so well for themselves. Evie gave herself a cat-eye effect with her make up. Her jet black waist length hair hung loose she wore a plaid short skirt with 6inch boots with a metal chain running from ankle to toe. Her top was a blood red corset with black silk spider webbing over her arms. She looks in the mirror and she loved the dark outfit's drastic clash with her all too pale skin. She needed a belt she'd lost weight since she bought this outfit. She switches out the plaid skirt for a shorter black leather one and puts her Handcuff and Skull metallic belt through the belt loops. Blowing a kiss at her refection she walks out of her bedroom and out of the house.

"Annika, over here" Jyrki 69 the leader of the 69 Eyes says in Finish as he sees her in the crowd to get only her attention after their last song. Timo one of the guitarists pokes him and points at 10 females that turned around. Jyrki felt he had done his job now it was time for fun. Evie as she liked to be called here in America looked great. She would always be his Annika. He invites her and her only backstage into his dressing room. They made plans to go out into one of the private rooms after the show. Tracy carded Jyrki Evie tries to even vouch for him that he is well above the drinking age. Tracy tells Evie she had already got in hot shit with Paula this month and she wasn't risking the bar's license.

Evie tells Jyrki "Are you going to have to do a check list every time you leave the hotel coming out to a show?" he says this is crazy he's 43 years old and can't even get a drink. "Let's go back to my place I have a well-stocked bar at home. He says what about the band. "They are welcomed to come if they wish. He asks will her new friend mind. He gives her one of his famous panty-melting smiles. Evie smiles and says they have a very open relationship. He agrees to come. "That is wonderful. We will get a chance to play catch up." They walk outside and Evie heads to her car. She had parked far away from the door so she would not be trapped in. It was a good thing too when she gets 10 feet away the car burst into flames. Screaming and running back towards the Last Ride she runs into Jyrki almost tipping him over. He asks her is she okay, as the fire light dances in his blue grey eyes? "I've been better but my car. It's like my office." One of the patrons comes out and says he didn't know there would be fireworks. "There isn't, you Ass butt" the guy staggers away he'd had way too much to drink. Tracy runs out saying she called the police.

Jyrki leads his Annika to their luxury bus. The band had already boarded and where watching her poor car fold in on itself suddenly a another burst of flame shot 20 feet in the air the fire had spread to the ground around the car. Evie says all of her scheduling was in the under seat compartment on her brand new iPad. Jyrki grabs her and kisses her stopping her nervous and angry ranting. "Annika you could have been in the car. I am glad that only things were harmed. How did this happen?" They see the fire department put out what is left of her car.

Evie gets a text message.

#1 Jeff HARDY fan: Ms. Annika Eveliina Helena Vencini. Next time more than your car will be in ashes.

Evie tries to track the number with an app she had. It did not work and when she goes back to the message it had disappeared. She hated ghosting programs she yells at her phone. "You Coward" Jyrki says if she wanted to have them over some other time he surly understood. "No I didn't need a drink then I really need one now." Jyrki asks did she live in the same house she once did. "Yes" he gives the driver the address and after speaking with the police and her insurance company they go back to her house.

Joshua goes to get food for him and Angel he wanted her to go home and get some real sleep. The recliner was giving her the blues to the point she wouldn't even lay it back. JC did not like the Simi firm cushion. She couldn't find a position comfortable enough to even get a nap in. He walks down to the cafeteria and finds out it closed 10 minutes ago. Throwing up his hands he walks back up to the room and tells Angel he's going to get them something from one of the nearby food chains. She tells him to please be careful and to alert Bobby that he was leaving the hospital. He promises to do both and heads out.

Roman had finished his match and did some research. Driving back into Grandville South he would pay his Candy Bar a visit in the morning. Evie had texted him that the 69 Eyes were over to the house and that her car had been set a flame. He heads into her home there was one hell of a party going Evie was half dressed looking like some kind of female Dom. She gets up and staggers towards him he catches her before she gets up close and personal with the floor. "Watch it babe" he stands her back up she speaks half in English and half in what he would assume Finish. She tells him about the weird message and her poor car. The band says they were leaving and she turns on them the lead walks to her and softly speaks to her in her native tongue. They leave the lead stops before he leaves and tells Roman to keep her safe. The guy then gets on his bus and it goes back down the hill. He guides Evie into her bedroom. She was very pliable to his suggestion when she was this drunk.

Deon wakes again. This was insane he had to get out of the damn room. That fucker had left him here knocked cold. Joshua was calling him again. He tries to reach his damn pocket to grab his phone, wiggling around on the floor he manages to get it out of his back pocket. Now it lay beside him on its face, he manages to turn it over by scooting close enough to the bottom of the bed that he could grab it in his hand by sliding the length of the chain so that his right hand was near the floor. Joshua repeatedly calling him was making him nervous Had Candy? He couldn't finish the thought the only image of her that keeps running through his head was her body responding to the med crew that was all he had to go on and it was driving him nuts. He pushes the button to answer Joshua says hello before he can say hello the phone shuts off. "No" he shouts at the silence that is his only audience. His battery had gone dead.

Joshua was sick and tired of Deon not answering his phone. It made no sense yeah he knew that Deon was pissed at him for not letting him in Candy's room in the first place, but if his only contact was someone that he was pissed at and it concerned Angel he would answer the phone. "Hello, I know the phone picked up. Deon?" this was insane Deon had just hung up on his ass.

"Down the street Roman plays with Evie he linked her belt around her wrists and clamped it over the head board. He had been driving her wild. She wiggled and giggled all over the bed. He tells her he wants to play a game with her. That she already was dressed for her part. She looks down at her attire then back into his eyes. He starts messing with her again. She is very hyper and in her excitement she kicks him in the head and he falls off the bed.

He pops up from the floor. His playful nature was tied to something a bit darker as she screamed for him to let her free. "Kick me again and you will be punished." He growls and puts his hand over her mouth she bits down on the underside of his middle finger. He didn't mind the pain. Smiling down at her he pinches her nose and she let's go and starts screaming for help. "You're being bad and you will be punished." She tries to kick him again. He walks away from the bed. "I guess you want to be locked there until I deem it necessary to let you free." She screams louder.

Evie was frantic the look in his eyes when he rose from the floor. Where had he gone? Taking a breath as the end of a song was approaching she drew in to scream for help again. He'd left her locked to her bed. He comes back and that was scary enough he had a book bag in his hands. He starts the loudest screamo song back over and proceeds to walk to the bed. She tries to kick him before he can get closer. His actions had killed her buzz. He pulls out a wooden paddle and starts hitting her feet every time she tried to kick him. "Ouch HELP ME" he smiles again when she makes contact. He makes a large circle and is now standing at the top of the bed. When she tries to kick him over her head he catches her ankle in one hand and slaps a kink cuff on it. She tries to use her other to kick him he cuffs that on to the other. He was calm too calm he had not tried to cover her mouth anymore maybe he did not like her biting him no better for him. He tells her she has one chance to shut up. Glaring at him in defiance she screams "HELP ME"

He looks out her bedroom window a light in the neighbor's back of the house came on. "You may have disturbed someone's sleep. You have taught me a very valuable lesson. Never underestimate the power of weak drinks, before she can scream again he pulls a ball gag from his bag and wrestles it into place in her mouth. He mimics counting his fingers to make sure she had not bit one off. "I didn't want to have to use that on you but you were getting carried away." He walks to the end of the bed and grabs her cuffed ankles linking a plastic tie to the end of the bed. "Want to see something look over in that direction. I got a real eye full when I turned on my cam. You broke the rules. You slept with someone in a dwelling we both share. So scream your head off I agreed to an open relationship. I agreed to not bed any of the divas. Your part was simple. The only thing I asked you for was for you not bed anyone in a bed we shared. So now that you have broken our promise it's my turn."

Evie looks over and sees her and Jyrki fucking like rabbits in the bed she lay in now. She glares at Roman. That footage could be damaging to her and Jyrki's careers she was drunk. She wanted to scream at him but all that came out were what sounded like muffled squeaks. She had to breathe through her nose. The damn thing was making her jaw hurt. He tells her to shake or nod her head. He asks was she having fun yet. She shakes her head no. He says her gag was a bit too hard to get in he hoped he could get it out. Her eyes widen what did he mean he hoped? She tried to bite down on the thing. It slid backwards that scared her. He tells her it's behind her teeth so biting it could cause it to get stuck in her throat. She releases the pressure she had on it leaning her head forward.

He reaches behind her head and tightens the strap. She tries to slam his hand between her head and the head board he moves his hand and she cracks the back of her head on the head board. He tells her there is away for her to breathe through the gag he reaches at her face she flinches as he takes something that look like a small plug out of her mouth. She felt a straw sized hole in the gag.

"It's your choice peace or a fight that you won't win." She yanks on the chain binding her wrists to the bed one of the links snap she tries to unravel the chain from around her wrist and swings both fist hitting him in his face. He pinches her nose and kisses her gagged mouth sticking his tongue in the hole he'd created. Her cheeks puff and her eyes soon start to glaze as she tries to push him away. He didn't blow because she was already breathing hard. She passes out and he cuffs her hands behind her back. He didn't like to hit by women especially his women. Clipping the plastic tie from her ankle cuffs he lifts and carries her into the standing shower sitting her on the floor. He turns on the water when it hit her in the face she wakes and glares at him. "You picked a fight you could not win. I'm going to undress you and clean the excess Band member off of you. No matter how open our relationship is, you are my woman."

The next morning Paula and Janet get ready they were going to the medical center in support of Candy. Today she was to be taken out of the coma. Paula had prayed that all went well, because heaven help Joshua if that girl didn't pull through this. Not knowing how she got in the situation in the first place was the hardest thing. Angel said Deon, had been a pain in the ass then disappeared. She'd sounded extra worn out. Sophie comes into the atrium and asks are they ready. "Yeah we were waiting on you." They all head out and climbed into Jonathon's Range Rover. As they exit the gate three cars follow them downhill.

Down the hill at Evie's home Roman gets up and unlocks Evie from her bed. He hadn't taken her he'd washed her and cuffed her ass to her bed so she wouldn't get any funny idea about destroying the cam or the valuable contents. She had begged him to please delete the footage because her band member was married and she was drunk. He told her then she should behave from now on. Today was her test if she did anything out of the ordinary he'd make sure her little secret went out.

He leaves the house and soon renters Candy's house. The base player lay on the floor where he'd left him. He walks over and places his foot on the sleeping guy's back. "If you move I'll paralyze you" the base player stayed still. He moves his foot off and the man tries to clip him. "You like trying that well it looks like I didn't hurt you enough the first time." He grabs the base player by the hair and starts slamming him into the foot board face first asking what room Candy Bar was in. The guy says he doesn't know. "You sent her to the hospital and you don't know what room she's in?" Letting his hair go he unlocks the cuffs because the base player was half out of it. The guy tries to crawl away, Roman kicks him in the midsection making him double over. He wrestles the cuffs on the guy's wrist and quickly before he can get to his feet, drags him out of the guest room making him hit every step as he drags him down the stairs into the basement where he put tape on his mouth restrained him goes upstairs.

Deon knew he was going to pass out but he had to try to stay alert. The trip down the stairs had nearly put him back out from the pain alone. He must have blacked out because he didn't remember be restrained with his hands cuffed behind him around the fucking brick beam. The thing was huge he was grateful that the cuffs had a longer chain then regular cuffs or this would hurt much worst. His hands weren't even touching. He looks down at the foot prints on his front. He now had tape on his mouth he about screamed his voice raw anyway. He could still hear the fucker up above him in his woman's house.

Luke walks into the room greets everyone and explains that at about 3am he had started warming her body back to normal body temp very slowly. He does a few more things to a few more machines and tells them If she make any movement to let him know.

Candy heard Luke as she looks around for him to appear near the waterfall a door appears. She was afraid to go through it. Angel spoke to her, Joshua spoke to her, Sophie spoke to her, and Paula spoke to her, even Janet but where was Deon? Candy looks back at her waterfall something separated the water it was an Image of her and Deon the floor swallowed him and she tries to jump into the water to save him. She stops before she hits the water. The scenery changes she lay on the floor. It was Roman's mouth. Reliving this inside her secret place wasn't fair. She starts shaking. Pain invades her he was going to kill her. She feels a bed but he was covering her mouth. She starts gagging and trying to push him off but she noticed even though she told herself to push him off she didn't move. How could they let him get so close to her but they didn't know. She could hear Angel and Joshua speaking but couldn't make out what they were saying. Her body hurt she felt raw and everything throbbed. With much hassle she gets her hand up to push him off her face and he pushes her hand down. Her mouth was being held open. The last time Roman was around and there was something holding her teeth apart he had put a gag in her mouth and tied her to her bed. She had to open her eyes. That was harder than she thought possible.

Joshua sat with Angel on his lap in the recliner as they watched for any sign of movement from their friend. When Candy starts making choking sounds Angel runs from the room yelling for Luke. Joshua moves closer when her hand shoots up and starts reaching for her breathing tube he holds her hand down. "Please, open your eyes your safe. Come on Candy Rabinenvitch please open your eyes."

Luke renters with Angel on his heels "She's bound to be disoriented." He calls in a team of nurses most of them had been in the room at different times. He asked Joshua to let her hand go and please step back into the hall.

Joshua squeezes Candy's hand says that she is in good hands and walks out into the hall. Angel walks out with him. He stared at the window as Luke and his team surrounds the bed muffed orders escape the room. Joshua watches as Candy reaches up again the look on her face even with eyes closed was pain. He turns his face away from the window when one of the nurses holds her hand down. Angel takes his hand in hers. He looks down at her. For this moment in time he was more scared than he probably should be. When Angel hugs him he almost loses it. His body trembled with so many different emotions warring for control. "She's like family to me."

Angel runs her hands up and down his back he'd bent and put his head on her shoulder. She kisses his cheek telling him Candy was going to be okay. "Honey, she feels the same way you are like her brother and best friend rolled into one. She's going to be fine. Luke said the quicker she responded to the outside world the better and faster her recovery would be." Angel watched as her friend tries to lift her other hand and is restrained. When Luke moves and is not blocking her view of Candy's face anymore the tubing no longer covered her face. Angel turns her face and kisses Joshua's cheek he'd been her rock and sanity it was her turn to be his. "Look she's breathing on her own." Joshua turns around and plasters himself to the window staring at his friend.

Candy could hear Luke clearly she smelled his cologne and hospital. That was somehow terrifying and confronting at the same time. She felt the bed underneath her, it moved in an odd rhythm. If Luke was here that meant that the feeling on her face couldn't be Roman. She still didn't like the fact her face was covered. What the hell was in her mouth? Something held her mouth open and with her laying on her back that scared her. She tries to push the thing out but she couldn't even move her tongue. Her body was only responding to some of what she was telling it to do. The mass over her mouth and nose was removed. She breathed through her nose and someone stuck something in her nose but it was brief and then she could breathe better. Part of the reason she couldn't move was it hurt to do so. It was like her whole body had fallen asleep and the fiery tingling was very sharp. She soon gagged again the thing in her mouth was freaking her out. Luke tells her in a firm tone to relax that she is not in danger. Easy for him to say he could see what was going on, why the heck couldn't she open her eyes? A fleeting religion based thought runs through her mind what if she had gone blind. A punishment or a trade for the life she had tried to give away. Could she still play keyboard? Would Joshua let her if she could? She could hear she tries to speak nothing happened. In her head she says "Please not both not sight and speech no one will understand me and therefore no one will want to be around me not even Joshua." Someone touches her throat and she tries to draw away from them they hold her head up she feels heat on her face. Soon the finger comes back near her throat it felt weird but she was no longer gagging. They raise her head so she's not completely flat anymore.

Luke walks out and tells Joshua "Candy is conscious she still may not be able to respond by talking or doing anything physical but she is breathing on her own and I have put her on a nose cannula it's just oxygen. She is responsive to touch stimuli but since we don't know what happened I'd keep that to a minimum until we know what happened. Not hugging her or leaning over her, when someone is near her without telling her who they are, her heart rate triples, I'm trying to keep her calm as possible. Her pain med will come through her IV I don't want to prescribe the cream because if the wrong person applies it her freaking out would be dangerous mostly to herself."

Throughout the afternoon Jonathon, Sophie, Paula, and Janet visit Candy. Janet had got Candy to squeeze her hand once. Jonathon sits in the waiting room Janet comes back out and sits next to him. "Uncle Jonathon she squeezed my hand and that's it, I wonder if she really awake yet. In the movies the person wakes up stretches and gets out of bed by the next scene." Luke had just come in the waiting room "Hey Luke are you sure Candy is awake."

Luke says "She is getting better many people think of someone in a coma as being asleep. Her eyes were closed because the normal sleeping and waking pattern had been disrupted. Her squeezing your hand even once is a sign that she is regaining the ability to control her purposeful movements. Her awareness of self and her surroundings increases as she improves and gets better. I hope that helps."

Later that night Candy wakes up to someone holding her hand. She keeps telling her self she is safe. She'd heard Joshua speaking to Angel. Angel was trying to hide a yarn but Joshua had caught her and suggested she go home tonight. Candy opens her eyes she could see she wasn't blind. "Thank God… I…can… see." the ceiling and the tracks for equipment hook ups were a beautiful sight. Joshua came into her visual line of sight. He looked down into her eyes and smiled at her as he agreed with what she said by telling her that a lot of people were praying for her to make a full recovery. She didn't know she'd said her thought out loud. That meant she could speak and they could understand her. He moved and she tried to follow him he disappeared.

Candy sounded slurred and her visual tracking is off do to the pain med Luke has her on, but to Joshua it was the most beautiful thing to hear her speak. Angel had got up and went in the bathroom to splash water on her face as she comes back she hears Candy and meets his eyes. Angel comes over sits in the recliner she says she is sorry but she has to go home. "Babe you been up here for almost 3 nights straight with no sleep, I was able to at the very least get in a nap. Don't be sorry I want you to go home. Standing she takes Candy's hand and tells her she will be back tomorrow morning but Joshua would be here with her so she still wouldn't be alone.

Candy looks over at the sound of Angel's voice she looks blurry she knew it was Angel by her voice and all that red hair. Angel comes in to clear focus she looked tired. "You…not… driving?" Angel makes a face and Joshua repeats what she'd said. Angel says no she texted Bobby and one of his STOP team is coming to get her. "Good… Tired… sleep now" Joshua tells her to go to sleep and he will be right here when she wakes.

Angel makes it home safely and calls up to the nurse's station, one of the nurses recognizes her voice and says she will tell the guy in Ms. Candy R's room Angel thanks her and ends the call. Angel goes up to her room and lies across her and Joshua's bed wrapping her arms around his pillow just for a second then she'll get up and grab a shower. The next thing she knows the sun is shining in her face and she wakes up. She gets up and looks at her phone she had a text message from Evie and ignores it not wanting to start her new day with crap. She sends Joshua a text asking how Candy is. He would be grabbing something to eat in a few minutes. Getting up she takes that much needed shower and heads down stairs her phone was still on charge. It was only at 20 percent so she links it to the house phone system and transferred her calls to the main line.

Sophie was heading out "Hey did you get a chance to move the wedding back to October?" Sophie says it was done yesterday "Thanks with everything that is going on I didn't want this to be a rush and forget something very important situation. I still don't have a dress and Joshua says he hasn't picked the tux he's going to get." Sophie says it a good thing they were moving it back considering the band that she had hired had sent her a damn message saying they won't be in the country in time for the September wedding date. "Oh no, Joshua likes them a lot will they be able to do October?" Sophie says yes. Angel does a victory dance and high five's her sister. "Thanks so much Sophie, I couldn't pull this off without you sista."

Roman walks into Sheldon Medical Center the following morning. He asks for Candy R's room and is escorted to the waiting room on the floor below Candy's room and is told that her Medical liaison will be with him to explain the rules of her treatment. He sits in the waiting room her med liaison he wondered who if not the base player did she trust with her life? Her father wasn't a candidate who the hell did she trust? Her doctor comes in the room and introduces himself as such. "Hey How is she?" The doctor says they will have to wait for Candy's medical liaison since he has requested that no information be given without him being present to people not on his list. "Well depending on who it is I wouldn't be on his list but believe me she would let me see her if she had that option, I'm a very close family friend."

A nurse comes in and checks Candy's vitals she also removes one of the pads on her hand and replaces it with a finger monitor saying this was progress. Candy's speech was getting clearer to understand. She also didn't jump when you touched her near her face. This nurse had been in and out of her room since she had arrived so it could be she had gotten use to her, but either way she wasn't flinching like when she first woke up yesterday. Last night Luke had asked her personally to do over time since she had such a light handed approach and her use of needles and knowledge of IVs was paramount to this case. She had won awards for her approach and most people including children had told her that they didn't know she was sticking them until she pulled the needle out of them. She had a message on her iPad and addressed Candy and her liaison. "Hey guys it appears that you have someone that wishes to see you Ms. Candy. Um Joshua he is not on the list and Luke said for you to come to the waiting room you guys set up for people not on her list." When Joshua gets to his feet Candy squeezes his hand and looks afraid she asks that he not leave her. "If you want I have a few minutes I can stay in here with you. I'm no Joshua but you won't be alone." Joshua looks back at Candy and she says sure. He leaves the room. Candy says she knows she's a nurse but what's her name. The nurse lifts her name badge up near her face so Candy won't have to move to read it and says "I'm Diamond we have something in common um I've not heard the way your last name is pronounced but we spell it the same small world huh?"

Candy knew that in this region her last name was not common at all. "Rabinenvitch" the nurse has the dirty blond hair that Candy would have if she wasn't constantly getting hers dyed a lighter shade. She wanted to cut it off and start over. Roman liked her hair color and its length he told her she looked great. Candy had to stop thinking about him. The nurse looks shocked. "Too bad I'm an only child. My dad didn't have siblings so I doubt we're related."

"I have a little sister my dad named her Passion. My mother's stage name was Candy that is so weird." Diamond filches when Candy accused her of trying to be funny. "No seriously. My mother was a stripper now she teaches pole dancing for fitness Candy's Dance school, out in Grandville North. My dad picked her up when he was on leave and well 21 years later here I am. He works for the government he leaves for years at a time my sister is 14. He married my mom about 2 years ago."

"Do you have a picture of him?" Diamond pulls her phone and says sure when she puts the phone up to Candy's eye level she froze. In the picture sat Kyle Rabinenvitch in a damn uniform. He sat with a woman that had an exotic look to her. Where her mother dressed like a librarian, this woman dressed like her stripper career had influenced her style. This was the woman that her name came from and he had them all believing he was in the Government, no he was living a double life and Candy had received the bad side of the coin. "I'm tired, Joshua will be back soon you can go." Diamond asked did she know her father. "No" The last thing Candy wanted to do was see Kyle or tarnish this girl's relationship with the lying son of a bitch. Candy also didn't know how long she would be here and she refused to say anything that could be taken out on her later. In a way Candy wasn't lying she didn't know that Kyle. He'd cut off all his hair and was completely bald in the picture. He smiled sitting with Diamond and what must be her little sister on his lap standing next him was the woman with dark hair and a tan the sheer opposite of her own deceased mother. Diamond leaves and Candy just stared off into space.

Joshua walks into the waiting room with Luke and a guy with dark hair. He wore a vest and black jeans when he turned around Joshua wanted to knock him into next year. It was Candy's ex from High school. The fucker had left her drugged out on morphine on the Davenport stock room floor. A bitch of a customer that wanted some top shelf gin had saved Candy's life. Without the woman being a regular pain in the ass and his dad sending him to go get the gin Candy would have been found dead the next morning when they were scheduled to do inventory. A chill went down his spine he closed his eyes and reopened them focusing on the here and now.

Roman turns around and stops, some people never changed the guy had got a little taller but he was still the boss's kid. So his Candy had trusted her boss's kid with her life. "Hey you're her boss's kid I don't know if you remember me but Candy Bar and I are an item again. I came to check on her."

Joshua didn't take his eyes off the asshole as he spoke to both Luke and Roman. "Luke get this guy out of here. I'm her friend if you don't leave now there is going to be a problem. You fucked up coming here right now."

Roman walks closer. Blue eyes meet blue eyes. "I get it, you're not crazy about me because of what she may have said about me back then, but people change. This isn't right you are abusing your power to get back at me for some shit that happened almost 10 years ago. She got over it, why can't you?" Her boss or the band lead as he called him in his head just stood there glaring at him. The doctor asked to speak to him.

Joshua backed in to the hall keeping an eye on the bastard. Luke waves a hand in his face, Joshua grabs his hand letting go just as quickly. Finally meeting Luke's gaze Joshua says "I don't want him up there. He thought she was pregnant when she was in high school and tried to drug the baby out of her, using morphine. He put it in her food or drink she had a bad reaction to it and he left her ass on the floor of Davenport stock room." Joshua grabs fistfuls of his own hair. When Luke asked how he found out what he'd given her. Letting go of his hair, dropping his hands to his side, with a sigh Joshua stares off into the middle distance as the scene played before his mind's eye saying "I walked in to the stock room and she was on the ground twitching, I tried tap and shout, when she stopped moving all together I called 911, she coded 2 fucking times, in the ambulance." Anger radiated off Joshua in waves "I know I was wrong about Deon, but this guy is not to see to her. Get him out of here before either one of us goes back to her room, because if he follows you or I up there and upsets her, I'm going to try my damnedest to knock him out that fucking window."

"He says Candy forgave him, but after hearing this she became my father's patient in her later years in high school. Candy's is a sweet girl I don't see even her forgiving someone for trying to purposely kill her or a possible child. Verbally abusive maybe, physically, stranger things have happened, what you just described, I'm with you on this one." Luke rubs a hand under his chin where his clean shaven beard was starting to reappear in thought. "Okay you go back up to the room while I'm down here and can see him. When I have given you time enough to get to the room go in lock the door. I have the key the nurses can get in but I'm cutting access to that room. This is insane." Joshua agrees, thanks him and walks back towards the stairs he didn't want Roman seeing which floor he went to.

Roman walks out into the hall. "So doctor, where is Candy?" Luke says he has consulted with her medical liaison and he is afraid he was going to have to deny Roman access. "That's Bullshit he has it in for me. Candy forgave me she let me back into her life. If she could make her own decisions she would invite me in. Since she can't you better watch him he may be taking advantage of her while she can't defend herself. He has a pretty dark past. It's kind of bad when you let the wolf watch the sheep." With that said Roman walks out the medical center. He'd dropped a little doubt into this equation. With some people all you needed was a little seed and their minds would grow it into a tree. The Band lead had banned the wrong fucking person.

Luke walks back to his office and watches Roman walk to his car and drive off the property. He hated that he had to look but just in case there was some truth to Roman's statement he reviewed footage on Candy's room then speeds it up to the current time. All was as it should be, so he dropped that line of thought back in the trash where it belonged. He didn't want his personal and professional feelings mixed up in this, but that was near impossible in this situation. Joshua was Angel's to be husband, and he her to be brother in law, but he'd always thought of Angel as his sister. If there was any funny business of that caliber going on he wanted to know about it. He was glad there was none.

Roman pulls up past Candy's house and walks back to it. Walking into the basement he smelled piss. Wrinkling his nose he says "You're fucking messed up. That band lead of yours is taking advantage of Candy while she can't defend herself." Roman takes a picture. The guy looks up and Roman snaps another picture. "Here is the deal; I didn't know this shit was as serious as it is. I captured the wrong person. I'm going to unlock you you're going to get cleaned up and go save Candy Bar from her boss. The kid has a dark past and Candy has always had a crush on him he's taking advantage of her man she's awake but no one's home if you know what I mean. Don't believe me go check it out for yourself. If you try to rat my ass out these pictures go all over web. If you try to attack me I'll beat you to death. I'm trying to save Candy." The base player says that the band lead's girl is up there so he's lying. "No your female vocalist left him up there with Candy alone and he has the fucking doctor in his pocket." Roman saw that something he said affected the base player he didn't care what it was. He unlocks the cuffs and walks back up the stairs exiting the house.

Joshua walks back into Candy's room to find her alone. "Did the nurse get called away or something? I thought she was going to stay in here with you." she tells him about the nurse's visit. "You didn't tell her?" Candy gets mad at him and says it none of her damn business. "Okay"

After two badly needed showers Deon emerges from the bathroom he had the water so hot his skin was red in spots. Plugging up his phone he listens to Joshua send him message after message they stopped yesterday with Joshua screaming at him that if he was going to be this fucking childish Candy didn't need him. He didn't want to believe any of the shit going through his head. The fact that Candy slept with her ex because she was lonely, then how or why was she in the tub with her fucking clothes on? Joshua's messages both pissed him off and saddened him. Evidently Luke had found that he wasn't the person behind this, and Joshua called him telling him he could come to the room. Yesterday was the last message. He calls Joshua and gets no answer. He calls Angel she answers with a hesitation in her voice. "Hey are you up at the hospital." She asked him why he wanted to know. "Look, I know I kind of rubbed you the wrong way the other day but I need to know where you are." She says though it none of his business she was getting ready to stop by a place and grab something for her and Joshua to eat. "I know you don't want to hear this but I'm not joking this time Joshua may be taking advantage of Candy while Candy can't." She hangs up on him. Deon charges out to his car, drives towards the hospital he was going to catch Joshua in the act.

Roman returns to Evie's home, collects his things he had a show to do hopefully when he came back if she felt anything for him he would be able to get back with her. His dirty little lie was working. The base player was going to break up with her. He knew what room she was in now thanks to the idiot putting his messages on speaker phone. He'd placed one of his recording devices inside the otter box covering of the base player's dead cell phone. Roman had lots of different recording devices that he had ordered off line he didn't trust people so he recorded them. The phone bug he had didn't have video but the sound was crystal clear. The band lead had told the base player he was allowed in the room and gave the room number. Evie stayed her distance. "Is my Sacramento trip booked?" Evie just nods her head. "Thank you" He grabs her kisses her and lets her go, as he walks out to his car and drives off.

Deon walks on to Candy's floor as he steps to her room he checks the door it is locked he quickly peeks into the room via the door. Joshua sat to the side of the bed why the hell had he locked the door? One of his hands was over the back of the chair where was his other hand? Not able to just stand here a moment longer he knocks on the window. Joshua jumps and looks his way what the hell was he doing?

Joshua was speaking to Candy who was finally calm enough to go back to sleep. Suddenly there is a loud tapping on the door window. Joshua jumps at the sudden noise and turns to see who is knocking with keys on her door. When he looks at Deon through the door's window he looked pissed off and had facial bruising. Joshua sighs "What now?" Candy asks who it is. Her eyes were closed since she had probably been awake too long because her vision was blurry again. "It's Deon, do you want me to let him in?"

Candy heard the protective tone in her friend's voice and opened her eyes. "Yes I want you to let him in. Please tell me Deon hasn't been out there all this time?" I'm in enough trouble with him. She thinks to herself.

"It wasn't Deon" Joshua leaves it at that and walks over opening the door. Deon walks pass him and straight to Candy's side. "Hello to you too Deon" Deon holds Candy's hand but when he runs a hand down her jaw line she flinches and he withdraws his hand from her face. Deon looks at Joshua asking him out of the room so he could talk to Candy alone. "That's up to Candy." Deon mumbles something and asks Candy would it be okay if he spoke with her without her Joshua in the room. "Deon, that's enough okay, just chill out man."

Deon ignores Joshua "What's your choice babe? We used to be able to at the very least have a conversation without Joshua sitting in the room." He noticed Candy wouldn't look at him. She just looked straight ahead. Was she looking at Joshua for visual confirmation? He tries to follow her line of sight. He leans over her meeting her eyes. "Hey, look at me, babe are you okay?" It happened slowly but he would never forget it. Candy slowly put her hand between them and asked him not lean over her. He says "You flinch when I touch you and now you want me to get away from you. How far Candy, will you push me away?"

Candy didn't mean to flinch she didn't see him about to touch her. Against her own better judgment she asked Joshua to leave the room. He says he will be out in the hall. "Okay so we're alone. Why are you taking pot shots at Joshua? I didn't tell you to get away from me. I just don't want you leaning over me."

Joshua had unlocked the door and made sure it did not lock when he closed the door by turning the knob to see if it was still unlocked. He stood in the hall and that is when his phone came to life. He finds his spot in the waiting room and answers the phone Angel tells him of Deon's newest rant. Joshua tells her that Deon is in the room now with Candy that maybe he will calm the hell down after they have spoken.

Deon asked her when she was going to let him know that she was sleeping around on him. She really didn't have an answer for him. If she had not of opened the door Roman would not have been able to do what he did. Her eyes watered on their own "I'm sorry Deon" He went off on her all the hurt she could hear in his voice.

Deon glares down at her. "I can't believe you Candy. If you were just going to cheat on me why send me a message telling me you were lonely the night before. You couldn't have been that lonely you had your fucking ex to keep you entertained." She just laid there crying and whispering she was sorry. "I saved your fucking life. I think you at least owe me an explanation. What happened?"

Candy closed her eyes and told him between sobs what happened from the time Roman knocked on her door to the fear she felt when he covered her mouth taking her breath, she told him of feeling Roman invade her and of the thoughts and feelings running through her head when she got into the tub. She opens her eyes at the sound of the door opening and closing. Deon had left the room. He'd left without even a goodbye. Her body hurt from all the movement she'd done today she was tired before he even came, and crying, as always, never helped. She hits the button for her pain med and it sends warm sensations along her limbs and spreads everywhere as the pain goes away she goes to sleep.

Deon charges out into the hall and runs into Joshua, "I'm going kill him. He could have killed her and then she tries to take herself out over fear that he would do it again. I'm going to kill the son of a bitch." he shouts at Joshua who is blocking his path. "This isn't your fight." Joshua asked him what the hell Candy said happened. He tells Joshua what Candy had just told him. Joshua tells him that the son of bitch is running around claiming that she forgave him. Deon surges forward pinning Joshua up against the wall "YOU LET HIM IN HERE?"

Joshua makes Deon release him but does not strike out at him. "No Roman tried to come visit her, but anyone not on my list isn't to even know what floor she is on. I want to go with you, but I don't want to leave Candy here alone."

Deon says "So Don't" and leaves the hall via the stairwell.