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Paris walked down the corridor leading to the study, just like every other morning. When he heard soft sobs, he stopped abruptly. They came from the study.

He rushed inside only to meet his worst nightmare. Chel, Jack, Zandra, Breanna and Amazonia laid piled onto each other in a large pile of blood. All dead.

In the corner Nick stood and smirked at him with one arm around a sobbing Teddy's neck and a gun pointing towards the younglings temple.

''Nick what the hell are you doing?!'' Paris hissed and walked towards them, but stopped when Nick aimed the gun over at him.

''Nothing special, I'm just taking Teddy here for a drive.'' Nick laughed and tightened his grip around Teddy's neck. Paris looked into Teddy's pleading red swollen eyes.

''Everything is my fault, I'll do what you want.'' Paris pleaded as tears started to well up in his eyes, but Nick only laughed.

''If you only had thought about that when this all started.'' Nick said as his smirk grew even wider and he started to look crazy.

''This is between you and me, I'm the one you want, just let him go.'' Paris pleaded again. But Nick's laughs only became louder and more taunting.

''Okay.'' Nick said as he pushed Teddy through the big glass windows to fall two storeys down.

''NO!'' Paris screamed and leaped over to the window as if there was still a chance to save him.

Soaked in sweat, Paris jolted up in bed. It had been a dream. Nothing but a complete nightmare.

Two weeks had past since he received that phone-call from Zandra and during that time Nick hadn't showed his face and even if he was still wary, Paris had slowly started to forget about Nick's treat. Maybe this nightmare was a sigh that he was maybe more of an idiot than he thought of himself to be.

Still, a small and naïve part of him thought that maybe Nick had forgot about everything about what revenge was.

He knew that he should have, but he hadn't told Chel, Amazonia, Tulio or anyone else about Nick being released from prison. They all had more important things to worry about at the moment.

Besides, he made sure that neither Chel or Teddy where out by themselves. He was not going to let this nightmare become true, not even some of it.

It was early in the morning and the sun had just risen. At the beach-house, Jack sat by the dinner-table reading the morning news on his tablet.

''Two more attacks and rapes in less then a week.'' He growled angrily and placed the tablet down onto the table.

''Could it be the same as the one you raped Kimberly?'' Breanna asked from inside the kitchen area as she stood by the stove. Jack sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

''Could it be Nick?'' Breanna added and looked over at him and moved the pancake from the frying pan to her plate and went over to sat down opposite him. Jack looked back at her and shook his head.

''No. Nick is capable of a lot of things, but not this.'' Jack replied and finished the last of his juice.

''How can you be sure, from what I heard he's capable of doing pretty much anything.'' She said and took a piece of pancake into her mouth.

''I just know.'' Jack said in a slight annoyed tone and looked at her again. Breanna frowned her eyebrows but didn't take the conversation further.

In that moment the front door opened and closed, and only a few seconds later Hope came running in followed by Fiona in a pair of tight jogging pants, a crop top and sweat.

''How was your run?'' Breanna asked and picked Hope of the floor and put him into her lap.

''Nice. Sweaty, but good.'' Fiona replied her and took a glass of juice.

''I'll jump into the shower.'' She added and disappeared up the stairs. Jack locked his tablet and stood up and drank the last of coffee.

''I need to go back to the mansion before anyone notices I'm gone.'' He said and leaned down to kissed Breanna and gave Hope a pat onto his head.

Tulio sat onto the floor with Amazonia sitting between his legs into one of the empty rooms in the palace. In front of them sat a middle-aged woman with long blonde greyish hair.

''Good, you're doing very well both of you.'' She said and stood and rolled over a tv-screen and took the remote and joined Tulio and Amazonia at the floor.

''If you hadn't seen a birthing video before, this might be scary. Let's see.'' She said with a smile and pressed play onto the remote. A labouring room entered the screen and several people surrounding a woman in labour as the room filled up with screams and whimpers.

''See now how this woman takes strength in her breathing.'' The woman said. Amazonia sat looking quite intrigued, while Tulio tilted his head slightly and became more and more pale every second.

''And here you can see the baby's head crowning.'' The woman added. Tulio could feel his stomach turn and he started to became lightheaded. All that blood, all of the screaming.

''And eventually the whole baby.'' The woman added as the whole baby came out. Then everything went black for Tulio as he fell to the floor.

''Tulio?'' Amazonia called as she shook his husband.

Jack and Paris stood together leaning against the stables walls as they watched Chel and Teddy a bit further away with Paris's mare Claudette.

Chel carefully cut pennies out of a carrot with a knife and gave the pennies to Teddy for him to give to Claudette. When she was with Teddy, Chel got her life-glow back. She looked alive and sometimes she even laughed.

''She seems to be doing better.'' Jack said with a smile as they both watched them. Paris nodded his head and a small smile grew across his lips as well.

''She is, and I think we mostly have Teddy to thank for that.'' Paris said and folded his arms across his chest.

''If it hadn't been for Teddy, I don't think that Chel will ever make it through this.'' He added.

''Don't you think that we should let her know that Nick is free? And Amazonia too?'' Jack asked and turned around to look at his best friend. Paris sighed and thought for a second, but shook his head.

''Not yet. Amazonia doesn't need the stress right now, the baby is due soon. And Chel just started to get better, I can't risk anything changing that.'' He finished without ever taking his gaze of his wife or adoptive son.

The woman handled Tulio a glass of water and he thanked her before she walked away to pack up her belongings. Amazonia sat down next to him and looked curious into several pamphlets.

''How embarrassing.'' He whispered and covered his face with one of his palms.

''Don't mind that, just don't faith during our labour.'' She giggled and looked at him.

''I'm not making any promises, everything just went black.'' He added.

''She gave me these pamphlets, there is all kinds of ways to give birth, and epidural, like a shoot.''

Amazonia rambled up all excited as she kept on flickering through the pages.

''Could we talk about this later? I think I'm going to be sick.'' Tulio said and took a sip out of his water. Amazonia looked at him and giggled again.

''My hero.'' She said and planted a kissed onto his cheek, earning a smile from Tulio.

''I need to hurry. I'm meeting Paris on the foyer in an hour.'' Amazonia added and stood up.

Chel preferred to spend as less time as possible into the mansion. It had been better for the last couple of days, but she still preferred to stay inside her and Paris's bedroom.

She sat onto the couch reading a book when there was a knock onto the door.

''Come in.'' She called and watched Jack peeking inside.

''Can I come in?'' He asked and smiled. Chel giggled as she tilted her head slightly and shut her book.

''Of course.'' She replied him. Jack stepped inside and closed the door behind him.

''How are you feeling?'' He asked carefully as he sat down into one of the armchairs opposite her. Chel sighed and looked down into her lap.

''I have been going to counselling, it's been helping but I'm far from okay.'' She replied him sadly.

''I still have a long way to go, but Paris has been great. I know he busy with his work, but he always makes sure to make time for us.'' She smiled slightly. Jack smiled back at her and nodded, but he knew that there was more to the story.

''But?'' He asked. Was she really that see-through?

''But, I can't help thinking if we really can go back to the way we were before the accident.'' She sighed sadly and looked down into her lap again.

''It will take time, but you'll get there. If you two can't, then nobody can.'' Jack said and smiled. Chel sighed again and looked back up at him.

''I know Paris married me because he loves me, but he also married me because I was pregnant.'' She began with a sad expression on her face.

''What are you saying?'' Jack asked and frowned his eyebrows slightly.

''If I hadn't gotten pregnant, I wonder if Paris still would have chosen me over Zandra.'' Chel confessed sadly.

''And if so, is there a part of him that still might wonder what could have been.'' She added.

''What? Why would he throw away what you have together for a love-less relationship.'' Jack asked with no doubt in his mind. Okay maybe a small part of him, but he would never admit it.

''But that's the thing isn't it. Paris and Zandra have much history together, it wouldn't be love-less. They dated for years, they had plans, you of all people should know that.'' Chel said.

''It wouldn't be a sacrifice to be with her.'' She sighed and shrugged her shoulders slightly.

''I want to be with Paris, more than anything. But I don't want him to be with me because he feels obligated to.'' Chel said. Jack sighed and shook his head.

''Paris is committed to you! If he wants to be with Zandra, then he will be. But you really shouldn't worry about it.'' He told her. Chel smiled slightly and nodded before standing up.

''I thought that I would go back home to the palace for a couple of hours, get away from here you know?'' She said. Jack stood up as well.

''I'll drive you, you shouldn't be alone.'' He said. Especially now with Nick on the lose.

After a long lunch together, Paris and Amazonia walked together up the market town talking. They laughed together until someone stepped in front of them and they both froze. Only a few inches away from they stood Nick opened his jacket slightly revealing a gun.

What do you guys think? Obviously Jack has told Breanna that Nick is free. And why did Jack get so offensive when Breanna applied that Nick could be behind the rapes?

And Tulio fainted, let's just hope he won't during their own birth.

And is Jack right about Paris and his feelings for Zandra, will he stay with his wife because he wants to? Or does he want to give him and Zandra another chance?

Nick is about to take Paris and Amazonia with his, what will he do to them? Will they get away from him with their lives or in a body bag?

Next time, Nick brings Paris and Amazonia to a shed and begins his plans to get his revenge.