Revenge Chapter 7
Larry hurries towards Megan's apartment door his mind swirling with ideas and plans.
(Tonight will be a night to remember) He smiles happily to himself as he unlocks her door still juggling his packages. Upon entering he is so pre occupied he doesn't hear the footsteps behind him. Suddenly with out warning he feels a blinding pain in his head and falls to the floor darkness descending upon him as the packages go sprawling across the room.
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Alan and Millie are relaxing at a small café near the CalSci campus. Alan can't help but notice that Millie is decidedly quiet and seems very preoccupied as she continuously stirs her coffee. After giving her a long appraising look he decides to say something.
"You know, the trained eye of a parent as well as someone who has been married can easily tell when something is wrong. So are you going to tell me?"
Millie looks at him startled then chuckles.
"Can't get anything past you can I?"
"No. So what's going on?"
Millie sighs clearly bothered by something.
"I just…I don't know, this whole thing with Ray Ray is just hitting me a little to close to home."
Alan raises an eyebrow and nods waiting for her to continue.
"Years ago a man I thought was a friend started becoming increasingly obsessed with me. I made it clear to him I wasn't interested in him in that way, but that seemed to only encourage him. He began stalking me and eventually I had no choice but to get a restraining order."
Millie laughs sadly.
"I really thought that was the end of it, I honestly believed that the restraining order would keep him away."
"It didn't?"
Millie shakes her head.
"I think it actually was an incentive for him. He seemed to take it as a dare. He broke into my home and…He raped me."
Millie gets a very pained look on her face as she stares out the window and shudders at the memory. Alan instinctively reaches across the table and takes her hand in his.
"Millie?"
She looks back at him and sees the concern and compassion in his eyes.
"I'm…I'm so sorry. I had no idea. You don't have to but I'll be happy to listen if you want to talk about it.
Millie smiles through a few unshed tears.
"Not much to say at this point. He was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison, while there he pissed the wrong person off and got killed."
"And you?"
Millie shrugs.
"I dealt with it. I went to therapy and a support group. I moved to a different apartment. I made it."
Alan smiles.
"I'm glad."
Millie smiles back at him.
"Me too."
She then gets a distant look in her eyes.
"And I am fine for the most part… But situations like this? They…they just bring it all back. And I can't help but worry that this restraining order won't work either. "
Alan raises an eyebrow.
"You think Ray Ray is capable of doing what your friend did."
Millie considers this.
"I think that in a case like this it's never a bad idea to over react verses under react. It's one of the reasons I'm doing my best to get him fired. I don't want him anywhere near Megan or Larry or anyone else he might use the restraining order as an incentive to go after."
Alan nods.
"Makes sense"
"Also, well to be honest I'm a little worried about how little we know of his past."
Alan looks at her confused.
"What do you mean?"
Millie sighs.
"Well, as much as I like to believe CalSci is always on top of everything, and always makes great decisions we're not, and we don't. We have a horrible tendency to use a persons academic accomplishments and IQ as a judge on what type of person they are. Meaning that as long as they're not a convicted felon and they have the aptitude to be here there past probably wouldn't come up. The only kind of background check we do on our professors aside from their academic prowess is a basic one that only looks at felony convictions. I'm not saying it's right, but it is what we do."
"So if he'd stalked someone in the past and or harmed someone but wasn't actually convicted of it you might not know about it?"
Millie nods worriedly.
"A practice which I am not pleased with and am trying to change."
Alan nods as he pulls out his cell phone.
"Well, one of the benefits of having a son in the FBI is back ground checks aren't to hard to come by."
Millie smiles as Alan calls Don.
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Amita is in her office working when her phone rings she checks the caller ID and smiles happily as she sees it's Charlie.
"Hi."
"Hey, listen, what do you say we go to Bona Corso's tonight?"
Amita's mouth starts watering at the mere mention of her favorite Italian restaurant.
"Sure, what's the occasion?"
Charlie smiles.
"I don't know. I guess I just feel like being with the woman I love tonight."
Amita blushes.
"I love you, too."
"So I'll pick you up around 7?"
"Sounds good."
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Over at the FBI Megan is getting her things ready to go as Colby walks by.
"So, how do I score an early evening?"
Megan laughs.
"Hey, I've put in my time."
Colby smirks.
"Yeah, well enjoy it. I got dibs on cutting out early tomorrow."
Megan raises her eyebrow at him.
"Oh really? So you finally found someone to go out with?"
Colby smirks.
"Yeah, as a matter of fact I have. You remember Bonnie Parks?"
"You're kidding?!"
Colby smirks.
"She called me recently to thank me and apologize for her ungracious behavior. Said she was just in no frame of mind at that moment to be appreciative. I told her I understood and not to worry about it. But if it would make her feel better I'd love the chance to take her to dinner and she excepted."
Megan laughs.
"Well, good luck."
With that she grabs her purse and heads for the elevator.
Just then Don comes over to David's desk.
"Hey David, listen I just got off the phone with my Dad and apparently CalSci doesn't do a real thorough back ground check on it's professors. Dad and Millie are a little concerned that we don't know a lot about Ray and all things considered I think it might be a good idea if we did."
David nods in agreement.
"One deep back ground check coming up."
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When Megan arrives back at her apartment building everything looks normal she stops at her mailbox and sees a notice letting all the tenants know the power was out for several hours today. Megan shakes her head.
"Well, I guess I'll be resetting all my clocks and the security system in my place tonight."
She goes on up to her apartment. Upon entering she notices the lights are off but that the apartment is a glow with hundreds of candles and there is soft music playing. She smiles remembering Larry has a key and starts up the steps.
"Larry?"
As she moves into the upper part of her apartment and rounds the corner she gasps in shock. There before her tied to a chair with masking tape over his mouth is Larry. Larry is frantically struggling and seems to be trying to say something through the tape.
"Larry!"
Before she can react she feels a sharp pain in her arm she looks down and sees a dart sticking out of it. Suddenly the room starts spinning and her muscles seem to forget how to work. She falls to the ground still completely conscious but unable to move then suddenly her attacker is standing above her.
"Let's see how tough you are now bitch."
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Authors note. Please let me know if you think I need to increase the rating on this to M.