AN: It's been a while since I last updated this story, and it will be a while longer before this will be posted. Last time, Casey was released from the hospital. If you read my previous stories about Life With Derek, you would know that Dennis (Casey's dad) and Alexander aren't friends, and he kind of blames Alexander for what happened to Casey. All this and more is going to be aired in this chapter and chapters coming up.

Chapter Six: Turns

"She's not doing to well, dude." Derek told Alexander as they were sitting in Alexander's room after school ended.

"Really? What's wrong with her?" Alexander asked Derek.

"She's paranoid." Derek said. "She acting paranoid, I mean. She is spooked at the slightest thing, and she thinks that someone is out to get her."

"Someone was, if you want to think about it." Alexander said.

"I was wondering, what do you think happened?" Derek asked him.

"Whoever this was, she wasn't the intended target." Alexander said.

"They shot her." Derek said.

"I know, but let me explain. Are you aware of something called 'false flag'?" Alexander asked Derek.

Derek shook his head no, clearing not getting what Alexander was trying to tell him.

"Okay, let me explain." Alexander said. "False flag plays are something that means they do one thing, and mean another. Or, you make your target think one thing and it be about something else."

"So, what you are trying to tell me is that whoever is trying to kill Casey is using this as something else?" Derek asked him.

"Yes, exactly." Alexander told Derek. "Whoever is responsible for all of this is probably tied to something in my parent's past."

"If it is, that is kind of messed up." Derek said. "I mean, why would someone try to kill an innocent person just to spite you?"

"Scary, but it is not surprising." Alexander said. "What I told you isn't new information, or surprising information."

Derek looked out of Alexander's window just in time to see Dennis get in his car and leave.

"Well, Dennis is gone." Derek said. "Want to head over and see Casey now?"

"God yes. I am tired of sitting here talking to you." Alexander said jokingly.

"I enjoy our chats, you son of a bitch." Derek jested back at his friend.

Alexander laughed, playfully punching his friend in the arm, before heading out of his home, and towards Derek's place.

Alexander and Derek stood on their front porch as Derek unlocked his front door, and walked inside the home. Derek stepped inside, and his dad George approached them both.

"Hey, I think we got a problem." George said.

"What's up?" Derek asked him.

"Dennis thinks that Alexander has something to do with what happened to Casey." George said, nodding his head towards Alexander. "Not only that, Casey and Dennis had an argument about her relationship with him."

"Really now? That's must be why he was in a hurry to leave the house." Derek said.

"I bet he is heading to the cops to tell them whatever he was here talking about." Alexander said, running a hand through his hair. "Where's Casey?"

"Upstairs, crying about the argument that she and Dennis had." George said.

"Thanks." Alexander said as he and Derek went upstairs to talk to her. Before they got to her bedroom door, Derek and Alexander stopped.

"How should we handle this?" Alexander asked Derek.

"Why are you asking me? She's your girlfriend, not mine." Derek answered.

"Right. I was just asking because this is kind of a delicate situation." Alexander said. "I don't want to make anything worse, so being careful is probably the best option here. Well, here it goes."

Alexander knocked on the front door, and it opened. Alexander and Derek walked inside, to see Casey laying face down on her bed. She lifted her head up, and they saw her tear stained face.

"Hey." She said, wiping her face.

"Hey yourself." Alexander said, sitting on her bed, and rubbing her back. "I heard about what you and your dad went through. I came over to see if I can make you feel better. Want to talk about it?"

"My dad was just being an ass." Casey said. "What else is new?"

"So, how have you been feeling since you have been home?" Alexander asked. He was delicate in asking her that, just to be sure not to make her feel any worse.

"It's scary." Casey said. "I have this feeling that someone is out to get me, and they won't stop until they finally get me. I'm afraid that person can get me anywhere no matter what I can do to stop them."

Alexander motioned for Derek to wait outside the room, and once Derek was gone and the door closed, Alexander turned back to Casey.

"I know what you are going through. I felt the same way that you are feeling." Alexander said. "I have a suggestion. I know someone you can talk to."

"Like a psychiatrist?" Casey asked him.

"Yes and no." Alexander replied. "He's a longtime family friend that helped me through everything that I went through. Especially after I was shot. He is a good guy. Are you up to it?"

"Fine. I really do hope that this is going to work though." Casey said.

"It will." Alexander said. "Trust me, it will work."

Casey sat uneasy in her seat as she waited for the family friend that Alexander mentioned to her was coming. Alexander made it seem like whoever this guy was, was going to help her. She still felt uneasy, as if things were going to go south at a moments notice. Casey was putting her trust in her boyfriend, knowing that he was trying to help her get through this situation.

The door opened, and this older man who looked as though he was in his 60's entered the office. He looked over at her and smiled.

"Well, it's nice to meet the infamous Casey McDonald." He said. He walked over to her as she stood up and shook her hand. Casey wanted to ask how he knew who she was, but given who Alexander was, that kind of explained that.

"I'm John McCoy. Long time family friend of Alexander's family." McCoy said, letting go of her hand and sitting across from her.

"Nice to meet you." Casey said.

"I know about what happened to you, so you don't have to go over that if you don't want to." McCoy said.

"I want to put it out of my mind as quick as possible." Casey said. "I want my life back. I want to get back to normal like Alexander did."

"Whoever said Alexander was over what happened to him?" McCoy said, raising an eyebrow.

"He isn't?" Casey said.

"Not completely, no." McCoy answered. "Listen, I can tell this is the worst thing that happened to you. You know Alexander, and I know him as well. Getting shot is not the worst thing that happened to him."

Casey sat there for a moment, contemplating what she should ask next. Then...

"Look, here's what I can tell you." McCoy said. "I am not going to give you any bullshit about it will be easy. For someone like you, no offense, it shouldn't be easy. Alexander has been through things that no one on earth should deal with all before he is an legal adult."

"How did you help him out when he was shot?" Casey asked him.

"You have to go back to when he was a kid, and when he witnessed his mom getting killed." McCoy said. "His dad runs the club Alexander is in charge of now. Alexander knew from an early age that once he got old enough, he was going to join, because the cops around here couldn't or was not going to protect him, and the club was, or at the very least try to."

"I have to ask, if you know so much about the club and what they do, why don't the police come to you to try to take them down?" Casey asked him.

"They have, multiple times." McCoy said. "I know enough to do my job, but not enough to help put them away. I am not about to risk my job and life to put a few of them away, and only for a few years, if that."

"What else can you tell me about Alexander?" Casey asked him.

"Listen, I have to tell you this. This isn't therapist to patient, but human to human here." McCoy said. "From what I heard about you, Alexander really does love you. He is able to stay sane through everything that has happened to him because he has a lot of people that care about him, including you. You are the same way. As long as you have a good support system, you will be fine. It won't be easy, but you will be fine."

"Thanks." Casey said, wiping a tear away.

"No problem. That's what I am here for." McCoy said, giving her a smile.

"What's up?" Michael asked David as he saw his friend sitting at his computer.

"William told me that he was going to send me something interesting." David said. "Knowing him, god knows what that means."

"Really? Shit, that might help us find out who tried to kill Casey." Michael said.

"I hope so, from what Alexander told me things are kind of getting tense over there. So any type of good news would be helpful to ease the tension, you know?" David said to Michael.

"Yeah. Ooh, you got an email." Michael said, pointing to the notification.

David pointed to the notification, and it wasn't good news, nor it was bad, but it was something.

"What does it say?" Michael asked him.

"Great, William is telling us due to an 'anonymous' caller, Alexander Meisterman is a person of interest in the attempted murder of Casey McDonald." David said.

"Really? How? Who would be able to know what is going on when she was shot?" Michael asked him.

"I think that Dennis, Casey's dad, told the cops that he had something to do with Casey being shot, but doesn't have any proof. The fact that this jumps Alexander to person of interest tells me that whoever shot Casey is either a cop, or someone working with the cops." David said.

"Jesus." Michael said.

"I know." David said. Just as he was about to shut off his computer, William sent something else with a message.

"William looked in the police files, and got a picture of someone who was a suspect in Alexander's mom murder." David said.

"I take it because of what his dad did back then, they didn't care to look into it." Michael said.

"You would be right." David said. David took a picture of the profile on his cell phone, and slipped the phone into his pocket.

"Let's go show Alexander this. Maybe he can ID this guy." David said.

As the day went on, Alexander called McCoy, just to see how things went with Casey. He was able to see her home, and he could tell that she was feeling a little easier, but he still had to check and see for himself.

"John, it's me. I was wondering just how things went with Casey." Alexander asked.

"It went as well as expected." McCoy said. "I told her what to expect on her road to recovery, and that you had a rougher road to recovery that you are still on."

"So, what do I owe you?" Alexander asked him.

"Nothing at all. We are family, and family help each other with things like this." McCoy said. "I would like to come by and talk to her family."

"I think I can arrange that." Alexander said. "Thanks again."

"No problem." McCoy said, hanging up. For the first time in a while, Alexander smiled, feeling things were looking up. Too bad that he did not see the secret that Casey was keeping from him coming.

AN: The final few chapters are soon coming. Next time, a big fight between Dennis and Alexander, and Casey finally tells Alexander what he did not know about her. Thanks for reading.