Chapter 3 – The truth comes out
Around 2 hours later, Alex and Max woke up in hospital with bandages wrapped round their tendons. Suddenly they remembered what had happened the night before, when Slasher and an unknown man had tried to kill them.
"Margaret, the boys have woken up." Mordecai nudged to her. She gently awoke and saw they were awake. She gave a sigh of relief and walked over to them.
"I'm so sorry about what happened to you guys last night, I should've tried to help." She said gently. Alex put his hand on hers.
"It's all right Margaret; the good thing is we're alive." Margaret smiled at her brother.
"Those men last night said something about 'Joe's Legacy'." Max piped up from the other bed, "Alex, do you know anything about it?" Alex shook his head sadly and lay back down. But then something flashed back into his head, something he had forgotten for two years…
FLASHBACK – FEBRUARY 2012, 12:34AM, JOE'S APARTMENT*
"Come on, we have to break the door down to get into the apartment." Rigby whispered. Cameron took a step back and rammed the door down. They crept inside the apartment and looked around. Then they noticed a sheet of paper lying on the table. It read:
'Rent Collector, I'm out for the evening. I will come back at 20:00.' Alex looked at his watch. It read 19:30.
"We've got ½ an hour to do this. Let's go." He said. While the others were unlocking the door, and noticed something else on the table. It was a few sheets of paper hidden under the note. When he read them, he couldn't believe it. It was Joe's Legacy. He had worked out a whole plan to assassinate them all, using his cellmates to help him. It all fitted perfectly, nothing was out of place. It was the perfect plan.
"Alex! Are you seeing your sister or what?" Rigby called from the other room. Alex hid the papers under the note again and went into the other room.
PRESENT – NOVEMBER 2014, 11:23PM, BROOKLYN HOSPITAL
Alex suddenly looked uneasy and went slightly pale. He sank back into his pillow looking really worried. The other three began to look scared.
"Alex? What's wrong?" Mordecai asked. Alex turned to his guardians now looking guilty.
"Guys, there's something I need to tell you, and it isn't pretty." Alex wearily began to explain what he had seen while rescuing Margaret from Joe two years ago. H explained that he knew about the legacy and what he was plotting.
"Alex, why didn't you tell us?" Margaret asked in a sad voice. Alex sighed heavily.
"I was scared to tell you because I…I…I didn't want you to get scared again. I hate it when you're upset, so I had to keep it secret." Margaret sighed and hugged her brother.
"Alex, you didn't need to go through all that, you could have told me about it." She said warmly. Alex thought about this for a second. Had he really done the wrong thing not telling her? She was his sister after all.
"Alex, sometimes in life you just have to tell the truth. If you bottle it up, bad things could happen." Max said to him in a reassuring voice.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. We better get some sleep then." Alex said. And with that, they all fell asleep.
*To read the full chapter of that flashback, read part 1 of this series 'The Dumb, The Young and The Lovers'.
