So I'm sure you all thought this was never gonna happen huh lol i'm sorry between finals and the holidays i was just busy and plus i have had this chapter for a while but wasn't sure where to go with it so i just decided to let it be as is and pick back up with the main stuff in chapter 6 which i hope will be out soon since i have started on it but no promises.

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After the very interesting dinner at David Rossi's house three days ago lacey decided to try again with the team and host a dinner party at her house. So far everything was going according to plan the team had got called out the day before on a case but it was located in Ohio and from what Giuliana shared it seemed to not be that difficult of a case. So the BAU agents would be back in time for the dinner. Since the weather was cooperating and seeming nice for late April lacey decided to make it an outdoor dinner party. She had a huge well equipped back yard that she had put a lot of time into designing yet she hardly used and figured for once it would be nice to put it to some good use.

Lacey got out of bed skipping a shower since she had one last night and went straight to her dresser throwing on a pair of yoga pants and a cardigan over top the camisole she slept in and slipping into her flip flops. She headed downstairs and turned on her coffee maker and switched the TV on to the news. She ignored it for the most part going through her cabinets looking for her dry coffee creamer when she heard an all too familiar voice on the TV.

"We are very positive and sure that whatever is being said about Mr. and Mrs. Saint 'George is honestly not true and we plan on find the guilty party in this situation now no more questions please".

Lacey stared at her sister smile to the cameras after her speech Olivia was good at her job, very good actually and lacey knew that whatever the situation was her sister could fix it. In a way she missed liv but the old wounds were still a little too much for lacey to handle between her father and her sister they had turned her life into a mess and when she asked for help it only made things worst which was why it was a situation she planned on never being in again.

No more negative lacey told herself so she went back to making her coffee instead and decided to enjoy it outside. The backyard was one of the things that made her fall in love when she first saw the house. It had a very large yard in this location of northern Virginia. The sliding glass doors from the kitchen opened on to the right side of the yard where the patio slash outdoor kitchen area was located and sheltered by a large canopy. Then against the left side of the fence was the garden than ran down until stopping at the edge of the greenhouse lacey had, had put in. the middle of the yard was occupied by a large in ground pool with added Jacuzzi and a little ways across from that a fire pit with outdoor couches circled around it. On the right side of the yard was the moderately sized guest house that had one room and a small bathroom and a kitchenette area. Also on the right side closer to the house was a built in fish pond that stopped just before reaching the other side of the patio that had French doors connected to the living room. The yard was like an amazing wonderland it was most beautiful at night though. There were lights hanging on the house, from the trees, the guest house, the green house and the pond and pool had built in lights, it was a magical sight but also a very expensive electric bill lacey reminded herself.

After finishing up her coffee lacey went back into the house and put the cup into the dishwasher and headed downstairs to her gym. She threw her cardigan across a chair sitting by the door and went over to her sound system and connecting to Pandora. She grabbed her tape and glove laying on the floor from the night before and put them on her hands and went over to the punching bag which had seen more action in the past few days than it had in a while.


Flashback:

Everything just became a dark cold blur in the past two days and felt like a horrible nightmare that you just couldn't wake up from. But the cold water from the tub and the burn of the whisky proved otherwise this was reality in the past forty-eight hours life had forever changed. It was just forty-eight hours ago she had thrown a wine glass at the wall as her husband walked past her packing a bag for an emergency overnight trip to New York. They had just got home from his family's Fourth of July party and lacey had, had to make excuses for her husband disappearing throughout the night she had known it was because "She" was there and he was sneaking off to see her but he could be a bit more discreet about it and not make his wife look like such a fool.

Lacey stepped over the glass and red wine now scattered and staining her white carpet and went into the master closet she shared with her husband he was shuffling through one of his gym bags looking for something. "I'm not an idiot you know I don't really give a shit who you fuck but you have done a little too much lately it was okay when no one really knew about it but last week you went out to fuck her on our anniversary you left our dinner party early I mean what the hell and then tonight was the last straw. I don't care if you sneak around with your step cousin or whatever the hell she is but I am the women that shares your name and your bed I am the women who you take out in public and acknowledge I am the one you come home to each night and you introduce your friends and coworkers to I am the one that makes you look good so you will show me some respect Carlos or I swear on all that I am I will sink this ship you're sailing on and we will all drown together I don't care anymore I really don't"

Carlos ignored what his wife had just said and continued his search through the closet finally after about five minutes he pulled out a little black bag rolled up in the pocket of one of his suits and placed it in the overnight bag opened on the counter that was centered in the middle of the closet.

Lacey watched Carlos continue to walk around the closet and pack things into the small duffle bag on the counter. So to get his attention lacey picked up the bag and turned it upside down dumping all the contents to the floor

Carlos turned and looked at the floor before turning his dark gaze to the women in front of him "so this is how you want to play it huh baby ok well then let's see I paid for this and this and all of these right"

Carlos walked to the opposite side of the closet and began to throw lacey's clothes, shoes and handbags all over the room. Finally after ten minutes he stopped and walked over to lacey. He ran a finger down the side of her face and pushed a lock of hair behind her ear "you know I love your hair this color I think it's perfect just like you are and you're perfect you know why because I made you perfect before me you were just some lost little girl with issues who thought no one loved her and you were right no one loved you but I do love you and I am the only one so don't forget that baby because without me you won't be worth anything and you might as well go jump off a fucking bridge if you even think about leaving me understand" Carlos stared down at his wife and placed a kiss on her forehead before picking his things off the floor and putting them back in the bag and continuing to pack.

Lacey just stared at her husband before turning away and walking down stairs to the kitchen and pouring herself another glass of wine. She sat at a bar stool at the kitchen island and stared at the deep red liquid swaying in her glass. She listened to the movement upstairs and waited. After another twenty minutes she finally heard Carlos making his way down the stairs. Lacey waited to hear the front door open but instead she heard footsteps coming toward the kitchen. She didn't turn to acknowledge him but felt his eyes on her. Eventually after a moment she felt his arms wrap around her waist and his face in her hair. After what felt like forever of silence words were finally spoken.

"Done with your little theatrics" Carlos asked as he released his hold on lacey and placed a kiss to her head.

Lacey didn't reply instead she stared at the glass of wine in front of her waiting on him to leave but Carlos was tired of the disrespect from his wife. He threw the wine glass across the room shattering it all over the dark wooden kitchen floor and staining the white walls. He grabbed the back of laceys hair and slammed her face into the marble island in front of her. Luckily lacey used her hand to block some of the impact but not enough she could feel the bruise starting to form on her forehead and part of her cheek along with her nose starting to swell and the taste of blood on her lip. Carlos just stared at lacey with no emotion on his face. "I hate having to do this to you ya know, I mean I love that pretty face of yours but you have got to remember which one of us is the dominate one in this relationship ok"

Lacey replied to avoid another lash of anger "yea ok have a good trip"

Carlos grabbed laceys face in between his hands and kissed her with full force ignoring the taste of blood from her lips. He let go after a minute and then kissed the purpling bruise on her forehead. "I should be back in about two or three days keep your ass here and work from home I don't need no shit about your face got it"

"Yea got it" was laceys only reply as she watched Carlos who turned and walk back out towards the front door. The sound of the car starting and pulling out of the driveway was a relief lacey let the tears flow freely now as long as she never cried in front of anyway she was fine she had to keep up her strong front though because at the end of the day she was still a pope.

Lacey got up and looked at the mess in the floor leaving it for later grabbing a bottle of jack daniels as she walked up the stairs to the master bedroom passing by the glass and wine now soaked into her plush white carpet. She went into the master bathroom and ran the water and turning on the jets in the tub. She walked over to the mirror and looked at her reflection the bruises were more noticeable now and her lip and left cheek were swollen and a black eye was forming. Lacey took a deep breath and decide to just forget the night she turned on some music and turned the lights down dimming the room and left her clothes in a pile in the floor slipping into the hot tub the jets filling the water with bubbles soothing her skin.

Lacey wasn't sure what time it was and she sure as hell didn't remember falling asleep in her bed but when she awoke she was in her bed and the face she saw in front of her wasn't one she was expecting.

"You know you're lucky I got here when I did you could have drowned in the fucking tub lace and then what huh what!"

Huck hardly yelled at lacey and when he did she knew she was in a hell of a lot of trouble

Not showing any fear she stared huck down "What if I wanted to and why the fuck are you in my house huck you know carlos doesn't like any of you here and I don't know when he'll be home so you should go"

Huck just gazed at lacey and didn't reply instead picking up his phone and typing something into it. "Olivia was worried about you and asked me to come check on you how long had you been in that tub"

Lacey just shrugged her shoulders which had been a bad idea, pain shot through her tense muscles and her pulsing head

Huck took two pills out of his pocket and handed them to lacey with a glass of water "take these and lay back down you look like you been through hell"

Lacey just smiled at him and took the pills not really up for a fight. The next time she awoke she felt a bit better her face wasn't as sore as she was expecting and she figured it had something to do with the pills huck gave her.

"Well hey there sleepy head huck said you would be out for a while I didn't know he meant half the day"

Lacey looked over to the bedside clock which read 8:28PM "What the hell did he give me I missed a whole day"

"Just some pain meds you looked like you had been in a bull fight and lost horribly but I put some medicated cream on you while you were out it should take care of some of the pain and reduce the bruising and swelling a bit I also got you some soup when you feel up to eating and don't worry the mess you made up here and downstairs are cleaned up and oh yea if you don't mind I took the big guest room down the hall I love that one the best"

"Abby you know I love you and all but what are you doing here you all shouldn't be here if Carlos comes home it's going to be hell"

Abby looked at lacey with a bit of pity on her face "liv wanted to be the one to tell you but I think you should know now"

"Know what"

Abby walked over to the chair she had been sitting in and picked up the remote turning on the evening news the headline that flashed across the screen was one lacey had never in her life expected Missing: Millionaire heir Carlos Jamison Devero

"What, what happened" was all lacey could get out looking to abby for answers

"He took his yacht out early this morning and a little while later the coast patrol lost signal and communication with him they were waiting to see if he came back to shore but so far nothing so they are sending out people to look for him"

"And no one has bothered to call me"

Abby looked at lacey sadly "Everyone thinks you have gone missing too because no one has seen or heard from you either Olivia said for now to just leave it that way until we figure out what is going on.

"Well in that case can I have some soup please?"

Abby smiled at her "That's my girl eat first worry later"

Lacey and abby settled into laceys king sized bed with bowls of creamy chicken and noodles with honey rolls and sweet tea enjoying Netflix instead of the news to occupy their time. By the time midnight had rolled around abby had fallen asleep in the bed beside lacey and instead of wake her lacey just let her sleep and took another of the pills huck had left before going to sleep herself" Loud talking is what woke lacey the next morning

"We have to go now it's only going to get worst out there"

"She isn't in any condition to deal with all this trust me I know what it's like"

"Look you two I say we just wait on liv to figure out what she wants us to do"

Lacey looked at the clock it was only 10:26AM she got out of bed and went to the door opening it to see huck, abby and Harrison arguing about something "Hey you guys what you are arguing about"

Harrison was the first to speak up "Hey honey sorry we didn't mean to wake you"

Lacey just hugged Harrison around the waist and turned to huck "thanks for the pills they made me feel a lot better even though I missed half the day yesterday"

"No problem LB" huck replied not looking at her

Lacey knew that they were hiding something from her and was tired of waiting on them to admit it "So is anyone going to tell me what's wrong" just as she asked she was cut off from getting her a reply

"abby pack her a bag, huck I want you and Stephen to get her to the hotel the room is under Giuliana's name and Harrison I want you to go and make a formal statement say she is somewhere recuperating from an injury or something and isn't taking the news to well or something"

Lacey stared at her sister olivia confused at what was going on "Ok pause a minute you are all in my house acting like you own the place tell me what the hell is going on"

Olivia turned and looked at her sister dead in the eye "As of 9AM this morning you are a widow the body is too damaged to identify right away but the authorities are 80% sure it is Carlos Devero so if it is ok with you we would like to move you to a more secure location before the press gets to crazy outside"

With that lacey felt numb the rest of the day she couldn't believe Carlos was dead. She wasn't happy but she wasn't upset or sad either just numb. The rest of the day felt like a blur she barely remembered getting to the hotel or when her best friend Giuliana got there all she knew was that within two days her life had took a full 360.

End Flashback


After getting over the frustrating thoughts of the past lacey threw her gloves off and unwrapped her hands dropping the tape down on the floor with the gloves leaving them in a pile and turning off the sound system she went straight up to her master bathroom to shower away the sweat that had poured off her from her workout. After her shower lacey dried her hair and wrapped herself up in her plush robe deciding to stay in that or a while instead of getting dressed. The sound of beeping brought lacey to the present forcing her to focus time had gotten away from her and it was already two in the afternoon the beeping was the alarm on her phone reminding her to pick up her assistant Clair from the airport in three hours and with DC there was always a chance of traffic. So lacey quickly dressed throwing on her underclothes along with a pair of jeans and an avengers t-shirt. She threw on some socks and her chuck Taylor all-star converse she ran into the bathroom to quickly brush her teeth and add some conditioner to her hair to keep it from tangling up and looking a wild mess, she brushed it into her hair and did a quick glance to make sure she looked okay. After applying a little eyeliner and lip gloss she went back to her room to collect her jacket, keys and purse.

She headed downstairs and looked at the keys in the bowl by the doorway. She had enjoyed driving around in her mercury mountaineer but with a time to stick to she thought it might be better to drive her smaller car, her Audi S5 that had sat in the garage as it was an anniversary gift from Carlos his last to be exact she had only driven it a few times before he died refusing to touch it after that but for some reason she didn't feel that pang of hurt she usually felt so she decided to go ahead and drive the car anyway. Getting into the car lacey felt a different feeling that she couldn't describe but was happy to be past the emotions she usually felt.

An hour and forty five minutes is about the time it took lacey to reach the airport. It was only 4:15pm when lacey arrived at the airport so she sat in the car listening to the radio and playing candy crush on her phone. Forty minutes later the app on her phone informed her that the plane Clair was on had landed so she cut the car off and left it in the one hour parking to go in and retrieve Clair. Ten minutes later she saw her friend exiting the terminal. Abbalinia Clairabella Johnson stood at 5'7 160 pounds with the curves to make any girl jealous and the attitude to match she grew up in a bad part of Chicago and that had made her a tough chick which is why her and lacey got along so well they were so much alike except for the fact lacey had dark blue eyes and ivory skin and jet black hair that made her eyes and skin stand out even more she was a beauty. Lacey was lucky to have her as an assistant she knew Clair could get a better job but fortunately for her Clair loved working for her.

"Well look at you did you forget to go by the dry cleaners or something" Clair asked looking at lacey's outfit

Lacey rolled her eyes ignoring her comment "So where do we have to pick your bags up at?"

Clair smiled and hugged her boss "terminal pickup five and I missed you too lace"

"Didn't you enjoy your time off" lacey asked her

"It was whatever" Clair replied

The girls went and got Clair's luggage and headed to the car as they were driving back to the house, Clair turned to look at lacey "Something looks different about you what's up"

Lacey glanced at Clair "Seriously it's been a week since we have seen each other I didn't change in a week and nothing significant has happened here"

"You sure about that you didn't finally meet someone while I was away did you" Clair asked joking but not missing the gleam in lacey's eye.

Clair screamed "you did didn't you"

"No I didn't ok so just drop It" lacey replied shaking the image of the older Italian man that crept into her thoughts.


So What y'all think? i promise next chapter is a bit more interesting its the dinner party and maybe a little 1:1 with lacey and her crush?

And as for laceys assistant i relieved i had called her abby clair forgetting abby in the show scandal so as to not add confusion i will refer to her mainly as Clair or abby clair but when it says just "abby" its referring to the one from scandal.