Chapter number 38. All for her
Martha opened the front door of the Macklin's mansion where she lived in Sydney with her family, stepping inside she opened the door wider to let Jack and Dylan in too. "Rose" Martha called out, "Mum, Dad?" she continued when she got no answer, "Boyd?"
"They probably just went out" Jack suggested, making his way properly through the door, entering the tiled entry way, he looked around, at the opposite side of the room was two sets of stairs, the one on the left headed upstairs to the lounge room and the one on the right lead downstairs to where some of the bedrooms were.
"Yeah probably" Martha agreed, putting her bag on one of the hooks next to the door, "you want a drink?"
"Yes please" Jack answered, following Martha and Dylan up the left set of stairs, through the large carpeted lounge room and into the kitchen across the other side to the right.
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"So now that you've heard all about me, why don't you tell me about your life?" Jemma broke the silence in the basement, still looking into the darkness of the ceiling.
"What's there to tell? compared to your life mine seems pretty boring" Lara sighed.
"Well are you happy?"
"At this present second?"
"No, I mean, like... have you got a husband, kids, people who make you feel happy?" Jemma asked, she seemed more comfortable knowing that Lara hadn't judged her for being an idiot when she needed her brain most in her life, being looked down on it was one of the things she feared most about opening up.
"My husband died a long time ago..." she started, "but I got a boyfriend".
"What's he like?" she said, sitting up, suddenly more interested.
"Amazing" Lara sighed, "I just wish he was here now, he'd hold my hand... tell me everything would be ok... he always knows how to make me smile".
Jemma just smiled, at least one of them had a good place to return to when this ended... if it ever ended.
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Peter paced back and forth across the floor of his office, she was gone, and he didn't know where, she'd been at the station, but she never left, and she wasn't there... the same thing kept circling thought his mind, it was a never ending mind game, playing with him, haunting him, until he went crazy. He heard a knock at the door, and he turned to the sound of it opening and the face of one of the officers coming in.
"We went to arrest Lara-" he started.
"Oh for goodness sakes, when are you going to get it through your thick heads that it wasn't her!!!" Peter yelled with frustration, feeling the need to punch something.
"Look we don't want to believe it ether, she was a good friend to all of us" he defended himself.
"Well if she really was you friend then you'd take her word for it!" Peter snapped again.
"Boss, please just-"
"Don't boss me, your new boss will be here in a week or two, and as soon as he gets here he's going to tell you exactly the same thing, It wasn't her!"
Giving up the officer through his hands up in defeat and left, closing the door behind him, leaving Peter to cool down.
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"Hey" Martha greeted Rose as she made her way towards her and Jack on the balcony just outside the lounge room and kitchen of the second floor in the Macklin's mansion.
"Hey" she faked a smile, convincing enough for Martha not to ask. "So what's the celebration?" she asked, looking at the bottle of wine on the table.
"Well..." Martha started.
"Oh spit it out already" Rose shot out.
"Me and Dylan are moving in with Jack".
"Wow" Rose exclaimed in shock, yet she felt happy for Martha, it must have been a big step for her and Jack. "That's great news" she told her, leaning down to give both Martha and Jack a hug.
"How do you think Mum and Dad are going to react?" Martha asked nervously.
"Well I'm sure they'll be happy for you" Rose answered, sitting down at one of the chairs around the outdoor table.
"So cough it up" Martha suddenly shot out, looking comfortingly at Rose.
"Wh- what?" Rose splatted, almost chocking on air.
"I know that cover up smile Rose, what's going on?"
"Well..." she started.
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He stumbled, the bush around him seeming dull and smudgy, tears were filling his eyes, this was the time of the day were he allowed himself to mourn, the same daily routine he'd done for all the years since he was taken away from his home, all the people he loved, they all though he was coping, they thought he wanted to go, to pay the price for his mistake, but they were wrong, very wrong, really he wanted to stay, to be with them, to be with her... but he couldn't, he had to prove that he cared, that he'd do anything for her, and that ment getting revenge, making all the people who hurt her pay, one person at a time, even if it ment others suffered along the way, he'd get her back, he'd make her realize he loved her, everything about her even her annoying little habits, she was all he cared about.
When he left she thought that they were just friends, good friends, she'd even told him that the only way to show he was truly sorry for his actions, was to get on with his life, not stay behind bars, so he obeyed that, he was getting on with his life... his life to get her back to him.
He finally came to the end of the path, the tears began to fade, and his surroundings began to become clear again. He came to a door of a concrete building, his concrete building, his castle, his sanctuary, or what ever he liked to call it, it was his trophy room, dark just as he liked it.
His hand reached out from the pocket of his black leather jacket, reaching to the door handle and turning it until his push began to open it.
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Lara and Jemma both looked up at the same second, there was a rusty squeal as the door opened slowly at the top of the stairs that went up about twenty meters before it met the door that almost reached the ceiling of the basement. Rays of light teared into the room, as a figure stepped into the room... it was him, the crazy man himself; Jessie McGregor...
Author note: ok hope that wasn't too unexpected, sorry for making you all wait so long to find out. As usual I won't continue until I've got two reviews, I'm really looking forward to what you think.