Chapter Seventeen

It Gets Worst Before It Gets Better

Sidney is sitting in the empty chair in Detective Kincaid's office. Billy had brought her back to the precinct for safety. Sidney called her in-laws to check on her boys. Billy watched her as she smiled talking to his parents. They always made her feel like she's part of the family. Well technically she is considering she married their son and had his children. He rubbed her legs while she was on the phone with them. Something Sidney was use to. Billy had decided to get Sidney something to eat and left telling her not to move. She said she wasn't going anywhere.

Detective Kincaid walked towards his office and saw Sidney sitting alone. Billy must've stepped out a moment. She's beautiful he thought to himself. If hadn't been for the fact that she was married, he'd try getting her to go out with him. Sidney could see the detective eye-humping her and rolled her eyes.

"What do you know about trilogies?" Sidney asked the detective.

"You mean like, movie trilogies?" Det. Kincaid asked her.

"You seem to like movies, Detective." Sidney said.

"Call me Mark, would you? Cause I'm gonna keep calling you Sidney." Det. Kincaid said.

"I'll call you Mark when you catch the killer, Detective." Sidney said.

"All I know about movie trilogies is in the third one, all bets are off." Det. Kincaid told her.

"Did you request this case?" Sidney asked.

"No, they tend to put me on the ones that deal with the business. I grew up here, and I know my way around the studios." Det. Kincaid said.

"Must be exciting, Beautiful place, beautiful people." Sidney said.

"To me Hollywood is about death." Det. Kincaid said to her. Sidney looked up at him.

"Excuse me?" Sidney asked.

"I'm a homicide detective, remember? When you see what I see day in and day out, the violence that people do to each other, you get haunted. I think you know about that." Det. Kincaid told her.

"What do you mean?" Sidney asked.

"I know what it's like to see ghosts that don't go away. To be watching a scary movie in your head, whether you want to or not, watching it alone." Det. Kincaid said to her. Billy had walked up to the office unseen. He hid behind the other office to listen in on their conversation.

"Ghosts are tough, you can't shoot ghosts." Sidney said.

"Can't arrest ghosts. But the best way to stop being haunted is to be with people. You're here, you're not hiding, you've done the right thing, Miss Prescott." Det. Kincaid said to her.

"Loomis." Sidney corrected him. "Mrs. Loomis." Det. Kincaid nodded.

"My apologies Mrs. Loomis." Det. Kincaid said. "What did you know about your mother?"

"I used to think I had the perfect mom, perfect family. Till I found out I was wrong. She had a secret life, and I tried to understand that, and soon as I thought I had, more secrets. I don't' know who my mom was." Sidney said. Billy continued to listen.

"You know who she was to you. Here's the deal, I'm off to search the set, that's the good news." Det. Kincaid said to her.

"How is that good news?" Sidney asked.

"Because, that means that we're dealing with an ordinary, flesh and blood killer. And I know how to handle guys like that." Det. Kincaid told her.

"Oh yeah, how?" Sidney asked.

"Catch him, or kill him." Det. Kincaid tells her. He starts to leave.

"Hey Detective? What's your favorite scary movie?" Sidney asks.

"My life." Det. Kincaid says.

"Mine too." Sidney said to her self.

"The boys are ok." Billy said holding a tray of food for Sidney and himself to share. He purposely wanted to interrupt their conversation. Then Billy appears walking to the door and stands in the door way with a tray of food in his hand.

"Billy, how it going?" Det. Kincaid asked. Billy eyed him suspiciously.

"It would be better if this killer is caught." Billy said.

"How are they?" Det. Kincaid asks pretending to care.

"Their fine." Billy said.

"Stay put, you two will be safer here." Det. Kincaid said.

"We have some place safe to stay the night." Sidney said.

"Yeah, the killer has no idea where we are." Billy said.

"No offense Billy but if the killer can find you and Sidney, he can find your current whereabouts. I mean after all do you think staying at your parent's house is safe?" Det. Kincaid said to Billy who eyed him shocked that he knew where they were. "Relax Billy, I'm a cop. I'm here to help."

"How did you know we were at my parents?" Billy asked his nose flaring. Sidney recognizes that look.

"Billy." She called to him.

"It was obvious. Since the killer knew where you were living, then you fled to the first place that you thought was safe. Mom and Dad." Det. Kincaid said. Det. Kincaid turns and leaves. He eyeballed her.

"What?" Sidney asked. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?"

"No reason." Billy said walking into the office. Sidney gets up to sit in Det. Kincaid's chair and Billy sits in the seat next to the desk. He places the tray of food on the desk. He brought Sidney her favorite sandwich as well as soft beverage. Whenever Sidney was scared, she wouldn't eat. He literally has to force her to eat. "I brought us something eat."

"I'm not hungry." Sidney said.

"Don't start Sidney." Billy said firmly. Sidney looked away. "You always do this. When you're scared you starve yourself and I won't have that. Now eat."

Sidney reluctantly took a bite of her sandwich. Suddenly that was followed by another bite and another. Sidney found that she was hungry after all. The last time she had anything to eat was this morning and hadn't eaten lunch.

"Looks like I was right to get you that sandwich." Billy joked taking a bite of his own. Sidney smirked while chewing her food.

"I know what you're thinking." Sidney said to him.

"What am I thinking?" Billy asked.

"You're thinking that detective Kincaid has a bit of a crush on me." Sidney said.

"He does." Billy said as Sidney rolls her eyes. "Remember the way Derek Feldman eye-humped you. He did it on every occasion. Detective Kincaid is no better. The only thing different is that Detective Kincaid wears a badge."

"He was being professional." Sidney said and the look Billy gave to her he didn't believe her. She didn't even believe the non-sense that came out of her mouth.

"I know guys like Kincaid. I work with them. In fact, the guys on my job have a bit of a crush on you to." Billy said to her.

"What?" Sidney asked.

"They do. They talk about you like you're a princess." Billy said. Sidney laughed. "You're not a princess."

"I'm not?" Sidney eyed smirking.

"Nope. You're my queen and I let them know it." Billy said smiling rubbing her legs. Sidney couldn't help but smile at her husband's kind words.

"Well I am happy with my hot husband and our little boys." Sidney said as Billy smiled. She smiled as well. Her smile disappeared.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Billy, I'm really scared." Sidney said to him.

"I know you are you baby." Billy said rubbing her leg.

"I want this whole thing over with. We can't keep going through this." Sidney said to him.

"You're right. The thing to remember is that there were more deaths before the home stretch. There are going to be a few more lives lost when it's all said and done." Billy told her.

"I hope the killer is one of them that dies." Sidney said. She never wished death on anyone but this was an exception.

"Things will get worst before it gets better. You may learn something else about your mom you didn't know. Are you ready for that?" Billy asks. Sidney shrugs. She couldn't answer that. She had already found out that her mother was an actress. She hadn't known that. The woman she called her mother was becoming foreign to her. She didn't know her mother at all.

To Be Continued!