Logan loomed in the doorway, glaring at Spinelli.

"I'm gonna talk to Lulu alone."

Lulu shook her head.

"Not if she doesn't want you to talk to her," Spinelli said.

He was still afraid of Logan, but now he was angry, too. Logan thought he could treat anyone any way he wanted. He thought Lulu would just roll over and play good little woman while he clubbed her over the head and dragged her back to his cave. It was time for him to learn that people were entitled to make their own choices. Lulu had made hers and Spinelli was going to back her up. He couldn't risk his heart with her again, but he would not abandon her as her friend.

"It's their fault, Lulu," Logan said, ignoring Spinelli as if he didn't even exist. "It's Maxie and Spinelli; they want us apart."

"Spinelli and Maxie had nothing to do with my decision, Logan. I-"

"Didn't you tell me just this afternoon that you're in love with Spinelli?" he demanded.

"Yes, but even if-"

"Don't tell me that you and I wouldn't be together if you didn't love him! He's brainwashed you, Lulu! He took advantage of your memory loss and forced you to fall in love with him!"

"Spinelli did not force me to do anything! You're the one who messed up!" Lulu screamed with anger and fear ."You tried to frame Johnny! You tried to turn me against my friends after you woke up! You're acting obsessed with me and I don't like it! You're scaring me and if you really cared about me you would not be doing that!"

"I'm sorry.""

No, you're not!"

"Please, Lulu, just come with me where we can talk alone."

Lulu shook her head again.

"You were supposed to save me!" Logan screamed, pushing Spinelli to the ground and stepping over him.

Spinelli knew he couldn't handle this alone; he needed help. He took his cell phone out of his pocket, touched Stone Cold's speed dial, then put the phone on the floor after Jason answered. He couldn't risk speaking or Logan would realize what he was doing and end the call, probably in a very violent way.

"Spinelli!" Lulu screamed, terrified that Logan had seriously hurt him.

Then she saw what he was doing and hid a smile. He was calling for help.

After stepping over Spinelli, Logan dismissed him, thinking he wouldn't be a problem. He ran over to Lulu and grabbed her.

"Shut up! Don't say Spinelli's name again; you're with me whether you like it or not!"

"Logan, let me go!"

He threw her against the pool table and everything went dark.

Spinelli couldn't get up fast enough. He saw Logan throw The Blonde One over the table and heard a sickening thud as her head hit one of the corners. Logan rushed to her and Spinelli knew The Simian One was going to pick her up and spirit her unconscious form away from here if he didn't do something.

"Not another step, Cave Dweller!"

Logan looked over at him. This guy was responsible. Spinelli had cost him Lulu. He would pay for that with his life.

He rushed at Spinelli, his hands shaped into claws, and Spinelli was immediately certain that he would be joining Wise Georgie very soon, and by the same means. Only this time it would not be the Text Message Killer using a phone cord who sent Spinelli into the other life, but his worst enemy. Logan was the only person in the world, other than Diego Alcazar, that Spinelli honestly and completely hated, and he would kill Spinelli with his bare hands and bruit strength alone if The Jackal did not act quickly.

"You've hurt my friend for the last time!" he said, trying not to show how terrified he was.

Logan smirked at him.

"Yeah? What are you gonna do, Spinelli? Huh? Are you gonna hit me, too? That worked so well the day Lulu found out I slept with Maxie."

Without being fully aware of what he was doing, Spinelli picked up a cue from the pool table and held it like a sword. Logan burst out laughing.

"Back off!" Spinelli said, channeling his fear, turning it into anger, adding it to the anger and hatred he was already feeling for this filthy pig.

His anger became rage as he saw Lulu out of the corner of his eye, still lying unconscious on the floor. He thought of Logan sleeping with Lulu and then with Maxie, prostituting himself just so he could satisfy his own sexual urges and hurt an innocent girl. Lulu had never done a thing to him and Logan had used her like a toy and then tried to keep her, as if she were a piece of property, when she tried to break away. It didn't matter in that moment that Lulu had decided to take him back. Today she had rejected him again and he was still trying to maintain his control over her. That was unacceptable and inexcusable.

"Wanna duel?" Logan asked, still laughing.

He picked up another cue and they began to fence. Logan was still laughing. Spinelli was too angry to laugh; he wanted to hurt Logan for what' he'd done to Lulu. Later, he would tell Lulu about the pool duel and they would both laugh about it, but that would not be for days yet, after the shock of everything that followed the duel had worn off.

Logan's condescending, smug, sarcastic laugh finally filled Spinelli's head and got on his last nerve. When it was accompanied by another look at Lulu's unconscious form, he broke the cue over Logan's head.

"Hey!" Logan yelled, surprised and angry.

"At least he's not laughing anymore," Spinelli thought with savage satisfaction.

Logan tried to spear Spinelli with his cue, but Spinelli dodged and ducked, moving too quickly for Logan, making it impossible for him to hit him.

"Stand still!" Logan ordered furiously.

"As if," Spinelli thought, panting from the effort and exertion of the duel and now trying to stay away from The Crabby Commando.

"I'm bigger and stronger than him," Logan thought furiously. "Why can't I handle one little-"

His thought was interrupted when he tripped over something and fell hard against the wall, hurting his head and shoulder.

"Ow!" he yelled.

Spinelli grinned, partly from satisfaction that he'd managed to wound his opponent and partly from relief that he'd managed to distract him. But it was Fair Lulu he had tripped over; Spinelli hoped Logan tripping over her didn't hurt her, too.

Logan also saw. He moved to try to pick her up. Spinelli couldn't let him succeed or he would get away with The Blonde One and try to hurt her again. He was angry enough to kill. Spinelli had seen that when he'd grabbed Lulu. He couldn't fail her. He would not lose her.

Logan had dropped his pool cue when he'd fallen, but Spinelli knew that wouldn't be enough to knock him out. The other one had hurt him when it had broken over his head, but it hadn't stopped him or even slowed him down.

But maybe he could use it the way Logan was intending to use it before, as a spear. He picked it up, reasoning that if he couldn't hurt Logan, he could at least distract him, stall him until the arrival of The Master.

"The Knuckle Scraper will not abduct The Blonde One!"

"What are you gonna do about it? How is The Jackal gonna stop The Simian One?"

He held the spear/cue in both hands and charged. Logan kicked him and his legs went out from under him. He landed hard on his back, dropping his weapon, which Logan took and broke in half. Then he moved for Spinelli slowly, wild eyes glaring menacingly. Logan wanted Spinelli to know and feel every painful thing that was going to happen to him in the last moments of his life.

"Do you know what I'm gonna do? Do you know how I'm gonna make you pay for costing me my girl? Let me tell you."

He reached into his pocket, pulled out a switch blade and flicked it open. He held it before Spinelli's eyes, still slowly moving towards him, showing him the sharp, gleaming blade.

"Did you ever see the movie It?"

Spinelli didn't answer.

"Did you?" Logan demanded, pointing the blade at Spinelli's left eye.

Spinelli nodded.

"Remember the part where Henry starts to carve his name into the fat kid's stomach?"

"No," Spinelli thought, fighting panic.

Logan smiled evilly.

"That's right. You're gonna die with the name Logan Hayes forever branded on your gut. I'll carve it, then I'll cut your throat from ear to ear."

Spinelli was breathing hard now, fighting not to hyperventilate, too scared to move. How could he get out of this? He was afraid for himself, but more afraid for Lulu and Maxie. Lulu would be at Logan's mercy if he died and Maxie couldn't lose anyone else she cared about. She cared about Spinelli and Lulu. He didn't want her to have to grieve anyone else, and he didn't want her to lose her baby. He knew that any stress could cause Maximista's Innocent One great peril.

He had to find a way out of this mess! He was beginning to think stone Cold wouldn't get here in time to save them; it was up to The Jackal to save The Unconscious Blonde One, and himself.

Logan was still halfway to him; he stopped, showing him the blade every time he spoke, making his approach even slower, even more terrifying. It was that cocky mistake that cost him his life.