"This is bad." said Jaden.

"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!" exclaimed Alexis "He's coming to kill my baby!"

"Lexi, calm down. Nothing is going to happen to our baby."

"We can't stay here… He knows where we live… Jaden we've got to get out of here!"

"Okay, where should we go?"

Jaden could see that Alexis was starting to panic, but where could they go that was safe from that homicidal maniac?

"Wait… There is someone who can help us."

"Who?"

"Well… I think he'd be more willing to help if you were the one to ask him. Can you do that Lexi?"

"Okay…"

Alexis took out her cell phone and found the number she was looking for, as she waited for someone to answer it her hands trembled.

"Please… please… pick up…"

"Hello?"

"Chazz, it's Alexis. Please… You have to help me."

Alexis struggled to get the words out as she told him what happened, before she could finish she started crying. When she hung up she looked only a little relieved.

"He wants us to pack our things, he's sending someone over to pick us up, we're not to let anyone in unless they knock and tell us the password, chinchilla."

"Okay."

Jaden started packing their things, but he didn't let Alexis out of his sight. When he was done they just sat there on the couch and waited. Alexis jumped at any small sound. Soon they heard someone knocking out the door.

"Jaden… Answer the door."

Jaden went over to the door and looked through the view hole.

"What's the password?"

"Chinchilla."

The last time Billy kidnapped Alexis he personally blasted into her apartment dressed up like he was Iron Man. He didn't send two guys in suits.

"It's okay, Mr. Princeton sent us."

Chazz's men drove Jaden and Alexis around in a black car and kept the lights off. They drove around in circles several times to make sure they weren't being followed. As soon as they made it to Chazz's mansion Alexis ran into his arms and hugged him.

"It's okay Lex, you're safe now."

"Thank you so much for taking us in Chazz."

"It's no problem."

Even in the security of Chazz's mansion Alexis didn't think she could sleep.

"You are tired… sleep."

Alexis felt her eyes get heavy, and fell to sleep just like that.

"It's done, she's asleep." said Yubel to Jaden.

"This is a nightmare… An absolute nightmare…" said Jaden.

"It couldn't have been put there by Jobs himself." said Chazz "He only broke out of prison minutes before you said you answered the door and found that… thing. It must have been one of his goons"

"He thinks Alexis belongs to him… He thinks I stole her from him… And now he wants to kill our baby to prove it."

Jaden sank into a chair.

"I've really screwed up this time Chazz… It's bad enough that he was trying to kill me… now he wants to take an innocent life… before it even has the chance to live… How did I screw up so badly to bring an innocent child into this?"

"This isn't your fault Jaden. Jobs is a madman, and if he thinks he's going to touch Alexis or her baby then he has something else coming."

"You still love her… don't you."

"Not the way I want to… Isn't it said, Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife?"

"So you still hate me?"

"Hate is a strong word Jaden. Jobs hates you, I'm just jealous. Despite the advantages I have, she chose you instead, and I learned to live with it. After all, you can't force someone to fall in love."

Jaden couldn't blame Alexis; he found it hard to sleep as well.

"Don't worry Jaden." said Yubel "Nothing is going to happen to your baby."

The next day Alexis woke up with a jolt and felt her stomach to make sure her baby was still inside her, and then she broke into tears. It was awhile before she calmed down.

"Lexi, Atti wants to see you." said Jaden.

"Do you want me to have him brought over?" asked Chazz.

"Yes…"

Atticus had heard about Billy's escape and wanted to make sure his little sister was okay. When Alexis had told him what had happened he was even more concerned.

"No one messes with my little sis! Especially when she's carrying my nephew, or niece, whatever."

"What about your show?"

"I've told them the situation and they understand, they agree that right now my little sis needs me more than Mad Matchmakers."

In the week that followed more people came over to see Alexis and Jaden, like Atticus they didn't want to see Alexis lose her baby before it had the chance to live.

"You're telling me they take a vacuum cleaner, stick it up a woman's you know what, and suck it out like it was a ball of dust?!" said Hassleberry.

"That's one way they do it." said Chazz "All of them are incredibly painful, not to mention it always increases the risk of breast cancer. And do you know what they do with the pieces? They either sell them for some sicko to dissect, or they throw them in the garbage… IN THE GARBAGE!"

"That's just sick!" said Syrus.

"Which is why I want everyone to get familiar with these."

Chazz took out several black boxes and opened them.

"Are those G18s?" asked Atticus.

"Yes, automatic handguns filled with armor piercing rounds."

"Where did you get those?" asked Blair.

"From a friend of mine who owed me a big favor."

"Chazz, is this legal?" asked Jaden.

"I've managed to pull some strings, we're golden."

Every night seemed to go on forever, Alexis felt like an inmate on death row counting down her last fear filled hours of life, only it wasn't her life that was going to end. Her only comfort was that she was surrounded by people she loved.

"Jaden, I can feel it." said Yubel.

"What?"

"The baby… I can feel brain waves…"

"You mean it's thinking?"

"Something like that. Its brain is not fully developed; it's not so much thinking as it is telling the body what to do, but it's there."

"You're enjoying this aren't you?"

"I find it fascinating; it's like watching a seed grow into a flower."

"I just hope that seed has the chance to turn into a flower."

To be continued

Baby fact #3: During the 6th week after fertilization, brain waves are detectable. The baby's mouth and lips are present, and its fingernails start forming