3-Celia Divone is On The Case

Everyone was still staring at Celia even after they had all retreated back to the palace. It was their hang-out spot and they wanted some answers, what better place to do it?

"Well, I heard you guys had some problems to solve and good ol' Auntie Celia is here to help!" Celia smiled, something she didn't do too often anymore. "Once I slap Carmen!" The older woman reached out and hit the back of Carmen's head.

The action led to a lot of smiles across the room as most of them would just love to do that to Carmen themselves. In fact, everyone had wanted to do it to her at one point or another in their young lives.

"What was that for?" Carmen asked, half angry, half in pain as she rubbed the spot underneath her hair.

"And where was my Wedding invitation?"

Carmen froze up. That was not one of the things she had expected Celia to bring up in conversation, but she had and now she was pissed. Pissing of an assassin was not a good idea, even Carmen knew that one.

"Oh..." She whispered, turning her head away from Celia. "You heard about that..."

"I heard about it." Celia replied. "EVERYONE HEARD ABOUT IT! IT WAS ALL OVER THE FUCKING NEWS, DUMBASS!"

Celia had missed being around the group and the group had missed Celia around. She may have been a villain, but she had grown quite fond of the children after the last time they had worked together.

"NOT MY FAULT!" Carmen protested. "I wanted to keep it private with only family and friends."

"We are friends, sweetie." Celia told her, wrapping a friendly and caring arm around Carmen's shoulders and resting the palm of her other hand on the Princess' tanned arm. "We're so close we could be family...BUT THAT ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!" Celia roared, giving Carmen a shove.

Yes. They had all definitely missed Celia. Celia Divone was the only person who could shove Carmen and get away with it because Carmen was shit scared of being killed in her sleep by her.

"I've missed you, Celia." Jenifer smiled, hugging the assassin. Hugs were not usually Celia's thing, but this occasion was different. It had been quite a few years since they had last met, hugs were in order.

Celia then quickly pushed Jenifer away, but made sure it was not harmful. The older woman raised an eyebrow at Jenifer.

"I am not a hugger." Celia told Jenifer. "I am a gossip. So...Four and a half months, huh?"

Jenifer's cheeks slightly blushed red and her mouth gawped open as if gasping for air because no words were coming out. She would have moved away if Celia didn't have a grip on both of her arms, her smug looking grin aimed directly at Jenifer.

"I-I...Uh..." Jenifer quickly regained some sort of composure. "You-You look great! Younger than the last time I saw you, in fact! Please don't kill me..."

Celia released Jen from her grips, the younger of the two stumbling back a little as the other flung her arms up into the air.

"Why does everyone think I am going to kill them?" Celia asked, hands now on hips and scanning the room for answers.

"I don't know. It might have something to do with the fact that you are a murderer, right?" Celia's eyes almost went wide as she knew that voice all too well. It was the one person in the room she must have missed out on her scan; otherwise she would have already been looking directly at her.

"Courtney!" Celia tried to smile as she turned to face the brunette who was stood in the doorway to the kitchen. "Long time no see..."

Courtney was not looking impressed. On the last occasion of seeing Celia, sure, she may have helped them lock away a highly dangerous criminal, but she did also almost kill her eldest daughter.

"What are you doing here, Celia?"

"I-Uh..." Celia was sounding like Jen, not sure what was going to come out of her mouth next. "Nothing..."

That was a very clear lie as Celia always wanted something. Whether it was work, business or pleasure, it usually involved killing someone. Though her record was zero for the killings in Scarlatina, it was never too late to try something new.

"I thought you said you weren't going to be coming back to Scarlatina again, hmmm?" Courtney pressed for answers the way she liked to do it.

"Plans change." Celia shrugged, and then came to a serious conclusion. "WAIT! You don't think I'm here on business, do you? BECAUSE I AM NOT!" Courtney wasn't sure whether to believe her or not on that account. "Not killing to be done here! NONE!" The sorcerer was still not looking too impressed with the story she was being told. "I mean, okay, I'll probably have a few fights and more than likely a scrap with Carmen over the television controller later, but nothing serious! I PROMISE!"

Before Courtney could answer, Rosalinda spoke up, always needing to get her say in, "What are you doing here, Aunt Courtney?"

"I need Jen home right now." Courtney answered honestly, and everyone knew she was telling the truth about that.

"What did you do now?" Abigail asked, turning to face her worried looking cousin.

"I don't know..." Jenifer replied, looking and sounding as if she was about to cry, "What did I do?"

"Home!" Courtney commanded, her finger pointed towards the door.

She didn't have to tell Jenifer twice. The girl knew better than to mess with her mother these days, she had too much stress going on in her life and no one knew when she was just going to explode or was going to be around to feel the consequences of it all.

Jenifer quickly rushed from the room, Courtney disappearing on the spot soon after her. They both had a lot of family issues to sort out themselves before they could even think about anything else.

The room was tense at first, no one knowing what to say next. However, as usual, Carmen knew exactly how to break it all.

"Now that, that is cleared." She said. "WHAT ARE YOU REALLY DOING HERE?" She yelled at Celia, knowing that, that subject had not been cleared carefully enough to move on quite yet.

Celia stopped for a moment, clearing her throat as she tried to think of what she was about to tell them, which was pretty much anything she could think of.

"Well...There is something going on with you all, isn't there?" She questioned. "You know...A massive fight perhaps?" Celia knew there was, and it was one reason why she was there; to resolve it. She knew most had already tried and failed; now it was her turn.

"How do you know that?" Rachel asked, though it was pretty obvious that Celia had been spying on them for a long while now.

Celia knew everything there was to know about everything. It was like she had eyes planted all over the world so she could make sure everything was running smoothly, and when it wasn't, she made an interjection with the balance of life.

"So, what is going on exactly?" The assassin asked, needing to know the details before she could do anything further.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told you." Annalise muttered.

"Try me." Celia smirked.

Everyone looked around at each other, not knowing where to start from. Things had been going on for too long now for anyone to know each detail that had passed over the period of time.

However, being a gossip girl, most talkative in the group and a sufferer of neverknowingwhentoshutupitous, Rosie volunteered herself to tell the story, "Well, Thomas was dating Olivia, but she was sleeping with every other boy behind his back because she is a good for nothing slut. Olivia then made a move on Scott, but the two then got caught making-out by Thomas. Thomas eventually found out the truth, after hating on Scott for a while, but now he is being too stubborn to accept Scott's apology."

"It's just one bug war zone between us all." Abigail added, her book now resting shut on her lap as she stared into nothingness, thinking back over the whole Summer and what a real wreck it had been for everyone. "Thomas won't talk to us and we don't want to pick sides; we're all stuck in the middle."

Celia thought for a moment. Things were a lot worse than what she had thought they were, but before she could even think of any of that, Celia came to a very brief halt in her mind, "Olivia who?"

"Does it matter who she is?" Carmen asked, but Olivia did matter. She was a key part of this, and maybe a part of something that Celia feared the most.

"Olivia Freeman." Annalise told the murderer, knowing that look on her face must have meant she was important. "She lives on the far side of Scarlatina with her father, no mother, just the two fo them."

"THAT BITCH!" Celia suddenly screamed.

Everyone turned to look at her now. No one suddenly knew Olivia inside and out like Celia seemed to do just by saying that, the two must have met previously at least.

"You know her?" Rachel, being the 'brave' person she was, questioned first.

Celia stopped dead again, instantly regretting her outburst. The group was slowly edging towards the truth of Celia. She was not an open book like they had wanted, more like a sealed in concrete sort of person; it was there, but hard to find.

"I-Uhh...Yeah...I know her..."

Jenifer looked ready to explode with anger, which is what she was going to do. The subject of this frustration was, naturally, her older brother. Thomas was always the subject of her anger.

"So what?" She questioned him from the seat beside Thomas on the sofa. "You had a little argument and now it's the end of the world? GROW UP, YOU FUCKING DRAMA QUEEN!"

"Less of the language, Jen." Courtney warned from the other room.

"Sorry." She apologized before swiftly looking back at her brother, "WELL?"

Thomas had no idea what to do. Everyone was on his case when he only wanted to be left alone to his own thoughts. His life was a lot more complicated than everyone else may have thought it was.

"STAY OUT OF THIS, JEN!" Thomas snapped at his younger sister, but she was not going to take it from him. Thomas had no right to scream or shout or even raise his voice to her.

"Oh, so it's okay for you to meddle in my life, but I can't step foot in yours?" Jenifer asked, knowing that Thomas wanted to still kill Tiger, but there was a very firm brick wall there now. "THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!"

"I SAID STAY OUT OF IT!"

Both of the teenagers were on their feet by now, eyes staring directly into the others. Being so close in age was good for being close and understanding, but bad when it came to arguments and fights. No one knew who had the upper hand because they were both more or less equal with the knowledge department.

"NO!" Jenifer yelled once again. "I'M YOUR SISTER, TOM, YOUR YOUNGER SISTER! I'M SUPPOSED TO LOOK UP TO YOU! BUT YOU ARE NOT SETTING ME A GOOD EXAMPLE, ARE YOU?" Thomas hated it when Jenifer pulled out the 'younger sister' card. She did it as a last resort, but it almost always worked on him because it was the cold hard truth.

"YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO COLLEGE WITH NO FRIENDS, NO MONEY, NO NOTHING! NO ONE WANTS TO BE CUAGHT DEAD WITH YOU!" Jenny's words were harsh, but they were getting through to Thomas. "AND WHY? BECAUSE YOU SCARE EVERYONE AWAY, THAT'S WHY! NOW, EVEN DALLAS HATES YOU!"

Thomas wanted to turn his back on his sister so badly, but he knew he would never hear the end of it if he did. The vampire kept his eyes locked and his mind set on every poisonous word she was breathing out. It may have been only the hormones talking, but Jenifer was making too much of a reality check point for Thomas.

"SO WHAT? YOU JUST GONNA DROWN IN YOUR OWN SELF-PITY NOW? YOU JUST GONNA WASTE AWAY IN YOUR FILTHY PIT OF A BEDROOM?" The answer was a very clear yes. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" It hurt Jenifer to think of what he brother had become, "You're not my brother anymore...I don't know who or what you are..."

A/N: ...Wasn't that nice?

Well, someone had to say something to you, Thomas! GRRR! hehehe! I don't care...I still love him dearly! LOL!

SO! Didn't I promise you a long chapter? Huh? Huh? LOL!

It is a day late...It is 1:25 AM and I do apologize for no update yesterday...Yesterday being UK time as I am sure it is still yesterday in most USA times...Right? hehe!

I do hope ya'll are happy that I have been working on this since 10:30 PM! LONG TIME, PEOPLE! LOL! I don't mind! I LIKE THIS STORY TOO MUCH TO NOT UPDATE IT! hahaha!

OKAY! I'm good...LOL!

I was over Aaron's for a big chunk of today...We watched Silent Hill and John Bishop: Elvis has left the building and injured each other and the usual shit we do together...LOL! OKAY! I had a good time...I did write a chapter of Missing Scenes whilst I was there too! HOW GREAT AM I TO YOU GUYS? LOL!

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