The Greatest Secret

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly

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Chapter 135 (Lucy's Arrest)

Marissa stood in front of a female bank teller who was typing rapidly on a computer screen, she was looking up the credit card information. Marissa already had a warrant for Lucy's arrest and nothing would stand in her way of getting this woman to talk. Her own son being a lawyer was to her benefit after all, so if the woman tried to get a lawyer, she was skilled in getting around the legal system. After all, she didn't rise up in the ranks for being dim-witted.

"Okay ma'am. I've got the information you need." The woman printed off the information for her and handed the sheet over. Marissa read over the information provided and thanked the teller for her help. She left the bank and met up with Lieutenant Travis and Sergeant Carl outside, they moved for the cars and started driving off. Marissa and Lieutenant Travis remained in one car while Sergeant Carl drove behind them. It turned out Lucy didn't live too far off, just on the other side of the interstate. She narrowed her eyes coldly and positioned her gaze sharply on the road in front of her. She was going to burn this woman when she got her hands on her, she was sure of it.

Sam told her what happened the prior day, having found Melanie at the store. She thought Marissa would be upset with her, but she wasn't. Rather, she'd been understanding that the girl wanted to meet her sister. It also helped her in the explanation of what was going on, Melanie wouldn't be too surprised when the police showed up at the door, she would be expecting them. "When we get there, Sergeant Carl will provide transport for Melanie. We'll head to the station and Melanie will be met by Sam, Morris and Maggie."

"Sounds like a plan, ma'am."

"Yeah, that's our objective." Once they reached the house, they parked at the curb. Slowly they exited the car and started for the door. Marissa lifted her hand and knocked harshly upon the door. Slowly but surely, Lucy opened it just enough to peek through. Her eyes met with Marissa's and she froze. It wasn't hard to remember who the woman was, even if sixteen years passed since she last saw her, she just had that unforgettable appearance.

"H-Hello, can I help you?"

"Yes you can. Sheila Carmichael?" She nodded and slowly opened the door, gazing continually into Marissa's still burning eyes. Behind her on the other side of the room was Melanie, watching with earnest. Her eyes glazed over as she slowly closed her hands. Marissa cleared her throat and narrowed her gaze. "Or I should properly say, Lucy Daniels." Lucy started to close the door, but Marissa's hand flew towards it and she pushed firmly inside. Lucy gasped and stumbled backwards, catching her balance as she watched Marissa step forward once more and lift up a sheet of paper.

"W-What is that?"

"There's three things needed to complete this circle, Lucy. Here's the warrant for arrest, and to search you home for evidence." With her other hand, she grabbed the handcuffs from her belt and smirked dangerously while Lucy continued to step backwards. "Here are the handcuffs. Now what else completes the circle? Oh yeah." She glared at the woman, she was sweating now. "There's you."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about. What ever did I do?"

"You're being charged with the abduction and kidnapping of a newborn." Lucy gasped and her hands flew to her mouth.

"No! I don't believe you, Melanie's my child!" Marissa smirked once more as Lucy stumbled over her coffee table. The police continued their advance as the woman pulled herself to her feet.

"We didn't say it was Melanie yet, but congrats." Lucy frantically looked at Melanie and screamed at her.

"Tell her! Tell her how I raised you up as my daughter!" Melanie closed her eyes and turned away from the woman. Lucy's jaw fell as she watched her niece walk over to the police officers. "What are you doing?" Her voice shrieked as Marissa lifted the cuffs once more.

"You're not my mother and your name isn't 'Sheila', Aunt Lucy."

"H-How could you…how could you turn against your own mother?"

"You're not my mother! I met her, mom, I met my twin sister! My real mother died in 2005, but you wouldn't know that, would you!" Lucy gasped and her eyes widened as she froze momentarily. Her body trembled as her eyes traced all the officers. She started to turn and Carl called out.

"She's running!"

"Oh no she isn't," Marissa stated with clear irritation in her voice. Just as Lucy turned her back, Marisa grabbed her arm and slammed her up against the wall. Lucy screamed out and sobbed wildly as the woman pulled her arms behind her back and slapped the cuffs on her. With that, Carl and Gunsmoke began to search the house for evidence. Marissa read Lucy her rights and started dragging the screaming woman out to the car.

"I'm not lying! She's mine! She's mine!"

"Put a sock in it, Lucy." Lucy silenced quickly as Marissa shoved her into the back of the police car. "I'm not entirely fond of you, I hope you know that. You're going away for a long time, so you better start working on your going away speech." Melanie walked outside and handed Marissa a large box she'd found underneath Lucy's bed. Lucy gasped and screamed.

"Where'd you find that! You went into my room?" Melanie looked away coldly as Marissa slowly glared at the woman.

"Shut up Lucy." She opened the box and found several papers and other records. "What is all this, Melanie?"

"Doctor appointments, letters to Dr. Garrison, money withdrawals…I think she was still paying him for a couple years to keep quiet." Marissa's heart broke a bit more and she slowly closed her eyes, listening intently. "She also has a signed journal…the police should read around April of 1995 and onwards especially…a little before then too…"

"Okay, we'll do that. Melanie, when we get to the station, you're going to meet your Aunt and Uncle from your father's side, they're the ones that Sam is living with right now."

"She's not with you? Aren't you the legal guardian?"

"Yes, and I still am. I'm just allowing her to live with them since they haven't had the chance in years."

"Oh…okay…"

"You'll meet all your relatives soon enough, don't worry." Melanie smiled and slowly nodded her head. It was a long time coming and she felt she deserved it.

Hours later, Marissa walked into the questioning room where Lucy waited for her. She locked her death glare onto the woman and leaned forward against the table, pressing her palms flatly on it as she looked into the woman's eyes. "Okay you she devil, let's talk. We know everything, you so graciously recorded everything in your journal, plus we have a witness statement. Would you like to attempt to discount anything or would you prefer a lawyer? I suggest the lawyer."

"She's my daughter. She's my daughter. I raised her." Marissa slammed her hand on the desk, sending a loud echo throughout the room and causing Lucy to jump in fear.

"Why do you persist? We have a statement that claims you are mentally sane, so if you're attempting to pull the insanity plea on me…" Lucy eyed Marissa quietly and started shaking. It was not a far off guess that this woman suffered from schizophrenia, but there was no record of that on her medical files. "I recommend you cooperate, because you will be going away for a long time if you don't. Now I've interrogated many people in my day and I'm perfectly capable of treating you just like any of the others. I figure I'm being a bit generous to you right now."

"Oh? Good cop you mean?" Marissa's eyes flashed a glint and her smirk deepened.

"I can go from good cop to bad cop real quick-" She snapped her fingers and Lucy flinched. "The point being, you took a baby from a woman, hid yourself and that child from her family, and then what…" She moved her hands behind her back and started walking around Lucy. "You shelter that child from the outside world so much so that she hardly understands a thing about the outside world. Unfortunately both that child's mother and father are deceased…and what do you know, the mother was your own sister."

"S-Sarah, yes…I remember her. Little Sarah, precious Sarah, sweet as a doll…" Marissa rolled her eyes and leaned forward, smacking her hand on the desk next to Lucy and shouting into her left ear.

"Don't play that card on me, Lucy! You're more than capable of being sane, you have a degree in mathematics for crying out loud!" Lucy moaned and threw her hands to her head. "You're losing your defense and I recommend you reconsider how you're going to go about this. Do you want me to be cruel? Because I will be."

"N-No…" Lucy shook as she turned her head towards Marissa.

"Then I recommend you start talking, because things can get real heated real fast in here. Melanie herself has stated you're a very sane, intelligible person, so start acting it. You stole your sister's baby on the day she was born, you stayed away for sixteen years, made your sister believe that her daughter had died. Do you not feel an ounce of remorse over that fact?" Lucy's expression started to change and her eyes dulled. She turned her eyes to the table and swallowed hard.

"She would have my head if she ever found out what I did…"

Marissa raised her eyebrow and sat down in the chair across from her. "Now we're getting somewhere. Maybe."

"Yes, I was unable to have children and I really wanted a child at the time." Lucy lifted her head quickly and leaned forward. "She was having twins, so there was more than enough to go around wasn't there? She wouldn't notice one missing!"

"Wrong…I only wish Sarah were alive right now to see this. You have to answer to your older brother and younger sister, as well as the law. They're all right outside in the observation room right now. Right there…" She pointed at the mirror and smiled slightly. "Go ahead. Wave." Lucy whined and turned her head to the window, she lifted her hand awkwardly and curled her fingers into her palm. She could feel Brian and Violet shunning her. It broke her, tore at her. She put her arms together on the table and brought her head to her arms, sobbing lightly. Marissa's hard expression was glued onto her. "Right now, Melanie hasn't met them yet. She's in the other room, giving her statement. Dr. Garrison's already talked, as did his head nurse."

"Huh?" Lucy lifted her wet eyes and whimpered. "T-They did?"

"Sang like a canary. So let me ask you to confirm this, did you or did you not take Melanie Puckett away from her mother as a baby?" Lucy's voice quavered and she slowly shook her head, whimpering.

"She had two, how could she notice one missing? Right?"

"Again, wrong." Marissa cleared her throat and leaned forward. "She was a mother, mothers always notice. Let me tell you a little story. As a young girl, I had my son taken from me. His own grandfather took him from me before I even got to hold him." Lucy's eyes flashed with sorrow as Marissa continued on. "I went for thirty years, thirty years, never being able to hold my son. To love my son. He went that long never being able to hold his mother…his true mother. You know what happened when we reunited?"

"What?"

"Bliss. Finally I held my son and he held his mother, that feeling…it's incomparable, no other feeling in the world is quite like that. Melanie will never have that opportunity, do you understand that?" Lucy's eyes began to water as Marissa leaned back in her chair. "Her mother is dead."

"You have proof she's the mom?"

"Birth certificate, twin sister, and the DNA test result came back. Would you like to know what it says?" Marissa opened up a folder she had placed on the table. Lucy eyed it with mournful tears in her eyes. Morris had given his DNA in place of his brother for the Paternity while they had used DNA from Lucy for the maternity. It was shown that Morris was Melanie's paternal uncle and Lucy was her maternal Aunt. "Evidence isn't looking too good for you, Lucy. Can you tell us why you ran off before the baby's abduction?" Lucy turned her eyes away and leaned back, she knew she was guilty. Guilty of more than just envy at Sarah's perfect life. She could never have a child due to something not working down below, she'd been guilty of having a brief affair with her younger sister's husband years before his passing in 1998. She'd also started to develop certain tastes for the female gender, tastes that her family would look down upon. So she had to run, she had to, but that didn't mean she didn't want a family. So she took Melanie and raised her as her own, but kept the truth from her. "Well? Is there anything you'd like to share?"

Lucy frowned and flicked her eyes to the mirror. Violet was going to kill her if she was still watching. She cleared her throat and folded her arms across her chest. She tightened her lips together and met Marissa's eyes. "Can I have a lawyer?"

Bravo to Marissa, 'good cop' and 'bad cop', hah. Looks like Lucy's done for.