You did what?" Patrick Wilkinson asked Keira not knowing if he had heard everything clearly. "Are you confessing that you committed a crime of breaking and entering?"
"No well yes" Keira replied nervously. "But I had to and that's when I found a complaint from you against him, copies of his divorce papers, and for some reason copies of yours. It's important that you tell me what happened between you two because that is the only way I can find out what exactly is keeping Orlando and I from being together."
Patrick sighed as he shook his head. "I'm sorry I can't get in this mess. I refuse to be dragged in to this, this, whatever the hell this is!"
"No please" Keira said getting worried, upset, and scared. She got up and grabbed Patrick's arm to keep him from leaving. "If you don't tell me I may never find out! Everyone who knows can't tell me and I have tried everything please!" Keira said with tears in her eyes. Her only hope was failing her.
"You are her only hope of finding out" Jerry told him getting mad that he didn't have the courage to help her. "If you don't tell her now then she and Orlando will never be able to be together again and the entire pirates cast will still be under his power to be manipulated."
"That is not my problem!" Patrick Wilkinson said getting frustrated. "Your movie drama has nothing to do with me and my divorce has nothing to do with you guys."
"But you didn't get divorced because you moved in with your wife and your new daughter into a new 2.5 million mansion right after Edward got fired" Jerry said angrily. "You accepted hush money that Edward Russo gave you too kept quiet. Isn't that right?"
"How did you know that?" Patrick asked through his teeth walking closer to Bruckheimer.
"It's not so hard to piece together" Jerry replied. "I know what's keeping them apart but I can't do a thing about it because of Edward Russo. But I know you can Patrick. I used what Edward is doing to Orlando and Keira to figure out what he did to you. Remember how you felt going through that? That's how they are feeling right now."
Patrick stayed quiet as he remembered everything he had to go through when he worked for that cruel man. He looked towards Keira and saw the same hurt and tears that he saw on his wife many years ago.
"No one will know" Keira said trying to convince him. "I promise you that if anyone asks I won't say it was you, I'll say I figured out myself. But please, I'll give you whatever you want or do whatever you want me to do. But you're my only hope" Keira said as she held Patrick's hand tightly in hers.
Patrick wanted at this point to say everything but he knew that he still could get in trouble for breaking his deal with Edward. What Jerry said next though made him change his mind.
"Do this for your wife Patrick" Jerry started. "Do it for everything you two suffered. Do it for you daughter so that she will never have to go through all this heart ache, pain, and suffering her parents went through. Do it for your family."
Patrick swallowed hard before facing Keira. "When Edward Russo was the director and Good Morning America, I was new. I was just out of college, just married, my wife was expecting our daughter, and I really needed to make money fast. Edward said he'd help me and that he would make my career as an interviewer soar as long as the show soared. I listened to him and everything was amazing the first few months until Edward started wanting more success. He would make me work long hours, go to many different places to interview people keeping me away from my wife and unborn child. It was affecting our marriage so much to the point where I wouldn't see my wife for three weeks every month. When I asked Edward to give me some more free time he said no. He said that if I wanted a career that I would have to sacrifice anything. I loved my job and I needed it, my whole family needed it, but I also loved my wife so much. She's everything to me. When Edward saw that should I be asked to choose between my wife and my job that I would choose my wife, he took everything to a whole new level. He made me stay even longer at work, made me go to even more places, and I went three months without seeing my wife right before she was about to have our child. When I finally told him that enough was enough he went even farther. While I was away somewhere for a few weeks he created divorce papers, forged my signature, and sent them to my wife with a note basically telling her that I loved my job more than I loved her. My wife not believing it, refusing to believe it, called me crying and that's when I flew home forgetting about the interview. I couldn't believe the nerve, the audacity of that man. I confronted him to and he said that in order for the show not to fail, I had to have my complete focus on it. In reality all he wanted was the money, he didn't give a shit about my career. All he cares about is work, success, money, that's the reason his wife left him. He valued his frickin job over her" Patrick finally said as he hands were in rock solid fists as all of the anger for that man came back to him. "I told him I wouldn't stand for it but he said if didn't leave me wife, that my career would be over, that I would have to pay back Good Morning America every penny I made off them, and that if I didn't, I would be sued for breaking my contract and be forced to pay even more. Refusing to put my career over my family I filed an immediate complaint and once people heard what he did they wanted him out. Edward agreed to leave not having a choice but he offered me money to keep quiet from everybody else. I accepted it since my wife and I really did need it but now it's something I regret. If I would have told everyone what happened, the same thing wouldn't have happened to you and Orlando. That explains my complaint, that explains my divorce papers, and that explains his divorce papers. There you have it."
"Thank you Patrick" Jerry said as he heard him finish. Patrick only nodded before walking out to give Keira and Jerry privacy. When Jerry looked at Keira his heart broke with what he saw.
Keira was staring at the ground, her eyes a little red, tears laying there while some slid down her face, her face was open in shocked not believing all the cruel things that was done to that poor man and his wide, and not believing that it was all happening to her.
She slowly looked up at Jerry who was standing next to her and the couch she was on. "Is that what's happening to me?" she asked almost afraid. She gasped again and looked at the ground when Jerry nodded and finally explained everything since she basically already knew.
As Keira heard everything, her heart felt a sharp pain in her chest. With every new detail it was if someone was stabbing her in the heart. She couldn't believe who she trusted, she couldn't believe how blind she was, she couldn't believe how this all happened and she didn't know a thing. She didn't know Rupert had tried to steal from her, she didn't know that Rupert and Caleb had gotten into a fight over her which Orlando broke up and got mixed up in, she didn't know that Edward Russo had forced Orlando to break up with her to not put the film in danger, she didn't know that Rupert was hired by Edward to keep her and Orlando apart, she didn't know that Lisa had hired Kate who had tried to help Orlando get Rupert fired, she didn't know that Orlando kept it a secret from her to protect her career, she didn't know that the whole cast including herself had been threatened with being fired and forced to pay back everything, she didn't know that Orlando still loved her and did all this because he loved her.
"Oh my god" Keira said as she stood up everything clear to her. As she pictured Edward's face a wave of anger came crushing over her. "How could he do this? He's monstrous! How could someone just mess and toy with someone like that!" Keira said getting furious, more than before, as her face was red and covered in tears. "How could he do that? Jerry tell me how could he? He knew I loved Orlando, he knew I couldn't live without him and he just took him away from me for the safety of a movie? He just broke us up to secure his profits?"
"I know Keira, I know" Jerry said as he tried to calm her down. 'It's okay though. The important thing is that you know now, you know everything-"
'Where's Orlando?" Keira asked immediately interrupting him needing to see Orlando at that very moment. "Where is he? I need to talk to him; I need to talk to him right now!"
"Keira, calm down, calm down. Last time I saw him he was upstairs-"before Jerry could even finish, Keira was already out the door heading to the elevator. Jerry chased after her and met her in the elevator. "Don't worry. Johnny, Lisa, Gore, Caleb, and Kate are trying to do everything they can to help you and Orlando out."
As Keira heard one of those names he released a small laugh as she shook her head and then faced him. "Are you sure Kate is on our side?" Keira asked Jerry.
Jerry didn't nod seeing Keira's face. As soon as he saw her expression he knew something had happened between the two and sighed. "What did she do?"
"Kate had this whole thing planned?" Lisa asked Orlando confused as they both walked down the halls looking for Jerry and Keira. Orlando had basically grabbed her, Caleb, and Johnny off the table leaving Bill, Gore, Jack, and Jonathan alone at the Pirate table with all the other women.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted her" Caleb said angrily through his teeth. He knew that some people in the past can never be changed to do well, it just wasn't in them.
"In time it'll all get back to her" Johnny said as he also sounded mad at this betrayal of trust. One thing he couldn't stand is when a person took advantage of another's trust, especially is someone who cares about or him himself. "But we can't change what happened in the past. Let's just find Jerry and Keira and figure out a way to stop any more chaos."
"We're never going to find them if we all search the same places though" Orlando said stopping as they all got in the elevator going down another flight. He knew he could have just called them but the problem was that both left their cell phones at the table before they left. "Johnny and Lisa, you guys stay on this elevator and check all of the upper floors, Caleb and I will cover the bottom ones."
Johnny and Lisa gave him a quick nod before Orlando almost ran out of the elevator with Caleb not too far behind him. They checked every empty room, storage room, and conference room, whatever room there was and couldn't find them. They kept looking an eventually, knowing that there were many more floors below still since it was a massive place, the two split up again.
"Come on" Orlando whispered to himself annoyed that he still hadn't found them. He had checked at least four or five floors now each with at least six rooms. He should have found them by now or someone at least should have.
"Well well well" Rupert said working around the corner, him and Orlando facing face to face. "Look who I found wandering."
Orlando naturally gave him a cold pissed off look. "Where are they Rupert?"
"Jerry and Keira?" Rupert asked pretending to be dumb. "I'm not quite sure. I'm sure Edward will check on them though-"
"Don't play with me Rupert" Orlando said getting frustrated. "If you, him, or Kate do anything else to us you're going to regret it."
"Ah so you know about Kate?" Rupert said walking around him in a circle. "Bout time Orlando. I was afraid you really were genuinely stupid."
"I'm not and I know about Kate and I know that you know that Keira is getting closer to the truth" Orlando said in almost a whisper. "Give it up Rupert, as soon as she finds out your chances with her are over."
"That's if she finds out Orlando" Rupert said."If Edward find her in time, I guarantee you that the only time you'll hear her tell you she loves you is on set reading it from a script."
"He won't though" Orlando shaking his head "Because I'm going to find her first."
As Orlando moved to walk past Rupert, he stood in front of him. "Come on now, did you really think I would let you go that easily" Rupert said with a grin.
Orlando glared before the two of them simultaneously lunged at each other Orlando tackling Rupert to the floor. He tried holding him still enough so that he could just get away, he really did not want to hurt him but Rupert didn't seem to have the same opinion.
All is fair in love and war.
As the doors opened to the elevator where Jerry and Keira were, Keira instantly grew angered as she saw the devil that she and Jerry had just finished speaking of. "How dare you betray everyone's trust like that?" Keira screamed as she walked out the elevator and stepped right in front of Kate. "How could you do something so monstrous? Threaten everyone's career? Everyone's job? Just to break Orlando and I up?"
Kate laughed and giggled. "So you know huh? Who told you? I want to know to scold them since they completely ruined the surprise-" Kate stopped as she looked over and saw Jerry. "Oh so it was the producer. Typical soap opera script-"
"Oh please try not to act so childish" Jerry said with a glare. "Try to be somewhat mature and intelligent for once."
"If I were you I would be kissing up to me instead of tempting me to do what I should have done a long time ago" Kate said with the same glare as she got closer to them both.
"And what exactly is that Kate?" Keira snapped at her not afraid.
Kate smirked. "Make you pay for stealing the man who belongs to me."
"You really don't get it do you?" Keria asked not believing how stupid she was acting. "He loved me. He still loves me. He always will just as much as I love him. Nothing that you try to do will be able to keep us apart permanently-"
"Want to make that a bet?" Kate asked stepping closer threateningly careful not to step on her long purple spaghetti strapped gown. "I was able to keep you two apart before, I was able to keep you apart this time, and I'll be able to keep you apart again, this time for good. Third time's the charm right?"
"Kate Orlando will never love you" Jerry said not believing how naive that girl could be. "The only thing you are doing is making an embarrassment of yourself. Orlando doesn't love you, he feels sorry for you. He feels nothing but pity."
"Yes Kate. What don't you understand? He doesn't want you! You're only making a fool of yourself! Have some dignity-"
"You're going to teach me about dignity? You messed with someone else's relationship Keira!" Kate screamed. "I am tired of people looking at me as the bad guy when really it was you who started all this! The minute you came into my life you made it a living hell, but you know what now it's pay back!"
Kate without even thinking lunged at Keira who fought quickly to defend herself. She pushed Kate against the wall trying to hold her but Kate quickly pushed her back and slapped her. Little did they know that as they fought, Orlando and Rupert were doing the same thing two floors above them.
"Guys that's enough!" Jerry said as he tried to pull Keira away from Kate as the two went at it. Although he was getting scratched and slapped, all he wanted to do was end all of this, that very night. Thankfully he eventually got some back up from Lisa and Johnny.
"Keira!" Lisa screamed as she saw she was fighting Kate without mercy. She instantly ran to help but instead of separating them, she helped Keira get Kate.
"Hey! No, Lisa stop it!" Johnny said as he pulled her off before grabbing a hold of Keira as Jerry got Kate. "This ends here now! I am sick of it!" Johnny yelled his eyes annoyed at what he had witnessed, for the second time in his life. "Lisa! Take Keira and Jerry upstairs to where Orlando is so I can talk to this one over here" he said as he glared at Kate to give her a piece of his mind. Lisa listened and as she pushed her way past Kate she hugged her friend as they along with Jerry went to go find everyone else. Unfortunately though, they went a little too ahead and were now several feet above where Orlando, Caleb, and Rupert were.
As Caleb stepped out of the elevator his eyes grew wide as he saw Rupert and Orlando going at it. He immediately ran towards them to try and break them out but the two of them were out of control. They went at it for another several minutes until Johnny had arrived once again with Kate who had just spoken to and who he had been able to convince to help them find out where Edward Russo might be. However when he saw the fight, he knew finding that man would have to wait.
"Rupert leave him alone!" Kate screamed as she saw the man she loved being attacked by her partner in crime. "Rupert stop! It's over!"
Rupert heard her very well let he continued, he had not done all this to give up as easily as Kate had. He was so vulnerable. However though, he was forced to stop when Johnny got a hold of him and Caleb got a hold of Orlando.
"This is nonsense! I am an actor and Caleb is a lawyer. We are not referees!" Johnny screamed really just furious about everything now to the point where he didn't care if he was raising his voice. He first turned to Rupert whose cloths were all shifted. to scold him. "You, if I were you I would be very careful with any more tricks you try to pull because I promise you that will regret them." He then turned to Orlando whose cloths were also shifted and slightly wrinkled. "and you, you're better than this! You know that this is completely wrong! Instead of wasting time with him you should be with Keira patching things up!"
"I tired finding her, but he wouldn't tell me!"
"That's because I don't know!"
"Quiet!" Johnny and Caleb screamed at the same time. Johnny however continued. "Lisa and I found them both. I told her to bring Keira up here a good twenty minutes ago. They should be here by now."
"Well at least I'm here" Jerry said as he met everyone in the hall. He sighed in relief when he saw Orlando. "Orlando, Kate was working for Edward all along-"
"We know. She had the decency to confess it to me" Orlando said as he glared at Kate who was just standing there trying to ignore all the anger and glares towards her. However, he stopped as he looked around the hall and saw that neither Lisa nor Keira were there."Jerry where's Keira?" he asked alarmed. Jerry wasn't answering fast enough and Orlando was getting worried.
"Where's Edward?" Caleb asked alarmed still as well.
Finally Orlando got to his boiling point and grabbed Rupert by his collar once again as he held him against the well. "Tell me where is she!" He screamed at him. "Where is she?"
"I don't know! Get the hell off of me! I don't know!" Rupert said pushing him off. "But even if I did I wouldn't tell you. I can take care of her myself-"
"Tell me right now!" Orlando screamed as he wanted to lunge at Rupert. Caleb however held him back trying to calm him down.
"Orlando!" Lisa screamed as she came down running through the hall alone. Once she saw the sight in front of her she started to panic even more. She was already nervous and scared since she had bad news. "Orlando please-" Lisa said trying to get Orlando to look at her to calm him down before she told him what had just happened. She was getting teary with all the drama that was going on. She had just witnessed a fight before, she was witnessing another one, she didn't know where her friend was anymore and a man who had done cruel things to her had her. "Calm down-"
"He won't tell me where she is!" Orlando screamed having the same exact fear as Lisa that something was happening to her. "Tell me where she is!"
"Edward has her" Lisa said still getting all teary. "We had split from Jerry trying to find you and we ran into him. Keira confronted him telling him that she knew everything and that he was going to do whatever it took to bring him down. He got mad and started pulling both of us into this empty room trying to keep us for calling for help. He let go of me by accident and Keira told me to just go find you guys. I don't know if they're there anymore-"
"I told you to stay together!" Jerry said not meaning to show anger towards Lisa. It was really meant for Edward.
"I know and I'm sorry!" Lisa said. Suddenly she saw Kate standing there and grew mad. "What the hell is she still doing here!"
"She's going to help us now for real this time. Calm down" Johnny said holding Lisa back who was screaming at Kate.
"Why should we trust you?"
"Because" Kate started. "I'm one of the only two that knows the last few tricks Edward has up his sleeves. Isn't that right Rupert?" Kate asked.