Author's Note: Thanks so much for the positive feedback on the last chapter! Keep an eye down below if you would like to hear my thoughts on Kristen cheating on Robert Pattinson! Also! I have a website up and running for any updates and all my stuff. Just go to my fanfiction and link in on that page. And I just finished reading the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy, everyone. Oh my gosh….It was very sexual, you could say that…but I loved it. It kind of reminded me of Edward and Bella about how they could react around one another.

Broken Paradise
written by missefron15

Chapter 9

He sighed as he looked at the clock and saw that it read almost seven o'clock in the morning. He'd pulled another all-nighter and was tired as hell. He was still trying to figure out Henry Marshall and he still hadn't really gotten far except for the information that he'd found out on Lynn Matthews from Dr. Chelsea Barnes.

Chad looked down at his desk and looked at the timeline he'd put together from the information he had gathered. Marshall met Lynn Matthews back in 2002 when she was just 17 years old. They dated briefly before they got married when Lynn turned 18 in 2003. They were married until 2005, when Lynn filed for divorce because she found Marshall cheating with another woman. Dr. Barnes has confirmed that Lynn was pregnant in 2005 and that was the same year she went missing. Lynn was only 20 years old.

Chad rubbed his dark chocolate eyes and grabbed his coffee from beside him and took a long sip and then threw the cup in the trash seeing as it was now empty. He looked back at the timeline and continued to read through what he could make sense of.

A few months after Marshall is questioned about Lynn's disappearance, he marries the woman – Martha Cox – that he cheated with. At this time Martha was 20 years old as well and Marshall was 30. Marshall liked to date them ten years younger, Chad wrote on a sticky note and placed it on a sheet a paper. Nothing really came up about Martha because when he tried to find information on her…it was like she had disappeared off the face of the earth.

He looked through some more information and then realized a common factor.

Dr. Chelsea Barnes was both Martha and Lynn's doctor. He grabbed his office phone and then looked for the cell number Chelsea had given him just in case he needed any more information from her. Seeing as it was 7 o'clock in the morning, he was going to try her cell. He found her number and then quickly dialed it.

It rang and rang and rand until finally he heard a hoarse voice on the other end of the phone. "Hello?" Chelsea muttered.

Chad sighed and ran a hand through his curly hair. "Dr. Barnes, this is Chad Danforth again…I need to ask you another important question." He spoke waiting for her reply.

Chelsea sighed and sat up in bed and turned her bedside table light on. "What can I assist you with, Mr. Danforth?" she asked calmly.

"Were you Martha Cox's doctor as well?" he asked.

Chelsea froze. "Why are you asking about Martha?"

Chad sighed, "Dr. Barnes, Martha Cox was Henry Marshall's second wife…and your patient as well."

Chelsea sat up a bit straighter. "Yes, Martha was my patient but…Cox is not her real last name. Cox was her recent name change. Right after she turned 18, she had it changed it Cox because her real name was Martha Olivia Montgomery. She changed it because it was her father's last name and she didn't want to be associated with him at all." Chelsea told Chad.

Chad gave a confused looked at no one in particular. "How do you know this, Dr. Barnes?"

"I get to know my patients, Mr. Danforth. Besides she asked me if she needed to place her old last name or her new one on the patient forms. She never used Marshall as her last night, though."

He furrowed his brow. "Is it possible that…Henry and Martha were never married while she was seeing you?" he asked her.

"Well for one thing, Martha was never married. It's the first I heard of Martha being married to Henry. I knew Lynn was married to him but never Martha." Chelsea told Chad, rubbing her blonde hair back and out of her eyes.

Chad sighed, "I just don't understand this. Lynn disappeared while pregnant, then he meets Martha Cox and then it says from the paper work I dug up that they got married a few months after Lynn went missing and she started going to see you, Ms. Barnes."

Chelsea sighed. "I'm sorry I'm not much help, Mr. Danforth." She replied softly in remark to his statement.

Chad looked through the paper work and then froze. "Her last name used to be Montgomery?" he asked quickly, shuffling through papers.

Chelsea nodded but then realized Chad couldn't see her. "Yes, Mr. Danforth."

Chad knew why Marshall picked his girls. They were young and at some point in their lives they crossed paths because of their last names. "You said Martha changed her last named right after she turned 18, correct?"

"Yes, she did."

Chad figured it out. "Thank you for your help, Dr. Barnes. I'll contact you if I have any more questions." He rushed and quickly hung up before Chelsea could say anything.

Chad stood up and started gathering his paperwork and putting it in his briefcase. But before he left to see Troy, he needed to check one thing.

Where Martha Olivia Cox-Montgomery was living.

As she lay in his bed, she felt at ease. It was a good ease and her body was relaxed for the first time in almost seven years. She thought she would never feel this way again with anyone and all it took was the same man she'd love her whole life to make her feel like this. This was love, she knew and he knew it. Being with Troy again, she felt whole and wanted again.

She turned her head slightly to the right and laid her chin on her crossed arms. She watched as his chest raised and fell with his breathing and the quiet snores she could barely hear. His brown hair was messed up from sleeping, his eyes were closed, nose looked exactly like it did seven years ago and his face just looked…calm and relaxed.

He was content too, she could feel it.

She closed her eyes and let out a breath of air. She'd been here for three days, going on four now. Her birthday was magical last night with Troy going out to do the things she loved. After a good make out session, they lay in each other's arms, content and watching the water rise onto the sand on the beach. When they got home, they went straight to bed and just…talked.

Talked and talked until two a.m. in the morning. She loved it and now she was lying next to him and just enjoying being near him once again. She peeked her eyes open and noticed that his blue orbs were now staring into her soft brown eyes.

He raised his left palm and ran it down her cheek. "Your bruise is almost gone, Ella." He whispered quietly to her, massaging her cheek. She relaxed into his palm and lent her face into his hand.

She stared at him with such love. "Is it?"

He nodded his head and pulled his palm away. She gave a short frown and then saw him get in the exact position she was in. On her stomach, arms crossed, chin on arms and staring at her. "It looks a lot better. How is your stomach," he asked her, his blue eyes going to her shirt covered tummy.

She smiled, "It's feeling a lot better. It's still a bit sore but that's bruised ribs for you," she told him quietly and watched as his smile turned a few shades down. "What's wrong?"

His eyes looked at her worried expression and he shook his head, "Nothing. I just don't like that they are bruised. You should have never had them." He whispered to her.

She scooted closer to him and was arm to arm with him. "I'm fine, Troy. I should have gotten out ages ago but I didn't."

Troy sighed and just looked at her. "I don't want nothing to ever happen to you Ella," he murmured to the only girl he could ever love. His eyes grew glossy, "I love you too damn much."

She felt the tears in her eyes and then felt them as they rolled slowly down her cheeks. "I love you so much, Troy." She whispered and as soon as she said those words, Troy grabbed her face softly and pushed his lips on her.

She moaned as his tongue slid into her mouth and she responded right back, needy for his affection. Troy pushed her away a little and moved to hover over her and make sure to not press his body weight on top of her and continued to kiss her.

Ding dong!

Troy groaned, pulling back from his kiss with Gabriella and she gave him a hearty smile. He glanced at the clock and noticed it was 8:15 a.m. in the morning. "Who the hell is at my door at 8 in the morning?" he muttered, glancing down at his Ella, giving her a quick peck on the lips before hopping out of bed to answer his door.

He crossed through his dining room and into the foyer, reaching the door and pulling it open. He didn't have a chance to look at who it was before they barreled right into him, almost knocking him down in the process. He saw a flash of his best friend and partner in crime's brown curls and knew it was Chad. "Chad?" he spoke, noticing the deep dark bags under Chad's eyes. He saw a coffee from Starbucks in his hand and watched as Chad sucked down his coffee at ease.

Chad looked at his best friend and then shoved the manila folder he had dug up about Martha into Troy's chest. "I think we have our answer to Marshall."

Troy's eyes widened and clasped the folder into his hands and opened it to see a picture of a woman with long curly brownish/black hair, wide set eyes, a was a bit heavy looking, but none the less pretty. "Who is this?" Troy asked, his eyes looking into Chad's brown orbs.

Chad laughed, "That's Marshall's second wife, Martha Olivia Cox-Montgomery."

Troy looked at his best friend like he'd grown a couple heads. "Why do we need to know about her again?" he said looking through some of the papers Chad had stashed in the folder.

"She's the key…I think she knows what happened to Lynn Matthews."

"Why are you talking about Lynn Matthews?" Gabriella asked, coming out of the hallway and into the foyer with Chad and Troy.

Troy looked at Gabriella. "Do you know who Lynn Matthews is?" he asked her wide-eyed.

Gabriella nodded. Her eyes going from Troy to Chad. "I knew Lynn back in high school. Right after you graduated Troy, I went into my sophomore year, she was new to school and I helped her around for a while."

Troy looked at Chad. Chad had a weird look on his face. "Do you know Martha Cox?"

She had to think. Martha Cox? Martha was familiar but Cox wasn't. She saw that Troy had a manila folder opened up and there was a picture. "That's Martha Montgomery!" she pointed at the picture and looked up at Troy and Chad.

"You knew Martha Montgomery and Lynn Matthews?" Troy asked incredulously.

Gabriella nodded her head. She pulled her shirt down a little and looked at the two boys. "Okay, so I was in Scholastic Decathlon in high school, but I didn't join until sophomore year, that's how I met Martha. Lynn was new, like I said and she was very smart. I convinced her to join the Decathlon team and she did, but something was off with Lynn. She acted way older than her age and she even said she was dating an older man, that her parents would never approve." She told Troy and Chad, shaking her heads from side to side to get the story going.

Troy felt the wheels in his head start turning. Marshall found his girls from East High. Lynn, Martha, Ella and now who? "Was Henry ever distant from you, Ella?" he asked cautiously, knowing that Henry was a tough subject to talk about with her.

Gabriella felt her heart tugging. "Yeah…the last few months of us dating, he was real cold…angry…he was mean to me and when he would come home…he'd take it out on me. I knew he wasn't working like he said he was because I have friends in that hospital…they would tell me Troy." She whispered and looked into his blue orbs. "He was cheating on me…"

Troy shook his head. He didn't want to hear this but he needed too. "With who, Gabriella?" he asked, his inner Federal agent in him kicking in.

She sighed, "Her name is Kennedy Marrow…I also went to high school with her. I graduated with all three of those girls."

Chad was shocked and looked to see Troy was too. A thought went through Chad's mind, "Did you Dr. Chelsea Barnes?" Chad asked quietly.

Gabriella's face flushed. "Yes, I know her." She spoke meekly.

Troy raised an eyebrow at her. "How do you know her?" he questioned her, crossing his arms across his chest.

Her face felt like it was on fire. "Troy…she is my OB-GYN…I started seeing her when I got on birth control and then I had a pregnancy scare right after you left for L.A."

Troy's eyes widened. "You had a pregnancy scare and you didn't tell me?" he asked, anger creeping into his voice. Why wouldn't she tell him this? What if she had been pregnant?

Her eyes faded to the floor. "I didn't want to bug you with it. Plus, I wasn't pregnant, so it's okay, Troy." She spoke softly.

He shook his head, "It's not okay, Gabriella." He snapped. He sighed and saw Chad looked at him.

"Dude, give her a break." Chad told him and shook his head at his best friend. "She had a scare. It's not a big deal."

Troy looked at his Ella and saw her face in frown. Her eyes looked like they were going to poor down a rain storm any minute and he didn't want that to happen. He shoved the manila folder at Chad and walked towards Gabriella and wrapped her in his arms, his chin placed on top of her head. "I'm sorry for snapping at you. Its okay, I didn't mean to get mad. I wish you would have told me, but it's okay." He whispered to her and kissed the top of her head again and placed his chin back on top, rocking her in his arms.

She felt tears fall out of her eyes, "I'm sorry for not telling you," she whispered, feeling like she betrayed him.

"It's okay, baby." He spoke softly not wanting her to cry any more.

Chad snorted. "Well it seems as you two have gotten back together," he muttered.

Troy felt her body freeze. "Chad shut the hell up." He murmured.

"Just saying," rolling his eyes, Chad glanced at them and sighed, "I have an address for Martha. We need to go see her."

Troy looked at Chad, "How? Where does she live? I think we need to let Chief know what's going on."

Gabriella's brown eyes widened. "No! We can't involve anyone! Henry will know I'm alive!" she shouted at the two men and felt like her chest was closing in on her. Her eyes met the blue orbs of her former flame. "Troy, I just got you back. I don't want to get hurt…" she whispered back to him softly into his chest.

Troy sighed, "Gabriella…Chief can help us with your situation. I promise you, honey." His soothing words filled the air and helped relax Gabriella's body from shaking to a standstill point.

Gabriella looked up at Troy, "Can I trust him?" her soft words asked him.

His head nodded at her words and he smiled. "You can trust him. I trust him a hell of a lot. He's the one that mentored me and trained me for the FBI and he's the one that wanted me on his team, Ella." He told her and then looked at Chad for confirmation.

Chad nodded his head. "Yeah it's true…Gabriella." He spoke her name, feeling an odd sense of wanting to protect her like a brother should, but saw that Troy had her in his arms protecting her instead. Chad didn't want to see Gabriella go back into Henry's custody. That was one thing he didn't want and he knew that he had to stand by his best friend and help protect this girl.

"I'll call Chief now," Chad spoke, grabbing his cell and dialing the Chief's number.

After a few rings, a gruff voice spoke. "Hello?" Chief Sawyer Caine was not a morning person but seeing as he was in his late fifties, still in great shape, and had been at the LA FBI for over twenty years, being that he started out at the LAPD and then jumpstarted his training for the FBI, he was still not a morning person.

"Chief, it's Danforth. We have some issues…" Chad trailed off walking away from Troy and Gabriella letting them have their time together while they still could just in case something were to ever take that away from them.

Sawyer blew out a breath of air and looked at the time seeing as it was almost 8:30 A.M. "Danforth, these issues better be damn good. I'm not in the office today, seeing as it's my son's eighteenth birthday." He growled out over the phone.

"Troy's ex, Gabriella…well she's not dead. She faked her death and has been staying at Troy's for about four days now." Chad spoke, the air coming out of his lungs and him breathing slowly so he could talk straight.

Sawyer raised his eyebrow. "She faked her death? That's illegal son, She must have had a reason, what was it?"

"Her ex, Henry Marshall, he was beating her up and she was tired of it. She and Troy dating a very long time ago and she knew he was an FBI agent, so she faked her death, got on a plane and came to LA…she needs our help, Chief."

"Is there any way, I could talk to her?" Sawyer asked and noticed his wife was still asleep.

Chad looked over at Troy and Gabriella, "Let me see if she'll talk to you." He muttered and put his phone on mute. "Gabriella, Chief wants to talk to you. You up for that?" he asked hoping she was because Chief could help a lot.

Gabriella sighed and then looked at Troy, who nodded his head at her. "Yeah," she whispered and walked towards Chad who unmuted his phone call and handed it to her.

"Hello?" she answered meekly.

Sawyer sighed. She sounded broken, like she'd been that way for a long time. "Gabriella is it?" he asked the woman.

"Yes," she spoke softly.

"My name is Sawyer Caine. I'm the head FBI Chief here in Los Angeles. Tell me exactly why you faked your death. I need to know this if you want my help, Ms.…" he trailed off.

Gabriella reacted quickly. "Montez. My name is Gabriella Montez…" she spoke quietly enough for Chief Caine to hear.

Sawyer grabbed a pen and a pad of paper from his side table and wrote down her name. "How old are you Ms. Montez?" he asked.

"I'm 26 years old, Mr. Caine."

"Good, now tell me why you felt the need to fake your death."

And then she told him. From the moment she knew he was abusive, to him cheating on her with Kennedy, to having her friends help her fake her death at the hospital and then leaving to come find Troy. "And now here I am…four days in and I'm staying with Troy, sir." She told him and let out the breath of air she felt like she had been holding forever.

Sawyer looked down at the notepad he had in his lap and looked at the few pages he'd written in. This girl had some story and he didn't think she'd get in much trouble for faking her death. Now the people she called friends, might get in serious trouble, but not if the judge had a heart. "Alright, Ms. Montez…If you don't mind…I'd like to see you and the two knuckleheads tomorrow ASAP in my office. I want to discuss a few issues about this Marshall guy." He told her.

She nodded and handed the phone to Chad, "Chief you still there?"

Sawyer sighed, "Danforth hand the phone to Bolton."

Chad sighed as well and handed Troy the phone. Troy took the phone and held it up to his ear, "Chief?"

"Troy freaking Bolton, why didn't you call me as soon as you knew about your girlfriend being alive?" Sawyer asked irritated.

"I'm sorry Chief, but…this girl if very important to me and I wanted to protect her. That fucking Marshall guy beat the hell out of her and she didn't want anyone to know she was alive but me." Troy spoke walking towards the window in his living room and looking out at the city.

"It's alright Bolton; just don't let it happen again, okay? Now I told Ms. Montez for you, Chad and her to come in tomorrow. I want to speak to you three about the facts and what we need to do with what she had done. We have to clean up the damages and we have to make sure that Marshall is put away for good, understand me?" Sawyer sneered clear to Troy.

Troy shook his head but realized Chief couldn't see him. "Yes, I understand. Thanks Chief." And he hung up the phone. He turned around and looked at Chad and Gabriella. He wanted answers to all this mess and why Marshall chose Gabriella. "We need to see that Martha girl. Let's go."

Sorry for cliffy! But you met Chad and Troy's Boss, Sawyer Caine! :) Anywayyy….my thoughts on Kristen.

If she really loved Robert like she claims she does, then she wouldn't have cheated. That's what I think personally. I for one would never cheat, I don't believe in cheating and no one should. Kristen is so dumb sometimes. I wouldn't blame Rob for not getting back with her. She messed up but at the same time, I also believe that people should get second chances but then again, she 'loves rob' but cheated anyway. It doesn't make sense in my mind.

What are your thoughts?

BTWWW! I have a website up and running for my fanfiction. Go to my homepage and the link is up. So…While writing this I was re-watching Lost because when it first came out, me and my mom were hooked and then we stopped watching it and now I'm re-watching it from the start! Netflix needs to update on The Vampire Diaries as well, I haven't seen all season 3 and I would love too, before the new season is on.

&& please check out the books "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James. I read them all within like three days and I was hooked. I can't wait for the movie. If you have any ideas for this story, PM me or review and let me know what should happen in this story and if I think it's a good idea, I'll add it to my storyline! I'll credit you of course, haha.

Thanks guys!

-Ashley