40 - Damage Control
Sam's eyes were full of accusations as he looked up from Maples' body. "You murdered him? How could you do that?"
Seeing the censure in those brown eyes made guilt flood my system. OhGodwhathadIdone?Whatwouldthepolicesay?Iwasjusttryingtoprotectmylittlebrother. The little brother who was not here, but there was no choice in that matter there was very little chance that he could have survived those wounds. At least not using the current technologies on earth. I had done it to protect my family, this was not the first time I had killed for that reason. The only problem was that those had been leeches, so they did not count - they were already half-dead so what did it matter if I helped finish the job. While the Cullen family was made up of vampires but they acted too much like humans to be counted in the leech category, unlike the red-eyed monsters that had invaded last May. Those creatures I had killed without an inkling of remorse because they needed to die.
The man on the ground in front of me was a person, he had a family; as much as I hated the bitch Jill, there was a very large possibility that her father was gone. I did not see the man crumpled and still in front of me, instead I was looking at a man lying in a hospital bed. His normally russet skin now had a sickly purple tint to it, his heart was failing him, it was no longer pumping well enough to keep him alive - it would soon beat one last time.
I came back to reality when Sam started talking again.
"I mean...really...Leah...what..." Sam was blinking slowly...once...twice and then he slowly collapsed into a heap at my feet. My surprise prevented me from even attempting to catch him, why the hell had Sam just fainted like a total sissy?
My concern lasted only for a moment - Phil was standing right behind him, a look of concentration on his face. "Princess, are you all right?" Unlike Sam there was no tone of accusation, all I could hear was concern and love coming from him. I threw my hands around him, squeezing a little harder than I should have. Phil did not complain about my embrace, in fact he was holding me just as tightly. All to quickly he let go of me in order to run his hands down my back and arms, trying to look for where I was hurt.
"I told you I am fine," I whispered into his shoulder, "but I think Maples is...dead." The last word came out as a near sob. Reluctantly pulling away I looked down at the corpse at my feet. Surprisingly I could not see any blood, just a crumpled body. His skull looked a little lopsided and his head was at the wrong angle, I was not a doctor by any means but this did not good.
"Don't worry about that, so long as you are all right." The relief in his tone was evident as once again he pulled me against his chest and away from the two bodies in front of us. I was going to assume that Sam was asleep because of something Phil had done to him. "Tell me what happened, as quickly as possible. But don't leave out any details, especially ones where you interacted with other people."
The whole story came out, Seth and I coming out here to confront him, the alcohol on his breath as well as the threats. "He wanted to shoot me and Seth," I had to stop for a moment as I remembered that man shooting my little brother, "Seth stopped him from shooting me. I swear it was an accident..." I told him on a sob, what if Phil blamed me for this?
"I know Princess, you were just protecting your family." He gave me a small kiss on the forehead, telling me exactly what I needed to hear, "now let us clean this up so that we can all get on with our lives. I need you to go inside and keep your mother distracted."
"Can't you do the magic erase memory thing." I forgot exactly which one of the family members had told me about that particular skill, but I knew they were capable of making you forget things. Hell, Phil had easily done that to me when those three vampires had attacked us in the woods.
"Your mother just watched as her son was shot multiple times, I assure you there is no way she will ever be able to forget that. You are going to find a way to appease her." Phil pulled away from our embrace and looked down at the bodies in front of us.
"I have to do all this without actually telling her the truth." My question came out as a statement.
Phil gave me a slow nod as he pulled out his phone and started texting people. He did not give me any more direction than that, I guess it was all up to me.
I looked at the house to see my mother peeking out, her eyes practically bugging out of her head. My intentions when ordering her inside to wash her hands and change her shirt had been simple, get her away while I contacted the family to come help. Now that I considered it again it had been a good plan, we needed to hide the fact that Seth was involved in all this. No one had seen him all day long, he had come home straight from the cabin, so we could pretend he was not here. I muttered my words out loud, so that Phil could hear me. His only reply was a muttered, "excellent" before he went back to whatever he was doing on his phone.
I closed the door behind me as I stepped into the house, my neck was starting feel really tight, a sure sign that I was going to get a really bad headache soon.
"Leah where is Seth? What is Phil..." She started speaking as soon as I closed the door behind me, her words were so quick they were almost slurring together. She was breathing quickly and shallowly as she tried to figure out what was going on.
Phil was trying to fix the mess I made, my job was to deal with mother. There was no way to tell her the lie right now, she had seen too much. So I would go for the truth, as much as the truth as I could tell. I stood between her and the window, trying to get her to make eye contact with me; it also had the added benefit of her not being able to see what was going on outside. "Mom, I need you to look at me. Seth will be all right, he will be back in a few days when he feels better." My mother's eyes were round, her heartbeat was very erratic and I was starting to get concerned - what happens if she has a heart attack? I pulled her over to sit on the couch, she allowed me to push her onto the cushions with little resistance. "Listen mom there are certain questions that will never be answered. There are things that you will never know. It is paramount that you do not dwell into these mysteries."
"But you know these things." She interrupted, her eyes narrowing I saw my mother gain a little bit of herself back. Her breathing slowed a little, as she realized I had been keeping things from her. I would take my mother being angry with me over her sitting there freaking out.
"You are right, there are secrets that I keep. Ones that you will never know about, but that is irrelevant at this point. Right now we have other problems. Please trust me in this, Seth is going to be all right. I promise he is." I looked into her eyes trying to convey my sincerity. Despite all the secrets I had been keeping from her I needed her to trust me.
My mother's heart rate and breathing increased again, I mentally kicked myself. GoodjobLeah,waytokeephercalm;justremindherofhowmanybulletswereinherson.
"Mom. Mom, listen to me Seth is going to be all right, but he will be gone for a few days time. When he comes back he will be as good as new." I had to trust Sassy and her willingness to take care of my little brother. I needed to make sure my mother understood this without telling her any details.
"Leah you will tell me..." I could see her anger kicking in. Despite the circumstances I could not help but smile a little, I knew who to blame for my short temper.
"No mother, I will not tell you, some secrets are not mine to reveal. It would do a lot more harm than good to share them with you." I could her her heartbeat picking up again. "I need you to sit here and calm down for a minute." I went to get her a glass of water from the kitchen. She was eyeing the door when I came back, "mom can you to be like Charlie right now? Do not waste both our time by asking questions."
"Does this involve Phil?" My mother asks going for the heart of the matter.
"Yes, and I need to go see what he is doing. Can you lie down on the couch for a few minutes? Your heart is starting to concern me, and I don't want Seth to come back to a mother in the hospital." I helped push her down on the couch, for once she listened to me. I wondered if she was still in shock and that is why she was willing to let me boss her around.
Blossom was standing around the body, somehow I could not seem to say his name, there was another man I had never met. He was smaller than Phil, probably a little shy of six feet tall with light brown hair that looked like it had been a few months since it had gotten a decent haircut. The well worn jeans and plain grey t-shirt helped add to the casual look. His face was soft and slightly rounded, if it was not for the pale green eyes that he shared with Blossom and Phil I would have mistaken him for one of the kids that went to college with me. His eyes gave him away, they did not belong to a college kid.
"Leah, Percy." Phil said by way of introduction. Percy nodded my way as he bent down and looked at Maples a little closer.
"This should be easy enough to cover up," Percy's tone was cool, almost emotionless. I felt shivers run up and down my spine, Phil noticed and gave my shoulder a quick reassuring squeeze before we got back to the business at hand.
"All right let me get lover-boy out of the way," Blossom bent down and picked up Sam's still unconscious body. "So you want me to seduce him when he wakes up?" She was looking at me.
"Are you guys going to try to erase his memory?" Even I could hear the hope in my voice. Sam had not understood the situation but what was the worst part was that he had assumed the worst. He thought I was just causally able to kill a man?
"It should not be a problem, you said he did not see that much, so the only thing to do is to explain to him why he woke up in the middle of the forest." Phil was concentrating on something, trying to come up with a good enough lie I guess.
"It will be really awkward for him to wake up with me crawling on top of him. I can take one for the team." Blossom pointed out with a mischievous look, I rolled my eyes at her. Even in a time of crisis she was still a total slut, it sounded like she would be happy to try that plan.
"But I remembered bits when it happened." There had been dreams that made me suspicious of Phil for a while. He had not done a perfect job erasing my memory and it would really be hard to explain if Sam somehow remembered seen the body in my mother's front yard.
"That was a special circumstance, the spirit I share my body with wanted for you to find out about me. So when you fell asleep in my house, it sent you the dreams." Phil was only half paying attention while he explained, he was concentrating on something else.
"So he will not remember anything." I wanted to clarify, Sam knowing might make it harder to keep the family secrets.
"Not likely no, we will ask Jake to keep an eye on him to make sure he is not getting any flashed of memories and that will pretty much be it." Phil looked back at me.
"The only problem is the gunshots, it would be hard to get away with the fact that there were those noises so we are going to have to admit this guy was here. Otherwise we could just dump the body in the ocean for the sharks to tear apart." Percy tone was as casual as if he was talking about taking the empty pickle jars to the recyclers.
"How am I going to explain the throwing him across the front yard?" I might have been able to say attacking him was an act of self-defense except in the way I had protected myself - a twenty year old girl should not have been able throw him that far.
"All right, here goes, you came to visit your mom yesterday. You woke up this morning but did not feel like bothering your mother at work so you stayed home and did what?" Phil was concentrating on me now, it seemed he had figure out his plan. I don't know if I should be happy or scared that he could come up with a plan to cover up a dead body this quickly.
"Seth and I hung out on the couch watching a Farscape marathon?" It should not have come out as a question, it is what we had done.
"All right, you overslept and stayed home to watch TV. Your mom came home a few minutes ago and that is when Maples showed up smelling of alcohol and waving his gun around. He managed to accidentally shoot if off without actually hitting anything. You ran into the house and a few minutes later he took off, that is when you got brave enough to call the police." Phil went through the modified version of my day, I was impressed most of it was the truth.
"What about Seth?" How was I going to account for his absence.
"Has anyone seen him since last night?" Blossom asked quietly still holding the sleeping Sam - I tried not to laugh, she was holding him like a groom holds his bride. The leer she sent his way also smacked of what a groom would look like while anticipating his wedding night. For a moment I felt the need to rescue Sam from her, but fortunately the feeling soon passed.
"We went on patrols half the night but then he went to see Sassy before home and woke me up." I was still grumbling over that.
"So it is safe to say that no one saw him on his way home, we are going to go with this assumption." Phil was nodding at Percy who seemed to know what to do.
I watched in horror as Percy stripped off Maples shirt and pulled in on, the hat was put on his head after a quick sniff and a grimace. I did not blame him I could smell the rancid mixture of sweat, alcohol and cigarette smoke that clung to Maples and I was not even wearing the stuff. "Wow this guy really should acquaint himself with this new invention called soap. You owe me for this Phil."
"I will babysit your kids," Phil replied with a smirk.
"Yeah well I don't know if Ari will let you near them. I can't believe you tried to teach my three year old to shoot a gun." There was a small smile filled with pride on Percy's face as he spoke about his child. "Oh well let me get this over with."
Phil helped Percy load Maples into his truck. I was going to go help but Phil pushed me back a little. "The less you touch him the less chance of transferring evidence to the body."
I watched as Phil and Percy tried to maneuver the body so that it would fit on the floor of the truck, it would really suck if someone saw the body.
"So Leah how do you want to do this the boring way or the fun way?" I looked over to see Blossom grinning like a fool.
The smile on her face made me think I should really go for the boring way. "Tell me your plans, but more than likely the boring way." I was certain I would not like her fun plan.
There was an instant pout on her mouth, it was hard to resist not giving in. She heaved a big sigh, and shifted Sam in her arms. "Well, the boring plan is drag him to middle of the woods and find a rock to smash his head against. I get to 'rescue' him when he finally wakes up. I will be very grateful that he took the hit for me when he rescued me from tumbling down the hill. He will be groggy and have a little amnesia, easily explained by the head injury; plus it will give me a good opportunity to hit on him and ask him out to dinner." Blossom was having way to much fun right about now.
"If that is the boring way what is the fun way?" I was almost hesitant to ask.
"Oh that one is he wakes up naked next to me in the middle of some seedy motel with the mother of all hangovers." Blossom heaved a large sigh, she was looking down at Sam with a great deal of pity, "I mean it is not my fault some people can't hold their liquor."
"I am tempted to tell you to go for plan B and make sure to take lots of pictures but he has imprinted. Considering you are not his wife it would raise a lot of suspicions for you to be found naked with him." For a moment I pictured Sam's reaction when he woke up in bed next to Blossom, but I could not do that to him. I knew what it felt like being betrayed, I did not wish that on Emily - though the thought was tempting.
Blossom pouted, "I bet you I could seduce him. I have skills you would not believe."
She would have said more but we were interrupted by the noise of Maples' truck being started, followed by Percy burning rubber pulling out of our driveway. He managed to take out our mailbox while he turned onto the road. The speed which he was driving coupled with the hat and shirt made it impossible to tell that he was not Maples.
"Go Blossom, we have to call the police." Phil came back to us, "thanks for doing this, I owe you."
"Don't worry about it, this is fun. I might just make a new friend here. Have to stalk him for a while, I mean he is the hero that saved my life." Blossom batted her eyelashes at us before she turned around and quickly headed to the forest.
"All right let us go deal with your mother before we call the police." Phil seemed reluctant to go into the house. Not that I blamed him, my mother was the wildcard in this situation.
We found her where I had left her, she quickly sat up when we stepped into the house - her heart rate increasing again. Phil did not give her time to say anything instead he took charge of the situation immediately.
"All right we will do it this way, Mrs Clearwater your son has gone with Kendrick to Yosemite. If anyone asks about the relationship between Seth and Kendrick, he is a cousin of mine and you met them through me. They were planning on going to see El Capitan, Kendrick is a climber and was going to do some preliminary research before climbing it. They should have made it there this afternoon, but there is little to no cell service so you have no way of contacting them." The confidence with which Phil told his story made me almost believe him - and I knew he was lying.
"Wait what is this about a captain?" My mother was confused.
"Leah go get your mother something to drink, preferably juice." Phil murmured so quietly that my mother probably did not hear him.
I quickly went to follow his orders but the conversation in the next room still held all my attention.
"I will not repeat myself, it will be better if you don't know all the details since it will sound like you are reciting something you memorized." Sometimes Phil really scared me.
"So you want us to lie to the police?" There was a slight tremor to my mother's voice, I guess she was a little afraid as well. I could not tell if it was regarding her son or the man in front of her.
"Would you prefer your daughter go to jail for assaulting a police officer? or would you care to explain to the police that Maples shot Seth several time but he is going to walk away form it?"
"Seth will be all right?" My mother was still afraid, I shoved a glass of orange juice in her hand.
"Yes he will be fine, but you can't see him right now. Right now your daughter needs you to get it together. Do you understand me?" He was staring at her, trying to make my mother bend to his will. Normally I would have been pissed at him for pushing my mother around but she seemed to be totally lost.
To my relief my mother nodded slowly in acceptance.
"You came home, and were starting to make dinner when you heard a commotion outside, Maples was arguing with your daughter and waving his gun around. He shot the gun off and you ran inside with Leah, both of you hid in the back bedroom before you determined that he had gone. That is when you got up and called Jake, he is a good family friend. You did not call the police because it was the police who had just shot at you." As he spoke Phil went over to the kitchen phone and dialed Jake's number. I was surprised how quickly Jake caught on and started following orders.
"When Jake gets here have him park over the blood stain where Seth was shot. I need to go, I will be back in a couple of hours." He pulled me into a quick hug, his lips touching mine briefly before he looked into my eyes again. "You did good protecting your family, I am very proud of you. Just stick to your story, and we will take care of the rest. Now call the police."
As I reached for the phone I watched as Phil walked out the back door, the need to call him back was strong. But I knew what I had to do, I dialed the Rez police.
"Police department how may I help you?" I took a deep breath and started with the half truths. I did not have to fake the tremor of fear in my voice.
The sky was not completely overcast for once, the stars were peeking out from behind the clouds like beautiful diamonds glittering happily above me. I was not able to enjoy the beauty of the night, there was too much on my mind, like the need to get home. Phil had made it perfectly clear that he would not jump me home tonight, despite the fact that I desperately needed for him to come get me. He was very specific in his instructions, I would have to travel the conventional way this evening. So much for protecting me from drunk drivers.
So here I was driving from the Rez to Seattle all alone with only the radio to keep me company. Phil kept calling me to check on my progress but he could not stay on the line for very long because he still was at work and had patients to deal with.
"Sorry Leah, you will have to drive home the regular way. I know it sucks but I need you to do it." I had Phil on speaker so that I could pretend he was sitting next to me in the car.
"I will probably get lost or something, I don't think I have ever made this trip by myself." So I was acting all bitchy and needy. I watched my little brother get shot up, and I killed a guy - all in one afternoon. This was followed by sitting in the Rez police station for over six hours while my mother and I explained over and over again what had happened with Maples. Phil had told me to not make up a detailed answer, it was not expected in a situation like this, so I kept frustrating everyone around me by saying 'I don't really remember'. I was cranky, tired and hungry; so excuse me if I was not at my personal best.
I have to hand it to Phil, he had more restraint than I would have if our situation was reversed, instead of calling me a whinny little bitch he made some sympathetic noises before he asked me how fast I was driving.
"Just a little under the speed limit, so you can stop worrying grandpa I will not get in a wreck or anything." I was practically growling at him, but if he wanted to we could have avoided this entire situation by getting a family member to jump me to Seattle. I knew he had some sort of reason for making me go through this, but I was too tired to try to play the mind games that would allow me to figure out his plan.
"Can you speed up a little?" His tone sounded cajoling, but I got the impression he was hiding something.
"Stupid secretive alien," I mumbled under my breath, but it would not hurt to increase my speed a smidgeon, it would mean I could be there to see him a few more minutes sooner.
"What was that darling?" I heard Phil ask.
"Don't worry about it, so how is your day going?" I needed to think about something other than Seth lying in a pool of his own blood.
"Nothing much happened today, just some routine surgeries. Though Carlisle did have a woman patient who wanted her uterus taken out, apparently her boyfriend told he she was too fat and she thought this would make her skinnier."
"Holy crap, so did he agree to that?" Somehow I did not imagine Carlisle doing something like that.
"No of course not, the sad part is that she was already very thin. He called psychiatry to make her an appointment."
"Wow that is really crazy, I can't...oh shit." There were bright lights behind me, I looked down at the speedometer. Shit, shit, shit. I had been speeding. "Thanks for the brilliant idea, and you call yourself a psychic. A cop just caught me speeding." I told Phil as I pulled over to the side of the road. After sending one more curse at Phil I hung up on him and placed both hands on the steering wheel while I waited for the cop.
There was a tap on my window and I rolled it down, I did not see his face because he immediately blinded me with his flashlight.
"Good evening, may I see your driver's license and registration." A man's voice asked me, I tried not to gag. Wow someone had forgotten to brush their teeth after dinner.
"Do you know how fast you were going?" He asked me as I handed the stuff over to him.
I heaved a large sigh, "faster than the posted speed limit." This was going to be one of those days.
"I am surprised, no talking your way out of it?" I wished he would just give me the god damn ticket and let me be on my way.
Something broke in me and I got angry. "I have had a really bad day, some guy tried shooting at me because he thinks my little brother touched his precious little daughter - who happens to be a total slut by the way and why the hell would he touch that nasty girl. So I spent the past six hours filing a police report regarding the fact that he shot at me. Did they go look for him? No of course not, instead they interrogated me like I was the freaking criminal instead of the victim. I am hungry, cranky, and tired. All I want to do is to go home to my boyfriend so that he can comfort me." I took a deep breath the anger had dissipated leaving behind misery, I tried to blink away the tears that were starting to gather in my eyes. "Yes I was speeding, I admit it, so please give me my ticket so that I can be on my way." My attempts to keep the tears at bay failed, and I could feel them spilling out over my cheeks.
"Um I will need to check to make sure that there are no outstanding warrants in your name." He said uncomfortably, backing away. I would have laughed if I was not so miserable, what was it with guys and seeing a girl cry. Phil was the only one who had ever met that was not bothered by a little waterworks.
To my surprise the cop did not come back with my ticket, he gave me a 'warning' instead and sent me on my way reminding me to stick to the posted speed limit no matter how bad my day was. I took a few minutes to compose myself before I pulled back on the road.
I waited till I passed Shelton to call Phil back and yell at him. "I can't believe you told me to speed, I almost got a speeding ticket. I probably would have had I not started blubbering like a baby."
"Sorry about that Princess, but it had to happen." He told me in a cajoling tone.
"What the fuck do you mean it had to happen?" So I might have been yelling loud enough to be heard from a mile away at this point.
"To establish your alibi. No witness can come close to being as solid as a police officer. I needed this to be airtight." He told me in a reasonable voice.
"Grrrrr. So this was all a set up, you could have warned me about it!" Sometimes he made me so angry. Here I was worried sick about my brother, dead tired and what I got was a chastising from a police officer, at least he had not given me a ticket.
"I am sorry Princess, but I needed your reaction to be genuine. So you really broke down in front of him?"
"Yes you jerk, that had better not be laughter I hear in your voice. Why do I put up with you?"
"Because you love me and can't imagine life without me." He suggested in a helpful tone. "One more thing, can you stop at a convenience store near Olympia?"
"And why exactly would I do that? Last time I listened to your advice I ended up having a run-in with the cops."
"We need to establish another point in your alibi, after that you can call me and I will pick you up on the other side of Olympia." His tone had gone back to being cajoling.
"By pick me up do you mean I won't have to drive the conventional way anymore?" Even I was starting to be irritated by my whining.
"Of course darling, I will come to bring you home. So call me back when you get to a convenience store. I am driving home now, so I should be at the house in less than ten minutes. Drive safely, I love you."
It took me a half an hour to find a convenience store that was actually open this late on the highway, most places just had the unmanned gas stations open at this time. I finally found one with a big neon we are open twenty four hours a day sign. I did not need any gas, so I pulled up right in front of the door. I guess that was one good thing about it being close to one in the morning, I get the best parking spots. I giggled a little bit, I really needed to get some coffee if I was going to make it much longer.
"Hey," the guy behind the counter greeted me without looking up, I did not pay too much attention to him. Instead I headed for the coffee pots. Wow that stuff smelled bad, this must have been left over from yesterday and they were just keeping it warm. I decided to go find a soda instead, the sugar combined with the caffeine should help me stay awake for a little bit more.
Remembering to call Phil I pulled out my phone as I went to pull out my drink from the refrigerator against the wall. "Hi honey, did you make it home all right?"
"Yeah thanks, are you all right?" He sounded worried.
"What? No nothing is wrong, just calling from the store. Did you need me to pick anything up?" I carried my drink up to the counter, nodding at the guy who was still hiding behind some magazine.
"I need you to pick up a couple of boxes of condoms." Phil told me casually.
At first I was somewhat confused and thought I might be hearing things. We never used condoms, pregnancy was not an issue since I still did not have my period, and Phil's family was too meticulous about their health for STDs to be a problem.
"What was that you needed?" I asked confusion apparent in my voice.
"Condoms," I heard Phil's voice enunciating the word clearly.
"Why would you need more condoms?" I whispered furiously into the phone.
"Obviously because we are running low and you will need a lot of comforting after what happened today." I could hear the laughter in his voice but I chose to ignore it.
I heave a sigh, I was too tired to deal with this shit. Looking around the store while trying to figure out where they would be kept my eyes finally landed on my target.
"Can I get a couple of packs of those?" Waving in the general direction of the things, of course they had to have it behind the counter - I felt my face start to turn red. Strangely I have never bought condoms before, Sam would always take care of that. Oh well I was an adult I could buy condoms if that is what I goddam wanted to do, the guy behind the counter finally put down his riveting magazine. He looked at what I was pointing at and gave me a smirk, I felt my face get even more red.
"Don't forget to buy the magnum, you know those regular ones just won't fit." I heard Phil say over the phone, his tone was completely serious and finally it hit me. The events of the day started to crash down on me. The comment about the extra large condom just pushed me over the edge. I started to laugh hysterically, the smirk on the guy's face was replaced by confusion. He was probably wondering how crazy I was.
"Call me back when you get past Olympia." I heard Phil tell me before he hung up. It did not take me much time to get out of the store with my coke and two boxes of magnum condoms. The clerk practically shoved them at me just to get rid of me.
Fifteen minutes later I was outside the city limits, and I made my phone call. It probably was only a few minutes but it seemed like an eternity before Phil appeared in front of me, seconds later my car door was opening and he was reaching for me. Putting my arms around his neck I allowed him to lift me out of the car while I squeezed him as hard as I could without breaking anything. Closing my eyes I buried my face in his shoulder, trying to make the world around me disappear. I felt the rush of the jump and when I looked up we were in the garage of the Seattle house, my car sitting next to us.
"Everything will be alright," he whispered into my ear reminding me of what had happened last time he held me in his arms. Phil was wrong it would not be fine, I had just killed a man, someone's father.
A/N: All right girls, here is another installment. I felt kind of bad for leaving you with a cliff hanger last time. Under normal circumstance I would be personally thanking everyone for your reviews but I am getting sick and all I want to do is post this chapter before I drug myself up and crash. So thanks for all your reviews, I will answer any questions that were brought up next time around.
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