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"I need to go to the hospital," I say from the backseat of the police car on my way to the police station for no reason at all. I had no part in Dean's shooting. I would never allow anyone to hurt him or even help plan it out. I love Dean more than I have ever loved anyone in my life. "I think I'm having a miscarriage," I say as I feel the dampness between my legs and the pain of the cramping. "Please," I beg.
"The only place you're going, Alexis is to the police station. We are going to have a talk," says one of the detectives. "If you thought you were going to get away with this you were mistaken."
"I'm not talking to you unless I have my lawyer present and if I lose or have lost my child Dean Ambrose will have your jobs I promise you that." They just let out a smug laugh as they continue driving me to the police station despite my pleas to go back to the hospital to make sure everything is all right with the baby even though I know nothing is okay with the baby. It is too late but I am holding onto a little ounce of hope that he or she is okay. Then there's Zoey who has been taken by the state and put back into the system. Everything is being handled wrong and they are wasting their time on the wrong person.
When we arrive at the police station I see my blood on the seat and look to see the blood on my pants. It's like the scene from the night before when I was covered in Dean's blood but this time it's different it's blood from the loss of our child; a child that neither of us planned to have but we both wanted more than anything. They take me into the station and have me searched before they take me into a room to be questioned. I take a seat as I wait for my lawyer to arrive. They have tried to ask me questions but I will not answer until mine and Dean's attorney arrives. "You would make this easier if you would just answer our questions," says one of the detectives.
"I'd rather not speak until I have an attorney present. You denied me medical coverage and I have miscarried my child so really I'm not the criminal here. You're wasting your time with the wrong person," I say. "Shouldn't you be looking for Cody and not wasting time asking Dean's fiancée questions?"
"Don't say anything else," says Dean's lawyer as he walks into the room. "On what charges are you holding my client on?" he asks. "I will be defending Journey from now on." The detectives look at Dean's powerful attorney knowing he's the most powerful attorney in New York City. They know they have no chance of winning against him. "I asked what charges are you holding my client on?" he asks again before he takes a seat next to me. "Spit it out, I'm waiting."
"Conspiracy to homicide, we believe that she planned the shooting of Dean Ambrose," says one of the detectives.
"You believe or you know?" he asks. "There is a difference between believing someone did something which is based on a bias opinion which is inadmissible in court and the other is having admissible evidence that ties my client to the crime of conspiracy," he says. "So is it believe or know?"
"What I want to know is why Alexis is going by the name Journey," asks one of the detectives.
"I changed my entire identity to escape Cody. He's a terrible person," I answer.
"How do you know Cody?" he asks.
"He is my ex-husband well, my current husband I ran away from him because I wanted to protect our daughter and protect myself from him. I changed my name with the hope of being able to find a job but every job requires background checks or social security cards which I didn't have. I have been trying to divorce him for years but he won't allow me to. My only option was to run. I thought we loved each other. I thought we were in love with one another but it turns out it wasn't love at all because love doesn't hurt. I spent a lot of my life being abused by Cody, being his punching bag. I ran away so that my daughter could have a chance at a good life and hoped that I would find a good man that she could call Daddy which she does with Dean and that would love her as if she were his own. If we had stayed with Cody it wouldn't have been long before he started taking his anger out on her too. I couldn't let that happen and I couldn't let my daughter grow up and see her father beat up her mother. I left for me and I left for Zoey. I have been hiding from him for years. The law hasn't helped me at all. Not one time have they helped me."
"There are restraining orders and protection from abuse orders you could have enacted," says one of the detectives.
"Been there done that at the end of the day it's just a piece of fucking paper. He doesn't care about it. He still found me, he is still finding me. There is NOTHING that is going to stop him from coming after me or stop him from contacting me. He wants me back and he wants our daughter back but I don't want to go back," I say with tears in my eyes, "and you think I would work with the monster to try to kill the ONE man in my entire life that has treated me like a Queen and gave a damn about me or has done everything he can to help me be free of this asshole. I don't talk to Cody and I never want to talk to him. I just want to be free from him," I say. "That's all I want is my freedom to move on with my life and marry the ONE man I love."
"When's the last time you talked to Cody?"
"I don't know shortly after we returned to New York. He found my number out from somewhere and began to harass me. He was making threats toward me when I told Dean he had my number changed and we enacted another restraining order hoping to keep him away. I just want him to sign his rights away and sign the divorce papers so that Zoey and I can move on with our lives. I have no desire to see him or talk to him ever again. I would never work with him to shoot my fiancée."
"Where were you when Dean was shot?" he asks.
"I was with some friends from work," I say. "Dean went upstairs to get me a sweater because we were going to take a walk to see the Christmas tree or enjoy the scenes of New York on Christmas Eve. I didn't know anything happened but when it was taking him too long to come back I went up to his office and saw that he had been shot that's when I called for help."
"And you had no contact with Cody before Dean was shot?" he asks.
"No, I have spent the last 3 years trying to avoid him and eliminate him from my life. I'm still trying," I say honestly.
"We can help you," says the detective.
"How can you help me?" I ask.
"We can get your divorce papers signed and all of his rights stripped of his child," he says.
"How can you do that?" I ask.
"We have our ways but you would have to help us," he says.
"Hold on," says my attorney. "Are you trying to get Journey to help you catch Cody?"
"Yeah how would I have to help you?" I ask.
"We need you to help us catch Cody," they say.
"No absolutely not," I protest. "I am not doing that."
"It's the only way we can help you and guarantee your freedom," he says. "You help us catch him and we get him to sign the divorce papers and sign his rights away for Zoey. Do you want to be free from him?"
"Of course I want to be free from him or I wouldn't have been trying for the last 3 years but I don't know if I want to help you catch him. It seems dangerous."
"The dangerous part, Alexis is he is going to keep coming after you. Look what he did to Dean to get him out of the picture to get to you. I wouldn't be surprised if he's planning his next attack against you and against Dean. We can help you if you help us," he says.
"I have to think about it," I say, "but I would really like to get back to the hospital to get checked out to see if my baby is okay or if I lost it."
"We can get you back to the hospital but would you be willing to help us catch Cody. He tried to murder your fiancée," says the detective.
"What would I have to do?" I ask going against my better judgment but I am curious on how I could help them.
"Cody still loves you and he still wants you so we would have you meet up with him somewhere so that we could catch him and arrest him. It would be a set up."
"Would it be safe? And if I do this you can get him out of my life forever? I would be able to move on with my life?"
"We can promise you that if you're willing to help us otherwise he's going to keep coming after you until he has you."
"I have to talk to Dean," I say, "but I want to get to the hospital to get checked out. I will call you with my decision I mean if I am free to go unless I am still under arrest."
"Oh no you're free to go," says the detective. "We got everything we need."
"You had no evidence against my client," says my attorney. "You had nothing to hold her on am I right? And just so you know here is a copy of her current phone records, her current emails deleted, unread and so on as well as her text messages. I figured you would want to see those and see that she has had no contact with Cody in almost 2 months." He hands them all my records and they look over it. "She can go now right?" he asks.
"Of course we're sorry for the confusion," says the detective, "but please consider helping us."
"Right now my number 1 priority is getting checked out to make sure I am okay and that I hopefully didn't lose my baby and to get my daughter back. I will talk to Dean and let you know what he says but I can't promise that he won't have your jobs by the end of next week if I lost our child."
"We apologize," says the detective as I stand up with my attorney. "Here is my card, please consider helping us," he says.
"I will think about it," I say taking the card before I leave with my attorney. He takes me to the hospital.
As soon as I arrive at the hospital I ask to see a doctor and they waste no time getting me back into a room. I'm lying in the room as the door opens and I think it is the doctor but I am surprised to see Dean come into the room. "What are you doing out of bed?" I ask him.
"You didn't think I was going to leave you alone did you?" he asks with a soft smile as he makes his way over to the bed. "I want you to know they are in the process of getting Zoey back to the hospital."
"Good," I say, "I think I lost the baby, Dean," I say sadly. "There was too much blood not to. The doctor is checking now. They want to do an ultrasound to see if the baby is still there."
"I hope that it is and that you haven't lost the baby. I swear to God if you did I will have their jobs and own the police department by tomorrow morning," he says comforting me the best that he can by wrapping his arm around my shoulders. "Those bastards what were they thinking."
"I don't know but they dropped the charges because our attorney gave them all my records for them to see that I have had no contact with Cody since before the restraining order was put into place."
"They are idiots," he says before kissing my cheek. "I love you, Journey."
"I love you too," I say as I let out a deep breath debating if now is the time to tell him that the police want me to help them catch Cody. He's already upset and the last 24 hours have been chaotic but the sooner we catch Cody the better it will be for everyone.
"What's wrong?" he asks. "Are you okay?"
"Not really," I say. I let out a sigh before I say, "they want me to help them catch Cody. They say if I help them catch Cody they can get him to sign the divorce papers and his rights away to Zoey. I don't know though Dean."
"How do they want you to help them?" he asks.
"Like have a meeting with him, set up a meeting with him I guess," I say.
"I don't know if that's a good idea," he says. "It sounds dangerous, look what he did to me how could they even suggest you meeting with him."
"I don't know," I say. "I don't know if it's a good idea but if they don't catch him who's to say that he won't keep coming after us. They can help us if I help them."
"Do you want to do it?" he asks.
"I don't know," I say, "I would like to do it get Cody off the streets and behind bars. He tried to take your life and he isn't going to stop unless he gets what he wants. What do you think? Do you think I should do it?"
"I'm not sure if it is safe for you to meet up with Cody. If you want to do it I won't stop you, Journey. It would give us all a peace of mind if he was off the streets and if they can get him to sign everything then I say it's worth the shot. Of course if you do it my security team will be there to make sure that you're safe," he says.
"I want to do it," I say. "I just want to be free from him and if this is how I have to do it. I will do it."
"Okay," he says as the doctor comes into the room with the ultrasound tech.
"Journey, we're just going to take a look to see if there is still a baby or not," says the doctor.
"Okay," I say nervously as I lay back and prep for an ultrasound.
The tech turns on the machine and the doctor prepares the wand for the ultrasound. He puts the gel on it before he places it over my stomach. "It's going to be a little cold," he warns me as he takes it over my stomach searching for a baby. I hold my breath hoping our little bean appears on the screen but I let out my breath of hope as I hear the doctor say, "I'm sorry but it looks like you miscarried the baby." Tears fill my eyes at his words and I look up at Dean to see the tears in his eyes too. "I'm sorry." There was too much stress and too much chaos in the last 24 hours for me to be able to keep the baby. The stress of everything caused the miscarriage. I start to sob as Dean comforts me, holding me tight in his arm as I feel him sob his own sobs as we cry together over the loss of our baby. Christmas was supposed to be an amazing day and time for us but it turned out to be one of the worst Christmases I have ever had.
*A/N: What did you think of Journey's lawyer? Do you blame the detectives for Journey losing the baby or the stress? What do you think about them wanting Journey's help to catch Cody? Do you think they can truly help her if she helps them? What did you think of Journey losing her baby? Please review and thank-you for reading. Is everyone still interested in this story please let me know.