"The Neighbors: A new Emaya story"
I've been thinking about how to resolve this drama so it doesn't sound like it's coming out of nowhere like a certain TV show we once watched. I hope I can do that for you with this chapter! ;)
Rated M for Mature Content
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The door opens, "Good bye Maya. I hope it was all worth it."
The door closes and she's gone with my baby!
I race down the stairs! I open the door!
But all I see is complete darkness…
Chapter 47: Justice
Maya POV
I'm on my knees on our front porch sobbing into my hands screaming in emotional agony!
"Why! Why is this happening to us! Emily no! Grace! So—ome—body pul—lease help m—me!"
My body collapses shaking with sorrow. And as if my cries were carried by the breeze in the night I find myself no longer alone.
"Maya!"
I'm choking on my cries and blinded by my tears. I know this voice! It's a familiar voice!
"Maya!" I feel his arms around me picking me up and bringing me into the house. I hold onto him with every ounce of strength I have.
"It's me, Ryan."
"Ryan!" I tremble in his arms.
He gently lowers me to the couch but I don't let go.
"They have them! Emily and Grace they're gone!"
Just saying the words makes me hysterical.
"Maya it's going to be okay."
"What are you…Why are you…"
"I was coming to surprise you both. I wanted to meet your daughter. But when I got off the plane I was stopped by the authorities."
It's then that I release him. I dab my eyes with the sleeve of my robe.
"Stopped?"
"All friends and family of you and Emily are to be taken to a debriefing room at the airport. They have a list of names, mine was on it. They don't want anyone to interfere with this."
"This?"
"You, Emily, Grace, you've all been under surveillance."
"Surveillance? By whom?"
"Mr. Fields or should I say Commander Fields."
"I don't understand," I sit up trying to wrap all this around my head. "But if we're being watched why were Emily and Grace allowed to be taken! They should've been saved!"
"They will be."
"What do you mean? They're getting away!" I try to stand but he holds me down preventing me from storming out the door after them!
"At the debriefing, per Emily's dad, he requested that I stay with you and I was told to tell you to let them handle it because in order to make the kidnapping charges a felony two, which is the harshest of sentences for abducting an under twelve year old, they had to let Miriam take her. So they had to let Joseph take Emily."
"Take them where!"
"There's a boat waiting for them at the docks. As soon as they try to board they'll arrest them."
"But what about Emily! She's in the trunk of a fucking car!" This time I get up screaming about it at the top of my lungs.
"Maya, she's alive. She's fine. Her father knows what he's doing. This is a tactical mission; he's led hundreds of these overseas. He wouldn't let her be taken unless he knew he could save her."
I start crying again. I can't help it knowing my babies are with those people and still in danger!
Ryan gets up and wraps his strong arms around me and I sob into his chest. He holds me close comforting me, trying as best as he can knowing we really don't have any idea what's happening at this time. It's a waiting game now. There's nothing more we can do but wait…
Narrator POV
"Is everyone in positon?" he radios his team.
Each team member checks in that it's a go. They wait patiently as the car pulls up to the docks. Joseph gets out of the car helping Miriam with the baby. Then he unlocks the trunk leaving it open so when Emily comes to she can get help long after they've sailed away.
The boat which is actually an eighty foot yacht is ready and running. All Miriam and Joseph have to do is board it and once they cross over to international waters they will be free. But Commander Fields is not about to let that happen. His team is in the ready and once the boat tries leaving the harbor, the coast guard will block them from leaving the sound. They have to be allowed to leave to make sure the kidnapping charge holds. But they also need to be on top of their game as Miriam is a clever woman who would do anything to save the Grayson family name.
The crew readies the yacht for departure and soon this will all be over. Once the boat has left a team will move in to get Emily to the hospital and a team will be ready to board their yacht with assistance from the coast guard. Commander Fields will lead his team onto the yacht and save baby Grace from being raised by a power hungry couple interested only in her being raised as a Grayson…
Maya POV
"Ryan, it's taking too long."
"Listen, Josh is flying out as we speak. He'll be here in a few hours. And Emily's dad assured me that he would call when it's over. So, Maya, we have to be patient. You have to hold it together for their sakes."
"I know Ryan. But that's a tall order and you know it. I'm so angry. And I feel so helpless. I should be doing something besides waiting around."
"Maya, you have to trust that this will work. And you can't put yourself in danger okay?"
"This just sucks that I can't do anything."
"I know. I wish I could do more too but I'm glad I can be here for you," he hugs me and I'm really glad he's here.
"Me too."
"Maya, why don't you get dressed so when everything is over with; you can be taken straight to them."
I look up at him still in his embrace and smile a thankful smile, "I think I will. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you for helping me to keep it together and for being here."
"I wish it were under different circumstances but I'm glad I can be here with you too."
He smiles and kisses my forehead. He really is a good guy. I leave him in the living room and go upstairs to change…
Narrator POV
"The yacht is in motion. Be on the ready," the land team radios to the team waiting on the coast guard boats.
"Roger that," Commander Fields responds.
As the yacht sails away the land team flags the ambulance that has been waiting to transport Emily to the hospital. There are no lights or sirens as to not give away that help has arrived. She's breathing, she has a pulse but she's not conscious when they transfer her from the car to the stretcher. Once she is secured she is lifted into the ambulance which takes her to San Diego General. She's going to be okay once the chloroform wears off.
Commander Fields instructs his land team to escort the ambulance to the hospital. He then assigns a car to pick up Maya and take her to Emily…
Hours pass…
I've nodded off. All the emotions I carry have taken their toll and I've fallen asleep on the couch. But then something awakens me. It's knocking on the door! I spring up looking at Ryan as he answers it.
"Who is it?" he asks.
"Commander Fields sent us."
He opens the door and I rush to greet him.
"What's happened?" I cry fearing the worst.
"Ms. St. Germain?"
"Yes. What is happening?"
"We're to bring you to Emily Fields."
"What!"
Tears stream down my face. I don't know if he means. Is she…
"She's fine. She's at the hospital recovering from the chloroform that's in her system. The most she'll probably have is a headache."
I'm so relieved I leap into his arms!
"Thank you! Thank you so much! And my baby?" I let him go feeling Ryan's arm side hug me for support.
"Commander Fields is confidant your baby will be returned to you and Emily shortly."
"Shortly?"
"As I said Ma'am, they're working on it. Her safety is of the utmost importance and everything needs to be done by the book otherwise a technicality could ruin any chance of having them locked up for a very long time."
I look to Ryan and then at the officer, "Okay. Okay, I—I…please take me to Emily."
Ryan and I hop in the back of a black SUV and speed away to my beautiful, loving soon to be wife…
When we arrive at the hospital I race inside yelling at anyone who will listen. Ryan chases after me and reiterates my concerns calmly. The nurse responds accordingly after cautionary measures are taken with IDs and the like. We're given her room information and head up to find her. I push through her door and there she is. There are tubes in her nose helping her with her oxygen flow and her eyes are closed. My hands cover my mouth as a sort of yelp exits and I try to muffle anything else that might escape from within me. Ryan is close behind.
He puts his hands on my shoulders, "It's okay Maya. She's okay. She's just sleeping, that's all."
I nod my head still with my hands over my mouth letting him know I understand. I'm so overwhelmed with happiness and devotion to her. I take a moment to compose myself then slowly approach her bedside. My hand slips into hers and I squeeze it gently while kissing her tenderly on the lips. She moves a bit startling me but still her eyes remain closed.
Ryan pulls up a chair for me and I sit with her hand cradled in both of mine kissing the back of it, holding it against my cheek…
The harbor…
Narrator POV
The night is black as are the waters of the sound. The yacht creeps its way at a very slow speed as not to bring any unnecessary attention to it. The coast guard and Commander Fields' team waits in silence, lights off hiding in the shadows of darkness…
As the extraction team waits it seems as though time is standing still. The yacht's slow speed is taking a very long time to reach their location. They wait and they wait. And then it begins…
Lights from all the boats blocking their escape turn on simultaneously surrounding them in a pool of brightness. A bullhorn is heard commanding the vessel to cease forward motion and stall all engines. Smaller boats release from the bigger ones and motor to the side of the yacht. Once secure, the team boards the yacht.
The crew is gathered at gunpoint without resistance. Hands rise to the sky as they are shackled and led to its stern. The team splits up descending below deck with guns down. They kick in door after door until they reach the object of their mission.
Miriam holds Grace in her arms, "Shhh, it's alright. Shhh," she attempts to calm the baby.
Commander Fields is front and center, "Miriam Grayson, you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Grace Fields-St. Germain."
He hands his weaponry off to a team member.
"You need to release her," he holds out his arms ready to receive her.
"This is all a misunderstanding," she keeps the baby in her arms.
"It's over Miriam," Joseph emerges from the shadows.
"Hush," she scowls at him.
"No, I will not hush."
"Joseph! Watch your tone with me!"
"Miriam, give him Grace."
"I will not."
"You will. This is over."
"At least one of you has come to your senses. You see, Mrs. Grayson, we wouldn't have had the time to organize this extraction without some help," Commander Fields informs a confused Miriam.
"What are saying?"
"Your husband called the FBI and the FBI called me. Mr. Grayson told us everything."
"You can't believe a sniveling idiot like him," she snobs.
"It's true Miriam. This scheme of yours to raise our son's child as our own, as a Grayson is over. I could not allow this to happen. Grace is in a loving home with two wonderful mothers and a doting father. She is happy and healthy."
"No child could be happy and healthy being raised by two sex crazed women," she bites back.
"That's your Christian perspective but not mine or anyone else's. It's over Miriam."
"The baby, please hand her to me," Commander Fields insists.
"I've done nothing wrong except stand up to this farce of a family and demand that my granddaughter be raised a Grayson."
"She's still a Grayson but she's also a Fields-St. Germain. You need to let it go Miriam. Let the woman who gave birth to her and the woman who loves her raise her. You will do more harm than good if you try anything. It's done."
Miriam looks at her husband with disdainful eyes. She then turns to Commander Fields, Emily Fields father, the one who made the woman who emasculated her son and tarnished the Grayson family name, a look of disgust.
"You, my darling, you will always be a Grayson and I expect great things from you," she calmly recites as she hands the baby to Emily's father.
"You have the right to remain silent…"
Her rights are read to her and she's handcuffed and brought to the upper deck. A police vessel is waiting to take her and her husband, who will receive a reduced sentence for his cooperation, to jail…
At the hospital…
Maya rests in the chair while Ryan talks to the nurses about his soon to be ex-wife's condition.
Emily stirs in her bed mumbling, waking Maya. She gets up and lowers the railing of her bed so she can sit next to her. She holds her hand in hers as Emily's eye's finally open…
Maya POV
"Baby," I say in a cracking voice.
"Maya? Where am I?"
"Baby, you're in the hospital. You're gonna be fine."
I can tell her thoughts are jumbled. And then they start making sense. She tries to sit up but her aching head forces her back down, "Grace, Grace, where is she? Is she okay?"
"She will be. Papa Fields is on it."
"What? My dad? How?"
"He never gave up. He's getting her right now. He has a team assembled to get her back and put Joseph and Miriam away for a very long time."
"But Grace…"
"We'll get her back I promise."
Just then Ryan rushes through the door.
"Ryan! What are you…"
"I just talked to your dad. He has her! He's bringing baby Grace here right now!"
"Oh my god!" I scream and of course I cry flooded by my own tears.
Emily starts to cry too.
"I don't even know what to say. She's safe! And you're here! And Maya…"
"Baby, it's over. I love you."
We kiss a sweet tender kiss.
Ryan gives hugs and we cry tears of joy and relief.
I wipe my eyes, "Emily, they're out of our lives for good. We can finally be a family without worrying about Miriam's next calculating move."
"I know. I—we're—a—a family. I love you."
She hugs me with one arm while the other reaches for Ryan's hand holding it in a gesture of love and support…
We wait and we wait…
The door opens and we all let out a breath.
"Josh!" I cry out. "You're here!"
"When I found out. I got on the first flight I could get. Thank you Ryan for calling me."
"You're welcome. I'm glad you got here."
"Emily, are you okay?"
"Yeah, just tired."
"Where is she? Where's Grace?" He sounds frenzied.
"Mr. Fields is on his way. He should be here very soon."
"This waiting is killing me," I say leaning towards Emily, kissing her softly under her earlobe.
Soon after, there's a knock on the door. Our hearts race as we sit and stand unmoving. The door opens and in walks Mr. Fields in his military garb with our baby nestled in his arms…
I rise from the bed releasing Emily's hand as he walks towards us. Tears trickle down my face as Ryan and Josh step back so Mr. Fields can gently lay her in my arms. I kiss her sweet face inhaling her baby scent, she's back safe and sound in my arms and I hold her close nuzzling her with my cheek. Ryan and Josh gently cup the top of her head giving her kisses and then I turn to Emily who's all choked up waiting patiently for her turn. I kneel with one leg on the bed handing her to her. She holds her close snuggling against her, kissing her tiny little nose.
She looks at me and we kiss. I lie down next to her caressing our baby's arm and kissing my beautiful, beautiful Emily….
Finally we can be a family…
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To Be Continued…
I made it as believable as I knew how. I hope you agree!
Please look forward to some family time and some sexy time of course! ;)