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Chapter 15

Mercedes tossed another can into the trash and turned to Sam. "This was a great idea. I am so glad we had this get together, it was so great seeing everyone."

Sam nodded. "I could tell you were having a great time. You seemed very happy."

"I was and am very happy." She said tossing a bag towards the door. "You wanna know who else looked very happy? Mal and Q, They really are so amazing together."

"Yeah they looked really cozy for sure." He teased.

"I am just glad he found someone, Mal deserves love and I hope it lasts… I gotta say for the two most eligible bachelors on the team who seem to go from girl to girl, you and Mal settled down really quickly." She smirked.

Sam shrugged. "I think I fell in love with the right person at the best time." He said pulling her to him and swaying. "Besides, I wasn't going to let anyone else get you after laying eyes on you."

"Oh? So you were just trying to lay down the game before I was swept off my feet by another player? That was your master plan?" She wrapped her arms around his neck. "When did you know? That I was the right person?"

He smiled. "When I saw you in that shirt, dancing and cooking." He admitted. "Us getting drunk and sleeping together kinda further confirmed a few things for me though."

"Really?" She smiled blushing. "It was so hard to be around you because I wanted you so much. I saw you and you were just it for me. I never felt that way with anyone before. I was with Jesse because I felt like I didn't have anyone else in my corner. Mal left and Jesse had me so fooled I believed his lies until I didn't,"

Sam held her tighter. "I hate that he even had that much access to you but he will never get to darken your life again. I knew immediately you would change my life and look at how right I was… you really are my everything."

She stared up at him. "You knew all that just from me dancing in a shirt while I made you guys breakfast? Talk about great first impressions." She looked away from him feeling sad. "I knew he was trouble, but I never thought he would actually try and kill me…I wish the police had more leads, they don't even know if he is still here or not."

"I know there were some files dropped off that we can go through but they still haven't given a for sure that it was actually your ex. Is there someone else that might want to do this to you?" He asked, moving his head so that he was looking at her. "You know we're gonna figure this out right?"

Mercedes sighed, running her hands through her hair. "Sam, the fact that they think it can be anyone other than Jesse freaks me out. I mean other than him, there really isn't anyone…I mean I don't think he would even be here…"

"Come here." He said, leading them to the couch and sat down before putting her on his lap. "I am going to make this promise to you, I will not let anything else happen to you and I damn sure won't let anyone including him hurt you. I will protect you with my whole being. We can look through those files and try to see if something stands out and we won't stop until we know. Okay?"

Mercedes leaned in and kissed him softly. "I am lucky to have you Sam. I just don't want people to get hurt because of me…I wish I understood all of this, if it wasn't Jesse, then who did I piss off enough to want me dead?" She rested her head on his shoulder. "I feel safe with you Sam, I really do."

Sam ran his hand along her back, smiling. "I feel safe with you too. Hey, maybe whoever did this is really after me." He joked, trying to lighten the mood some more.

Mercedes smiled softly. "One of your fans is out to get me Evans? Are you that much of a catch?" She teased.

He chuckled. "Or the linebacker that hit me wants some of your goodies." He quipped, nipping at her lips. "I think I want some of your goodies now…"

Mercedes shook her head with a laugh. "Well sucks for them because no one is getting my goodies but you." She giggled as he kissed her. "Sam again? We snuck off from the party because you couldn't keep your hands to yourself."

He pressed his erection into her, smirking. "You do this to me, it's your fault." He replied, gently biting on her bottom lip. "But we can go through those files first, can't have you using my body like that."

"My fault? Oh I should keep the booty away from you on principle alone due to that statement!" She teased. Kissing him back she faked a frown. "You are such a tease Sam Evans."

He chuckled. "I'll show you just how much of a tease I really am but first let's investigate!" He said, playfully smacking her butt and reaching over grabbing the files.

Mercedes stuck her tongue out at him grabbing her own file, it contained the photos that were all over her walls and floor. While some were burned some were still intact. She sighed, feeling the creepy vibe of someone watching her. "Well your theory is out the window Evans, the person who did this has to have known me for a while. Some of these photos are older, from back home…I mean unless this person stalked me and printed photos off of my Facebook, but even I don't have some like this one."

She showed him a photo of her sitting on a bench talking on a cell phone. "I haven't worn that dress in three years." She said softly.

Sam took it, looking over the picture closely. "Based on the angle, it was someone who was close enough to get this but far enough to do it without you knowing. See, look right there." He said pointing at the glare. "Is that a light or a mirror?"

She looked shaking her head. "I don't know…There are others that I don't recognize at all…" She trailed off as a photo of her in tears caught her eye. She remembered that day. "Sam…" She stared at the photo. "It's probably nothing but this photo, I remember this day. My grandmother had left me something in her will and I had to go retrieve it. Jesse had to work so he made me go alone…I was distraught and miserable…I remember the day because that shirt…its Mal's I always wore it on Game day…I left the office in tears and then I…" She trailed off as she remembered more about that day and a clear vision of the man who appeared out of nowhere to console her.

"Mercedes, what do you remember?" Sam asked, seeing the look on her face. "Is something wrong?"

Mercedes swallowed looking over to Sam. "Will." She said barely above a whisper. "He's Jesse's friend but he ran into me that day. I thought it was weird because he didn't seem surprised to see me upset. He seemed…happy to take care of me…" She looked through a few more photos. "And this one, he appeared out of nowhere when the air was out of my tire…"

Sam listened before nodding. "Looks like we found the person that might have done this but the bigger question is why?"

Mercedes shrugged. "I don't have the slightest cue as to why Will would do this… he hardly ever spoke when I was around and when he did I always spoke back. Maybe Jesse put him up to it? That seems more logical… right?" She asked looking at Sam who was examining another photo before he shook his head and showed it to her.

"This look like something Jesse would take?" He asked, showing a picture of her slipping out of her bathing suit top and it was clear as day that Jesse was next to her.

"I don't understand… he wasn't even there that day. Why the hell would Will be doing this?"

"Seems you have an admirer, a dangerous admirer…" He replied, trying to maintain his anger. "I'll call Quinn and Santana, see what they can dig up."

"Sam maybe we should just take this to the police… if he's willing to do this to me then he's willing to do far worse to people he doesn't know." Mercedes said, chewing on her bottom lip nervously.

Sam sighed, putting the picture down and picking Mercedes up. "Come on, we figured out the hard part and as much as I'd like to seek revenge I say we enjoy ourselves for now because the second we let on that we know who did this is the very minute all hell is going to break loose." He said carrying her downstairs to his media room.

"Sam we're not having sex in here again…" She said with a small smile.

"You do know sex isn't the only thing on my mind right? We're gonna watch movies, clothes on and not think about the mess brewing."

Mercedes looked at him. "What do you think about Sam?"

"You and me… us. I've been thinking about taking you on a trip somewhere and just escaping from all this drama. I've been thinking about what it would be like for you to have my last name and have some cute little babies running around but I can't really talk about all of that because we've hardly even gone on a real date…" He admitted.

Mercedes leaned in and kissed him softly. "I think about having your last name too, if I would hyphenate or just be an Evans…"

Sam smiled. "You do?"

She nodded.

Moving her to straddle him he gripped her thighs gently. "What else?"

She wrapped her arms around his neck. "I think about what our future would look like, about what our children might look like."

"You think about our kids?"

"Yeah I do." She confessed.

Sam pulled her close to him holding her. "I do too."

Mercedes closed her eyes humming "Love of my life" by Brian McKnight, as Sam rubbed her back, both of them content in that moment, the worries of Will and Jesse behind them if only for a moment.

They sat in the moment for a long while before Sam spoke up again. "Merce?"

"Hmmm?" She asked, eyes still closed.

"I never…" He stopped for a moment. "I've never been in love before so if I…if I am doing this wrong, just tell me. I don't want to screw this up. I want us…I want this to work."

Mercedes sat back and looked at him. "This is working Sam, you are working. I may have thought I was in love with Jesse, but the way I feel about you, it blows that out the water. It's like he was puppy love and you are the real deal. I think of you all the time, and when I am not with you I want to be. I never felt that way with him."

Sam blushed, kissing her tenderly. "Mal and I made a pact to never fall in love, our love was of the game and up until you walked into my life that was enough. I mean don't get me wrong, I was happy, it's just a different kind of happiness."

"I feel exactly the same way, well that and having better sex." She teased.

Sam gave her a lopsided grin. "I dunno, those groupies were pretty limber." He teased back. "We are gonna have to try a few more positions before I can fully judge."

Mercedes bit her lip. "Funny you should say that considering your positions have been pretty limited… you ain't seen nothing yet."

"Are you challenging me to a sex off Ms. Jones?"

She leaned in, lightly brushing her lips against his. "There'd had to be competition around for me to even consider it a challenge." She replied, flicking his lips with her tongue.

Sam reached his hands around her and gripped her ass. "Don't tease me Merce, I'm like the sexual Hulk, you won't like me when I'm teased."

She yawned. "Eh, just empty words." She quipped, rocking her hips against him.

Sam nodded. "You are probably right, you look tired, maybe you should take a nap."

"I think you're right." She replied, easing off his lap. "It's warm so I won't be needing these." She said taking off tank top and short, tossing them at him before she headed up the stairs.

Sam shook his head with a smile, he would give her a few minutes then he would give in to her teasing.

Mercedes walked into the kitchen, grabbing the front clasp of her bra she was gonna lay out on the island as a feast for him, she was his favorite meal after all.

Sam counted to seventy and decided he was done counting and ran up the stairs freezing when he saw her laid out on the counter. "Fuck me." He breathed.

Mercedes laughed. "I was hoping."

Sam removed his shirt and shorts as he headed over to her. "Get up on all fours."

Mercedes giggled as she did. "Like this?"

Sam walked over to her and slapped her ass. "Perfect. Just perfect." Placing his finger at her slit, he ran it up to her clit teasing her.

"Now who's teasing who?" She whined.

Sam removed his finger and sucked it. "Mmmm you taste amazing. Here have some." He said moving to her and kissing her deeply.

Mercedes moaned. "Mmm I do taste amazing."

Sam moved back behind her spreading her thighs as he ran his tongue over her slit, tracing where his finger had been. Mercedes shuttered gripping the Island as Sam sucked on her slit before thrusting his tongue deep inside of her.

"SAM!" She screamed out thrusting her ass back as he gripped her tighter, tongue fucking her into a powerful orgasm. Not giving her a chance to recover, he pulled her off of the Island and bent her over thrusting deep inside of her.

Mercedes turned her head towards his kissing him as desperately as he pounded her giving her all of him, loving all of her. Taking them both right over that cliff of ecstasy.

Mercedes groaned, stretching out on the couch reaching for her phone to check the time. After she and Sam made their way from the Island to the kitchen to the couch, Mal called him stating they had a team meeting and she fell promptly to sleep.

Putting her phone down she sighed, Sam had gotten a call that woke them both out of their peaceful sleep and was on the patio talking to some one. Standing she searched for her shirt, so she could make them dinner.

"You give some man you barely know all of you, but don't even notice me."

Mercedes froze staring at the man in front of her. "Will…" She breathed. "How…wh-what are you doing here?"

"Now you see me?" He asked, with a crazed look in his eyes.

"Will, you need to leave now. I don't know what ideas you made up in your head but there's never been anything between us." Mercedes said taking a step back.

He moved towards her. "Why would you say that? You always smiled at me, talked to me. We were building something and then you left!" He spat. "You didn't even tell me you were leaving, you didn't let me know where you were and I got worried."

Mercedes took another step back. "SAM! SAM GET IN HERE NOW!" She screamed and Will bawled up his fist.

"Ungrateful bitch! You never learn! I was the only one that cared about you, I never tried to get anything from you!"

"You set my house on fire with me in it! You won't get away with what you did!" She said reaching for him as he turned to leave.

Sam heard Mercedes scream and ran up the stairs ignoring the shooting pain from his leg.

"I'll have you soon enough." Will said as he shoved Mercedes off of him into the Island as he ran out the door.

Sam watched Mercedes fall and ran to her. "Baby…"

Mercedes held her side and pointed to the open door. "Sam, Will was here…"

"Here? As in inside our home?" He said standing and running out the door. Sam watched as a red Ford Contour sped down the street, before running back inside to Mercedes.

"He didn't even care… he was just here…" Mercedes said, wrapping her arms around herself. "No place is safe!"

Sam wrapped his arms around her. "Don't think that, you are safe. I promise nothing like this will happen again."

She pushed away from him, shaking her head. "No! He was in our house and I didn't even know it. I don't know what he saw… I don't know how long he's been here. NOWHERE IS SAFE!" She shouted. "I'm going to stay with Mal."

Sam moved towards her. "Baby please just wait…let's talk about this. It's going to be okay."

"I was safe there, no one bothered me or threatened me there! I'm sorry but I want to be where I feel safest." She replied, heading upstairs to grab some clothes to put on.

"Mercedes we can figure something out. Please don't leave. You just said you felt safe with me. You are safe with me!"

Mercedes grabbed a bag and started tossing clothes into it while putting on pants and shoes. "I'm sorry but I don't feel safe here anymore, Sam and it has nothing to do with you. Come with me." She said, looking at him.

"Merce, you are letting him run us out of our home. We can go to the police and beef up security. We can make this house safe."

She shook her head. "No, you're not listening to me. I DO NOT FEEL SAFE HERE!"

Sam nodded. "Okay…okay baby I hear you." He moved closer to her. "Call Mal, tell him what happened, I'll finish here." He said feeling defeated but he would do anything for her.

Now why in the hell Will creepy ass thinking she want him?