I was in my club with Thea. I wanted the opinion of someone who had been to clubs before. We were just about at opening night. I had pulled out all of the stops because I really wanted this to be successful. I wanted to prove that I could be good at running something. I had gone to a lot of trouble to make sure that place would do well. I hoped that I had hired the right people, but I made sure to do background checks on everyone, well except Courtney and Felicity because I felt like that wasn't necessary for them.
"Wow, this place looks amazing." She commented.
"I thought you would like it." I declared. "Big Time Rush is going to play that stage right there."
'You know I thought you would have tried to get One Direction." She pointed out.
"I did but they were busy." I declared. They were playing somewhere else. "So do you think it would be a good idea if I invite Emiko to this?"
One of the reasons why I was hesitant was because I knew that Malcolm and Mom would be there. I wasn't entirely sure if it was a good idea to spring her on them. I wasn't entirely sure if they knew about her or not. It was also possible that one of them knew and the other did not.
"Just don't ask her to be your date. That would be weird." She quipped. I rolled my eyes. "Speaking of dates, are you going to invite Courtney?"
"I don't have to. She works here." I pointed out. I then realized something. "That doesn't mean that I would invite her as my date."
"You are so in denial that you might as well be in Egypt." She commented. I actually had a different idea anyway. I wasn't sure if it would work, but I had an idea.
"So I have very high standards when it comes to clubs." She stated. "This place looks good but it better not suck."
"As long as you're not comparing it to the places that have alcohol." I declared. It would be a little unfair, even though she still wasn't supposed to go to a bunch of them. There were a few of them that allowed 18-year-olds as long as they didn't have alcohol. It seemed okay for people that just wanted to dance.
"So can you give me a serious answer about the Emiko thing?" I requested.
"I don't know if Mom would like it, but that's what makes it so fun. You should definitely do it." She stated with a smile. "Besides, you should have your whole family here for this."
I began to wonder how I was going to invite her. I didn't think that I should go to her room yet. I thought about doing it via text. I also thought about texting her to meet me somewhere, so I could invite her in person. I wondered if she would come here. No, it would probably be a better idea for me to go to her for this.
I texted her to meet me at the coffee shop. I couldn't help but notice that Dinah was there with both of her parents, but I didn't even have time to listen to them because I saw that she was there.
"So why did you want me to meet you here?" She asked. She seemed a little bit reluctant to talk to me, possibly due to the fact that I didn't tell her that she was my sister the first time that I saw her.
"So in case you haven't heard, I'm opening a teen club tomorrow night and I would really appreciate it if you were there." I told her.
"Who else is going to be there?" She inquired. She probably wondered what was going to happen and if it would be a good idea."
"My whole family is going to be there, which is why I want you to be there too." I pointed out.
"Does anyone else know about me other than Thea?" She asked. If they did, I didn't know that they knew. I just shook my head.
"I want to introduce you to them." I stated. "I know that you're my dad's illegitimate daughter, but you're still my sister and I want to be there for you."
"I'll come but I can't promise that I'll stay." She stated. I knew that she might try to leave if things got a little too awkward.
"Big Time Rush is going to be there." I told her.
"I may be able to stay the whole night." She declared. It seemed like I had made a good call inviting them. I saw that she liked them on her Facebook page, but that actually hadn't been a factor in me inviting them.
At that point, I saw Quinton storm out of the coffee shop. I tried to remember what that meeting had been about. That was when it hit me. They had met because Mrs. Lance seemed to think that Sara was still alive. The funny thing was that she had been right, but she had the wrong person. I still didn't have any real confirmation that Sara was alive other than a gut feeling. It probably wasn't even that. It was probably because I was pretty sure that The Monitor wouldn't send me to a universe where she had died.
I would also need to try to figure out what I was going to wear. I kind of thought that I should wear a dress because it was my opening, but I also probably didn't need to. It might have been a good idea to try to look sophisticated, but I also needed to look like I was ready to party. This was so much harder than it was when I was a guy. I missed just being able to throw on a nice shirt and not have anyone question it.
I went back to the club because I needed to sign some documents. I was a little surprised that I was able to sign my own documents, but considering how powerful my parents were, they probably figured that I was signing for them by proxy. I knew that Malcolm was pretty beneficial in allowing me to skirt some of the rules.
The next day, I also decided to talk to Iris. I wasn't sure how she was taking the news of Zoe being alive but I figured that if her reaction was anything like John's, she wouldn't be taking it very well.
"Hi." She said. "Shouldn't you be in school right now."
"The school was willing to let me take the day in order to open this." I replied. It probably wouldn't very often that their students opened their own businesses. In fact, I may have been the first one. I didn't have any data to back that up.
"I was hoping to give the bad guys a rest." I added.
"Well it's the bad girls that I'm worried about." She stated as she pulled up a picture of Helena. I knew that she had escaped custody, but I hoped that she would have left.
"What's she doing?" I asked. I was pretty sure that she wasn't working as a stripper.
"This was taken at Alley Cats, a local strip club. The police that this dead guy is Frank Bertenelli's lawyer.
"Why would she come back just to kill him especially since he kind of sucked at his job?" I asked. I knew the answer, but I had to act like I didn't. "Her father is serving multiple life sentences with no chance of parole."
"Olivia, she knows who you are and you're the one who put her in custody in the first place." She pointed out. "I wouldn't be surprised if she wants to come after you."
"If she was here for me, she wouldn't have any reason to kill her father's attorney." I countered. "I want you to talk to our contacts in the Bratva. We need to know why she's actually here and not just go off of speculation."
At that point, I headed outside where I found a very unfavorable face. I didn't expect her to come there.
"Hello, Olivia." She greeted me.
"Helena, what are you doing here?" I asked her. I also wondered how she was so good at evading the police, but I then remembered they were kind of bad at catching people.
"I've been all around the world in the past few months. Did you know that it's not easy to stay in one place when you're a wanted fugitive?" She asked.
"I heard about your new job." I stated. "But I guess you're not going to be staying at that job."
"Well what are you going to do about it?" She challenged. "You don't have your bow and your friend with the staff isn't here. Tell me, how is your leg after I shot you?"
"Why are you still after your father? He's serving life at Iron Heights. You've gotten your revenge. You could live a new life far away from here." I stated.
"He cut a new deal to testify against the East Coast Family." She replied. "He'll be given a new name, a new life and he'll be out of jail."
"Well maybe if you had just talked to the FBI instead of killing several members of his family, you would have been able to testify against him and we wouldn't be in this position." I pointed out. It was ironic that her desire for revenge was the very thing that was preventing her father from seeing the justice that she thought he deserved.
"My father doesn't deserve a second chance. He deserves to be dead. I should kill you, but doing it right now wouldn't serve me any purpose." She stated, "I want you to help me out."
"I am not going to murder government officials for you." I declared.
"You know I could tell someone about your little secret." She retorted. I was pretty sure that she didn't have any proof and they wouldn't exactly be willing to listen to a wanted murderer. "Or maybe I could be more persuasive. It's good news for me that you have a family too."
At that point, my phone rang. It was a call from Mom. At that point, I noticed that she was gone.
"Hi Mom." I greeted her.
"I have a question about your opening tonight." She declared. I couldn't help but wonder if she was going to be mad that I had invited Emiko. Even if she didn't know, she would probably be mad that I invited her. It wasn't like I was going to tell the media about her. It was only going to be a family thing because I didn't want everyone to know. We talked for a little bit before I hung up. I knew that Helena was willing to go after my family and I was pretty sure that this was a situation where the right thing for me to do was killing her.
Later that evening, I was talking to Iris as we were about to open.
"She was here." I declared. "She was making threats. I want extra security around all of my family. If you see her, I want you to shoot her."
"I thought you didn't want to kill her." Iris told me.
"Well that was before she went and threatened my family. I'm pretty sure that I made the mistake of letting her live the first time."
At that point, Tommy walked in. My family and employees were pretty much the only people that I was letting in at the moment.
"Thanks for carrying that for me." I told him.
"You probably could carry it yourself." He stated.
"Tommy, are you mad at me? I'm sorry that I didn't tell you." I remarked as I bit my lip a little. I really wanted him to be good with me being a superhero.
"I'm still a little shocked that you're able to kill people so easily." He replied. "Is this whole thing just a front for you."
"It started out that way, but I actually do want this to be a successful business." I admitted. "I've put in a lot of hard work while also doing everything else. I want this place to do well. I probably shouldn't have killed those guys. I just don't want you to get hurt. I don't want any of you to get hurt because of me."
"Maybe I just shouldn't be here tonight." He replied.
"There's something that I need to tell you. There's a woman that has been threatening my family. Her name is Helena Bertinelli, the daughter of Frank Bertinelli. She knows who I am and she's very dangerous. She's the one who killed the guy that resulted in Mom going to the hospital." I explained.
"I don't even know if I can believe you." He stated.
"Well if we're going to go off things that I don't think you'll believe then I have something else that I need to tell you. Let me preface this by saying that I probably wouldn't believe this, so I understand if you don't. I'm from another world. I've done a lot of these things before and pretty much everyone that I know here was there in some capacity. The reason I'm trying to be so protective of you is that where I'm from, you died. I've already seen you die once and I really don't want to see it again." I declared.
"That doesn't sound possible." He said.
"I know." I admitted. "This is something that I don't want you to tell anyone, but it's okay if you don't believe me. Just know that I'm going to do whatever I can to keep you alive."
Later that night, I was dressed in a zip-up long-sleeved black blouse and a pair of jean shorts. It was one of the rare nights where it was not supposed to rain. I also found that Big Time Rush had really good music. I didn't even like guys and it made me feel a little bit hot. I blushed a little because I was with my family for this part.
"To Verdant." Mom declared as we clinked our glasses together. They were all non-alcoholic but that was okay. "I have to admit that I haven't always been supportive of this venture of yours, but it seems like you've done a really good job. I'm proud of you. Your father would be too."
"Speaking of Dad…" I declared as I texted Emiko to come upstairs. She was wearing a blue skater dress. She looked pretty. "Everyone, this is Emiko Adachi."
"Hi." Emiko replied nervously.
"How did you find out about her?" Mom asked in surprise.
"So you did know then." I stated. I needed to do my best not to get angry. "How long have you known about her?"
"I don't think it's really appropriate to talk about that right now." Malcolm stated. Did that mean that he knew too?
"Why do I have a feeling that I should leave?" Emiko asked.
"Can you try to enjoy the club?" I requested. I didn't know if Helena knew about her, but it probably wasn't work taking the risk.
I then started to look around. I wanted to talk to Felicity. I noticed that Courtney seemed to be better at being a waitress. I was about to head to the office before one of the other waitresses came up to me.
"Sorry to bother you, Miss Queen." She said.
"Rosie, I'm a little busy right now." I told her.
"I have a message for you. It's kind of urgent." Rosie declared. She handed me a note from Helena, telling me to meet her outside. I was pretty sure that she had a hostage, so I wouldn't be able to wait too long. It looked around and noticed that I couldn't find Tommy. Fuck.
I went outside and I found Helena was holding Tommy against the wall. Why did I have a feeling that he was going to be even madder at me now.
"Helena, leave him alone." I ordered.
"My father is a mobster and a murderer. It's not like you haven't killed men like that before." She replied. "This is me exploiting one of your weaknesses. Please help me."
"And this is my exploiting one of yours." I told her before I went over and kneed her. The common misconception was that it only hurt guys, but that wasn't the case. It got her to let go of Tommy. "Run!"
He ran away before I started to speak again. I needed to show her that I wasn't afraid of her.
"This is your last warning. You leave my family alone or you will regret it." I stated. I then took out my phone and took a picture. "Also, you're banned from my club."
She ran off. She appeared to be in pain. I felt a little bad for hitting her there, but if she wasn't going to fight fair then neither was I. At that point, I went inside and called Courtney and Iris down with me. We needed to discuss our ways to capture and/or kill her. It was a bit stressful.
"Why did you let her get away in the first place?" Iris asked.
"Well Tommy had just given me a lecture about killing people and I didn't immediately want to kill someone so soon after he said that." I pointed out.
"What are we going to do?" Courtney asked.
"She's going to go after her father and we need find her. She keeps catching me off-guard without my weapons. I can't let that happen anymore. I do expect her to try again to get me to help her. I think I might have to end up killing her." I explained.
"I think that it she was some scruffy mobster, you already would have." Iris remarked. "Why haven't you already?"
"I wanted to give her the chance to faith justice, but I didn't expect the justice system to completely fail." I admitted.
"I get it. I don't think I would be able to kill anyone." Courtney piped in. "I heard that after the first time you kill someone, it's supposed to get easier."
"It's never easy." I replied. "At least not for someone like me, but Courtney, I don't want you to have to do that. I don't want you to have to kill someone and live with that."
"So what do we know about her father's trip to the safe house?" Iris asked.
"We don't know where it is, but I do know that there's going to be a custody hearing." I explained. "I also know that there's going to be two transport vans and one of them is going to be a decoy. I don't know if Helena is going to be able to figure out which one he's in."
"Well it's a good thing that there's two of us then." Courtney opined. I would need her help to stop her at least.
"I wouldn't be surprised if she tries to blackmail you again." Iris stated.
"Well I don't think she'll threaten another member of my family." I declared.
The following day, I got an unexpected phone call from Emiko. We hadn't spoken on the phone. I needed to talk to my mom about her more, but I hadn't had the time to do that yet.
"Emiko?" I answered.
"I didn't know that you had another sister." She remarked. "Must be hard to keep an eye on everyone in your family. It would be a shame if anything happened to her."
"How do you know that you even have her?" I questioned.
"I don't. I just swiped her phone, but I will tell you that if my father does not die today, your little sister will, so you better be keen on helping me pull that off." She declared.
Damn it. I did not take her threatening Emiko into the equation. I did feel like there was some humanity left in her because she didn't seem like she was willing to hurt innocent people. I had to hope that was case. I was still hesitant to kill her even though I was pretty sure that it was the right thing to do.
"There are two vans. He'll be transferred to the safe house in one of them." I declared.
It was then that I remembered something important. That would be very useful for getting her arrested once again.
We went out after them and I didn't want her to know what I knew. I started to follow knowing that she was going into a trap. I still had my doubts that the police would be able to handle her. She had escaped from them once. Who's to say that she wouldn't be able to do it again. I did make sure to let her follow the one that I knew had the cops in it. It did make me smile when she got caught though. After everything that she had put me through, I wanted nothing more than see her rot in prison. I wanted to see her suffer. That was probably one of the reasons why I was a little hesitant to kill her but part of me felt that death would be too easy for her. You could say that it was my revenge on her. Though, it did make me feel like a bad person for wanting to hurt her like that.
I still had a feeling that she would escape. She wasn't going to stop. It also meant that I would have to keep an eye on Emiko. Maybe I could find her because I felt like I needed to keep her safe. I had an idea for that. I went to her house because I had managed to recover her phone for her.
"Oh my god, I thought I lost this. Where did you find it?" She asked as she gave me a hug.
"It was at the club. Hey listen. Do you think that you might want to spend a few days at the mansion. I just want you to get a feel of it. You don't have to move in, but maybe you could see where our father lived." I replied. I knew that it sounded kind of weird, but I also knew that it would be a lot easier to keep track of her if she was there.
"Yeah okay, just let me pack a bag first." She declared. To be honest, she probably could borrow clothes from me or Thea, but I didn't want to tell her that she couldn't bring her own clothes. I didn't want her to think that she was in danger at all. "You know it's kind of a relief that you offered to do this because my mom is out of town and I don't really like being alone in my house, but I didn't think that it would be appropriate for me to ask."
"You are welcome at the house any time." I explained.
We went back to the mansion and we walked inside. Mom was once again shocked to see her.
"What is she doing here?" Mom inquired.
"Mom, Emiko's mother is out of town and I said it would be okay for her to be here." I explained. "I think we should talk now. How long have you known about her?"
"I've known about since before you were born." Mom admitted. "I knew that Robert was cheating on me, but I didn't leave him. I allowed him to make child support payments and I continued to make them even after he died."
"Were you ever going to tell us about her?" I asked. I was pretty sure that the answer to that was no. It did make feel sympathetic to how Tommy felt when I told him.
"Olivia, there are a lot of secrets about this family and I don't think you're ready for all of them just yet." She declared.
I couldn't help but wonder if one of them was about the Undertaking. Was she still planning on doing that? There was no way that she could be willing to kill that many people, could she? I knew that I needed to try to start figuring out who was behind that pretty soon, but I kept getting distracted by these other criminals.
That night, I went to the club because I wanted to talk to Felicity. Before I did anything with Courtney, I would need to figure how she felt. I knew that there was a possibility that she might that I was weird or creepy for going to talk to her like that, but it was something that I needed to do. She was in the office, probably looking to see how much many we had made on opening night.
"So I have good news." She stated. "If we're not counting the money that you paid to get Big Time Rush to come, which I guess wasn't really a business expense, we made a profit."
"How much?" I asked.
"It's like a thousand dollars, but I think that's still pretty good considering that we were only open for a few hours. Plus, if people had a good time, they'll tell their friends and get even more business." She stated.
"So there's something that I want to ask you." I replied with a blush. I just needed to come out and ask her about it. "Do you think that maybe you would want to go on a date with me sometime?"
"Olivia, you're cute and all, but I don't think it would be a good idea for me to date my boss. It's a total conflict of interest. Plus, I'm kind of already in this relationship with someone online." She answered.
I sighed. I supposed that the closure that we needed. I would still probably feel kind of guilty for going out with Courtney, but at least I would know that I wouldn't be betraying Felicity. At least that was what I wanted to tell myself. If I was going to be stuck here, I should try to be happy.
It was then that I saw Courtney come in. I would have to talk to her. I was about to ask her before I suddenly got a call from Iris.
"What's wrong?" I asked. I knew that she wouldn't call me unless there was a problem.
"So Helena escaped yet again and I'm pretty sure that she's found the location of the safe house where her father is being kept. I've talked to my contacts in the Bureau and they managed to tell me." She explained. Wouldn't that give them a chance to move Frank out of there. "You're going to need to get there fast."
When we got there, most of the officers were already dead. I knew that I wasn't too late. The first thing that I did was tell Frank to run because I knew the police would be able to find him and I managed to save one of the officers' life. At that point, she grabbed a shotgun and started to look for Frank. I did what I knew was the smart thing. I had to jump out and I had a bit of a awkward landing, so I went and snapped my ankle back into place. I couldn't believe that it worked. It was still kind of sore, but I was pretty sure that it wasn't broken. She was about to shoot down Frank when I aimed my bow at her. Courtney also arrived and aimed her staff at her.
"You're not going to shoot me. You're not a murderer, remember?" She asked.
"It's not murder if it's in defense of someone else." I declared as I shot an arrow at her. Unfortunately for me, she managed to catch it. I was hoping that she hadn't learned how to do that. It looked like I would have to take a second shot at her.
"I've been practicing that. I had a feeling that I might need it someday." She stated. At that point, Courtney began to charge up her staff like she was going to fire at her. She looked like she was ready to kill her.
"Courney, don't." I declared. However, before she could fire her blast, some different arrows flew through the air and into Helena's back before she fell over dead. I couldn't help but notice that they were black. You know I never considered that the other archer would be the one to kill her. I couldn't see him, but I knew that we didn't really have the time to look for him. We needed to get out of there.
We headed back to the club.
"Hey, can we talk about what happened there?" I asked.
'You're the one who said that she needed to die." Courtney pointed out.
"Yeah and I also said that I didn't want you to do it." I reminded her. "I don't want to become a killer like I am. I know that you are better person than me and I don't want that to change."
"I'm sorry." She apologized. "I went didn't want to let her hurt you…even though you can't be hurt."
"Well there's something that I need to do." I declared before I kissed her once again and she kissed me back.
"Whoa I am interrupting something?" Tommy asked.
"What are you doing here?" I questioned as I broke apart from Courtney. I knew that I should take him out into the alley.
"I just wanted to talk to you." He stated. "Look, I know that I haven't really been the best brother lately. I just couldn't understand how you could keep such a huge secret from me, but I never considered the toll that it must take on you."
'Yeah, lying to my family sucks." I agreed. "The other reason that I don't want people to know if that I don't want people to be able to use my family against me, as you saw. I'm trying so hard to do this."
"So was that thing about being from another world actually true?" He asked.
"Yeah. I promise that I will tell you all about it, but I just can't do it right now." I stated. I wanted to successfully stop the other archer before I told him. I wanted to make sure that he survived because if I told him and he still didn't, what would even be the point.
"Well it looks like you and Courtney finally got together. That's at least something to be happy about." He remarked with a grin.
"I hope so." I agreed.
So the important thing that happened in this chapter was that Robert killed Helena after finding out that she threatened Emiko. Also Courtney and Olivia may finally be getting together. Please don't forget to review.