Part 7

Cassie burst into the police station with fire in her eyes. She walked down the hall and there he was, right in front of her, the man she came here to see. The man that had hurt her sister in the most possible way, was being escorted by Mallet right towards her.
Mallet stopped in his tracks and tightened his grip on Dax's arm when he noticed Cassie.
"Cassie?" said Mallet calmly feeling something was wrong.
She paused for a moment, just staring at Dax, but the longer she stared at him, the hotter the fire inside her grew.
"Perfect timing." she remarked in a eerie voice as she reached into her purse and pulled out a fully loaded pistol and aimed it straight at Dax's head.
"Cassie, what are you doing? Put the gun down." Mallet said trying to remain calm.
"I don't think so Mallet, He needs to pay for what he did to Reva."
"Cassie please, you don't want to do this."
"Oh no Mallet, I want to do this more than you will ever know." she said remaining to calm for Mallet's liking.
"Cassie Come on, Just put the gun down, PLEASE, lets just talk about this."he pleaded
"TALK ABOUT WHAT? TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE KIDNAPPED MY SISTER? TALK ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO HER? WHAT EXACTLY WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT?"
"Please, just calm down, we got him and he's not going anywhere."
"Oh he's going somewhere alright. He's going straight to hell and I've got his one way ticket." she said as an evil smile came to her face.
"Cassie please, let the law handle him."
"LET THE LAW HANDLE HIM? TO MANY TIMES HAVE YOU TRIED TO HANDLE THINGS IN THE WAYS OF THE LAW AND TO MANY TIMES HAVE PEOPLE LIKE HIM, COME BACK TO HURT THE SAME PEOPLE AGAIN. SO LET THE LAW HANDLE HIM MALLET? I DON'T THINK SO....HE WILL PAY FOR WHAT HE DID TO HER, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER."
"What I did to her Cassie? All I am guilty of is loving her."
"LOVE?....YOU CALL WHAT YOU DID TO HER LOVE?....YOU KIDNAPPED HER.... AND YOU RAPED HER....AND NOW SHE MIGHT LOSE HER BABY BECAUSE OF YOU."
"Aww.....that's to bad." Dax said sarcastically as a smile came across his face at the news.
That was it, he had just given her all she needed to go through with it. She cocked the gun and was about to pulled the trigger when she heard the door behind her slam against the wall.
"CASSIE, DON'T DO IT." frank yelled as he ran up behind her.
"Frank, I have to do this, just walk away and let me do this."
"Honey, you know I can't just walk away. Not only as a cop but as a friend."
"He needs to pay for what he did."
"Yes he does, and he will, but not like this......don't give him the easy way out....if you pull that trigger you will be giving him an easy out....and you will go to prison, not him.....Reva is gonna need you and how are you going to help her if you're in prison."
"I am helping her, the only way I know how.....I'm doing this for her.....I'm doing this so she doesn't have to worry about him ever again."
"Please think about this.....how do you think Reva's going to handle the fact that you are in prison for trying to help her? You know that if you do this, she is going to blame herself, and you don't want her to blame herself for any of this do you? Frank said calmly as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
He could feel her whole body trembling under his hand. He wanted to take all the pain of the last couple of years away. Both of these sisters had been through so much in their lives. So much that he wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy, and it never seemed to stop for them. Every time things would start to calm down and they would finally start to move on with their lives something else would happen and turn their world upside down again. He know that was one of the reasons that Cassie was there right now. She hadn't gotten over Tammy's death and now with everything going on with Reva, it was just to much for her.
"You'll just have to make her understand that it's not her fault."
"Come on Cassie, you know Reva better than that....if you shoot him, she will blame herself and nothing I nor anyone else can say anything that will change that....Please Cassie, think of Reva.....she has enough to worry about right now without you adding to it, and that's what you'd be doing if you shoot him....."
Frank let his words sink in a moment before slowly running his hand down her arm and onto her hand. He felt her relax her grip a bit and knew that he had to do it now before she changed her mind. He grabbed for the gun as fast as he could and once it was out of her hand Frank and Mallet both let out a sigh of relief.
Tears welled up in Cassie's eyes. She felt as if she had just let down her sister when she needed her most. No matter what problems they had with each other, they would always do what ever it took to help the other and now Cassie had not done that. She wanted so much to make Dax pay but she didn't want Reva to feel as if it were her fault.
"You are such a failure Cassie, You always have been and you always will be, and no matter how hard you try, you will always be second best when it comes to Catherine!"
Frank rapped his arms around Cassie as quickly as he could before she had the chance to go after him.
"Mallet get him out of here now."
Mallet grabbed Dax's arm as hard as he could and pulled him along, passed Cassie and Frank, and down the hall. Once they were out of sight Frank let go of her. She turned to Frank as the tears continued to fall.
"He's right you know. I will always be second best when it comes to Reva. It's always been that way."
"Cassie, you are no ones second best."
"Oh really, What about Richard? Josh? Jeffrey? Our mother? I am and was second best in all their eyes."
"Why don't we go to my office. There are somethings I would like to talk to you about."
Cassie nodded and Frank placed his hand on the small of her back as to usher her to walk.
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"I'm so sorry, this is all my fault." Reva cried as she tried to hold back her tears.
"Honey, this is not your fault..."
"Yes it is Jeffrey. I should've known that my past in San Cristabel would come back to haunt me again. I don't even know who he is but I know that he knows me from there. I was the one who made all this happen." she said as she now let her tears fall freely.
Jeffrey placed his hand under her chin and lifted her head so she was looking at him. It broke his heart to hear her blaming herself for any of this.
"Now you listen to me. None of this and I mean none of this is your fault. You can't...."
He stopped as he felt her body tighten up again with another contraction. She grabbed his shirt as if it were her lifeline and let out a deep long moan.
"Just breath sweety, Just breath." he said as he tightened his arms around her.
As he continued to encourage Reva, he noticed Lillian out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head to her and watched as she walk toward the I.V. pump. Lillian looked at the pump then down at the chart and back to the pump. The look on her face made Jeffrey's heart sink.
"What's wrong Lillian?" he questioned quietly, trying not to distract Reva.
"The medication is not working as fast as we need it to so I'm gonna have to bump it up again." she replied in a whisper.
"Do what ever you have to do Lillian, just please save our baby." He softly pleaded
"Jeffrey, I promise you that we are doing everything we can, and the medicine is working, just not....."She paused when she noticed Reva was now listening.".....Reva, how are you feeling?"
"Don't change the subject Lillian, what's wrong?"
"Nothings wrong sweety, Just try to relax."
"Don't lie to me Jeffrey. I know that look on both of your faces, somethings wrong now tell me what it is."
Jeffrey looked to Lillian. He didn't want to be the one to tell her but he knew it should come from him. Jeffrey and Lillian both knew that Reva always seemed to handle things better when they came from him.
"Please Jeffrey, tell me what's wrong." she pleaded
"OK, OK,.....Lillian was telling me that they need to give you more of the medication because it's not slowing down you contractions fast enough."
Fresh hot tears streamed down her cheeks at the news.
"Hey, it's OK....."
"Jeffrey, I can't lose the baby......"
Jeffrey placed his finger on her lips to keep her from going any further.
"Listen.....do you hear that.....that is our baby's heartbeat.....our baby Reva.....and her heart beat is so strong......and she is so strong......strong like you honey, just like you.....but right now you both just need a little help."
"Promise me.....promise me she's gonna be OK Jeffrey, promise me we're not going to lose our baby girl." she cried as tears fell like waterfalls from her eyes.
He know that he couldn't promise her what she wanted, and looking at her and listening to her cries brought tears to his eyes as well.
"Honey, as much as I would love to to promise you that, you know I can't.... but what I can promise you is that Rick and Lillian are doing everything in their power to make sure that that doesn't happen.....and I also promise that I'm gonna do everything I can too.....I love you and I love our beautiful baby girl, and if I could do something, anything you know I would." he said realizing that for once in his life he was completely helpless.
The one thing he wanted to do for her more than anything in the whole world was out of his hands. He was always able to make any of her problems go away, no matter how big or small, but now, now he had no control, he couldn't just make a couple of phone calls and problem solved. He hated this and so did she. She wanted to be able to close her eyes and know that when she opened them again, Jeffrey would have made everything that had happened just disappear, like he had so many times before, but she knew that no matter how much they both wanted that, he couldn't do it this time. This time it was in God's hands,and all they could do was pray that he wouldn't take their baby girl away from them, their baby girl who hadn't even had a chance to live yet.
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