Post by Steve Sinclair on Jul 11, 2014 20:42:56 GMT
. Making it home from Buffalo in just 2 and a half hours instead of 5 was a miracle, finding Julie Ann and Jackson safe and healthy was even better . She was surprised at how many firemen and cops were there and even a few EMT’s
Julie Ann rushed through the swarm of firemen and police officers when she saw Raven pull in and then struggle with the authorities to try to get through .
“Listen here doughnut boy either ye let me through so I can see my sister- in -law , or I take yer badge number and call Sergeant An If he’s not there I’ll go through the whole chain of command.”
“Your bluffing” the first officer says
“Hey ummm Jake I don’t think she’s bluffing . Plus I know who she is and dude I think you just pissed her off.” His colleague says. nervously
“Rave!!!”
Upon looking up from staring Barney and Andy down , Raven notices Julie waving at her. Pushing both officers aside she races over to Julie Ann and hugs her and Jackson fiercely
“Are you okay lass?” Raven says as she eyes both Julie and Jackson from head to toe looking for any signs of harm.
“Yes , yes we’re both fine. Luckily I ran out of formula and had to run to the store , or else....Oh, God, I don’t even want to think about it.” Tears start to well up in Julie’s eyes and Jackson starts squirming around ,his mood changing with his mothers.
“Shhhhhhh sweetie it’ll be fine .”
“But we don’t have any clothes , I just have the money in my wallet, no food, no place to stay . Where’s Steve?” Julies voice raises hysterically.
Reality hits as Raven realizes she hasn’t seen her brother yet and didn’t remember passing his car on the road. Hoping to god that for once something bad didn’t happen to him , Raven comes up with the best excuse she could think of .” Honey I’m sure he’ll be here soon . He took a different route then me and may have gotten snarled in traffic. Go sit in my car and relax , things will be fine I’ll take care of everything.”
Grabbing her cell phone ,once she made sure Julie Ann was safe and sound in the t-bird , Raven dials Steve's number . After several tries Raven gets a foreboding feeling. and calls her brother K.C ,Steve’s twin .
“Yello.”
“Kace, its Raven .”
“Hey lil sis , sup? Nice stunt tonight on the show by the way.”
“It wasn’t a stunt . I need you to head over to my house . I’ll meet you there with Julie in a few . I need someone to watch her while I wait for Steve.”
“Got ya !” Click.
Raven pauses for a few seconds before dialing Marc’s number . Getting his voice mail she leaves a message and crosses her fingers. Two and two are adding up to five and she doesn’t like it one bit.
Shortly after making sure Julie was safe and sound at her house and that K.C was watching her , Raven left for Steve’s apartment. Most of the fire battalion had left and so had the EMT’s. All that was left was the clean up crew. Raven recognized Steve’s car as soon as it screeched around the corner.
Enraged Steve flings open his car door and gets out. Its then that his sister notices the goose egg and blood on Steve’s head.
“What happened to ye? Are ye all right ?” Raven says as she reaches out to check his head.
Slapping away her hand Steve tries to look past Ravens shoulder “ Where is she? “
“Their ok Steve , their at my house with K.C watching them. Now tell me what happened to ye?”
“Like you didnt already know , one of your boys jumped me . Piss pour time for one of your plots sis.”
“Steve I’m serious , I didn’t have anything to do with it. Just like I didn’t have anything to do with the fire.”
“Bullshit !! Raven I’ll rip your head off.”
“Steve think for a fucking minute . Would I ever hurt one of my own family , as much as I hate ye? I was banned from wrestling for 2 years the last time yer family was threatened. Tell me why I would even do something like this? Cause ye know I wouldn’t - but by the goddess who ever did will pay!.”
“No use arguing now. I want to see my wife. Meet you at your house..”
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The family reunion was a happy , if not somber, one. K.C and Raven left Steve alone with his wife and child and went into another room to talk.
“Find anything out?”
“Their saying it looks like arson. One of the guys found a remote incenerary device. Must have been triggered moments after Julie left . I dunna think the person responsible thought she would return so soon. There’s more water damage than anything else. So for now they can stay with me.”
“ Great , just freaking, great. .....Hey sis I have a question for you . How much of tonight’s event was a show?”
“Not that much of it ...why?” Raven raises a questioning eyebrow
“What’s holding Jack Rice from coming back?” K.C crosses his arms in front of him waiting for the explosion
“He just has to get the ok from his doctor.”
“And who’s his doctor?”
“Christ K.C ye knew its ...ye know its Marc .......... OK what the devil is going on?” Raven starts to tap her foot in agitation.
“ Well thanks to tonight’s broadcast everyone watching now knows that Marc is blackmailing Jack . Jack can’t wrestle until you say yes to his marriage proposal .”
K.C stands back as he watches his younger sisters jaw drop and her face go pale. He expected rage not shock as she slumps back against the wall .Oh god please don’t make her cry , I could never handle her when she cries - he thinks to himself.
Just when he thinks he’s at a loss about what to do he notices Raven clinching her jaw and a spark coming into her ice blue eyes. He knows this look, he’s seen this look before and can’t admit that deep down he doesn’t feel a bit scared.
Raven’s body starts shaking with fury “ Ye better nae be shitting me! “ Her voice comes out in a low thunder.
K.C places a hand on her shoulder , not sure how to comfort his sister. ”I’m afraid not sis. I’m sure they have it on tape at the bar. You know how Angus tapes all the shows..”
“I cannae believe he would resort to something so low., so goddamn underhanded ,least of all involve someone else. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh fucking blackmailing Jack..”
“ Maybe the guy is so in love and he really wants an answer that he would do something like that Rave.”
If looks could kill K.C would be dead on the floor from the piercing glare Raven shoots his way.
“Hey I’m not saying that what he did is right ( K.C raises his hands in defense) Nor am I siding with him . Just hear him out.”
“Oh it will be a cold day in hell before that happens soon . You can tell Dr. Cross when he arrives that he can check in on Julie Ann and make sure she’s nae to upset over the days events .”
“Why can’t you do that ?” A puzzled K.C asks.
“Cause I’m not going to be home. I need to get the hell out of here before I blow up big time.”
Raven grabs a few of her things and reaches to grab for her keys when K.C’s hand on her arm stops her . “ You sure you wanna do that ? What if Julie needs you ?”
“Ye can reach me by cell phone . I promise I won’t go to far.”
“You know its not good to run away from your problems”
“Oh I’m nae running away from them, far from it .”
As Raven opens her front door , she finds Marc standing on the other side with a smug look on his face .
“You said you needed me right away?” He says with a lustful look in his eyes.
Controlling her anger and putting on a face that would win a Oscar Raven smiles at him . “ Aye I’m in need of yer services.. If ye haven’t heard Steve's apartment just went up in flames and Julie Ann’s very upset. I need ye to go and talk to her maybe give her something to calm her down.”
“ Oh jeez okay. You leaving or something?” Marc says as he notices her purse in her hands.
“Aye Julie needs a few “female” things as well as some stuff for the babe. I’ll be back .”
Raven makes a fast exit before Marc could get a quick kiss in . He looks at K.C who just shrugs his shoulders .
“She’s kinds upset about the whole thing at the moment.”
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Concobar didn’t like being woken up by the sound of pounding coming from his front door. Well actually it wasn’t a front door per say as much as a old cargo elevator door. Still the banging was making his head feel like Quizimoto when the bells were ringing except Quizimoto was deaf. Okay so being woken up early and having a hang over one make bad analogies- he thinks to himself.
Grabbing a pair of shorts he trods over to the door and yanks it open .
Raven stands at the threshold of the loft trembling with fury and tears staining her face. One look and Con knows something wrong, very very wrong.
“Come on in Rave . I’ll make the coffee or do you want something stronger?”
“ Coffee’s fine , thought scotch would be better.”
“That bad?” Con asks over his shoulder as he measures out the scoops of coffee into the filter ,before placing it in the maker. Running some water into the pot , he pours that into the top compartment , places the pot in its spot and then flicks on the switch.
Raven lights a cigarette and starts pacing back and forth in the huge loft that doubles as “Catain’s” studio. She stares at the row of guitars that line the one wall as she tries to gain some composure.
“Dammit Dammit all to bloody hell Go n-ithe an diabhal do chat. “
“Will you settle down , and I don’t have a cat nor would that ever happen to it.” Con answers her calmly as he chuckles to himself. He has watched his childhood friend pace back and forth sprouting Gaelic and English in her agitated state.
“Go scriosa cúnna ifrinn do bhall fearga. Go bpléasca an Bhadhbh do thóin bheagmhaitheasach.!!!!!!!!! This whole thing is about me settling down you git.”
“Leave my nut sack out of it! Not my fault you got your self into this mess .”
Signing Raven flops herself unto the old leather sofa and runs her hands through her disheveled hair. Pulling another cigarette out of the pack ,she lights up before continuing.
“Well if the bloody idiot ever opened his damned eyes he would see that 1: I love him and goddess help me, 2: I’m ready to spend the rest of my god forsaken life with him . But does he .....no! “
“Have you told him this? Well I would leave out the godforsaken part if I were you if you haven‘t.”
“Argh ma chruine! For the love of dagda I asked him to move in with me , but does he ? No, he says he’s too much of a gentleman too. But I guess being a gentleman , one can blackmail another for answers from someone else. !”
“Huh ?”
“Because I haven’t answered his proposal he is now blackmailing one of my wrestlers. He is basically holding this poor lads wrestling career hostage until I say yes.”
“Is the guy any good? Cause if he’s a poor wrestler ..well then I don’t see any problem there.”
“Yes the lads good but that's nae the point.”
“Why haven’t you answered him yet?”
“Because ever since we have been seeing each other he’s been using some of his psych crap on me, trying to figure out what makes me tick and why I do what I do , instead o’ just going with the flow. I was tired of the head games. I told him and he got better at not doing it. But I saw this as my golden opportunity to get a wee bit even with him.”
“By making the poor guy wait?”
“Aye.”
“But why?”
“Cause I can, and I did . An look where it got Marcus, he is now resorting to extortion.”
Placing a cup of coffee and a shot of whiskey on the coffee table in front of her, Con takes the seat across from her and mulls the situation over.
“Umm don’t you think the whole thing has backfired?”
“Nae at all. “
“Why ?”
“Cause I’m a woman . We always have something planned.”
Raven smiles wickedly as we fade to black.
Julie Ann rushed through the swarm of firemen and police officers when she saw Raven pull in and then struggle with the authorities to try to get through .
“Listen here doughnut boy either ye let me through so I can see my sister- in -law , or I take yer badge number and call Sergeant An If he’s not there I’ll go through the whole chain of command.”
“Your bluffing” the first officer says
“Hey ummm Jake I don’t think she’s bluffing . Plus I know who she is and dude I think you just pissed her off.” His colleague says. nervously
“Rave!!!”
Upon looking up from staring Barney and Andy down , Raven notices Julie waving at her. Pushing both officers aside she races over to Julie Ann and hugs her and Jackson fiercely
“Are you okay lass?” Raven says as she eyes both Julie and Jackson from head to toe looking for any signs of harm.
“Yes , yes we’re both fine. Luckily I ran out of formula and had to run to the store , or else....Oh, God, I don’t even want to think about it.” Tears start to well up in Julie’s eyes and Jackson starts squirming around ,his mood changing with his mothers.
“Shhhhhhh sweetie it’ll be fine .”
“But we don’t have any clothes , I just have the money in my wallet, no food, no place to stay . Where’s Steve?” Julies voice raises hysterically.
Reality hits as Raven realizes she hasn’t seen her brother yet and didn’t remember passing his car on the road. Hoping to god that for once something bad didn’t happen to him , Raven comes up with the best excuse she could think of .” Honey I’m sure he’ll be here soon . He took a different route then me and may have gotten snarled in traffic. Go sit in my car and relax , things will be fine I’ll take care of everything.”
Grabbing her cell phone ,once she made sure Julie Ann was safe and sound in the t-bird , Raven dials Steve's number . After several tries Raven gets a foreboding feeling. and calls her brother K.C ,Steve’s twin .
“Yello.”
“Kace, its Raven .”
“Hey lil sis , sup? Nice stunt tonight on the show by the way.”
“It wasn’t a stunt . I need you to head over to my house . I’ll meet you there with Julie in a few . I need someone to watch her while I wait for Steve.”
“Got ya !” Click.
Raven pauses for a few seconds before dialing Marc’s number . Getting his voice mail she leaves a message and crosses her fingers. Two and two are adding up to five and she doesn’t like it one bit.
Shortly after making sure Julie was safe and sound at her house and that K.C was watching her , Raven left for Steve’s apartment. Most of the fire battalion had left and so had the EMT’s. All that was left was the clean up crew. Raven recognized Steve’s car as soon as it screeched around the corner.
Enraged Steve flings open his car door and gets out. Its then that his sister notices the goose egg and blood on Steve’s head.
“What happened to ye? Are ye all right ?” Raven says as she reaches out to check his head.
Slapping away her hand Steve tries to look past Ravens shoulder “ Where is she? “
“Their ok Steve , their at my house with K.C watching them. Now tell me what happened to ye?”
“Like you didnt already know , one of your boys jumped me . Piss pour time for one of your plots sis.”
“Steve I’m serious , I didn’t have anything to do with it. Just like I didn’t have anything to do with the fire.”
“Bullshit !! Raven I’ll rip your head off.”
“Steve think for a fucking minute . Would I ever hurt one of my own family , as much as I hate ye? I was banned from wrestling for 2 years the last time yer family was threatened. Tell me why I would even do something like this? Cause ye know I wouldn’t - but by the goddess who ever did will pay!.”
“No use arguing now. I want to see my wife. Meet you at your house..”
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The family reunion was a happy , if not somber, one. K.C and Raven left Steve alone with his wife and child and went into another room to talk.
“Find anything out?”
“Their saying it looks like arson. One of the guys found a remote incenerary device. Must have been triggered moments after Julie left . I dunna think the person responsible thought she would return so soon. There’s more water damage than anything else. So for now they can stay with me.”
“ Great , just freaking, great. .....Hey sis I have a question for you . How much of tonight’s event was a show?”
“Not that much of it ...why?” Raven raises a questioning eyebrow
“What’s holding Jack Rice from coming back?” K.C crosses his arms in front of him waiting for the explosion
“He just has to get the ok from his doctor.”
“And who’s his doctor?”
“Christ K.C ye knew its ...ye know its Marc .......... OK what the devil is going on?” Raven starts to tap her foot in agitation.
“ Well thanks to tonight’s broadcast everyone watching now knows that Marc is blackmailing Jack . Jack can’t wrestle until you say yes to his marriage proposal .”
K.C stands back as he watches his younger sisters jaw drop and her face go pale. He expected rage not shock as she slumps back against the wall .Oh god please don’t make her cry , I could never handle her when she cries - he thinks to himself.
Just when he thinks he’s at a loss about what to do he notices Raven clinching her jaw and a spark coming into her ice blue eyes. He knows this look, he’s seen this look before and can’t admit that deep down he doesn’t feel a bit scared.
Raven’s body starts shaking with fury “ Ye better nae be shitting me! “ Her voice comes out in a low thunder.
K.C places a hand on her shoulder , not sure how to comfort his sister. ”I’m afraid not sis. I’m sure they have it on tape at the bar. You know how Angus tapes all the shows..”
“I cannae believe he would resort to something so low., so goddamn underhanded ,least of all involve someone else. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh fucking blackmailing Jack..”
“ Maybe the guy is so in love and he really wants an answer that he would do something like that Rave.”
If looks could kill K.C would be dead on the floor from the piercing glare Raven shoots his way.
“Hey I’m not saying that what he did is right ( K.C raises his hands in defense) Nor am I siding with him . Just hear him out.”
“Oh it will be a cold day in hell before that happens soon . You can tell Dr. Cross when he arrives that he can check in on Julie Ann and make sure she’s nae to upset over the days events .”
“Why can’t you do that ?” A puzzled K.C asks.
“Cause I’m not going to be home. I need to get the hell out of here before I blow up big time.”
Raven grabs a few of her things and reaches to grab for her keys when K.C’s hand on her arm stops her . “ You sure you wanna do that ? What if Julie needs you ?”
“Ye can reach me by cell phone . I promise I won’t go to far.”
“You know its not good to run away from your problems”
“Oh I’m nae running away from them, far from it .”
As Raven opens her front door , she finds Marc standing on the other side with a smug look on his face .
“You said you needed me right away?” He says with a lustful look in his eyes.
Controlling her anger and putting on a face that would win a Oscar Raven smiles at him . “ Aye I’m in need of yer services.. If ye haven’t heard Steve's apartment just went up in flames and Julie Ann’s very upset. I need ye to go and talk to her maybe give her something to calm her down.”
“ Oh jeez okay. You leaving or something?” Marc says as he notices her purse in her hands.
“Aye Julie needs a few “female” things as well as some stuff for the babe. I’ll be back .”
Raven makes a fast exit before Marc could get a quick kiss in . He looks at K.C who just shrugs his shoulders .
“She’s kinds upset about the whole thing at the moment.”
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Concobar didn’t like being woken up by the sound of pounding coming from his front door. Well actually it wasn’t a front door per say as much as a old cargo elevator door. Still the banging was making his head feel like Quizimoto when the bells were ringing except Quizimoto was deaf. Okay so being woken up early and having a hang over one make bad analogies- he thinks to himself.
Grabbing a pair of shorts he trods over to the door and yanks it open .
Raven stands at the threshold of the loft trembling with fury and tears staining her face. One look and Con knows something wrong, very very wrong.
“Come on in Rave . I’ll make the coffee or do you want something stronger?”
“ Coffee’s fine , thought scotch would be better.”
“That bad?” Con asks over his shoulder as he measures out the scoops of coffee into the filter ,before placing it in the maker. Running some water into the pot , he pours that into the top compartment , places the pot in its spot and then flicks on the switch.
Raven lights a cigarette and starts pacing back and forth in the huge loft that doubles as “Catain’s” studio. She stares at the row of guitars that line the one wall as she tries to gain some composure.
“Dammit Dammit all to bloody hell Go n-ithe an diabhal do chat. “
“Will you settle down , and I don’t have a cat nor would that ever happen to it.” Con answers her calmly as he chuckles to himself. He has watched his childhood friend pace back and forth sprouting Gaelic and English in her agitated state.
“Go scriosa cúnna ifrinn do bhall fearga. Go bpléasca an Bhadhbh do thóin bheagmhaitheasach.!!!!!!!!! This whole thing is about me settling down you git.”
“Leave my nut sack out of it! Not my fault you got your self into this mess .”
Signing Raven flops herself unto the old leather sofa and runs her hands through her disheveled hair. Pulling another cigarette out of the pack ,she lights up before continuing.
“Well if the bloody idiot ever opened his damned eyes he would see that 1: I love him and goddess help me, 2: I’m ready to spend the rest of my god forsaken life with him . But does he .....no! “
“Have you told him this? Well I would leave out the godforsaken part if I were you if you haven‘t.”
“Argh ma chruine! For the love of dagda I asked him to move in with me , but does he ? No, he says he’s too much of a gentleman too. But I guess being a gentleman , one can blackmail another for answers from someone else. !”
“Huh ?”
“Because I haven’t answered his proposal he is now blackmailing one of my wrestlers. He is basically holding this poor lads wrestling career hostage until I say yes.”
“Is the guy any good? Cause if he’s a poor wrestler ..well then I don’t see any problem there.”
“Yes the lads good but that's nae the point.”
“Why haven’t you answered him yet?”
“Because ever since we have been seeing each other he’s been using some of his psych crap on me, trying to figure out what makes me tick and why I do what I do , instead o’ just going with the flow. I was tired of the head games. I told him and he got better at not doing it. But I saw this as my golden opportunity to get a wee bit even with him.”
“By making the poor guy wait?”
“Aye.”
“But why?”
“Cause I can, and I did . An look where it got Marcus, he is now resorting to extortion.”
Placing a cup of coffee and a shot of whiskey on the coffee table in front of her, Con takes the seat across from her and mulls the situation over.
“Umm don’t you think the whole thing has backfired?”
“Nae at all. “
“Why ?”
“Cause I’m a woman . We always have something planned.”
Raven smiles wickedly as we fade to black.