Schemes Of Deception - Chapter 11 (Mind Games and Manipulation)
by rex_and_mimi_rule
 
 

Julian came to only to find Rebecca throwing things
around the library.
"Owwww my head...Rebecca what are you doing?" Julian
asked.

"Looking for Liz so I can finish her off!" Rebecca
said.

"Rebecca, what is wrong with you?" Julian asked.

"I know Liz caused this, she's posessed! Posessed
I tell you!" Rebecca said.

"Rebecca, Liz is pure evil but I doubt she's posessed." Julian said.

"Look what she did to my eye at the youth center- she
tripped me into the pool now she's came back to
finish us off!" Rebecca said. Julian shook Rebecca
to snap her out of it.

"Rebecca, snap out of it," Julian said.

"I'm not snapping out of anything, she is posessed!"
Rebecca said. "I think she escaped from Tabitha's
basement!" Julian grabbed a pitcher of water on her
to snap her out of it. "What the hell-" Rebecca asked.

"Sorry but you were getting a little extreme." Julian
said.

"Just what happened here?" Rebecca asked.

"I don't know," Julian said. "Last thing I remember
was my tape turning on by itself then you trying to
break down my door so you could come in and kill me
then all of this stuff started happening."

"Yeah, sure, Julian, the tape just turned on by
itself." Rebecca said.

"You don't believe me?" Julian asked.

"Julian, why should I believe you?" Rebecca asked. "Even
after that car accident we got in the
other night you were in here listening to it."

"Its only a tape, I don't see why it sets you off
when I listen to it." Julian said.

"Because I know you're in there thinking about Liz
and I just want to rip her apart when I see her!"
Rebecca said. Julian cringed.

"Of all the lies I have to come up with-" Julian thought.
Julian resented Eve's voice being mistaken
for Liz.

"You talk about Liz like she's some normal person
like Dr. Russell, but she's not- she has to be posessed." Rebecca said.

"That was close," Julian thought, wondering how
Rebecca could have missed that one.

"I couldn't picture Dr. Russell singing that kind of
music anyways, especially after the way she reacted to
Whitney singing at the Blue Note but you go on and on
about Liz like she's a normal person like Eve." Rebecca said.
Julian had to resist the urge to set
Rebecca straight and tell her it was Eve singing on
the tape just so he wouldn't have to go through the
torture of hearing Eve's singing being mistaken for
Liz but then he remebered he was the one who came up
with this whole fiasco to begin with.

"Hey, you're the one that let her push your buttons to quitting
at the youth center," Julian reminded her.

"You're right," Rebecca said.

"Huh?" Julian asked, not expecting that response.

"You're right, I have to go back to that youth
center and do it in spite of Liz!" Rebecca said.

"Rebecca, its not worth doing it if you're only doing
it to spite Liz-" Julian said. Rebecca stared at him, her jaw
dropped open.

"Pookey, what is wrong with you lately?" Rebecca said. "Since
when do you of all people think about right from wrong?"

"Since this is Liz we're talking about-" Julian said.

"So you're defending Liz? Why do you always defend other
people and not me!?" Rebecca yelled.

"I wasn't defending Liz!" Julian said, baffled that
Rebecca thought he was actually defending that terror.
For once he had actually been trying to steer her in
the right direction, and she turned around and blasted him?

"Well, you sure act like it!" Rebecca said.

"No, I meant you should stay volunteering at the youth
center because you probably could be good at it if you
just applied yourself like you do when you're coming
up with another scheme or blackmailing-" Julian said.

"Well maybe that's why I never bothered before because
you always think the worst of me-" Rebecca said.

"Stop putting words in my mouth!" Julian said.

"This discussion is over!" Rebecca said. "I'll show
you! I'll show all of you!"

"Who's all of you?" Julian asked.

"Liz and T.C.!" Rebecca said. Rebecca stormed out
of the library, slamming the door.

"Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned schemes and blackmail-"
Julian said, thinking that was what set
her off. "And since when does Rebecca give a damn
what T.C. thinks?" Julian asked. Julian didn't know
why, but the idea of Rebecca and T.C. spending time
around each other set him off, usually he was glad to
just get rid of Rebecca for five minutes, maybe it
angered him because Eve was so crazy about him. He
wanted Eve to be happy with her family, but at the
same time he could barely contain his jealous for
the attention Eve was giving her marraige. He wasn't
going to give up on having a second change with Eve, but after
the 'what if' visions, he wasn't going to just let T.C. win Rebecca over too.

Tabitha turned off the TV.

"You really know how to pave the way for more trouble,
Endora," Tabitha said. "This little scheme
Julian came up with to get Liz to leave Eve alone is
turning into an all out war! Let's see what's going on
at the Russell house!" Tabitha changed channels to
find T.C. using masking tape to draw a line through
the house.

"Liz, I'm making a line that neither one of us is
allowed to cross!" T.C. said.

"T.C. that is so ludicrius-" Liz said. Liz was cut
off when the door opened.

"T.C. I'm home!" Eve said. Eve looked down to see her
husband putting tape across the floor. "T.C. what are
you doing?"

"Making a line that Liz will not cross so we can
spend some time together!" T.C. said.

"This does it- Liz, you're out of here tomorrow!"
Eve said.

"T.C.!" Liz begged. T.C. sighed as he put the tape
down.

"Eve is right, Liz, look at me, I'm reduced to taping my
own kitchen floor just to get some personal space!"
T.C. said. Simone arrived.

"Hey mommy hey daddy- what's going on, mom why is
dad taping the floor?" Simone asked. "Oh no you two
didn't have a fight, did you-"

"Relax, sugar bear, your mom and I didn't have an
argument, I'm taping a line on the floor that Liz is
not allowed to cross!" T.C. said.

"Huh?" Simone asked in confusion.

"I've had enough of this," Liz said, leaving the room.

"Fox, please wake up," Whitney said in L.A.

"I love you-" Fox said.

"What did he just say?" Chad thought, passing the room.

"I love you too," Whitney said, her lip quivering.
"That's why you have to wake up."

"What!?" Chad exclaimed. Tears running down her face,
Whitney turned around to see Chad. "What is going on?"

"Chad, its not what you think." Whitney said.

"Then why did you just tell Fox you love him?" Chad
demanded. Theresa entered the room.

"Chad, Whitney only told Fox she loves him because she
wants him to come out of his coma and he was talking
about the woman he loves so Whitney was pretending to
be this woman." Theresa explained.
 
 
 

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