Schemes Of Deception - Chapter 33 ( Night Terrors)
by rex_and_mimi_rule
 
 
 

Julian coughed violently on smoke.

"Eve!" Julian yelled.

Eve ran around, looking for Julian. She couldn't
see through the thick smoke.

"Julian where are you?" Eve yelled.

"Over here!" Julian yelled.

"You're not hurt are you?" Eve yelled.

"No I'm fine," Julian yelled. Julian eventually made it
across the rooms to Eve.

"We have to get out of here!" Julian said.
Eve and Julian screamed as the roof began to cave in.

"Julian the roof is caving in!" Eve screamed.

Rebecca woke up when she heard a scratching noise. She
assumed it was just the tree outside the window and tried
to go back to sleep. Lightning struck, lighting the room.
Rebecca screamed. A message had been left on
the window.

"SOON." Was written on the window, dripping with red
paint.

"At least I hope its paint," Rebecca thought. Rebecca woke
T.C.

"Oh my God," T.C. said. T.C.
opened the window.

"Cut it out!" T.C. yelled. "Just leave us alone!"

Liz was hiding behind the bushes after she had climbed down
from the tree.

"I won't leave anyone alone until Rebecca is dead." Liz said. "I will
have T.C. to myself. Eve will feel the pain she caused me all those
years ago when she left me with our parents."

Later, Eve and Julian had made it out of the house. They watched
as their newly built house went up in flames as the fire trucks arrived.

"Who would do something like this?" Julian asked. Eve looked at
Julian.

"I think I know exactly who," Eve said.

"Alastair?" Julian asked. Eve shook her head.

"No, someone who never got the revenge they wanted." Eve said.

"You mean?" Julian asked.

"Liz." Eve said.

"Eve- I know Liz is a lunatic but do you really think she would burn down our
house?" Julian asked.

"Part of her plan involved having T.C. to herself so she could send Whitney down
the same path of destruction I was on years ago, and she wouldn't be able to do
that if T.C. was with Rebecca." Eve said.

"What does that have to do with anything?" Julian asked.

"I think she might go after them- if she hasn't already." Eve said.

T.C. had called the Harmony P.D. and reported the incidents.

"I want this bastard caught." T.C. said, pointing to the message left
on the window.

"We still haven't found the sicko that kidnapped Sheridan," Luis said.
Luis's cellphone rang.

"Theresa, what's going on?" Luis asked.

Luis had to say that name. "As if this night wasn't bad enough," Rebecca thought.

"What? Oh my God, is everyone alright?" Luis asked. "Thank goodness." Luis said.
Luis ended the call after Theresa gave him some more information.

"What was that all about?" T.C. asked.

"I think this stalker struck again." Luis said.

"What do you mean?" Rebecca asked.

"Whoever this psycho is, I think they're the same person that set Eve and Julian's house
on fire." Luis said.

"Oh my God- Eve is she alright?" T.C. asked.

"Eve and Julian both made it out alright," Luis said. T.C. and Rebecca sighed with
releif. Luis gave T.C. and Rebecca some quick instructions on how to handle the
stalkings then had to take off to check out the fire.

"Whoever they are they're going after Julian and Eve too," Rebecca said after Luis left.

Meanwhile, Alastair watched in satisfaction from his camera.

"So far everything is turning out as planned." Alastair said. "Eve and Julian- T.C. and
Rebecca?" Alastair laughed. Alastair watched as T.C. tried to convince Rebecca not
to go hysterical about worse case scenarios.

"Making peoples lives a living hell- one of the most important perks about being a
Crane." Alastair said.

Later, T.C. and Rebecca had let Eve and Julian stay with them for a while since
they had nowhere else to go.

"Alastair really disinherited you?" Rebecca asked Julian in surprise.

"Without a cent," Julian nodded. Julian thought back remorsefully. "That must
have been what it was like for all of the other families in Harmony that father
took land and businesses from." Julian said. Rebecca looked at him in
confusion.

"Julian, you've changed so much lately," Rebecca said. "Its hard to beleive
you're the same man who-"

"Tried to kill my sister on several occassions- hired an imposter, caused
the boat explosion-" Julian said.

"If this stalker doesn't cause anymore problems, someone is probably
going to get hurt from my cooking- or house cleaning." Rebecca said.
Julian laughed.

"Even living the normal life its hard to picture you cooking or cleaning,"
Julian said. Rebecca decided not to mention that she had been
cleaning while T.C. was at work earlier that day, accidentally punched
a hole in the wall, and had to push the bookshelf over enough to cover
it. Then she had decided it was too noticable, then had to move the
rest of the furniture in the room.

"Julian, I just want to thank you again for everything you did to help me
save my relationship with T.C. in Los Angeles after I made a complete
fool out of myself," Rebecca said. "We both
know that I don't exactly have the best track record when it comes to
relationships." Julian agreed. Julian remembered some of the catastraphes
they had gotten themselves into that had turned into complete disasters, but
Rebecca still insisting on staying with him. Julian was glad that Rebecca was
finally starting to figure out that there was so much more to relationships then
just being partners in crime. He didn't want to see her mess things up by
getting herself into too many crazy situations.

"Whitney moved out?" Eve asked. T.C. nodded.

"Where did she go?" Eve asked.

"She is staying at the Lopez-Fitzgeralds with Theresa and Pilar until she can
find an apartment.

Theresa laughed as Whitney played with little Ethan.

"You and Chad should really think about having kids," Theresa said. Whitney
looked at ATheresa like she was insane.

"Theresa, there is no me and Chad." Whitney said.

"But Chad loves you." Theresa said.

"Theresa, you need to keep the fate stuff to yourself," Whitney said. "There, I finally
said it." Whitney sighed.

"But fate is real!" Theresa said.

"Theresa, fate is a childish fantasy like Mickey Mouse." Whitney said.

"Whitney- how can you say that? Chad saved your life several times and
took a bullet for Eve." Theresa said.

"Chad lied to me, Theresa." Whitney said. "You can't go through your whole life
basing every relationship on fate."

"Fate always brings Ethan and me together, it brought him to California, didn't it?"
Theresa asked.

"Theresa, Ethan was there with Gwen to help her through her pregnancy." Whitney
said. "Fate wasn't involved."

"Whitney- we didn't know they were going to be there- then Ethan and I were
in the same bed- if that isn't fate I don't know what is." Theresa said.

"Theresa- don't give me that- you were watching for Ethan the second we got to the
apartment. Theresa, you had everyone staring at the door thinking Ethan was
going to walk into the room." Whitney said. "We're not seventeen anymore."

"I know that, Whitney." Theresa said.

"How many more times do you want Rebecca to attack you? How many more times
do you want to get hurt when Ethan goes back and forth between you and Gwen like
this?" Whitney asked. "Theresa, you need to find someone else who can be available
to you all the time." Whitney said. "Someone who isn't already married." Whitney
said.

"Whitney moved out?" Julian asked.

"Julian, I just don't know what to do," Eve said. "Everything is falling apart so fast-
the girls, we've lost our home-"

"Eve, we will figure out some way to help Simone and Whitney," Julian said.
"We'll come up with something together to convince them both to come back
home." Julian said. "I love you, Eve, and I'm not going to let everything that
has happened destroy your family. I promised you that, and I'm going to keep
that promise."
 
 
 

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