Schemes Of Deception, Chapter 42 ( The Plan Fails)
by rex_and_mimi_rule
 
 

"Maybe you should go look for her," Eve said. T.C. looked down guiltily.
"Do you think she'd want to talk to me right now?" T.C. asked.

"At least let her explain, I know what is on the tape you saw must have looked incriminating, but it was so long ago." Eve said. At the wrong moment, Whitney and Theresa walked into the room.

"What looked incriminating?" Whitney asked.

"Nothing," Eve and T.C. said.

"It couldn't have been nothing if it was Rebecca, everyone knows what a scheming, manipulative-" Theresa said. T.C. cut her off.

"Enough," T.C. said. "Theresa, I know you and Rebecca have never exactly gotten along, but now is not the time." T.C. said.

"Have never exactly gotten along would be an understatement," Theresa said.

"Alright, already," T.C. said. T.C. grabbed his coat.

"Where are you going?" Whitney asked. She had came to grab a few more of her belongings.

"To find my fiance and set things straight," T.C. said. Whitney cringed when she heard T.C. referr to Rebecca as his fiance. T.C. left.

"Whitney, I am so glad you're here, I was hoping that we could have a talk before you go-" Eve said. Whitney glared at Eve, then headed to her room.

"Save it." Whitney said. Eve gasped, and sat down on the sofa. She picked up a picture of herself, T.C., Whitney, and Simone.

"I'm so sorry Whitney, I just wish you could understand how much I love Julian- how special he
makes me feel." Eve said. "Your father and I still
care about each other very much, but we're in love
with and marrying other people now." Eve said. Eve
was glad, especially for the girls sake, that she
and T.C. were still good friends, but now that the
decisions had been made, she loved Julian and nothing
else mattered.

Simone and Kay had stopped by, Simone had finally decided to move back in, finally having enough of the insane antics at Tabitha's. She had barely gotten a decent nights sleep freaking out over the weird stuff
that went on in Tabitha's house.

"Mom, I'm moving back in," Simone called, already heading up the stairs. She bumped into Whitney on her way up, who was carrying a box.

"Where are you going?" Simone asked.

"I'm moving out, permanately," Whitney said.

T.C. had figured out where Rebecca must have gone
to look for him, and drove to the youth center. When
he got out of his car, he saw that he had been right.
Rebecca and Julian were standing outside the youth
center talking.

"Julian must have seen it too," T.C. said, noticing
that Julian had the tape in his hand.

"I thought I'd find you here," T.C. said, releived.

"I've figured out what is really going on here," Julian said.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stormed out like that- at least without waiting for an explanation-" T.C. said.

"T.C.," Rebecca said. "You were set up." T.C. looked confused.

"Set up?" T.C. asked, not sure what they meant.

"We think that father sent this," Julian said. "When I saw this in the VCR, I realized it was from the Crane security cameras."

"Those damn Cranes!" T.C. said. "No offense," T.C. said to Julian.

"Non taken, I should have known disinheriting me without a cent that father was letting me off too
easy for resuming my relationship with Eve," Julian said.

Alastair slammed his fist down on his desk, watching what was going on outside the youth center.

"Damn you Julian!" Alastair yelled. Getting another idea, Alastair got his temper under control, and smirked deviously. Dr. Ackland was once again trying to analyze Alastair's behavior.

"Mr. Crane, I'm still not understanding what enjoyment you could possibly get from-" Dr. Ackland said.

"You will, when I force you to impersonate the preist who is going to be marrying these couples." Alastair said.

"But Mr. Crane-" Dr. Ackland protested.

"Oh, please," Alastair said. "The tape didn't work, but I have a better plan." Alastair said. Alastair reached into his drawer, and removed another tape. Dr. Ackland was tempted to laugh, but he knew how sadistic Alastair was.

"Mr. Crane, if the last tape didn't work, what makes you think another one would?" Dr. Ackland asked.

"You're going to make it work- when you show this for all of Harmony to see- at the wedding." Alastair said. Alastair played the tape for a stunned Dr. Ackland. Rebecca had been following Julian around, using the name pookey excessively, trying to convince him to marry her.

"But I just got Theresa to sign the divorce papers-" Julian said. The tape was before Theresa had literally eaten the divorce papers.

"Pay up!" Rebecca demanded. "If you don't, I'll tell everyone that you were responsible for the boat explosion that almost killed Sheridan- I'll testify against you, and Luis- Antonio- they'll kill you!" Rebecca said. "And I don't want that to happen to my
pookey-" Rebecca smirked at Julian.

"Yes- Luis would tear me to shreds- and Pilar-" Julian said, going through a list of all of the people who had it in for him. Dr. Ackland watched Julian's panicked face as Rebecca rambled on about
wedding plans and trying to set a date, while smirking about his impending doom if he refused to
marry her. Alastair removed another tape, of Rebecca and Julian discussing the original plans to hire someone to blow up the boat during Luis and Sheridan's honeymoon, including Julian and Rebecca talking about the Luis imposter, and fixing it up to have Sheridan walk in on Luis having an affair. Dr. Ackland rolled his eyes when Rebecca went on about
Luis.

"Mr. Crane, don't you think fingers will be pointed at you? Your name is mentioned in this tape-" Dr. Ackland said.

"I'm way ahead of you," Alastair said. "I'm going to have this tape perfectly edited, there won't be a trace of my name on it." Alastair laughed. Dr. Ackland shook his head, Alastair was some peice of work.
 
 
 

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