Chapter Eight

Jon answered what he could and Richie also answered some too. He felt he had to tell the guys about Kristen and what Doc put her up too. The brothers didn’t like what they heard and especially Rick because Richie was a little too truthful to them in what he told them. Jon wasn’t too thrilled only because he felt what happened in Bon Jovi stayed in Bon Jovi but Richie needed to tell them that Kristen was here for one reason and one reason only and that was too seduce Jon and that he was a little too into from Mary’s point of view. He also felt that she would have told them the same thing and he thought it would be better if they heard it from them instead of her. Jon sat there giving Richie the stink eye but Richie just ignored him as usual. A.J. took notes as Rick paced. Richie looked at Rick and wanted to laugh. Now he knew what Mary saw in Jon. There was a lot of Rick in Jon. Mary never knew her Dad and Rick was the closest she ever had to a Dad. And they always say that the daughter usually picks the man she loves to be closest to her father. Well she came damn well close with Jon because he was as close to her big brother as she could get. Hot tempered, sweet but doesn’t want anyone to know, drinks, loves women, loves rock music, close to his family, needs things his way, yeah she nailed it right on the nose he thought to himself as he smiled. Jon was looking around the room and his eyes fell on Richie looking back and forth from him to Rick. He furrowed his brow trying to figure out what the hell Richie was doing or thinking now. A.J. looked at him and asked if he was alright and if they could continue.

They worked late into the night when they finally gave out because they all were exhausted. So they all called it a night and left. As Jon was getting ready for bed his phone rang and he jumped at it because he thought that it might be the hospital calling. “Hello?”

 “Jon?”

 “Yes? Who is this!” he demanded not recognizing the woman’s voice.

“You don’t need to know who this is just yet. I see that my handy work well…worked. Did she die?” the woman on the other end asked.

“What? Who the hell is this!” he asked pissed.

 “I asked is she DEAD!” she yelled.

“No she’s not but she’s very ill. We don’t know if she’ll make the night.” He said angry not knowing who this woman was.

“She should have died right there! Damn it. There was enough poison in there to kill an elephant! How? Argh! Never mind but you better watch your back too Bon Jovi because your next!” she told him and hung up. Jon just stood there staring at the phone in shock. He redialed and got the Simon’s room. A.J. answered which he was happy for. He told him what happened and A.J. told him not to tell anyone about what happened until they see him in the morning. Jon couldn’t get any sleep he tossed and turned all night and was having nightmares that Mary had died in his arms. He shot up in a cold sweat and he was breathing real hard. He decided to take a shower to see if that would help but it didn’t. He didn’t want to try and go back to sleep so he picked up his guitar and tried to see if he could write.  

As morning came Jon was still writing and it seemed he was making some progress. The lyrics and music seemed to be flowing from him and he didn’t want to analyze it too much. He didn’t know where this was coming from. Sometimes it took a while to get it just right but this time everything just seemed to flow and he thinks he knew why. He was writing this for his girl. He needed Richie thou to go over this to put his finishing touch on this for him so he would give this to him later. He couldn’t wait for Mary to listen to this. He’d sing this to her just the two of them when they’re alone in the privacy of their bedroom. He put his guitar away and turned on the t.v. and put on the news. Then called down to room service and sent one of the body guards down there to watch them prepare his food. He wasn’t going to take any chances. Doug then brought everything up with him as Sal let him in. They never question Jon in anything he asked them to do for him only because Jon paid them well and he treated them well. That’s why they were loyal to him. By the time he had finished his breakfast and he just kept the pot of coffee when there was a knock on the door. He got up to answer it and found out that it was the Simon’s. After the hello’s and what’s they got down to what happened last night. Jon started to tell them about the phone call and what she said to him which explained the body guards at the door. Jon had called them last night just to be on the safe side. The brothers started to hash things out now trying to put the pieces together. They decided to rule out Laura Davies seeing that she was way to in to Jon and when they went to interview her she really didn’t have the nerve to hurt anyone after Rick had gotten thru with her.

“Why what did you guys do to her?” Jon asked curious.

 “Well let’s say that Rick scared the hell out of her and what would happen to her if she ever did hurt you or Mary and that prison would be a thing for her.” A.J. told him as he tweaked his face.

 “But what about those photos she found with her picture all x’d out?” Jon asked.

“Yeah well she said she would have done that to anyone you were dating and that she saw that done on t.v. so when she was taking photos of you guys and cutting out pictures she thought that she would do it too. You know for a dramatic feel. Believe us Jon she couldn’t hurt or kill anyone she doesn’t have to stomach for it. So now our focus is that Kristen chick. We have Town do a full background check on her. Laura’s came back clean anyway.” A.J. told him. Meanwhile Rick was on the phone trying to get in touch with Town.

“Oh I forgot to tell you guys but the other night I think it was about four nights ago we kind of had a little tiff and well to make a long story short I had to go back to the arena when she got this delivery of flowers Lilies to be exact.” Jon told them a little pissed. They looked at him a little shocked.

“I take it that you didn’t send them to her then?” Rick asked.

Shaking his head, “Nope I didn’t and you can guess her reaction.” Jon said.

“She freaked didn’t she?” Rick said.

 Jon looking at her brothers and not wanting to tell them what really happened that night, “Yeah she did.”

“You know we may be looking at this all wrong.” He told them.

“What do you mean A.J.?” Rick asked.

“Well we’re looking at the obvious suspects. Well maybe it’s not even them. What if it has to do with Michael’s past.” He explained to them.

“Michael’s past? I thought we were over with that?” Jon said.

“What if were not? I mean why the Lilies? Someone out there wants us to believe this is linked to Michael that’s why the Lilies. Then the phone call saying first she should be dead then you. They want the both of you dead. So it has something to do with revenge. It has too why would they want the two of you dead?” A.J. asked.

“They want her dead because she’s with me?” Jon asked.

“They do they want you dead too. Yeah usually if they can’t have you then nobody can but usually if they do away with the other party then they wouldn’t threaten your life they would just try to get to work themselves into your life. Besides this smells of Michael all over it. Let me call Town back and have him get on this A.S.A.P.” Rick said as he went over to the phone. They waited till late afternoon until Town was able to call back with the information they wanted. It seemed that they had forgotten that Michael had a sister Jasmine as she called herself.

 “Wait a minute Jasmine? She hit on me in the bar that she worked at. Michael wanted to get Mary jealous so she hit on me remember?” Jon stated.

“Yeah I remember. You were bombed out of your minded.” Rick chuckled.

“It wasn’t that funny Rick. You would have killed me if I had taken Jasmine up on it.” Jon said uncomfortably.

“Yes I would have killed you. I was there remember oh you don’t.” Rick chuckled again. Jon stood up but A.J. came between them. “Really Rockstar?” Rick said.

“Alright Rick knock it off.” A.J. told his brother.

“Wait wasn’t there a waitress that died named Jasmine?” Jon asked them.

“Yeah apparently Michael gave her Jasmine’s wallet so the cops would think it was his sister. His sis look an awfully lot like her. But Jasmine got stopped six months ago for speeding in another state and Town got wind of it. Needless to say she got busted for a few things.” A.J. told him.

Right then the phone rang and Jon went to answer it. “Hello? Yes this is he. Really when? Yes I can be there in about forty-five minutes if not less thank you. That was the hospital Mary’s awake I’m going now are you guys coming or what?” Jon asked her brothers.

“Sure.” A.J. told Jon.

“Ok just let me get dressed then and we can go.” Jon told them. They got to the hospital and went to reception first so they could talk to her doctor. He told them that she could leave today as she was free of the poison and doing well. It didn’t do any damage to her and that she was one lucky girl. They headed to her room as she was dressed and ready to leave.

As Jon was the first to enter, “Hey Baby I see your already to get the hell out of here.”

“Yes I am and all I want to do is…” but that’s when she saw her brother’s walk in. “A.J.! Rick! What, how, why?” she asked as it stumbled out of her mouth and jumping first into A.J.’s arms then Ricks.

“Hey Sweetie glad you’re doing better.” A.J. said as she moved over to Rick.

“Yeah but how come you’re here?” she asked.“Well Jon called us he was a little concerned after you were poisoned?” Rick said agitated. Mary just stood there not knowing what to say to her brother. A.J. saw that she was uncomfortable so he broke in.

“Why don’t we take her back to the hotel and fill her in on our plans doesn’t that sound good?” he asked everyone.

 “Ya that sounds great A.J. come on I have the car waiting for us down stairs. Baby I’ll get the nurse so she can take you alright?” Jon said. Everyone agreed and went back to the hotel when they got her into the car.

Back at the hotel everyone went back to Jon and Mary’s room as Jon got Mary settled.  “Jon stop I’m fine.” she told him as she chuckled.

 “Ok, ok I’m sorry I just want to make sure you’re alright.” He told her concerned.

“I know that’s why I love you but you’re going to drive me crazy if you don’t stop.” She told him as she pulled him down and kissed him. Rick saw this and did smile a little but he wasn’t going to let them know that.

“Oh really guys don’t you guys get enough of that?” he asked them with a cranky face. They just looked at him smiling with their foreheads together not really caring who saw them.

 A.J. was on the phone and just hung up and walked over to them. “Alright that was Town and he got the info back on Davies.”

 “Well what did he say?” Mary asked anxiously.

 “Just calm down and let me tell you. Davies has no priors but she does have problems apparently with what’s real and what’s not. She sees a psychiatrist about this but has never been arrested for it. She think’s Jon is her boyfriend but that’s all. Last year it was Rick Springfield. A couple of years ago it was Shaun Cassidy. But she never approached any of them so Town said not to worry about her. So we go back to the beginning.” A.J. explained to them. Jon and Mary just looked defeated. Rick and A.J. noticed that they looked like two lost puppies.

“Hey guys don’t look so down. Believe it or not we do have a clue to who it might be.” A.J. told them.

Both of them now straighten up. “What do you mean you have a clue to who it is?” Mary asked.  

“Well Jon told us that you received some Lilies not too long ago right?” A.J. asked her.

  “Um yeah but I just thought it was some nut case that may have read it in the newspaper or saw it in the news when all that happened. That’s why I thought it was Davies.” She explained to them.

“Well she did look guilty. So did that Kristin tell you the truth because I still wouldn’t count her out. There’s just something about her I didn’t like.” Rick told them.

 “Ok then but you still haven’t told me who you think it might be?” she asked them.

 Looking at each other A.J. took a deep breath and said, “We believe it’s Michael’s sister Jasmine. She’s either trying to gas light the two of you or setting you guys up for a bigger fall. So right now Town is trying to see if he can locate her.” A.J. told them.

“Watch he’ll find that her last stop was here.” Mary said sadly.

Getting off the couch that he was sitting next to her he got down in front of her on one knee and taking her hands in his and said, “Baby it’s going to be alright. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you I promise. Michael’s dead remember? So he can’t hurt you anymore. And if it is his sister she can’t hurt us either ok? I won’t let her.” He said softly as he lifted her hand and kissed it. Smiling she mouthed Thank You. Rick and A.J. looked on smiling as Jon was comforting their sister. They were still angry that the memory of Michael still terrifying their sister. At least they knew that she had someone like Jon who could not only take care of her but love her like she should be loved.

The brothers told them that they were going to the local police station to see if they could get any info on Jasmine Johnson-Dallas and that they would get back to them as soon as they could. Jon called room service for their dinner and as they were finishing the phone rang. “Oh that could be my brothers.” Mary said to Jon.

“Ok, ok I’ll get the phone don’t have a cow.” Jon told her as she rolled her eyes at him.

“Hello? (as he answered Doc laid into him) but…but…I…I know… but…DOC SHUT THE HELL UP! Look I can’t talk to you right now and screaming at me isn’t going to help. We’re on for tomorrow so don’t worry. I’ve got things under control. And what the hell do you care you’re not even here? I thought you we’re suppose be giving me one on one service, personal service what a crock! Step it up pal and start earning your pay check or I’ll find someone who will!” Jon told him sternly as he slammed the phone down. That keyed him up and Mary knew it. They didn’t need that right now they had enough on their plate.

 Smiling she thought she would try a little humor, “I take that was Doc huh? Only because smoke usually doesn’t come out of your ears when you talk to Richie or anyone you like. Oh wait a minute it sometimes does when you talk to your mother.” She said as she giggled. He looked at her with a glare and sauntered over to her as he stared down at her. She wasn’t sure if he was kidding or if he wasn’t so she just sat there biting her lower lip nervously.

“Think your funny don’t you?” he asked in a slow deep voice.

“Who me?” she returned her answer as she shook her head slowly and pointing to herself.

“Yeah you?” came his slow drawl. She was really trying not to giggle now.

Looking at her he really couldn’t believe she was laughing. “Really? I’m trying to be all sexy here and you’re laughing?” he asked her giving her his pouty look.

Patting the seat next to her for him to sit down, “Baby I’m not laughing at you anything but. You’re sexy as hell and you know it. I was laughing at what I said to you I wasn’t sure how you were going to take it and when you looked at me well…” she stopped and he took her hand.

“I know, I know why do you think I got into it with you Baby I wanted to see if you were going to play but instead you laughed at me. But how do you feel? I mean are up to you know?” he asked her not wanting to say exactly what he wanted from her. Again she wanted to laugh at him but she was afraid that this time he would take it personally. So she leaned into him so she could kiss him but before it could lead to anything there was a knock on the door. “You know this is becoming habit!” Jon exhaled excitedly. He got up to answer the door as there was the bellhop standing there with a package. Jon gave him a generous tip to get rid of him and shut the door.

“What it is Sweetie?” she asked him.

“Don’t know and don’t care. Can we just continue our conversation we were having in the bedroom please because hum now you’ve woken up the Kidd and he wants some attention ok?” he said very agitated with the interruption.

Mary turned to him now really giggling. “You named it Kidd?” she said to him. That had about did it for him he walked over to her and picked her up over his shoulder as she yelped and brought her into the bedroom as he slapped her bottom but good. This was going to be one hell of a night.

They had locked themselves away that night as the two them wrapped each other not only around each other in body but also in mind and soul. She noticed there was something different in him and she couldn’t put her finger on it. It wasn’t like he was more tentative, he was always like that in her needs. He just seemed more gentle in their love making than normal. In the beginning he seemed he couldn’t wait to get started she thought and that meant usually a rough start so he could get off. She always just thought that was a guy thing and with Jon she didn’t mind because he never hurt her. But this time he didn’t do that it was all about her and he took his time with her each time they made love though out the night. Jon was the one who woke first and he quietly got out of bed. He went to the door where that package was and quickly hid it so Mary couldn’t find it. Then he went to see her brothers before she woke up. Well that didn’t work out to well for him because she did wake up to find his side of the bed empty. She moved her hand over the sheets to find that he wasn’t there so she called out his name and when he didn’t answer she hoped that he was with Richie. She got up and went to the bathroom and when she returned to the bedroom she was going to call down to her brothers but that’s when she heard the living room door open and close. “JON!” she yelled out.

“Yeah Babe it’s me.” He yelled back and he walked into the bedroom.

“Where were you?” she asked.

Thinking fast, “I was with Rich why?”

“Well I was missing you?” she said as she walked over to him putting her arms around him. “What’s got you smiling like that?” she asked him.

He was about to tell her when the phone rang. “I swear to God! I got it.” Jon said as he rolled his eyes.

“Well I can’t take it I’m exhausted from last night!” she laughed as she flopped on the bed.

“Hello? Hello? Is this Jonny?”

“Who the hell is this?”

“Your worst nightmare Baby. She’ll be dead by tonight you got that and not even her brothers will be able to stop it.” And the caller hung up.

 Mary sat up slowly. “So who the hell was that?” she asked him.

He sat next to her on the bed and took her hand. “I know you don’t want me to lie to you so I’m going to give it to you straight ok? ‘shaking her head yes’ I believe it was that nut case Jasmine and she was just threatening us that’s all nothing new. I’ll make sure extra security is added when you go out and at the venue ok?” he told her.

“What about you?” she asked.

“Well if I don’t have extra security too Doc will kill me himself. Don’t worry Baby I’ll make sure I’ll have it too. Plus I need to tell your brothers that she called again. But first let’s call for breakfast I’m starving for some reason.” He told her kissing her deeply.

“Oh I wonder why!” she yelped as he pinned her down. About an hour later they finally called for breakfast and then Jon called her brothers and told them that Jasmine had called earlier. Rick started to ball him out for not calling earlier but A.J. told him to put a sock in it.

As they were eating Mary asked him about the package that came last night. “Honey what was in that package that came last night?” she asked him. He looked at her and needed a cover and had to remember to tell Richie later on.

“Oh I brought it over to Richie this morning remember I told you that I was over there. Apparently the bellhop accidentally delivered it to us last night but I didn’t read who it was for until this morning because I was a little encaged last night.” He explained to her while wagging his eyes at her.

“Very funny oh and speaking of funny when the hell did you name your…” she started to say as he stopped her.

 “Can we forget that please? Or I’ll show you again what he can do!” he said starting to get up.

“NO! No ok I believe you Sweetie I believe you. Plus we don’t have time the guys are going to start to pile in here pretty soon and we have to take our showers before they get here.” She told him.

“Are you telling me we stink?” he asked her smiling.

 “Just get in there will you?” she told him while slapping him on his ass. She should have known better because he turned around and made a grab for her and dragged her in with him. To say she felt loved by the time the guys got to their room wasn’t exaggerated. Jon put out all the stops on not only telling her how much he loved her but showing her. They didn’t get many days to themselves but when they did they used them to their advantage. They learned the hard way thanks to Michael to cherish each day they have with each other. 

It wasn’t long that everyone was sitting in the living room of their hotel room laughing and going over the set list that Jon had just finished. Mary was sitting next to one of the girlfriends when the phone rang. “I’ll get it.” she told them like any of them heard her. As she shook her head she got up and picked up the phone, “Hello? A.J.? I can’t understand you? Where are you? Yeah I know where that is; sure I can be there in about half an hour. No he’ll never know he’s too busy right now with the guys but I’m still having a hard time hearing you? Yeah alright see you then.” She told him as she hung up. April asked her who it was on the phone. She had to think fast because she didn’t want Jon to know but she knew she could also trust her. “April come with me in the bedroom please.” The two of them quietly stepped in and she explained to her who was on the phone and if she had any ideas to get her out of the room without Jon knowing?

“You know Mary didn’t this get you in trouble before with him?” she asked her.

 “Yes but my brothers need me right now and Jon will have a fit if I go without him or his stupid security team that will get in the way. My brothers have their own way of doing things and they’ll just fuck it up. Help me please?” she begged her.

“David will kill me you do know that right?” she told her.

“Not as bad as Jon will me.” She said squinting her eyes and making a face at her.

“No but after David Jon will kill me second! Fine but you owe me one BIG!” she told her.

Mary had gotten dressed and they left the bedroom which did not go unnoticed by Jon. “Hey Baby where are you going? We don’t have to be at the arena until this afternoon?” he asked her.

Turning around “I know it’s just that April and I were going to just step out for a little bit we need to pick up a few things.” She lied to him.

“April you didn’t tell me you needed anything earlier this morning?” David asked her.

“We didn’t know we needed anything until Mary and I started talking you know girl stuff Dave!” she said to him giving him the eye than to Jon. The guys just looked at each other then understood where the girls were coming from.

 “OH! Right that well go ahead we don’t want to stop you then do we JON!” Dave looked back at him rolling his eyes as Richie tried hard not to laugh.

Patty got up and Looked Richie straight in the eye. “Don’t laugh Rich I’m going with them. Have fun guys.” Patty looked at the girls and bent her head towards the door. They stepped out and she asked what the hell was going on and they better tell her. They explained as they first hit April’s room then hers. Patty agreed with April that Jon was going to have a shit hemorrhage when he found out but they would help her to lose the security team that would dog them. They told them that she decided not to go and it would be only the two of them.

Security had no reason to question them nor did they question Jon and the guys when they left for the venue seeing the girls told them that Mary wasn’t feeling very well and wouldn’t be going to sound check this afternoon. They just hoped that she would be back in time for the concert so Jon wouldn’t get suspicious. Mary headed down to the old warehouse like A.J. told her but she didn’t see him or Rick. She didn’t like the feel that she felt in her being so she carefully went into the warehouse taking out her gun. She looked around to see if she could see anything but it was really dark in there so she held her breathe and continued on. She finally came to an opening where she thought she could see someone tied to a chair so she carefully walked up to him hoping it wasn’t one of her brothers when everything went black. The sound check went off without a hitch and everyone seemed happy until Patty and April walked in without Mary.

Chapter Seven

          They slept till late morning when the phone rang. Jon woke and he reached for it carefully so as to not wake her up as she was still wrapped up into him. “Hello?” he said tiredly.

“Jon it’s Paul you said you wanted me to come up this morning?” he said.

“Oh yeah could you make it this afternoon Paul we kind of had a rough night.” He told him.

“Do you mind me asking but did you two have a fight?” he asked Jon.

Smiling, “Um no Mary had one of her bad dreams last night and from the way she was tossing and turning I’d say it was a really bad one. I’m going to try and get her to talk about it. So if you could give me a little time well…” he left it off as that’s when Paul spoke.

 “Sure thing Jon I’ll give you a call around say three then we’ll go from there. Talk to you later.”

They hung up and as he hung the phone back up Mary looked up at him, “Morning.” She said.

“Well morning Baby. How do you feel?” he asked her.

“Ok why?” she asked him.

“Why? Don’t you remember last night.” He asked her confused.

“Oh yeah well my head still hurts and I think I have a bump the size of a baseball back there but I’ll just use some ice and keep taking my med’s…” she was saying but he interrupted her.

“No, no Baby I don’t mean that but we will talk about that later I assure you.” He told her while taking some hair off her face and then just gently rubbing her cheek with the back of his hand.

“What time did you get in last night? I was afraid that you might stay with Richie.” She told him.

 He gave her a gentle smile. “Hey what’s our deal no matter how mad we are with each other we always sleep in the same bed and always sleep without clothes. Well I came home but you didn’t stick to the other part of our agreement now did you?” he told her still smiling.

Smiling back she said, “No I didn’t. I didn’t think you were coming back to be truthful and plus I was cold.” She told him outright.

“When haven’t I ever not come back to sleep with you when you’re touring with me? Huh? I love you more than anything in this world but right now and I’m scared to death that you’re not feeling the same thing.” He told her as his heart was about to burst out of his chest.

 She looked at him like he was out of his mine. “Oh Jonny you couldn’t be more wrong. You know that, why would I get so jealous if I didn’t love you so much. I’ve never loved anyone like the way I love you.” She told him smiling.

“Ok so tell me then, what were you dreaming about last night?” he asked her concerned.

She looked at him with an ‘Oh crap look.’ “Why?”

 “I think you know why Baby?” he said. She was caught and she knew it. So she told him what she could remember about the dream she had and how Michael came from behind her and slashed her throat. Now at least Jon knew why she was making that gargling noise and was having a hard time breathing. It was a good thing he was already dead because he would kill him all over again. He also didn’t like the fact that Kristen was in it and that he didn’t respond to her that made his heart hurt for her.

He hated these damn dreams because she always came out a little damaged for a few hours afterwards. “Baby I need to bring something else up that you may not want to talk about.” He said to her as she made a face.

“Sure why not we seem to be on a roll what now?” she asked him. She didn’t really mean to seem so pissy about it but she knew how he can get about some things. He just had to look at her with those damn big blue eyes of his.

“When I got home last night I noticed a smell in the living room so when I turned on the light there was a vase of Lilacs in the basket. So who sent them?” he asked her trying very hard to keep it calm.

“Well to be honest I really don’t know. They were sitting on the duvet when I got back here.” She told him as she scrunched up her face.

“Really? There wasn’t a note?” he asked in inquisitively. Taking a breath she looked him in the eye.

“This is what I wanted to tell you last night but Kristen kind of blew it for me you know. Anyway I really don’t know who sent them and yes there was a note with them.” She said guarded.

“Well are you going to tell me what it said?” he asked as he was getting a little annoyed now.

 Bending over to the end table and pulling out the note she said to him, “Fine but don’t get angry ok. It said: To My one and only, I see you're still with that rock star, that’s ok he will be gone soon and we will be together shortly for eternity. Forever My Love, M.”

“You’ve got to be fucking me. Let me see that.” Jon said as she handed it to him. He read it over and he pushed back his hair. “I don’t fucking believe this I really don’t. Just when I think this creep is out of our lives then something like this happens.” He said as he sat back against the bed frame.

She sat there as tears welled up. “I’m sorry Jon. You were so worried about yourself and all the baggage that you were bringing to the table that you thought I was going to run from you because of it like Dorothea did. You never realized all of the crap that I was bringing that you should be the one running. I mean all the things Michael did to you, you had every right to run from me and never look back.” She told him as the tears were running down her face. Again this was breaking his heart. Here was the love of his life, his beautiful girl and all she knew before him was pain when it came to love. He reached over to her and lifted her up and onto his lap.

 “Ok Baby you need to stop this alright. I haven’t left yet and I’m not about to now. We’ve gotten thru this before we’ll get thru this now. Together.”  They stayed like that for a while until Jon told her that he needed to get up and call Paul and make some phone calls. After that was done he swears that the rest of the evening would be theirs. She seemed fine with that and just wanted to take something to get rid of her headache anyway. He said fine and got dressed and called Paul early to see if they could get this done. Luckily Paul was free and they made the call to Doc who had denied everything to Jon. Jon was getting pissed and Doc knew it. Doc was trying really hard to talk his way out of it but even Paul was giving him a hard time. So Jon gave him a warning that it better not happen again and to stay out of his private life or else. Doc wasn’t happy about what went down but if he wanted to keep the top rated number one band of the moment he had to go along with what Jon wanted.

After that call to Doc the others didn’t seem so bad and went pretty smoothly. Meanwhile Mary slept for a while to try and get rid of her headache. It was a few hours as Paul and Jon finished up and Jon thanked him and he said goodbye. He then went to check on her to make sure she was all right. He walked around to her side of the bed but before he sat down he noticed the draw to the side table open. He went to close it and saw another note in the drawer and took it out. He unfolded it and read it and couldn’t believe what he was reading. Why didn’t she tell him about this one too? And did she go down to the bar and meet this person. He wasn’t very happy at this moment and wanted answers. Especially how long was this going on? He shook her to wake her up and he was none to gentle about it. “Mary wake up. Wake the hell up!” He said loudly.

She woke up startled. “What! What’s the matter?” she asked him as she shot up.

“Calm down nothing is the matter I just need to talk to you.” He told her pissed.

“Oh ok. What’s up?” she asked him groggily.

Pulling out the note and showing it to her, “What’s this? Why didn’t you tell me about this one?” he asked her pissed.

Looking at the note in his hand, “Where did you find that? Were you snooping in my things?” she asked him now getting pissed at him herself.

“Just answer the question. Did you go down to the damn bar to meet this person?” he wanted to know.

 “That’s two questions which one do you want me to answer first.” She asked sarcastically.

 Not thinking that she was funny Jon got angry, “JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS!” he yelled. That took her for a loop because he hardly yelled at her like that. Trying very hard not to cry she gave him an answer.

“I didn’t tell you about it because I know how you get very over protective of me and I needed to know if that person was the one who sent the flowers. And no I didn’t go down to the bar because I got that note when I got back from the venue and I wasn’t feeling good so I didn’t want to chance something happening to me while I met with this person because I’d never hear the end of it from you. So I didn’t go I went to bed instead. And yes I was going to tell you about it sometime today when we got a chance to be alone.” She explained to him with a solemn face and tears welling up in her eyes.

He sat there and listened to her explanation and was feeling like a heel for yelling at her like he did. He noticed the tears forming in her eyes and he knew he was causing that. He took her hands in his as he said, “Baby I’m sorry I yelled at you like that. I was just really frustrated and I thought you were hiding things from me again and well you know.” He said to her hoping that she would forgive him.

 “Yeah well you did take me by surprise.” She said as she wiped some of the tears away.

“Again sorry” he said rubbing one of her hands.

“No you had every right I have been keeping things from you. First the gunshot wound on my leg which by the way is getting better. And there is something else but you have to promise you’re not going to scream at me ok?” she asked him as she scrunched up her face and held his hands tight.

“I’m not going to like this am I?” he asked her with concern on his face. She shook her head no. “Ok shoot.” He said.

She told him about how she went out the day with Rich B. and when they were clipped by the car. As Jon listen he was trying very hard not to get angry but it was getting hard. She told him that she was looking for the maid who had barged in on them that night a Laura Davies and when she had tracked her down and entered her apartment there were pictures of Jon all over her bedroom walls. Also how they found a box of pictures of herself with big red X marks on her face stating that she wanted Mary out of the picture. Plus she feels that the car accident wasn’t an accident that it was intentionally because she felt that it was aiming for her. She also told him she was trying to investigate this when the flowers came and threw her off her game. He sat there trying to take this all in and not liking what he was hearing.

He cupped her face with one hand and told her, “Do you know if something ever happened to you I think I would die. When we were going thru that hell with Michael that’s when I realized how much I loved you. No I don’t want you doing this shit anymore. But I know I can’t change you either. But make me one promise please. No more secrets ok? You tell me what’s going on and I’ll try my hardest not to go off the deep end deal?” he asked her kissing the back of her hands.

Tears were still rolling down her cheeks. “I love you more than life it’s self you know that and I promise you no more secrets. So what are WE going to do about this Laura Bitch?” she asked him.

“That’s something we’ll talk about a little later. I have plans for us right now.” He told her with that wicked grin of his.

He wanted to make up for making her cry. The funny thing is she wanted to make up for hurting his feelings for not telling him the truth. She bent forward to lean into him so she could kiss him senseless but he had other ideas. He stopped her before she got half way to him and she looked at him confused as if she did something wrong. But he had that gleam in his eye and still had that wicked grin on his face and she knew that she was in trouble. The last time he had that look nearly killed her. “Ohhh no you don’t. I’ve seen that look before hot shot. Tell you what why don’t you just…” but before she could finish her sentence Jon grabbed her and threw her down flat on the bed and pinned her arms besides her.

“Hey now that’s not fair!” she squealed as he started to nibble on her neck.

He made his way to her ear and whispered, “If you think the last time was killer you just wait. I’m going to send you into outer space.” He whispered as his hot breath caressed over her ear. She shivered as his tongue traced the inside of her ear and down her neck. Jon was going to show her exactly how much he did love her and that she was also going to feel it. As he promised he sent her to outer space more than once. He also was right there with her. There was something about this night that just melded the two of them together as one. It was about after the fourth time as Mary had fallen asleep curled up into him, Jon was staring at the ceiling content as he usually was but this time was different.

He knew he loved this woman with his heart and soul but this time, this feeling was totally different. He knew he flirted with woman every day of his life and that thing he felt for Kristen was just being lonely for so long or maybe he just needed to see if she would get jealous deep down. Stupid he knew. But he knew he couldn’t live without her and didn’t want to try. He was going to make a phone call in the morning. Morning came quickly and he wanted to wake her up like he did every morning when she was with him but she wasn’t in bed when he opened his eyes. He thought maybe she was in the bathroom so he waited but after ten minutes came around he got nervous and decided to go check on her. Getting out of bed he went to the bathroom and went in but there was no one there. Trying to figure where she could be he went out into the living area and there she was on the phone.

 “Ok but don’t say anything. I don’t care. Yes. Ok.” Jon was listening to her conversation and decided to let her know that he was there so he coughed and she turned around to see that he was standing behind her naked as a jay bird. “Look I have to go. Yeah I love you too and thanks bye.” She said and hung up. Smiling, “Hey Babe you’re up.”  She said to him as she walked over and wrapping her arms around him.

“Yup who were you talking to on the phone?” Jon wanted to know.

“Oh that was A.J. I wanted him to get a work up on that Laura bitch.” She told him.

“Really and how long should that take?” he asked her.

“Well depends on how long it takes them to get Town to run a check on her.” She said smiling.

“Ah you know one of these days he’s going to cut them off cold turkey.” Jon said as he started to feel her up.

“Why Mr. Bon Jovi what are you doing?” she asked shyly.

“Well if you don’t know then I’m doing it wrong.” He said wagging his eyes. Mary slapped Jon on his ass and made a run for it for the bedroom. He yelped and chased after her telling her what he was going to do to her when he caught her. By late morning they got cleaned up and ordered breakfast. As room service arrived so did Richie.

“So long time no see you guys.” Richie said as he grabbed a piece of toast.

“What’s the matter Rich you haven’t eaten yet?” Jon asked him miffed as he just wanted to spend a quiet breakfast with his girl.

“Actually I have why?” he retorted confused.

“Don’t listen to him Rich.” Mary told him.

“Thanks beautiful. So when do you want to go to sound check today?” he asked Jon.

 Jon looked at him surprised. “We don’t have a concert tonight?” he told Richie.

 “No but you usually run our asses ragged anyway. We have one in two days and you usually want to run the songs thru until we drop what’s changed?” Richie wanted to know.

“Um nothing it’s just that I have some things to do today that’s all.” He told him. Meanwhile Mary had made her tea and was drinking it as they were talking. When all of a sudden things started to get fuzzy and she became dizzy. She got up and was about to yell to Jon when the lights went out. Jon and Richie heard a thud and saw Mary lying on the floor.

They went running to her and Jon gently picking her head upon his lap. “Baby, Baby wake up, wake up. Rich what happen she was fine just a minute ago!” Jon said in a panic.

“I know let me get the first aid kit I’ll be right back.” He told him as he ran off to the bathroom. Jon just kept rubbing her head until Richie got back with the smelling salts. He broke it and put it under her nose hoping she just fainted. “Jon maybe she’s you know preggo.” Richie told him.

“WHAT? You think?” Jon didn’t know what to think she had been fainting quite a bit lately.

“Jon she’s not responding to it.” Richie said.

 “Rich call down to reception and have them call an ambulance and Fast!” Jon yelled to Richie even thou he was only about a foot in front of him. They were taking her out of the elevator as the other guys were coming from the hotel’s restaurant. They told Jon that they would meet him and Richie at the hospital. It seemed like hours to Jon before anyone came out to tell them anything when finally a doctor came out to tell them what they found out.

“Mr. Bon Jovi?” the doctor asked.

 “Yes?”

 “I’m Dr. Peters I see we meet again. I hate to tell you but this time your girlfriend was poisoned.” Jon and the guys just stood still and couldn’t believe what they were hearing.            

“She was what?” Jon asked.

 “Poisoned it seems. Fast acting too. We gave her the antidote so she’ll be out of it for the most of the day so I would like to keep her overnight. Also I need to let the police know about this seeing that she was poisoned as it is a crime.” The doctor told him.

“Um yes of course.” Jon said. “Thank you, when can I see her?” Jon wanted to know.

“Let us get her into a room and I’ll send out a nurse to come get you alright?’ he said. Jon nodded and the doctor left. Jon turned to the guys and as he started to pace he was mumbling. The guys looked at each other and just shook their heads.

 So Richie decided to risk it and say to him, “Hey bro we can’t understand you. Why don’t you sit down and try to relax huh?”

 But he turned around and, “Relax! Relax! How the hell can I relax when someone out there tried to poison my girlfriend!” Jon yelled.

 “Yeah Jon come on you need to tone it down. You’re going to get us kicked out of here.” Tico told him.

Rubbing his temples “Yeah ok but who the hell would do this to her?” he asked upset.

“We’ll find out I promise ok?” Richie said putting his hand on his shoulder.

Looking up at his friends Jon got an idea. “You know I need to get to a phone.”  

Jon was sitting in Mary’s room his eyes closed trying hard to take a cat nap. He had spoken to the police earlier and told them all he knew and told them what she was working on. He also told them what Doc had done and gave them Kristen’s name as well. But the most important thing that he told them was that they would probably be contacted by her brothers who are private investigators and will want to know what they find out. He just couldn’t wrap his mind around the fact that someone wanted to kill him or his girl. Why? What did they do? And who? Michael was dead and Dot was in the looney bin. He thought they were home free for once. Everything was working out and now this was happening.

 He was just starting to dose off when Richie stuck his head in. “Jon? Jon?” he said as he walked in.  He noticed that Jon had dozed off. Smiling he decided what he had to tell him could wait. He took another chair and sat down with his friends so he could watch over them. It didn’t take long for her brothers to get there. Jon had a car waiting for them and they headed straight to the hospital. They had just made it before visitor hours were ending and they were able to see their sister who was still out. As much as Jon wanted to stay the night the night nurse told him that they would call if there were any changes and for him to get a good night sleep. The Simon’s also told him that and they also wanted to hear everything he knew. They headed back to the hotel where Jon got the brother’s their own room and once they settled in they would go over everything that happened in the last month since she arrived back with him.

Later that evening the Simon’s finally got together with Jon as they found him with Richie in a less than stellar mood and condition. Richie let them in as Jon was unable to get up from his chair.

“What the hell is wrong with him?” Rick asked peeved.

“You’re really asking that? He’s about had it with everything that’s happening to them.” Richie said.

“Oh boo hoo. If he wants to date her he’s going to have to get used to this kind of thing. Not that we like it any better than he does. But it comes with the job and unfortunately there is some nut job out there either in her past or his that wants either of them and now it’s up to us to try and figure out who the hell it is. So get his ass the hell up and sober so we can get this going so we can find this nut job or I’ll do it!” Rick demanded of Richie before he got Jon up off of his chair himself. A.J. tried to put his hand on his arm but Rick shoved it off as he was so mad. Richie called down to room service and ordered a lot of coffee not just for Jon but for everyone. Richie tried to get Jon to drink the coffee but he kept saying no that he was fine.

So A.J. tried. “Look Jon we need you at one hundred percent here do you understand? We need you to remember everything that has happened since Mary came here from day one until now and we need you sober for that. So get off your fucking soap box and drink the damn coffee!” A.J. sternly told him handing him the cup of coffee. Looking at him Jon took the coffee sheepishly and started to drink it. About forty-five minutes later he seemed more with it so the guys started to ask them some questions.

Chapter Six

The concert was in full swing and going great. The guys were on fire and the two and half hours flew by. They did their final bows and ran off the stage while giving each other high fives while whooping and hollering. They ran back into the reception area where Kristen and some other reporters and fan club members and such were waiting for them. Jon told them that they would be back in a few as they had to run to the showers and their dressing rooms and they’ll be back shortly. In the meantime Mary pulls up to the venue and runs up to get in but one of the security guards stop her. 

“And just where do you think you’re going Missy?”

“I’m going in there.” She told him as she tried to get by.

“I don’t think so. Where’s your badge?” he asked her.

“What? My badge? Oh for crying out loud. He didn’t give me one for this venue. Damn it! Look Buddy I know every girl here tells you that she’s Jon’s girlfriend but I am. My name should be at least on the damn list. Mary Simon.” She told him annoyed now.

Giving her a cocky look he took the list and looked down at the list of approved names. “Sorry Honey you’re not on it.” He told her.

“You’ve got to be fucking me! What the hell is wrong with his fucking staff! Fine can you call Obie O’Brien then because this is really important and I need to talk to Jon right away.” She told him really annoyed but mostly scared to death.

 “I don’t think unless…” he said trying to suggest something.

“Unless what?” she said pissy.

 “Well seeing that nobody’s around we can go over by that dumpster and you can give me a blow job and then I’ll get Obie on the WT for you. If you really know him that is.” He said lecherous. She stood there with her mouth open because she couldn’t believe he just suggested that to her.

 “Do I look like I do that kind of shit pal!” She yelled at him.

 “If you want to get in to see Jon you better.” He told her smirking.

 Just then she just saw one of the bands security walk by the entrance of the open door. So she started to yell his name and hoped she would get his attention. “Paul! Paul!” but the other security guard was trying to shut her up so she started to back up and she fell on her backside as Paul finally heard his name being called. He looked around but didn’t see anyone in the hall but thought he would check outside seeing the door was open and when he did he thought he saw someone the ground struggling to get up. He did notice this other security guard there but the person on the ground looked like they were hitting him. So he decided to go other there to investigate. When he got closer he realized that the person on the ground was Mary and she was fighting off this guy.

“Hey what the hell do you think you’re doing pal! Let go of her!” Paul yelled. He turned around shocked that Paul was yelling at him. “Mary what the hell are you doing on the ground Honey?” he asked her surprised.

“This Jackass well…Paul look I’ll explain everything to you while we go find Jon but just take his name and we’ll deal with him later if Jon doesn’t kill him.” She told him.

“Yeah sure.”

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They had finish showering and getting dressed so they started to go back to the reception area when there was a knock on Jon’s dressing room door. “Yeah?” he asked.

 “Can I come in?” she asked.

“Sure Kristen come on in.” he told her.

“That was an awesome show Jon. You guys were great!” she told him as she went over to him and gave him a hug.”

“Oh uh thanks we thought so too.” He said nervously for the first time in a long time. He never usually got nervous when a pretty girl gave him a hug or a kiss but for some reason with this one he did. They slightly parted and looked at each other and Jon smiled as to say something else but Kristen knew she had to make her move now and see where it would lead her. So she went in for the kill seeing that they were in his dressing room alone she planted a kiss on his lips. He was taken by surprise to say the least. But he didn’t even have time to react and it was like slow motion when the door opened again and standing there was Mary and Paul. Mary thought she was seeing things at first but blinked her eyes to make sure. Standing before her was the man that she loved and he was kissing some Bitch.

He quickly parted from her. “Baby it’s really not what you think it is. Really.” he rambled.

 She just stood there and didn’t know what to think. But Kristen did. “Oh Jon you should just tell her.” Kristen said.

Jon looked at her strangely. “What the hell are you talking about?” he said angrily.

“I’m talking about us silly. You and me. If she came in about five minutes later well no telling what she would walked in on.” Kristen insinuated. Jon couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“What the Fuck Kristen!” Jon yelled.

She started to rub her hand up and down Jon’s chest but he just slapped it away. “Knock it off Kristen! You’re the one who kissed me I didn’t kiss you. What the hell is going on?” Jon demanded to know. Mary just stood there this whole time watching this crazy scene going on before her not knowing if Jon was putting on an act or not. He already had done this once to her and this time he could be trying to throw her off the track by feigning his ignorance. Michael had done this to her several times before so she wasn’t sure if she should fall for it with him. Her head was spinning with the flowers coming to the room and now this. Her nerves were shot and she could feel the room starting to spin. As Jon was still yelling he really wasn’t paying that much attention to her and she didn’t see Richie come running in as he heard all the yelling. He sped past her as he wanted to tell Jon all about Kristen and what Doc had set up but the next thing they all heard was a thud. As they turned around Mary was laying on the floor out cold. Jon nearly had a heart attack when he saw her lying there unresponsive. “MARY! Oh Dear God!” he yelled as he ran over to her and lifted her head on his lap. “Look what you did Bitch!” he yelled to Kristen.

“Hey I didn’t do that. It’s not my fault the little Princess can’t take bad news.” She smugly said. Jon wanted to jump up and rip her heart out. But before he could do that Richie jumped in.

“Jon what the hell is going on?” he asked his brother. Looking up at him,

“That bitch told Mary that were having an affair. Mary caught her kissing me when she walked in.” Jon told Richie in a disgusted tone.

Richie couldn’t believe his ears. “Well I got a few things to tell you, Doc hired her and he told her to break the two of you up. I didn’t have time to tell you earlier I’m sorry bro.” Richie told him.

Jon again couldn’t believe his ears. “Oh that’s just great! Look could you go and get the medical kit. It should have the smelling salts in there.” He asked Richie. Richie ran out of the room to go see if he could find it. He just gave Kristen the stink eye. He was rubbing Mary’s cheeks to see if that would help. It didn’t take long for Richie to get back with the medical kit. Jon opened it and took out the smelling salts from the kit. He cracked it open and wiggled it under her nose. It only took a few seconds for it to take effect as she started to move her head. He then for a second or two kept it a little longer for her to get a good whiff she then started to bat it away. “Baby that’s it wake up. Wake up sweetie.” Jon said to her as he was rubbing her forehead gently. She slowly opened her eyes as she remembered the flowers coming to the room and that Michael could have sent them. She shot up scared to death breathing hard like she saw a ghost. Jon grabbed her and wrapped his arms around her to try and calm her down. He hadn’t seen her this scared since Michael had been around or with one of her bad dreams.

 Richie looked on just as nervous as Jon. Jon looked over to Richie and asked, “Rich could you please escort her out of here. I don’t want to upset Mary any more than she already is with her.” Jon said.

“Yeah sure no problem Kidd. Ok let’s go trouble.” Richie said as he escorted a very upset Kristen out of Jon’s dressing room.

 Looking down on Mary “Baby are you ok?” he asked her.

“No I’m not.” She told him.

“Believe me I can explain everything. Richie just told me Doc hired her to come on to me so she would try and break us up. But you have to believe me she kissed me I didn’t kiss her.” Jon said pleading his case.

 Looking up at him, “Jon that’s not what I’m upset at.” She told him. Looking at her he didn’t understand, so why then did she get all upset and fainted like that.

“Baby then why did you faint like that? I thought you were angry with me because she was kissing me?” he asked her.

 “Well I didn’t like it. I told you she was a whore. But that’s not why I came here. Oh and by the way you really need to check out your security guards better.” She told him.

“Why? Are they doing their job a little too well?” he asked with a wry smile.

Looking at him with a disgusted look on her face, “Are you kidding me?” she asked him.

“What?” he asked her not knowing what she was talking about.

 “Just help me up will you?” she asked.

 Helping her up and getting her to one of the chairs he asked her, “Baby I know you’re mad at me but please you need to know it wasn’t me that came on to her.” He told her sincerely.

“Jon you didn’t even see her coming on to you. You see every other girl do it but her? I know you’re not that stupid. Plus I’ve seen you flirt back with her. Maybe I shouldn’t have come here that way you could have found out one way or the other if you had feelings for her or if you just want to end this.” she told him.

Jon couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “What the hell are you saying?” he was afraid of her answer.

“I think you know Jon. I need some time, some time to clear my head.” She told him knowing that if he knew about the note with the flowers he wouldn’t leave her side. She needed to get back to the hotel before he did so she could get rid of the flowers before he saw them.

 “Look can we talk about this after the After party? I can’t do it right now but we need to talk about this Baby we really do.” He asked her holding his breathe.

 She thought about it, “Yeah sure, ok. Oh by the way that security guard he calls himself Dex.”

“Yeah I know him we used him just last night when we had that radio interview. Luckily for us he was able to fend off some of the fans that were a bit rough. One of them grabbed Kristen pretty hard and he was able to pull them off of her before any damage was done to her.” Jon said with a little pride.

Mary just rolled her eyes. “Oh come on if anyone gets hurt it’s on me Babe you know that.” He reminded her.

“Yeah I know and you should remind him also. Because as I was trying to get in I wasn’t given any badge for this venue Jon and why I wasn’t on the approved list of guests?” she said angrily.

“What do you mean you weren’t on the list? You’re always on the approved list.” He told her shocked.

 “Well I wasn’t he this Dex said if I would go with him and take CARE of him then he would let me in. And he also crudely said some other things to me that I don’t really want to repeat.” She told him.

 Jon stood there in shock. When he finally snapped out of it he was pissed off to say the least. “He what?” Jon asked excitedly.

But before she could answer him David stuck his head in, “Hey Jon it’s time to head on down.”

Turning around to face him, “Tell them I’ll be right there.” He told him.

“Ok you’re coming with me.” He told her matter of fact.

“No Jon I’m going back to the hotel.” She told him.

“Baby you came here to tell me something didn’t you? I mean you didn’t just come down here to spy on me did you? And I think I know who didn’t put you on the approved list but that I’ll have to handle later. At least in the morning.” He told her outright.

“Jon just go to the party I trust you ok but right now I have a headache and all I want to is sleep.” She told him.

“Fine but I’m getting Rich B. to take you back I’m not taking any chances ok?” he told her.

 “Fine.” She agreed to go back with Rich and she had him just drop her off at the hotel entrance telling him that she could make it from there. When she got back to the room those damn flowers that she dumped in the basket were staring her in the face. She couldn’t believe what went down tonight at the arena. That bitch had made a move on Jon and by the look of things he wasn’t putting up much of a fight in her eyes. He couldn’t fool her. She heard something by the door and saw a piece of paper sliding from under the door. She went over to the door and picked it up and opened the door to see if she could see the person who slipped it under. But no one was around. She went back in and opened the note and it read: If you want to know who I am meet me downstairs in the bar in fifteen minutes.

She knew better than to go down to the bar alone. Yes she did know better and not feeling all that well she thought it over intensely. Jon would kill her if she went and something happened to her. She really had to take his feelings into consideration. Her instincts on this were telling her that this wasn’t good. So she made sure that the locks on the door were locked properly and took her medications and went to bed. She wasn’t going to take any chances getting Jon pissed at her even if it was something simple as a fan trying just to get to him.

Back at the party Jon wasn’t in the greatest of moods. Some important people were there trying to get to the guys so they could introduce their daughters to them. Doctors, lawyers, Asst. Governors, Councils members the list went on and on Jon just wasn’t in the mood. Learning of what Kristen was doing the entire time that she was here; trying to seduce him and break him and Mary up was really pissing him off. He loved Mary very much but he also knew that he did flirt with other women but it didn’t usually mean anything to him. He never thought what it meant to the other women or to Mary for that matter. But he did his job and put on his fake smile and worked the room. Kristen was sitting in the corner with her note pad and looking none too happy but didn’t want to approach him at least not yet. She wanted him to calm down a bit. Richie walked up to Jon to see if he was ok before anyone else did. He could see it in Jon’s eyes that he wanted to get the hell out of here and soon.

“Hey Kidd how are you doing?” Richie asked Jon.

Turning around to face him, “Just fine.” He said to him agitated.

 “Well you don’t look it Kidd you look like you’ve been put thru the ringer.” He told him.

 Rolling his eyes, “You’re very observant aren’t you. Of course I’m not doing good what gave it away?” he said sarcastically.

 But before Richie could give back one of his classic lines Paul walked over to them. “Hey Rich, Jon. Where did Mary go?” he asked Jon.  

“She went back to the hotel, she said she wasn’t feeling good.” He told Paul.

Paul made a face and said, “Really? It seemed she was on a mission when she got here.” Paul told them.

Jon’s eyes went wide. “She did didn’t she. When I asked her she said that it could wait and that she would talk to me later. I wonder what the hell she wanted to tell me?” he pondered.

“Well it seemed pretty important when I saw her outside.” Paul told them. “Outside? You saw her outside?” Jon asked him.

“Yeah I heard my name being called and when I looked over that security guard Dex was all over her. It looked like she was trying to hold her own but the guy had at least hundred pounds more on her and he was trying to drag her over by the dumpster. If I hadn’t got there I don’t know what would have happened. I thought she told you this she said she was going to.” Paul said to him.

Jon and Richie were stunned to hear this but also had to pick up their mouths off the floor. Once they got their senses back Jon asked Paul, “You mean this actually happened?”

Paul just looked at him. Shaking his head, “You mean you didn’t believe her when she told you about Dex?” he asked Jon. Jon just kind of stood there not knowing how to answer that.

Richie jumped in. “Jon please tell me you didn’t tell her you didn’t believe her?”

 “I don’t believe I said to her I didn’t believe her I just told her that Dex had a good rep in the security hum business. But that’s all about to change when I fire his ASS!” Jon stated angrily. “Can you get on that as soon as possible Paul?” He asked.

“Yeah I can, in fact it will be a pleasure, since that happen I pulled his file and he has a bunch of complaints against him that nobody told us about. I need to look into that in the morning and do some more firing it seems.” He told both of them.

Jon was at least happy that Paul was going to take care of that and he didn’t have to worry about that at all. He also wanted to know if he would come to his hotel room by late morning so he could be with him when he called Doc and ball him out about what happened about the approved list and Kristen. Paul told him that he would love to do anything to help him out with that. He didn’t like Doc and how he tried to control Jon and the guys like he did. Jon told Richie and Paul that he was going to slip out and go back to the hotel so Paul told him that his car was ready to take him anytime he wanted. So he quickly slipped out and told the driver to take him back to the hotel. Luckily there were no fans about because they were still at the venue where they thought he was so he was able to slip in the hotel quietly and up to his room. When he entered all the lights were off so he tried to quietly shut the door and make it to the bedroom when a strong smell of Lilacs hit him like a ton of bricks. He looked around for a lamp and when he found it he turned it on. He didn’t see anything on the table or the duvet but when he looked down he saw a bunch of them in the basket next to them still in the vase. He reached for them and pulled them out but couldn’t find any note to go with them. Saying to himself, ‘So this is what she wanted to tell me. Shit! Why am I never here when this crap goes down?’ He chastised himself. He put back the vase and the flowers back in the basket where he found them and went into the bedroom. He went over to his side of the bed and turned on the light.

There she laid on her side and her back was facing him. He had taken his shower at the venue so all he did had to do was strip out of his clothes and climb into bed. He turned off the light and scoot up to her so he could wrap his arms around her. But when he did she had a pair of sweats and a t-shirt on which was weird because even if she had her period she would only wear her panties to bed. No she was angry with him very angry with. They had this deal even if they were mad at each other they still would go to bed always saying goodnight and without clothes. That was Jon’s rule only because it would be hard to still be angry with the other that way and especially by morning. So this was so unacceptable to him. Especially where he felt he didn’t do anything wrong. So he just rolled back over to his side hurt as he fell asleep. During the middle of the night Mary was having these crazy dreams. The bump on her head didn’t help her any. She had gotten up once during the night to throw up, maybe not eating dinner didn’t help any either with her headaches. But when she fell back to sleep the rest of the night all she dreamt about was Lilacs, delivery men, Kristen and Jon laughing at her at some point when Bon Jovi was on stage but the real kicker came was she walked into this giant stadium and the guys were playing as she was looking at the stage. Jon was sing her favorite song to her, yes an Elvis song “Can’t Help Falling In Love” but then came Kristen out on stage as he grabbed her and started kissing her. Mary was yelling trying to get his attention when these arms wrapped around her waist. Surprised she turned around and to her horror Michael was standing there grinning like he just swallowed the canary. She tried to scream but nothing came out of her mouth. It was like someone had removed her voice box. Michael started to laugh now and as he finally let go of her, he stepped back and there was blood all over him. She couldn’t understand why until she put her hands up to her throat and felt the slit in it and the warm blood oozing out.

She was thrashing in the bed but she couldn’t even scream in real life either which made it even worse. Jon could feel the bed shaking and it was either an earth quake or Mary was having another bad dream. He turned over and almost got a fist in the face as she was mumbling something. Actually it sounded like she was gargling or something like that and trying to catch her breath. Shit she was having one of her bad dreams again and this one seemed like a really bad one. He sat up so he could try and wrap his arms around her but first he had to calm her down. He grabbed her by the arms so she would stop flailing about. “Baby, sweetie come on now wake up. You’re safe now, nobody’s gonna hurt you.” He told her over and over as she kept trying to escape his grip. He finally got her under control enough so he could slap her hard enough on her cheek to try and wake her up. It took him several times but she finally started to come around. “That’s it Baby wake up. Breathe.” He said as her eyes started to blink open. As she focused she saw the most handsome site staring down at her. “Hey there beautiful. You’re ok now you’re safe nobody’s going to hurt you I promised.” He told her as he picked her up and cradled her in his arms. “Are you okay now Baby? You want to talk about it?” he asked her smiling calming at it. She just shook her head no and started to cry into his chest. His heart dropped into his stomach. He hated to see her like this. It killed him to see her like this. So he just held her as tight as he could and rubbed her back to try and calm her. Before he knew it they both had fallen back to sleep in each other’s arms till morning.