| No Happy Endings Summary: Kathryn is rushed to the hospital and everyone deals with the consequences. Chapter 11: Taking a Fall Sebastian had never moved so quickly in all his life. As he watched Kathryn tumble down the long stair case his brain seemed to come to a stand still and his legs felt like jelly. She has to be ok. She has to. As her small body hit the last step, her head hit the hard wood floor below her and then nothing. She didn't move at all. Finally his voice came to him as well as the use of is legs. "Kathryn!!!" He screamed loud enough so that the party guests from the next room began to rush into the servants foyer below. Sebastian ran down the stairs nearly tripping several times since he could still barely feel his legs. He couldn't see or hear anyone around him except her. He hadn't even noticed Annette as she scurried away. When he finally reached the bottom of the stairs several guests were already gathered around her. Sebastian pushed them away as he knelt down beside his wife. She was laying on her back unconsciense. There was a small trickle of blood coming from her forehead and as Sebastian took one of her hands he noticed her wrists were red and bruising. He continued to scream her name "Kathryn! Kathryn! Look at me please. Baby please!." But she didn't respond to him or anything. Sebastian brought a shaky hand to neck and tried to feel for a pulse but he couldn't feel anything because he was shaking so bad. Behind him he heard a man say "she's breathing. Someone call an ambulance!" Sebastian could hear the mummer of voices asking what happened. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Isn't that Mary's niece? He could also hear Blain's voice yelling "just hurry!" Sebastian tore his eyes away from his wife for a second and looked up at Blain who was knelling on the other side of her. He looked more worried than Sebastian had ever remembered seeing him. He nodded his head "there on there way." Sebastian nodded dully and looked down at Kathryn as he gently caressed her forehead. He leaned down and kissed her face and whispered "your going to be ok, I promise." As he pulled away he repeated the sentence but it was more for himself. She was going to be fine, she had to be. The ambulance showed up minutes later with four EMTs and a couple of cops. A young guy dressed in a navy uniform and carrying a large bag pulled Sebastian away "sir we need to look at her. Is she your girlfriend? Wife? Sis-" "She's my wife" Sebastian interrupted him. "I'm going with her." "That's fine, just give us room." Somehow Sebastian managed to stand up and pull away from her. The group of EMTs rushed around her spouting medical jargon that he couldn't understand. A police man walked up to him and asked what happened but Sebastian couldn't be bothered with him. He barely heard him as he asked if he saw who had done this to her. No, as Sebastian looked up his attention was else where. It was on Court who was now at the bottom of the staircase standing a few feet away. He glanced over at Sebastian and there eyes locked. He must of known what Sebastian was going to do before he did it because he started to back away. He didn't get too far as Sebastian moved with almost the same speed he had as he ran down the stairs. In a second he had him around the neck and pressed up against the wall. He wanted to choke him, choke the life right out of him. His hand was wrapped so tightly around his neck that he might of. "Valmont I didn't-" he sputtered as he struggled for air. "Shut the fuck up you asshole. Did you see what you did? Are you happy now?" He screamed in his face and squeezed harder. Sebastian was well aware of the cops who were trying to pull him off him and Blain's voice warning him he wasn't worth it but he didn't care. He would kill this asshole right now. "I'm going to fucking kill you!" He could feel Court struggling for breath under his hands but he just kept squeezing and would have killed him if the two guys hadn't pulled him off. "Sir calm down this isn't helping anything" ordered the cop who approached him a minute ago. "If anything happens to her I'll kill you understand!" Court who has bent over catching his breath looked up and said hoarsely "I didn't do anything Valmont. Annette pushed her." "You fucking dead!" He screamed at him as he felt the two cops hands still on his back pulling him away. "Sebastian there taking her now" Blain told him calmly. Sebastian pulled away from the cops and gave Court one more nasty look before turning away. One of the cops said they needed to talk to him about what happened but he ignored them and walked out with his wife. Blain replied "I'll tell you what happened." * * * * * * Things had not exactly gone according to plan. As Court looked around at the mess around him he quickly tried to think of what to do. He wasn't taking the blame for this, no fucking way. He hadn't pushed her down the stairs Annette had and he was going to make sure everyone knew it. The only thing he had done was drugged Kathryn and tied her up and she had gotten out all right. The only person other than his two accomplices who knew what he did was Kathryn and providing if she got out of this alive, it would still be her word against his. He just had to play it cool and everything would be ok. As Court looked around the crowded room guests were starting to leave and more police seemed to be arriving. He looked over and noticed Tuttle talking to the cops. He would have questions to answer but first he had to take care of something. As he looked around he hadn't noticed Cecil which meant she had either run off or was hiding some where. Court ducked into one of the rooms when no one was looking and made his way up the other staircase. He quickly went into the room he had just been in mere minutes ago and found Cecil sitting on the bed holding her head. She looked up when he came in the room "what happened? I heard someone scream." "Did you see Annette?" "No what happened? What's wrong with your neck?" Court brought his hand to his neck which was still soar "Fucking Valmont. Annette pushed Kathryn down the stairs, the police are here." Cecil's hand flew to her mouth "the p-police. Oh god were going to go to jail! There going to arrest us!" "Calm down! Were not going to jail, we didn't do anything wrong." "Yes we did! We drugged her and tied her up against her will! They put people in jail for that." Court glanced quickly around the room "not if they can't prove it." He began picking up things and putting them back in place. He picked up the vase, grabbed the handcuffs and fixed the bed "how the hell did she get out anyway?" "I let her go" Cecil said meekly. Court moved from the other side of the bed and grabbed her by the shoulders "you fucking idiot why did you do that?" "Because she said...oh god she was pregnant!" "She said what?" Court asked in disbelief. "She's pregnant...or was. Is she going to be ok?" Court let her go in disdain "who cares? I'm more worried about saving my own hide at the moment and you should be too." Cecil sat back down on the bed and said in a voice barely a whisper "what have we done? She could die." He glared angrily at her and pulled her back on her feat "listen to me Cecil. Are you listening? We didn't do anything, this was all Annette." "B-but she knows we kidnapped her-" "We didn't kidnap her! We did nothing understand. Now your going go home and not open your mouth to anyone about this get it?" "Yes b-but-" "Not a fucking word understand? Cause if you tell anyone I'll find you and I'll fucking kill you! Now go." Cecil gave him one last glance before quickly scurrying out of the room. Court made sure everything in the room was in order then he left as well. * * * * * * Sebastian was pacing in the hospital corridor waiting for the doctor to return. It seemed like Kathryn had been in the emergency room for hours. What was taking so long? The EMTs said she would make it so why hadn't anyone come out to see him yet? Sebastian stopped pacing and leaned against the wall. He looked down at his hands that were still shaking. When this was all done with Kathryn would laugh at him for being so worried. He could hear her now "god your such a pussy. Of course I'd make it I just fell down a couple of stairs." She had to be ok. A minute later an older guy dressed in a white coat greeted him "Mr. Valmont?" "Yes, is she ok can I see her?" "In a minute, we have to talk first. Would you like to sit down?" "No!" He nearly screamed "just tell me is she ok?" The doctor paused for a second "your wife suffered a concussion and a fractured rib." "But she's going to be ok right?" The older man looked uneasy "yes but-" "But what?" "Your wife lost the baby." Sebastian was confused "what baby?" The doctor looked at him surprised "you didn't know she was pregnant?" "No she wasn't. Sh-she would have told me." Sebastian's head began to spin. Pregnant. No, no fucking way she would have told me. Wouldn't she? "I'm sorry, there was nothing we could do, she lost it on impact. She's awake now if you want to see her." Sebastian leaned against the wall for support, not hearing the doctor at first. "Does she know? I mean...that its...gone?" "Yes, I believe so. We're going to keep her here until her rib heals and if she needs any kind of support don't hesitate to contact someone in the hospital, we have a wonderful staff." "All right" he responded numbly. "Once again I'm sorry for your loss." Sebastian just nodded as he passed and he pulled himself away from the wall. He had to get it together, he couldn't act like this in front on her. God knows how she was feeling right now. Sebastian walked down the corridor to the room the doctor just exited out of. He was reminded momentarily of the last time he visited her in the hospital. If it was possible she looked even weaker now. Kathryn was laying on her side facing the other wall. He couldn't be sure if she heard him as he entered the room. He somehow gathered his voice and said "Kathryn, baby its me." She turned around slowly to face him but didn't say anything. Her face was complete stone and her eyes looked tired, in fact he could never remember her looking so tired. "Are you ok?" He asked as he pulled a chair next to the bed and gently caressed her face. She just nodded slightly which worried him even more. "The doctor told me...I mean I know about the baby." Kathryn pulled away from him and laid on her back staring up at the ceiling. "Kathryn? Look at me, please are you ok? Talk to me." She didn't move and he took her hand. After a minute he asked "why didn't you tell me?" She didn't answer or move so he didn't say anything. What could he say, he didn't know how to make this better. He finally just said simply "I love you, no matter what. I always have and I always will." Then in a voice barely a whisper she said "I'm sorry." "What? Why, you did nothing wrong." Tears began to well up in her eyes and she replied "yes I did. Oh god I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Sebastian quickly got up and held her. For the first time in his life he listened to his wife cry. * * * * * * A week later Sebastian returned to Kathryn's hospital room armed with flowers and bad news. She had moved out of the ER and was now in a private room healing from her injuries. He had been practically living with her at the hospital since the accident but he had gotten a call from the police saying they needed to talk with him about what happened. They had told him Annette had left and for all they knew had most likely skipped the country. As for Court he was pleading innocent saying he was just helping Annette and he denied doing anything to Kathryn. Kathryn had told the police what had happened but there was little proof of Court's involvement besides her word. It was likely he would get off with the help of his father. Sebastian was dreading telling her this because she was already so down already. She spoke very little and when she did it was almost mechanical. She blamed herself for losing the baby even though he told her over and over again that it wasn't her fault and he didn't blame her in any way. He didn't and he would give anything at this point to see just a trace of her former self. As he opened her door she was sitting up in bed looking out the window. Her face brightened slightly at the sight of him. "How you doing?" He asked as he kissed her forehead. "I'm all right the doctor said I'll get released tomorrow." He smiled "good. These are for you" He handed her the flowers and she smiled slightly "thank you. Did you talk with the police?" "Yeah. It's not good." "Tell me" Sebastian sighed "he's probably going to walk." Kathryn leaned back and shut her eyes "what about Annette." "Fucking idiots can't find her. They think its a possibility she left the country." Kathryn was quiet for a second then she grabbed the vase that was sitting next to her bed and threw it against the wall. "God damnit" she groaned as it hit the wall. For a second he was glad that she was acting like herself "don't worry they won't get away with this." She glared at him "what are you going to? Have him pummeled again. It worked so well the last time." "Well this time I'll make sure he won't walk away." "No" Kathryn said. Sebastian glanced at her and this strange look came over her face. It was that look she got when she was figuring things out. "No it's over." "No it's not, we can still fight them." "Not them" she said as her eyes locked with his "us. We're over." - to be continued No Happy Endings Summary: Three weeks later Court and Annette deal with the fallout from there actions and Court gets a surprise when he goes to see Sebastian. Chapter 12: Final Three weeks after the events of the party Court was still hiding Annette, not by choice mind you. No after Court had come back from talking with the police that night he found Annette waiting for him in his room. He had been surprised to say the least because he had thought she would be half way to Mexico by then. Court had explained what had happened and how the police were looking for her. He also let it slip that the police had little knowledge of his involvement in all of this. That had been a bad idea. Annette had then smiled and said "well then I guess you'll have no problem helping me if you value your freedom so much." So Court had no choice but to help Annette. He had set her up in a nice hotel and no one not even Cecil knew about it. He still didn't understand why Annette had stayed in New York. Every time he asked she just ignored him or changed the subject. Court had set her up in the hotel and hadn't visited her in two weeks though they had talked on the phone a little. He had decided to drop by to tell her the news about Cecil and to find out just when she planned on leaving town. He opened the door with the key he had and found her sitting on the sofa watching t.v. "Well look who decided to visit. What's up?" Court turned off the t.v. and sat down across from her. "It's about are little friend Cecil." Annette sighed "what about her? She hasn't said anything has she?" "No, well nothing logical anyway. The twit freaked out." "What do you mean freaked out?" Court snickered "she totally lost it. She started hallucinating and screaming 'I didn't mean it!' Her mother didn't know what to do so she sent her off to some hospital in Switzerland. Apparently she had some kind of nervous breakdown and they don't know how to shake her out of it." Annette leaned back taking in all of this "huh? Well I guess that solves one problem. Now you won't have to worry about her rating you out." "I suppose" Court said uneasily. "God this is just so fucked up. Nothing went as planned." "What are you talking about? We wanted to destroy Kathryn and Sebastian and I say mission accomplished. I mean Kathryn lost her child, which by the way I'm sure she probably would of gotten rid of anyway. She left Sebastian and left town leaving you your job to take back." "They won't give me it back after what Kathryn did to me, plus everyone still suspects I had something to do with this whole mess." "Yeah but with her gone they'll get over it eventually. Then you'll just have to win it back." Court smiled slightly "I guess your right. I mean we didn't kill her but this is almost as good." After Kathryn lost the baby she left Sebastian. Rumor had it she couldn't deal with everything and she blamed him for most of her problems. She had then left for parts unknown taking a leave of absence from her job. "You know from what I hear Valmont is in complete shambles since she left." At this news Annette sat up "what do you mean shambles?" "I mean he hasn't gone to work in weeks and no one has seen him. He hasn't come out his house once since she left him. Fucking pussy." "Oh my god" Annette said softly as she leaned back on the couch. "Is ok? I mean how bad is he?" Court was stunned by this to say the least. "I don't know? Why do you care? I thought you wanted to destroy Valmont after what he did to you." "Of course not moron. I am in love with him. I just told you I wanted to hurt him so you would help me escape." Court got on his feet quickly, suddenly angry. "Your in love with him? Jesus Christ Annette! Your telling me Kathryn was right all along?" Annette barely seemed to notice Court "I have to help him. I have to see if he's ok." She got up and started looking for her purse." "News flash. You can't just leave and stroll out to see him! You go to Sebastian and he'll have a fleet of cops after you and then were both fucked." Annette stopped then looked up at him "your right I can't go. You go." "What? No! No fucking way." She glared at him with a cold smile "your going Court. Your going over there and your going to tell me everything because if you don't go then I'll go. And if I go you can kiss your freedom good-bye." Court let out a loud groan of frustration "what am I suppose to say to him? Hey man sorry I helped kill your kid and your wife left you. He'll just kick me out." "I don't know what you should say. Apologize or something, just find out how he is." After a minute Court realized he indeed had no choice "fine I'll go but one thing first. Was she right, were you going to have me take the fall for all of this?" Annette smiled at him "no Cecil was." He sighed finding little comfort in that. "I'll be back in an hour." * * * * * * Sometime later Court arrived at the Valmont home. He rang the bell and one of the maids let him in. As he walked into there large living room he was shocked to find it a mess. There were papers everywhere and empty bottles of alcohol laying around. At first Court thought he was alone until he heard Sebastian yell "get the fuck out!" "Valmont?" Court called as he looked for where the voice was coming from. Sebastian had been laying on the couch facing the opposite wall he got up when he heard Court's voice "Reynolds, what the fuck do you want?" Court was surprised at Sebastian's appearance. It hadn't looked like he had shaved in weeks or changed his clothes lately. "Umm" he raked his brain for something to say "I wanted to you know...apologize for everything that happened." "Oh wow that's big of you" Sebastian replied sarcastically. "No I mean it. I never wanted for things to go this far." Sebastian laughed coldly "bullshit. This is exactly what you wanted. Me here miserable, Kathryn gone, our child dead." "I didn't know she was pregnant Valmont, I swear." "Yeah well, guess what? Neither did I. Now she's gone and everything's just..." "Well do you know where she went?" Court didn't know why he was still there talking to this loser. He didn't care if Kathryn never came back. "No she just left and wouldn't tell me where. She told me not to try to find her it's over. She even sent me these." Sebastian held up a packet of blue papers. "Divorce papers. She wants it final." Court had to suppress the giddiness he felt. He had done it he had broken up the super couple, he had won. "I'm sorry man." "Yeah well if she wants it final she'll get final. I mean I can't go back to my old life, not without her. I need her so much, I can't stand living without her." Court couldn't believe what a complete wuss Valmont was being. "Have you tried to get out at all?" "What's the point? I don't want anyone else I just want her." He was quiet for a minute then said "actually I'm going out to my aunts house. I'm going to finalize everything." "What does that mean? "There's no point in being around if I can't be with her." "So what are you going to do?" Sebastian walked over to the bar and pulled out a small revolver out of the drawer "I'll give you one guess." Court was shocked to say the least. He hated Sebastian but did he really want him to kill himself? Court remembered back to that night in the garage and thought fuck him. If he wanted to kill himself over some stupid bitch what did he care? All Court said was "maybe I should leave." Sebastian didn't say anything he just stared down at his gun. Court turned and left but then Sebastian called out "hey Reynolds can you do me a favor?" "I guess" Sebastian grabbed his divorce papers and then went behind the bar and grabbed a box. Court couldn't see what was in the box but he saw Sebastian toss the papers inside then seal it up. "Can you deliver this to the post office. It has to be sent by nine p.m." Court looked at the box dubiously "what's in it?" "Some of Kathryn's shit and the papers. Will you take it I want to get to my aunts right away." Court shook his head "I don't know, I'm kind of busy." Sebastian glared at him and said deadpan "gee Court you killed my kid I think it's the least you could do." Court was going to object but then decided to just take the package. "Fine I'll deliver it." "Good. Now if you'll excuse me" Sebastian grabbed the gun from off the bar and headed to the door. "I have to take car of something." - to be continued |