Destiny's Child

Chapter 3

V stepped away from Jerry for a moment. "This is big isn't it? I've never seen you like this before."

"Huge." Jerry replied, an enigmatic look on his face. "V this will transform your life, whatever it is exactly. Are you ready for this? This is the Cassadine family, they make the British Royals seem boring by comparison."

V crossed her arms over her chest. "Jerry someone delivered a diamond tiara to me and a family crested medallion. Do you think they'll let up even if I'm uninterested?"

"No luv that's not the way Helena operates. What' she'd do is try and try in any way she deemed necessary to gain your interest and cooperation."

V sighed heavily. "Think she would hurt anyone I care about Jer?"

"That's the way she operates V. I think it very possible." He replied in a grim voice, lost in his memories. Once he had been this hopeful that Helena's evil deeds wouldn't touch his life. Unfortunately they had in a cruel and vicious way.

"I can’t allow that, she doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who would go after someone who could protect themselves. She could go after one of Flea’s girls or Liz. If anything happened to them, because of me I could never forgive myself. I should just go do what she says and just get it over with." That way no one gets hurt, and she gets whatever she wants from me."

"It doesn’t work like that V. She might still go after one of your friends, just to keep you under her control. You don’t know her like I do." Jerry closed his eyes for a moment against the pain.

"How do you know her Jerry? I think in order for this to work you have to come clean with me."

Jerry shook his head firmly. "V I cannot and will not get into this. I just can't."

V gave him a long look and started to speak when there was a knock on his door. "Bloody hell I'm popular this morning." Jerry muttered even as he was weak with relief. Opening the door he found Jax there.

"Jasper what are you doing here before breakfast?" he asked happy to see someone there.

"I’ve been trying to get a hold of you for days Jerry. You need to start checking your voice mail if you want to keep working with me." He pushed into the apartment, not waiting for an invitation. He stopped short, when he saw a very disheveled looking V. He turned to look at Jerry with an accusing glare, and noticed the state of his brother’s undress. "V, what are you doing here this early in the morning? Jerry’s not much of a host on an average day, but this early in the morning, I can’t imagine he’d be any better."

"Jax, I’m not sure what you’re thinking, but I’m sure that from your voice, I wouldn’t like it. I had a problem and Jerry is helping me with it. I woke him up about 45 minutes ago, when I couldn’t wait any longer to talk to him."

"Stop being an ass Jasper, if you have something to say, say it. I’d offer you a cup of coffee, but I don’t think at this rate, you’re going to be staying long enough to enjoy it."

"Don’t you think that I have a right to worry when I find my best friend crying in my reprehensible older brothers apartment? Especially when I find said brother barely dressed standing in front of her. While that would be enough to scare the average woman, but V has never been average, so you must have done something more to her."

"I didn’t do anything to your precious Venus. Outside of a few tears, which I had nothing to do with, does she look any worse for the ware?"

V had just about enough of both of them. She put her fingers in her mouth and let out a shrill whistle that stopped the arguing and had them both looking at her like she was crazy.

"Thank you, I’d appreciate it if you two would stop fighting over my honor and both shut up. You’re giving me a headache that I can ill afford to have. Sit down both of you, and if either of you raises your voice one more time, I’ll kick you out of here."

Jerry walked away, amused that she thought she would be able to kick him out of his own place. He came back a few minutes later, with a glass of orange juice and two aspirin for his new partner. She took them gratefully, and motioned that he was to sit down on the couch next to Jax, who was trying to look apologetic but was only succeeding with vexed.

"It’s not every day that you get chewed out by your former assistant is it Jasper? She can handle herself if you haven’t figured that out yet, and I’m not looking to take on a hellcat right now. She’s more woman then I deserve."

"At least you’ve got one thing right this morning Jerry." Jax turned to look at V, not sure he really wanted to know what she was doing there this early.

"Jax, will you please shut up for a minute. I’ll tell you why I’m here if you can promise to let me finish the story without any smart ass remarks or put downs of your brother. Remember, you’re the one who showed up uninvited."

"V, you don’t have to tell him anything. When he’s acting like this, it’s not worth the trouble. You’ll have to explain it two or three times, and in the end, you’ll be so frustrated, that you’ll only want to kill him."

"Both of you, hush. I don’t know how I managed to work with either of you as long as I did. I’m starting to question my sanity, and I don’t think you two paid me enough now that I think about it. I’m in some serious need of back pay."

"If we manage to get your pretty little neck out of this with your head attached V, then we’ll talk about back pay. Until then, I’d worry about waking up tomorrow morning." Jer said with a sigh.