Rising Phoenix

[DarkPhoenix]

(This story will be set around Season 6 and contiune from there. It will be Rated R or PG-13, for strong language, violence. )



“Oh my god, girl. I got kicked out of a club tonight.” Desiree said, into the phone as she sped down the street. She glanced down at the clock and squinted at the dashboard. It was 2:00 in the morning, her parents would kill her if they knew she was out this late. Which is why she perfected the art of sneaking in and out of the house.
“You got kicked out of a club?” Krystle, one of Desiree’s best friends asked in disbelief. “How the hell did that happen?”<br> “Long story short. Some broad that I was hitting on her man, she got in my face and I had to check her.” Desiree said, laughing.
“See that’s why I don’t like taking you anywhere.” Krystle chuckled into the phone. “So how is San Francisco?”
“Boring as hell. There is nothing to do out here. My parents want to go on a family vacation, but I end up stuck at home while they work the whole time. If my dad had just listened to my mom, she was completely against coming out here. But dad got his way. At least I only have two more days.”<br> “At least you get out of school, for a couple of days. I’m so glad this is are last year. College is going to be so much better. I can’t wait for UCSB.” Krystle said, making Desiree smile.
“If there was some guys around I probably wouldn’t be so bored.” Desiree said, while looking for her street sign. She had gotten lost in this city twice already and she didn’t want to do it again.
“Wait aren’t you still going out with Derrick?” Krystle asked, Desiree could hear the confusion in her tone.
“Well yeah, but it’s not like I was planning on meeting a guy in San Francisco. Hell, from what I hear Derrick has a better chance of finding a guy than me.” Desiree said, turning into her driveway. “but anyway girl, I just had to tell you that. That was just hilarious to me. Ok, now I have to sneak in the house. I’ll call you tomorrow. I’m going to have to do some shopping, I saw this purse that I wanted so bad.”<br> “Make sure you call me tomorrow, since you like never call when you say you are. Adios Queen B.” Krystle said, making Desiree roll her eyes and smile. She clicked the phone off, and bit her lip as she stared up at the Victorian House, it was not the biggest one, but it was still a beautiful house. This was the first time she had sneaked out of the house, and she had some practice at her other houses.
Desiree got out of the car and shut the car door gently, she looked down the street and it was eerily quiet around. God, she was in the suburbs. Desiree climbed up the porch and walked up the porch, she moved over toward the window and peeked inside the window. The lights were off which was a good sign. She moved over toward the side of the house, and looked around, there was a tree by her window. I could climb the tree, then shimmy across the branch to my window and then get into my room, as soon as she thought that, she immediately kicked herself. “Ok, Des that was dumb.” she said to herself. Going through the front door and walking slowly up to her room, sneaking past her parents room seemed like a much better idea. Not as creative as the first one, but still a better idea.
Slowly sliding the key in the doorknob, she opened the door and then ambled toward the stairs slowly. “Now you just have to make it up to your room,” Desiree silently told herself. She took the first step and listened making sure that it didn’t creak. She put her keys in her pocket, so they wouldn’t make any noise as she walked up the stairs, then got on all fours and crawled up the stairs.
In the middle of the stairs, she paused and listened. For a moment, she thought she heard a noise. “Ok, I’m just getting over paranoid. Hell, I’m crawling up the stairs.” she said to herself, and continued up the stairs. She squinted trying to see something in the darkness. It was pitch black. She felt around at the top of the stairs and felt something hard and then reached out with her other hand at the object. She slid her hands over it trying to figure out what it was, and realized it was a shoe. She looked up and saw a dark shadow standing over here. She screamed and the figure reached out toward her and grabbed her by the hair.
“Let me go!” she yelled, and she felt the arm that held her, she found the spot that she was looking for on the palm and pressed it down hard, making her attacker release her. She backed into the wall, and the lights came on, blinding her for a moment. Her eyes widened when she saw a tall man standing before her, he must have been about 6’5’. With jet black hair, that was tied back in a bun, and piercing blue eyes, that looked cold as ice. “What the hell are you doing in my house?”
The man’s response was drawing a blade from his pocket, he came at her and Desiree immediately grabbed his wrist with the knife aiming at her, and then elbowed him with her other arm, before throwing him down the stairs. He tumbled down the stairs. Desiree let out a sigh of relief, when he didn’t move.
Desiree suddenly realized that nobody came when she screamed, her parents slept hard but damn they never slept that hard. She ran over to her parents room, and burst through the door. The sight she saw before her eyes was so disgusting she couldn’t even scream. Right before her, she saw her father’s lifeless corpse hanging from the skylight that he had insisted be put in. Desiree couldn’t help but notice the shocked and horrified expression that had been put on his face. "Daddy," tears ran down her cheeks as she realized that he was dead and never would come back. She could feel the bile beginning to rise in her throat, this was an image that she would never ever forget.
She turned around and stared into the face of her attacker. “you son-of-a-b!tch!” she screamed and she felt something wash through her, and the last thing she could remember was a blinding blue light flashing through the whole room...

[DarkPhoenix]

i'll have an update soon. Hope you guys like it.

[mjp3]

This is a really good start. I can´t wait to know what happens next.

[Assassin Witch]

Glad you started, DP.

And wow, what a great start. Looks intense. Let's see how everything ties in.


I'll be waiting.

[DarkPhoenix]

Desiree awoke groggily in a rom, that was unfamiliar to her. She looked down and realized that she was laying in a bed with a robe on. She suddenly realized that she was in a hospital. Hospital, she thought to herself, how had she got in a hospital.
All the images of what happened earlier flooded through her mind, leaving her gasping for air. "oh my god, Daddy." She moved to get out of bed, and found that there was needles sticking through her."Ok, that hurts." she muttered to herself. She reached to pull the needles out of her arm.
"Please do not pull those out Ms. Desceare, the pain they show you in the movies is not nearly as much as it actually is." a man said, from the doorway startling Desiree.
"What happened to my parents?" Desiree asked, inside she knew her father was dead but there might be a small chance that her mother was dead too.
"Both dead." the man said bluntly. "Yet you are still alive, I find that extremely odd. Do you know what is going on as we speak?"
Both dead, echoed through Desiree's head. her parents were both dead, and know she was...alone. Completely alone.
"Ms. Desceare, do you know what is happening right now?" the man asked, Desiree could barely hear him while her thoughts swirled through her mind. "Ms. Desceare?" the man asked again.
"I don't know!" Desiree snapped at him, irritated that this man would be questioning her at her time of grief.
"I have 15 men, digging through the wreckage of the explosion that happened at your home. The criminal scene investigation unit is having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly happened." Desiree looked up at him, know figuring he was a detective.
That blinding blue light might have had something to do with that, but there was no way in hell Desiree was going to be mention that. Somehow it had come from her, and she had caused what happened. It felt like there was an explosion inside of her. "Wait, what about the man?" she asked, if her parents had died she hoped that bastard had died as well.
"When my men arrived their was only you and your parents at the scene" he said.
"That's impossible, when I got home there was a man in the house." Desiree said, trying to think how the man had survived. Well, then again she had survived it as well.
"What did this man look like?" the police inspector asked, he had begun writing on a pad. Desiree hadn't even seen him pull it out.
"Oh he was big, like 6'4'. 200 lbs. He was white and he had blue eyes." Desiree was about to say something on his appearance and lack of fashion sense, but the inspector had closed up the booklet. "What are you doing I'm not done yet?"
"Earlier you said, that you had come home and you saw this man. Why were you getting home so late?" the inspector questioned, making Desiree sigh.
"Um...I was out at a club." Desiree said, hoping this didn't make her testimony look bad.
" So here's what I don't get, if you knew this man was in the house, how come you didn't immeditately leave as soon as you saw him and call for the police?" he asked.
" I had gotten up the stairs when I saw him, he came at me, and then I threw him down the stairs. After that I ran into my parents room and...that's all I can remember."
" So you just blank out at that moment." the inspector said disbelieving. "You described the attacker to be 6'4' and you are like," he glanced down at his note. "5'6' and 125 lbs."
" 118." Desiree said without thinking.
"Doesn't matter," the inspector said, making Desiree frown at him. "still it is a little unbelieving that you threw him down a flight of stairs."
"I've taken a couple of self defense classes over the years, I used his weight against him. Being bigger doesn't always mean being bigger." Then at other times it does, she thought to herself. She had to look down to keep from smiling. I can not believe you are making sex jokes at a time like this, she told herself.
"You ok?"the inspector asked, noticing the change in her demeanor.
"Otherwise from being in a hospital bed, and both of my parents being dead, I am perfectly fine." Desiree laid back against her bed, her life was over.
"Atleast you have that nice hefty life insurance check you have to get you through all of the pain." the inspector said, there was something in his tone that made Desiree look at him a little closer. She suddenly realised that these weren't normal questions that he should be asking.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, am I suspect? You think I had my parents killed?" she asked, incredulously.
"Well, the life insurance check is--" the inspector was cut off.
"Get out! Get the f**k out of here you bastard." Desiree screamed at him, looking for something to throw at him. This was the ultimate insult, and this man would pay for this.
"I'll leave you to your thoughts." the inspector said, and walked out of the room, Desiree folded her arms across her chest.
"Honey is everything alright." a nurse asked, peeking her head into the room.
"As a matter of fact, no." the man had pushed some buttons, but he had also got her thinking about something else. "I need my lawyer." she needed the reading of the will....

(TO BE CONTINUED--Tell me what you guys think so far)

[Assassin Witch]

That an asshole, thinking the girl did that to her parents for MONEY! Who in their RIGHT mind would do that? *shakes head*

Wonder what's in the WILL.

[DarkPhoenix]

Ok, so now that you have gotten a feel for the story, here are what some of the characters look like:

Desiree www.foreverbianca.com/Gallery/Promo/Promo6.jpg www.foreverbianca.com/Gallery/PublicApp/Bianca_STLD_005.jpg

Tony Casella www.federicocastelluccio.com/images/portfolio01a.jpg

Nick McKenzie coreysevier.narod.ru/gallery2/764.jpg

Sara Casella www.northernstars.ca/actorsdef/Media/davidovich_lolita_0250.jpg

Terry Casella img.actressarchives.com/lacey/LaceyChabe_DeGui_772660_600.jpg

Adam Casella gfx.filmweb.pl/p/31604/po.39963.jpg

Daniella Casella www.photofeatures.com/idol12/images/prevs/DSCF1530a.jpg

Carmine Casella
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Steven Carson
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[DarkPhoenix]

"I feel fine, I really don't need to be in the bed. Once the doctor checks up on me again, he will tell you I'm perfectly fine." Desiree said, while trying to rise up from the hospital bed.
"That's nice sweety, but for right now. You should stay right here and don't move. You have been through a very traumatic experience." The nurse gently but firmly pushed Desiree back on the bed. "So I must advise you to stay here, doctor's orders."
Desiree frowned at the lady, she had been working Desiree's nerves all day, but now Desiree was just about to snap at the old woman. She took a deep breathe and said, "How about you go and get the doctor, then we can see what he or she has to say about it."
"Well I think you should--"
"Are you the doctor?" Desiree finally snapped at the nurse.
"No but I have just as much training as they do." the nurse said.
"Yes that's true except instead they went they went to school about 6 more years than the 2 year college then you did, if that. Now until you get the Ph.D at the end of your name tag," Desiree stared pointedly at the nurses name tag, "then you can advising me on what I should do." Desiree gave the nurse a vicious smile, and the woman turned on her heel and stomped out of the room almost running into a man that was coming into it.
"Well, I see you still know how to order around the help." a man said,Desiree squinted, she could barely see whose at the door. The lights in the room were so dimn, since it was so cloudy outside. This cheap little hospital couldn't even install a decent lighting system.
"Desiree you ok?" the man moved closer, coming into the light.
"Uncle Carmine!" Desiree exclaimed with excitement and sat up straighter as Carmine came to give her a hug. Carmine Casella had been a friend of her parents since before she was born. She had grown up with him and he had really become like an uncle."How did you know I was here?"
"Apparently I was listed as an emergency contact information on your Insurance records, and since I already stay in the city. I was able to get here as quick as possible. How are you holding up?" he asked, sitting on the bed.
"Horrible, I just want to leave this hospital and go home. Wherever home is now." Desiree folded her arms across her chest. "So I thought you lived in New York."
"Moved to San Francisco, closer to some family here." Carmine said, they both sat in silence for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"So you have family out here, I'm going to have to met these people. I don't think I've met anybody in your family." Desiree said, smiling at him. Carmine's smiling expression faltered for just a moment, thinking a moment about that.
"That would be an interesting meeting." he finally said. "So um...do you know what the next step is, I mean, are you going to go back to Santa Barbara and live there. Wait you aren't 18 yet."
"In the next 8 months, and then I'll be legal." Desiree said, smiling at her uncle.
"Legal to do what?" Carmine said, pushing Desiree playfully. "Now do you know who your parents might have listed as your legal guardian if they died."
"I guess...my aunts and uncles on my dad sides. Although I barely have even met the people, my parents were never to family oriented." Desiree thinking about it for a moment, finally she said "as of right now I'm kind of alone."
"No, you have me right here." Carmine said, and gave Desiree another hug. When they pulled back from the hug, Desiree had shed one tear, she wiped it away. If she had a mirror in reaching distance she probably would have made sure there was never any evidence of it. Her mothers words echoed through her from when she was a little girl, To cry is to show weakness, and we are not weak.

[Assassin Witch]

D@mn, harsh words from mommy!

So, I wonder who she's gonna stay with. And I bet the nurse left and went to cry somewhere.

I sense Drama coming....


And the pics are great!

[DarkPhoenix]

"Well?" Desiree asked, while pacing back and forth across the room. She watched as both of her lawyers looked over the will. They had been reading it for quite a while, it seemed her mother had drawn up a will every 4 months, and they were comparing them all.
"Desiree would you stop pacing, you are distracting me." Carmine said, glancing up at her from the documents. Desiree noticed that he seemed interested in it as well, her parents might have left him something in there.
"So..." Desiree said, taking a step toward them. One of the attorney's looked up from the will.
"Desiree!" he said with a tone that made her stop. Kevin Wilson had been an attorney of her family for as long as she could remember. "I know you want to know what is in the will, but I promise everything is fine. We just have to make sure that there have not been any drastic changes in the latest will to create any more suspicion than there already is."
"Suspcion? What is there to be suspicious of?" Desiree said.
"Originally your parents had left the company to the members of the board, and that it would go to Mr. Knight. In the latest couple of months your mother has changed it and put you in charge." Jamie Bernhardt said, while still looking down at the will. She was Desiree's personal lawyer, for about a year now. "When the members of the board hear this, they will not be pleased."
"Sucks for them, because they better not even think of me signing over the company." Desiree said, with a pleased smile. This was a very pleasant surprise.
"What do you know about running a company? Or should I say companies." Carmine said, looking up at her with a smile.
"Well, I could give away some of the ones I don't know anything about, but Liasons is mine."
"Yes, and that isn't the only thing that is yours. It seems like your parents left a combined sum of 10 million dollars to you. Your mother just changed both life insurance policies last month." Desiree turned around and looked at the man that had interrogated her earlier.
"Oh I didn't think you would have to guts to show yourself after that accusation you made." Desiree said moving toward him. "Do you know what happens to people that make me angry?"
"Did your parents make you angry?" The inspector said, stoppind Desiree dead in her tracks.
"That's enough pal. Who the hell are you anyway?" Carmine said straightening up and getting next to Desiree. "I don't like your accusations toward my god-daughter." he said, while putting a reasurring arm around Desiree.
"What is your name detective..." Jamie asked, while extending her hand toward the man. He shook it quickly. As if she were contagious or something.
"'Inspector' Woodward', and who are you people?" the detective said, while getting a pad of paper and a pen.
"Bryer, Wilson and Co. We are here attorneys we are just know reading the will, and in the future I would not like you to give my client such harsh treatment. It would not be good for the San Francisco Police Station to be hit with a lawsuit from us again." Kevin said, making Desiree smile.
"Don't threaten me, I was just doing my job." Inspector Woodward said, eyeing Kevin uneasily. "And who are you?" turning his attention off of the lawyers and on to Carmine.
"Carmine Cassella." As soon as Carmine said it, both Kevin and Jamie looked at him.
"Your last name is Cassella?" Jamie asked, showing him a lot more interest than she had before.
"Is your real first name Tony?" Kevin asked, moving over toward his papers, he started to seperate them.
"No, but..." Carmine paused for a moment looking at Desiree then at the lawyers, Inspector Woodward also looked interested.
"What's going on?" Desiree asked.
" This Tony Cassella is the trustee of your estate." the confused look on Desiree's face made Kevin continue. "without him you can't touch the money of your estate." Desiree's eyes widened, how could her parents name someone she had never even heard of her in charge of her life.
"Well, who the hell is Tony Cassella?" Desiree asked.

[Assassin Witch]

uh oh! The drama unraviels.

The Inspector is annoying me. I like Desiree. I'm curious on who Tony is and what's his relation to Carmine is..hmmm.........

[DarkPhoenix]

Dragon Fog, Chamaleon sight
I comand the Shrouded Sea
I blend the mist I mix the light
Refract around behind me

Carmine muttered this slowly while Desiree interrogated the lawyers about the trustee of her estate, the spell would make them forget that he was in the room and it would give him time to make his escape. He walked out of the room, the inspector was so busy taking his notes he hadn't noticed as well.
"Ok, first thing is first." Carmine muttered to himself, "I have to find Tony and tell him what is going on." Carmine brisquely walked down the hall, once he find Tony he would know what to do. His big brother always knew what to do. Carmine impatiently waited at the elevator tapping his fingers against the wall, and ignored the stares he was getting from people. After an excruciatingly long time, the doors finally opened, Carmine rushed in as soon as they did and bumped into someone.
"Carmine? What are you doing here?" a familiar voice asked, making Carmine look up. He was shocked to see Tony Cassella staring at him.
"How did you--what are you--uhh--how do you do that?" Carmine was finally able to say, moving away from the people that were getting on the elevator and backing back out into the hall.
"Someone at my job told me, so I came rushing as soon as I found out." Tony said, trying to make sense of the confused look that Carmine was giving him.
"You know about--" Carmine began asking.
"Yeah, well no not really. I wasn't sure if it was Terry or Daniella." Tony asked, waiting for Carmine to answer.
"What?" Carmine asked baffled.
"Which one of my daughters are in the hospital?"
.....................................
Desiree tapped her nails on the bedpost, trying to make sense of the mess that her mother left her in. That spiteful woman, could always get under her skin. She hadn't been dead for more than 24 hours and she still managed to somehow screw Desiree over.
"It isn't the end of the world Desiree." Jamie said, trying to cheer her up.
"Oh my god," Desiree said getting up from her bed. "I think I am poor." she said, horrified.
"You are not poor, get a hold of yourself. You have money in your savings account" Kevin said, while looking through his papers. Desiree ran her fingers through her hair, thinking about that last really big withdrawl she did. If she ran her numbers she would only have about 10,000 dollars in her bank. She couldn't survive off of that. "Now you sure you don't know who this man could be. Casella, Casella." Kevin whispered over and over again, something about that last name made Desiree look around the room. Where had Carmine gone? she wondered to herself.
"I have never heard of that man before in my life," Desiree said, but a small part of her did think it was familar.
" I could run a search on this man," the Inspector spoke up, looking up from his notepad. "If he is the trustee of your estate, and he could also have some involvement in your parents murder."
"Does this mean I am not a suspect anymore?" Desiree asked, perking up a little. If out of this mess, she doesn't get a criminal record than at least one of her life goals would be reached.
"Everybody is a suspect, and since you were in the house at the time of the murder. You are still up on the top of the list." The Inspector said, while scribbling something down on the notepad. Desiree frowned at him.
"Well, I think that you are down here Inspector. Please let us know if there is anyway we can help, and give us a complete overview of the investigation." Kevin said, the inspector nodded taking the hint that they wanted him to leave. He was walking out of the room when he bumped into Carmine.
"I didn't even see you leave the room." the inspector said to Carmine frowning, then he left. Carmine entered the room, slowly biting his lips as Tony followed behind him.
"Hey Carmine. Where did you go?" Desiree asked, she hadn't see him leave the room too. Both lawyers looked up at the new intruder.
"Who is this?" Jamie asked Carmine, while looking at Tony sizing him up.
"Tony Casella." Desiree's jaw practically fell off when she heard this. Both lawyers raised their eyebrows surprised and relieved that they wouldn't have to go find this guy.
"Tony Casella, wait Carmine how come you didn't tell us you knew him." Desiree asked, getting up from her bed and walked toward him.
"I'm sorry I'm confused as to what is going on, who are you?" Tony asked, looking at Desiree then back at Carmine.
Desiree and Tony eyed eachother for a moment, and for a second a familiarity passed between them. And then Desiree suddenly rememberd what Tony Casella represented to her. "Why the hell are you the trustee of my estate?" Desiree asked, or more like shouted.
"Trustee? Carmine what arer these people talking about?" Tony asked, looking at his little brother. Carmine looked down for a moment, not knowing what to say. "Little brother what are they talking about."
"Little brother? How come you didn't say that before? You know what, I will deal with that later." Desiree said, and then looked back at Tony.
"Young man, perhaps Desiree hasn't put it in the best way, it seems that Jade Desceare has listed if she were to die." Tony's eyes widened at the mention of the name Jade.
"Jade is dead?" he asked in disbelief. Hearing that name brought back so many emotions. "When?"
"This morning." Desiree said, watching his facial expressions, she could see so many different emotions going through his face. And one thought stuck out to her, they had been lovers. "Now why would she list you as the trustee, wait did she leave him anything? Oh my god, why didn't I see it before. You guys were having an affair, and she has been cheating on my dad."
"Don't jump to conclusions," Keith said, while looking down at his papers. "she did leave him a considerable amount of money."
" That scenario you have doesn't sound ludacris, it would make a lot of sense. And then he would turn on her and kill her, just to get" Jamie looked down at the amount of money Tony would be getting. "Yes, that amount does not bring the best in people."
"Wait he didn't do it." Carmine said, jumping to his brother's defense.
"Don't protect him." Desiree said, and sized Tony up. She could probably take him. "Explain to me how my mother winds up dead and you get to be the trustee of my estate."
Before Tony could answer to all of the accusations that were thrown at him, a voice came from the doorway.
"I think I could explain a whole lot better, and I can tell the tone of the room isn't as I had hoped it would. I am glad that you made it Mr. Casella, please I would like everybody to take a seat." A woman said, striding in the room, everybody turned and looked at her for a moment.
"Who are you?" Desiree asked, looking the woman up and down.
"Sorry, where are my manners. I am Mrs. Deich your mother's private attorney." she glanced at Kevin and Jamie.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that she had another lawyer." Kevin said, Desiree caught a small feeling of what seemed like hurt in his voice.
"Well, I brought all of my papers, I mostly just assisted with your mother's private transactions over the years." the lady said, and handed legal papers to Kevin.
"Years," Kevin said, a little shocked, still looking through the papers.
"I'm guessing you to haven't really figured the connection between the both of you yet." Mrs. Deich said to both Tony and Desiree.
"No, why don't you tell us. Because all I can figure is that they were--are lovers." Desiree said, eyeing Tony distastefully.
"Well, that is true." Mrs. Deich said,
"I knew it. you bastard. Homewrecker!" Desiree yelled at Tony.
"I am not a homewrecker." Tony thought that sounded really silly coming out of his mouth. "I haven't seen Jade in years."
"A little over 17 years ago, to be exact." the lawyer corrected.
"What are you saying?" Desiree asked, there was a horrible feeling beginning to build in her stomach.
" Well," Mrs. Deich took a breath thinking about what to say next.
"She's your daughter." Carmine said, abrubtly. " Jade got pregnant with you and then married Mr. Desceare, and she made him believe that Desiree was his daughter. I'm so glad that I got this off my chest." Carmine said, it felt really good getting that off his chest. Tony and Desiree stared at eachother for a long time.
"I think I am going to faint." Desiree said, and fell out. Tony caught her before she hit the ground. He looked down at his...daughter.

(Please tell me what you think of my Story, would like feedback.)

[Assassin Witch]

DP, you know my opinion. I love this. The drama builds up.....

Spell means magic. Can't wait.

He caught her, so cute.

Let's see what the family says.

[DarkPhoenix]

“Mr. Casella, perhaps it is time that you tell your wife about Desiree.” Mrs. Deich said, coming up from behind Tony. He had been watching Desiree sleep for about an hour or two. He wasn’t exactly sure, it was just so surreal to him that he had another daughter out there and he hadn’t even known.
“I will…soon.” Tony said, sitting in the chair right next to Desiree’s bed. He grasped her hand, and held it firmly. “ I just want to spend some more time with her. Besides I’m not even sure how my wife will understand.”<br> “If you explain the circumstances to her, I know she will understand. And in time accept her.” Mrs. Deich said, standing at the foot of the bed.
“She’ll accept her, my wife is a kind woman. The circumstances, she is going to have time with. Since I don’t even know the circumstances. How the hell could Jade have our child and not even tell me.” He let go of Desiree’s hand and looked to Mrs. Deich for answers.
For a moment, the woman didn’t exactly know how to respond to the question or the intense gaze that she got from Tony. “I’m sure she had a very good reas--”
“Sorry to interrupt, but I have to give the patient a little medication.” A male nurse said, as he walked past them, Tony and Mrs. Deich stayed silent as he injected Desiree. As soon as he walked out of the room, Mrs. Deich said, “she probably thought it was best for both of you. Although she must have thought about you which is why she put you in the will.”<br> “Still I don’t see how she could do this, and I don’t I’ll ever be able to understand.” Tony said, shaking his head and looking back at Desiree.
“Will it looks like she is telling the truth.” Inspector Woodward said, coming into the room. He handed some photos to Mrs. Deich, with a thoughtful expression. Mrs. Deich flipped through the photos, eyeing each one carefully. “They were taken off a camera, one of the neighbors were recording outside and they happened to get the guy going into the house. Which means that Desiree was right there was a man there, and the timestamp that we pulled off the camera puts him there at about 10 o’clock. Desiree didn’t get home until 2 o’clock that gave him 4 hours alone with The Desceares.” Mrs. Deich eyes widened when she got an up close shot on the man.
“Someone call security and get a doctor in here.” She said, with an authoritative voice.
“Why what’s wrong?” Tony asked, Mrs. Deich threw the pictures down the last one on top. The male nurse from earlier was the guy in the photo.
“Oh sh!t!” Tony exclaimed, and pressed the button calling the security staff. As soon as he did that, there was a buzzing noise coming from the machines monitoring Desiree’s heart rate. “Someone get in here and help here.” Tony said, trying to get Desiree awake.

[Assassin Witch]

lol..funny thing is, while i was reading, i thought it was the nurse. He just had this thing about him...*shrugs* Nice one. At least this makes her clear of murder.

[DarkPhoenix]

"So he got away?" Tony asked, incredulous at Inspector Woodward.
"I can't believe you guys lost him, this is the second time he attempted to kill Desiree. And now she is over there fighting for her life." Carmine motioned at Desiree lying on the bed, unconscious.
"If we had known earlier," Inspector Woodward began.
"If I had known that the guy was a killer, he wouldn't have gotten within 10 feet of her!" Tony had begun yelling loudly. "You know what, why don't you just go and find this guy. Since he seems pretty persistent in trying to kill her."
"I'll have my men set up around here around the clock, the doctor have told me that the poison didn't have enough time to work, and that she should be free to go. I'm a little concerned on where she is going when she is free to leave." Inspector Woodward said, while looking from Carmine to Tony.
"Oh...I guess she will be coming with me," Tony said, slowly thinking about what that meant, and what he would have to do before he came home.
"Oh," the inspector's brows furrrowed, "Well I'm not exactly sure if that would..."
"Inspector let's talk about this outside." Mrs. Diech interrupted, and escorted the man outside before he could say anything.
"Well, at least that has been taken care of." Carmine said, looking outside to see Mrs. Diech and Inspector Woodward talking right outside the window. Tony looked down at Desiree, and then back at Carmine.
"So when exactly were you going to tell me about her?" Tony asked, crossing his arms and moving toward Carmine.
"Jade cast a spell on me, everytime I wanted to, my mind would go blank and I would think about something else." Carmine said, stepping back away from Tony cautiously.
Tony bit his lip eyeing Carmine hard, his little brother could be lying. It wouldn't be the first time that Carmine had lied to him. But this time he believed that Carmine was telling the truth. "A spell? Hmmm...Jade is/was powerful. The spell must have worn off when she died." Tony said, the last word faintly. He looked back over at Desiree, "I just don't understand why she didn't tell me about Desiree."
"Magic." Carmine answered, making Tony look at him. "Jade didn't want to use any magic when she was around Desiree, she said that she tried a power stripping potion on Desiree when she was 2 months but the potion didn't work, she tried to bind Desiree's powers when she was younger but that didn't help either. So she knew the best thing was if she never used magic around Desiree, Desiree wouldn't do it either. If you had been part of Desiree's life, Jade knew that you would want her to use magic." Carmine said, coming to his brother's side.
"So she doesn't know that she is a witch." Tony said, shaking his head. "Why the hell would Jade do that?"
"I honestly don't know. I just know that Jade didn't want Desiree using magic, but I guess..." Carmine paused for a moment, thinking.
"I gues that will have to change." Tony said, looking down at Desiree. "She'll have to know how to protect herself."

[Assassin Witch]

uh oh...

Hm..how did none of it work on Desiree? Strange. So, with that, looks like Tony's family is magical. Should be interesting.

[DarkPhoenix]

(Glad, you noticed I was just about to go into that.)

The doctor looked down at Desiree, he had a frown on his face, as he scribbled notes and took her temperature.
"What's wrong?" Tony asked, noticing the expression on the doctor's face.
"Well, the poision or whatever the man injected into Desiree seemed to have no affect on her what so ever. Her vitals are doing great, and she seems to be healthy it's just..."
"She hasn't woken up yet." Carmine realizing that perhaps the poison wasn't a normal type. It was possible they were dealing with a potion concocted of some sort.
Tony also seemed to be thinking the same thing, because he was already thinking of calling someone in to remedy this Sara, his wife.
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Desiree woke up in her bed, she realized that she was in her room, not that small one in San Francisco but the one in Santa Barbara.
She quickly got out of bed, and ran to her closet throwing open the doors and running inside. All her clothes, and her shoes were there. She rushed out of closet and out of the room, maybe this had been a dream, she ran down the hall to her parents room, yeah it must have been a terrible dream.
Desiree pushed open the doors to her room, and screamed. Blood was all over the place, it had been like the room had been completely splattered with red paint, but it wasn't paint. It was blood, her parent's blood. All over the place, she backed away slowly. And bumped into something, she turned around and saw the man. Her parent's killer. Before she could scream, he lashed out and hit her, knocking her into the ground.
"Time to join your parents," he said, and drew a sword, Desiree crawled back away from him. Thinking wildly of what to do, and no ideas coming to her. Her hands were wet and sticky with blood, and she rubbed them on her pajamas, trying to get it off.
He swung the sword down, Desiree rolled out of the way, and grabbed a lamp that was smattered with blood. She threw it at him, and it smashed against his head. Desiree got up quickly and did a roundhouse kick knocking him into the wall.
Desiree ran out of her parents room, and down the stairs, she tried opening the front door but it was locked or bound in someway. She ran toward the kitchen, remembering that there was an exit in the kitchen.
Desiree bust through the kitchen doors, and was suddenly blind sided by her attacker, knocking her out.

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[Assassin Witch]

Woah...what the f*ck?

And you know I always notice things like that.

[DarkPhoenix]

"What the hell do you mean, she is still alive?!?!" Desmona yelled, while sitting on her bed. The man kept his head down.
"I'm sorry, I killed her parents, but I can't seem to kill her. As of now, she is unconscious. I tried to stab her but there is some kind of barrier protecting her." he said, making Desmonea's narrow at him.
"Wait, she is unconscious and you can't kill her?" Desmona thought a moment, "And attacking her physically won't work, you were almost caught injecting the stuff into her, if you had just killed her back at the house, instead of just leaving we wouldn't..." Desmona broke off, something had come to her. She got up from her bed and walked over to him, making him move back. Desmona knew her affect on people and it didn't bother her that people were afraid of her, it just made it easier to get people to do things that she wanted. "So you just killed Jade and the man, and left the house. You had no contact with the 'girl' whatsoever. Do not lie to me Gailen, it could be fatal for you." Desmona said, reaching up and stroking his face. The man flinched as her hand, touched his face.
"I--she--" he suddenly broke down, crying in front of her. "She came home, I tried to kill her but she came into her power. She knocked me through a dimension and by the time I came to, she was in a hospital." Gailen said in between gulps, Desmona stared at him for a moment.
"Shh, it's ok. If I were you I would be afraid to admit that too." Desmona said, calmly surprising herself and Gailen as well. "But, she has come into her power and if she is strong enough to knock you into another dimension then she is strong enough to come here and claim her birthright and that will not be happening, you must kill her." Desmona grabbed a dagger, that was hidden underneath her bed, Gailen didn't dare ask why she had one under there and how she used it. "This was used in the Great Battles of Ilin, it will break her shield and kill her. Now go and leave me sight do not return until she is dead...or you are." Desmona backed away, and let the man vanish.
Desmona had worked far to hard to lose her place in line to the throne to some half blood. She would destroy anything in her path to become queen, including her niece.