Chapter 4

Mary ran down to the ladies room. She was so angry at how Jon acted. Grabbing her like she was his property.  Or acting like he was this big rock star that had all these woman on his arm. She just wasn’t used to it. But she also just liked him. But what was worst she had gone to bed with him on the first date or what was the first time together, oh she was so confused. And now he thought she was cheap just grabbing her like that. She jumped when the door open. She thought it was Jon but it was Sarah.

“Hey honey. You ok?”

“No. Not really.”

 “You’re not use to this. Are you?”

 “Use to what?”

“This life style. And Jon.”

“No. It shows, Uh.”

“Don’t worry about it. But I can tell one thing. Jon really likes you.”

“You’re kidding, right?”

 “No. You didn’t see his face when you ran off. He was truly concerned.”

 “Yeah right. I hate to tell you Sarah but it’s all an act.”

 “No, I know Jon. And it’s no act.”

 “Sarah, you don’t know me but…” before Mary could get anything else out the bathroom door slammed open and Dave came running through. Pushing Sarah against the wall as he grabbed Mary by the hair as she tried to run.

“You Whore!” Dave Screamed! He pushed Mary against the wall and noticed Sarah trying to leave. “Hey” Dave screamed and lunges towards Sarah. Mary gets up and with all her strength and jumps Dave and yells to Sarah

“Sarah, Run! Get the HELL out of here! NOW!” The two of them fall to the floor as Sarah runs to the door and runs out of the bathroom. Dave smashes Mary across the face and dazes her while he gets up and locks the bathroom door. He turns and grabs her leg and drags her to the other end of the bathroom. Dazed he grabbed her by the hair again and wanted to know what’s going on with her and Jon.

“Well? What do you want with Jon?” She looked at him strangely.  She was in too much pain to understand why he was asking such a strange question. She tried to reach for her gun but he noticed and knocked it out of her hand. He hit her again when she didn’t answer him. “Well!”

“ Urgh! I don’t know what you’re talking about!” She said groggily.

“You and JON! You’re LOVERS!” Dave screamed at her. She decided to play along.  

“YA, So?”

“SO! He’s Mine Bitch!”

 “Oh My God. You’re in Love with him.” As she realized that it was him. He was doing this to Jon.

    Jon was pacing when Tico said “Jon, you’re going to wear a tear in the carpet if you don’t sit down.”

“Yeah man, she’ll be back. Once she calms down.” David added.

“Yeah, maybe you’re right.” He said. But he wasn’t sure himself because he really didn’t know her all that well himself. But he wanted to. That much he knew. What the hell did he do? He didn’t understand why she slapped him or why she ran out.

Richie walked up to Jon, “Hey, you got to calm down man. Does she feel the same way about you?” he asked.

“I think so. I thought so.” Jon answered.

“Then don’t worry. She’ll be back and then the two of you we’ll talk…” but before Richie could finish his sentence Sarah came running in screaming.

 “Jon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

 “What! What’s the matter! Where’s Mary?!” he yelled panicked.

 “Dave! He has her in the ladies bathroom.” She tried to tell them as she was huffing and puffing thru her panic.

“What?!” he asked confused as he was panicking now.

 “Jon. He screamed that she was a whore and he hit her. Then he was going to stop me from leaving and she jumped him so I could escape.”

But before she could finish Jon was out the door. As Jon reached the bathroom he grabbed the door knob but it was locked. He started banging on the door “Damn it Dave! Let me in!” he screamed. But all he could hear was her screaming!

In the meantime as the other guys were running down the hall, the Simon's were coming from the other direction. “Hey! Hold it.” Rick yelled at the guys. “Where are guys off to in such a hurry?”

Richie started to tell them as they hurried down the hall. As they reached the bathroom they saw Jon banging on the door and trying the door knob feverishly as he was screaming trying to get into the bathroom.

Rick grabbed Jon, “That’s not going to get you in there. Stand back.” As he pushed Jon aside, Rick then took out his gun and shot the lock off and kicked the door in as he and A.J. rushed in. They saw Dave hovering over they’re sister, as he had cut her in several places. Once on her arm, leg and stomach and was in the process of raping her. But before her brothers could get to her, Jon had bypassed them and jumped Dave, taking him by surprise and started to wail on him. It took Richie and Tico to get Jon off of Dave while the brothers tended to their sister as the others called the police and paramedics.

Once Jon got his wits about him, he ran to Mary shoving A.J. aside. “Mary, Mary, please wake up. Baby wake up” he begged.

He held her gently as her brothers watched in amazement until A.J. spoke up. “Jon, Jon. Hold this handkerchief on her stomach to stop the bleeding. Okay?” Jon took the handkerchief and pressed it down on the wound. A.J. was tying off the leg wound with his tie as Rick was taking care of her arm wound with his belt. Richie was sitting on Dave as the others were waiting for the police and the paramedics. It didn’t take long for them to arrive. Town had his officers took Dave away as the paramedics were trying to tend to Mary but had to get Jon out of the way.

“Sir you have to move. Sir, Sir…” the paramedic was trying to tell Jon as A.J. intervened.

 “Jon, you have to let the paramedics do their job. Come on.” A.J. gently took Jon aside so the paramedics could do their jobs.

Rick took A.J. aside, “What the hell is this?”

“Well brother dear I would say that he is definitely smitten.”

“Who the hell said he could fall in love with our sister?” Rick said extremely pissed off that no one consulted him first about this.

 “I would say them.” A.J. said looking at Rick. “Look she’s not our little sister any more. Plus she stood up to that maniac. You heard them, she jumped him so that other girl could escape and get help.” A.J. said proudly.

The paramedic came over to the boys, “We’re ready to take her to the hospital.”

“Thank You.” A.J. said.

 He looked at Jon, “Jon, do you want to come with me and Rick?”

“Yeah, If that’s all right?” Jon asked still a little dazed.

“Yeah. That would be fine.” A.J. replied.

When they arrived at the hospital, A.J. inquired about his sister at the desk as Rick and Jon waited. It didn’t take long for A.J. to return to them with an answer. “Okay. It’s going to be awhile before we can see her. They have to do several tests, CAT scan, blood test, rape test,”

 “Rape test!” Yelled Rick.

“Yes, and can you say that any louder! It’s standard.” A.J. said annoyed.

“When can we see her?” Jon wanted to know anxiously.

“The doctor will let us know.” A.J. answered. “Rick do you want to call Mom or do you want me to?” A.J. asked.

“Could you. I’ll just mess it up.” Rick said but in reality he just chicken out and A.J. knew it.

“Sure. I’ll be right back. Oh and don’t forget we have to go downtown and fill out a report for Town. So we should do that when Mom relieves us.” A.J. said as he went to call Cecilia Simon.

Rick and Jon went to sit down. Rick looked at Jon and said to him uneasily, “So you like my sister.”

Jon looked at Rick and confidentially told him, “Ya I do.”

“SO what are your intentions?” Rick asked trying to show his authority.

“What?” Jon asked as he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.  

“You heard me!” Rick threw back now getting snarky.

 “Uh well I’m not sure we just met. I just know right now I really care about her.” He stated a little nervously.

 “Okay I’ll by that for now or at least until we can talk to her.” He told him.

“Can we talk about this later say when she’s awake?” Jon wanted to know as this was a little too much for him to be thinking right now.

 “Yeah sure.” Rick said but he sure as hell was going to bring this up later.

“Thanks.” Jon took a sigh a relief because his only thought right now was finding out if Mary was okay and that they would figure out where they stood later. Meanwhile the two of them just sat there awkward until A.J. got back.

“You guys alright?” A.J. asked.

 Rick looked at him. “Just peachy. How did Mom take it?”

“Just peachy. I’m sure she’ll be giving us the lecture about bringing her in this business very shortly.”

Jon broke into the conversation “You’re mother doesn’t like Mary being involved in the private eye business?”

Rick answered, “She doesn’t like US in the private eye business.”

“I see. I’m lucky. My parents support me in whatever I do.” Jon said.

“Well bully for you.” Rick replied. Jon just gave Rick a sharp look.

A.J. spoke up “She just thinks it’s very dangerous line of work for us to be in. Never mind her daughter.”

“Yeah. I can see that. But this is all my fault! If it wasn’t for me she wouldn’t of been in danger in the first place.” Jon said softly.

“Look” Rick said. “We’re the ones that put her in that position in the first place. And she wouldn’t have done it if she didn’t want too. She knew what to do. We did train her after all.” He said kind of boasting.  Was he trying to make me feel better, Jon thought? He hates me!

A few hours went by when Cecilia came running in the ER. “OK boys! Where is she!” She asked as calmly as she could.

“She’s having tests done Mom.” A.J. replied.

“You see! I told you something like this was going to happen! But I never thought you two would so carelessly let this happen to your sister.” Now she was about to lose it. Jon was about to speak up but A.J. cut him off.

“Mom! She’s going to be ok. We’re just waiting for the tests to be done and for them to get her in her own room. Nothing you can say will make Rick and I feel any worse than we feel right now.”

“I’m sorry boys. I know you both feel horrible right now but she’s my baby.” And she started to cry. Rick put his arms around his Mom so he could console her. Jon sat there feeling more and more guiltier now. She started to compose herself and then she finally noticed Jon sitting there. “I’m sorry. And you are young man?” she asked.

“Oh sorry Mom. This is our client Jon Bon Jovi. We were working for him when all this went down. Jon this is our mother Cecilia Simon.” A.J. said.

“I’m sorry to meet you like this Mrs. Simon” Jon said.

“I understand Jon. I just hope my children were able to solve whatever problem that was plaguing you.”

“Yes Ma’am, they did.” He said.

Just then the doctor came into the ER. “Are you the Simon family?”

“Yes we are. How is she?” Rick asked.

“Well she’s banged up. We checked the stab wounds and luckily he didn’t hit any major arteries. So we stitched them up and now we’re just waiting for the rest of the test to come back. But luckily she wasn’t raped.”

“Oh thank God for that.” Cecilia said relieved. Jon sat back and thanked God himself also. “When can we see her?” she asked.  

“She’s being moved to her room now. Just give it about another half an hour. OK.”

“Thank you so much doctor.” A. J. said.

As they waited Jon got up and excused himself to go to the men’s room. As he left Cecilia asked her boys “So when did Mary and Jon is it?” They both nodded. “When did they get involved with each other?” she asked.

“What?” they both said.

“Oh you two are oblivious. Can’t you see that boy is in love with your sister.” She said somewhat amused.

Rick piped up. “Mom, you’re nuts! He’s just concerned because he feels guilty that he put her in this situation that we unfortunately did. But in love. You’re nuts Mom!”

“Really. Then why is he here Rick. I saw the look on his face when the doctor came out. He was just as relieved as we were. And I can see it in his eyes. The way your father use to look at me.” She stated. The boys just looked at each other and didn’t realize that it had gotten that far. But they knew he probably couldn’t help it because they already knew how special she is.

As Jon was in the bathroom, all he could do was berate himself for what happened. “Why the hell didn’t I see Dave for what he was? I’m that stupid! But he never came on to me, argh! I just don’t get it.” He was totally frustrated and now hitting the wall. He never saw any signs that Dave could have been the stalker or could of even seen him hurting anyone. Am I really the damn wrapped up in myself he thought. He left the men’s room and headed back. Still yelling at himself.

When he returned he asked, “Has there been any news?”

“No not yet dear.” Cecilia replied. “But it shouldn’t be too much longer. They said in a half hour we should be able to see her.” She felt bad because she didn’t know what she could say to him to make him feel better. Or her boys for that matter. She just didn’t know how to make any of this better. Finally a nurse came out to tell them it was alright to see her and that she was in her own room #456. They all went and got into the elevator and reached the fourth floor. It was a quiet ride up. Jon was too distracted to realize that his claustrophobia hadn’t kicked in. As they opened the door to her room Jon froze. Cecilia turned to him, took his hand and lead him into the room. She was hooked up to an IV with one for blood and the other saline solution. Also monitors for her heart and oxygen so she could breathe a little easier. Mary seemed to be sleeping but as they enter further into the room, her eyes started to flutter open. Cecilia was the first to approach her. “Hi sweetheart. Don’t try to move. Ok.” She looked at her mother and tried to say something but it came very slowly she found. She felt like a Mac truck had hit her. But she did remembered what had happen. But the drugs they were giving her made it hard to keep her eyes open and talk straight. She wasn’t worried about herself. All she was worried about was Jon. She had to know about Jon.

“Mommm…” she said as her words just lingered.

“Shush sweetheart don’t try and talk.” Her Mom tried to tell her.

“Nooo… I need to know Jon…” she said still trying to get her words out.

“He’s fine honey. Here see for yourself.” And motioned Jon to come over. He needed a little prodding from A.J. but then walked over and leaned down to her. Cecilia looked at her boys and motion to them to leave them alone for a while. Once they were alone Jon leaned down and gently kissed her on her forehead because her lip was split and now swelling as were her eyes and left side of her face.

 “Hey there beautiful.” He said taking her hand gently.

“Don’t tease Jon. I know I look horrible!” she said slowly and softly.

 “Well you look beautiful to me. So there!” he said and loving look back at her moving some stray hairs off her forehead.

“Did he hit you in the head too?” She asked sarcastically.

“You think you’re funny, huh? “ He kissed her again.

“Well I must have scared the hell out of you if you keep kissing me like that.” She said as she tried to smile.

“You have no idea! I thought he had killed you when we stormed in there.” He told her concerned.

 “I don’t remember a lot but I do remember him screaming at me, and then slugging me several times. Oh and calling me a whore a few times also. But after that I must have passed out.” She explained to him.

“Well I hate to say this but I’m glad you did. Then you didn’t feel him cutting you?” he asked nervously.

“No I didn’t. You’ll have to fill me in on what happened in between. OK?” she asked him.

“Well I’m not sure I want to, but when you get out of here I’ll try.” He said but not wanting to really. It wasn’t something he wanted to relive or her too.

“I also want to know what happened beforehand that made you so mad at me.” He asked. She looked confused but then realized that he had made her very pissed off when they left A.J.’s. “Oh that.” She said as she made a face.

“Yeah. Oh that! But we’ll discuss everything when you’re feeling better. OK?” he said. She just shook her head. Then he asked “Are we ok?” he asked worried.

 “Yeah I guess. But we do need to talk about but happened.” She told him.

 “Should I be worried?” he asked her making a concerned face.

“I don’t know. You’re kind of making up for it now thou.” She said as she tried to smile at him but not too wide as the cut on her lip pulled.   

“Great! Because I’m a little slow at times, and I’m really not sure what the hell I did.” He told her honestly.

 “Well don’t forget that I have two brothers, so I’m kind of use to guys not getting it.” then she tried to giggle but it hurt her ribs and stomach too much.

“Hey don’t hurt yourself Baby. Why don’t you close your eyes and try to sleep.” He suggested to her.  

“Well if you insist.”

“I do.” She did as he asked which wasn’t too hard because she was exhausted.