Chapter 13 The Conclusion Part One

The brothers walked into Mary’s cubical where she was being taken care of. “Hey there sweetie, how are you feeling?” A.J. asked.

“Sore really sore. Have you seen Jon?” she inquired.

“No not yet. I thought you would like to come with me if the doctor gives you the okay.” He said. 

“That would be great. Where’s Rick?”

“Oh he went back to the station with Town to make sure Michael gets booked properly. He wants to make sure nothing goes wrong.”

“We got Michael red handed how can anything go wrong and plus he escaped the mental institution, right?” she asked him.

“Yeah but Rick is paranoid.” Just then the doctor came in.

 “Well Ms. Simon you’re making a habit of this aren’t you.” Dr. Walters said.

“Yeah I guess I am. My mother isn’t going to be too pleased.”

“No she won’t. But there wasn’t too much damaged done this time so I’m going to let you go home this time. But Please take it easy for a few days.”

“Yes sir I will. Oh by the way what about Mr. Bon Jovi. Can he be released?” She asked.

“Well I believe if he’s going to be in your care I don’t see why not. I’ll meet you in his cubical say in about ten.”

 “Thank you doctor.”

“You’re Welcome.”

Mary and A.J. made their way to Jon’s cubical. She quietly pulled back the curtain and looked in to see if Jon was awake which he was.

 He looked over and said “Hey there beautiful come on in.”

 “Hi how are you?” she asked.

 “I’ll live. How are you feeling Baby?”

  “Like you said I’ll live.”

 “Well are you going to stay way over there or are you going to come closer so I can give you a kiss?” Jon asked. She made a face at him and moved over to him and leaned down so she could kiss him properly. They were interrupted when the doctor came in. He started coughing so they would know he was there.

“Oh Doc hey sorry we didn’t hear you come in.” Jon said.

 “No problem sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to let you know that you both can leave but you both need to take it easy for the next couple of days. Here’s your paperwork, your all set. You can leave any time just take it to the front desk as you leave.” The doctor said.

“Thanks doc.” Jon said as he sat up.

Mary looked at Jon smiling “A.J. is out in the lobby waiting for us and said he would take us back to Mom’s.”

“That’s great; I can’t wait to get you alone.”

 “Is that all you think of?” she asked astonished.

 “Yes!” he said as he went to grab her.

“Okay, okay let’s go. You heard the doctor we both need lots of bed rest.”

“You can say that again!” as he wrapped his arms around her.

They had the whole house to themselves. A.J. drop them off and made sure they got settled before he left. She put Jon on the couch so she could keep an eye on him and went to make them some tea. When she got back with the tea she cuddled up with him and asked him, “Babe have you call any of the guys or Doc yet?”

 He had her wrapped up in his arms and looked down at her and replied “Yeah I called Richie when I got to the hospital and told him what happened. At least gave him a quick review of what happened. Didn’t want to scare him too bad you know. I’ll explain in more detail later. I’m just glad we’re both here, together safe. If he ever hurt you, I don’t know what I would of done.” He bent his head down and kissed her on top of her head.

“Shhh, its okay baby. It’s all over. When I saw you I thought, well I…” she started to cry.

He held her tight. “I know, I know.” And kissed her again. “When you said you didn’t care for me, love me, well I knew you were just saying it to humor him, at least I was hoping you were.”

She cut right in “OH MY GOD JON! You know I was! I had to say that. I needed to try and get his attention away from you…”

“I know Baby, I know, but for that brief second my heart just sank that’s all. But I knew especially when you jumped up and threw your arms around me that confirmed it Baby.”

She looked up at him and he gently pressed his lips to hers and started to kiss her. Before they both knew it the kiss turned passionate but before they got carried away the phone rang. “Sweetie I think I need to get that.” She said trying to get up, but he was holding on to her pretty good. “Let the answering machine get it, that’s what it’s for.” He said trying to push her down. She slapped him on his ass.

 “OH really! We’re going to play it that way huh?!” he said with his deep gravely low voice that came out as a low growl with his sly smile she knew she was in big trouble.

 “Oh shit! Jon! Stop Please!” she pleaded.

 He started tickling her nonstop and then he slowly started to nuzzle her neck while his hands massaged her breast. He whispered in her ear “You like this baby? You want more?” Her head was spinning out of control. All she could do was nod yes. “I thought so. Why don’t we take this upstairs were we can be more comfortable and I can do more naughty things to you, what do you say?”

“Hum um.” Was all she could say. He chuckled as he got up and then bent down to lift her up to carry her upstairs.

“Wait Jon…”

“What baby, what is it?”

 “Put me down.”

“Why?”

 “Because you’re going to hurt yourself. You shouldn’t be lifting me after what you’ve been though.” She said out of concern.

 “First of all I’m fine to lift you for this and second the longer you keep us down here with me holding you, well it isn’t helping you know. So if you don’t mind I liked to get you up those stairs and into bed before I do pull a muscle okay.” He said as he started to ascend the stairs.

It was early morning just as Mary woke and she was sore as hell, and it wasn’t because of their love making all night. She knew Jon must be feeling the same way, Michael really worked him over twice as bad. She turned to look at him as he laid there sleeping peacefully. She didn’t want to wake him so she got out of the bed as quietly as she could, put on her sweats and t-shirt and headed down the stairs. As she was getting the coffee ready for Jon she saw the light blinking on the answering machine so she hit the play button. She had remembered that the phone had rang last night but Jon had side tracked her and they let the machine take the call.

A very angry voice came over the machine “JON! What the hell is this I hear about a stalker kidnapping incident with you and Mary Simon? And Richie said something that you two were in the hospital! You call me as soon you get this, you hear me! I don’t need my lead singer in a position where he’s in danger AGAIN! Especially where he could end up dead! You fucking hear me!” then the call went dead.

 ‘Shit! Shit! Shit!’ she said to herself and ran upstairs to wake Jon. She threw open the bedroom door, ran over to the bed and jumped in on her side so she wouldn’t hurt him only to startle him. But all that did was make him grumble. She just shook her head and started to shake him while loudly saying “Jon wake up baby, come on wake up! Please wake up!”

 Finally Jon started to stir. “What? What’s the matter that you have to wake me up like the house is on fire?” he said a little agitated.

“I went downstairs to make the coffee for you and the red light was on the answering machine so I listen to it and and and …”

Jon just looked at her and was rolling his eyes and shaking his head in confusion “Baby calm down and take a deep breathe please I can’t understand you when start to ramble. Now what did the message say?” he said as calm as he could.

She took a deep breath and looked at him with a pained expression “Well you have to hear it for yourself but it was from Doc and let’s just say he wasn’t happy.”

Jon just sat there for a minute then looked at her and said “Fuck. Okay Ah I guess I’ll just have to call him back. He wasn’t too happy huh?” She just shook her head no. “Well let me get dressed and I’ll call him. But baby I want to do it alone okay?”

 “Yeah sure, you can use my phone up here. I’ll just go downstairs and do whatever alright.” She kissed him before she left for luck and left. She knew he wasn’t looking forward to making this phone call. She made herself some tea and just waited for him to come downstairs. It seemed like hours but actually it was over a little thirty five minutes. Finally he came downstairs not looking very good. He seemed very upset and plopped himself on the couch.

She went to ask him if wanted coffee. “Yeah that would good right about now.” She hurried into the kitchen to get him his cup and came back and sat next to him on the couch.  

“Here you go babe.”

“Thanks.” Was all he said. She didn’t want to push him but she had to know what Doc had said to him.

After a long moment of uneasy silence, she finally decided to ask him the inevitable, “So what did Doc say?”

 He just sat there for a moment trying to choose his words carefully. Finally he spoke “Let’s just say he told me to get my ass back to Chicago as soon as possible or there will be consequences.”

“Did he say what kind of consequences?” she asked.

He just turned his head to look at her and frowned. “No but I know what he means.”

“Oh.” There was silence for about another five minutes when she got the courage to ask him. “Jon when do you to leave?”

“Tonight.”

 “Oh okay.” She said disappointed.

 ”He’s sending a car for me about six so I have to be ready by then.” She went to touch his arm but he pulled it away which shocked her. So she decided to try and put her hand on his leg to see what he would do and he took off her hand. That said a lot right there. He was angry with her. It was all her fault that he got hurt and wasn’t back in time for rehearsals. Now she knew for sure that she was right, she wasn’t right for his world. But there was no way in hell she was going to cry in front of him.

 “Well then we should get you packed up. We don’t want you late for your flight now do we.” She said jumping up from the couch. He looked at her a little confused now. Did she want him to go?

“It won’t take long to get me packed up. Look at me, will you?” he asked as he got up from the couch.

“What?”

“You tell me? What’s the matter?” he asked.

“What do mean Jon?”

“You’ve change in attitude that’s what. Do you want me to leave?”

 “Excuse me? You know you freaking drive me crazy, you know that! One minute your all over me then your cold as ice too me and now your wounded because I’m acting like what you want me to act like that I could give a shit. So tell me how AM I suppose to act Jon just tell me okay?”

 “What? Am I supposed to follow that? Because I don’t.”

“Well the feeling is mutual pal! I was trying to comfort you and you threw my hand off of you twice so how the hell am I supposed to take that, huh? You were sitting here pissed off at who, I don’t know because you don’t talk to me. So I assume it’s both me and Doc and that you can’t wait to get the hell out of here.” But before she could finish her rant Jon grabbed her and planted a very passionate kiss on her which melted her down to her core. He slowly parted from her and she opened her eyes to see him looking lovingly at her.

“Are you okay now?” She quietly said yes. “Good. Now we still have quite a few hours before six tonight so why don’t we make the best of it shall we.” He said leading her up the stairs. But before they did Mary asked him. 

“Jon, Doc said I couldn’t come back with you didn’t he.”

He just looked at her with a sullen face and said “I really don’t want to talk about that right now okay baby. I just want to make the rest of the day about us.”

“Okay, that’s sounds great. Just you and me.” They spent the rest of the day together then finished packing his things before his ride came. Six o’clock came too quickly and the driver took his bag out to the car.

“I hate saying good bye baby. But I’ll call you as soon as I can okay. I’m sorry that I can’t take you back with me yet. But as soon as I can you come, okay. I’ll talk to Doc and make him understand that I need you.”

 “Jon, it’s okay. Don’t make things worse for you, please. We’ll make this work, I promise. You just concentrate on your music, and things will fall into place. We’ll be together before you know it. Now get your ass moving so I can miss it.” He shook his head as he smiled at her and kissed her before getting into the car.

“I Love You.” he said.

 “I Love You more.” She held in her tears as she watched the car drive away. With a deep breath she walked back into the house.

It had been two days and still no word from Jon. She really didn’t plan on hearing from him right away. He was in the dog house with Doc and was probably working his ass off for missing those few days. Besides Rick and A.J. had started a new case and she was involved in that. She loved working with her brothers and being a Private Investigator with them where she knew she didn’t fit in his world. She knew she had a decision to make but for now she could draw it out. Maybe she could make Jon make that decision for her. The new clients weren’t bad on the eyes. Jealousy just might be the answer to her problem. Maybe this could make Jon leave her; make him hate her that she can take the easy way out. 




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