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Twenty-Nine

Mike was digging a hole in this backyard, when the same investigator from earlier walked in the yard.

"Dr.Grassi!" He yells as he walks past the large trees and bushes.

He looks at what he was doing and started to get suspicious.

"It's a little late to be planting isn't it?" The investigator asks.

"What can I help you with?" Mike asks.

"We found Candice Lambert. She had something of yours on her person." He says and pulls Mike's tape recorder out of his pocket.

Mike looks at him terrified as he doesn't know how Candice got it.

"Candice was admitted to University hospital two days ago. Failed suicide attempt. Found in a hotel downtown. She took one too many pills and put herself in a coma." The officer explains.

Mike sighs in relief that they found he, but he can't help but think of the ways he could've stopped this from happening.

All the red flags he missed during their session together just two days ago.

"She was brought in without an ID, which is why it took a while to find her in the system. Could've saved a lot of people a lot of trouble if you would have just told us." The officer says.

"I'm bound under Doctor-Patient confidentiality." Mike says.

The officer just looks at him as he doesn't believe in that stuff.

"Who you trying to protect, Doc? Candice Lambert or you?"

The officer players the recording from the session a few days earlier so Mike could hear it.

"You're worse than my husband! I'm paying you to help me through the crisis! The least you can do is pretend to be interested! I'm in pain!" Candice yells at Mike as he stares into space not listening.

Candice starts to get more frustrated as Mike keeps ignoring her.

"I'm in pain! What do I have to do to get your attention!? Kill my self!?" Candice yells

Mike drifts in and out of it as he can't seem to focus on much of anything at the moment.

It's like something g has taken over his mind and body.

Candice gets up and grabs a letter opener from Mike desk and cuts herself.

Mike quickly snaps out of his daze and rushes over to her.

"Stop!" He yells grabbing her arms.

"Finally I got a rise! Now I know what I have to do!" She cries and leaves his office.

The officer shuts off the tape recorder and looks back to Mike for answers.

"I didn't do anything." Mike says.

He just stares at Mike no believing what he's saying.

"You heard it on the tape. She did it herself." Mike continues.

"Right." The officer says and sets down the tape recorder.

He slides the tape recorder over to Mike and just looks at him.

"It's not a crime to be an asshole."

The officer then gets up to walk away, while Mike just stares at him with nothing else to say.

                                               **
Nel goes out to look at apartments for her and her family to stay in for the time being so they can get out of that horrible house and away from It's history.

"Like I said on the phone, the carpet will be steamed cleaned before move in." The woman says.

"There's a dock there for your iPod or iwhatever." She continues.

Her and Mitch looks around the small apartment as the woman stands there waiting for an answer from Nel.

"Uh...well...I'll tell you what I do like. I do like that security guy at the front door-"

"Excuse me? Can I have a minute alone with my mother, please?" Mitch interrupts as his mom is talking.

"Sure." The woman says and goes out in the hallway.

Nel looks at Mitch confused as to why he needs to speak with her alone.

"Glad we moved all the way to California, since we can totally be anywhere." Mitch sasses.

"I think it has a certain..."

"You and dad. Both of you! You don't deal with anything! The affair, the miscarriage! For most people that's just life, and they deal. But you guys have to uproot everything, drag everyone across the country and start all over!" Mitch yells.

"Kissy boy, I don't think you've quite processed what happened to us in that house. That was devastating. That was a nightmare!" Nel says.

Mitch just sighs and starts pacing back and forth.

"This place is the nightmare! I love our house! It's got soul! It's where you and I kicked ass, mom! You say we were victims of something bad there. I say that's the place where we survived!" Mitch explains.

Nel smiles at her son in awe of how much love he has for their house.

"I love that you see it that way." Nel says.

Mitch sighs and just looks to his mother.

"I'm pregnant. I can't stay there. This is the decision that your father and I have made for our family together." Nel explains.

"Yeah, whatever." Mitch sighs as he knows it's bullshit.

"But I'm telling you. You go ahead with this whacked out plan, and I'm out of here. I will runaway. And believe me, I know how to leave where you will never find me." Mitch says.

He walks out of the small apartment and downstairs to the car and leaves his mother alone to let her make this decision on her own.

**
"I'm looking at your results, and the good news is your EKG is perfectly normal. As for your blood panel, they found a laudanum compound." Dr.Betty says to Mike on the phone.

"Laudanum compound?" Mike asks.

"Apparently they used to use it as an opiate during surgery. But it caused such extreme retrograde memory loss that they banned it in 1934." Dr.Betty explains.

Then, Mike hears the doorbell ring as he wasn't expecting anymore patients for the day, but there was one person he forgot to see.

Isabel.

As he fears what she might do when he answers the door, he tells Dr.Betty he will call right back.

He quickly makes his way to the front door and sees Angelica walking upstairs to clean.

"I know you drugged my coffee!" He yells at her.

"Prove it." She spats back.

Mike continues walking to the front door to confront Isabel.

"I am so sorry, Isabel." Mike says.

"You left me waiting in the Norms for three hours!?" Isabel yells walking right past him looking for Nel.

"Mrs.Grassi!" She yells through the house.

"Isabel! Isabel! Please!?" Mike says trying to stop her.

"Mrs.Grassi, it's Isabel! We need to talk!" She yells.

"Isabel stop! This is crazy." Mike says.

"Nel!?"

"You're acting crazy!"

"Do Not call me crazy."

Isabel looks at Mike with tears starting to form in her eyes.

"Calm down." Mike says.

"I'm angry! And I'm pregnant!" Isabel yells walking through the house again.

Mike reaches out to grab her arm to stop her from walking, but she pulls back.

"Do Not put your hands on me." She whimpers.

"You're upset." Mike says.

Isabel nods.

"You have every right to be, but before this spins completely out of control, let's go someplace and talk." Mike tries to reason.

"Nel needs to know. She needs to understand you have other obligations." She says.

Mike nods listening to her talk and realizes she doesn't know that Nel is now pregnant too.

This could all throw Nel over the edge of sanity and worse, it could tear their family apart.

He wants to keep this baby a secret from Nel at any means possible.

"I think we should tell her together." Isabel continues.

"We can discuss that too." Mike says.

"Okay. But I am not going back to that Norms."

"Anywhere you'd like."

Isabel wipes her eyes and smiles at Mike.

"Well, I am eating for two now."

She grabs the back of Mike neck and pulls him into a long kiss causing Mike to be taken aback.

He lets her kiss him before pulling away and walking towards the backdoor.

Mike opens the door for her and let's her walk outside towards the garage first.

"You'd know what I'd love? A big, thick, juicy-"

Just then, Rick hits Isabel in the head with a shovel trying to kill her.

"Oh. She's still moving." He says.

Rick then hits her four more times until she's dead.

"What have you done!?" Mike says tackling Rick to the ground.

Mike repeatedly slams Rick's back into the ground trying to kill him.

"Mike, easy! You haven't killed anyone yet." Rick says throwing Mike off of him.

Mike gets up and rushes over to Isabel's lifeless body on the ground.

Rick gets up and follows him.

"Yeah. She's done." Rick says.

"No!" Mike whispers to himself.

He picks her up in his arms and rocks her back and forth while sitting on the ground.

"What are you doing? Taking a DNA bath?" Rick asks.

"She's dead."

"Uh-huh."

"You're a murderer! You're a murderer!" Mike yells.

"Yeah, But you're not. Now all your problems are solved. She was going to tell Nel everything! We couldn't have that." Rick explains.

"I'm gonna...I'm gonna call the police." Mike says getting up.

"You, uh, you sure about that? I mean, she was your mistress, Mike. She was carrying your baby. How's that gonna look?" Rick says.

Mike leans against the brick wall and cries into his hands.

"Hey, it's okay. Everything's gonna be-"

"Don't touch me!" Mike says slapping Ricks hands off his arm.

"You just gotta...get yourself cleaned up before your wife gets home. I'll take care of the body." Rick says.

He walks over to the large hole in the middle of the yard where Mike was digging earlier to continue digging it.

"You got a nice good hole started here. Half way done already." Rick says.

"Hey, Mike? I could really use that thousand bucks." Rick continues.

Mike leans down to hold Isabel's hand while he watches Rick dig the hole in the yard for her grave.

He gets up and walks inside to clean himself up and let Rick handle the rest.

As he was digging, Rick discovers Angelica's bones for years earlier when Connie killed her in cold blood.

Angelica and Connie watch down from the second story window as he moves them to the side and continues to dig deeper.

She cries as she knows even though her bones were found her soul will still remain there as long as her bones are still there.

Rick continues to dig and pulls Isabel's body into the hole and cover her over with dirt.

He buys some stuff for Mike to build a gazebo with to cover Isabel's grave and to cover the murder.

Mike builds the gazebo over it as nothing had even took place there that unfortunate day.

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