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Rafes arrest spread as fast as Wildfire. Before Aria even made it home, the radio in the car was speaking of it. Panic set in her chest, hitting the gas and speeding home. She knew her dad would know something, anything maybe. He had too, there wasn't a thing that Ward did that Gage didn't know about.
Though when the girl jumped out of the car and ran inside, she was met with a empty house, "Dad? Where are you? Rafe got arrested and-"
Her shouts stopped when she saw the note taped onto the kitchen table. Her eyes darted around as she read the few words, dropping it immediately before speeding like hell over the Figure Eight.
"Dad! What the fuck! Dad!" Aria hollered as she sprinted across the back lawn of the Cameron house. Her fathers words were clear in the note, though it still came to a shock to her when she ran out and saw him and Ward on the boat. Sarah, JJ, John B, Pope, and Kie were there, standing near the docks. Aria was suddenly met with force, hitting the ground as one of the police tackled her, "Get me go! They-"
But Aria was cut off by exactly what the note said what would happen. The boat exploded, fire setting in the air while objects from the boat blew. Gage and Ward, inside and now dead. Aria breathed shaky suddenly, her heart clinching, arms shaky. The officer let her go, running off toward Shoupe. Aria laid on the lawn in shock, staring.
Sarah's sobs echoed in the air, boats swarming the explosion in no time. A almost squeak left Arias lips, not a cry but not a form of happiness either. She stared in shock, thinking she'd gotten here in time, thinking it was a way to just scare her. Aria hated her dad, she'd thought about him dying so many times. But at the end of the day, he was still her dad, and he was still the one to stay.
"Get off." Aria tried to shove Rose off when the blonde kneeled next to her to hug her, "Let me go!"
Rose fought against her, holding her in her arms. Aria gave up on the fight as she leaned into Rose, finally starting to sob. Her hands gripped the blondes arms tightly, crying as Rose attempted to comfort her in the best way she could.
Aria wanted to be there for Rafe. She really did. She knew it was gonna hit him hard. Especially with the two of them finally seeming to get along, Ward for once seeing him, and now he's dead. Aria truly did want to be there, as a form of comfort.
But every time she walked toward the door, she froze.
Gage was just here a few hours ago. He was seated at the table, talking to Aria and burning her with his cigarette. Then he leaves a suicide note, hopes on a boat with Ward, and kills himself. All of it was bad for her, all of it was killing her so slowly that she didn't even realize what all she'd done. All of it was causing a wave of horrible thoughts that even scared her.
JJ saw it though. When he walked into the Whitlock house, the door swung open with every window open, he saw what she'd done. The house was destroyed, things torn and shot at. Picture broken on the floor, knives sticking out of the walls and empty guns laying across the floor. The good thing about being a Whitlock is the land they inherited so long along, no one around for a while so no one heard a single thing.
