Murder She Wrote

39

2 Days Later...
Joe gets a call from Sione as he's walking beside Melissa from taking her shopping at the 10th store. Sione, "The diamond will arrive a day early."
Joe, "Alright. We'll talk in a few hours. Let me finish up with Liss real quick."

Yasmine rolls over off Sione.
Sione hangs up, "What? Where are you going?"
Yasmine, "I can't believe you is working with Joe."
Sione, "Babe, I'm just helping him out so he can hurry up and leave this life alone."
Yasmine, "Sione, Joe keep saying that but every time I look at him I don't see a man that's done. Now I don't tell Melissa that and I pray that I'm wrong.i wanna be wrong so bad. Joe is like a brother to me and I don't want to attend him funeral. But when we came from overseas and I took my $40mill I vowed to never look back. It was horrible, all the people Joe killed. I never seen so much blood and gore. And for this past year that's all I could see when I went to sleep and now that those nightmares are over, I'm not looking forward to getting back into that crap again. I don't even watch horror movies, not even thrillers no more."
Sione, "I'm sorry. I didn't know it was that bad. I didn't know Joe was a killer like that."
Yasmine, "Man Joe killed people even crew members. What people see now is a shell of what Joe used to be. He was cruel and the babies have softened him up a bit but that mean, compulsive man is still in there ready to kill."
Sione, "I'll talk to Joe."
Yasmine, "For what? His mind is made up."
Sione, "I'll see where his head is with everything and see what he plans on doing. Everything will be okay. I promise."
Sione kisses Yasmine on the side of her faces then lips and moves down to her neck.
Sione, "Now let's get back to it and maybe you can do that thang---
Yasmine teases, "No. Don't wanna give you all my goodies. Someone said you're crazy."
Sione looks at Yasmine with hunger in his eyes as he chases her around the bed and into the other bedroom.

Peyton went babbling on while she sat on Melissa's lap as she did her hair. Joe comes out in a towel and briefs playing with Peyton. Melissa, "Joe come on. I'm doing hair. I got five more twist left."
Joe gets a call that makes his face change.

Joe hangs up, "What's this about a house being finalized on in Costa Rica?"
Melissa, "Do you think after everything go down I'm keeping us here? We're all leaving."
Joe, "You could have talked to me about it."
Melissa, "And you could have talked to me about a lot of stuff but didn't. What I did make sense, so what's your problem?"
Joe, "There's a difference, you knew my lifestyle before you got involved with me. And what's wrong with saying we're moving XYZ after everything. It's that simple."
Melissa, "I didn't use your money."
Joe, "It's not about money."
Melissa, "Oh its not? Than what is all of us in danger for? Don't worry, I'll wait. Just let Luis have whatever it is that he wants."
Joe, "It's not that simple. I can hand him over everything but at the end, he still wants us all dead."
Melissa huffs in frustration. 
Joe kisses Melissa, "It'll be over soon. Let's not argue about this. I know that you're frustrated and tired of hearing that but I just need a little more time. Do you trust me?"
Melissa looks at Peyton, "What choice do I have? I have two children with you, who need their mother and father to be right for them regardless."
Peyton, "Dada."
Melissa, "They love you and need you to be around for them."
Joe, "I will be."
Melissa, "She deserves a great birthday in a little over a month."
Joe, "Of course she will. I want us to have a great Valentine's Day. I want us to have a great days ahead. Stop worrying about what's out there to get us because as much as they love gore and blood, it's not an all day thing."
Melissa, "I could relax more if I didn't have children but I'm a mother and I want my babies to be okay."
Joe, "Their my babies too and before I see anything happen to them I'll put myself in harms way first."
Melissa, "I know."