disclaimers: I don't own ggbb. why don't you try moving on for once that might make it easy I know we cut all the ties but your never really leaving cause part part me wants you back but I know it won't work like that huh.
"mom, wait, hold on, i just set up the mics. can you tell us what you were going to say? about Jamie?" amaris asks with the headphones on her head so she could hear want the mix was hearing. she watched as her mother's lips moved but no sound reached her ears. "you have to come closer to the microphone. it can’t pick you up from over there"
leanne talks again but like before the mix doesn't pick it up, pip however does, "please can you just sit down and tell us what it is, whatever it is." pip pleads.
"i need to get started on dinner." leanne says as she walks closer to the table.
"I know, I know. this will only take a few minutes. please? what did you mean by ‘acting strangely isn’t that out of character for jamie’? are you talking about something that happened at work? jamie was working a later shift on friday, before the memorial. was he acting strangely then, is that what you mean? please, mom, this could really help the investigation." pip asks.
"no . . . it’s . . . ah, no, i shouldn’t. It’s not my business." leanne hesitates
"jamie’s missing. it’s been almost two full days. he could be in danger. i don’t think he’d care about what’s anyone’s business right now."
"I don't think anyone would care," amaris adds to her sisters words
"but joanna –" leanne is cut off by her oldest daughter.
"is the one who asked us to do this, she knows she might learn things about her son she wouldnt really want to know."
"does joanna . . . does joanna think jamie still works at proctor and radcliffe? is that what he told her?" leanne asks and pip nods
"yeah, of course, what do you mean? he does work there. he was at work on friday before he went missing." pip furrows her brows when leanne shakes her head.
"he’s . . . jamie doesn’t work at the agency any more. he left, maybe two and a half weeks ago." leanne says
"left?" mari questions, "did he quit?the reynolds still think he had a job, he’d been going to work every day. why would he quit and lie about it?"
"he . . . he didn’t quit." leanne admits.
"what?" pip and amaris asks at the same time with their 'freaky twin telepathy shit' as Ravi liked to say.
"guys...." leanne trails off.
"mom?" pip questions
"there was an incident. but I don’t really want to talk about it, it has nothing to do with anything. my point was just that maybe jamie disappearing isn’t something so out of character, and why cause trouble for him when –" leannes ramble was cut off by pip sighing
"mom, he’s missing. anything that happened in the last few weeks could be relevant. anything. joanna won’t be angry if you tell, i know she won’t. what was the incident? when?" she prys
"well . . . it must have been a wednesday because todd wasn’t in, and siobhan and olivia were but they were out on viewings."
"wednesday two weeks ago? so that was the....." pip trails off and looks at amaris for help
"11th." mari finishes, she remembers the 11th. she had skipped school that day and dragged ravi to a animal shelter so that she could try to get him to get over his fear of cats.
"that sounds about right. i’d been out on lunch, went to see jackie in the café, and left jamie in the office alone. and when I got back . . . well, I must have been quicker than he expected because he . . ." leanne trailed off again.
"what? what was he doing?" pip asks
"he had my key somehow, he must have taken it out of my handbag earlier in the day, used it to unlock my desk drawer when i was out. i walked in on him taking the company credit card out of my drawer." leannes words thoroughly shocked her daughters.
"what?" amaris asks her brows furoowed.
"he panicked when i came in." leanne continued, "he was shaking. he tried several excuses as to why he was taking the card, said he needed the info so he could order more envelopes in, then said todd asked him to do something for him. but i knew he was lying, and jamie knew i wasn’t buying it. so then he just started apologizing, over and over again. said he was sorry, he just needed the money and he said something . . . he said something like, ‘i wouldn’t have done this, if it wasn’t life or death.’"
"‘life or death’? what did he mean by that?" pip questions
"I don’t know. I’m guessing he wanted to take the card to an ATM and draw out a few hundred dollars. he knew the PIN because I’d sent him out with that card to get office tea supplies before. i don’t know why he needed the money, but clearly he was desperate. we’d never had any problems with jamie before this. i’d offered him the job to help him out, to help joanna and arthur out because jamie had been struggling to settle anywhere. he’s a very sweet young man, has been like that since he was a kid. the Jamie I walked in on felt almost like a different person. he looked so scared, so sorry." leannes face held a frown.
"he must have been desperate, because he would’ve known, even if he’d managed to steal the cash, you’d have found out eventually." pip observes and amraris nods.
"why would he need money so urgently?" amaris asks
"i never asked. i just told him to put the card down and return my key and i said j wouldn’t call the police. i didn’t need to make any more trouble for him; it looked like he had enough going on, whatever it was. and I would’ve felt too guilty, calling the police on one of my friend’s children in trouble. you don’t do that. so I told jamie I wouldn’t tell anyone what I saw, but that he could no longer work at proctor and radcliffe and his contract would be terminated immediately. I told him he needed to straighten out his life, or I’d have to tell joanna eventually. he thanked me for not calling the police, said thank you for the opportunity in the first place and then he left. the last thing he said on his way out was, ‘I’m so so sorry, I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t have to.’" leanne explains
"what did he need the money for?" pip questions
"he didn’t say. but if he was willing to steal from the company and get caught for it, what else could he have needed the money for except, well, something . . ." leanne hesitates, "illegal . . . criminal?"
"well, maybe. but that doesn’t mean his disappearance two weeks later isn’t unsuspicious or not out of character. if anything, this makes me more certain jamie’s in trouble. that he’s got himself mixed up in something bad." pip tells her mom.
"i certainly never thought he’d be the sort to steal. ever." leanne sighs
"and the only reason he gave you was that it was life or death?" amaris asks trying to figure this and everything out.
"that’s what he said, yes." leanne nods
"whose life or death did he mean?" pip wonders allowed.
amaris sighs as leanne shrugs and stands up saying she has to start dinner. "hey mom. would it be okay if I go to ravi's for dinner?" she asks her mom who looks up and nods.
"ofcourse sweetheart, but please try not to be coming in super late and you have school tomorrow." leanne reminds amaris who groans loudly at the mention of school.
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Eclipse {Ravi Singh}
Fanfiction"once the sun, asked the moon for a hug, and the world called it an eclipse" - Pinterest Amaris Fitz-Amobi had never believed the singhs should be treated how the did or that they were monsters, but she didnt agree that pip should go to interview ra...
