Not As It Seems (Alaskan Bush People Story: Sequel to Love)

Gone

Andrew POV

"Why do you want to leave the party early?" I could see them squirm as I walked closer to them. I know Noah's first extinct was to step in front of his family. I have reached Lacy and I pointed the gun at her forehead. Noah spoke up "Put the gun on me and let them go. I'm the one that has a problem with you. I think we should settle this with a duel." "A duel? You do know this is the 21st century not the 19th century." "I think that it is fair. We get two shots a piece and then we fight to the death with swords." "Where are we going to get swords from?" "I brought them with me. They are laying inside on a table." I walk to the double glass doors and I see them. "You have a deal." Noah takes out his gun and fills it with two bullets as I do the same. Lacy goes to get the swords. She offered to hold the swords until that time. "Let the kids go inside so they won't get hurt." "No, they should watch. I want them to see me kill their father."

Noah POV

I'm very nervous as I prepare for what I am about to do. I will die for anyone that is in my care. I kiss both of my children. Then I kiss my wife. "That is enough." I pull away from her and mouth I love you. "You can take the first shot." He raised his gun. He took a breath and he pulled the trigger. It went too far above my head. I let out the breath that I didn't realize that I was holding. I take a few deep breaths before I raise my gun. I pull the trigger and it hit him in the arm, the arm that he shoots with. It's his turn to shoot his second shot. He took his other hand that is not holding his gun and put pressure on his gunshot wound. He shoots again and he hits me in the leg. Lacy runs over to me but is stopped by him "Don't you dare move." He had his other gun pointed at her. She backed up to the kids as I had to get up on my own. I pull my gun up again and shoot. It hit him in the hand and it made a hole in the palm of his hand. He fell over in pain as Lacy handed us our swords.

We both pushed both of our blades forward. I kept blocking him. He scratched me on my shoulder blade. We kept fighting and then I got his face. We kept hitting each other and he kicked my legs from under me. I was laying on my back as he brought out his knife. He had it pointed my chest. I used all my strength to get him off of me. Then suddenly he was off of me. I look up to see that Lacy had pushed him off. We could see that he was angry. He came at Lacy and grabbed her by the throat. He lifted her up as she struggling to breathe. I take my sword and cut him on his ankles. He drops her and she was couching as she was catching her breath. "Are you okay?" "I'm okay." We both got up and were at it again.

My leg was giving out from my gunshot wound. I was top of him and then he turned us over for he was on top. He pushed the knife to my throat. He stopped "Are you not going to fight back? You didn't come for your wife when you could? When I had taken advantage of her and she was amazing in bed. I think she actually enjoyed it." Then the next thing I knew he had stopped pushing the knife inward and blood was coming from his month. I look past his head and Lacy had stabbed him the throat. I pushed him off of me as I turned to look at her. She had blood on her hands. She was crying as she had her hands out and I could tell that it had affected her horribly. I get up and bring her closer. I take the bottom of my jacket and wipe her hands off with it. "It's okay and you didn't do anything wrong. We are all safe. You did it to save me." She had started crying.

Lacy POV

I was very scared on what I had done. My hands were shaking as he was talking to me. I had forgot about the kids as we turned to look at them. They were shaking as they were scared of us. We walk over to them "We are okay, we had to take care of the bad man. He is gone now." The cops came through the elevator. We didn't call them. We told them about what had happened. A medic had come up to treat Noah wounds. They said there was an exit wound on his leg. They had stopped the bleeding. They patched him up and sent us home. A police officer had offered to drive us to our motel. We made it as we thanked him. We walked up to our motel room. Gabe and Grace were awake waiting on us. Stefan ran to us aunt and uncle. "It's finally over. He is gone for good. He is dead." They hug us. We gave the kids a bath and put them to bed. Grace, Gabe, and the twins also went to bed. Noah and I took a shower together. I helped him take his clothes off because of his injuries. They had given me extra bandages for after we had taken a shower. We get into the shower and I start washing his hair. I loved letting my fingers run through his hair. I was the only one that was allowed to touch his hair.

He had turned around to look at me. Dry blood was coming off of our bodies. "I love you." "I love you too. There is also something I need to tell you." "What do you wish to tell me?" "A few weeks ago I had taken a pregnancy test and it was positive. We are having another baby." He hugs me for a long time. We wanted to be close to one another. We held each other tight. Then he had me at arm's length as he looked at me. "I want to try something new." "Something new?" He pushed me up against the walls of the shower. He kissed me hard as he lifted my leg with his good hand. Then we were making love in the shower. We had never made love anywhere else but the bed. He always wanted to do what was best for me, even in the bedroom. When I was pregnant the second time around, all I wanted was to have sex with him. My hormones were going crazy. I wanted him to take me anywhere. I wanted him once on the beach and I told him do sit down and lay his back on a log. I would sit on him. He told me no flat out and we raced back to our cabin. We made a trail of clothes to our bedroom. As I got bigger, we had to change positions. With Stefan, I didn't want him to touch me at all.

We finally finished as he put my leg down. My legs felt like noodles. He helped me stand as we noticed the water was getting cold. We step out as we got ready for bed. We walk out of the bathroom to see Grace and Gabe are awake looking at us. Grace looked happy as Gabe was disgusted of listen to his brother with his wife. We whispered to them "I'm pregnant." Both of them smiled as they hugged us. I yawned on having a long physical day. I wanted to get Noah alone and tell him what Andrew had done to me. I settled in bed next to the children as he retired to the floor. Then I remembered, the first performance of Peter Pan is next week. Andrew may have been a sick man but, he knew theatre. I fell asleep knowing my family was safe and I would still finish something I loved.

The next morning, we woke and I decided I needed to go to the theatre. I needed to tell the cast on what had happened. I kissed Noah on my way out and made my way to the theatre. "Everyone I need you all to sit in a seat because I need to tell you all something." I tell them the entire story on what had happened in the last two months. "We will stay on schedule but I want us to take the night off from rehearsals because I believe we need to pay our respect to him and his family. I'm not forcing you to go but we can all go in together." I leave them to their own devices as I make my way backstage. I walk into the dressing room to find everything was still in order. I smile to think I would actually complete this project. I walk back to the stage to see everyone had already left. I locked up and walked back to the motel. I was only in the first trimester but I was really tired. I make my way towards our room as Noah is reading while laying down. "Back so soon?" "We are taking the day off. I'm very tired and I wanted to take a nap." He patted my side of the bed. I took my shoes off and changed my clothes. I crawl into bed with him as I fell asleep on his chest.

I wake up a few hours later to him asleep next to me. I kiss his chest and slide to the end of the bed. I walk over to the bathroom to see blood, all over me. I might have had a miscarriage. "Noah, come here now." He is standing in the doorway. He is terrified that our baby might be gone. "The baby is gone." "Not until a doctor tells us otherwise. Let's get you cleaned up and I will take you to the hospital." I nod my head as he kissed my head. I knew what had happened but we didn't want to believe it.