The Beast Within

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Well Played, Doll

Four years later.

Nyssa rolled her eyes and kicked a beer bottle away from the front door of Jerome's apartment as she walked in, she stormed down the hall and saw her two kids playing in their room on the floor, she walked into his bedroom and saw him fast asleep, she groaned "Jerome.. wake up!" he stirred slightly "Jerome get up now!" she shoved his sleeping body, he jolted awake and rolled his eyes at the very obviously angry female in front of him "what the fuck Nyssa!?" "do you know what time it is!?" "go away.. I'm sleeping!" he said putting his face in his pillow "you're so tired cause you're fucking hungover again!" "stop fucking yelling Nyssa!" "you're 4 hours late to bring the kids to me!" "you're here now.. so take them!" "you're so pathetic!" she left the room and he jumped up and followed her to the kids room "I'm fucking pathetic!?" "don't swear in front of our children!" "you don't get to act all high and mighty! you're the one that fucked my brother!" "don't swear in front of our children Jerome, I mean it!" she turned around and leaned down to see her kids scared in the corner of the room "it's okay babies, mommy and daddy were just talking" "why's daddy mad?" "cause your mommy's a whore" her anger boiled and she quickly stood up and shoved him hard out the door.

She shut the kids bedroom door and they glared at each other "what the fuck did you call me in front of our kids!?" "I called you a whore.. cause that's what you fucking are!" "you wanna go down that road!? you're the one that slept with someone in our bed.. while we were engaged to be married!" "take the kids.. and get the fuck out of my house" "gladly" she turned around and opened the door, Jason was hugging Crimson who was crying, she picked up Crimson and held Jason's hand and turned to Jerome "don't ever disrespect me in front of our children.. ever again" she stepped outside and Jerome picked up a bottle on the floor and threw it at the wall.

Nyssa sat on the floor of her apartment and played with the kids "mommy, why don't you and daddy love each other anymore?" her little daughter asked her and she sighed "mommy and daddy had a bad fight.. we both did and said some things that we can't really take back" "did you say sorry mommy? when we say mean things you make us say sorry" Jason said and Nyssa pulled both kids into her lap "sometimes.. sorry doesn't fix every problem" "why does daddy wrestle with the mean lady?" Crimson asked and Nyssa narrowed her eyes "what? are you saying daddy has women over when you're there!?" "yeah" they both said "wait.. did daddy know you were there?" they nodded and she felt rage boil "daddy lays with them with no clothes on and says they're his friends but not to tell you", she stood up and called someone "can you come watch the kids?" "of course darling.. is everything okay?" "far from it" she hung up and soon Jeremiah showed up and she left to Jerome's house.

Jerome was on his couch drinking his third beer when a bullet shot through the window, he quickly jumped over the couch and grabbed his gun, the door was kicked down and Nyssa stood furiously in the door way "JEROME FUCKING VALESKA" he stood up and she fired her gun just missing his shoulder "are you fucking crazy!? what the fuck Nyssa!?" "you let our children see you fuck some slut?!" "wait.. Nyssa just calm down" "no!" she shot the gun again and he dodged it "stop shooting at me!" "I'm going to fucking kill you!" Jerome saw the fury in her eyes and did the only logical thing to do in that situation, he jumped out the window and ran down the fire escape.

Nyssa groaned and ran outside, she got in her car and chased him, he ran as fast as he could realizing if he stopped she'd run him over, knowing there was really only one place he could be protected he ran as fast as he could, Jim sat in his office sipping his morning coffee when there was a loud crash, he ran out of his office and saw Jerome running and hiding behind an officers desk and a very furious Nyssa followed after "COME OUT JEROME.. NOW!" she stood in the middle of the GCPD and her hands were sparking, all the officers were completely terrified and backed away from her "where. Is. Jerome. Fucking. Valeska!?" all the officers pointed to the desk he was hiding behind and she pushed the desk away and he ran up the stairs of the GCPD near Gordon's office "Jimbo! ole buddy ole pal! help me out here!?" Jim and Harvey both just smirked "you had this coming a long time, clown boy" Harvey stated and Jerome groaned "aren't you supposed to serve and protect!?" "the innocent or wounded.. you're neither Valeska" Jim said "yet" Harvey added snickering "get down here Jerome.. if I go up there you're not coming down alive!" "woah.. cool it with the death threats" Jim ordered "Jerome.. NOW!" Jerome slowly stood up with his hands up in a surrender motion.

He walked towards her slowly, just as he got close enough to her, he shoved her back hard into the door and ran out of the precinct, Nyssa groaned and ran outside but he was gone, she walked back home and it was already 6:00 PM, she tiredly walked inside and Jeremiah was sitting with the two kids that were fast asleep "the children told me what they had told you.. are you okay?" she took a deep breath and picked up little Jason "I will be.. he won't be though" she walked down the hall and tucked him in then picked up Crimson and tucked her in, Jeremiah grabbed her arm and turned her to face him "Nyssa-" "Miah.. we can't do this again" Jeremiah placed his hand on her cheek, they both leaned in and he crashed his lips into hers, he walked them down the hall to her room.

Finally after hours Jerome returned to his apartment, he walked into his room but his jaw dropped, his entire room was completely trashed, his bed was ripped apart and his clothes were torn up all over his room, the only things untouched were the pictures of their kids he had framed, he knew he was in trouble, but he couldn't help the smirk that crept onto his face, he knew this wasn't just anger that the kids had caught him once, this was also jealousy too and that excited him, he knew she was still in love with him and her reaction to him sleeping with other women showed that, he sat on his bed and chuckled to himself "well played, doll" he laid back on his torn mattress and thought of her.