Picking Up Where This Left Off:

It has been a few days since S.T. Musician and Deadly Demoness became an item and while things were rocky around the building, they made it work one way or another. Unfortunately an incident happened to him that traumatized him. A local hooker whom was on everything including fentanyl was sneaking around the hallways. Trying to find a way to break into people's homes and steal their stuff, she spots him, grabs him but he runs to the nearest security guard. Scaring her off. He is now currently in Light Harmony's Pad, smoking a joint while shaking.

Light: Oh my God S.T. what happened.

S.T.: Well, let's just say this crazy bitch was everything they warned about me regarding my girl. She grabbed me courting style, I threatened her to get her to let go and she wouldn't stop following me. If not for security, I would have been raped, robbed or worse. It was like running into Divide again.

Harmony: Oh my God, Shane. I am so sorry. I know we dealt with people like this before with bravery and strong will, but I never seen you this scared before.

S.T.: I'm just glad she didn't see it. Either she'd be like other girls and assume I was leaving her for...that or she'd probably kill her and risk going to jail again.

Light: I'm sure she'll understand given the circumstances she went through.

Harmony: Ya, I mean she probably went through it herself from a guy. Talk to her next chance you get.

S.T. Leaves home and finds The Deadly Demoness again. He tries to be happy for her, but she knows something happened to him. They go to his house and she spent most of it, changing her outfit.

S.T.: She was everything they warned me about you. And I was more worried of what you'd think if you saw that than most of the things that worried me that day. The fucked up part about this, is it isn't the first time. Divide is one thing, but I was almost a victim to a lot of shit.

Winter: Look, things like this happen all the time, I don't bat an eye on it myself. Don't get me wrong, I understand why this shocks you, but you gotta snap out of it. There are many reasons why I chose you among most guys, I won't get into them now as I am very busy and in a hurry, but I wouldn't let that go because some fetty head bitch tries to take you from me.

S.T.: You know what's really fucked up about this day? Is that what you're saying makes sense. The messed up part is, I needed someone to give me that verbal swift kick in the ass in the right direction.

He slouches a bit as if everything just overwhelmed him. She picks him up and takes him to his computer. She puts some music on and they dance. Now this isn't the first time they danced together. To relieve tension despite their mutual promise of taking it slow, as well as to simply have a good time in general. But this time they needed it. The daylight came and they were both going out the door.

Winter: Look just promise me one thing, in case we don't see each other for a while.

S.T.: Ya, what is it.

Winter: Be you. That's all I ask. Just be you.

S.T.: I'll try my best, but I get the feeling this isn't over yet.

They go outside and race across the intersection to their usual hangout. He was gonna follow her, but he heard a voice.

Winter: No matter what happens, don't follow me. You can look, but don't follow me.

This caused him to freeze and turn the other direction. A day or so goes by and he looks for her. She leaves clues to her wherabouts and two people are watching her out the window. One a member of Wannabe Dark Divide and the other, what looked like a local scumbag that had no stake in it. Said scumbag tried to tell him, she was out there, but he was on his telepathic honor not to follow her. So he went to his room to clean it up more in hopes she'd simply visit him. The next day comes and the Boss "Father" comes up to him.

Boss "Father": Winter's in jail. She broke a few car windows and she got arrested yesterday. I thought you should know.

S.T. was shocked, flabbergasted. She was having a good day the last time she seen him and now this happened. However as he was walking upstairs to run an errand for an old friend, he pieced it together.

S.T.: Those guys were watching out the window. They were watching her get busted. I could have saved her then, but she told me not to. She knew she was gonna get in trouble and she didn't want me to save her, but it was those guys that manipulated the law I hold so sacred, to hurt her. They hated her. They hated me. They hated seeing us both together.

After he runs his errand he runs around all over town and in the building screaming like he never screamed before.

S.T. Musicians: YOU RAT GOOF BASTARDS!!!!

While they piped back with their usual nonsense some of them were shocked, scared, even petrified by how loud S.T. could scream. Wannabe Dark was even leaning on a wall trying to drown it out. Once he calmed he was just gonna go to his apartment and cool off, but he sees one of their associates look at him funny.

S.T.: What the fuck are you looking at!? You're all rat bastards and goofs!!

He takes the stairs and goes up, only to find him and his friend, whom lives on the same floor come up on the elevator.

S.T.: You fucking following me now?!

The man corners him to a wall and beats his face in. Now the scary thing about S.T. is, that whenever he flies of into a rage, even the strongest of punches don't hurt him. They don't make him cry, they don't make him beg. All they do is just make him mad.

S.T.: Don't do it. *punch* Don't you fucking do it. *Punch* I'm warning you.

However while he struggled to lessen the impact, S.T. didn't fight back. On top of not wanting to break his oath, he was in clear view of security cameras and they only stopped once Light Harmony, whom lives a few doors down from him, got out to watch. He got up, bruised, bleeding, but otherwise ok. He goes up to them as the other two leave.

S.T.: How does it look.

Light: Let's just say if not for the blood, people would think you had a stroke.

Harmony: It's ok S.T. It should heal up in a couple of days.

S.T.: Now I really need a smoke.

S.T. has his smoke and then goes downstairs confronting the rest of Wannabe Dark Divide. Showing them a full view of his hurt face and still being mad.

S.T.: You see this? THIS IS A LOVE TAP COMPARED TO WHAT I GO THROUGH EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE!!! You want to finish this, let's finish this. All of you kill me right here and now or you leave me the fuck alone. Let's do it. Two of you jumped me I want four more. The odds are in your favour. COME ON!!!

Wannabe Dark: We only want one of two things from you. Leave our building or jump off it.

S.T.: I thought so. You're nothing but cowards. High School Dropouts that never grew up. You wanna know why people hate you so much, I'll give you a hint it's not your race as much as you want it to be. It's because you destroy everything you touch. You are nothing but drunk, drugged, child raping pieces of shit and I already warned you about threatening a member of the order. I just found out recently she is one too. I'm just a mere boy, they expect me to solve my problems on my own, but you do not want to know what they do to those that threatened their daughters, let alone what you did to them.

S.T. Leaves and goes to a program next door. An art based program that allows people to therapeutically draw or write any form of art that allows them to express themselves. So S.T. wrote a few posters. One marking what they did to The Deadly Demoness. One marking what they did to him. One calling out the apathetic citizens for not helping out those that really needed it. And for good measure, one for calling a certain politician wannabe for being responsible for it all. He leaves it be and they are furious.

Wannabe Dark: How does he know all this shit? Did she talk? Was he and those freak friends of his spying on us? Is he some kind of fucking rat or undercover?

Wannabe Divide: It doesn't matter, it's our words against him. If he engages us, we'll just do to him like we do to the others in our way. Label them and let the public turn against them.

S.T. and Light Harmony are out front having a smoke when they start going nuts over this. Only two people pass us by. One that doesn't live in the building and one that doesn't. The one that doesn't passes by smugly.

WDD Goon #1: So where is this order you're talking about?

S.T.: You'll find out soon especially after they already know what you did to their daughter.

WDD Goon #1: Say one more word, I will knock you the fuck out, I will fucking kill you. You already got beat up before, you can't fight for shit.

S.T.: At least I didn't fuck a 15 year old you sick bastard!!!

The man as he walked stopped, but made a slight head twitch, before walking off.

Light: I don't think he knew.

Harmony: Plus if it's anything like them, he'll just turn it on you. Speaking of which incoming.

The one that lived there walks up to S.T. specifically.

WDD Goon #2: You only do this to black people. You racist pedophile pig.

He walks off.

S.T.: It's funny, they called me all this shit before and yet when I caught them doing it I'm suddenly the doubled down one.

Light: You know what's gonna happen, he's gonna spread it among his friends and make your life and ours a living Hell.

Harmony: Let him. The fact that they reacted to this showed you're getting to them.

S.T.: And knowing that specific douchebag, since I haven't seen him since school, he's just gonna keep at it.

The very next day.

WDD Goon #2: I'm gonna tell the cops that you're a racist pig.

S.T.: So all that street boasting and you're nothing but a rat too. Why don't we tell them together, their car is right behind you.

WDD Goon #2: Fuck you and stay away from me.

S.T.: Fine, I'll just walk to the station.

S.T. does exactly that. Part of why the building has had many problems regarding the police matter was that the building is 4 blocks away from the local police station. It's one thing to call the cops, it's another when they can hear your crimes from 4 blocks away. However S.T. had an ulterior motive. He was looking for the Deadly Demoness.

Desk Officer: Can I help you sir?

S.T.: Yes, I heard Winter got arrested and was wondering if she was in the cell. She left her court papers, last time we talked and I was gonna give them back to her.

He hands the officer the papers and waits.

Desk Officer: Sorry sir, she's not in the cell or any jail cell in Fair City for that matter.

S.T.: Understood. One other thing, how do you go about making an anonymous tip. I have reason to believe she was trafficked.

Desk Officer: There's an email out there, just report it and be done with it.

S.T. Goes outside and emails them. Only tipping them off to the leader and the politician wannabe. Then he walks back up to his building while Light Harmony are standing there with Wannabe Dark. He goes up to him and says the following.

S.T.: Now you can call me a rat.

Before walking off.

Wannabe Dark: What did he mean by that?

Light Harmony: Oh I think you know.

Wannabe Dark: You don't think he went to the cops did you? He wasn't bullshitting?

Light: When S.T. Musician makes a threat or a promise, he sees to it until the end. And he has every reason to hate you for what you did. You tried to turn an old friend against him, you tried to corrupt us, you attacked him and his family and now you took away the one person, who was trying to convince him to leave this violent life.

Harmony: So go ahead. Label him a goof, label him a child rapist, label him a racist, label him a rat. Label him all the things we know you did, because at this point regardless of how he reacts to it, you're on his permanent shit list now and he won't stop until you are gone.

Light Harmony: And the scariest part is, when he realizes that he nor us have to do anything anymore. He already made the call and they're coming for you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe a few months or even years from now. In the meantime, why don't you worry about it. Be afraid WD. Be very afraid.

They leave and tend to S.T. at their pad.

S.T.: She's not arrested by police. Either someone else took her or she fled to the streets. She's an illusionist, so making them think she got arrested would be so her.

Light: What about those other cars that pass us by, the ones that look like cop cars that aren't quite.

Harmony: Ya those cars are officers equipped to handle people of her disorders should they fly off the handle. They arrest her and put her in a mental ward somewhere. A hospital you could probably visit her in.

S.T.: Oh no. That's even worse. Oh fuck no.

Light: What's wrong?

S.T.: If she's where I think she is, I fear the worst already. It's the hospital my mother died in. It's the only hospital close by.

Harmony: There's more, I did a background check on her real father. He's no ordinary gangster. He's a member of the other order. The one your order used to feud with.

S.T.: Are you fucking kidding me?!! He's been around this long and he's not once checked up on his daughter? Great. I was worried that I was gonna get a shotgun blast by him, but I really need to find this guy. He needs to know what's up. It's gonna take a lot of courage, but I'm going to that hospital.

Light Harmony: Good Luck S.T.

To be continued..........