Back To You (A Lost/Cold Case crossover Event)

[michelle]

I don't watch Lost, but I'm having no problem following your story. Good job. I like how you've incorported the music and the flashbacks into it.

[marcovalenslassing]

Thanks God, my lazy Muse finally decided to work (although he has quite the lousy timing... )

Anyway, here's the new chapter. R&R as usual.

CHAPTER 8 – COURT HEARING

Will and Nick then went to Paramedic Ray ‘Shep’ Sheppard’s house, knocked and were surprised when a tall, dark-haired young man, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, answered the door.

“I’m sorry,” Nick said, “is Mr. Sheppard home?”

“He’ll be in a few minutes,” the man answered, then said “Oh, I’m sorry… I’m Paul Larter, Ray’s boyfriend,” and extended one hand.

Nick shook it matter-of-factly, and they entered.

“Well,” Nick said as they sat on the armchairs in the living room, which were arranged around a small coffee table, “nice house.”

Paul smiled lightly and said ”Thanks.”

“I think you want to know why we’re here…” Will began.

“Actually… yes, I do.” Paul answered. “Cops usually don’t pop right on paramedics’ doorsteps for fun, I think.”

“You think right.” Will shot back. “We’re here to ask your boyfriend about the night of October 11th, 2003.”

“Jack’s murder?” Paul asked. “Is it still an open case?”

“Well, now it is again.” Nick answered. “By the way, do you remember anything from that night?”

“Now that you make me think of it…” Paul began.

FLASH

SONG: ‘Somebody Help Me’, Full Blown Rose

I'm being haunted by a whisper
A chill comes over me
I've been trapped inside this moment
I'm not a victim, I'm not a freak

Free me
before I slip away
Heal me
wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?

I've seen the face of my affliction
of my reality
I'm being tortured by the future
of things that are yet to be
I'm being haunted by a vision
it's like the morning never comes
I feel the burden of confusion
always searching... on the run

Free me
before I slip away
Heal me
wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?

Now, I'm not a hero... no
but the weight of the world's on my soul
these imagines burn my eyes
they're burning me up inside

Free me
before I slip away
Heal me
wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?

Free me
before I slip away
Heal me
wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?

Somebody help me!

I was leaving the hospital late that night – I am one of Philadelphia Memorial’s lawyers – when I heard someone running and then… some sounds, like… someone was being stabbed.

FLASH

Like I told the cops back then.” Paul said.

“Do you have anything more to say?” Nick asked.

“Well, now that you make me think of it…
FLASH

I heard a woman’s voice saying ‘It’s all done,’ – then murmured a name I was too far to hear – and then she continued, ‘he won’t cause any trouble anymore.’ The man asked her, horrified, ‘What did you do, D? What did you do?’

FLASH

That’s all, for the moment, and should I remember anything…” Paul said.

“Give us a call,” Will said, giving him their card.

“By the way,” Nick asked, “when is Mr. Sheppard going to be…”

Suddenly, someone could be heard unlocking the door and opening it.

“Helloo,” Ray Sheppard said, obviously in a good mood, “I’m hoome!”

“…back from work?” Nick finished his question in a deadpan tone.

END CHAPTER 8.

[michelle]

Marco, Can you fix the funky keys that show up in this? They keep pulling me from the story. I'm not sure why it formatted like that???

[marcovalenslassing]

I don't understand why. Might it be a problem due to my writing on MSWords and then copying from there to here?

I'll send you the complete document of the story ASAP, so you won't have this problem.

And in the meanwhile, well, I'll try and find out what's the matter.

[marcovalenslassing]

Sorry for the delay, guys and gals, but here's the new chapter!

CHAPTER 8 – REGRETS.

As Ray entered the room, he noticed Nick and Will, and asked “Why is the police…”

Then he stood open-mouthed for a second, before asking “It’s about Jack, isn’t it?”

“Yes.” Nick answered, “and we’d like you to tell us the whole truth about whatever did you see that night.”

“I was interviewed by your colleagues when it happened; I think my witness statement is in there.” Was Ray’s counterargument.

“Yes, but maybe… now that some time has passed… maybe you’ll be able to notice something that, in the heat of that moment, could’ve slipped your mind.” Will explained.

“Well…” Ray began, “it was near the end of my shift…

SONG: ‘Baby’s Got A Temper’ - Prodigy

You can see me coming from a mile off

Once again ignite the skyline



Shes gonna be printed on money

Just like your royal family

(This aint no holiday)



This time there can be no funeral

Im vibing, can't you feel me?



We love rhohypnol,

she got rhohypnol

We take rhohypnol

Just forget it all



We love rhohypnol,

she got rhohypnol

We take rhohypnol

Just forget it all

Just forget it all



This baby's got a temper

This baby's got a temper

This baby's got a temper

You'll never tame her







You can see me do another parallel

Better bow down your not worthy

( Hey get off my planet, Yeah)



Last time I'll be your prisoner

No name no number

(revolving, dissolving)



Shooting through the trapdoor

What I think don't matter anymore



We love rhohypnol,

she got rhohypnol

We take rhohypnol

Just forget it all



We love rhohypnol,

she got rhohypnol

We take rhohypnol

Just forget it all



This baby's got a temper

This baby's got a temper

This baby's got a temper

You'll never tame her



This baby's got a temper

You'll never tame her


And I was walking to the bus stop, because that day my car was in the shop, coasting the back because that’s where the bus stop is, while somebody nearby was listening to some serious techno.

Suddenly I heard some weird noises, and it didn’t take long for me to recognize them as stabbing sounds. And as I heard low moans, which I could barely hear let alone recognize with that damn music playing, I tried to locate where they were coming from and find the person in pain as soon as possible.

When I did, noticing a person with frizzy hair, probably a woman, fleeing the scene, I was too late.”

We see Ray’s eyes brimming with tears in 2003 and we FLASH back abruptly to now, Ray’s eyes filled with tears at the painful memory.

“If I had understood faster…” Ray said in a broken tone, “if only that DAMN MUSIC wasn’t so LOUD!”

Will put lightly a hand on Ray’s shoulder and said “If, if…”, while he remembered his wife’s sad death. “Don’t aggravate yourself with what ifs. You did the best you could under those circumstances.”

A few minutes later, Will and Nick left Ray’s house.

“Well, at least we can take some people off the list of suspects,” Nick commented.

“Hm,” Will nodded, “but we’ve got to hear some other people out.”

“Right,” Nick said, “who is next?”

“Shannon Rutherford, the receptionist, her half-brother Boone Carlisle, one of Dr. Sheppard’s interns, Desmond… something, who had gone looking for him that night,” Will said, straining his eyes to read, “and some other people, like Dr. Alex Karev, George O’Malley, Mark Sloane, Meredith Grey...”

“That Grey?” Nick asked. “The late Ellis Grey’s daughter?”

“Yeah, that… lady’s daughter,” Will answered with a slight unappreciative tone on ‘lady’.

“You think she could be a suspect?” Nick asked again.

“Well, Jack had caught her en flagrante delicto with her attending, so maybe…” Will theorized.

“Let’s know for sure, then,” Nick said while walking back to the car.

[marcovalenslassing]

Final chapter!

Hope you enjoyed...

PART 9 – THE RIGHT TRACK.

While Nick and Willl were hearing anyone with even the smallest motive for the murder, Lilly and Scotty managed to find out who the two people noticed by Charlie Pace were; the woman was a French immigrant called Danielle Rousseau, who was once a renown geologist, but fell into the dark rut of alcoholism after her teenage daughter, Alexandra, had died in a car accident.

Ethan Rom was her husband, and her accomplice, refusing to leave her side even as she became detrimental to him; but Lilly was certain that he could not be the murderer, for the simple reason that Ethan had been arrested by the hospital security exactly at the time the murder had been committed.

That left only one person with motive, opportunity and reason enough; Danielle.

So she and Scotty decided to go to her last known hiding place and try to find her as Nick and Will returned to the station.

Then, they’ll interrogate her and finally, the Truth would came out.

As it turned out, finding her was surprisingly easier than they thought; she had just been arrested for yet another scam she was running, and easily confessed, because in her alcohol-damaged brain she thought that this would help her and make the cops and lawyers lean on giving her fewer time in prison.

“Danielle,” Lilly said, sitting at the interrogation room table in front of her, “Danielle…”

“You want to know if I killed that doctor, don’t you?” Danielle asked her, slurring and almost… proud of what she had done.

Lilly’s mind provided her with a quick flashback to her mother’s worse days, but she managed to shake it off.

“As a matter of fact, yes,” Lilly said.

“There’s not much to say,” Danielle continues, slurring a little but sounding scarily lucid, “he was a potential minebomb for my plan, so he had to go.”

FLASH

2003

Jack runs to the ER after Claire has left, to see who was paging him, and discovers it was just a mistake that the young woman at the reception, Shannon, had made.

While walking away, and deciding to call it a night, he notices something strange going on in one of the rooms; he walks towards it and notices the two regular patients, Danielle Rousseau and Ethan Rom, who are talking.

Ethan says that next time, she will be the one with a pair of gloves in her stomach.

She replies that if this time everything goes fine, they won’t need to operate each other and put gloves, scalpels and the like inside them ever again. They’ll be filthy rich with the lawsuit against the hospital.

“A scam.” Jack thinks, and decides to leave, so he can call the police on them, but unfortunately, while trying to walk away, he knocks down a tray of surgical instruments, and the two cons notice his presence.

He notices Danielle running to get him with a scalpel in her hand, and keeps running.

Jack is almost out of the hospital when he trips and falls to the floor.

He tries to get himself up, but he has dislocated his ankle, and there is nothing to hold on.

When he seems to find something, it’s too late; Danielle is already there.

She throws Jack back on the concrete and begins to stab him furiously with the scalpel.

She then leaves Jack to bleed to death in the rain, knowing that there won’t be any useful evidence, and cleans the scalpel.

FLASH

MUSIC: “I’M WITH YOU”, AVRIL LAVIGNE

I'm standing on a bridge
I'm waiting in the dark
I thought that you'd
be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but
there's no sound

Danielle is taken into custody, and her appearance flips between her actual one and the one she had in 2003. She sees Jack who looks at her for a second, like he’s asking Why?, and then fades away.

Isn't anyone
trying to find me?
uh Won't somebody
come take me home

Ethan is looking outside his window while in his jail cell, having evidently found out about his wife’s arrest. He too sees Jack as his appearance flashes between 2003 and today, and he looks as if he wants to say Sorry for you.

It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
ah, won't you ah
take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don’t know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you

Jack’s mom reads the newspaper and notices an article that says ‘slain doctor case solved.’ As her appearance changes from 2003 to now. She cuts it out and sticks it to Jack’s picture, which hangs in the living room. “At long last, you’re free, son.” She murmurs sadly, then turns and sees him smiling, like he hasn’t a care in the world.

I'm looking for a place
been searching for a face
Is anybody here I know
cause nothing's going right
and everything's a mess
and no one likes to be alone

Derek, his appearance quickly flashing from 2003 to now, sees the news and when the service about Jack’s murder appears, he begins to cry and sees Jack hugging him, trying to comfort him.

Isn't anyone
trying to find me?
Won't somebody
come take me home?

Ray’s driving the ambulance, and Jack appears to him, while his and the Ambulance’s appearance flash back to 2003 for a second, waving his hand goodbye, then turning back and walking away, vanishing. Ray smiles and his appearance flashes back to today.

It's a damn cold night
trying to figure out this life
ah won't you
take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you

Paul is at home, and his appearance quickly flashes to 2003 and back. He turns and sees Jack reflected in a mirror, but when he turns Jack’s gone.

Why is everything
so confusing
Maybe I'm just
out of my mind

Charlie and Claire are visiting Jack’s grave and suddenly see Jack in front of them: Their appearance flashes to 2003 and then to today as they mouth Thank you to him. He smiles brightly and then vanishes.

yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah

Michael and Walt are having some father-son time while their appearance flashes from 2003 to now. They barely notice Jack looking at them with sadness in his eyes.

It's a damn cold night
trying to figure out this life
Won't you
take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you

Sawyer receives the news; he flashes back to 2003, pulls the covers up and sees Jack sitting by his bed, taking his right hand in his own left one as he closes his eyes for the last time. Then his appearance flashes back to the actual one.

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you

Lilly writes CLOSED on the box, then turns her head up and sees both Jack and Sawyer smiling at her, holding hands. She smiles back at them.

I'm with you

END