Part 4

Tyler walked up the dirty steps as the smell of urine and grime assaulted her senses. "Damn Bing, how can you live like this?"

Slowly she made her way down a dark hallway until she reached her old friend's room. She knocked and waited. A small smile formed on her face when she heard Rags give a soft bark from inside the room.

"Who is it?" Bing asked.

"It's me, Tyler."

Bing quickly undid the locks on his door. "Hey Tyler, what can I do for you?" He waved her into his musty one-room home. "Sorry about the mess, but I wasn't expecting company."

"Don't worry about it. I just stopped by to see if you could give me the address." The blonde leaned over to scratch Rags on the back.

"You're going there by yourself?" Bing asked, already knowing the answer.

Tyler straightened and looked at the old man. "Yes."

Bing nodded in understanding. "I'll write it down for you, but damn it Tyler you should call for backup of some kind."

"The police won't be any help. They will just waste time with having to go through red tape." Tyler started to pace. "BJ doesn't have that kind of time."

Bung looked up from the paper he was writing on. "What about the two that were with you at the bar?"

"I don't want them to get hurt." Tyler stopped and looked out the grimy window. "It's just between him and me."

Silence filled the room. Bing held out the single piece of paper. "Here you go."

"Thanks."

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"Go in and take a seat," Sal told Darren.

Darren sauntered in and took a seat on the leather couch. He let his eyes wander around the dimly lit room.

Royal walked in and looked at the messily dressed man. The smell of alcohol reached his nose from ten feet away. He shook his head and knew he had to get rid of this liability.

Royal moved around the couch and sat in his chair.

"You wanted to see me Sir?" Darren crossed his ankles and leaned back in the couch.

Royal didn't speak right away. He wanted the slimy man in front of him to sweat a little, but the smell of the man was making him nauseous.

"Who told you to send that envelope to the police?" Royal asked as he lit a cigar.

Darren smiled. "No one did."

"No one?" the big boss asked with a raised eyebrow. "Then why did you do it?"

"Because I figured it would hurt the bitch's wife." Darren laughed. "It was fun."

"What was?" inquired Royal.

"Cutting that no good slut's hair. She fought me good." Darren shifted slightly at the memory. "Kicked me right in the balls."

Royal blew out a large amount of smoke.

Darren didn't like the way his boss stared at him.

Royal stood up and walked around to his bar. He poured himself a drink and slowly drank from it. "Do you know what happens to someone who doesn't follow my orders?"

"I would guess you'd kill them," Darren whispered as he scratched at a stain on his jeans.

"Good guess." Royal nodded.

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Barbara nearly dropped her coffee cup when the buzz from the front gate sounded from the security pad on the wall. She set her drink down and hit the receive button. "Yes?"

"Umm I was wondering if Tyler's two friends were available," Bing muttered as he looked around. "I have some information."

"Hold on a second will you?" Barbara picked up the phone and dialed the guesthouse number. "Morning, Mike. I have someone at the front gate that is asking for you. He said he has some information for you and Leo."

"Did the person give a name?" Mike asked.

Barbara hit the button again on the security pad. "Can I get your name please?"

"Bing."

Barbara lifted the phone back to her ear. "He said it was Bing. Do I let him in or call the police."

"Don't call the police. Let him come on up and we'll meet you in the kitchen. You should wake Tyler up too." Mike hung up the phone and yelled at Leo to hurry up.

"Just follow the road on up and come around back to the back door," Barbara informed Bing and hit the entrance button to open the gate.

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Tyler pulled up in front of a huge mansion with a ten-foot high fence. Trees blocked most of her view, but she could see several windows were lit up.

She opened the car door and quietly closed it and walked around to the ditch. A tree's limb hung low enough for her to grab a hold and pull herself up and over the fence.

Crouching behind a bush to make sure that no one could see her, she waited for several long moments. Watching and listening to everything. Tyler noticed three groups of two walking the parameter of the house. In each of the groups one of the men had a large gun. "Lovely," the hidden woman whispered.

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"Thank you for coming." Mike shook Rush's hand and handed her a cup of coffee.

"Can you tell me now what the heck is going on?" Rush asked before she took a sip of her beverage.

"Tyler found out who is responsible for BJ's kidnapping," Leo informed the detective.

"Who is it? I need to get my men on it now." Rush set the cup down and reached for her phone.

"King Royal." Leo sighed. "We have one small problem. Tyler went there by herself. So if you call your guys and they go in guns blazing it could cost her, her life as well as BJ's."

"Is she out of her mind? That man is a lunatic. We have been trying to nail this bastard on one charge after another, and he just slips through our fingers." Rush started to pace.

"We know, that's why we have to wait and see what Tyler can accomplish," Mike stated. "When she's done she'll contact us. We just wanted you to know what was going on."

"Fuck," Rush spat. "She is going to go in guns blazing and get herself killed."

"No, she won't," Barbara stepped in and said. "Nothing will stop her from getting BJ, nothing at all."

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Tyler waited until the two men she had been watching moved out of sight. She counted to ten and ran for a bush that was under a lit window. Making sure no one was coming, she stood up and peered in.

Inside she saw a greasy looking man sitting on a couch with a large man smoking a cigar off to the side. The bigger of the two looked upset and very angry.

"Looks like I found the King," Tyler murmured as she continued to watch the show.

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Darren cringed when Royal slammed his now empty glass on the table. "It's little punks like you that detoured my son from being the man he was suppose to be. They brought around the drugs and easy women."

Darren shook his head. "Sir, I didn't have anything to do with your son."

"It doesn't matter. You didn't follow the rules. Just like those others. They shoved ideas inside my son's head and now he is in jail. When he should be by my side ruling the empire I started for him."

"But Sir…" Darren muttered and stood up.

Royal glared. "I suggest you sit your scrawny ass down."

Darren quickly sat back down. "I thought the whole idea was to make this Tyler Jones regret what she did to your son. Not me who never met him."

"You don't get it." Royal moved so he was standing right in front of the sitting man. "It is to get at Jones, but it's under my rules. Not yours and what you think is a good idea."

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Making her way around the back of the house. Tyler ducked just in time as two more security guards made their way around the house. She waited until she was sure that no one was coming and quickly ran towards the door.

"Be unlocked, be unlocked," Tyler mumbled over and over under her breath. When she was able to turn the doorknob she sighed with relief and opened the door just enough to slip inside. "Guess people don't lock their doors so early in the day."

Scanning the long hallway, Tyler could hear the deep voice of a man she figured was the man she was after, and when she heard him say the other man's name, 'Darren', she growled deep within her chest.

Without thought of running into someone, Tyler stood tall and headed to the partially open door she knew blocked her view of the two men that held her wife. Before she pushed the door open, she pulled out her gun from behind her back.

Royal and Darren both jumped when the door slammed open and knocked several items off a small table.

"Hello boys," Tyler swung her gun up so it pointed at the big man.

"How the hell did you get in here?" Royal bellowed as he started to walk towards his desk to the hidden gun he kept in his top drawer.

"Stop right there big man or I'll shoot your ass." Tyler grinned. "Go sit by your right-hand man." She waved the gun in Darren's direction. "Then you're going to tell me where my wife is, or I'll make you regret ever being born."

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Leo, Mike and Detective Rush sat in an unmarked police car across the street from where Tyler had parked.

"Well, we know she's in there." Leo leaned against the back seat. "How do you suggest we get in there without calling attention to Tyler if she has not been spotted yet?"

"I bet she is in there right now with Royal, and if what Bing said is true, Darren is with them," Mike stated as he looked up and down the street. "So what do you think?" He looked over at Rush who was in the driver's seat.

"I know we won't get a warrant to look around. We don't have enough evidence." Rush pinched the bridge of her nose. "We may be able to bluff our way in there and hope they don't come back at us with a law suit."

"I say we do that," Leo and Mike both said at the same time.

"Just make sure your boys in blue stay away." Mike gestured towards the three police cars parked in various spots down the road. "Especially if some of them are working for Royal."

"If they were going to call they would have already. So I don't think our group is part of Royal's gang," Rush stated with a sigh.

"Good, because I would hate to have to seriously hurt someone," Mike replied coldly.

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"I don't know what you're talking about. We don't know where your wife is." Royal sat down with his hands up in the air.

"Wrong." Tyler aimed her gun and fired. "Like I said, I will make you miserable if you don't tell me."

Darren and Royal looked at the small space in between them. A dark hole now showed from the bullet.

"You are a crazy bitch," Darren yelled out as he tried to move away from his boss. "Plus if you kill us you will never find your wife. She'll be stuck in her prison with only the memories of me on her skin." He smirked, not realizing what he had said and how it would make his captor react.

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"Crap, that sounded like a gun shot." Rush opened her car door. "That gives us a good reason to enter the premises without a warrant."

Leo and Mike quickly followed the detective across the road.

"Wait for us to go in first," Rush ordered as she pulled her gun out. "When the coast is clear I'll send someone out for you."

"No way," Mike replied. "We should go in there with you."

"You are civilians and will stay where I say," Rush stated in a serious tone. "Let me do my job."

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Tyler didn't move. Images of BJ being forced to do what this slimy thug wanted chilled her to her core.

Darren looked from Tyler to his boss. He wasn't sure what he saw, but he could have sworn he saw fire blazing in the green eyes that bore into him.

The two men didn't even see the enraged woman come at them. Royal tossed his arms up over his head as Darren dove towards the other end of the couch.

Tyler raised the gun again, but instead of fabric it cut through skin over and over until she was out of bullets.

Shocked eyes opened and stared at the still woman. He wanted to run but was immobilized by fear.

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Rush had just split pairs of officers off to cover the back and sides of the house, and ordered the group that were still with her to enter the house with caution, when several gunshots filled the neighborhood.

"Go, go, go." Rush waved her hand and ran behind the other officers.

Mike and Leo looked from the house to the gate Rush had just run through. They both wanted to follow, but knew that they would just get in the way at the moment.

"Everything will be okay," Leo said out loud. "It has to be."

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Tyler and Royal didn't even notice the yelling or pounding on the door. They just looked at the silent bloody body hunched on the couch.

The crazed woman turned the smoking gun towards the other man. "You will tell me where my wife is or I will kill you."

Royal swallowed hard and shook his head. "I'm not exactly sure where she is at," he lied.

"What the fuck do you mean?" Tyler poked the big man in the head with the barrel of the gun. "You're the 'Boss' I thought. You are supposed to know everything." She hit him hard making a cut appear, and a trickle of blood that ran down his forehead to his cheek to drip on his shirt.

"Damn you," Royal shouted as he brought his hands to his head. "You're fucking crazy."

"That's right." Tyler stepped back and sat down. "Now, if you don't want to die, tell me where my wife is."

"Like I said bitch. I don't really know where she is. Only that she is being held somewhere that no one will ever find," Royal stated as he wiped off the line of blood from his face.

"Besides dead Fred over there, who knows where BJ is?" the suddenly quiet woman asked.

Royal could see the defeated look cross over Tyler's face. He knew that even if he didn't have a gun, he still held all the cards.

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"Police, open up," Rush yelled out, before she had an officer kick down the door.

The entire front foyer filled with police. Each one had their gun drawn.

"You two go down that hallway." Rush pointed at two officers. "You're with me." She pointed at a third. "We're going this way. Everyone else, split up and check the rest of this place."

Slowly the detective made her way down the side hallway. She heard several loud voices and stopped.

"Sal, we have to get in there," a man stated as he pointed to a closed door.

Sal smacked him on the back of the head. "How do you suggest we do that? The damn door is reinforced and was built so no one could bust it open."

"Well shit," the other man shouted. "How the hell are we suppose to protect the boss if we are out here? We don't even know who's in there with him."

"I can tell you, and maybe if you help it will make a difference in what charges are brought against you." Rush stepped out from behind the corner with her gun pointed right at the thugs. "So what do you say?"

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Mike and Leo stood outside for what seemed like hours, but in fact was only twenty minutes.

"If you will follow me," a police officer said when he stepped up to the two men.

"Can you tell us if Tyler is okay?" Mike quickly asked as they began to walk.

The police officer shook his head and continued to walk. "I was just told to come get you. I have no idea what the situation is."

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The silence that filled the room could have been cut with a knife. Suddenly a chirping was heard.

"What the hell is that?" Tyler asked as she walked over to stand by Darren's body.

Royal rolled his eyes. "It's his cell phone."

Tyler whipped the gun around and pointed it right between the big man's eyes. "Don't push me. The only reason you are even still breathing is because you are my link to finding BJ."

"Shit, he was your best link, and you shot him dead. Now your poor wife is going to die knowing you didn't save her." Royal laughed.

Tyler turned back around and searched for the annoying cell phone. When she found it she pulled it free from the pocket and opened it up. "Yeah?"

"Darren that you?" Chad asked.

Tyler didn't say a word; she stepped over the body and walked to a corner. She lowered her voice and replied, "Yeah, what do you want?"

"Damn, Darren you got a cold or something?" Chad held the phone from his ear and frowned. "I just called to find out if you were going to take the supplies to you know where?"

"Pick me up at the boss's house." Tyler hung up the phone and smiled as she turned around. "Well it looks like I may have found someone who will take me directly to where my wife is."

"What the hell do you mean by that?" Royal stood up.

"Sit back down fat boy," Tyler ordered.

Before Royal could mouth back, the knocking on the door started again. This time Tyler paid attention to the voice.

"Let us in Tyler. It's time the police took care of this," Rush said loudly.

"You know what? I bet the police would love to get in here and poke around." Tyler wiggled her eyebrows.

"Shit, the lawyers I have can get me out by nightfall," Royal replied smugly. "So bring it on little dyke."

Tyler laughed at the potshot as she walked over to the door and unlocked it. "How much you want to bet you'll be in jail just as long as I will be?"

She opened the door and waited for it to fill up with blue shirts. When Detective Rush was standing right next to her she handed her the gun. "You'll need this, but before you even think of arresting me I have to meet someone who will show me where BJ is."

Rush tucked the handgun in her pocket. "What do you need from me?"

"I need all the police cars out front gone." Tyler stepped out of the room. She saw Leo and Mike walking down the hallway. "Plus, keep them out of that room; they don't need to see that."

"Okay." Rush nodded and followed Tyler who was heading towards her friends.

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As Chad slowly made his way down the deserted street he glanced out of his halfway rolled down window. He swallowed several times hoping he wouldn't have to stay too long. When he reached the gated driveway, he pulled up and rolled down his window the rest of the way to push the call button.

"No need for that," Tyler stated as she opened the car door and sat down in the passenger seat. She pulled out her other gun and pointed it right at Chad. "You will take me to my wife."

"But…" Chad looked from the gun back up into crazed green eyes.

"You will die just like your buddy Darren if you don't back this car up and get moving." Tyler pressed the muzzle against Chad's head. "I would suggest you listen to me."

Chad nodded his head and put the car in reverse, then drive, and headed towards the train yard.

Tyler knew that the car was being followed by Detective Rush and her friends, so she just looked out the window at the passing scenery.

"What are you going to do to me?" Chad asked softly.

Tyler slowly glanced at the young man driving. "If you don't give me any trouble and take me to my wife, then you'll live."

"Okay, I won't give you any grief." Chad wiped his face with his hand. When he reached the spot he always parked at he pulled over and shut the car off. "We're here."

Tyler glanced around, not seeing anything but a high fence with a hole in it. "Where is here?"

"Deserted train yard." Chad opened the door. "If you'll follow me I'll show you."

Tyler nodded and opened her own door. She stood up and let her eyes roam over the area. She could see the lone undercover police car sitting down the road waiting. "Lead on."

Chad stepped to the fence and made his way through the hole. He stepped back and waited for Tyler. "It will take us about five minutes to walk there."

It finally hit Tyler what BJ was being held captive in. "You guys have her held up in an old train car?"

"Umm, yes," Chad squeaked out. "It was Darren's idea."

"Glad I shot him dead," Tyler mumbled just loud enough for the man she was with to hear.

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BJ lay on the mattress staring up at the ceiling. The intense heat was really getting to her, especially since her captors had yet to re-supply her with water and food.

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"That one." Chad pointed to a lone car. "She is in that one."

All thoughts but getting to BJ flew out of Tyler's mind. She began to run as fast as she could. When she reached the train car she stopped and looked at the padlock. Turning sharply to Chad she said, "Give me the key, now!"

She grabbed the key from his hand, fumbled it into the lock, then with shaking fingers Tyler pulled the lock off and tossed it to the ground. Using all her might she wiggled her fingers to slide the door open. The smell almost made her throw up, but she pushed it down and pulled herself up into the dark car.

"BJ?" Tyler whispered softly. "Baby?"

"Oh damn I'm hearing voices now," BJ stated in a tired voice.

Tyler moved in the direction of BJ's voice. When her foot hit something she bent over. "BJ?" She could sense her lover, but was unsure of her feelings after everything that had happened lately. "Please say something." She didn't get a chance to say anything else, because a foot collided with her chest. "Ooooff." She went back and landed on her butt.

BJ had hoped to get another shot at Darren. "Guess you didn't learn the first time asshole." She quickly stood up on shaky legs and moved towards the open door. She didn't care if his friend was out there or not. She wanted out.

Tyler gasped for breath. She tried to grab a hold of BJ's leg as it passed by but it was no use.

BJ took in a deep breath before she jumped down to the gravel ground. She saw Chad standing there with a shocked expression on his face. "You going to try and stop me?"

"Ummm," Chad just pointed at the train car.

"Idiot," BJ spat as she made her way past.

Chad suddenly broke free of his speechlessness. "Why are you running from her? She is here to save you."

She didn't register what he had said until she walked several feet away. "Her who?" She turned around glaring at the startled man.

"Her." Chad pointed to the open door of the train car just as Tyler poked her head out. She had an arm wrapped around her chest from the pain.

"Oh God." BJ started back towards her prison. Not caring if she was shoved back in, as long as she got to hold Tyler.

Tyler sat down on the edge before she slid down to the ground. She looked around to see which way her lover had gone so she could follow. She didn't have to look far, because BJ was now not five feet away from her.

Time stood still as BJ and Tyler wrapped their arms around one another. Each of them had tears of joy and love as they each made sure the other was okay.

BJ could not understand what Tyler was mumbling. She just knew it was the same thing over and over again. "Tyler, what are you saying?"

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Tyler continued to repeat.

BJ cupped the smaller woman's face. When tired sad eyes met hers she leaned in and placed a kiss on soft lips. When she pulled back silence met her ears. "Listen to me. You have nothing to be sorry for."

Tyler blinked and slightly shook her head and put a block on her emotions. She had smacked herself mentally because she knew she had to be here for BJ not the other way around. "I need to get you to a hospital and have you checked out."

As the two made their way towards where Tyler had entered the train yard, Leo, Mike and Rush ran to them.

Leo wrapped his arms around BJ and let the tears fall. "I knew she would find you."

Mike patted Tyler on the back. "You did good kid."

Tyler looked up at her friend and replied coldly, "I did what I had to do for my family." She looked over at Rush and she nodded at the detective.

Rush knew what the look was for. The blonde woman in front of her knew that murder charges were more than likely to be pressed against her by the state. "Why don't you four head on home and I will be in contact."

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Barbara stood by the door looking out through the window every few seconds. Leo had called and said they had found BJ and would be taking her to the hospital and then home as quickly as they could. That was three hours ago, and she was about to go out of her mind with excitement.

The sound of her grandbaby waking up from his nap made Barb smile. She walked up the stairs to TJ's room and cooed at him. "Guess what big boy? Your mama is coming home." She picked him up and closed her eyes. "It's all going to be fine now."

TJ drooled and smacked his lips.

"You hungry Sweetheart?" Barb asked as she picked him up and cradled him in her arms.

The sound of doors opening and closing made her smile. "I bet that is your mama. Let's go check."

The older woman slowly made her way down the steps and watched as the door opened. The sight of her daughter stepping into the house made tears of joy and sadness fall down her cheeks. "Oh thank God you are okay."

BJ couldn't stop her own tears from falling at the sight of her mom and son coming towards her. Unable to say a word, she quickly made her way to the bottom step and waited for the two to hug her and welcome her home.

Tyler watched from the open door. She nodded her head and smiled. BJ was home were she belonged. She yawned and scratched her head where the new staples had been put in. "Damn persistent nurses."

"You know it was for your own good." Leo brought his hands up and began to massage Tyler's tense shoulders. "You lucked out by being able to come home. So go in there and be with your family."

Tyler silently continued to watch the heartwarming scene in front of her. She sighed and shook her head. "I need to call detective Rush and see if any charges are going to be brought up against me."

Leo dropped his hands and watched his friend make her way around the house to the guesthouse. Mike walked next to his lover and asked without saying a word.

"She's shutting down, and I have no clue what the outcome will be," Leo responded softly.

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"I need to speak with Detective Rush," Tyler said as she sat down on the couch. "Sure I'll wait."

She leaned her head back against the soft material and closed her eyes. Her heart felt relief, but her mind would not shut down. It was jumping from one thought to another, and half of them made no sense at all.

Tyler knew that it all stemmed from the way she had killed Darren. She had never killed someone who was not armed and able to protect themselves. Basically she saw herself as a cold blooded killer, and she knew in her heart she would do it all over again if it meant BJ was now in their home holding their son.

"This is Detective Rush."

Tyler cleared her throat. "This is Tyler Jones, and I was wondering how the investigation was going?"

"Royal has been charged with the kidnapping of BJ and several other charges from drugs to prostitution," Rush informed Tyler.

"How about the charges against me?" The tired blonde woman asked. "Should I turn myself in or…"

"Tyler, I honestly cannot tell you if charges will be brought up against you. In my best opinion I would have to say yes, some sort of charges will be brought against you. It just depends on how far they want to take this," the detective stated.

"I don't understand. How far they want to take what?" Tyler ran her hands through her short hair. She was so into the phone call she didn't see BJ walk into the house. "I shot a man pointblank over and over until I was out of bullets. I didn't care about anything but him being dead for what he said he did to BJ, and God damn it, I would do it again in a heartbeat."

"I'm just going to ignore what you just said for right now. I know I could lose my job for it, but your family has been through enough crap, and they don't need this right now. If charges are going to be pressed, I will come tell you myself."

BJ let her mind wrap itself around the idea that Tyler had killed someone in cold blood. She stood in the hallway for a second before she made her way over and sat across from Tyler and watched the way the smaller woman moved. It took her a second to realize it, but Tyler was moving differently and it disturbed the tall brunette greatly.

"Okay Detective. Thanks." Tyler hung up the phone, but didn't open her eyes. It took her several quiet minutes to realize that someone else was in the room. "Why aren't you in the house with TJ?"

"Because at the moment you need me more than he does." BJ stood up and sat next to the other woman.

"How much did you hear?" Tyler asked still not moving or opening her eyes.

BJ reached across Tyler's lap to hold a hand, but before she could even touch the skin of the other woman Tyler stood up and moved away.

"You shouldn't touch me. You should go back in the house and be with your son. Not out here with me," Tyler said in frustration and anger.

"You won't push me away. I won't let you. The only thing that kept me from going totally insane in that train car was images of you, and knowing you'd save me. Which you did, and damn it I won't let you fall into some dark hole because you regret what you did," BJ yelled back.

"That's just it. I don't feel regret, or guilt, or anything for killing that fucking asshole." Tyler looked right into BJ's eyes. "How can you love someone who can do something like that?"

BJ carefully made her way towards Tyler. Hoping beyond anything that when she got close enough her wife wouldn't move away. When she was within six inches of the other woman she brought a hand up and traced over Tyler's jaw line to her lips. "You did what you did because you were protecting your family. Nothing more, nothing less. You aren't a cold-blooded killer and never will be. Trust me, because I see your heart every time I look into your eyes."

Tears started to fall down Tyler's cheeks as she grabbed a hold of the front of BJ's shirt. "I would do it again. Without a second thought. To keep you safe or bring you home. You are my soul, and I swore to protect you."

BJ ran her hands over Tyler's shaking shoulder and brought her into a strong, loving hug. "I know."

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Several months later…



"Would you look at this view?" Tyler gestured towards the creeping sun.

BJ smiled as she watched the way her wife watched the sky turn from one brilliant color to the next with child-like abandon.

It was quiet for a moment before Tyler turned towards the woman she loved and smiled. "Thank you."

"For what Honey?" BJ asked as she entwined her fingers with the smiling woman.

Tyler waved her free hand around. "This."

"Like I would let you move all the way out here without me or TJ. Heck, even Mom and you know the boys will come for a visit whenever they can." BJ leaned down and placed a kiss on the tip of Tyler's nose. "You are part of this family, and where you go we all go. No matter what."

"Then I guess it was a good thing I was found not guilty." The smile left her face for a second as she remembered the sounds and smell of killing Darren.

"Don't go down that path again. Stay with the here and now. Forget the past, it means nothing." BJ stated something the therapist had said over and over to her and Tyler during one of many sessions they had gone to.

"I know, and I am getting better at it, but the past does hold some great things." Tyler wiggled her eyebrows.

"Then just think of those and not the bad." BJ brought their entwined hands up and placed a kiss on the back of her wife's hand. "I love you."

"Love you more," Tyler whispered before she tugged BJ into an embrace and a long passionate kiss.

"Break it up you two and come here and see this," Barb shouted from inside the house.

The two groaned, but walked back into the house. Where they saw their son, slowly and wobbly making, his way across the living room towards their newest family member, Digger, a four-month-old German Shepherd puppy.
"Oh my," BJ gasped in delight. "He's walking."

"I need to get the camera." Tyler ran to the closet and started filming.

Barb watched her small family and nodded with approval. "Life is good once again."

THE END……

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